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" -- ARE BEING RECORDED!" carries through to the internet, and a joggling hand-held camera view takes in the whole of Independence Mall. The police are closing in slowly around a thousand-strong group of counter-protestors while the Proud Boys outside that cordon are basically allowed to walk around free. The bobbing head of Aaron Cohen, marked out in the crowd by his rainbow yarmulke, zigzags over toward the police line, followed by Mei, and the Rabbi's visible presence means the erstwhile cameraperson starts to follow him, too.
The feed has never cut. On one end, a Black Bloc group with a megaphone and a set of cameras is advancing down the line, announcing over and over: "YOU ARE BEING RECORDED! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED!"
On the other, as the camera cuts back to the south end of the line, the line breaks as the police push into the crowd, and the baton rises and falls, striking -- among others -- a recognizable figure, one of the Imams from the Center City Mosque. A Plain sort of fellow, soft-spoken, often appears next to Aaron at protests.
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Rabbi Aaron Cohen caving in the nose of a police officer, live on film! Officer down, officer down!
The Black Bloc pushes through the crowd, blasting through their megaphones: YOU ARE BEING RECORDED over and over. Perhaps there's a Plain in the group.
Mei's caught briefly bent over the body of the fallen Imam. Is he conscious? He seems like he might be conscious.
Aaron, on the other hand? Five officers with batons close around him. Only one misses.
Protestors being wrapped up by the police, wrestled to the ground. Batons rise and fall, rise and fall, rise and fall.
Screaming. Yelling. A horrifyingly bestial roar.
"Hineni," from somewhere in the crowd. Running feet.
The broadcast ends after several seconds of focus on a rainbow knit kippah, spattered with blood.
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