Was Shepard Fairey Arrested To Embarrass The Mayor Of Boston? - A First Hand Account
I remember at one point during all the activity turning around and looking behind us at the museum to see if anyone in the parking lot or in front of the museum could see what was happening out here. Apparently they couldn’t as it was fairly dark and we were pretty far away from the museum. No one was watching us save for the Giant icon above the museum.
What we didn’t realize at the time is the events were clearly the Boston Police Department’s “Plan B”. Had the two unlikely events I described not happened just as they did, their “Plan A” would have gone something like the following…
Plan A: We successfully make the turn into the ICA. The unmarked SUV follows our cab and drives right up to the front entrance of the glass-façade ICA with 800 of Shepard’s fans inside and outside hyped on adrenaline excitedly watching, waiting for him to arrive. The SUV swoops in and the undercover cops emerge to seize Shepard right in front of all those fans. Now, I was in that crowd later that night, and I can be sure that at least a handful of those guys I met inside wouldn’t have just stood there without doing something.
Sort of a conspiracy theory about the motives behind the arrest, but plausible.
(via swissmiss)
