Worse, it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers. “Dude, all the laptops are in a row," Isaac Wilder, baffled and raking his shock of hair, tells us. "They’ve all been smashed with bats.” When asked about the mangled property, Matt LiPani, a New York Department of Sanitation representative, admits that, inevitably, certain items could’ve been damaged in the shuffle: “I’m not surprised,” he says, to hear of damaged laptops. He adds that the DSNY is providing clearance forms to those occupiers concerned their property may’ve been mishandled or misplaced.But Wilder wants footage – visual proof to show to whoever it is he hopes will step up, legally, to defend his Free Network Foundation. Hell, we want footage. At some risk, admittedly, we hand him an iPhone. He heads back inside.Read the rest at Motherboard.
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