Quotes are taken from Tuesday's SF Chronicle article entitled "Dispatch glitch left hurt officer without backup During G-8 protest, riot team was on a different frequency" on page B2 and online at:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

Here is a quote showing the incompitence of the police at Friday night's G8 protest in relation to the arrests allegedly linked to the injurt of a self described police officer.
"Police investigators say the three people arrested may not have committed the actual assault."

The Chronicle reports that "The National Lawyers Guild is arranging for attorneys to represent the three people arrested, said Carlos Villarreal, executive director of the group's local branch.
He said the group wanted to make sure innocent people were not accused of the attack.
"What we heard is that they just kind of picked up people who were nearby, as opposed to those involved,'' Villarreal said. "
From what the NLG is reporting, the Police arrested protestors at random (a favorate tactic of SF Cops), as opposed to find those who were actually involved in the event.

The article states that none of the three arrested have actually been charged, but that they are being held on suspiscion of several crimes associated with assaulting a police officer.
"No charges have been filed in the case. Prosecutors said they had yet to receive the investigation against three suspects, Gabriel Meyers, Doritt Ernst and Cody Tarlow, arrested in connection with the attack. No charges have been filed in the case. Prosecutors said they had yet to receive the investigation against three suspects, Gabriel Meyers, Doritt Ernst and Cody Tarlow, arrested in connection with the attack.

Additionally, shortly after describing how the officer chased someone for several blocks in an attempt to arrest someone who threw a matress into the street. (and from other accounts of the incident, the officer was said to have charged into a crowd striking people with his baton). Regardless, Captain Kevin Cashman had the audacity to call the action unprovoked. "It was a vicious and unprovoked attack, and we need to find everyone who was responsible for it.''

Mayor Newsom has issued a statement that he will offer a large lump of cash to anyone who snitches on the actual person who hit the cop, reinforcing the idea that the police have arrested the wrong people.