I’m afraid that this will be the spark which ignites this whole thing. Until now, all the action has been in New York, where it will begin snowing in a few weeks. Oakland doesn’t get snow, so I predict that this becomes the new epicenter and this poor misguided kid becomes a rallying point for the ignorant. The Marxists have been waiting for a moment like this.
They haven't been "waiting" for this moment, they have been working towards it. Just like Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman were coldly and deliberately inserting violent people and tactics into their demonstrations to spur on retaliations by the authorities, so have these people been doing that there.
Again, this injured guy was wearing a "Veterans for Peace" T-Shirt, so he assumed the risk that came with being part of that organization, but as chock full of misguided, dumb people as that organization is, it remains that they are being served up as cannon fodder.
Look at this picture that I found on Jeff Head's website, a picture taken at one of the Occupy Whatever "rallies" going on somewhere:
I have no evidence to support this, it is just a gut feeling, but there was something about the look of this that made me think this guy throwing the beer bottle was acting deliberately on the instructions of someone, and being paid for it. Again, no proof, but that was my gut feeling when I first saw this picture.
And there are people, in this very forum, who justify and approve of this.