Mayor Rahm not pleased with activists spreading photos of undercovers

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Occupy Chicago protesters have put up on the internet photos of two individuals they say are undercover Chicago police officers who supposedly entrapped them.

Mayor Emanuel is not pleased.

"If what has been reported is happening – any issue that deals with what police are doing on a professional basis, more than just upsets me. Second is – ah – I'll just stay with that."

And Emanuel said "the proper people are working on any issues that deal with that."

The mayor was also asked if he'll reward Chicago police in upcoming labor contract negotiations for "performing incredibly well," as he put it. But he wouldn't commit.

And when asked why he won't return Tom Ricketts phone calls after the Ricketts family was pondering a super PAC attack on Obama that featured the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Emanuel playfully walked out of his news conference.

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Activists spread photos of undercovers by Internet

Occupy Chicago activists on Tuesday disseminated over the Internet photos of a man and woman — nicknamed "Mo" and "Gloves" — who they believe are the officers or informants whose undercover work led to the arrests of NATO Summit protesters on bomb charges.

The Chicago Police Department won't confirm or deny whether the man and woman are cops or snitches — but police Supt. Garry McCarthy told the Chicago Sun-Times that the release of the pictures unethical and "personally disgusting."

"I have never seen it done before," McCarthy told the Sun-Times.

Undercover officers infiltrated a group of activists living in a Bridgeport apartment before the NATO Summit, sources said. Three of the out-of-town men living in that apartment were charged Saturday on state terrorism charges for allegedly building gasoline bombs.

The trio intended to lob the Molotov cocktails at the Obama campaign headquarters downtown, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home, police stations and cop cars, prosecutors alleged.

Two Chicago men were charged Sunday in other alleged bomb plots. One sought materials to make a pipe bomb and another threatened to blow up a railroad overpass, Cook County prosecutors said.

All five suspects knew one another, although the three cases are unrelated, sources said.

Representatives of Occupy Chicago and the National Lawyers Guild say they believe "Mo" and "Gloves" infiltrated activist groups before the NATO Summit and egged on the five suspects to commit crimes.

The bomb cases are reminiscent of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in 2008 when an admitted FBI informant, Brandon Darby, infiltrated a group of protesters, two of whom later pleaded guilty to making gasoline bombs they planned to throw at police cars.

The men acknowledged in court that Darby didn't entrap them into making the bombs.

Still, Occupy Chicago spokeswoman Rachael Perrotta condemned the use of snitches like Darby.

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