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Brent Betterly, 24, of Oakland Park, Fla.

He is known among Occupy Ft. Lauderdale members as being nonviolent and friendly, but he has had a series of run-ins with Florida police, from domestic battery to vandalism. Last fall, he and two friends were accused of breaking into a local high school to take a swim and steal fire extinguishers.

According to his Facebook page, Betterly admires George Washington, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara and 17th-century bomb plotter Guy Fawkes.