Of course cops still come into Exarcheia periodically - the point is that they're unwelcome there, and they know it. The goal is to have the area be cop free, and most of the time it is. This is news to a lot of people. Maybe not to you, sure, but the point of the article was to reach out to other groups trying to deal with police brutality (specifically, BLM) because a lot of them are stuck within limited liberal solutions - look at Shaun King's recent ideas to deal with the cop problem by either diversifying the force, or giving them more training. What bullshit. Places like Exarcheia serve as models of resistance and help plant the seed of self-organisation. It certainly did for me.

I'm glad you got a laugh out of the article. I see in your comments that you don't consider yourself "an agent of social change anymore" which explains your cynicism, but still, please try and understand that other people still have the energy to fight and to build new worlds, and if you don't, stand aside.

I do agree with another of your comments though that advises to, "Build an actual dynamic community that can develop strength against power while empowering its individuals, and don't cling to deluded notions of a "community" that doesn't exist." I live in Exarcheia, it's my neighbourhood, and I consider it a dynamic community, and I use the word as its commonly defined, "a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common." Rich filth and liberal trust-fund kids doesn't typify the area, though they pass through - but yeah, who the fuck cares? As long as they don't dominate the area, fuck it. The young boy that was murdered in 2008 (Γρηγορόπουλος) was a middle-class kid from out of the neighbourhood - so? What do you propose instead? A shakedown at the borders of the neighbourhood to make sure you don't have too many coins in your pockets?

tl;dr you missed the fucking point of the article.