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I hear that a recall petition has already been written up against the Mayor of Oakland.A lot of mad people now!!

Keith Millea Wrote:I hear that a recall petition has already been written up against the Mayor of Oakland.A lot of mad people now!!

I watched the official press conference with the Police and some rep of the Mayor....very pathetic excuses and 'explanations'. If you haven't, look on internet or youtube for the photos of how the Police trashed the tents, tore up the signs, ripped the sleeping bags and are now putting them in garbage trucks. Tear gas, rubber bullets and percussion bombs were used on sleeping protesters, including children! I think the Oakland community will soon raise a BIG stink and the Mayor is in deep shit! I think they chose today as Obama is to be across the Bay in SF briefly today....can't be too cautious with all these terrorists! :mexican: Yes, recall, but some are thinking of more immediate and up close and personal actions.....like occupy the Mayor's office....and re-occupy the park around it.

10.24.11 - 9:03 PM

Police Refuse to Arrest Protesters: These People Are Not Causing Trouble

by Abby Zimet

State troopers and police pushed back against orders from the mayor and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration to enforce a city curfew and arrest Occupy Albany protesters that included families and older people, saying it would damage community relations and their policy is not to prosecute peaceful protesters. Both entirely logical arguments. They even offered white lies on protesters' behalf, saying the were confined to sidewalks when in fact they had set up tents on park land. Bravo Albany.
"There was a lot of discussion about how it would look if we started pulling people away from their kids and arresting them ... and then what do we do with the children?"

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/10/24-5

Keith Millea Wrote:10.24.11 - 9:03 PM

Police Refuse to Arrest Protesters: These People Are Not Causing Trouble

by Abby Zimet

State troopers and police pushed back against orders from the mayor and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration to enforce a city curfew and arrest Occupy Albany protesters that included families and older people, saying it would damage community relations and their policy is not to prosecute peaceful protesters. Both entirely logical arguments. They even offered white lies on protesters' behalf, saying the were confined to sidewalks when in fact they had set up tents on park land. Bravo Albany.
"There was a lot of discussion about how it would look if we started pulling people away from their kids and arresting them ... and then what do we do with the children?"

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/10/24-5

Yes, a very lovely 'good' story - in among so many bad ones on the part of the Police. May it serve as an example and spread!!!! All hell is going to break out on Nov. 5th....as groups all over the USA and Europe will individually and as groups be going to their banks to close their accounts and the banks are 'ready'! Stay tuned!.......the revolution WILL be televised [or streamed!]......

Oakland Police WTF.......

Keith Millea Wrote:Oakland Police WTF.......

Would warm the cold heart of any fascist...

Just heard that Oakland police have kettled 300-5000 protesters and using stun grenades....
[url=https://www.facebook.com/theroadhomeindy][/url] ‎...complain to Mayor Rawlings-Blake at 410-396-3835. And keep those calls going to Oakland Mayor Kwan at 510-238-3141 - flood 'em. Tell them the world is watching.

In Oakland Police used rubber bullets, tear gas and percussion grenades on PEACEFUL and UNARMED citizens! About 200+ police in riot gear staged a riot. Looked more like Cairo than the USA. I expect this will trigger a very large and angry demonstration in the center of Oakland today - enshallah! There was a children's village within the camp - with children asleep who were roughed up and tear gassed. Nice! At least three adults seriously hurt - one hit by percussion grenade, one hit just above eye with rubber bullet. [URL="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/10/201110266201951908.html"]http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/10/201110266201951908.html

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16 police agencies attacked Occupy Oakland on October 25, 2011 around 4 a .m., arresting some 105 people, with 600 riot cops using tear gas, bean bags, flash grenades, tank-like police trucks, helicopters wasting oil and causing terrible noise all on peaceful people sitting and sleeping on the ground, exercising their First Amendment rights in a clean, safe environment. Please call the Alameda County district attorney to demand that the charges be dropped: (510) 272-6222, (510) 268-7500
We paid for the following agencies which attacked Occupy Oakland all of which claim to have a budget crisis: 1. Oakland PD, 2 Alameda Sheriff, 3. Berkeley PD 4. University of California PD 5. Hayward PD, 6. Fremont PD., 7. San Leandro PD., 8. Pleasanton PD, 9. Emeryville PD., 10. Newark PD., 11. Solano Cty-Vacaville police, 12. Alameda PD 13. Cal Highway Patrol 14. Santa Clara Sheriffs 15. San Francisco Sheriffs 16. San Jose Police

This information was heard on KPFA, 94.1 FM, at 4 p.m. on Hard Knock Radio, with the police spokesperson listing his fellow thugs at about 4:30 p.m. on this hour long show, which can be heard at
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/74508

This excellent coverage was continued on KPFA, 94.1 FM at 5 p.m. for 1 hour on Flashpoints, which can be heard at
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/74509
KPFA needs your help now to avoid cutbacks. Its goal for the current fundraiser is $800,000 to pay for the next few months of our listener-supported, non-commercial radio. It has raised $650,000 so far. October 26, 2011 is the last day for the fundraiser during which they must raise $150,000. It can be done if you help. You can pledge now online and obtain many of the thank you gifts, at:
https://secure.kpfa.org/support/

You will also learn on the Hard Knock radio program that hundreds of hungry people were being served donated food by donated labor in sanitary conditions for 18 hours a day at Occupy Oakland. They should get the Nobel Peace Prize for such an effort!

Some 105 Occupy Oakland people are sitting in jail until Thursday morning when they will be arraigned, including people with broken bones from the police violence. Please call the Alameda County district attorney to demand that the charges be dropped: (510) 272-6222, (510) 268-7500

This was done by the Democratic Mayor Jean Quan's administration, which is yet another reason why you should never vote Democrat or Republican for any office. Always vote either Peace & Freedom or Green. See
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://acgreens.wordpress.com/

The Oakland police department -- along with mutual aid from numerous other Bay Area agencies including Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies, Berkeley PD, UCPD-Berkeley, Emeryville PD, Hayward PD, Pleasanton PD, Union City PD, and others -- raided Occupy Oakland before dawn this morning. It was primarily OPD that carried out the raid while the other forces provided backup and created police line perimeters in the blocks surrounding the two Occupy Oakland sites. Tear gas and projectile weapons were used on occupiers at Oscar Grant Plaza before police made their way into the camp at just after 4:45am. The camps at both Oscar Grant Plaza and Snow Park were purposefully and completely demolished. Over 70 people were arrested in the raid at the plaza and a few more at Snow Park a little over an hour later. Several others were arrested individually in the hours that followed as occupiers and supporters verbally confronted police in the surrounding areas.

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[Pictured above: these OPD officers who were seen taking photographs of the wreckage on their personal mobile phones laughed and smiled with each other as they did so]


Within minutes of the raid of Oscar Grant Plaza having been completed and the last arrestee pulled away, numerous OPD officers who remained could be seen joking and laughing with each other, apparently quite pleased with having removed a sizable number of people and having flattened the physical apparatuses of Occupy Oakland in roughly twenty minutes. Once the aftermath of the plaza raid became exposed to daylight in another couple of hours, several dozen Oakland police not on the front lines facing protesters could be seen taking souvenir or trophy photographs and video on their personal mobile phones. One officer was asked about this, and he replied that he was gathering evidence, although it was obvious that his picture taking was random and not some sort of methodical police record of the plaza.

Most of the Oakland police officers who did capture these personal momentos will be sharing them with perhaps equally gleeful family and friends outside of Oakland, because while the majority of Oakland's tax revenues go toward OPD salaries and expenses, most of these officers live in neighboring suburbs rather than within the city in which they work.


As for the use of tear gas, it was inadvertently revealed that OPD was considering gassing the occupation when a conversation was overhead between a not-too-subtle undercover officer and two other people at the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on October 20th, the evening that the city of Oakland first distributed a notice to vacate the occupation at Oscar Grant Plaza. While certainly OPD and other agencies interested in the occupation have undercover officers and/or informants that may not stand out so much, during this General Assembly it was obvious that at least a dozen undercover or plainclothes officers were present gathering information that could be used later should a raid of the camp(s) be ordered. The undercover who revealed the intention to gas the occupation first asked the two people sitting on the amphitheater level in front of him about something he had heard a speaker say from the microphone. The speaker had offered information that Maalox and similar substances can be useful to treat the burning effect of pepper spray to the eyes if such a chemical weapon should be deployed by police. The undercover asked the two people in front of him if the Maalox was something that occupiers planned to squirt into police officers' eyes. They explained that what the speaker had actually said was about a treatment for pepper spray for protesters. The undercover then went on to ask the two people if they knew anyone who had gas masks, adding that he knew someone who had some masks. It was apparent that the undercover was gauging occupier defensive capabilities. The two people said they did not, but the undercover certainly does know people with gas masks. All of the invading OPD officers donned gas masks after their first volley of the chemical weapon into the camp blew back into their faces due to the direction of the slight breeze at the time. Original article with photos here The Oakland police department -- along with mutual aid from numerous other Bay Area agencies including Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies, Berkeley PD, UCPD-Berkeley, Emeryville PD, Hayward PD, Pleasanton PD, Union City PD, and others -- raided Occupy Oakland before dawn this morning. It was primarily OPD that carried out the raid while the other forces provided backup and created police line perimeters in the blocks surrounding the two Occupy Oakland sites. Tear gas and projectile weapons were used on occupiers at Oscar Grant Plaza before police made their way into the camp at just after 4:45am. The camps at both Oscar Grant Plaza and Snow Park were purposefully and completely demolished. Over 70 people were arrested in the raid at the plaza and a few more at Snow Park a little over an hour later. Several others were arrested individually in the hours that followed as occupiers and supporters verbally confronted police in the surrounding areas.

original with photos Within minutes of the raid of Oscar Grant Plaza having been completed and the last arrestee pulled away, numerous OPD officers who remained could be seen joking and laughing with each other, apparently quite pleased with having removed a sizable number of people and having flattened the physical apparatuses of Occupy Oakland in roughly twenty minutes. Once the aftermath of the plaza raid became exposed to daylight in another couple of hours, several dozen Oakland police not on the front lines facing protesters could be seen taking souvenir or trophy photographs and video on their personal mobile phones. One officer was asked about this, and he replied that he was gathering evidence, although it was obvious that his picture taking was random and not some sort of methodical police record of the plaza. Most of the Oakland police officers who did capture these personal momentos will be sharing them with perhaps equally gleeful family and friends outside of Oakland, because while the majority of Oakland's tax revenues go toward OPD salaries and expenses, most of these officers live in neighboring suburbs rather than within the city in which they work. As for the use of tear gas, it was inadvertently revealed that OPD was considering gassing the occupation when a conversation was overhead between a not-too-subtle undercover officer and two other people at the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on October 20th, the evening that the city of Oakland first distributed a notice to vacate the occupation at Oscar Grant Plaza. While certainly OPD and other agencies interested in the occupation have undercover officers and/or informants that may not stand out so much, during this General Assembly it was obvious that at least a dozen undercover or plainclothes officers were present gathering information that could be used later should a raid of the camp(s) be ordered. The undercover who revealed the intention to gas the occupation first asked the two people sitting on the amphitheater level in front of him about something he had heard a speaker say from the microphone. The speaker had offered information that Maalox and similar substances can be useful to treat the burning effect of pepper spray to the eyes if such a chemical weapon should be deployed by police. The undercover asked the two people in front of him if the Maalox was something that occupiers planned to squirt into police officers' eyes. They explained that what the speaker had actually said was about a treatment for pepper spray for protesters. The undercover then went on to ask the two people if they knew anyone who had gas masks, adding that he knew someone who had some masks. It was apparent that the undercover was gauging occupier defensive capabilities. The two people said they did not, but the undercover certainly does know people with gas masks. All of the invading OPD officers donned gas masks after their first volley of the chemical weapon into the camp blew back into their faces due to the direction of the slight breeze at the time.www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/25/18694945.php] here