(Oakland mayor) Quan says she'll call national Occupy leaders

[alp227]

Faced with ever-increasing violence between police and Occupy protesters, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is seeking help from a new source: Occupy Wall Street.

Quan plans to ask leaders of the national Occupy movement to convince their Oakland cohorts to shun violence during their protests over economic inequality, officials said Monday.

"This splinter group inside Occupy Oakland - the ones who advocate violence - are not in sync with the rest of the movement," said Sue Piper, Quan's spokeswoman. "People who have been involved with the national movement - and a lot of people who live in Oakland - are really fed up with this splinter group. This is not what Occupy is supposed to be about."

City officials estimated that about 400 people were arrested Saturday night following protesters' attempt to take over the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center near Lake Merritt. Three police officers and several protesters were injured in a melee that stretched across downtown.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/30/BAPQ1N0G9K.DTL

[gopiscrap]

1. She needs to resign

and so does the police chief....

[mike_c]

2. Quan might have better luck asking someone closer to home to foreswear violence....

These guys....

[roody]

3. She should give them a space.

[rsmith6621]

4. What Leaders...

....OWS doesnt have any stinkin leaders..

[htuttle]

6. She's going to have to make a lot of calls!

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. "I am Spartacus!"

[freshwest]

5. Interesting admission that Occupy isn't violent. Learning curve?

[Downwinder]

7. While Occupy Oakland was in Frank Ogawa Plaza

they were available for 24/7 surveillance. The Mayor is the one who wanted them elsewhere.

[mindwalker_i]

8. Yeah, she's called them a lot of things already

I suspect she'll get a distinct lack of sympathy.

[Remember Me]

10. She doesn'gt have to go to all that trouble...

she could more efficiently and effectively quell the 'violence' by talking to her police department!

[bayareaboy]

11. She is doing this to deflect ... ...

folks who want her to be recalled. She is a Scott Walker wannabee

[Viva]

12. I hope she places a call to...

the offices of ADbusters

[carla]

13. To all who think the Occupy Movement is faltering

I present Jean Quan. She, a mayor whose goons have busted quite a few heads of innocent protestors, is now asking the "leaders" of the movement to marginalize the more action-minded and defensive aspects of the group. She is powerless against OWS, and more mayors will find themselves in the same boat soon if they don't wise up. Jean Quan is a tool of the 1%. WE are the 99%, we shall rule.

[EFerrari]

15. We don't need to rule. Living a reasonably humane life would be enough.

lol

[pinboy3niner]

14. She ought to first call OPD and ask WTF is up with the investigation of Scott Olsen's injury?

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Why no results after all this time?

[HangOnKids]

20. Scott Olsen Not Owen

Just an FYI

[pinboy3niner]

22. Thanks

All fixed, now.

[2pooped2pop]

16. Probably want to save yourself some time

and look within your police department to find members of that splinter group before branching out to other OWS's.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. +1000!

[bemildred]

17. Fool, there are no leaders. nt

[Joe Bacon]

18. She should be recalled.

She's beyond disgusting!

[BlueToTheBone]

19. Is she saying

Please stand still so the police can hit you harder? What an idiot! These kind of people make my mouth fall open.

[randome]

21. You want to completely ignore what happened in Oakland, don't you?

The property damage, the firecrackers thrown, the flag-burning?

Did the police over-react? Undoubtedly.

But why would you disparage someone who is at least making an effort to avoid combative situations in the future? How would YOU have prevented a large number of people from taking over a public building when your job was to stop them?

Did OWS apologize for the damage? Have they offered to help repair things? For that matter, have the Oakland police apologized for their over-reactions?

No one has apologized that I'm aware of. I'm sure OWS will have another 'Moving In' day soon that will end the same way this one did -people getting injured and nothing being done to change our economic future.

Someone needs to stop this senseless fighting. I don't see anyone from OWS making a similar effort.

[BlueToTheBone]

24. I'm not ignoring the violence at all

I think the flag burning, property smashing activity is totally counterproductive. But the statement from Quan in itself just made my head spin.