Cops raiding Occupy Oakland for second time

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Source: SFGate

(11-14) 07:12 PST OAKLAND --

Oakland police have arrested about 25 protesters at the sprawling Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall while hundreds of law-enforcement officers square off against demonstrators in the second such raid of the downtown tent city.

Law-enforcement officers from numerous Bay Area agencies began arriving in force at 5 a.m. as a police helicopter flew overhead. Clad in armor and riot helmets, they stood in lines and surrounded the camp near the corner of 14th Street and Broadway adjacent to Frank Ogawa Plaza, where dozens of demonstrators have been camping to protest economic inequity and corporate greed.

About 6 a.m., police began arresting protesters at an "interfaith tent" on the plaza, 40 minutes after police issued an order to disperse. The protesters sang "We Shall Overcome" as they were handcuffed.





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[BeHereNow]

1. Ah, 5:00 AM-

Less likely to be filmed by sleeping occupiers.
Slimy and desperate tactics of cowards.
BHN

[Uncle Joe]

2. Occupiers will need to start taking guard shifts with their cameras. n/t

[socialist_n_TN]

3. As soon as this was known, Berkeley and SF

should have issued a call for everybody out in the streets in THEIR cities. Make the cops REGRET going over to Oakland to "help out" and make it a losing strategy for the cops to do this.

[4moronyears]

4. I *guess* they have nothing better to do than enforce criminal laws

instead of breaking laws to break up their Constitutional rights to a peaceful assembly.

[msongs]

5. espite the PR lies, police are not your friend. they are there to protect the cream from the scum nt

[valerief]

6. Well, the banks hiring these goons can buy ARMIES of them. Injustice and unconstitutionality

at its worst.

[Magoo48]

7. And the war on tents lumbers along...

[FunMe]

8. Mayor Quan's legal adviser just quit in protest

Dan Siegel: No longer Mayor Quan's legal advisor. Resigned at 2 am. Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators.

https://www.facebook.com/danmsiegel/posts/2667864022791

Meanwhile, they spent $500,000 for this. Wow, how stupid can they get. The movement there is only going to get bigger.