BREAKING: Oakland Police Use Rubber Bullets, Flash Grenades, And Smoke Bombs To Evict Occupy Oakland

[one_voice]

Late last night, Oakland police, under orders from the city, began surrounding the Occupy Oakland encampment in preparation to oust the protesters from Frank Ogawa Plaza.

Approximately an hour ago, hundreds of Oakland police officers raided the camp. Dressed in riot gear, the police used rubber bullets, flash grenades, and gas canisters to forcibly evict and/or arrest the demonstrators who remained in the plaza. The Occupy Oakland Twitter account live-tweeted the raid:

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/25/352378/oakland-police-evict-occupy-oakland/


MSNBC reporting on it now.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. May 10,000 people be back there tomorrow.

And may karma do justice to the pigs.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Cops: Doing the work of the 1 percent...

From the link:

"One protester interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle remained upbeat. “People are going to keep coming back. What are they going to do, send cops in every night and waste taxpayer dollars?” asked Gabe Meyers. “The cops are the 99 percent, but they’re doing the work of the 1 percent. Wall Street is proud of them every time they clear out an encampment.”"

[kestrel91316]

3. Oakland PD = quislings