WHERE IS THE MAINSTREAM COVERAGE OF OAKLAND ATTACK??

[annabanana]

Can ANYONE link to CorpoMedia© coverage of the flashbombing of Occupy Oakland? People were injured by the out of control, militarized police department of Oakland last night.

[OneGrassRoot]

1. ABC's Good Morning America covered it this morning...

Of course, they said the "police said they had no choice after the protestors started throwing rocks."

:eyes:

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Are there any videos of the rock throwing?

I can't imagine that the cops weren't videotaping everything themselves.

[OneGrassRoot]

10. I tried searching for the same. I saw pics of paint bombs (?)...

the police were splattered with paint, but nothing else. Hopefully if there is anything, someone here will share so we can be aware.

[belcffub]

2. on the front page of cnn.com right now

[annabanana]

5. Looking for any mention on "The Networks".. Where in America

is this the background noise for someone's breakfast? Where can the people who "don't do politics" find out about it?

[TBF]

3. Coverage from NYT: Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters in Oakland, Calif.

7:19 a.m. | Updated The police in Oakland dispersed hundreds of protesters using tear gas and flash bombs on Tuesday night as crowds tried to re-enter a plaza outside of City Hall that authorities had cleared of an encampment earlier in the day.

[Downwinder]

4. Al Jazeera has been running it all night.

[annabanana]

8. Well, Al Jazeera is a ~*news*~ outlet. Where are NBC, ABC, CBS??

Yank their licenses!!

[Firebrand Gary]

6. Morning Joe had the story at the top of the show.

It should be on loop and come on again in five minutes.

[annabanana]

11. Nope.. Joe is now claiming that Obama is MORE in Wall St's pocket

than anyone else has EVER been..

Hijacking the discussion completely.

[workinclasszero]

9. Throwing rocks my ass!

There is video of the protesters standing right in front of the cops before they attacked the crowd.

There are NO ROCKS being thrown at all!

[Renew Deal]

12. It's the main story on CNN.com right now.

[annabanana]

13. big deal... If it's not on TV, the vast majority of American's won't see it..

Let me know if you see it teased or covered on CNN TV

[maddezmom]

24. they've had segments on it all AM, specifically Oakland

the last one was also with Charlie Rangel

[Renew Deal]

26. That's not what you said initially

You asked where is the mainstream coverage. I won't be watching any of the MSM news channels today, so unfortunately, I won't be able to answer.

[lynne]

14. Video on cnn.com shows green paint on one officers helmet and neck -

- not really bright to throw paint as it leaves a mark for the whole world to see. And once things are thrown at police, all bets are off as the crowd has officially become unruly and everything escalates.

Unfortunate that the paint-throwers had to ruin it for those that were being peaceful.

[workinclasszero]

16. Darn a cop got paint thrown on him?

Well then that right there justifies a fucking police riot, shooting women in the head with rubber bullets, gassing women in wheelchairs and US service members in uniform holding a copy of the US constitution!

You betcha! :sarcasm::argh:

[Renew Deal]

27. How do you know a protestor threw the paint?

[justiceischeap]

28. How do you know the officer didn't get paint on him from the paint used to make signs?

We don't have any coverage of how the paint got there. For all we know a cop could have tossed a cup of paint while "rousting" the protestors and it hit a fellow cop.

[Danse]

15. "Clashes"

I did a Google News Search. Pravda -- er, CNNBCBS etc. is describing the paramilitary assault as "Clashes between protesters and police". Another favorite is "Violence broke out between protesters and police".

References to "rocks and bottles being thrown" followed by police who had "no choice" but to shoot at old ladies in wheel chairs with rubber bullets. Actually the old ladies are not mentioned, nor the marine who was struck in the head and nearly killed. Additionally, the encampment is described as a sort of hellish pit in which savages wantonly destroyed public property.

The truly sad thing about all this is that it really isn't that difficult for intell to hire a few fake-anarchist "black bloc" provocateurs to throw a bottle or a rock, even if that didn't occur in this instance. The Montebello police in Quebec have even admitted to using the tactic -- there's video online -- and if they're willing to do in Canada, well...

What really needs to be stressed is that collective punishment is not justified. If these police are really so "tough", they should be able to withstand a bottle of water thrown in their direction; moreover, they should be able to distinguish between peaceful protesters and a hooligan or two. The sort of mass violence unleashed in Oakland is never justified.

The use of provocateurs is one of their favorite tactics. They've been doing it for decades. Yet it remains one of the greatest taboos in journalism. For a mediawhore to admit the obvious would be undermine the legitimacy of the police. And we can't have that. As the protests grow in strength, so will the number of staged events used to justify violence.

[EFerrari]

18. Last night I heard on the video stream the OPD accusing occupiers

of using tear gas. It was insane. So that is one source of this bs about "clashes" when it was basically a police riot against the citizens of Oakland.

[mmonk]

17. After the attacks by tear gas cannisters, I saw one protestor

throw one back in a video.

[sabrina 1]

19. There was a lot of media there including News Helicopter.

From the tweets I saw, the coverage was as usual, biased. People were angry over it on twitter.

But, the protesters had their own media there and have recorded everything they could. I have posted on link in my OP to an hour long excellent video narrated by the protester who recorded it. It's going to be very valuable later.

He said they were using something called a 'sound canon' which was designed for use only for the military. He called what he was watching 'a war on the Constitution'.

I'm listening to it now and he's calling it a 'sonic canon'. As for the media, I don't know how much they reported. But it was on RT as I did see some coverage there.

[mmonk]

21. I heard a weird sound in one of the videos.

Sounded like tweets.

[sabrina 1]

30. Yes, I heard that too, it does sound like tweets. Don't know

if that is what he was talking about.

[lunatica]

20. It wasn't just the Oakland police department

There was also police from Emeryville, San Leandro, Hayward, Union City and Fremont. That's practically the entire East Bay, and covers two counties at least. That news I got from a news crew from Berkeley doing online live video.

[Le Taz Hot]

22. If this action had been against

the TeaKlanners it would have been broadcast 24/7 on every station. If anyone, EVER tries to claim "liberal media" again, remind them of this.

[H2O Man]

23. One of the issues

that I thought DUers would pick up on was that Lawrence had his show moved to a "new time" on MSNBC recently. Certainly, ratings were a factor. But I can say with zero chance of error that it had more to do with the negative responses his show was getting for a couple of specific areas -- one being his reporting on the police violence at OWS in NYC. Though he was not the first, his show (which targets a different audience than Rachel or Ed's) made waves in unfriendly circles.

[mmonk]

25. Thanks for that.

Yes, that could do it in a security state.

[wiggs]

29. My daughter was there.

Via text, we convinced her to leave just minutes before the aggression started. She's young...doesn't need tear gas, rubber bullets, or a night in Oakland jail. Will debrief this morning.