Important to note...OPD did not do the attack last night

[nadinbrzezinski]

Connect to their open letter.

Please do connect that dot.

[KamaAina]

1. Then who did?

Alameda County sheriffs? One or more of the other area PDs providing mutual aid?

Or Homeland Security? :scared:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Alameda

And other agencies.

Still it was NOT OPD.

We might have crossed another invisible line.

[kestrel91316]

3. What "attack" last night, and where? I was out of the loop for a while.

[robdogbucky]

4. Good Morning Oakland

RAW VIDEO - Police Use Flash Grenades & Tear Gas At Oakland General Strike

From last night's general strike at Occupy Oakland.

http://dailybail.com/home/raw-video-police-use-flash-grenades-tear-gas-at-oakland-gene.html

Clashes have erupted in Oakland, California, between anti-corporate protesters and police, who have entered their camp. Up to 100 people have been arrested. According to unconfirmed reports, many police officers were not wearing badges and had tape covering their names.




Protest’s Tone Changes Overnight in Oakland

Posted on Nov 3, 2011

The day started with a general strike in Oakland, Calif., and by sundown the Occupy movement had scored a symbolic and practical victory in peacefully closing down the busy Port of Oakland. But around midnight and early into Thursday morning, protesters and riot police were clashing at the main encampment by City Hall. What changed?

The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that several dozen protesters were arrested and three were hospitalized, and some minor injuries were sustained by police officers. Here’s more on the overnight developments, and below the excerpt is video footage from #OakFoSho, the camera-phone-enabled protester mentioned in the L.A. Times’ coverage. Check out his Twitter feed here and his UStream channel here.

Los Angeles Times:

Demonstrators managed to gain entry to an empty building that had housed the Traveler’s Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that assists the homeless but had suffered funding cuts. Leaflets indicated that protesters had targeted the building for “reuse.” They branded it a new “community center” in Twitter feeds. Video from a local ABC affiliate’s helicopter showed jubilant crowds flowing in and out of the building, where a banner marked “Occupy Everything” hung. Others built a barricade nearby, presumably to discourage police.

Shortly before midnight, local media reported that police officers from various agencies were suiting up in riot gear. Some demonstrators set the barricade aflame. Firefighters doused it. A police statement later said protesters had hurled rocks, explosives, bottles and flaming objects at officers...

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/arrests_and_injuries_change_protests_tone_overnight_in_oakland_20111103/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Truthdig+Truthdig%3A+Drilling+Beneath+the+Headlines




Occupy Oakland protesters show rubber bullets used by riot squads

A 2:25 minute video report from last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8HaODf7PH4


Reports coming out of Oakland say police there are withdrawing after a series of running battles with Occupy movement protesters. Riot-gear clad cops once again deployed tear gas, flashbangs and rubber ammunition in an effort to move entrenched demonstrators. But the city's port - the 5th largest in America, remains shut down.

[kestrel91316]

6. I would think it would be highly illegal for police to put tape over their

names and badges so as to be unidentifiable and therefore unaccountable for their misdeeds......

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. OPD showed up at 2+ AM and opened fire.

Saw it on the livestream. Reinforcements had been called.

Quan is stupid and must be made to understand that we are peaceful.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. It was alameda per stream unless that happened after I collapsed

Totally possible and she IS stupid.

[msongs]

8. OPD is bringing in paid mercenaries then complaining how their choices are costing money nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Mutual aide is not mercs

[msongs]

10. the OPD was so overwhelmed by those terrorists they had to call in paid support.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I'd like you to connect the dot

I will do it for you...I can't prove it, but somebody said no to orders.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Sure could be :)

[Pab Sungenis]

13. Warriors (and that's what OPD is acting like) from outside

is the very definition of mercenaries.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Nope, they are not warriors either.

[Pab Sungenis]

15. That's how they've been acting.

To them the protesters haven't been people they needed to protect but an enemy to conquer and destroy.