Gassed: “What will you tell your children?” - “Fuck you!” - “Disobey your orders!”

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Gassed
Bay Citizen editor recounts being hit by tear gas canister at Occupy Oakland protest

Strangely, as I stared at the back of my left hand, scorched and black after a tear gas canister fired by police hit me in the stomach and exploded, I didn’t want it to be news.

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When I arrived, Shoshana, her gas mask wrapped around her neck and dark curly hair, stood near a kind of makeshift barricade the protesters had formed between the plaza and 15th Street. Some held six-foot wooden shields, handcrafted and painted black. Shouts came out of crowd:


“What will you tell your children?”

“Fuck you!”

“Disobey your orders!”


The shouts rained down on the police, some 300-strong, gathered at 15th Street in riot gear. The street lights reflected off their helmets and plastic visors, and you could see the dark silhouettes of their truncheons.

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MORE of this editor's story:
http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/editor-tear-gassed-occupy-oakland-opd/