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After the October 25th raid on Frank Ogawa Plaza / Oscar Grant Park, and before the November 2nd General Strike, a campaign by all the powers that be in Oakland had started to discredit anyone and anything associated with Occupy Oakland. And so, to no one’s particular surprise, in the emails poured over by KTVU reporters was found a note that might as well have caused the spontaneous combustion of the chief’s pants
When Jordan received an update that crime was actually down 19 percent in the last week of October, he wrote an email to one of Mayor Jean Quan’s advisers. “Not sure how you want to share this good news,” he wrote. “It may be counter to our statement that the Occupy movement is negatively impacting crime in Oakland.”
Emphasis mine.
This is why I never take any public statement from any police force at face value. I want to believe public officials, but there’s just too much consistent evidence that they lie about everything.
The New York Times today looked at 40 years of the American riot-control officer. In 1968, it was a simple uniform shirt. In 2011, it was Kevlar tactical body armor.
Photo by Hugh Sykes in Cairo, CS gas canister labelled “Made in USA”
It’s a very police state Thanksgiving!
This violence was necessary because Occupy Oakland had the nerve to order port-O-potties for their free Thanksgiving meal. Can’t be having that, now can we?
They’re sitting and they’re brown? That gives Pike an idea! Offer them a “vegetable” to go dress up their turkey.
“Oh word? A whole turkey? NICE. That actually looks pretty grubbin’, lady. Just wait ‘til you see what we have to bring to the potluck. Oh you just wait! Its a little maize salad with peppers, carrots and those little twirly pasta thingers you get at the salad bar sometimes. Its gonna blow your mind! Anyway, thanks for putting on this party. Its really cool! I think we’re gonna get along jut fine! We’re totally cool with letting you settle on some of our land and take part in our disease-free and war-free lifestyle. I really have a good feeling aboutthisAUUAUUAHAGAGGAGGGAGGHHHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
They handcuffed the students so tightly. One kid, later on they were unable to cut off his ties, they’d been tied so tight. One of the other students couldn’t feel his hands they were so purple, his circulation was cut off so badly for so long. He took himself to the hospital after he was released from the zip-tie restraints. They told him he had nerve damage and not to expect to be able to feel his hands for the next week. He has to come back next week to see if there was permanent nerve damage in his wrists.
…Aside from refusing the order to disperse, the only rule we were breaking was camping on campus. But since we had the first night waived by Chancellor Katehi, we really hadn’t even broken university policy, she waived the code.
From an interview with one of the non-violent protesters pepper sprayed at UC Davis.
I see how the tents could be a health hazard but seriously a garden? I don’t see how a garden is hurting anyone. The city could of used the money they spent destroying a harmless garden to do something for something much more useful like say save their failing public school district. If oakland wants the occupiers to cooperate with them they have to make an effort to work with them too.
