Brtual Occupy Oakland Raid: Police Just Following Orders
Abby Martin of Media Roots went out to cover the immediate aftermath of the brutal police raid of Occupy Oakland at 6:20 am on October 25, 2011.
Occupy Oakland Raid: Police Just “Following Orders”
500+ Oakland PD used tear gas, rubber bullets and completely leveled two encampments of peaceful protestors practicing civil disobedience. 90+ protestors were then arrested.
Check out my coverage later that same day, when cops launched smoke bombs and tear gas unprovoked into the crowd of Occupy Oakland protestors in an intense showdown between Oakland PD & OWS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgn4IXHyVdI&feature=channel_video_title
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Media Roots TV – Occupy Oakland Police Raid
Abby Martin of Media Roots reports from the front lines of the immediate aftermath of the predawn Oakland police raid against the peaceful Occupy Oakland encampments on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. The raid was perpetrated under the ironic pretext of ‘sanitation and safety,’ even though the encampments were in accordance with safety standards.
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During the brutal police raid of Occupy Oakland at 5:30 am, Tuesday morning, 500+ unprovoked Oakland and other agency police officers unlawfully used smoke bombs, tear gas, and rubber bullets on people, some with children and even as they lay sleeping, before completely destroying the two encampments of peaceful protesters. 90+ protesters were then arrested at Snow Park and Frank Ogawa Plaza (which protesters have renamed Oscar Grant Plaza). Inexplicably, protesters continued to be arrested after park curfew was over.
Attorney and Occupy Oakland-supporter, Jesse Palmer, reported Wednesday on KPFA/Pacifica radio’s “Morning Mix” the various police agencies involved in the predawn raid:
“So, the police came and cracked down and destroyed the encampment, as you know yesterday. And they came with overwhelming force. And as you said, you know, we were on the streets, you know, early in the morning and people were picking out all of the odd police forces, the Pleasanton police force and the Union City police force. And I saw the East Bay Regional Parks, um, police force there. And they came with overwhelming force. And they, you know, there was, um, there was no real, I mean, there was no way to resist that.”
Check out exclusive Media Roots TV coverage later that day of the intense showdown between Occupy Oakland and the Oakland PD (alongside 16 other police agencies) in the moments before and up to the first brutal attack on the crowd, which appeared to be a coordinated national security operation against popular dissent. The unprovoked Oakland police again launched smoke bombs, tear gas projectiles, and rubber bullets into the group of unarmed, peaceful Occupy Oakland protesters. Similar raids and crackdowns occurred across the U.S.
Contact Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, who conveniently left for Washington, D.C. throughout the ordeal, to voice your views on this brutal repression of Constitutionally-protected assembly.
Occupy Oakland: Police Standoff & Brutal Assault, Tear Gas
http://mediaroots.org/media-roots-tv-oakland-pd-assaults-peaceful-crowd.php
Abby Martin of Media Roots captured an extremely tense standoff between the Oakland Police Department and the Occupy Wall Street protestors.
Things came to a head around 7:45 pm when the Oakland PD started throwing smoke bombs and tear gas canisters into the crowd completely unprovoked.
Check out my coverage from earlier that day when the Oakland PD aggressively raided the peaceful Occupy Oakland encampment and said they were just ‘following orders’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NJXEsXlw7Q&feature=relmfu
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Media Roots TV – Oakland Police Brutal Assault
Abby Martin of Media Roots reports from the front lines of the brutal police-state repression of the non-violent Occupy Oakland protesters, who were practicing their freedom to assemble on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 7:30pm. The footage captures an increasingly tense standoff between the Oakland Police Department and the Occupy Wall Street protesters in the moments preceding the aggressive assault on the crowd.
Things came to a head around 7:45pm when the coordinated 17-agency police action, including Oakland PD, approved by Major Jean Quan, started throwing smoke bombs, firing tear gas projectile canisters and rubber bullets into the crowd, completely unprovoked.
Although it’s not evident in this footage, Iraq war veteran and Occupy Oakland-supporter Scott Olsen was shot in the head by a tear gas projectile at point blank range by one of the assaulting riot cops during this anti-democratic, unconstitutional drama of police terrorism. Olsen has been hospitalised and is reported to be in serious condition with a fractured skull at presstime.
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Contact the Mayor Jean Quan here: http://www.oaklandnet.com/contactmayor.asp
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