Posted on 11/06/2011 10:17:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Even after the bandanna-wearing, rock-throwing, fire-starting fringe demonstrators took over a downtown Oakland building and blocked off a street late Wednesday, Mayor Jean Quan did not want police to intervene.
Instead, Quan asked that police hold off on any confrontation until daylight - or, barring that, send in negotiators to try to work out a peaceful resolution.
"She didn't want to incite the anarchists any more than they already were," said one source who was in the city's emergency operations center when Quan stunned the assembled staffers with her comments.
Finally, interim Police Chief Howard Jordan, with the backing of City Administrator Deanna Santana, made the call for police to take action. Both were in the emergency center with Quan.
The following day, at a press conference with Jordan and Santana, the mayor praised police for their handling of the situation, while a stone-faced chief and city administrator stood by her side.
Quan's command center call was the latest example of the mayor's resistance to using police force on demonstrators, a position that is being reinforced both by her closest advisers and her family.
In fact, eyewitnesses say Quan's husband was among the banner-wavers blockading the port in a nonviolent action earlier Wednesday.
Since the disastrous finale to Occupy Oakland's general strike, Quan has become more vocal about the nonstop protest movement's economic drain on the city. She now says the camp might have to move from City Hall.
Meanwhile, the tents remain.
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amazing.. a Mayor elected by ranked choice voting, a progressive liberal in bed with the perversion that the OCCUPY movement has evolved into.. wow.
She needs to be arrested under a RICO charge along with the string pullers of these "spontaneouds events" for inciting riots.
This charade makes it a stacked deck against claiming to run a sane civil gubamint, in my book. city council members and the Mayor march with the zombies. wow.
No Quan Do.
Recall ..
Now!
She needs to grow a pair....
... uh - never mind.
So now, the unrest that is in Europe with cars and shops aflame, is coming to a neighborhood near us.
Pray for the nation.
But the leftist, nutball, socialist freeloaders are NON-VIOLENT! It can't be repeated enough in the press.
“In fact, eyewitnesses say Quan’s husband was among the banner-wavers blockading the port in a nonviolent action earlier Wednesday.”
Great.
Oakland need a TEA Party stat!
They're criminals, plain and simple. The more you enable them, the more they will make you pay for it. Their goal from the beginning was chaos...anarchy...nothing more. Obama will gladly sit idly by because it helps create a diversion from his historic failures. It's simply a desperate attempt to shift blame and ultimately fulfill their leftists agenda of wealth redistribution.
From them and video, they should get every name, every address, every single person who so much as picked up a rock, even just to look at it.
We will have to discover once again why mobs should NEVER be tolerated.
That should have been grounds RIGHT THERE to walk in, tear gas them all, stun the ones who aren't incapacitated, and flex-cuff every man Jack of them.
From them and video, they should get every name, every address, every single person who so much as picked up a rock, even just to look at it.
We will have to discover once again why mobs should NEVER be tolerated.
didn’t want to incite the anarchists anymore than they already were... lolol
when you know the terrorists have won..
I’m surprised you don’t see “Yes We Quan” posters among the protestors...
Quan is proof that no everyone in this country should have the right to vote.
I have seen those people up close and personal...how I hate the pussies who have to hide behind a bandana. I guess there are reasons they have to hide.
...Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, and the Oakland city council have
made “preserving disorder” the official municipal policy.
Great post #7.
They love voting for LIEberals so they get what they deserve. For the few unfortunate sane ones they may have to move away from the lunatic leftists mayhem.
The establishment supports their brownshirts.
OWS is all about shaking down corporate America for more donations to Obama. The Dems already get a majority from Wall Street.
Although it will be difficult to analyze definitively, we may see a shift in support away from leftists and leftist policy in the election returns.
This may not be apparent immediately, because of the certainty of an attempted cover up by the complicit leftist MSM, but they can't keep the results secret from conservative analysts, and Rush and the rest will get the word out for sure before long.
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