Occupy Oakland vs Neo-Nazis vs Sacramento Police at Tea Party Event

Pictures Monday (02/27/2012) was to be just another nice normal day for me at the CA Capital taking pictures of the Tea Party’s 3 year anniversary.

They had advertised that they were meeting on the North steps; however, when I arrived I noticed that they were actually on the West steps and there was some group already gathering on the North side.

Nice group of TP attendees and very few police around that I could see. The ones that were there were very laid back and relaxed. No problems. I see this at all of the Tea Party Events.

I was getting my pictures of the various speakers when one of them (Pic 188) was talking about how the news media thinks that we are going away and how we always leave an event cleaner than it was before and how the Occupy Groups do not when I heard “Bull ****!” and “****** Liar”. There was a group of young people sitting on the grassy area on the West side behind the Tea Party that had shouted this. (Pic 191) As I was there photographing them I heard quite a bit of yelling coming from the North side of the sidewalk (Black Dot on Capital Map) and had no idea who they were or what was going on but walked over to get pics.

I soon realized that this group was Occupy Oakland and they stood on the West Wall area and started shouting at the Tea Party. (Yellow Dot) (Pics starting at 193). Let me be perfectly clear on this……I went from a very, very relaxed meeting of the Tea Party to a radical aggressive group in a matter of 1 minute. The Liberal News Media has been portraying the TP as a group of radicals and the Occupy Group as the opposite. You be the judge after looking at the pictures and videos. Now I knew why there was so very few Police at the Tea Party. They were all around the Occupy Group!! And the Police looked like there were just short of calling in more and getting into riot gear. It was that bad!

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Map of where it all happened
Monday (02/27/2012) was to be just another nice normal day for me at the CA Capital taking pictures of the Tea Party’s 3 year anniversary. They had advertised that they were meeting on the North steps; however, when I arrived I noticed that they were actually on the West steps and there was some group already gathering on the North side. Nice group of TP attendees and very few police around that I could see. The ones that were there were very laid back and relaxed. No problems. I see this at all of the Tea Party Events. I was getting my pictures of the various speakers when one of them (Pic 188) was talking about how the news media thinks that we are going away and how we always leave an event cleaner than it was before and how the Occupy Groups do not when I heard “Bull S***!” and “F***ing Liar”. There was a group of young people sitting on the grassy area on the West side behind the Tea Party that had shouted this. (Pic 191)

As I was there photographing them I heard quite a bit of yelling coming from the North side of the sidewalk (Black Dot on Capital Map) and had no idea who they were or what was going on but walked over to get pics. I soon realized that this group was Occupy Oakland and they stood on the West Wall area and started shouting at the Tea Party. (Yellow Dot) (Pics starting at 193).

Let me be perfectly clear on this……I went from a very, very relaxed meeting of the Tea Party to a radical aggressive group in a matter of 1 minute. The Liberal News Media has been portraying the TP as a group of radicals and the Occupy Group as the opposite. You be the judge after looking at the pictures and videos. Now I knew why there was so very few Police at the Tea Party. They were all around the Occupy Group!! And the Police looked like there were just short of calling in more and getting into riot gear. It was that bad! Notice that some of them had Gas Masks as in this picture and the phone number written in sharpie on the guys arm (Legal Rep in the Bay area)(Pic 204)

The Occupy Oakland (OO) Mob (Yes they were a Mob) stayed there for a few minutes and then walked north on the sidewalk and I followed them. (Pic 220)

They eventually stopped on the North Side (Purple Dot) (Pic 227) and started chanting to this other group of people (Now a different one than earlier) (Pic 230) about joining them. This group looked at them very confused and then the OO group moved on walking east and I left them at that time to go back to the Tea Party. Arrived back at the TP and saw this Hippy Chick with a sign that was crashing the meeting. (Pic 232)
Here sign read “F*** RACISM”. The speaker at the time of the crashing did stop his speech to point her out and remark about how great this country is that we have Free Speech. (Pic 248) She was escorted out. I followed her walking north when I was informed that there was a group of Neo Nazis on the South Steps so I went over there to get some pictures. (Pic 250).

Talked to them for a bit to find out what they were doing there when I heard the OO Mob coming around and they parked themselves on the South Wall area to yell at the Neo Nazis (Red Dot). At this point, there was quite a number of Police there trying to keep the 2 groups separated. Oh…..BTW….this one guy did not like me taking his picture and told me to stop while cursing at me so I made a point to take more pictures of him. (Pic 261)

By this time I was really hungry and left the Capital area and went to Pyramid Brewery to have a beer and lunch. While there, I heard sirens and could see activity out the window and Police blocking off streets. OK…..sit there and enjoy a wonderful beer and lunch or go see what is going on. Well…..had to go see… I found activity at the corner of 10th and K (Green Dot) (Pics 298 on…)

but still did not know what happened. I went right into the middle of OO who was joined with Occupy Sacramento and started asking questions. Not a very friendly crowd and the tensions were very high. Police were now in riot gear. Let me take a moment to give a compliment to the Police that were there on the scene. They showed great restraint and were very professional all the while getting yelled out in the most vulgar way by the Occupy Mob. I saw 2 Police Officers that had paint thrown on them. (Pic 317)

Talking to a few Officers I found out that at least one of them had been injured by the OO Mob while trying to keep the OO Mob and the Neo Nazis separated. At this time the Neo Nazis were gone and it was only OO there at this intersection and IMHO, they were looking to start something. I heard over and over again things like “F%$# the Police”, “They want a Fight? We will give them one!!!” You know….typical things that you will hear at a Tea Party Event. One other point…..and I am not in any way endorsing the Neo Nazis at all….The Police said that they had Zero issues with the Neo Nazis. My point being that the Occupy Group is now more violent and radical than the Neo Nazis and yet the Liberal News Media portrays the Tea Party as the violent group.

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