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Occupy Oakland Protester Injured While Blocking Road
Twitter ^ | Nov 2, 2011 | KRON4 New

Posted on 11/02/2011 8:35:54 PM PDT by furquhart

All over #OccupyOakland right now, not fully confirmed.

Apparently attempting to block the road - angry driver hit the protestors.


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: california; oakland; occupy; occupyoakland; occupywallstreet; ows
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To: mamelukesabre

This is a nation of laws, not men.


61 posted on 11/02/2011 9:10:37 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: LyinLibs
If somebody was indeed running thru traffic, sounds like he’ll be “Occupying Dead Street.”

Be going from "Occupy Wall Street" to "Occupy Forest Lawn"...

the infowarrior

62 posted on 11/02/2011 9:11:03 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: jespasinthru

“A serious injury, and they let the driver go? That part of the story doesn’t sound credible.”

Nothing these nut jobs say is credible.


63 posted on 11/02/2011 9:11:37 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: eyedigress

If you say so. It appears to me this is not a nation and there are neither laws nor men.


64 posted on 11/02/2011 9:12:56 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

It is wildly distorted now. I must stand with my convictions. Break the law and bad things happen.


65 posted on 11/02/2011 9:14:45 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: dead
Joe Jackson - look sharp!

Nice pull

66 posted on 11/02/2011 9:21:25 PM PDT by kaboom
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67 posted on 11/02/2011 9:22:12 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Viking2002

True, true.


68 posted on 11/02/2011 9:24:20 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: furquhart

They wanted “change and hope”,this is what you get from Obama.
Race relations,economy,housing, foreign policy etc....all down the sewer,and yet there are those that want the “monster” voted in again for 4 more years.
Sick!


69 posted on 11/02/2011 9:43:11 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: USAFJeeper

7:45 p.m. Injury accident on Broadway at 11th Street

A man and a woman were hit at 11th Street and Broadway by a silver Mercedes, after a male driver ran
a red light, said Joe Jackson, 37, of Oakland, who witnessed the incident.

The driver was irritated by protesters walking in front of him.

Onlookers said the driver deliberately ran over the pair, accelerating after a man hit on the hood of the car.

The windshield was splattered with what appeared to be a milkshake.

After the car stopped at the other end of the intersection , , ,

“Get into a car and drive . . . to the other side”

Into the nite
Into the light!!!”


70 posted on 11/02/2011 9:48:11 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (There's nothing more hypocritical than a white liberal calling someone else a "bigot")
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To: mamelukesabre
...murder, or standing in a street?

If someone is standing in the street blocking your progress, and a mob begins to pound on your car in a threatening manner while your car identifies you as their enemy, what would you do?

71 posted on 11/02/2011 9:51:48 PM PDT by kaboom
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To: furquhart

Why don’t they go protest at E14th. And 98thave or rright around Fruitvale a art station , lol


72 posted on 11/02/2011 9:58:51 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: kaboom

That is the same thought that crossed my mind as well... the fact that the police let him drive away when someone was taken away in an ambulance leads me to believe the police might have felt they were in danger as well (and not a flight risk... political connection?).

Another thing to consider is with thousands of protesters and an escalating incident (blocking traffic, perception of the ‘rich’ guy in the mercedes as the enemy, pounding on hood, yelling at occupants), why have we not seen cell-phone video yet? I find the whole narrative very suspect. So, he ran over one, and injured another when he backed up? sounds like the car was completely engulfed in a hostile crowd maybe???


73 posted on 11/02/2011 10:02:29 PM PDT by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: NormsRevenge

No worries! Mexican trucks will fill the void.


74 posted on 11/02/2011 10:07:08 PM PDT by griswold3 (Character is Destiny)
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To: furquhart

Boo Hoo. Get out the way next time moron.


75 posted on 11/02/2011 10:08:11 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Romney as president will just destroy the country slower than Obama.)
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To: dead

Was she really going out with him?


76 posted on 11/02/2011 10:09:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Romney as president will just destroy the country slower than Obama.)
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To: kcvl
Gretchen Bailey, a kindergarten teacher at Global Family School in Oakland for 15 years, said she took the day off without pay to protest both local budget cuts and the national goals of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

“I think we need new tax laws,” she said. “We all need to share more of the burden.”



Oakland Unified spends nearly $11k per student... the top performing district in the state (Los Altos Elementary) spends $1500 less per student and is a basic aid district (minimal funding from state), whereas Oakland Unified gets significant state revenue along with substantially higher federal grant revenue. So, basically, the wealthy are paying not only for their own kids' education, but also for the education of the poor (and at a 16% premium to boot). But this is simply not enough... they need to pay more. So, when she says "we all need to share more of the burden," is she referring to the poor paying more in taxes to support education, or the wealthy taking on the burden of parenting the poor as well? The real problem here is the fact that the school at which this teacher is employed counts fewer than 20 students that are not classified as 'English learners' among the roughly 220 students... poor. don't speak the language. parents never graduated high school... if in fact both parents are in the home. No amount of money will lead to the outcomes she desires.
77 posted on 11/02/2011 10:50:06 PM PDT by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: NormsRevenge

I can’t believe no one’s asked the only really important question here. What flavor was the milkshake?


78 posted on 11/02/2011 11:25:11 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: furquhart
Didn't his momma tell him not to play in the street?

Stupid is as stupid does...

79 posted on 11/02/2011 11:27:11 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: mamelukesabre
seems to me people here are forgetting that running over a pedestrian is actually against the law.

True, that.

So is blocking the road.

Not saying two wrongs make a right, but at some point the Laws of Motion come into play (just Newtonian Physics).

80 posted on 11/02/2011 11:30:55 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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