Posted on 01/29/2012 5:51:10 AM PST by Libloather
300 arrested in daylong Occupy Oakland protests
By TERRY COLLINS/Associated Press
Posted: 01/29/2012 05:04:33 AM PST
OAKLAND - Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and burned a U.S. flag, as officers earlier fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing at a convention center.
Saturday's protests - the most turbulent since Oakland police forcefully dismantled an Occupy encampment in November - came just days after the group said it planned to use a vacant building as a social center and political hub and threatened to try to shut down the port, occupy the airport and take over City Hall.
An exasperated Mayor Jean Quan, who faced heavy criticism for the police action last fall, called on the Occupy movement to "stop using Oakland as its playground."
"People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior," Quan said.
Protesters clashed with police throughout the day, at times throwing rocks, bottles and other objects at officers. And police responded by deploying smoke, tear gas and bean bag rounds, City Administrator Deanna Santanta said.
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Oh, and if people don’t like getting teargassed, they shouldn’t go places and do illegal crap and throw stuff at cops. It’s really quite simple.
BTW I was teargassed a bit when I was a stupid leftist idiot. But I grew up and saw the light.
I should have added petty and not so petty criminals to the list of OWSer participants. Rapes, murders, arson, theft, drug ODs and the like are common at OWSer encampments.
Rats asking Rats to behave..
Now That’s Reality TV Politics.
She sounded clueless in a snip I just heard.
The Anarchists hide under the skirt of OWS.
They share the same vision.
and Obama nods.
Shame on You, Oakland. You let vermin run amuck in the street, catch and release ‘em while public safety suffers. Police can’t respond to other calls due to the nudniks in the streets smashing places up for a ‘cause’.
Her Recall can’t come soon enuf.
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