From Last Night: Police Club Young Woman Riding Bike At Oakland Protest - RawStory/#OOM

[WillyT]

Police club young woman riding bike at Oakland protest
By Eric W. Dolan
Sunday, January 8, 2012



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Police officers knocked down and clubbed a young woman during an anti-police march in Oakland late Saturday night, and arrested six people.

Video of the incident uploaded to YouTube showed the young woman riding her bicycle towards a small group of officers. As she approached, officers shoved her to the ground and at least one clubs her with his baton.

Protesters quickly rushed to her aid, and dragged her away from police.

An “Occupy Oakland” press release said the “Fuck the Police” march was held to protest the “brutal campaign of repression” conducted by Oakland police to prevent protesters from re-establishing their camp in Frank Ogawa Plaza. It describes the City of Oakland as a “war zone.”

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Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/08/police-club-young-woman-riding-bike-at-oakland-protest/

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Tonight the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee called for a rally and march to protest police repression of Occupy Oakland. Protestors met at Oscar Grant Plaza at 7pm. Some wore black–a tactic called “black bloc” to help keep cops from distinguishing demonstrators and picking them out of the crowd–while others brought bubbles to make their nonviolent intentions clear.

At 9pm, the marchers headed to the Oakland PD headquarters at 7th and Broadway where they were met by a line of officers with batons and three officers in tactical gear guarding the building. At least two dozen cruisers, unmarked cop cars, and police vans also circled the area. Marchers circled the block before heading back to 14th and Broadway, but on the way, some in the crowd threw bottles.

Many protestors shouted for the bottle-throwing to stop (and there are some accusations that those throwing the bottles were provocateurs). Police rushed the protestors, and several people went down as marchers and cops sprinted down Broadway. Protestors were beaten with batons, punched, and dragged on the ground, and one non-lethal round was fired, hitting a man in the face. Six were arrested. Police also briefly kettled about 30-50 protestors on 9th St. between Washington and Broadway before ordering them to disperse, citing “unlawful assembly.”

A few minutes later, a group of OPD chased a lone figure, continuing to hunt for him for a while after they lost him, even stopping a BART train to search it. Both protestors and OPD returned to OGP and presence of both groups remained substantial, though no further altercations have been reported as of this writing.

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Link: http://hellaoccupyoakland.org/violence-and-arrests-at-anti-repression-fuck-the-police-march/

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. There is long since proof that police purposely infiltrated #Occupy Oakland:

[WillyT]

3. Thank You For That !!!

[Zorra]

2. Not surprised. My ex-partner and I got clubbed from behind by 2 cops at the WTO protest in Seattle.

We were part of the protest, but all we were doing at the time was walking and taking pictures.

Occupy the Police?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10214#post9

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. X(

Damn, I am sorry to hear that.

[leftyohiolib]

5. how much more can things like this go on before an officer is shot

im not advocating it but at some point they're gonna crack the head of someone and the person they're with is gonna say "fuck this" pull out a gun and give the police some serious trouble.

[T S Justly]

7. Occupy isn't going to pull out any guns and start shooting. But undercover cops? Sure. K&R (nt)

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. This was just posted by an Anon

I do not have audio on this computer; if there are any threats of violence, I am unaware of them. Let me know if so and I will delete the post.

[WillyT]

8. Wow...

No threats of violence.

[hootinholler]

9. No threat of violence

A promise of swift unspecified retaliation from someone using the handle huntress.

That it's set to "Scotland The Brave" is a nice touch. Please someone correct me if I've misidentified the pipe march.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Yup, Scottlalnd the Brave.

[Zorra]

10. lol

?www, you mad, bros? We told you to expect us.

[demosincebirth]

12. Poking a junkyard dog with a stick is not always helpful. nt

[randome]

13. Yeah but it's worth all the trouble to...

...take over the plaza. Maybe. I guess. I'm sorry, what was the purpose of OWS again?

[demosincebirth]

14. I guess you missed the whole point of my post. nt

[randome]

15. Guess I did.

My mistake.

[demosincebirth]

17. Marching down the street toward a platoon of cops with a a 30x4 sign sayin' "Fuck the Police" is

like poking a junkyard dog and expecting him not to get pissed. That was my analogy.

[LanternWaste]

19. imagine that quite often, "pissing" off the conventional happens despite a greater good being done.

Much like an African-American sitting at a Whites Only lunch counter.

I imagine that quite often, "pissing" off conventional tradition happens despite a greater good being done.

[WillyT]

21. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Certainly not, but protesting junkyard dogs being let loose upon the citizenry is.

[Zalatix]

18. Yanked right from the hands of the police!! Way to go!

[raouldukelives]

20. Glad nobody was shot in the back. nt