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In reply to the discussion: An AP photographer named Beck Diefenbach has probably just ended the Occupy movement. [View all]Scurrilous
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"ABC7 got an exclusive first look Sunday morning at the mess Occupy Oakland demonstrators made inside City Hall on Saturday night. In total, nearly 300 protesters were arrested during a day and night of confrontations with police.
City Hall became one of the targets of demonstrators when a few people managed to force their way in. Mayor Jean Quan showed us the damage which included a broken window of a conference room, some papers strewn around the front lobby area, overturned displays, and some graffiti scrawled on some of the walls. Also, the California and American flags were taken from the front mezzanine area out onto the front steps of City Hall and burned.
Saturday night, the mayor and her staff said that their tolerance for violent Occupy demonstrations in Oakland has come to an end. A visibly flustered Quan voiced her frustration with this latest demonstration.
"The Occupy Oakland has got to stop using Oakland as its playground and that people in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for his behavior," said Quan on Saturday night."
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"The demonstrators issued an email saying, "Occupy Oakland's building occupation an act of constitutionally protected civil disobedience was disrupted by a brutal police response."
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8523318