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Full-Blown Riots Erupt as Occupy Oakland Gets Out of Control Overnight
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 4074388:MV8xNjgzNDA0XzI3ODE4NDg3XzcwMDU5REI0] [quote:Oubliette:MV8xNjgzNDA0XzI3ODE3NzI1XzNFQzFCQTFE] Ai-yai-yai! My little brother lives in Oakland. I'm praying for his safety. He told me he's going to stay far away from all the protest BS, that he never gets involved in stuff like that. [/quote] god perish the idea that he should do sth positive for the community. stay well away fwom the baad men, little shill.... [/quote]
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After the Occupy Oakland encampment was torn down early Tuesday morning by police, the ousted protesters reconvened outside the Oakland Library on Tuesday afternoon and voted to attempt a re-occupation of the same plaza from which they had just been evicted. Summoned by waves of emergency tweets and emails, fresh recruits joined the evicted Occupiers and early this evening once again marched on downtown Oakland, intending to reclaim Frank Ogawa Plaza.
But the Oakland Police were of course monitoring all this, and along with many other local police departments they were waiting for the protesters’ invasion. After an hours-long standoff at 14th and Broadway, interrupted by several confrontations and arrests, everything started to turn violent some time after 9:30pm.
^^These video's shows the reason why Oakland Police called for backup from surrounding jurisdictions: A mob of several hundred protesters surrounded a handful of Oakland cops and pelted them with paint bombs, bottles and other projectiles, which you can see clearly starting at :33 in the video:
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