Video: Oakland Riot Police Fire Tear Gas And Flash Grenades To Disperse Crowd Of Rampaging Occupiers…
(NY Times) — Riot police in Oakland dispersed hundreds of protesters with tear gas on Tuesday night as crowds tried to re-enter a plaza outside of City Hall that the authorities had cleared of an encampment earlier in the day.
The forceful response by the police to protesters in Oakland came as the police in Atlanta moved in early Wednesday morning to clear an encampment from the city’s central Woodruff Park. At least 53 people connected to the protest group Occupy Atlanta were arrested, and the park was cleared by 2 a.m. Eastern time, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
By Wednesday morning in downtown Oakland, a dim cloud of gas still hung in the air over Frank Ogawa Plaza, according to images broadcast on CNN. A small number of police in riot gear stood by barricades around the plaza and a handful of protesters held signs nearby.
“It sounded like bombs,” said Joaquin Jutt, 24, a digital animator who was among the protesters on Tuesday night. “There was a stinging and burning in my throat, eyes and nostrils. My eyes burned like there was hot sauce in them.”
Protesters, many affiliated with the group Occupy Oakland, can be seen scurrying away from billowing clouds of gas and what appear to be flash grenades in video recorded from a high vantage point in a nearby office building.
The clashes on Tuesday night occurred after the police removed about 170 demonstrators who had been staying in the area after being warned that such a camp was illegal and that they faced arrest if they remained, the police said in a statement. City officials said 97 people were arrested in the morning raid.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, October 26, 2011, at 9:23 am | 
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Hippie control.
About time, but arrest them and don’t set bail. Revolving door syndrome.
Funny how this big lib city is cracking down.
This reminds me of those violent Tea Party riots a few years back, oh wait…
“There was a stinging and burning in my throat, eyes and nostrils. My eyes burned like there was hot sauce in them.”
That’s called CS gas you idiot and you deserved it. But keep on forcing the issue and the measures will become more extreme.
I’m sick of these lawless Commie bufoons speaking on behalf of us. There must be a counter-movement to end this insanity before it ends all of us.
Wow, so similar to the Tea Party, it is so eerie.
…well that is what the MSM has been telling everyone. The MSM is just hoping that the radicals and anarchists can just stay put until AFTER the election and they try to re-elect Obama.
Tear gas?
They should’ve used Raid and roach bombs to clear out the OWS Oakland protesters.
These pukes should be thankful they did’nt get what Syrian protesters get………..
Yup. just like the Tea Party:
http://twitter.com/#!/theleftfails/status/129188275700248576/photo/1
The reason for this: ( scroll down)
From earlier in the day, shortly before nightfall:
This video 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:
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/25/rioting-in-downtown-oakland-as-occupiers-clash-with-police/
Check out these photos from OccupyOakland. Unreal.
http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2011/10/24/is-occupy-oakland-as-bad-as-they-say/?singlepage=true
I guess the 99% got their asses kicked by the 1%. Or, if the truth be told, the 1% (protesters) got their asses kicked by the .025% (cops).
This was what they wanted; confrontation.
Violence against them will give them an excuse to use violence back.
isn’t Oakland in Californication?
who cares? jettison the flotsam
time to let the looters take care of the mess THEY made for themselves
just track the states and cities that are financial toast, correlated with the commies that have run them into the ground
Notice a Pattern??
what was that line obongo used?
HeY!! when I’m sweeping UP!!, cleaning up YOUR mess, don’t start telling me how to do it, You’ll have to sit down in back
This outbreak of almost-Freudian “Tea-Party Envy” is not and never was a national “protest.” It’s a calculated and desperate attempt to change the focus of public attention from the criminal incompetence of the current Administration. And, since both #Occupiers and their deep-pockets enablers freely admit that their real wish is to foment riots and maybe incite a “Kent State moment,” why should citizens go on permitting public servants to insist that somehow this trashy hooliganism is the moral equivalent of a long march down Pennsylvania Avenue on a sunny afternoon? End #Occupations NOW.
We need to freeze Soros in his tracks. We need to practice the Alinsky method of identifying, isolating, desparaging and destroying this man (at least where American Politics are concerned).
I would suggest that we start pretending to be one of them and posting everything we can regarding his wealth, greed, manipulation and opportunism on every Leftist and OWS web site available. Make him enemy number 1 and then sit back and let the bottom rung Lefties do the work for us.
George Soros is the most egregious example of Wall Street greed in existence. And that is a fact….no hyperbole or disingenuousness needed.
Wasn’t Barry in San Fransicko yesterday?
I wonder if the crackdown was related to him being so close.
Maybe they were afraid the protestors would turn on him.
GTFO!!!
As I predicted, the first thing out of the KRON reporter’s mouth this morning was “peaceful”. What he meant was peaceful now, as he meant peaceful last night. Except for that other stuff.
These clowns are so divorced from reality they could be getting clubbed over the head with pipes, and the last words out of their toothless mouths would be “peaceful”.
And don’t worry, Barry was across the bay from these clowns – although there is a smaller “occupy” in SF too. But, with Berkeley right next door to Oakland, you know where the action’ll be.
uncle monkey says:
October 26, 2011 at 10:09 am
The local SF CBS affiliate went to pains to explain what the protesters call “outliers” – people who have infiltrated their group simply to start trouble.
So, the collective is not responsible for anyone promoting violent actions; those are simply rogue individuals.
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And! You can give the Oakland Police Department a quick compliment by using this short (and official) form. Show them you care.
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca/groups/police/documents/form/oak026851.pdf
If these occupyer jerk blabbering about a police state Its under OBAMA their beloved leader
O HELL YEAH!
I just 2 days ago explained to my wife and children that this was the appropriate action for city officials to take.
about damn time
If San Francisco is the crotch of the anal cavity of the United States-Oakland is the crotch…