Oakland Police Not Exactly Thrilled Mayor Encouraging City Workers To Attend Occupy Protests…
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF OAKLAND FROM THE OAKLAND POLICE OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION
We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland. We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment and the ability to provide a living for our children and families. We are severely understaffed with many City beats remaining unprotected by police during the day and evening hours.
As your police officers, we are confused.
On Tuesday, October 25th, we were ordered by Mayor Quan to clear out the encampments at Frank Ogawa Plaza and to keep protesters out of the Plaza. We performed the job that the Mayor’s Administration asked us to do, being fully aware that past protests in Oakland have resulted in rioting, violence and destruction of property.
Then, on Wednesday, October 26th, the Mayor allowed protesters back in — to camp out at the very place they were evacuated from the day before.
To add to the confusion, the Administration issued a memo on Friday, October 28th to all City workers in support of the “Stop Work” strike scheduled for Wednesday, giving all employees, except for police officers, permission to take the day off.
That’s hundreds of City workers encouraged to take off work to participate in the protest against “the establishment.” But aren’t the Mayor and her Administration part of the establishment they are paying City employees to protest? Is it the City’s intention to have City employees on both sides of a skirmish line?
It is all very confusing to us.
Meanwhile, a message has been sent to all police officers: Everyone, including those who have the day off, must show up for work on Wednesday. This is also being paid for by Oakland taxpayers. Last week’s events alone cost Oakland taxpayers over $1 million.
The Mayor and her Administration are beefing up police presence for Wednesday’s work strike they are encouraging and even “staffing,” spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for additional police presence — at a time when the Mayor is also asking Oakland residents to vote on an $80 parcel tax to bail out the City’s failing finances.
All of these mixed messages are confusing.
We love Oakland and just want to do our jobs to protect Oakland residents. We respectfully ask the citizens of Oakland to join us in demanding that our City officials, including Mayor Quan, make sound decisions and take responsibility for these decisions. Oakland is struggling — we need real leaders NOW who will step up and lead — not send mixed messages. Thank you for listening.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at 4:50 pm | 
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The mayor should resign in disgrace he needs a boot out of office right in the seat of his pants
The Mayorette should be hung from a street light.
I have zero sympathy for Oakland. They have been asking for this for years.
Any problems that arise from their Liberal thinking agenda are their own fault.
The Police, if they had any balls would either arrest the Mayorette, or just walk off the job and tell the City officials and the people of Oakland to call them when they want their city back.
The City of Oakland is giving the entire city staff, including teachers and school administrators (but excluding the police) a PAID day off to attend this “shut down.”
Here is the live stream
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/02/watch-live-occupy-oakland-prepares-for-general-strike/
I just saw some of the leaders of Occupy announce to the crowd that “we are going to stand up to these f$%*ers”, meaning the police.
this is going to get ugly……
The mayor is failing in her most basic duty which is to protect the citizens of Oakland. She needs to be recalled, impeached, or whatever action necessary to remove her from office.
@ sb…
The Police should go home and wait for orders to re-take the City.
Put up or shut up.
Let’s see how the City officials like what will happen when Barry’s OWS Riot Squad takes over.
The police should quit. Tell the mayor to deal with it herself.
“He look-a like a man”
Re Quan: never seen a hippie this confused. The woman is LSD/Peyote crazy.
Civil “servants” who are eager to take a paid holiday to protest against those fellow citizens that are largely responsible for seeing that they are paid.
This is Obama’s fundamentally transformed America. I am disgusted beyond words. I am ashamed of these people, my fellow citizens.
This is from Mayorette Quan of Oakland’s apology letter. It’s worth reading in it’s entirety and I’d suggest researching William Benbow too.
“I say ban the banks and abolish money. The people are breaking out of their acquiescence. They can make decisions over their own lives. The Occupy Oakland encampment prefigured a way of life that makes the status quo obsolete. Instead of an exploitative system based on the buying and selling of things and our time, let us create a life of ease, gaiety and pleasure for all, as William Benbow originally suggested. Let us not only shut the city down. Let us take it over and run it in a wholly new way. Together we can make every day a holiday.”
Jean Quan, Honorable Mayor of Oakland
http://oaklandmayor.com/docs/apologyletter.pdf
The police should give the mayor an ultimatum.. no more hippie pandering or we quit..
@Xavier
Link account has been suspended. Wonder why.
Just the paragraph you posted convinces me that Oakland is getting what it deserves; that city is Left Coast Detroit.
Message to Police.
Go on strike for a week and the Mayor will do anything you say.
Un Freaking Believable.
Quan sounds deranged, and should be removed from office.
Is there some legal mechanism by which that may be accomplished, citing health reasons, or unfitness to serve?
& so it begins:
Oakland
approx. 75 Whole Foods shoppers have been barricaded inside by protesters. a few are throwing rocks. one window broken
@steelinhome: This one works.
http://www.occupyoakland.org/2011/10/mayor-says-sorry-comes-out-in-support-of-general-strike/
clearly the police should call in sick that day.
BREAKING: #occupyoakland protesters shatter windows at Bank of America branch at Kaiser Center. Pic: http://pic.twitter.com/yCflqYWA
Sheesh! I didn’t know Chinese were into brain-binding too!
The police can call in with the blue flu. Works when they want to strike.
Thanks Xavier, glad you cut and pasted:) the first time around. Lots of things are being scrubbed. Thank goodness for those that scour the bowels.
Check Quan’s bank accounts. And Bibi, if you have any leftover’s please feel free to take out Oakland as well.
Of course the local morning news was on this all excited like, not saying anything about what the OPD thought about it. They were giving times and locations for all the school kids and city workers to “do their part”.
No mixed message there from the complicit media.
@Axel:
I’ve learned to rip their entire websites on a regular basis.
Someone unknown has provided charter buses to the Oakland protesters and they’re headed for the Port of Oakland now. Chase, Wells Fargo, and BOA were all vandalized. Protesters advising everyone working in downtown to join them or leave immediately.
What needs to happen is that the people of Oakland AND the Police dept. need to work together and PHYSICALLY REMOVE mayor from office and inform him that he has been TERMINATED from his position for failing to provide the Leadership required for that position.
An interim shall be appointed by the city council.
…until a special election can be coordinated.
Oakland is about to become a ghost town. If I owned a business there I would leave and never go back. And I can’t believe that I am any different in my thinking than those who have businesses there. Let all the banks shut their doors and leave forever. Let Oakland sink into the putrescence it created.
If the Mayor really wrote was what posted above, then she should be jailed and changed with incitement to riot. Additionally, she should be charged with misuse of government funds for paying government employees to attend a violent protest.
This is unbelievable….the Left has lost its mind.
Liberal = worthless.
@Katherine et al
I’ve just read 2 reports from SF claiming the letter I quoted from was bogus. If so I’m thoroughly embarrassed and apologize for posting it here. I’ll continue to look into this but since the original site, which mimicked the official website, is down it seems likely. Sorry.
Would have been a perfect day for a 100% “Blue Flu”!!!
California is just one giant insane asylum.
Quan sounds like she should be heading up the CPUSA!
Nothing coming out of the People’s Republic of California surprises me anymore.
“Jean Quan, Honorable Mayor of Oakland”
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That’s not quite right…..
@Xavier
Whether in writing or verbally, the Mayor must have conveyed the jist of your paste because the Oakland Police Chief ackowleged some of it in his open letter to the public.
Don’t worry about..we’ve all been fooled from time to time.
@Xavier
Sorry, I meant gist not ‘jist’. Just hearing Meghan McCain’s voice has interrupted the flow from my brain to my fingers. The connection has yet to be reestablished.
“Let us not only shut the city down. Let us take it over and run it in a wholly new way. ” This from the friggin’ mayor? Holy crap – I’d say that is just about reason enough for the town council to demand her to step down and call a new election.
I just want to smack every one of these idiots wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. The character “V” wore one because he was scarred from being tortured and experimented on…BY THE GOVERNMENT. In the movie, all the other people wore them in solidarity with V. Not to hide their identities.
These idiots don’t even know what they’re protesting.