Occupy Berkeley Camp Cleared Out After Two Sexual Assaults Force Police To Take Action…
And yet the San Fran Chronicle still insists they’re “mostly peaceful.”
Berkeley (SF Gate) — Berkeley police cleared the Bay Area’s last major Occupy encampment peacefully this afternoon, following an overnight skirmish with protesters that resulted in two arrests.
The clearance followed an uptick in violence at the camp that included two sexual assaults and numerous drug and alcohol related incidents, police said.
On Wednesday, city officials warned the protesters, who had been camped at Civic Center Park since early October, that police would start enforcing the city’s ban on overnight lodging within 24 hours. Most of the 150 or so protesters left voluntarily, but a few dozen remained early Thursday morning when police and public works crews arrived to begin clearing the park.
Around 12:30 a.m., two people were arrested when they approached the nearby police station with gas masks, crowbars and cannisters, Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said. One was arrested for public drunkenness and posession of drugs, and the other for resisting arrest, she said.
About two hours later, protesters surrounded public works crews attempting to remove tents and other items from the park. Police formed a line to protect the workers, and at least one officer used a baton when shoved by a protester, Kusmiss said.
Posted by ZIP on Friday, December 23, 2011, at 9:18 am | 
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Well surprise me and this is berkeley what will the rest of these unclean occupyers think now?
The Occupiers are leaving places where the Dimocrats are in power but continue to Occupy places where the GOP has the power.
“Mostly peaceful…”
Wonderful, that’s a very good statistic; which is kinda like “maybe being pregnant”. Either you are or you’re not and if even one criminal act was committed at these fairie fests, then the whole thing is not peaceful – it becomes a criminal activity and the idiot mayors and police should have taken action accordingly. And fuck their 1st Amendment Rights once they’ve crossed over the line between lawful and unlawful. They would sure do this to the Tea Party, but alas we still believe we’re a lawful nation.
Those weren’t sexual assault’s they were kinetic sexual actions.
Well, thank God they weren’t rape-rapes
No rapes recorded at any Tea party
Sexual assault huh ? Well at least it wasn’t ‘rape’ rape.
After all the whining and crying about police violence and excessive use of force, somebody finally meets Mr.Baton?
And the gas mask twins. Shoulda been shot in the street. Who knows what was in those cannisters.
The Egyptian military is “mostly peaceful” too.
Bashar Assad’s military is “mostly peaceful” as well.
Just like the Occucommies, they are peaceful right up until they kill someone, then they revert to their standard “peaceful” mode again.