Occupy Oakland Protesters Storm City Hall, Burn American Flag…
“God bless them” — Nancy Pelosi
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — About 300 people were arrested Saturday during a chaotic day of Occupy protests that saw demonstrators break into City Hall and burn an American flag, as police earlier fired tear gas and bean bags to disperse hundreds of people after some threw rocks and bottles and tore down fencing outside a nearby convention center.
Dozens of police officers remained on guard outside City Hall around midnight following the most turbulent day of protests since November, when Oakland police forcefully dismantled an Occupy encampment. An exasperated Mayor Jean Quan, who faced heavy criticism for the police action last fall, called on the Occupy movement to “stop using Oakland as its playground.”
“People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior,” Quan said.
Protesters clashed with police throughout the day, at times throwing rocks, bottles and other objects at officers. And police responded by deploying smoke, tear gas and bean bag rounds, City Administrator Deanna Santanta said.
“These demonstrators stated their intention was to provoke officers and engage in illegal activity and that’s exactly what has occurred today,” Santana said.
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Quan made Oakland the Occupodders playground.
Notice that there seems to be no OWS presence in conservative cities?
Every ‘Occupy’ demonstration is an example of left-on-left aggression.
Typical ‘redistributionist’ commies…
Too damn cheap to by their own Flag to burn.
Even this brain-dead socialist lib is smelling the foul stench of this ginned-up phoney movement. She invited ‘em in and encouraged them last summer, now she’s seeing the negative effects and just wants them to go away. Reap what you sew bitch.
Interesting- was not aware that democracy looked like a bunch of spoiled middle class children playing a big game of “smelly throwback anarchist hippie”.
It is pretty funny though, seeing Quan play the part of the exasperated parent that set no boundaries discovering their “darling, creative child” is a nasty little monster.
Awwww, the useful idiots getting a little out of control?
“People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior,” Quan said.
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From the same Mayor Quan… who supports the occuturds
Lets burn a communists flag and a Che T-Shirt as well as a occupyer effege wearing the stupid mask their always wearing and a cover from a copy of TIME about the protesters
“These demonstrators stated their intention was to provoke officers and engage in illegal activity and that’s exactly what has occurred today,” Santana said.
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without the city officials blessing early on… this would never had happened…
What’s Quan bitching about? All of the “progressive” mayors (including that moron Bloomberg) gave passive approval to the occupiers for fear of losing their liberal cred. Once things got ugly, and now that it appears things will start out violent and escalate from there, they’re left to wring their hands and plead since the skull-cracking the crowds are jonesing for is anathema to the liberal mayors’ delicate sensibilities.
No, you dumb bitch; they DON’T have to stop making excuses to stop this behavior. YOU, specifically your cops, have to GIVE them a reason to stop, namely a good ass-beatin’ until they all go home and shut the fuck up.
Every ‘Occupy’ demonstration is an example of left-on-left aggression.
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since the time of Karl Marx…
Godfather’s gonna have a messy Chicago handful in May – should be interesting.
This mob of filthy anarchists is going to really hurt the progs who have so embraced it. This is not the kind of “Free Speech” most people envision when they think of the Constitution.
The First Amendment does not hold sacred this kind of destruction and mayhem.
No argument can be made to justify the behavior of these rampaging animals.
The left has let these zombies loose, patting their heads and encouraging them.
I say, let them keep going.
Let the left suffer the consequences of their spawn running wild.
Yes, I am saying they are unpatriotic, America-hating idiots in the OWS.
@chickadee:
“I say, let them keep going.
Let the left suffer the consequences of their spawn running wild.”
Agreed. In other words:
Reap the whirlwind, hippies.
Take a former UC Berkley “activist” and make her mayor, presto! Sponsored anarchy!
Paid for by cali taxpayers, and soon to be federal taxpayers (as barry gives cali huge cash bomb) right before elections, count on it!!
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
It will be interesting to see the Liberals try and drive a wildfire they themselves lit. They need the movement to create the chaos and destruction that energizes and empowers their group and justifies their outrageous actions, but if it happens too quickly it won’t peak in November and a couple of burned out cities *before* the election will do nothing but help the Republican message of order and growth. This is going to be an interesting year indeed.
Throwing a rock or bottle is attempted murder. Shoot the throwers. The rest will run. Stop babying these A-holes. They want video to post online. Give it to them. Make the D-day landings look like Disneyland. Tired of this crap.
Since the protestors like to wear masks, let the police wear them, too.
hey stupid hippy freak liberal the finder held up to make a V inst about PEACE it was used once by Winston Churchill to mean VICTORY you ignorant potheads
Keep in mind when hearing about all of these shit bird commie protestor antics that Oakland has been in the iron grip of the commiecrats for many years including the ruinous terms of the current Governor of Crappyfornia – that life time government employee Jerry Brown. Receipient of multiple state government pensions.
Not content with just destroying a city, Oakland, which is a major league shit hole, Brown is now in the process of completing the destruction of a state, Commiefornia, that he started down the path to ruin during his first stint as governor.
Remember that time when Piglosi choked up with fear over the tea partiers, saying they reminded her of past violence in SF?
Deport every darn one of those filthy creatures
I’m going to fill my squirt gun with gasoline!
Hey NASTY NANCY the TEA PARTIES didnt do what these occupy pigs are doing WAKE UP YOU MINDLESS OLD HEN
@Grass Mud Horsey says:
It is pretty funny though, seeing Quan play the part of the exasperated parent that set no boundaries discovering their “darling, creative child” is a nasty little monster.
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Best comment I’ve read today …. spot on!
First barry say support Occupy, so I obey.
Now barry say don’t support Occupy, so I condemn.
Mayor Jean Quan says,
“We have always been at war with Occupy Oakland.”
Nets, baby, nets. throw nets over the OWies. IT will drive them nuts. they can’t get out!Heh Heh
It appears that the mobs with the torches and (analogous) pitchforks which the Left has been predicting for years while pointing a finger at the right, was actually spawned by the Left.