SFPD Ordered to Attack the Peaceful Encampment at Occupy SF

[KamaAina]

Straight from Facebook:

"Last night the SFPD issued us an unsigned, undated notice that declared we had to pack up our tents without giving us a timeline or else we would risk arrest.

They said that we could remain occupying if we pulled down our tents and complied with their other demands.

We complied with their demands by taking down our tents and beginning to clear-out the rest of our infrastructure that was allegedly in violation of City and/or State laws.

We made a call to action. Our numbers doubled within half an hour.

Occupy Oakland, along with many others, immediately responded when we announced that the cops were here to take us down. Thank you Occupy Oakland and all others!

Yet still, the police, wearing helmets and carrying batons, formed a perimeter around our goods and prevented us from saving anything while they supervised Public Works employees as they stole everything.

:grr: :banghead: :argh: :nuke:

[truebrit71]

1. Where is the SF mayor in all of this???

??

[KamaAina]

2. The current caretaker mayor is a DINO (by SF standards, anyway)

Ed Lee is Gavin Newsom's parting gift to The City. Newsom could have resigned to become Lieutenant Governor before the new, more centrist Board of Supervisors took office, allowing the old, progressive board to name his successor. But nooooooooooo! Nonononononononono! He resigned at the last possible moment, and the new supes picked Lee, who had repeatedly given assurances that he wouldn't run for a full term, right up until he did, apparently at the behest of the old-school power brokers like Willie Brown and Chinatown's Rose Pak.

[Lurks Often]

3. It's unlikely that SFPD acted on something of this scale without

the mayor's knowledge and consent.

I can't imagine any police chief making this kind of decision without consulting the mayor. It's too high profile and political of a decision.

[SoCalNative]

4. Time to storm the Bastile!

And start showing city hall who is really the boss.