Van Jones: Eyewitness Says Cops Fired Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas At Women, Children, Disabled, Elderly

[Hissyspit]

@VanJones68

Van Jones

Talking to eyewitness: She says cops fired rubber bullets & tear gas at women, children, elderly, disabled. Peaceful march. #occupyoakland

2 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

https://twitter.com/#!/VanJones68/status/129047940781191169




@H_O_G_
Joan
This is not a picture from some distant country.This is Oakland,CA 10/25/2011 #occupyoakland #BeSafe twitpic.com/75v8h3

https://twitter.com/#!/H_O_G_/status/129033436387221504




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@efleischer The guy running the live stream just spotted a sound canon. A sound canon. #occupyoakland #ows

@Deb_The_Todd. Evidently MSM chopper cams have been asked to turn off & leave the scene. Both ABC & CBS cams off before police riot #OccupyOakland

@Occupy_Atlanta #OccupyAtlanta Being Evicted! #OccupyAtlanta Being Evicted! #OccupyAtlanta Being Evicted! #OccupyAtlanta Being Evicted! #OccupyAtlanta

@RT_America Lots of reports coming in from California of tear gas at #OccupyOakland - again.

@AnonSikko Rt @timeoutcorner Oh wow, @oaklandpoliceca. You've just tear gassed and flashbanged children. I suppose they are terrorists too, yes?

RT @AlterNet: RT @JoshuaHol Crowd still gagging. I did see children among protesters. #OccupyOakland #OWS

RT @JoshuaHol: Reminder: this orgy of violence ostensibly to deal w health & safety violations.

VIDEO: Police Teargas OccupyOakland Tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA&feature=youtu.be

[Luminous Animal]

1. Here is hoping that Van, the fiery compelling radical I used to know, reverts to his activists roots

and eschews the mainstream political path he's walked this past decade. If anyone can assist in bringing clarity, fortitude, and structure to Occupy Oakland, it is Van.

[tblue]

4. He's better than most.

I really admire him.

[Luminous Animal]

8. I admire him, as well. Years ago, I worked with him on many activist campaigns.

We are both verbally adroit and physically expressive with our hands. We used to crack each other sometimes with our expressive intensity that, to a casual observer, might appear that we were totally at odds when, in fact, we were totally in agreement but eager to toss information at each other.

I just think he's a better leader on the street than advocating on the side of the ballot box.

[hedgehog]

2. Rubber bullets are not as harmless as they are meant to be.

Nasty bruises at best, worse damage if they hit an eye or facial bone.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Shooting those at a child could kill them. n/t

[Hissyspit]

12. Rubber Bullet Injury Tonight:

[Hissyspit]

18. Purported Injury from tonight:

@katz
Andrew Katz
#OWS RT @AnonMedics There are street medics here who have been gassed twice and are still treating patients. Incredible. #OccupyOakland

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. This all makes me frustrated and not a bit physically ill.

[Luminous Animal]

6. I visited Occupy Oakland last Friday night with my daughter (we live in San Francisco).

It was a wonderful experience. Well organized and clean with hay strewn about walkways constructed (with shipping pallets) to protect the grass. No filth and trash like some of the media has been reporting and the city is using for justification to "clean" them out. There were intense political conversations going on everywhere and a wonderful rapping vocalist.

It breaks my heart to see this evolving community (in a very troubled city) destroyed.

[Hissyspit]

9. Why is Oakland a troubled city? Is there, like, real crime and stuff

that needs to be policed? Money that needs to be spent somewhere besides on teargassing people in a park?

[Luminous Animal]

10. From my point of view, there is too much policing on so many levels.

I used to be involved with Cop Watch in Oakland (videotaping cops interactions with the members of the black & brown community) and the cops attitude has long been more paramilitary than to protect and serve.

[tblue]

5. "children, elderly, disabled" Oh that's just great.

HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hosnon]

11. Why?! What fucking country is this. Those cops should be ashamed.

Bigger dicks since tossing tear gas at unarmed U.S. citizens...?

[Hissyspit]

13. @MotherJones Mother Jones THIS RT @ReginaldJames #shoutout to the three men that ran back, into a bi

@MotherJones
Mother Jones
THIS RT @ReginaldJames #shoutout to the three men that ran back, into a big cloud of gas to get a woman in a wheelchair whose battery died
59 seconds ago via web

[Luminous Animal]

15. +3

[Starry Messenger]

14. k&r

[Tsiyu]

16. All this is making me see where the safest areas are

as far as protection of Constitutional rights.

Albany, NY is looking good so far.

Atlanta? Oakland? Seems more Third World out there - assaulting babies and elderly Americans. Sickening.

Shame. Shame. Shame.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. They are pouring gas...

Here not her impressive photo

http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/#

[burrowowl]

19. That is a hell

of a lot of gas. In '68 the cops didn't use that muh gas at UNM, a lot but not that muh. The Cops have gone AMOK!

[woo me with science]

20. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME. nt

[Hissyspit]

21. @iRevolt Roqayah Witness: Bleeding, unconscious woman laying on the ground, demonstrators rush to ai

@iRevolt
Roqayah
Witness: Bleeding, unconscious woman laying on the ground, demonstrators rush to aid, police open fire bit.ly/t8u0wC #OccupyOakland

[AsahinaKimi]

22. This may become very ugly

and scary.

[coalition_unwilling]

23. Did\Do you think the 1% will relinquish their status without a fight? Well,

I say 'kudos' to our patriots in Oakland and shame on the Oakland Police Deparment, class traitors and enemies of the people, now revealed for the entire world to see.

[AsahinaKimi]

24. The bad thing about this is...

IF it happens in Oakland, it could spread to other places too, with the cops just being thugs, with no regard for the law, or the constitutional rights of fellow Americans.

[coalition_unwilling]

25. Hell, you don't need a Ph.D. in Sociology to understand that we

probably already have 50% of the cops on our side, even if they can't publicly out themselves just yet.

But if I were in the top ranks of any police department, I'd be starting to get a bit nervous right about now and looking over my shoulders a bit, not for infiltration from outside the PD, but inside the PD for missions and unit cohesion to start breaking down.

The reason the NYPD had to use white-shirted supervisors like the infamous Tony Baloney (managerial rank) may be that the upper leadership couldn't trust their own rank and file.

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. A little quibble with your verb tense.

This has become very ugly and scary.

[AsahinaKimi]

30. Thank you!

doumo arigatou gozaimasu!

[yoyossarian]

26. Fucking disgusting!

The police in Oakland are TRAITORS to their stated mission to serve and protect!
What ghastly EVIL!

[redqueen]

28. These are the tactics that were condemned when used against Arab Spring protesters.

Where are those condemnations now?

[workinclasszero]

29. Pictures of handicapped person in wheelchair in a choking cloud of

tear gas being rescued by occupy oakland protesters : http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/#