The Wild Night At Occupy Oakland in Pictures

[Dover]

When police dispersed protesters camping in front of Oakland City Hall early Tuesday morning, the activists promised to return to take back their campsite. On Tuesday night they did, and the ensuing clash with police pit about 1,000 protesters against officers who fired at least five volleys of tear gas into their ranks, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Just as they did on Tuesday morning, police used flash-bang grenades and, reportedly, rubber bullets in addition to tear gas to subdue the crowd. The uproar ended in a tense standoff between protesters and police, the Chronicle reported, and the Occupy Oakland Twitter stream vowed a repeat of the evening's unrest on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the pictures and video coming out of Oakland's wild night tell the story of what happened better than we can. ...cont'd


http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/10/wild-night-occupy-oakland-pictures/4414





25 Frightening Photos Of Tuesday Night’s Occupy Oakland Raid (BuzzFeed)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/frightening-photos-of-tuesday-nights-occupy-oakla

20 Photos Of Police Violently Breaking Up Occupy Oakland
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/photos-of-police-violently-breaking-up-occupy-oakl

Video: http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587714/index.html

[grasswire]

1. goons always strike at night

Reminds me of the czar's militia in the 1900s.

[RegieRocker]

2. Wake up from dellusional idea this is a democracy. Wake

up to the sham that it is.

[tk2kewl]

3. K&R

[watrwefitinfor]

4. This is how radicals are made.

And I don't mean just the ones that experience the violence in person.

They did it in Chicago in '68.
Happening again.

The whole world is watching.

Wat