Oakland Mayor Takes Heat on Facebook After Police Fire Tear Gas at OWS Protesters

[RandySF]

As images circulate of police firing tear gas at Occupy Oakland protesters, spectators from around the world have descended upon Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s Facebook page to express their anger.

Hundreds of comments along the lines of “What on Earth were you thinking last night?” “Shame!” and “How can you look at yourself this morning?” have been written on her wall. They are nearly all negative.

The conflict that inspired such spite started Tuesday morning when police dispersed protesters who had been camping near city hall for more than two weeks. Later in the day, protesters convened and marched back to the area, where they were met by police in full riot gear.

http://mashable.com/2011/10/26/oakland-mayor-ows-facebook/

[CarmanK]

1. THIS IS CA!! How can this abuse of power be so obvious??

[Taverner]

9. CA Police are notorious

This isn't the first time, and it isn't the first time for the OPD either

[kestrel91316]

24. Abuse of power is SOP in our major urban areas here. LAPD is notorious.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Meet this SOB with a primary!

[RandySF]

3. She's not up until 2014

However, she might face a recall.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Recall her!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Posts were disabled!!!!

What a coward! And there is recall in works.

Not according to article on op

Update: Shortly after this article was published, wall posts on Mayor Quan’s Facebook page were disabled

[Lucinda]

14. I can still post on her page...link:

https://www.facebook.com/MayorJeanQuan?sk=wall&filter=1

[greyl]

17. False. nt

[CreekDog]

6. she should take heat for that

with all of Oakland's problems with violence, the police shouldn't be adding to that problem.

[coalition_unwilling]

7. I hope she faces federal criminal charges for what her police did. The buck

stops at the top, or so long ago said a famous Dem Harry S. Truman.

[Matariki]

8. Looks like she scrubbed her FB page of any criticism

indeed, of any mention of Occupy Oakland what-so-ever.

She needs to hear over and over again how her little army of thugs might have murdered a Veteran.

[sabrina 1]

10. I guess she's not so arrogant since she learned of the

attack on the Iraq War Veteran. Her career is over, she should just step down and save everyone the bother. She is a defender of Corporate Entities and it would be interesting to see if she received funding from them.

And if she thinks scrubbing her FB page will stop people from saying what they think, well, a blog could serve the same purpose. This movement is really flushing out the Wall Street lackies embedded in our government. Bloomberg, Rahm Emanuel (well we knew that already), now her.

They want to know what we want? Maybe we should start a list of who needs to step down and hand them their pink slips. They have forgotten who their employers are.

[Lucinda]

12. Its still there...In the discussion tab - and under the Oct 25 post

quite a lot of criticism still left

[greyl]

22. Please look closer.

There are 6387 comments right now directly to her statement.
Looks like 6300 of the comments are criticism.

[Matariki]

29. Yes, you are correct. There were so many comments that the entire thread was collapsed

making it easy to overlook

[RoccoR5955]

23. She'll be at it for MONTHS!

I just looked and there were over 3000 posts, NONE of them positive!

[Matariki]

11. This is the message I left for her on her website

I hope you plan on doing a vigil at the bedside of the Veteran your little army of thugs has critically injured. You should pray he doesn't die because YOU will be personally responsible for that.

Was that police violence really necessary? I hope you don't think that this isn't going to completely ruin your political career. Perhaps you'll even face the legal repercussions you deserve.


(here's where you can do the same: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/ContactUs/index.htm)

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Well she disabled her page but not the twitter feed

@jeanquan mayor attacking peaceful protesters is making ODP AND YOU look good? How many civil rights violated and DOJ needs to get on it

[greyl]

19. Not true. In fact, there about 5 new comments per minute on her FB page.

www.facebook.com/MayorJeanQuan?sk=wall&filter=1

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Article on pp

Update: Shortly after this article was published, wall posts on Mayor Quan’s Facebook page were disabled

Since I don't do fb.

[Matariki]

13. Someone posted THIS info on her FB page

I'd suggest spreading it far and wide:

Make her a prisoner of her own evil conscience. Make her life as uncomfortable as the arrested protesters.
Home: 510-539-8361
Cell: 510-409-7948
Work:510-238-7004
Email: [e-mail]
...
FLOOD THE COWARDS OF OF THE OPD
Phone: [phone]

FLOOD CHIEF PIG BOLTON
Phone: [phone]

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Here are her contact addresses:

Mayor Jean Quan
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
3rd Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
phone: [phone]
Link to online email contact form:
http://www.oaklandnet.com/contactmayor.asp

[Skidmore]

20. How about giving feedback to the Police Chief too?

Seems he shouldn't get off either. He had command decision to make too.

[FrenchieCat]

27. The Oakland Police Chief quit about two weeks ago.....

Oakland chief resigns as police takeover threatened
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/11/BAD41LG93T.DTL


The new police chief....

Howard Jordan is Oakland's New Interim Chief
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Howard-Jordan-is-Oakland-New-Chief-131814558.html

But I think the Mayor is calling the shots!

Howard Jordan's contact information:
Chief of Staff
Sgt. Christopher Bolton
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Interim Executive Assistant to the Chief of Police
Ms. Kiona Suttle
Phone: [phone]

Administrative Assistant
Ms. Yolanda Morris
Phone: [phone]

The best way to contact the Chief's Office is via email: [e-mail]

[Lucinda]

15. Her FB link from article:

https://www.facebook.com/MayorJeanQuan?sk=wall&filter=1

[RoccoR5955]

21. She should take more than heat...

...tar and feathers seem quite appropriate for her.

[pacalo]

25. "Ongoing vandalism" has got to be a stretch; probably refers to signs & work stations.

On Tuesday at 7:30 a.m., long before the second wave of police enforcement, she did post a statement about why the city had decided to remove protesters from the park.

“Over the last week it was apparent that neither the demonstrators nor the City could maintain safe or sanitary conditions, or control the ongoing vandalism,” she wrote. “I commend Chief Jordan for a generally peaceful resolution to a situation that deteriorated and concerned our community.”

That post now has about 3,500 comments. Among the most recent 500 at the time of this writing, not a single one is positive.

Who does she think she's fooling?

[Arctic Dave]

28. Her only action now should be resignation.

Let the legal chips fall were they may.