Iraq War Veteran in Critical Condition after Occupy Oakland police attack

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Of course I support the right to peaceful assembly and protest. When it's done within the law and unfortunately in Oakland it is not. The cops went way too far last night but so did the protestors.

Baloney. No the protesters did not. It was all televised live on the internet, as it happened, and there is zero evidence that protesters did anything. In all the hours of video, all someone found is two instances where protesters threw empty teargas canisters back at the police after the police attacked the demonstrators.

The demonstrators were simply assembled peacefully, chanting.

The Oakland police are lying. They lied when they said they didn't use rubber bullets, and they lied again when they said they didn't use flash grenades. They say they are investigating the case of Scott Olsen as a "lethal weapon" misuse - but we'll see. Oakland has a bad history of shooting protesters for no reason, if you'll recall.

Camping in public parks overnight is usually not legal so until that and park closing/curfew times get changed, they are breaking the law.

They were not camping in the park when this happened. That park was literally destroyed by the police yesterday morning. Nobody was in the park, that was closed by police. They were in the public way.

Geeshus, stop talking about stuff you are completely ignorant about. How can you possibly smugly say, "the protesters went too far" when you are so obviously clueless about what happened?

And if you think a loitering misdemeanor - but since when did being peacefully protesting on a public sidewalk stop being legal? - with passive resistance is cause for teargas, rubber bullets, flash grenades and fractures skulls, you're beyond help.