Oakland: Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Bean Bags at Protesters

Mac Slavo
October 26th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
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Thing are heating up on the streets of America, as #Occupy protests continue to rage in multiple U.S. cities.

Yesterday, the city of Oakland attempted to disperse crowds. Protesters, exercising their Constitutional protections of free expression, assembly and redress of grievances, refused to move.


Occupy Oakland demonstrators clashed all over downtown Oakland on Tuesday night with police who lobbed tear gas at least three times in futile attempts to fully disperse the more than 1,000 people who took to the streets after the early-morning raid of the movement’s encampment.

The rolling protest came about 12 hours after hundreds of police from across the Bay Area rousted about 300 people from the two-week old camp at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Tensions escalated after protesters vowed to return to the plaza, which was left with tents overturned and food, carpet, personal belongings and mounds of trash strewn on the lawn.

“We had to deploy gas to stop people from throwing rocks and bottles at police,â€