Another video from Saturday’s Occupy Oakland march.
0:40 - Oakland PD officers grab an unarmed, non-violent protester, throw him onto the ground, and as he lies there unresisting, beat him with batons. At the end of the video, one pig points to the cameraman (who has been doing absolutely nothing) and says, “Perez, this guy goes to jail.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the Oakland Police Department.
Aerial video of Saturday evening when the Occupy Oakland march was kettled in a public park by the Oakland Police, ordered to disperse, and then not allowed to do so. Anarchists knocked down a cyclone fence to allow the trapped civilians to escape.
1. A march was stopped at Telegraph Ave and William St.
2. All park exists were blocked off
3. The crowed was ordered to leave without being allowed any exit
4. Gas / Chemicals, projectiles, batons, and explosives were used on the public
I was not sure during the filming, but gas was definitely used on this residential area. I definitely felt sick later as the gas reached my apartment.
Protesters did not destroy any personal property. Building windows and cars remained untouched (in this area at least).
I have no doubt that the number of marchers will increase next time. This group started with camping - The city’s responses seem to be slowly turning them into some kind of militia.
See related video from earlier the same day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46UeXGhvaTI
Reports of LRAD, beatings, unprovoked taser use on subdued protesters, and a fucking tank. Apparently a 19 year old woman with leukemia was beaten.
This is a screenshot of an infrared live video feed by broadcaster OakFoSho. It shows hundreds of arrested protesters handcuffed and sitting on the sidewalk in rows, waiting to be taken away to jail. The police surrounded the protesters in a “kettle”, read a dispersal order, then refused to allow them to disperse, which is required by law. Arrests and beatings began shortly thereafter.
A woman with leukemia was likely brutalized. The police also knocked out a medic’s teeth before arresting them. Arrest count is estimated at between 300 and 700. Many of the arrested protesters are ‘missing’—they do not appear in the police department booking system; the police claim not to have them, and they were witnessed being arrested.