{"id":185054,"date":"2011-10-25T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/25\/police-use-gas-shotguns-and-grenades-to-break-up-occupy-oakland\/"},"modified":"2011-10-25T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T23:30:00","slug":"police-use-gas-shotguns-and-grenades-to-break-up-occupy-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/25\/police-use-gas-shotguns-and-grenades-to-break-up-occupy-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Use Gas, Shotguns, and Grenades to Break Up Occupy Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not joking that&#8217;s what, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/10\/25\/watch-live-occupy-oakland-attacked-by-police\/\">firing tear gas, rubber bullets and beanbags into the protest and lobbing flashbang grenades<\/a>,&#8221; means, and that&#8217;s what the cops did in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the day before a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/10\/25\/BABN1LLKTP.DTL\">recall effort was initiated against Oakland Mayor Jean Quan<\/a>, and I&#8217;m wondering if there might have been some sort of cause and effect.<\/p>\n<p>There allegations of problems at the Oakland protest, sanitation and vandalism, but I would like to hear something about from someone <b>other<\/b> than the authorities who initiated the crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>There has since been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/26\/us-usa-wallstreet-protests-oakland-idUSTRE79P0DY20111026?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=domesticNews\">protest march to Oakland city hall over the arrests<\/a>, with some scuffles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the police to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/02\/egypt-crisis-prepping-for-another-day-of-protests\/\">ride down the protesters on camels and horses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not joking that&#8217;s what, &#8220;firing tear gas, rubber bullets and beanbags into the protest and lobbing flashbang grenades,&#8221; means, and that&#8217;s what the cops did in Oakland. Interestingly enough, the day before a recall effort was initiated against Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, and I&#8217;m wondering if there might have been some sort of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,1049],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}