Oakland Officials Fail to Recognize 19% Crime Drop During Occupy Encampment

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3. Oh yes, I remember every minute of all of that. I was watching it all on livestream as it happened.

I believe it is in my journal here, with more pictures which were being tweeted live, of the weapons they were using, the injuries to protesters. I remember when Scott Olsen was nearly killed and I found one of the first photos of him on Twitter. I really thought they had killed him at that time. We did not know who he was then.

But that is an excellent and incredibly disturbing summary of the crimes of the Oakland Police and Mayor Quan. She is a disgrace.

I remember too when they denied these raids were coordinated across the country and even here people were being attacked, including Naomi Wolf, for saying so. And Quan's revelation that led to the request under the FOIA and we know now that they were coordinated at a Federal level.

If OWS had not accomplished anything else, they exposed the violence and brutality that the Government is prepared to inflict on ordinary citizens if they even dare to assemble, no matter how peacefully.

And our elected officials were silent as citizens were being brutalized and local authorities were lying to the people. There should be a Federal investigation into all of this. But for that, we would have to actually be a Democracy.

I was watching livestream from the MSM when they were told to stop filming and people on Twitter were reporting it from the ground. At first we thought they were experiencing technical difficulties and I remember going to another Media stream, but that too went off the air. It was so obviously coordinated with the police raid. So we have media complicity also.

Thanks for the link. It brings it all back. The lack of outrage from our own Government whose job it is to protect its citizens, will not be forgotten.