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...the Oakland police were the first to escalate to violence... What was the first act of violence by the Oakland police against Occupy Oakland assemblies?
by gojomo 14y ago
...the Oakland police were the first to escalate to violence...
What was the first act of violence by the Oakland police against Occupy Oakland assemblies?
- btilly 14y agoAccording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Occupy_Oakland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Occupy_Oakland it was the use of tear gas and beanbag rounds on Oct 25. This resulted in Scott Olsen (ex-marine and Iraq veteran) suffering a skull fracture and needing to be hospitalized. That timeline gives Nov 2 as the first truly violent act by protestors, namely the setting of a police barricade on fire while the police were attacking the protestors with tear gas, etc. (I'm not counting the tearing up of deposit slips on Oct 22 as violent - and the protestors cleaned up the mess that they caused on that occasion.)