Tuesday 25 October 2011

BREAKING: Oakland Police Use Rubber Bullets, Flash Grenades, And Smoke Bombs To Evict Occupy Oakland

Think Progress

Late last night, Oakland police, under orders from the city, began surrounding the Occupy Oakland encampment in preparation to oust the protesters from Frank Ogawa Plaza.

Approximately an hour ago, hundreds of Oakland police officers raided the camp. Dressed in riot gear,

the police used rubber bullets, flash grenades, and gas canisters to forcibly evict and/or arrest the demonstrators who remained in the plaza. The Occupy Oakland Twitter account live-tweeted the raid:




One protester at the scene captured an image of the riot police using smoke bombs:



If you have any video of the raid on Occupy Oakland, feel free to send it to ThinkProgress.

  One protester interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle remained upbeat. "People are going to keep coming back. What are they going [...]



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