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发帖数: 2946 | 1 OAKLAND (Reuters) - Riot police arrested more than 100 anti-Wall Street
protesters during a series of clashes in the streets of Oakland on Saturday
that saw officers in riot gear firing tear gas at activists who tried to
take over a shuttered convention center.
Three officers were injured during the running confrontations, which police
said first erupted when the crowd began destroying construction equipment
and tearing down fencing at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in
downtown Oakland in the early afternoon.
"Officers were pelted with bottles, metal pipe, rocks, spray cans,
improvised explosive devices and burning flares," the Oakland Police
Department said in a statement. "Oakland Police Department deployed smoke
and tear gas."
The scuffles marked the latest confrontation between police and Occupy
activists seeking to regain lost momentum in their movement against economic
inequality after authorities cleared protest camps across the country late
last year.
Occupy Oakland organizers had vowed to take over the fenced-off building to
establish a new headquarters for their movement and draw attention to
homelessness in a move seen as a challenge to authorities who have blocked
similar efforts before.
Police said 19 people were arrested near the convention center and another
100 taken into custody after they were corralled by officers outside a YMCA
in downtown Oakland.
"The one percent have all these empty buildings, and meanwhile there are all
these homeless people," protester Omar Yassin told Reuters at the scene.
Near the convention center, several dozen police officers declared an
unlawful assembly and confronted the demonstrators at a fence, firing smoke
and tear gas canisters into the crowd after telling protesters to disperse
through loudspeakers.
AMERICAN FLAG BURNS
Some activists, carrying shields made of plastic garbage cans and corrugated
metal, tried to circumvent the police line, and surged toward police on
another side of the building as more smoke canisters were fired.
"The City of Oakland welcomes peaceful forms of assembly and freedom of
speech, but acts of violence, property destruction and overnight lodging
will not be tolerated," police said in a statement.
Later, hundreds of demonstrators regrouped and marched through downtown
Oakland, where they were repeatedly confronted by police in riot gear.
Police at several points fired flash-bang grenades into the crowd and swung
batons at protesters.
Later a group of demonstrators made their way to City Hall, where they
brought out a U.S. flag and set it on fire before scattering ahead of
advancing officers.
Protesters in Oakland loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street
movement that began in New York last year have repeatedly clashed with
police during a series of marches and demonstrations.
In October, former U.S. Marine Scott Olsen was left in critical condition
with a head injury following a confrontation with police on the streets of
Oakland in which tear gas was deployed.
Organizers said Olsen was struck in the head by a tear gas canister.
Authorities opened an investigation into that incident but have not said how
they believe he was hurt.
Elsewhere, the National Park Service said on Friday it would bar Occupy
protesters in the nation's capital, one of the few big cities where Occupy
encampments survive, from camping in two parks where they have been living
since October.
That order, which takes effect on Monday, was seen as a blow to one of the
highest-profile chapters of the movement.
(Writing by Dan Whitcomb and Mary Slosson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston) | W*****2
发帖数: 1043 | 2 oh, my goodness!!!!!
Where is the freedom of speech???
Where is the democracy???
Where are the human rights??? | w*p
发帖数: 16484 | | l********k
发帖数: 14844 | 4 where? in your american dreams.
【在 W*****2 的大作中提到】
: oh, my goodness!!!!!
: Where is the freedom of speech???
: Where is the democracy???
: Where are the human rights???
| W*****2
发帖数: 1043 | | W*****2
发帖数: 1043 | | q******e
发帖数: 960 | 7 sb
【在 W*****2 的大作中提到】
: oh, my goodness!!!!!
: Where is the freedom of speech???
: Where is the democracy???
: Where are the human rights???
| W*****2
发帖数: 1043 | 8 Is that all your IQ????
I guess your IQ is below ZERO
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