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Post by dait on Nov 16, 2011 5:40:16 GMT -5
Police in Oakland, Calif. may have successfully ousted Occupy protesters from their weeks-old camp at the downtown Frank Ogawa Plaza in a peaceful raid early on Monday morning, but demonstrators are already moving in to nearby Snow Park, the San Jose Mercury News reported. The only question now is, will they stay? The 5 am raid, which saw police from Oakland joined by seven other law enforcement agencies, was a marked contrast to the fractious October 25 attempted eviction, in which 100 people were arrested and several hurt, including an Iraq war veteran, after police used tear gas and non-lethal projectiles. This time, police gave notice to the protesters camping in front of city hall well in advance and, once there, carefully dismantled tents and made 32 peaceful arrests. Unsurprisingly, the Occupy Oakland blog had a somewhat different account than media reports, noting that some of those arrested were meditating and adding, “All tents and camp facilities that were not removed by occupiers before the raid have been smashed.”
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