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From the Community: Police occupy over 400 Oakland protesters

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Occupy Oakland: Over 400 Arrested As Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Grenades at Protesters
Submitted by letsliveinpeace

Over 400 Occupy protesters, along with a number of journalists, were arrested in Oakland over the weekend.  Saturday marked the largest mass arrests since the nationwide Occupy movement began last year. Occupy marches are becoming more violent, as one group vandalized City Hall.

We get a response from Occupy Oakland member, Maria Lewis, to Oakland City Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente's accusation that the Occupy Movement is engaging in "domestic terrorism." "They are more interested in protecting abandoned private property than they are the people. The idea that opening up a social center is terrorism, is very telling of the narrative of the police state," Lewis says.

The community reacts to the police action toward the demonstrators:

Johnny_Los_Angeles: "Just another day in the Fascist Police States of America."

letsliveinpeace: "So lets me get this, the mayor sends her cops to gun down and beat the protesters, and nobody is held accountable yet the protesters do not deserve the support of the people so she said. Sounds to me like EVERYBODY in that city hall needs to be unemployed RIGHT NOW, this sound like the start of some serious fascism. This administration has blood on it's hands and is provoking violence to hide it's incompetence."

circlesquared: "Grow Occupy grow...we need to take our world back from the few."

Novek: "I stopped going my local occupation for the exact reason that I know many others are not. Staying peaceful in this kind of environment where our civil liberties are shattered to dust and ruin cannot be allowed to continue and the nazis (police) cannot be looked upon as friendlies when they are 'just following orders'."

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