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Stinging Gas Sends Oakland May Day Protesters Fleeing

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 05.02.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of protesters in New York demanded an end to income inequality and housing foreclosures. Police fired tear gas to di...

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Report Criticizes Police Response To Oakland Protests

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012

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* SWAT team fired beanbag round at ex Marine - report * Outside monitor of OPD "dismayed" by police actions * Sees "mili...

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Oakland Cops' Naked Public Search To Cost The City $1 Million

AP | Posted 05.21.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Oakland officers' decision to pull two men's pants down on a public street after they were stopped by police has cost the city abou...

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Shocking Twist In Case Of War Vet Hurt During Occupy Oakland Protest

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- An Iraq War veteran whose skull was fractured during an Occupy Oakland protest last fall was hit by a beanbag round fired by a...

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Reading the Pictures: "Occupy" Flag Burning Photo as Extreme Prejudice

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.31.2012

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The photo almost everybody saw. I guess it's hard to conclude anything other than the fact that the Occupy movement must have decided to torch itself.

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Journalists Detained At Occupy Oakland

Mother Jones | Posted 01.30.2012

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After spending about an hour locked up alone in a drunk-tank cell block, OPD Sergeant Jeff Thomason arrived to release me, thanks to a call from Mothe...

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Oakland Police Fire Tear Gas, Arrest Nearly 400 Protesters In Turbulent Day

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 03.30.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland's streets for occasional weekend marches ...

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Police Teargas Thousands Of Occupy Oakland Protesters

AP | Posted 03.29.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Police were in the process of arresting about 100 Occupy protesters for failing to disperse Saturday night, hours after office...

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Oakland May Lose Control Of Its Troubled Police Force In Mere Weeks

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.27.2012

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Nearly a decade after the city of Oakland was first threatened with losing control of its police force, Judge Thelton Henderson has severely curtailed...

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8 Injured, Including Child, In Oakland Shooting

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 01.28.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Police searched for multiple suspects Tuesday after a gunbattle in a parking lot where a rap music video was being filmed left...

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Iraq War Veteran Hurt In Occupy Oakland Protests Leaves Hospital

AP | Posted 01.13.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Friends say that Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran who suffered a serious head injury during a police raid on the Occupy Oakland en...

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Oakland Mayor Makes Fresh Pleas To Occupy Protesters

AP | By TERRY COLLINS | Posted 01.09.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Mayor Jean Quan has renewed her appeal to Occupy Oakland representatives to meet with city officials and discuss the future of the ...

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SHOCK: Video Of Police Shooting At Occupy Oakland Sparks National Outrage

Robin Wilkey | Posted 01.08.2012

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A police attack against Oakland man Scott Campbell has drawn national attention and outrage after Campbell released a video of the incident on YouTube...

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Rappers Take To Mic During Occupy Oakland Protests

AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 01.07.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO — Hip hop heavyweights known as much for their fiery political lyrics as for their bass-pounding beats have been among the thousan...

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Scott Olsen

Jeff Danziger | Posted 01.04.2012

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SLIDESHOW: Occupy Oakland Protest

AP | JASON DEAREN and LISA LEFF | Posted 01.03.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Occupy Wall Street supporters who staged rallies that shut down the nation's fifth-busiest port during a day of protests condemned ...

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Oakland Prepares To Be The Occupy Epicenter

AP/The Huffington Post | LISA LEFF | Posted 01.02.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Thousands of Wall Street protesters marched in the streets of Oakland and picketed banks on Wednesday as they geared up to disrupt ...

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Will Oakland Shut Down Tomorrow?

AP | By LISA LEFF | Posted 01.01.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Anti-Wall Street demonstrators and Oakland city officials on Monday were preparing for a midweek strike by protesters that would in...

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Iraq War Vet Injured By Oakland Police Improves

AP | Posted 12.27.2011

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Iraq War veteran injured when anti-Wall Street protesters clashed with police in Oakland has been upgraded to fair conditi...

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'We're About To Build Our City Back'

AP | Posted 12.27.2011

By Terry Collins, Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- At least one tent was back up in front of Oakland's City Hall a day after anti-Wall Stre...

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WATCH: Video Suggests Oakland Police Use Flash Bang Grenade

Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.26.2011

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In a press release issued on Tuesday night following hours of heated Occupy Oakland protests, the Oakland Police Department reported that officers had...

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Occupy Oakland: The Morning After

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.26.2011

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By Terry Collins, Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The scene was calm but tense early Wednesday as a crowd of hundreds of protesters dwindl...

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BART Shooting -- Peeling Back the Layers to the Truth

Rich Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Often in the YouTube era, when you think you're seeing everything, you're really seeing nothing.

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Victim's Record Could Help Ex-Officer In Murder Trial

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

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Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Denise Tejada The lawyer for the fami...

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Oakland Pays Cops $1.75 Million To Get Dressed

San Francisco Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

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The city of Oakland is expected to pay $1.75 million in legal fees and will offer vacation time and money to police officers who claimed in a lawsuit ...

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