Oakland Police Violence

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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How to Fund an American Police State

Stephan Salisbury | Posted 05.05.2012

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Stephan Salisbury

The chances of an American dying in a terrorist incident in a given year are 1 in 3.5 million. To reduce that risk, to make something minuscule even more minuscule, what has the nation spent? What has it cost us?

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Judge Rules Against Police In Occupy Oakland Case

AP | Posted 04.01.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- A federal judge in California has ruled that an Oakland police officer who covered his nameplate during a November Occupy protest s...

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Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. | Posted 03.31.2012

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Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.

Occupations create a common public space for assembly, free speech and intense, transformative conversations. Occupations are also prophetic speech acts; they stand in a long and distinguished biblical tradition.

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Aaron Sankin

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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Oakland Opens Investigation Into Police Conduct At Occupy Protests

Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.22.2011

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In the wake of violent clashes between the Oakland Police Department and Occupy Oakland protestors that shocked the nation, the city of Oakland has la...

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PHOTOS: Hundreds Of Police Raid Occupy Oakland Camp

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 01.14.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Police clad in riot gear and armed with tear gas cleared out Oakland's anti-Wall Street encampment early Monday, the latest la...

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Occupy Protests Get Ugly

AP | TERENCE CHEA, LISA LEFF and TERRY COLLINS | Posted 01.03.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A protest that shut down the Port of Oakland to show the broadening reach of the Occupy Wall Street movement ended in violence...

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