Police Department? It certainly can't be soon enough.

I hope someone will post if they know the answer. I pick "can't be soon enough" too.

For the first fatalities so it will get his name in national news....

the confrontations in order to justify their previous breaches of legal conduct.

They're in hot water with all those investigations going on, so they raise the stakes, hoping to prove they were right to beat these protesters up in the first place. The same behavior pattern can be observed in individuals who are caught doing wrong, but instead of admitting it, they keep digging themselves deeper into the hole when caught or called on it.

Just a guess.

Chilling but totally plausible. I hadn't thought of that.

warning to other Occupy towns and cities. It's a message to protesters... this is what the police CAN do to you and if you don't behave in your community, this is what your cops might do to you.

That is, they are "making an example" of #OO.

And either one of these strategies doesn't preclude the other from being used at the same time.

Set an example to intimidate potential protesters across the country and escalate tensions to provoke some protesters to retaliate so you can cover your ass while pointing fingers at the victims of your crimes... What's not to like?

that is what I hear from people that have lived there. They say it is an interesting town to say the least.

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Mostly avoided contact with them because they never come when you call them. They shot an artist to death that I knew through an arts nonprofit I worked at. They thought he was holding a gun, elderly man named Casper Banjo.

citizens. They can't be retrained, or fixed, they are out of control, although they are not the only ones. But it's long past time to get rid of them. We pay for them, they forget that.

Start recruiting new men and women who understand that their job is to protect the people who pay their salaries, NOT the Corporate Powers they are obviously being used by.

If they were insane, they might accidently do some good from time to time.

Oakland." These were a group of average middle aged citizens that wanted them to take it else where. They have more crime in the city that leaves large areas of Oakland without police. Four killed and 6 shot and wounded just this past weekend.You didn't mention the 150+ Oakland citizens that confronted the demonstrators about "taking back Cops are a necessary evil, but the citizens of Oakland, which the majority are average hard working people, don't deserve what is happening in their City.
I know I'll get a lot of flack and flaming from many here on DU blaming the cops, but I've been there at times, and I've seen it both ways.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/02/06/occupy-oakland-protesters-counter-protesters-gather-at-city-hall/

He cites a mayor-endorsed "counter-protest" in the Kos entry. Just hit the link. Oakland has one of the highest murder rates in the US and has had it for years.

Crimes rates were actually reduced by 19% while Occupy was camping.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/14/1054602/-No-Surprise-Oakland-Police-Chief-Lied-to-Discredit-Occupy-Oakland
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/emails-exchanged-between-oakland-opd-reveal-tensio/nGMkF/

I feel like I'm not understanding what you are asking. Did you want me to put them somewhere else?

Rather than work to get criminals. Wish we had a civil rights leader in the White House. He or she would indict the whole lot of them.

The whole world is watching. And they're especially watching Oakland.