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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:44 AM
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Occupy Oakland - Flashbangs USED on protesters OPD LIES
 
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Posted on YouTube: October 26, 2011
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This shows the actual police attack in slo-mo. VERY disturbing.
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sce56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:59 AM
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1. VFP member was hit by the Police attack!
Edited on Wed Oct-26-11 06:59 AM by sce56
Veterans for Peace member Scott Olsen was wounded by a less-lethal round fired by either San Francisco Sheriffs deputies or Palo Alto Police on October 25, 2011 at 14th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMUgPTCgwcQ
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 07:25 AM
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2. Note the cop's tactics here. Knock down a protester, others go to his aid, flashbang them.
It's the same approach as terrorists use with bomb attacks.

There is something innately f-cked up about people who do this sort of thing.
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BanzaiBonnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 07:41 AM
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3. Does anyone know if Oakland PD
got their training from Blackwater scum?
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dotymed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 08:05 AM
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8. That is how a sniper works too.
They wound a person and kill or wound ever person that tries to help their fallen comrade. What a disgusting bunch of cowards. Wait until it's their turn.
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unapatriciated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 07:45 AM
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4. They were going back to help someone who was injured.
You can clearly see where the tear-gas canister was deliberately lobed into the circle of those helping. In war, the wounded and those who help them have protections. Our citizens exercising their constitutional rights have less protection than our enemies..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Geneva_Convention

Articles 12 and 18 requires all parties to protect and care for the wounded, sick, and shipwrecked.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 07:47 AM
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5. Where is Governor Brown on this? n/t
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 08:00 AM
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7. Where are the Democratic President, Democratic Governor, Democratic Mayor, Dem. Senators & Reps?
Edited on Wed Oct-26-11 08:11 AM by leveymg
Glad you notice their deafening silence at escalating police violence. It reminds me of the '60s.

If our elected officials wanted to stop the escalation, they would. They need to do so that, now, or the Right will again do a judo-flip and re-manufacture the "Silent Majority" crap. Police violence serves no one other than the GOP and the 1 percent.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 08:00 AM
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6. Yep. Disgusting.
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civilisation Donating Member (456 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 08:07 AM
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9. That is truly disgusting!
People where leaving the area as the cops start shooting gas and flash bombs into the crowd. One of the activists is left laying on the ground, injured by the cops. Some people return into the gas zone to help the downed activist,. then the pigs throw a flash bomb right into the group coming to the aid of the fallen?,. WTF! the whole time the cops are BEHIND a metal barricade? there was never any threat to the cops,. so that sorta' defence is not going to fly,. this was an attack by the police on people helping someone the cops had just injured. This is completely unacceptable. Oakland needs more people to go there and help them quiet their cops down some,.
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think4yourself Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 08:48 AM
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10. Make this go viral
This is appalling.
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They_Live Donating Member (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 08:52 AM
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11. This is beyond fucked up
It's legally and morally WRONG.
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 12:24 PM
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12. k&r
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