The Police Raid on Occupy Oakland Was Nothing New for This City
Submitted on October 28, 2011
By Ali Winston - Friday, October 28 2011
The Occupy Oakland movement has run up against one of the country’s most troubled law enforcement agencies...The projectiles police fired in clashes with protesters seriously injured a young Iraq war vet, Scott Olsen...That sort of violent over-reaction and the tactics associated with it are, however, all too familiar in Oakland, where police have repeatedly responded to public protest with violence and have faced intense scrutiny for shooting unarmed suspects in black neighborhoods, in some cases fatally.
