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unionworks

(3,574 posts)
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 02:49 AM Feb 2012

Occupy Oakland Blamed in Sacramento Clash!?

Just read an article in LBN newspaper from Sacramento says "members of Occupy Oakland and other groups" threw objects at police and maced a CHP cop at a rally of a white power group that "had a permit". Anyone know what really happened?

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Occupy Oakland Blamed in Sacramento Clash!? (Original Post) unionworks Feb 2012 OP
Probably anarchists mixed into the crowd... ellisonz Feb 2012 #1
That's what unionworks Feb 2012 #2
Great tune unionworks Feb 2012 #3
Woody said it best unionworks Feb 2012 #5
The Blaze -- a Glenn Beck related site -- has a number of photos and videos starroute Feb 2012 #4
Definitely some weak black bloc activity... ellisonz Feb 2012 #6

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)
1. Probably anarchists mixed into the crowd...
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 04:12 AM
Feb 2012

Either way, my official position:



SacBee photo gallery: link

I don't think the news reports are all that clear what started it or what's true.
 

unionworks

(3,574 posts)
2. That's what
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 04:22 AM
Feb 2012

"Occupy Oakland and other groups" sounds like. Occupy really. Needs to get serious about keeping black bloc out. And as charges are probably pending, it's probably better to not discuss specifics.

starroute

(12,977 posts)
4. The Blaze -- a Glenn Beck related site -- has a number of photos and videos
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 01:21 PM
Feb 2012
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/occupy-violence-cops-hurt-by-ows-protesters-at-pro-white-rally-in-sacramento/

I posted this in hopes that the videos may give some visual sense of what was going on. But it seems pretty clear to me from a quick Google search that at this point the story is being pushed heavily by right-wing sources who are doing their best to frame it as anti-police violence by Occupy.

If there's an Occupy version of events, I think there may be reason to get it out promptly and and no hold back on grounds that charges are pending.

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)
6. Definitely some weak black bloc activity...
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 04:17 AM
Feb 2012


And I say that as someone who would have been hurling obscenities at the Nazi scum.
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