Cop Block

Article submitted by Privacysos.org Video produced by Jacob Crawford I produced this video after hearing that Oakland Chief of Police Howard Jordan was considering tossing their mandated crowd control policy for something a little looser. He has also considered taking his elite Tango and Quick Response Units and deploying them as small teams into crowds [...]

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From Josh Wolf and Oakland CopWatch:

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Over 30 people were arrested when Occupy Oakland was raided on Monday morning. One of them was Cami G.,  a graduate student and a member of the media committee of OO. This is her account of the experience. On February 1, 1960, four students from the all-black Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina—Joseph McNeil, Franklin [...]

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Via Guardian The video shows Kayvan Sabehgi being hit numerous times by an officer clad in riot gear Link to this video Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California. The [...]

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A member of the Oakland Police Department, or some other police agency, fired at a journalist on November 3rd around midnight, for no apparent reason. According to the YouTube description: While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots [...]

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