Occupy Oakland Raid #2
On Monday, November 14, 2011, Abby Martin of Media Roots went to Occupy Oakland (OO) at 4:00 am to cover the second police state raid on the peaceful OO encampment. Under direct orders from Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, over 500 riot cops in another coordinated, increasingly fascistic, multi-police agency operation stormed the peaceful OO encampment at Oscar Grant Plaza (aka Frank Ogawa Plaza) in an attempt to crush the OO movement once and for all.
Mayor Quan's legal adviser resigned at 2 am in protest to the heavy police repression at OO.
Media Roots documents the intensity in the air leading up to the police raid, as the peaceful protesters brace themselves for another show of force by the heavily militarised riot platoon. This footage evidences the insane level of militarised police presence, which showed up to crackdown and destroy the camp in yesterday’s predawn raid.
