15 Facts About Occupy Oakland

1.

Occupy Oakland refers to a collaboration and series of demonstrations in Oakland, California that started in October 2011.

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2.

Occupy Oakland then had no physical presence in any public space overnight in the city.

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3.

Occupy Oakland has often centered on complaints about alleged police misconduct, and relationships between protesters and police were especially frayed at Occupy Oakland.

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4.

Frank H Ogawa Plaza, was symbolically renamed "Oscar Grant Plaza" by the protesters, referring to Oscar Grant, an Oakland man shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in 2009.

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5.

Occupy Oakland was rushed to the hospital by other protesters, who were struck with unknown projectiles while attempting to aid him.

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6.

Occupy Oakland medics responded to the victim until police and paramedics arrived.

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7.

Occupy Oakland's was charged with failure to leave the scene of a riot.

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8.

The officer claimed that he concealed his name to protect himself and his family after a supervisor described a video in which an Occupy Oakland protester posted the name and address of another officer and called for burning down his home.

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9.

Occupy Oakland Police arrested 409 individuals in the largest arrest in Occupy Oakland history.

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10.

Occupy Oakland movement has attracted particularly strong controversy for its tactics.

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11.

Protesters have slashed tires and invading vacant buildings during protests, and Occupy Oakland citizens have expressed concern that the protests have necessitated a large police presence which has made the rest of the city less safe.

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12.

In February 2012, Occupy Oakland suggested that Israel had "prodded" the United States into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and they overwhelmingly endorsed a proposal in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

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13.

The unidentified 20-year-old woman was walking down Piedmont Avenue from a Wells Fargo bank when she said she overheard Occupy Oakland members calling for a riot, and the told them not to riot in her neighborhood.

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14.

South Africa Project has attracted controversy as an alleged white supremacist group, and Occupy Oakland members claimed they had ties to Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

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15.

The Occupy Oakland members threw cans and bottles at police before rushing the group.

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