RAW VIDEO - Police Use Flash Grenades & Tear Gas At Oakland General Strike

From last night's general strike at Occupy Oakland.

Clashes have erupted in Oakland, California, between anti-corporate protesters and police, who have entered their camp.  Up to 100 people have been arrested.  According to unconfirmed reports, many police officers were not wearing badges and had tape covering their names.

Comments

[Tom Jefferson]

These "occupy" mobs/thugs are the emergence of a new nationalist socialist party supporting Obama and the Dems in Congress.

[drone]

its funny you cant even protest peacefully or you will get arrested or something thrown at you by the so called cops or should i say "thugs," the protesters are not thugs as you point them out to be. When a human gets screwed over by everyone, banks, corps, fed, govt, and police, eventually they will snap, its a natural reaction. Time to end this total slavery, we as humans should rise and overtake all this corruption and greed, we are great in number, and if we band together we can really clean this world up real fast of this slime. Those in power are not human since they have no morality and only thing the care about are profits, no matter how they screw over, lie, cheat or steal from the middle class. Cant wait for the revolution, cant wait to see all the banksters and so called elected officials to get what they deserve! Of course to end all this world misery and corruption you must get to the root cause of the problem, the Fed, the Rotschilds, the central banks.

[citizen]

drone: don't take Tom Jefferson or Voice of Reason too seriously. They have been copying off the same talking point memo for weeks now. Don't waste even a second trying to figure out how any of these protests could be pro-obama or pro-socialist -- its simply faux news talking point BS from a couple of fascist sympathizers.

[ben sorensen]

Tom Jefferson.....really? How could a human being be as ignorant and pedantic as you seem? Where have you seen any evidence of a Obama / Democrat connection? If anything, Obama and the Democrats are as complacent or worse than the TERRORIST Republicans in terms of the financial turmoil! So take a long walk off a short pier or read a f@%*ing book and learn something about living in reality. Stop sloshing around in the regurgitated fox bile and grow a honest opinion!

[The voice of reason]

Grow up Citizen! If you believe that you have all the answers in this mob of disorganized vandals, misfits, anti Semite racists, rapists, etc., etc., then you are more naive than your "faux" intellect suggests! You and your group have lost the majority of the country, that initially sympathized with many points that demonstrators have made. Civilized protests can be effective, but when they are out of hand and destructive then it is time to put an end to them. I side with the police! I'm sorry you don't like my talking points, perhaps you prefer those of Carl Marx, Mao, Stalin? Take a hard look at where this movement is going . . . . nowhere! It lost its momentum and credibility when it began to turn violent. You claim you are the 99%, but in reality you are the 1%! If you are the 99% then show everyone with an organized voting block! Elections are not far off`! Stop being a pimp for the unions, your talking points are no less original and certainly not seasoned with years of dealing with sophomoric whimps like yourself. I'm proud to be part of the 99% that opposes what this movement has turned out to represent! You represent chaos Citizen and nothing more!

[ETM]

Oh, for F's sake, "voice of reason".

STOP PUTTING WORDS IN PEOPLE'S MOUTHS. The protest is DIVERSE, and it is trying desperately to hang on to that diversity. It will be the only thing that saves the movement. It includes leftists, yes, like myself. It also includes a fair number of conservatives, and mostly people who are FED UP WITH THE CORRUPTION, and the abandonment of the rule of law, among other abuses of power.

Your paranoid delusions about "marxism" mark you as a wingnut with no connection with reality. I could probably count the number of "stalinists" in this country on two hands. Give it a rest.

[Hugh Kelly]

And replace what we have with what? Both parties are owned by the Banks. The Banks are doing what they are suppose to do....make money... that's their mission. The problem is the parties, they support the banks. Obama gives only lip service, the Republicans give succor. "if the banks are too big to fail, the banks need to be broken up" Nouriel Roubini. The government won't do it though...they are purchased. There should only be one protest, and it should be at Washington.