Articles Tagged “police brutality”

  • Non-Violent Occupy Oakland Protests Against Police Brutality

    Non-Violent Occupy Oakland Protests
    Against Police Brutality

    by Justin Alan Ryan on Feb 10, 2012 | 1 Comment

    Following Occupy Oakland’s J28 “Move-in Day” action, which resulted in hundreds of arrests and rampant reports of police brutality and human rights violations against mostly peaceful protesters, there has been a great deal of frustration and tension within the broader movement, Oakland, and the SF Bay Area at large. Occupy Oakland held its’ regularly scheduled weekly march against Police Brutality while many of us were still kettled and/or in transport that night, and a number of us who did not normally attend this action discussed within the walls of Glen Dyer and Santa Rita jails that we could no longer abstain from objecting to the brutality of Oakland’s police force

    Posted in Opinion, Politics