Raw video of early hours of police raid on Occupy Oakland tent city
on October 25, 2011
This video was shot by John Osborn of Mission Local during the initial part of the police raid on the Occupy Oakland campsite in downtown Oakland, from around 4:30 am to 6:30 am Tuesday morning. It depicts footage of several hundred police officers dressed in riot gear and armed with helmets, batons, plastic hand cuffs, and megaphones evicting the protesters from the tent city they have been living in since October 10 in front of Frank Ogawa Plaza by City Hall.
This video is a rough cut and has not been edited. There are gaps and changes in the sound level, and it is not entirely in chronological order. This video also contains strong language. Video by John C. Osborne. Additional footage provided by guslto99.
You can see Oakland North’s complete coverage of Occupy Oakland here.
8 Comments
Oakland North welcomes comments from our readers, but we ask users to keep all discussion civil and on-topic. Comments post automatically without review from our staff, but we reserve the right to delete material that is libelous, a personal attack, or spam. We request that commenters consistently use the same login name. Comments from the same user posted under multiple aliases may be deleted. Oakland North assumes no liability for comments posted to the site and no endorsement is implied; commenters are solely responsible for their own content.
Oakland North
Oakland North is an online news service produced by students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and covering Oakland, California. Our goals are to improve local coverage, innovate with digital media, and listen to you–about the issues that concern you and the reporting you’d like to see in your community. Please send news tips to: oaklandnorthstaff@gmail.com.
[…] see the video footage from Oakland North click here, please note the images and sounds on the video are unedited and contain strong […]
[…] North: Raw video of early hours of police raid on Occupy Oakland tent city Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterStumbleUponDiggRedditPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to like this […]
Occupy (enter your city) is a protest without a cause.
The left likes to compare the “Occupy” protests to the Tea Party protests. There is no comparison. The Tea Party had a focused goal, downsizing government. There were no arrests. There were no encampments. No one was cussing out the police.
These “Occupy” protests are freak shows. I’m gong to have to go visit one before they all get shut down. It would be worth the trip just for the entertainment value. It’s like the 1960’s all over again, except without a war.
SAD LITTLE TROLL.
[…] This video was shot by John Osborn of Mission Local during the initial part of the police raid on the Occupy Oakland campsite in downtown Oakland, from around 4:30 am to 6:30 am Tuesday morning. It depicts footage of several hundred police officers dressed in riot gear and armed with helmets, batons, plastic hand cuffs, and megaphones evicting the protesters from the tent city they have been living in since October 10 in front of Frank Ogawa Plaza by City Hall. […]
[…] confrontation, particularly after downtown Oakland turned into a war zone Tuesday as hundreds of freshly evicted occupiers battled officers on the streets. There, tear gas, flash bang grenades and projectiles were fired at […]
[…] Unger are concerned that Occupy Oakland has not necessarily been a safe place for children. During the first police raid on the Occupy Oakland camp on October 25, police officers fired tear gas into the camp after giving the protesters dispersal […]
yes really sad..