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The perpetrators of the first Columbine Massacre were not disenfranchised outcasts, lunatics or outlaws of any description – but rather state rangers and national guardsmen, under the orders of the governor of Colorado, who attacked 500 unarmed striking coal miners and their families with tear gas, automatic rifles and machine guns. The Columbine miners had been striking peaceably for five weeks; the owner of the mining company had even served the picketers coffee and doughnuts on some mornings. But with winter fast approaching, the governor of Colorado feared a state-wide coal shortage and resolved to quash the strike. He ordered his rangers to dress in civilian clothing so as not to alert the strikers, and positioned them on the Columbine mine tipple. In the ensuing bloodbath, six working men were killed and dozens more injured, but – despite scores of impartial witnesses – the authorities denied the use of machine guns, the press covered up all evidence to the contrary and, with typical authoritarian shamelessness, the strike leaders were arrested and charged with the responsibility for the deaths.

Just one blog entry I pulled up - doing a search for Oakland police and police brutality brings up over a million hits ...

Oakland is a city that has suffered from considerable urban blight, gang problems and drug issues. It is a historic centre of black American culture and radical black politics, having given birth to the Black Panther movement in the 1960s. There have been persistent reports of police criminality and abuse, especially aimed at the city's black population, where community activists say low-level police harassment is a fact of life. Latest census figures show black people make up the biggest single ethnic group in Oakland at 27.3%, with white people at 25.9% and Hispanics at 25.4%.

Despite having almost the same size populations in the city, however, white people account for only 16% of OPD vehicle stops, and 6.7% of motorists searched. Black people in Oakland, by contrast, account for a whopping 48% of vehicle stops, and 65.8% of motorists searched.

Some of them, from my old stomping grounds, were decently professional most of the time.

The Denver cops, that I've seen at Occupy Denver, were some of the most nasty, unprofessional, scumbags I've personally seen wearing a badge.

But it seems they don't hold a candle to Oakland's gang of badged criminal thugs.

Trying to slander them over flag burning and other unconventional, non-violent tactics.

Thank you so much for this. Move-in-Day was chastised greatly here.