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Related: About this forumOakland Officials Fail to Recognize 19% Crime Drop During Occupy Encampment
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Twitter Rant by @PunkBoyInSF
Somehow, last year, I have a vague recollection of a relatively small amount of time in #Oakland when the community rallied together, set aside their differences and tried to do this. There was a place that rose as a community center, of sorts, that consisted of people coming together around a common purpose.
A place that empowered the residents to feel like they had a hand in their own future. A place where citizens felt, and rightly so, that they were having a positive impact on their lives and the lives of their neighbors. Part of a phenomena that was having impact on the very structure of our microcosm of society. Even by a firm hired by @oaklandpoliceca and @jeanquan’s office confirmed that, for the ONLY TIME in my memory, crime actually went down by 19% in just a few weeks. Something @jeanquan and @oaklandpoliceca should have been ecstatic about, and worked with to continue to foster. But what did Santana, @jeanquan and @oaklandpoliceca decide was the best response to follow up this report with?
“Not sure how you want to share this good news,” he wrote. “It may be counter to our statement that the #Occupy movement is negatively impacting crime in Oakland.” Read the full article here.
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The East Bay Express reported recently that Santana “wanted to redact portions of Frazier’s report that included strong criticisms of #OPD” and that she “also requested that Frazier send a draft of his report in Microsoft Word format to Santana to make it easier for city officials to alter the report’s contents.”
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Ali Winston @awinston
This is a killer. #DeannaSantana tried to get Frazier report redacted by arguing that (Scott) Olsen shooting was "outside the scope" of contract
capitalismsucks @socialistlib510
Santana and Quan Depos are highly redacted. But here they are. http://www.scribd.com/doc/109137487/Deanna-Santana-deposition-Redacted … http://www.scribd.com/doc/109137397/Quan-Deposition-Redacted …
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capitalismsucks @socialistlib510
When asked if she knew that only African Americans and Hispanics were killed by OPD last year, Santana said they are involved in violence.
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sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)I remember some reports at the time stating that crime had gone down. It makes you wonder what are their objectives, these people we elect? This should have been, not only acknowledged, but OWS should have been given credit for achieving what these morons failed to achieve for so long.
This makes me so angry. Liars, deceivers, criminals, all of them. Where are the good people? Those who stand up and tell the truth?
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Oakland officials caught in lies about attacking Occupy
http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/oakland-officials-caught-in-lies-about.html
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)I believe it is in my journal here, with more pictures which were being tweeted live, of the weapons they were using, the injuries to protesters. I remember when Scott Olsen was nearly killed and I found one of the first photos of him on Twitter. I really thought they had killed him at that time. We did not know who he was then.
But that is an excellent and incredibly disturbing summary of the crimes of the Oakland Police and Mayor Quan. She is a disgrace.
I remember too when they denied these raids were coordinated across the country and even here people were being attacked, including Naomi Wolf, for saying so. And Quan's revelation that led to the request under the FOIA and we know now that they were coordinated at a Federal level.
If OWS had not accomplished anything else, they exposed the violence and brutality that the Government is prepared to inflict on ordinary citizens if they even dare to assemble, no matter how peacefully.
And our elected officials were silent as citizens were being brutalized and local authorities were lying to the people. There should be a Federal investigation into all of this. But for that, we would have to actually be a Democracy.
I was watching livestream from the MSM when they were told to stop filming and people on Twitter were reporting it from the ground. At first we thought they were experiencing technical difficulties and I remember going to another Media stream, but that too went off the air. It was so obviously coordinated with the police raid. So we have media complicity also.
Thanks for the link. It brings it all back. The lack of outrage from our own Government whose job it is to protect its citizens, will not be forgotten.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)much less petition the redress of grievances. I've heard that somewhere we are guaranteed these rights.
BTW, they now believe it was a rubber bullet which nearly killed Scott Olsen. Fired purposely.