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    150 arrested in daylong Occupy Oakland protests

    OAKLAND, California (AP) — Oakland police say they arrested a total of about 150 people Saturday as protesters spent a portion of the day trying to get into a vacant convention center, and later broke into City Hall and tried to occupy a YMCA.

    Police spokesman Jeff Thomason says most of the arrests came around 8 p.m. local time. That's when police took about 100 protesters into custody as they marched through the city's downtown, with some entering a YMCA building.

    About 20 demonstrators were arrested earlier in the afternoon, after police say they threw rocks, bottles and other objects at officers and tore down fencing.

    Police say three officers were injured. Officers used tear gas and "flash" grenades on the protesters after they refused to leave.

    Authorities were still tabulating the exact number of arrests late Saturday.

     

    67 comments

    • Rectal Itch  •  27 days ago
      WOW THIS ARTICLE GOT BURIED IN HURRY
    • Richard  •  25 days ago
      Police did nothing wrong ...If a group invades my privite property ...I will open up with a twelve guage shot gun and fire until non are standing, then repeat for good measure ...these criminals need to be eradicated ...It's time to take out the trash ...literally
    • Rectal Itch  •  27 days ago
      20 minutes ago The article read 100 protestors arrested, now it reads 150 arrested
    • Jason  •  25 days ago
      Classy people burning the flag. How about we go get the 1st Marine division and the 82nd Airborne and let them pull security. We shall see how many flags get burnt then. My message to the occupy terrorists. 1. go get a job, they are out there, look! 2. Go to Washington D.C. and occupy our fearless president's door step. 3. Think about how muh money you are costing these already broke communities. But thats right you don't care, because it is not about the future of America, it's all about YOU!
    • kerem o  •  25 days ago
      Oh where is the news media, one wonders naively!
      Nothing other than unsubstantiated allegations were used to try and cast shadow on the Tea Party. Here, the leftist version is spared all negativity despite scores of rapes, violent acts, riots, etc.

      Anyone doubt the media's intent anymore (other than progressive Marxists that is)
    • ROY  •  Anchorage, Alaska  •  27 days ago
      Occupy YMCA do the Village people know about this?
    • jim m  •  Louisville, Kentucky  •  27 days ago
      dont burn the flag, its whats freedoms all about, burn your smartphone and tablets, excellent commie tracking devices, hard to believe you cant see that, but if you were in china, you would be looking down the barrel of a tank gun. go home and fire your cell phone company, do something with your self. that flag separates you and a tank. read a book, what you are fighting,and protesting, is in your hand.
    • Debt Man Driving  •  27 days ago
      Breaking into private property is not expressing yourself .. freely.
    • brad h  •  25 days ago
      One of the great things about America is that we can own our own property and have dominion over it. Do these people not understand this? They either don't understand it or they reject it because they have a different view of the way things should be.
    • observer  •  26 days ago
      I have an Idea for these Wacko Commies.. SEND THEM TO THE FEMA CAMPS!!!!!!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  26 days ago
      Oakland needs to be nuked and then start over.
    • Poster  •  26 days ago
      Occupy protesters burned an American flag? So the problem isn't an issue of corporate greed after all. Its that they have a problem with the country that allows them to behave like spoiled 12 year olds when they don't get as big of toy as their sibling for Christmas. If I were in the area, the only "gift" they would get from me is a boot up their useless butts.
    • charmonium5  •  Fullerton, California  •  27 days ago
      Wannebee hippies without an agenda and any coherence are a public nuisance.
    • jim m  •  Louisville, Kentucky  •  27 days ago
      good news they get 1 phone call. save some bucks on the data plan till they get out of jail, bad news, required to pay for all damages, billed for ot rates for the security forces, and equipment. and each required to buy 10 memberships to YMCA...........i dont understand the ymca thing? say did they have a permit to protest? backcharge for that too.
    • charmonium5  •  Fullerton, California  •  25 days ago
      One good thing about these OWS demos...the grocery store parking lot has fewer beggars and vagrant panhandlers.
    • charmonium5  •  Fullerton, California  •  25 days ago
      Wannebee hippies without an agenda and any coherence are a public nuisance.
    • M110 How  •  26 days ago
      #$%$..gutter feces and good for them that I was not there when they burned the flag I served for twenty years.
    • Vladimir Putin  •  Moscow, Russia  •  25 days ago
      I get the Pacific north west.
      China gets California.
      Mexico can have the leftovers
    • Ryan  •  25 days ago
      These people represent the 1%/ 99% of Americans don't throw rocks at police. They don't burn flags. They don't disturb the peace. These people need to be tried as domestic terrorists!
    • Wild Bill  •  27 days ago
      If OWS ran the world, we'd all be living in tents and crapping outdoors.
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