Death and Police Opportunism at Occupy Oakland by MIKE KING
A young man was shot dead outside Occupy Oakland in a dispute with a group of men Thursday afternoon. At a vigil for the young man Thursday night, on the one month commemoration of the occupation, nerves are frayed both by the violence many witnessed earlier and the likely violence that could descend upon the camp in the next few days from police forces who have already been given a green light to destroy the camp for a second time. The now resounding cry from some sectors for a need for police in Oscar Grant Plaza should have to engage a practical debate around the effectiveness of the Oakland police as well as a debate about the obvious political opportunism in this moment on the side of the City - exploiting an isolated and likely unrelated act of violence as a pretense for their own. Police occupations do not create justice. A large number of people in Oakland support Occupy Oakland despite an unending smear-campaign coming from the media, Mayor, City Hall, and the Chamber of Commerce.
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