FM wrote: "They [the Oakland Police] are really a problem. Reminds me of the ILWU anti-war action in 2003, see below. Someone or some organization seems to have deputized them as "message senders" to the U.S. activist community."
FM writes again: Ah, the early 2000's are slowly coming back to me again. Of course...:
"Oakland Police are keeping their cards close to their chest about the department’s participation in the Bay Area’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, Northern California’s multi-agency counter-terrorism team headed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation."