{"id":892,"date":"2011-10-28T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=892"},"modified":"2011-11-05T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T19:26:46","slug":"oakland-police-under-a-cloud-for-violent-occupy-crackdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/oakland-police-under-a-cloud-for-violent-occupy-crackdown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Police Under a Cloud for Violent Occupy Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/10\/opd-crowd-control-policy-force?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+%28MotherJones.com+%7C+MoJoBlog%29\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/motherjones.com\/files\/images\/bean-bag400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A shot-filled bean-bag round held by a protester<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>at Frank Ogawa Plaza Tuesday night. <\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Schuyler Erle\/Twitter<\/em><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night I was at the intersection of 14th and Broadway, just outside Frank Ogawa Plaza, for several harrowing hours: I witnessed police officers firing projectiles indiscriminately into the crowd\u2014not carefully targeting instigators, as OPD\u00a0policy dictates. Freelance reporter Angela Bacca, who was also there, told me that upon arriving she &#8220;got tear gassed almost immediately,&#8221; and then saw police fire bean-bag rounds at a woman carrying water to demonstrators to help them rinse tear gas out of their eyes and off their clothes. &#8220;They were just shooting at people trying to get them out of the way,&#8221; Bacca said. &#8220;I definitely thought it was unprovoked.&#8221; The OPD has not responded to requests from Mother Jones by phone and email for comment. According to the OPD&#8217;s policy, projectile bean bags can only be used narrowly and not for general crowd control:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/10\/opd-crowd-control-policy-force?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+%28MotherJones.com+%7C+MoJoBlog%29\">Oakland Police Under a Cloud for Violent Occupy Crackdown | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shot-filled bean-bag round held by a protester at Frank Ogawa Plaza Tuesday night. Schuyler Erle\/Twitter &nbsp; On Tuesday night I was at the intersection of 14th and Broadway, just outside Frank Ogawa Plaza, for several harrowing hours: I witnessed police officers firing projectiles indiscriminately into the crowd\u2014not carefully targeting instigators, as OPD\u00a0policy dictates. Freelance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[548,550,494,526,460,410,392,549,446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}