Since the latest outbreak of Oakland police violence after the Memorial Day Carijama Festival, police officials and Mayor Jerry Brown have gone on record to support their use of less-lethal weapons, such as sting grenades, which explode in a shower of rubber pellets and tear gas. (City officials also suggested banning future community festivals from Oakland parks.) "This was the best way for us to disperse the crowd," according to police Lt. Dave Kozicki; "we were able to break up the crowd without having our officers get into any fights." Sting grenades were last seen used against a nonviolent gathering during the 4/7 antiwar protest at the Port of Oakland, which resulted in a series of demonstrations against police violence as well as a city investigation of police tactics. Though unable to curb the city's murder rate, would-be state attorney general Brown is hard at work entrenching Oakland's tradition of anti-"terrorist" machinations and world-class crowd suppression.