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East Bay | Police State and PrisonsArrest, Injury @ Rally Against Police Oppression
This is some brief footage of the Fuck The Police rally against police oppression which marched from Occupy Oakland to the Oakland Police station.
"He's been shot... and he's injured." A small group or marchers had left the main body of the protest to take a look at injuries someone had sustained. The police rush in, but ignore the injury caused by one of their own rubber slugs. Instead, they swarm around a protester whom they push to the ground.
The injured protester, with the assistance of a small entourage are threatened by police to move quickly. The group moves a couple of blocks and eventually an ambulance is summoned. Also included is a brief video of the fire, which has been exaggerated in the media and public imagination. The very small flame (a burning flag possibly) was hardly a public safety issue. A protester dances a few steps in it, the police stand next to it, and a few officers even walk on it. The word fire can be used a type of dramatic punctuation in news stories, a way of implying chaos and danger. Without any context and sense of scale, a fire can be wrongfully believed to be bigger than it was. The fire at the anti-police oppression rally was just a small symbolic statement, not a roaring act of destruction. The Fuck the Police rallies are going to continue on Saturday evenings, massing at Occupy Oakland.
This is the fire in context to the march. When the press reports a fire at a protest, it is often left in vague terms with no sense of scale, which can leave a reader to imagine a worser case scenario than what happened in reality.
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