Arrest, Injury @ Rally Against Police Oppression

"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.