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Trib & Chron Stories on Oakland Response, City Council Meeting
For easy reference. I think we need to document the responses of our elected officials - there has yet to be any photographic evidence of rocks, sticks, bottles, iron bolts, concrete chunks, bonfires, and still more, detailed in one of these stories. This is an outrage that they are directly lying to the public. One City Council person is concerned because people calling their office are seriously believing that officer's lives were threatened.
Pressure to probe response to protest
Council members, mayor say Oakland officers' actions against demonstrators warrant investigation
By Paul T. Rosynsky, Laura Counts and Cecily Burt, STAFF WRITERS
OAKLAND -- Pressure intensified Tuesday for a full-scale investigation into the Police Department's actions against anti-war protesters, while City Hall braced for a slew of lawsuits and more protests.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1313124,00.html
Protesters spur council president to leave meeting
Anti-war activists upset that investigation wasn't on agenda
By Mike Adamick, STAFF WRITER
OAKLAND -- Raucous protesters at a City Council meeting Tuesday demanded an independent review of police tactics against anti-war protesters, prompting the council president to abruptly shut down the meeting.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1312698,00.html
Oakland police went too far, protesters say
Janine DeFao, Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Oakland -- Protesters packed Oakland City Hall Tuesday night to complain that police overreacted when they fired projectiles and tear gas to break up an anti-war demonstration Monday at the Port of Oakland, while some City Council members called for a public hearing into the police response.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/09/BA6663.DTL
Council members, mayor say Oakland officers' actions against demonstrators warrant investigation
By Paul T. Rosynsky, Laura Counts and Cecily Burt, STAFF WRITERS
OAKLAND -- Pressure intensified Tuesday for a full-scale investigation into the Police Department's actions against anti-war protesters, while City Hall braced for a slew of lawsuits and more protests.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1313124,00.html
Protesters spur council president to leave meeting
Anti-war activists upset that investigation wasn't on agenda
By Mike Adamick, STAFF WRITER
OAKLAND -- Raucous protesters at a City Council meeting Tuesday demanded an independent review of police tactics against anti-war protesters, prompting the council president to abruptly shut down the meeting.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1312698,00.html
Oakland police went too far, protesters say
Janine DeFao, Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Oakland -- Protesters packed Oakland City Hall Tuesday night to complain that police overreacted when they fired projectiles and tear gas to break up an anti-war demonstration Monday at the Port of Oakland, while some City Council members called for a public hearing into the police response.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/09/BA6663.DTL
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Jerry Brown has a name & address. Feel free to call him.
So far, council members Nadel, Quan, Brunner and the latest addition of Brooks, who are attempting to call for investigations and are showing the most concern for the protesters.
Mayor: Jerry Brown
One Frank Ogawa Plaza
(One City Hall Plaza)
3rd Floor
Oakland, California 94612
Telephone: 510-238-3141
Fax: 510-238-4731
TDD: 510-238-3724
jb [at] jerrybrown.org
officeofthemayor [at] oaklandnet.com
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Oakland City Council
One Frank Ogawa Plaza
(One City Hall Plaza), 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
President of the Council
Ignacio De La Fuente
Councilmember District 5
(510) 238-7005
(510) 238-6910 FAX
Email: idelafuente [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Jane Brunner
City Council District 1 - North Oakland
Phone: (510) 238-7001
Fax: (510) 238-6910
Email: jbrunner [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Danny Wan
District 2
Phone: (510) 238-7002
FAX: (510) 238-6910
E-mail: dwan [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Nancy J. Nadel
District 3
Phone: (510) 238-7303
FAX: (510) 238-6129
E-mail: nnadel [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Jean Quan
District 4
Telephone: 510/238-7004
Fax: 510/238-6129
TDD: 510/839-6451
Email: jquan [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Larry Reid
7th District
(510) 238-7007
(510) 238-6910 FAX
E-mail: lreid [at] oaklandnet.com
Council Member Desley A. Brooks
District 6
(510) 238-7006
(510) 238-6910 (facsimile)
dbrooks [at] oaklandnet.com
So far, council members Nadel, Quan, Brunner and the latest addition of Brooks, who are attempting to call for investigations and are showing the most concern for the protesters.
Mayor: Jerry Brown
One Frank Ogawa Plaza
(One City Hall Plaza)
3rd Floor
Oakland, California 94612
Telephone: 510-238-3141
Fax: 510-238-4731
TDD: 510-238-3724
jb [at] jerrybrown.org
officeofthemayor [at] oaklandnet.com
------------------------------------------------------
Oakland City Council
One Frank Ogawa Plaza
(One City Hall Plaza), 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
President of the Council
Ignacio De La Fuente
Councilmember District 5
(510) 238-7005
(510) 238-6910 FAX
Email: idelafuente [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Jane Brunner
City Council District 1 - North Oakland
Phone: (510) 238-7001
Fax: (510) 238-6910
Email: jbrunner [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Danny Wan
District 2
Phone: (510) 238-7002
FAX: (510) 238-6910
E-mail: dwan [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Nancy J. Nadel
District 3
Phone: (510) 238-7303
FAX: (510) 238-6129
E-mail: nnadel [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Jean Quan
District 4
Telephone: 510/238-7004
Fax: 510/238-6129
TDD: 510/839-6451
Email: jquan [at] oaklandnet.com
Councilmember Larry Reid
7th District
(510) 238-7007
(510) 238-6910 FAX
E-mail: lreid [at] oaklandnet.com
Council Member Desley A. Brooks
District 6
(510) 238-7006
(510) 238-6910 (facsimile)
dbrooks [at] oaklandnet.com
Did you notice that in the newspaper articles that the councilmembers were more concerned with the costs of possible litigations than they were concerned with the people that were brutilized by the pigs? It's a strange world where people care about money more than justice and other human beings. Everyone that was injured there should file suit.
One legal approach people might want to follow is this.
What is the penalty for a police officer to make false statements about an incident?
Seems to me that should be grounds for dismissal and possibly criminal charges to be filed.
I've seen several reports where the police claim objects were thrown at them. I've also watch numerous videos of the event and seen nothing thrown at the police. I've seen the statements of many witnesses to the event that, including the representatives of the ILWU who were present who say nothing was thrown. I've seen the statements from the representative of the deputy mayor who says nothing was thrown.
Seems to me that unless the police can produce some verification, like a videotape, showing people throwing objects at the police, then there should be some police officials, including the chief, who should be fired and prosecuted for making false statements about this event.
What is the penalty for a police officer to make false statements about an incident?
Seems to me that should be grounds for dismissal and possibly criminal charges to be filed.
I've seen several reports where the police claim objects were thrown at them. I've also watch numerous videos of the event and seen nothing thrown at the police. I've seen the statements of many witnesses to the event that, including the representatives of the ILWU who were present who say nothing was thrown. I've seen the statements from the representative of the deputy mayor who says nothing was thrown.
Seems to me that unless the police can produce some verification, like a videotape, showing people throwing objects at the police, then there should be some police officials, including the chief, who should be fired and prosecuted for making false statements about this event.
*The TV News, that night, showed one glass bottle being smashed from an unknown location through the air and smashed within about 75 feet of the front line of a bunch of cops, but this is the only thing I have come across, and even this is in a context of well after the cops had blasted away.
Its not as if it was done to provoke the cops, but rather to say to them after they, the cops, did their sick and perverse shooting at girls and boys and men and women with their weapons, to hell with you for shooting at us!
You think the cops would not have shown the mystery bolts they claim to have been pelted with to the TV News Media if they had them, ha ha ha.
Those criminal cops, leaders, as in Chief of Police, Mayor, and or others should be in jail!
Its not as if it was done to provoke the cops, but rather to say to them after they, the cops, did their sick and perverse shooting at girls and boys and men and women with their weapons, to hell with you for shooting at us!
You think the cops would not have shown the mystery bolts they claim to have been pelted with to the TV News Media if they had them, ha ha ha.
Those criminal cops, leaders, as in Chief of Police, Mayor, and or others should be in jail!
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