Originally Posted By: WB
So even a city as hippie-friendly and initially supportive of the OWS as peace-love-and-granola Oakland, CA finally felt a need to give these folks the heave-ho with a few cannisters of tear gas.

The "misrepresentation" of "peaceful" demonstration is clearly contradicted by the reported facts, even in this sympathetic piece, as it is reported they re-grouped tried to make reprisals that were put down by riot police.