Oakland Mayor Announces $100,000 Independent Probe of Police Actions During Occupy Protests

By: Brian Shields - Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:45:59 -0800

OAKLAND (KRON) -- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is primising "a public and transparent process" for a new independent panel she's setting up to investigate how the…

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  METRO -- San Antonio Park Police take inventory at the Occupy San Antonio site after the group was ordered to vacate their space at a historic building by the Tower of the Americas in HemisFair Park, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Three members of the group were arrested…

Seems like forever ago, but it was just last month that Stephen Benavides spent a few days in county lock-up on charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest during that Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America. But then,…

(12-13) 18:11 PST OAKLAND -- An Oakland police officer who shot an Occupy protester with a beanbag last month as the demonstrator took video of officers in riot gear has been removed from street duty along with his supervisor, pending an investigation, said sources familiar with the matter.

Police officials have released few details about the Nov. 3 incident in which Scott Campbell, 30, was hit in the leg with a nonlethal beanbag. The Oakland resident uploaded his…

'Occupy' occupies seized homes Reuters Video Uploaded by ReutersVideo on Dec 6, 2011

Dec 7 - The Occupy Wall Street movement takes over abandoned and foreclosed homes in New York. Paul Chapman reports

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One of the most recognizable hallmarks of the Occupy Wall Street…

A demonstrator from the Occupy London movement is searched by police as he leaves a building owned by banking giant UBS in the City of London. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

Banking giant UBS was granted an immediate and final possession order for its property in a one-sided hearing that circumvented the basic principles of justice, an appeal…

National Day of Action: The Actual Hygiene and Safety Crisis With Foreclosed Homes

Today is National Day of Action on Foreclosures.  Occupy Our Homes has…

Police rip clothes off of ‘Occupy Melbourne’ protester

A female protester has officially complained after police in Melbourne forcibly removed the tent dress she was wearing, leaving her nearly naked on the gound.

The woman, named Sarah, was one of several Occupy “tent monsters” who…