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Occupy Oakland gets gassed, flash-banged twice in 24 hours

Police hit Occupy Oakland protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets as they battled for territory last night outside Oakland city hall.

Fruzsina Eördögh

Updated on June 3 2021 1:55 am CDT

Occupy Oakland, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, has had a very rough 24 hours.

Before dawn on Tuesday morning, the Occupy Oakland tent city was raided by Oakland law enforcement, who used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protestors.

Twelve hours later, when protestors tried to take back the area, police responded with similarly harsh tactics.

Twitter quickly became the go-to choice for protesters to live-tweet status updates and share videos and photos of the event.

The Oakland Police Department was a trending topic on Twitter early Wednesday morning. According to Topsy.com, a twitter tracking service, “Occupy Oakland” was tweeted more than 20,000 times in 24 hours.

Image via @occupyoakland

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Fruzsina Eördögh

Fruzsina Eördögh was the Daily Dot’s first YouTube reporter. In addition to working as a producer for the now-defunct digital channel TouchVision TV, Eördögh has been published by Vice, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, Variety, and Slate.