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Massive deployment of police in Oakland near the U.S. city of San Francisco: The officers went against hundreds of demonstrators from the anti-bank movement. They marched through the city to protest against the eviction of their tent camp and occupy the premises again. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas. As an AFP photographer observed, at least one person was injured. He was hit by a tear gas canister and lay there unconscious.
According to the police officers took the set on Tuesday evening, 85 people - for participating in an unlawful assembly and illegal camping. The protesters had set up two weeks ago dozens of tents outside the town hall in the city. They ignored an ultimatum to vacate the place. The city council had previously sanitary problems complained alleged drug abuse and violence in the camp.
Eggs and stones at police
"I am not isolated, I demonstrate. What happened here today, is scandalous," the activist protest Mindy Stone said after her arrest, the newspaper "San Francisco Chronicle." After the dissolution of the camp, but later, the protesters gathered again, moved towards the town hall and threw eggs and stones at the police.
The protesters are in motion to "Occupy Oakland" ("Busy Oakland"). She is inspired by the world bank protests under the motto "Busy Wall Street" in recent weeks. Their output, they had taken in September in New York and spread to other cities. People want to break the power of banks to charge higher taxes for the rich and improvements in the social system.
