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Probably 97 percent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 percent are armed and dangerous, and know that they're unlikely to be held accountable.
Unlike previous nights, city officials managed to clear out Occupy Oakland's encampment without any brutality--and the protesters are already headed back.
Oakland officials are gearing up for another crackdown on the Occupy Oakland camp, justified in part by recent acts of vandalism by people who may not even be part of the movement.
Oakland police appear to have violated their own guidelines, and now they're refusing to release documents to civil rights attorneys as required by law.