OAKLAND, Calif. Dozens
of police in riot gear and hundreds of protesters supporting the Occupy wall
street movement engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse in city center Oakland on
Tuesday, with authorities by tear gas to respond to demonstrators' recurring
agitations.
The most recent such
skirmish came roughly 11:15 PDT in meet of City Hall, where a haze of chemical
smoke still hung in the air next more than a few similar clashes by the locate
above the course of the night.
It was the fifth
calculate in concerning three hours that police a fired a volley of tear gas to
separate a crowd next to the scene where ongoing tension has erupted into
conflict right through the day.
The amount of protesters
has diminished with apiece on all sides of gas. Regarding 200 remained deferred
Tuesday, typically infantile adults, approximately riding bicycles, defensive
themselves from the pernicious fumes with bandanas and scarves wrapped just
about their faces.
Police have customary a
presence in a plaza where a pre-dawn raid Tuesday dismantled an encampment of
Amuse Barrier Boulevard protesters that had dominated the area for further than
two weeks.
Authorities unconcerned
about 170 demonstrators who had been staying in the area overnight after
repeatedly living being warned that such a camp was prohibited and they faced
arrest by lingering. City officials alleged 97 ancestors were arrested in the
morning raid.
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The first sundown
scuffle insolvent absent subsequent to more than a few hundred nation completed
their way move backward to Urban Hall in an attempt to re-establish a presence
in the area of the disbanded camp.
The protesters had
gathered on a downtown documentation, marched toward City Hall and finally were
met by control officers in riot gear. A number of small skirmishes penniless
absent and officers clear the area by firing tear chat.