Eviction of OccupyLA thread three

[nadinbrzezinski]

thread two here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2402124&mesg_id=2402124

https://twitpic.com/show/large/7lz84j

[TexasTowelie]

1. Thanks for the continuing coverage. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. It's not me, it is Oaksho and the twitter

I am just going from there...

[Electric Monk]

3. OakFoSho video link, while the batteries last.

http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. He did a check, and they were ok

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Going in quiet

Translation they are using radio silence, and doing as little sound as possible, My view, they want some surprise.

[Electric Monk]

6. Overheard on a LAPD scanner (apparently): "We're going in quietly."

http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. yup, and I am going surprise, WHAT SURPRISE

[ellisonz]

7. When the buses leave Dodger Stadium you'll know it's on.

Probably take about 15 minutes with the light traffic and police escort.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Don't know if this is real

GomerWHoward Gomer W Howard
RT @PhillyWeekly Police grab PW reporter. Say they don't care if he is press #occupyphilly #ows
53 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. It's on

eqracer Def Jeff
11 more buses heading downtown right now, full of #LAPD #occupyLA (live at ustre.am/EqY3)
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Give or take twenty minutes

[Electric Monk]

11. "11 buses full of cops on the way"! nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. CBS just went dark

we all know what that means

[Electric Monk]

13. "Public Information Officer" says we don't currently have anything to say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. :LAPD has arrived en force

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. 13K officers, 1:1 ratio

according to a person oaksho is talking to

Oh and INTERNATIONAL media as well

[U4ikLefty]

16. Watching KTLA on TV vs Ustream is strange.

The contrast is amazing. The reporter for KTLA seem clueless about the workings of a protest.

It would be funny if not so tragic.

[Electric Monk]

17. It looks like LAPD flanked OWS, and now it's ON. nt

[ellisonz]

18. It's on.

Police in helmets moving through the park.

[U4ikLefty]

19. oh crap here they go.

[Electric Monk]

20. Forcing OakFoSho to back off, leave the area.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Hundreds of officers are moving in

and they are actually wearing heavier riot gear... but still nothing like what Oakland did.

[KeepItReal]

22. From KPFK: LAPD moving in aggressively...into City Hall Park

200-400 officers surrounding the park... Activists are being corraled and will probably be arrested.


Station URL:
http://www.kpfk.org/

Listen Live Link:
http://www.kpfk.org/listen-live.html

[Fire Walk With Me]

88. As coalition_unwilling said, the area is wide-open with four walkways to the center, and major

access right behind that. If there were strategies to hold such an area, they're way beyond me. There were also no decent vantage points from which to document what occurred in the park...kudos to those who livestreamed from inside after arrests began!

:applause:

Thank you nadin for the threads.

[Electric Monk]

What's with the white plastic jumpsuit??? uniforms?

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. L=1 biohazard, the lowest level, of biohazard

bet those guys will get to clear the tents,

[WildNovember]

23. One officer for every protester, 1300 of them. Guys in biohazard suits.

They just descended en masse.

[ellisonz]

24. Police in chemical suits with flexicuffs...

Trying to funnel people out of the park.

[ellisonz]

26. Taking the tents down..

KTLA reporter told to go out of the park by police officer and complies.

They seem to have a full perimeter up. Impressive tactical display by the LAPD.

[ellisonz]

27. They came out of City Hall...and from the street.

People are climbing the trees.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. Amazing, he just challenged an officer

for breaking procedure. For the record he is correct, finger off trigger and point it down unless you are going to open fire.

Oaksho has cajones.

[Electric Monk]

31. +1 nt

[pinboy3niner]

33. +2 nt

[joshcryer]

66. Wow, I hope he caught that on video, that officer needs to go through retraining.

That's really really bad, it's more than procedure, it's a hard rule.

[nadinbrzezinski]

87. Yes he did we were all looking down barrel

For a second.

[Fire Walk With Me]

81. + + +

[U4ikLefty]

29. I'm getting tears in my eyes.

[KeepItReal]

30. LAPD has just given the dispersal order via loudspeaker

Of course someone replied with a loud "eff you!"

[Downwinder]

32. If this is normal LAPD crowd control I am going to have to

watch the next NFL football game.

[ellisonz]

37. LAPD has had to get its crowd control tactics together...

...because they botched May Day 2007 at MacArthur Park so badly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_MacArthur_Park_rallies

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJvIqnw5_1s&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTtMO4yrP_8

[pinboy3niner]

41. Chanting now: "Remember MacArthur Park!" nt

[ellisonz]

45. I can't find the video of them storming the Telemundo set.

This has been very orderly compared to the May Day Melee. Seems LAPD doesn't want to pay out $15 million plus in settlements again.

I want to see this end peacefully.

[kenny blankenship]

34. Lt. Pedrosa say LIGHTS OUT

And the lights are going out all over North America.

[KeepItReal]

35. LAPD will start making arrests in under 10 minutes

Not every Occupier may have heard original dispersal order.

A cop is claiming there will be a sound truck brought in.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. amazing

theHapacalypse David Eng
Dude @OakFoSho is right in the middle of #OccupyLA raid right now. Cops just everyone 8 minutes. ustream.tv/occupyoakland
45 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

joeruiz Joe Ruiz
"You have eight minutes to make a decision." - LAPD officer reading unlawful assembly order. #OccupyLA Live: bit.ly/sPR5y4
57 seconds ago

LATams Tami Abdollah
"Unlawful assembly" announcement over loudspeaker by officer in full riot gear over at ustream bit.ly/vCoSz2 #OccupyLA
56 seconds ago

And now mic checking the first ammendment

[grasswire]

38. my father listened to the Soviets roll into Hungary, on the radio

In the 1950s. He told me about the feeling of cold futility as forces of repression advanced on the Hungarian people.

While this is not like that (occupation of a sovereign state) it still feels very sober and frightening. Why always at night?

[WildNovember]

39. fewer people watching. harder to film. cold, people tired, disoriented.

[FirstLight]

43. "remember macarthur park!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park

[ellisonz]

48. See Post #37 Above.

[Fire Walk With Me]

83. Only goths and cops are more comfortable at night. And they aren't goths.

[ellisonz]

40. All local television stations seem to be out of the park...

SWAT has moved in.

[WildNovember]

42. what did the cop just say? "if you stay you will be subject to the use of ?

which may cause significant injury"

????

[Electric Monk]

44. "You make POWER think twice by being there with a camera" - ustream.tv/occupyoakland

OakFoSho

[Downwinder]

46. Everybody march down the street. Enter the vehicles you

will find there. You will be transported to employment camps.

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. Ok guys turning over the watch

[Electric Monk]

50. Press passes escorted out, shit is about to go down, it would seem.

"All press gotta get out of the perimeter" ?

[Fire Walk With Me]

49. Tents are being searched & destroyed. Hazmat people are bringing out a few people in cuffs- 12:57

OccupyLA #OccupyLA
Tents are being searched & destroyed. Hazmat people are bringing out a few people in cuffs- 12:57

[Electric Monk]

53. DESTROY THE LIBRARIES!!!1!

That's 'their' meta point, imho.

[ellisonz]

51. Still large crowds downtown...

Police are escorting people out. 3 or 4 arrests so far in addition to last nights 4 or 5.

[WildNovember]

52. everyone left is going to be arrested. livestream guy just got out.

[FirstLight]

54. at least

there's no gas or pepper spray.... yet.

[Luminous Animal]

55. There is one woman broadcasting from inside...

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupylacivicengagement

[kenny blankenship]

56. Shhh! Don't say anything about his akefay ediamay asspay!

[ellisonz]

57. They just carried someone out of the park...

They're clearing them methodically.

[Electric Monk]

61. Quietly. nt

[ellisonz]

63. Knuckleheads. n/t

KTLA news has videos of major numbers of police reinforcements on scene.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

58. "The war on tents continues."

[ellisonz]

59. Police Chief Charlie Beck is on scene.

Police outnumber protestors approximately 1000 to 700.

People are still in the trees.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

60. Occupier confronts Fox11 local tv crew focusing on guy in yellow suit up on traffic signal.

"That's not what this is about."

[A-Schwarzenegger]

62. OakFoSho changes battery--good for three more hours.

[FirstLight]

64. inside the camp feed

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupylacivicengagement

[A-Schwarzenegger]

69. RECOMMENDED.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

71. "We must love one another. We must protect one another. We have nothing to lose but our shame."

--mic check inside remaining circle of LA occupiers, waiting for arrest...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

74. Her battery died as she said to arresting cops, "Get a better job!"

[ClayZ]

77. live feed here!

https://sites.google.com/site/occupylastreaminglist/

[A-Schwarzenegger]

65. 50-75 occupiers remain in park at 1:32 am.

From local cbs 2.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

67. Head gardener says park damage extensive, could break U.S. economy.

:*

[pinboy3niner]

73. LOL!

Wonder whose side he's on? Guy could have been professional about it, but nooooo. Look for him next all over Faux Nooze. He'll be their 'go-to guy' on all the damage and destruction to downtown L.A. and how OLA is killing taxpayers.

[ellisonz]

68. LAPD Spokesman on KTLA: Everyone still in the park is under arrest.

Even if they haven't been cuffed.

Police officers are not receiving overtime and will be compensated with reduced work hours. :(

Also: LAPD now has a unit that films all arrests in situations like these in case of lawsuits.

[FirstLight]

70. gotta go to bed soon,,, nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

72. "If you give me a hug, I'll leave right now."

[ellisonz]

75. Protestor on Channel 5 KTLA is giving credit to LAPD...

...for a peaceful eviction.

There are people apparently living inside a massive painted box.

Also: Some people are still in the trees apparently.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

76. "They're using that special loudspeaker to address a crowd. I can't make out what they're saying."

[pinboy3niner]

78. Last 2 local L.A. news stations just ended OLA coverage

KTLA-5 ending live coverage to air "Jerry Springer" :(

FOX-11 ended coverage to air "Look Sexy Now" (an infomercial!).

:puke:

[ellisonz]

79. OakFoSho is still up.

But yeah :puke:

[pinboy3niner]

80. Freedom, too

Livestreams are the only video news, now.

[Leopolds Ghost]

84. "I'll buy THAT For a Dollar" HAHAHAHOAHAHAHAOAHAHAOHAHAO

:puke: </robocop reference>

[ellisonz]

82. They're pulling people out of trees now.

The people in the streets got herded into a box and then scattered.

http://www.ustream.tv/occupysf

http://www.ustream.tv/occupyfreedomla

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/29/occupy-protester-camps-out-in-tree-outside-city-hall-to-fight-lapd-eviction/

Thus ends Occupy LA at the City Hall Lawn.

[Leopolds Ghost]

85. So who's left?

Nationwide, I mean. :(

[malaise]

86. Thanks Nadin

:fistbump: