That’s quite an image of Mayor Jean Quan giving a tour to reporters yesterday of a ransacked City Hall after Saturday’s hooliganism that characterized the latest Occupy Oakland protest. The more than 400 arrested included a good number of repeat offenders. The weekly Occupy scenesters may have reached a tipping point in whatever interest they have in rallying popular opinion in Oakland. Or maybe the better term is dipping point.
Add: While Oakland’s already stretched-thin police were being deployed downtown to protect the historic Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center and other properties, regular criminals were having a field day. The Oakland Trib’s clean-up piece, pardon the pun, says the cops had to ignore immediate responses to 1,700 service calls, 480 of them 911 calls.
Image: Karl Mondon/ Oakland Tribune
