Cops allowed Trayvon demonstrators to seize control of major street for three hours. One of the questions to emerge out of last night’s unrest in Oakland, where crowds protesting the George Zimmerman verdict turned violent and seized control of a major street for three hours, is why police withdrew from the area and allowed drivers to be terrorized. According to a report by ABC 7, protesters had... 

Police in Oakland, California, have used tear-gas and flash-grenades as a 2,000-strong Occupy Oakland march turned violent, with some protesters claiming that rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd. At least 400 people were arrested. Initially, authorities had said 200-300 people were detained. But later the figure was revised to over 400 arrests, reports Reuters citing the Oakland emergency... 

Thousands of anti-corporatism protesters join a general strike organized by 'Occupy Oakland' in the western US city on November 2, 2011, to protest at police brutality. Thousands of anti-corporatism protesters have taken to the streets in the western US city of Oakland as the country’s ‘Occupy’ movement gains momentum. “Huge, enthusiastic, crowds are swirling through downtown... 

The Occupy Oakland protesters, a par of the Occupy Wall Street movement, carry away a man, who was hit by a tear gas canister shot by the Police, near the Oakland City Hall. Scott Olsen returned relatively unscathed to America last year after serving two tours of Iraq fighting a war he was opposed to. Now he lays in an Oakland, CA hospital in critical condition thanks to a projectile fired last night...