May Day Protest Coverage Around the Bay

Coverage of May Day and Occupy Oakland Protests on May 1, 2012.

  1. Thousands marching on #1deMayo #baym1gs to downtown Oakland. Cut back! We say fight back! http://pic.twitter.com/TQlW7k7q
  2. Oakland police estimate that "large crowd estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000 people" is approaching downtown's Frank Ogawa Plaza. #OO
  3. Stinging gas sends May Day protesters fleeing: Police fired tear gas to disperse marchers in Oakland, Calif. And... bit.ly/JJAq9e
  4. Maybe a hundred at Ogawa, genuinely mixed crowd, a few riot cops #M1GS #oo
  5. Migrant youth contingent redirected to Madison Park due to violence downtown #oo #m1gs #1
  6. Not a tank, but an armored vehicle:
  7. RT @oo_mayday: Get this out NOW!! They have brought out a tank in Oakland. Quan and OPD have lost their minds. #m1gs #BayM1GS #oo http://pic.twitter.com/ccalNvOv
  8. #BREAKING VIDEO: Dramatic confrontation between protesters and police in downtown Oakland. bit.ly/Kt2QTr #baym1gs #MayDay #OO
  9. They're marching in ordering us to leave but not giving us a path to do so. People are getting frustrated.
  10. I'm currently in the plaza, surrounded by OPD, without a press pass. Trying to find a way out.
  11. OPD is asking crowd in street at 14th and Broadway to return to Frank Ogawa Plaza in an attempt to keep the assembly safe #baym1gs #m1gs #oo
  12. I just heard on good authority that a second #baym1gs protester has been hospitalized, hit by an OPD projectile. Anyone know more?
  13. "If you do not move, chemical agents will be used." #oo #baym1gs
  14. Protesters move to 14th and Broadway, police block almost all sides #oo #baym1gs

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