UPDATE 1537 GMT: A slightly different view of the incident. The video starts with a police officer, via megaphone or sound system, telling the protesters that if they do not disperse they will be arrested. One could ask why that is necessarily? The protesters appear to be in a penned-off street, with the police on the other side of the barricades.
After a few seconds, the tear gas is fired, along with flash grenades. A few protesters appear to hold their ground. Towards the front of the pack, on the right hand side, a man who may already be leaving, is apparently hit my a flash grenade, or shrapnel of some kind, and falls backwards, in the direction that the majority of the crowd is moving. When protesters notice that he is injured, they move forward to help, or remove him, and a police officer, who first aims a weapon (tear gas gun?) at the crowd, throws at least 1 flash grenade into the crowd:
UPDATE 1507 GMT: This narrated video appears to show a police officer throwing a flash grenade into a crowd of people in Oakland as they try to help a wounded protester. While the video starts after the tear gas has been fired, and after the protester was initially wounded, it is clear that the crowd was helping the protester, and did not pose an immediate threat to the wall of police standing nearby:
UPDATE 0440 GMT: We are getting reports of police moving to clear other Occupy camps. A reader tips us off to the possible eviction of Occupy Atlanta in the southeast:
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We woke this morning to news that police in riot gear have clashed with protesters at Occupy Oakland in California. Video indicates tear gas has been used, and there are conflicting reports of the use of sound cannon to disperse the demonstrators.
Video from a local television station claims to show the use of tear gas:
Photographs from the scene:
Latest report from the Associated Press:
Police in Oakland, Calif., are using flash bang canisters and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who made their way back to City Hall where an Occupy Wall Street encampment was dismantled earlier in the day.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at a library Tuesday evening and marched through downtown Oakland. They were met by police officers in riot gear, and several small skirmishes broke out.
The march comes after police earlier swarmed into an encampment firing tear gas and rounds of bean bags before removing about 170 demonstrators who had been staying overnight on a plaza outside City Hall for more than two weeks.
City officials say 85 people were arrested, mostly on suspicion of misdemeanor unlawful assembly and illegal camping.