Interview with Occupier - Arrested, Beaten, and Abused by Police and Sheriff's Deputies: video

On the afternoon of October 25th, following the morning police raids of Occupy Oakland in Oscar Grant Plaza and Snow Park, occupiers and supporters rallied at the Oakland main public library then marched through downtown streets. At one point, the march attempted to turn onto Washington Street from 8th Street, in order to reach the North County/Glenn Dyer Jail to show solidarity with the more than 70 people arrested before dawn that day. A police line blocking the intersection began to strike marchers, including an elderly woman, with batons. As the front of the march managed to move past the police line on one side, two police officers inadvertently ended up behind one of the lead march banners and they shoved their way out of the crowd. OPD officers then grabbed and tackled two marchers to the ground. The situation became even more tense as the crowd of marchers surrounded the police and their arrestees, someone in the crowd throwing green and red paint onto the arresting officers. Within minutes, more Oakland police arrived and began to fire tear gas and projectiles at the crowd, and possibly one flash bang grenade.