OaktownLive
Team OaktownLive consists of Pirate (Camera-Monkey, Raconteur) and Lexica (Base Control, Social Stream Mod, Voice-of-Reason).
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Oaksterdam Raid - Arrest of Jose Gutierrez (beginning to end).
On Monday, April 2, 2012, agents from the DEA, IRS, and U.S. Marshals Service raided Oaksterdam University and several other businesses associated with Oakland cannabis activist Richard Lee. The Oakland Police Department was not notified in advance of the raids and did not participate in them, but did provide crowd control as the morning progressed and increasing numbers of angry locals opposed to the raid arrived at 19th and Broadway.
In this clip, several federal agents come to evacuate other DEA agents who have locked themselves inside Coffeshop BlueSky when confronted with an angry crowd of Oakland cannabis supporters.
A shoving match, instigated by a Fed making his way to the door, resulted in KPFA correspondent Jose Gutierrez at the bottom of a Federal dog-pile and under arrest. In the scuffle, a US Marshall is accused of hitting Oakland livestreamer Bela Eiko in the face.
Transparency statement: Clipped from the longer raw video; captions, title, and end text added; otherwise unedited.
Apologies for the way the video freezes at times; downtown Oakland is something of a concrete canyon and signal quality can be irregular. We’re working toward upgrading our equipment.
