Riot police arrested more than 100 anti-Wall Street protesters amongst a series of clashes in the streets of Oakland on Saturday with officers in riot gear firing tear gas at activists who tried to take over a closed convention center.
Three officers were
injured during the confrontations, which police said first started when the crowd started destroying construction equipment and
tearing down the fencing at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in downtown Oakland early afternoon.
"Officers were hit with bottles, metal pipe, rocks, spray cans, and burning flares," the Oakland Police Department said in a statement. "Oakland Police Department deployed smoke and tear gas."
The scuffles marked
the latest confrontation between police and Occupy activists seeking to
regain lost momentum in their movement against economic inequality after
authorities cleared protest camps across the country late last year.
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