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The conflict began much earlier in the day when police dismantled an encampment of Occupy Oakland protesters. Police fired tear gas, clearing out the makeshift city in just an hour.

“Give us our stuff back! It don’t belong to you!” yelled Pooda Miller, a female protester. “Who are you serving?” screamed Miller at the top of her high pitched voice, turned raspy from hours of denouncing. “You’re being used. You’re getting paid with our tax money to put down your own people! Why are you doing this to your own people?”

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In Tuesday morning’s raid of the Occupy Oakland encampment 97 people were arrested, while a total of 170 were removed from the camp.

“We were in a position where we had to deploy gas in order to stop the crowd and people from pelting us with bottles and rocks,” Oakland’s interim police chief Howard Jordan said.