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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (174633)	10/26/2011 2:53:42 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541559

Oakland Police Suppress Protesters With the Same Technology as Dictators Photos from Tuesday evening’s violent police response to a march supporting the Occupy Oakland protest encampment indicate that the Oakland Police Department is using the same crowd suppression technologies that are used by foreign dictators. One photo by Reuters photographer Stephen Lam shows a broken canister from a “Han-Ball” rubber ball smoke grenade. The non-lethal munition is made by Defense Technology Corporation of America (Federal Laboratories), a company based in Casper, Wyoming and owned by BAE Systems, one of the largest defense contractors in the world. The use of non-lethal munitions manufactured by this company has been reported in recent popular protests in Yemen and Bahrain. Several Palestinian protesters were injured in early 2011 and one was killed after being struck by tear gas grenades made by several U.S. companies, including Defense Technology Corporation of America. In June, we reported that U.S.-made tear gas, rubber bullets and other crowd suppression technologies were being used around the world to suppress peaceful protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Israel, Bahrain, Yemen and Greece. and Oakland Police Department Crowd Management/Crowd Control Policy b. Chemical agents can produce serious injuries or even death. The elderly person or infant in the crowd or the individual with asthma or other breathing disorder may have a fatal reaction to chemical agents even when those chemical agents are used in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations and the Department’s training. ... = "Here is more video of the same incident. As the protestors move in to aid the wounded man, an Oakland PD officer tosses a flash bang (or sting ball?) grenade right into the middle of them. Nice PR work Oakland! He's probably a Raiders fan :-)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLyUK0t0vQ