Dozens of riot police and hundreds of protesters in support of Wall Street Occupy movement in a game of cat and mouse in the busy downtown Oakland on Tuesday, reacting with the authorities using tear gas on demonstrators repeated shocks.
The latest skirmish came as at 11:15 PDT in front of City Hall, where a chemical cloud of smoke still hung in the air after several similar clashes in the premises overnight.
It was the fifth time in about three hours, police fired a volley of tear gas to disperse a crowd at the scene, broke out in the current tensions in conflict during the day.
The latest skirmish came as at 11:15 PDT in front of City Hall, where a chemical cloud of smoke still hung in the air after several similar clashes in the premises overnight.
It was the fifth time in about three hours, police fired a volley of tear gas to disperse a crowd at the scene, broke out in the current tensions in conflict during the day.
The number of protesters was decreased with each round of the gas. About 200 were delayed Tuesday, mostly young, some cycling and protects itself from toxic fumes with bandanas and scarves wrapped around their faces.
The police have a presence in a place where pre-dawn raids on Tuesday had a stock on Wall Street protesters documents that have dominated the area for more than two weeks established dismantled.
Authorities, about 170 protesters who were in the area to spend the night, after repeated warnings that this area has been illegally removed, and they faced arrest by remaining. City officials said 97 people were arrested in the raid morning.
The first night brawl broke out after hundreds of people to find their way back to city hall, in an attempt to reestablish a presence in the region of the field scattered.
The protesters had gathered in a central library, and finally marched to City Hall were joined by police officers in riot gear. Several small skirmishes broke out and officers cleared the area by firing tear gas.
The scene was repeated several times. But each time, to move officers to disperse the crowd, demonstrators gather quickly in meetings that the authorities had declared illegal. The tension increases as the protesters near the edge line of police and climax, when someone throws a bottle or a rock and authorities to respond with bursts of gas.
The police reported that they used to help the masses to break containers flashbang, say the loud noises coming from a fireworks display launched by protesters against the police refused.
Helicopter searched the area late on Tuesday and several officers with helmets and batons patrolled the streets. Firefighters responded to small fires in trash containers.
Protesters waving, and use a bull's horn for its determination a.
He said: "This movement is not just the man to the police," Mario Fernandez. "These are people who are trying to have their rights to basic services."
He added: "The public is not anywhere anytime soon."
Acting Police Chief Howard Jordan told reporters at a news conference later in the evening the news that the authorities had no choice, say protesters threw stones and bottles at officers.
"We had to supply gas to stop the crowd," he said, according to a report by KCBS.
City officials say two officers were injured. At least five protesters were arrested and several injured in clashes in the evening.
The site of Oakland was among several fields, which have emerged throughout the country, as a manifestation of protesters against what they see as corporate greed and a wide range of other economic issues. The protests have attracted a wide range of people, including college students in search of work and homeless.
In Oakland, tensions between the city and protesters last week, when officials have described as deterioration in safety, hygiene and health at the camp complained dismantled increased.
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