{"id":3246,"date":"2011-12-11T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T03:40:02","slug":"police-raid-occupysf-encampment-outside-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3246\/police-raid-occupysf-encampment-outside-federal-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Raid OccupySF Encampment <br>Outside Federal Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/19077016\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 11, 2011<\/p>\n<p>As many as 100 riot-clad San Francisco Police Department officers raided and dismantled an OccupySF encampment outside the Federal Reserve Bank at 101 Market Street today at approximately 4:20 am.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five protesters were arrested for illegal lodging, police said. No injuries were reported during the pre-dawn raid.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cThe police came out of nowhere,\u201d said a citizen journalist who <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150919195453\/http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/19077016\">documented the raid<\/a> live on Ustream. \u201cI was standing here, literally just a few feet from here when they [SFPD] came running from around the corner, up the side in a mass attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The citizen journalist said another protester\/citizen journalist was allegedly arrested for documenting the raid, an apparent violation of constitutional First Amendment protections.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were provided with multiple police advisements; that they were illegally lodging and were subject to arrest, SFPD Officer Albie Esparaza said.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s raid on the peaceful OccupySF protesters is the second forcible action by police in less than a week. On Wednesday at 1:30 am, the OccupySF encampment at Justin Herman Plaza was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3230\/occupysf-protesters-retake-plaza-police-back-down\/\">raided by SFPD under orders from Mayor-elect Ed Lee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve is quasi public-private banking cartel created in secrecy in 1913 and has become a potent symbol of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3226\/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-wall-street-money-machine\/\">US financial debt crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-five protesters were arrested for illegal lodging in the pre-dawn raid. Their belongings were confiscated. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police came out of nowhere,\u201d said a citizen journalist who <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150919195453\/http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/19077016\">documented the raid<\/a> live on Ustream. \u201cI was standing here, literally just a few feet from here when they [SFPD] came running from around the corner, up the side in a mass attack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Raid OccupySF Encampment Outside Federal Reserve - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3246\/police-raid-occupysf-encampment-outside-federal-reserve\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Raid OccupySF Encampment Outside Federal Reserve - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Forty-five protesters were arrested for illegal lodging in the pre-dawn raid. 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