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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/10/whitecoats4blacklives_n_6304736.html

WhiteCoats4BlackLives: Health Care Workers Stage Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality
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Dozens of Staffers Just Walked Out of Congress.

—By Inae Oh
| Thu Dec. 11, 2014 3:55 PM EST

On Thursday afternoon, dozens of congressional staffers walked out in protest of the recent grand jury decisions failing to indict the two officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown. The result was an incredible display of solidarity, with staffers raising their hands in the air to invoke Brown's "hands up, don't shoot" image.



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CHP undercover officer pulls gun on demonstrators





OAKLAND (BCN) -- A demonstration that started in Berkeley ended abruptly in Oakland Wednesday night when an undercover California Highway Patrol officer pulled out a gun and pointed it at the crowd.

Only a few dozen protesters remained from a mass of between 150 and 200 people. Two CHP officers, both dressed as civilians and wearing bandanas over their faces, were walking with the group when the demonstrators started pointing at them yelling, "Hey, they're undercover, they're cops!"

Oakland police Lt. Chris Bolton wrote on Twitter Thursday  that the officer was assigned to the CHP and was not an Oakland police officer.

One Berkeley resident, Dylan, who declined to give his last name, said he pulled off the officer's bandana.

The two CHP officers started to walk away, but the protesters persisted, screaming at the two undercover cops. One of the officers pushed a protester aside. The man responded by pushing back and then the officer tackled him to the ground, handcuffing him.

The crowd, incensed, began to gather around them. The second officer pulled out his gun and pointed it at the crowd. More officers quickly arrived and dispersed the crowd.

"I'm a white man, and I pulled off (the officer's) mask, but they punched a black man," Dylan said. "He got arrested."

The march started on the University of California at Berkeley's campus, near the heart of the Free Speech Movement memorial. A group of roughly 100 to 150 people marched through campus, at one point entering a talk at Wheeler Hall, where PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel was speaking.

The demonstrators were initially barred from entering the auditorium, but they forced their way through with at least two people climbing over the crowd to make it past the doors. After several minutes of pushing, the protesters took over the stage and ended the discussion with chants of "black lives matter." They were met with an audience that booed them and told them to "go home."

Manpreet Syal, a fourth-year business student at UC Berkeley, was among the audience at the talk. She said Thiel had just finished speaking about the effectiveness of the nationwide demonstrations.

Across the country, and in the Bay Area for several straight nights, people have taken to the streets to protest decisions by grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York to not indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men.

"I do support their cause and their right to protest, but I think coming into the talk tonight was a little misguided," Syal said. "I don't think that's the definition of a peaceful protest."

The demonstration left campus, but not before at least one man was detained by police outside Wheeler Hall. The march was largely led by organizers of the activist group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).

Tania Kappner, a BAMN organizer and Berkeley alumna, said the organization will continue to call for demonstrations until former Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson is jailed for killing Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old.

Kappner said BAMN wants to see all "killer cops jailed" and for charges to be dropped against demonstrators who had been arrested during the marches.

The group walked to downtown Oakland, growing slightly in size, without incident. Once downtown, some people in the crowd picked up rocks and threw it at several businesses, shattering a glass door at a T-Mobile store.
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a highway patrol officer is a government employee that is different than a police officer from a private police dept......

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The salary of Oakland officers is another controversial issue. Police Officer Entry Level current annual salary is $69,912 to $98,088, the second highest in the country.[27] Additional pay increases are granted to higher-ranking officers. Average total compensation for an OPD employee is $162,000.[28] In 2012, 179 Oakland police officers took home over $200,000 in total compensation.[29] Three patrol officers, a sergeant, and a captain each took home over $300,000.[29] In 2011 the Police Department's costs make up 44% of the city's $400 million general budget.[29]

Unfunded police pension liabilities are a separate high cost to the city. In 2010, the Oakland Police and Fire Retirement system granted $70 million in benefits to 1,086 pensioners.[30] In 2012 the city successfully sued the city's pension system to end an estimated $11.5 million in unlawful overpayment to retired police and fire fighters.[31]


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In 1991, the Oakland Police Department paid a $42,000 settlement to rapper Tupac Shakur after allegedly brutally beating him for jaywalking.[43]

In 2003, the city paid $10.9 million to 119 plaintiffs who reportedly had been victimized by members of Oakland Police. However, after the officers were fired from the OPD, a jury that had no black members on it ended up clearing the four Rough Riders on eight of the counts against them, and were unable to reach a decision on 27 others.[44] As a result of the Negotiated Settlement Agreement stemming from Allen v. City of Oakland (AKA the Riders Case), an Independent Monitoring Team was appointed by the Federal District court.[45] In January 2012, the Court found that OPD had still not complied with the terms of the settlement, and ordered OPD stripped of some of its independence, requiring on-going consultation with the Independent Monitor to exercise an array of powers.[46] Plaintiffs in the case have requested OPD be placed under the control of a federal receivership.[47]

In 2003, two undercover members of the Oakland Police Department were assigned to participate in the anti-Iraq War movement. They stood for and were elected to leadership roles before their true affiliations were uncovered.[48]



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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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