Intro: "Mayor Jean Quan's chief legal adviser resigned early this morning after what he called a 'tragically unnecessary' police raid of the Occupy Oakland camp."
Dan Siegel, mayoral legal advisor, addresses Occupy Oakland protesters in Frank Ogawa Plazain Oakland, California, 10/26/11. (photo: Mathew Sumner/San Francisco Chronicle)
Oakland Mayor's Top Legal Adviser Resigns Over Raid
15 November 11
akland Mayor Jean Quan's chief legal adviser, a longtime friend, resigned Monday after what he called a "tragically unnecessary" police raid of the Occupy Oakland camp.
Dan Siegel was one of two aides to defect from Quan's administration Monday. Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu also quit but said her resignation had nothing to do with the police sweep.
Siegel, a civil rights attorney and one of Oakland's most active and vocal police critics, said the city should have done more to work with campers before sending in police.
"The city sent police to evict this camp, arrest people and potentially hurt them," Siegel said. "Obviously, we're not on the same page. It's an amazing show of force to move tents from a public place."
Siegel strongly opposed any plan by the city to take down the month-old camp in the days leading up to the police raid.
Quan, who has known Siegel since the two attended UC Berkeley together, said at a news conference that they have been known to disagree. She said Siegel, an unpaid adviser, had been working on "a small project on a volunteer basis in my office."
"He's moving on. I'm moving on," Quan said.
Unlike Siegel, Cornu said Quan had done the right thing in approving the police sweep of Occupy Oakland.
"The situation on the plaza was untenable," said Cornu, 52.
Cornu, previously a labor leader, was one of two deputy mayors, making her in essence a co-chief of staff. She said she had stepped down voluntarily to strengthen Quan's staff organization.
Occupy Oakland, she said, "is a very difficult situation. The phrase 'between a rock and a hard place' doesn't start to explain it. Anybody who's looking for a rainbow ending on it is mistaken."
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Go OWS in Oakland!
Mayor Quan of Oakland confirmed she planned the eviction after speaking/working with eighteen other mayors. She confirmed this in an interview with the BBC. Any doubts this is a coordinated effort to stop free speech and the people of Oakland now?
They will have to do this from time to time as the bad guys are going to send in snitches, bad guys.
Junkies, mooches are always going to want a place to hang, only their trouble comes with them whether rough play, rape, drug dealing so OWS must grow up.]
Nice to protest but what does stripping ppove except to embarass your family. It doesnot embarass or prove anything to Wall Street except like them you will do anything to get attention.
This was supposed to be a peaceful movement, and if they do not restructure it will not be anything but a bunch of spoiled brats throwing a tantrum.
Focus, Determination, Peace....everything else is just like the GOP and their buddies doing anything to anyone at any time.
Keep yourselves and the area clean. The businesses and residents deserve respect they pay to live and work there. Businesses must pay taxes, rent so do not disrupt their business. Stop using their bathrooms, use public ones as you have the right.
1. Believe these are corporate goons sent in to discredit the movement.
2. Not true at all but rather put out on news by the corporate media. Case in point a drug deal many blocks from OWS Oakland was blamed on the movement. No relationship whatsoever to OWS.
3. Think it is a coincidence that all the bad behaviors, drugs or rapes, are reported from multiple locations on the same day? Atlanta, NYC and Oakland all reported incidents with protesters going after motorcycles on the same day. I'm not buying it. One site maybe, two sites not very possible but three is far too many to believe.
We need to be very careful not to be duped by the powers that be. Just because it appears on the corporate news doesn't make it so.
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