Mercedes hits 2 Occupy Oakland protesters

(11-02) 23:05 PDT OAKLAND -- A car struck two Occupy Oakland protesters tonight as they marched with a crowd along Broadway, and an angry mob surrounded the car as emergency workers tended to the injured.

The driver, who was not identified, sat in his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan after the 7:30 p.m. incident while hundreds of people screamed at him through his closed windows.

BART police officers who were guarding nearby transit stations responded, questioned the driver and several witnesses, then let the driver leave the scene at 11th Street and Broadway in his car.

The two people who were hit, a man and a woman, suffered leg and ankle injuries that were not life-threatening, said BART Police Deputy Chief Daniel Hartwig. They were taken to Highland Hospital.

As the driver left, many in the crowd yelled at him and at police, saying he should have stayed at the scene or been arrested.

The incident happened when the driver was heading south on 11th and was blocked by streams of marchers walking along Broadway, witnesses said. He had a green light, but could not get through.

Hartwig said witnesses had differing accounts of what happened, with some saying the driver appeared to have gunned the Mercedes into the victims in frustration and others saying he had been provoked by activists pounding on his car.

Officers gathered information from the driver and witnesses, and now the Oakland Police Department will handle the investigation, Hartwig said.

"It was a pretty volatile situation," he said. "There is no arrest at this time, but that do0esn't mean there won't be if there's a need for an arrest."



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• California Occupy
• Occupy Oakland
• General Strike

[sortabored]

@cheeto165 so breking into strip malls and spray painting numerous businesses is a peaceful protest. Also what are there demands, I mean come on. They've been protesting for two months and no one has even come up with ideas to fix this. They want the people in power to fix it for them. That's why they are the 99%

[Spanosmusic]

To Fox news fans. There's no such thing as a liberal media. All the stations are owned by huge corporations. Not one of them spoke out abut going to war in Iraq. None of them EVER made a stink about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. Google it. What happened to Walter Cronkite & real news? How many stations reported on this man being run over? Instead of believing everything Fox says, try reading credible books 4 yourselves, go to a library & ask for help. It's not OK to run people over.

[manhunter9]

shouldve ran over his head

[MathPhysChemSkyNerd]

i would've kept going

[johnjorgemusic]

Fuckin' cooks.

[MrPooponit]

@cheeto165 "By the way.wasn't the driver a 250lb black man that looked like he could kick some ass....yeah....i'm sure he was about to piss in his pants." RE: You are confusing this incident with the D.C. incident. In the D.C. incident the people who were run over were given tickets. The couple in this incident did not look "tough" and i'm sure they were very scared. "i don't recall any news about an angry occupy mob" RE:These people destroyed an entire block a few weeks ago, are you serious.

[cheeto165]

@MrPooponit also, these are peacful protests...not angry mobs. I don't recall any news about the angry occupy mob beating people up...so the scenario you gave dosen't fit either. By the way...wasn't the driver a 250lb black man that looked like he could kick some ass....yeah....i'm sure he was about to piss in his pants.

[cheeto165]

@MrPooponit the scenario may have been different. But still, the person had no right to run a person over. I watched the video again, there are people crossing the road while the driver decides to drive on anyway. Yes, the people are breaking the law(means call cops/not handle it yourself), So the driver slows down as the dude trying to cross puts his hands out. Driver decides to bump him making a statement...i will run you over. If they feared so much to run over, why did they stop right after?

[MrPooponit]

@cheeto165 it's a completely different scenario. being in the way and imprisoning someone against their will in a threatening manner are completely different. lf your significant other, lets say your wife, were at a light and some whacked out crazed lunatic (man) with a mob starts attacking her car, blocks her and won't let her go, just tell her to sit right there and wait to see what happens.

[AndrewDeLong]

@cheeto165 In the hypothetical case of you bumping "my wife" in our driveway, and then her simply hitting the hood of the car, no, you don't have legal rights to run her over. Now, if she were a part of a larger, unruly crowd that could be seen as a threat to your personal safety, then by all means, run the bitch down.

[AndrewDeLong]

@cheeto165" Who broke the law fisrt i ask?"

That honor goes to the pedestrian (and the group he was with) that was

1) Jaywalking

and

2) Crossing the street when he and the group he was with did NOT have the lit up crosswalk signal to do so, and, in fact, the driver had the legal green.

So who broke the law first? The pedestrians did.