marched up 14th street on a destructive rampage according to captain david downing. joy they went up franklin street and back down telegraph and back down to city hall. quickly smashed city hall and our police building here, and then immediately dissipated in different directions. they broke the windows at the at&t building and smashed windows at the recruiting station and threw bombs at the bank building along the way. they attacked the california bank and trust. we have been told by california bank security that each one of these windows cost $6,000 to replace. the protesters broke 12 of these windows tonight. that s $72,000 in damage here alone. oaknd la police were not oakland police were not prepared , so they had to make do with the officers they could muster in a short time. if we don t feel we can safely approach the crowd of 250 without the officers getting hurt and also innocent savilleen whys we need to take a wait and watch situation. the rampage only la
broken windows, trashed cars and anti-war protests take a violent turn in oakland. good evening. i m ama dates. the protesters have now left the scene near oakland city hall. abc7 news reporter thomas roman was there and shows us what happened. this is damage to oakland city hall that was done by anti-war protesters organized by oakland occupy. the march and rally turned into protest against banks and cars. four cars were trashed. this bmw with a smashed windshield belongs to grace nguyen. i don t know what message they are sending. they need to educate themselves. i don t know how they believe they are part of the 1%. we are hard-working people, average people. the rally started at city hall at 6:00 p.m. and then 250 protesters marched up 14th street on a destructive rampage according to captain david downing. joy they went up franklin street and back down telegraph and back down to city hall. quickly smashed city hall and our police building here, and then immediately
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the occupy protests. reporter: the protesters arrived here just about a little more than an hour ago. right now you can see about 50 protesters gathered here. we can hear speakers and a banner that says unstoppable, never surrender. at the height of the evening commute, hundreds of people marched in the financial district. they say the occupy movement is alive and well. this evening s event started at 555 california, the bank of america building. they say their message is about getting rid of debt such as as exorbitant home loans and student loans. it s disgusting. whenever there s imbalance at this level you have people ed off. reporter: one small business owner sitting in traffic talked to us about the occupy movement. i m a big fan of getting to work and making my own life happen. i m all about taking to the streets and march that s a great thing. reporter: another observer told us the occupy movement needs to work with lawmakers to get results. i think they
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