UPDATE 4 (5:35 am PST): Oakland mayor Jean Quan has announced that the Occupy Oakland protest will be removed once again, as the city council plans a no-confidence vote in response to her failure to uphold law and order.
UPDATE 3 (7:42 pm PST): According to this new video, released by an Occupy Oakland activist who witnessed the incident, the shooting occurred during a fight over “a bag of weed.” He concludes: “It’s gotten real nasty down here, real fast.”
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UPDATE (7:30 pm PST): Breitbart.tv has just released video of Occupy Oakland activists assaulting a local ABC news crew as it reported on the fatal shooting:
UPDATE (7:14 pm PST): The victim is dead, according to the San Francisco Chronicle and KTVU.
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A shooting has been reported near the site of Occupy Oakland–the second fatal shooting today at an Occupy demonstration, after an incident at Occupy Vermont this morning.
Our source on the ground at the Occupy Oakland protests sent this video of police and EMTs administering CPR to the victim:
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Man shot on plaza near Occupy Oakland encampment
(11-10) 17:36 PST Oakland, Calif. (AP) —A man was shot Thursday near the Oakland encampment where anti-Wall Street protesters have been occupying for the last month.
The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. on the edge of the plaza outside Oakland City Hill. The Occupy Oakland encampment sits in the middle of the plaza.
Paramedics on the scene were tending the bleeding man, whose condition wasn’t immediately known. Police were interviewing witnesses and trying to contain a crowd of protesters who had tried to prevent television cameramen from taking video…
Developing…
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