Oakland Police Chief LIED to Discredit Occupy Oakland.

[kpete]

SAT JAN 14, 2012 AT 08:42 AM PST
No Surprise. Oakland Police Chief Lied to Discredit Occupy Oakland.
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Turns out Oakland's police chief Howard Jordan is as scummy as some people suspected. The same person who ordered his men to tear gas people doing absolutely nothing wrong like our own allie123, and was ultimately responsible for the actions that nearly killed Scott Olsen and severely wounded others, had no compunction in lying about crime statistics so as to make Occupy Oakland look bad.

KTVU obtained more than 1,000 internal emails between Oakland City Hall and police through a public records request...

After the October 25th raid on Frank Ogawa Plaza / Oscar Grant Park, and before the November 2nd General Strike, a campaign by all the powers that be in Oakland had started to discredit anyone and anything associated with Occupy Oakland. And so, to no one's particular surprise, in the emails poured over by KTVU reporters was found a note that might as well have caused the spontaneous combustion of the chief's pants.

When Jordan received an update that crime was actually down 19 percent in the last week of October, he wrote an email to one of Mayor Jean Quan's advisers.

"Not sure how you want to share this good news," he wrote. "It may be counter to our statement that the Occupy movement is negatively impacting crime in Oakland."

MORE RE: EMAILS HERE:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/emails-exchanged-between-oakland-opd-reveal-tensio/nGMkF/
the rest:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/14/1054602/-No-Surprise-Oakland-Police-Chief-Lied-to-Discredit-Occupy-Oakland?via=siderec

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Kick to get this info out in the public.

This will get very interesting this summer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. And the sky is blue, and water is wet

and the rest... fits the profile, see my book at my sig.

[zbdent]

5. and the "liberally-biased media"

tunes in to sports instead of reporting the weather ...

[EFerrari]

3. He's been lying his brass off since Day 1.

I used to sit here and watch his press conferences after watching Spencer stream all night, and he was talking about some parallel universe, not what we had just seen for 8 hours. Asshole.

[Starry Messenger]

4. k&r

[sabrina 1]

6. Not surprised, many people questioned the 'crime' claims at the time. And shame on Quan

for not making that public and demonstrating what a liar he is.

His bias is clear. He is a tool of the 1% and a dangerous one. His hatred for the people he is supposed to be serving caused the near deaths of two War Veterans and several other innocent civilians.

I hope Occupy Oakland will start a drive to rid that city of all those criminals who set out to harm citizens who were actually helping to reduce crime by doing the job the city has failed to do.

What a disappointment Quan has turned out to be and that is putting it mildly.

And he's not too bright either. Thankfully these hateful rightwing jerks still have not learned not to put anything in an email you do not want the world to see.

[Magoo48]

7. Cops nasty little fiefdoms built on lies and fear.

[Yavapai]

8. I thought Howard Jordan was a lieutenant,

after all, the word lieutenant does starts with L-I-E.