Occupy Oakland

Occupy Oakland
Part of the Occupy movement
Occupy Oakland on November 2, 2011
Date	October 10, 2011
Location	Oakland, California 37°48′18″N 122°16′18.48″W / 37.80500°N 122.2718000°W / 37.80500; -122.2718000
Caused by	Wealth inequality Precieved Corporatocracy Allegations of police misconduct
Methods	Occupation Picketing General Strike Rioting
Parties
Protesters Oakland City Government Oakland Police Department
Lead figures
Occupyoakland.org Occupy Oakland General Assembly Mayor Jean Quan Police Chief Howard Jordan City Administrator Deanna Santana
Arrests and injuries
Injuries	4+[1][2]
Arrested	400+[citation needed]

Occupy Oakland refers to a collaboration and series of demonstrations in Oakland, California, that started in October 2011. As part of the Occupy movement, protesters have staged occupations, most notably at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall.

Occupy Oakland began as a protest encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on October 10, 2011. Protesters renamed it Oscar Grant Plaza after a young man who was fatally shot by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police in 2009. The encampment was cleared out by multiple law enforcement agencies on October 25, 2011.^[3] The movement also helped spur the November 2, 2011, Oakland General Strike that shut down the Port of Oakland. Police again cleared the protest encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza on November 14, 2011. Other protest encampments were created and subsequently dismantled by law enforcement. The last encampment at Snow Park was cleared on November 21, 2011. Occupy Oakland then had no physical presence in any public space overnight in the city.^[4]

Occupy Oakland has often centered on complaints about alleged police misconduct, and relationships between protesters and police were especially frayed at Occupy Oakland.^[5] Oakland police estimated that as of April 2012 they had interacted with over 60,000 protesters since the movement began.^[6] As of December 2014, Occupy Oakland continued to engage in organized events and actions on a much smaller scale than the earlier demonstrations.^[7]