Occupy Oakland: Police and protesters in tense standoff

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/occupy-oakland-tense-standoff.html

Several hundred supporters of Occupy Oakland were gathered in a tense standoff with police downtown Tuesday night after an earlier gathering was broken up with tear gas and flash-bang projectiles.

Police warned several hundred protesters that chemical agents could be used before firing the projectiles into the crowd of several hundred people at Frank Ogawa Plaza near City Hall, the Oakland Tribune reported. Police also fired wooden dowels at the crowd.