encampment was established at Snow
Park on Lake Merritt. Oakland Police raided and dismantled the two protest
sites at Frank Ogawa Plaza and Snow Park early in the morning on October 25.
Later the same day, in efforts to reestablish the encampments, protesters
clashed with police. Two officers and three protesters were injured and more
than a hundred people were arrested. On November 2, thousands marched upon and
shut down the Port of Oakland. At least two Iraqi war veterans were injured in
the demonstrations, by police action. By November 14, the encampment at the
plaza in front of City Hall had been cleared, and it was announced by city
officials the continued protests had cost the city $2.4 million. A January 28,
2012 attempt by Occupy Oakland protesters to overtake the vacant Henry J.
Kaiser Convention Center resulted in hundreds of arrests by police, and that
evening a break-in by vandals to Oakland City Hall resulted in damage to
artwork and the building itself.
Throughout the 2010s the city's Oakland Medical Center, the first HMO and
first Kaiser Permanente hospital, underwent a $2 billion retrofit including
numerous new buildings.
On April 2, 2012, 7 people were killed in a shooting at Oikos University, in
East Oakland near the airport and Coliseum Complex. Suspect One L. Goh
surrendered an hour later to police in Alameda.
In July 2013, after the acquittal of George
Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin Trials, there were protests. A small group of
the protesters did some looting and lit some small fires. Other protest marches
were organized in cities including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington,
D.C. and Atlanta
