Day of tension ends with Occupy SF divided

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The tension level surged up and down in the Occupy SF camp Thursday, with police moving in and backing off, protesters screaming and then calming - and the day ending with the camp sharply divided.

Most of the campers want to take a city offer to move to new Occupy campsite in the Mission District. A stubborn knot of activists refuses to go. Arguments erupted all day over the split, with no resolution by nightfall.

Meanwhile, several dozen police officers - saying they were concerned about safety in the camp at Justin Herman Plaza - surrounded it with metal barricades Thursday evening, and met with instant resistance from Occupiers who feared a raid.

As activists screaming "Our park!" kicked down one of the barricades, a police officer suffered an injured hand and one woman received a gash on the knee, authorities said. One camp resident was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/BA9K1M77MH.DTL

[alfredo]

1. They shouldn't have let a split happen, but I can understand

considering the stress they've had to endure.

[tavalon]

3. Yeah, Seattle let them do that to them really early on

I'm so glad that the eyes of the world are not on Seattle this time around. We conducted ourselves so much better in the WTO resistance movement.

[alfredo]

4. Any organization is going to have internal conflict. External pressure

Makes it worse.

[wundermaus]

2. Divide et impera...

Divide and conquer - One of the Oldest strategy in history... and it still works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule

[No Elephants]

5. Oh, good. Another media attempt to discredit the OWS movement. The SF Chronicle can suck it.