Bullshit. Permit doesn't mean jack shit. A permit limits free speech and you're a pussy if you're going to let your speech be limited, especially if you're in this industry. They were occupying a public park and not impeding the movement of citizens. This wasn't a Brooklyn Bridge thing.
Having said that, Oakland police didn't do what they did because of a lack of permit.
The
Mayor of Oakland has apologized and the
interim chief of police has opened an investigation. At this point we don't even know what happened as the
police received reports of unsanitary conditions and violence but protesters said there was no such thing.
We don't know if any laws were broken as the investigation is not complete. So I ask again, why do those protesting economic inequality get sprayed with tear gas and rubber bullets when Westboro Baptist Church doesn't?
GFY is the judge and jury? Good to know.