Oakland adjusted after protest clashes turn

1 of 30. The face of the model in a photo is seen by shattered glass in a clothing store in Oakland, California, 3. November 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith

Noel Randewich and Dan Levine

OAKLAND, Calif | Wed, November 3, 2011 6: 03 pm EDT

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - City crews and protesters were working Thursday to clean up, graffiti, shattered glass and other impurities, downtown Oakland littered, after a day of a mostly peaceful protests against economic inequality and police brutality has violent turn.

Busloads of police in the riot gear advanced on demonstrators overnight, firing to disperse tear gas hundreds stay had forced a temporary shutdown of the bustling port of Oakland in the streets hours after numbering in the thousands of demonstrators.

The hard appeared to prevent, that demonstrators expand has become to their foot in the streets around a public Plaza, the hub for demonstrations in Oakland, on the eastern shore of the Bay of San Francisco.

Later in the morning, the city said policemen of about 15 digits as had arrested 80 people and injured five civilians and three officers in the melee. There was no immediate word on the type or severity of these injuries.

City crews that pressure washed declare robbers graffiti "kill" and "smash" of private and municipal buildings around the Frank Ogawa square, a public next to the Town Hall, that demonstrators have square since last month as storage used.

Dozens of their tents still to fill the space, and several protestors it blamed "anarchist youth" for Thursday violence.

"Everything beautiful went with, until these guys (came) scarf around the mouth, and then roared hell." Our town was demolished only, said Johnny Allen, 60, a health provider sweep debris from before the City Hall."

But the protesters on the scene said that the downtown streets were largely quiet, if a police force that had been suddenly all day, at a distance arrived around midnight and ordered to disperse the crowd their "unlawful assembly".

The recent riots in Oakland, at the top of the nation-wide anti-wall, who shot Street protested after a former Marine in clashes last week was seriously injured, followed a day of demonstrations, which drew some 7,000 activists at their head.

TRAENENGAS

Lined up shoulder to shoulder, police laid-off volleys of tear gas, the demonstrators force to retreat again in the Plaza, then a second load with batons and tear gas made about an hour later, demonstrators continue to push the square.

Some demonstrators slung canisters of tear gas and rocks back at police as they fled. At least a protestor was seen gets carried away with an injury to his leg. Another, was arrested, his hands bound behind him lay on the ground with blood streaming down his face.

An arrested demonstrator, Adam Konner, 29, Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that he is clearly a police announcement order "Camper back move to your tents," crashed before officers not heard.

"I have tried to find out what they said." I have tried to find out if I was back in the Plaza, "he said told of Reuters, tells that he beaten to the floor and restrained."

Formerly of the Oakland port was closed for several hours after masses on the sprawling grounds. But protest a financial system they believe benefits especially companies and wealthy in their efforts failed to widespread disruption of trade as a whole to create.

Protestors also broke into an apparently abandoned building, a music system set up and danced outside. Police said she responded to the break-in and some fires and moved shortly after midnight.

Calm was restored in the late morning, and port-nation fourth busiest maritime container cargo hub with $39 billion annually imports and Exporte--was again in full swing.

Occupying movement you tried demonstrators, distancing himself from the vandalism and unruliness.

Some differences of opinion had overnight flared the dustbin barricades set up between a minority of protesters and wore face masks and others, often older demonstrators who held give lectures on the need for peaceful protest and not provoke police.

A sign at a coffee shop with a broken window offered an apology: "sorry." "This is not us."

"It makes me crazy, but I'm still for my rights." "I will not be anywhere", Perry-DERA said 31-year-old Oakland resident and protesters.

(Reporting by Noel Randewich, Dan Levine, Lisa Baertlein, Peter Henderson and Jim Christie;) (Edit Johnston by Steve Gorman and Cynthia)