Throwing bricks and glass bottles at people might mean you are crazy.
The attorney for 34-year-old Jesse Nesbitt — the Occupy San Francisco activist accused of heaving those potentially deadly items during protests last year and this year — requested in court Monday that his client receive a mental health evaluation.
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Time to occupy the courtroom.
Four protesters, including two well-known members of the Occupy San Francisco movement, will soon face a jury trial in connection with two takeovers of a Tenderloin building owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Transients Nick Shaw, 32, aka “Pantsless Nick,” and Stephen Clift, 44, who goes by the name “Pirate Mike,” are each facing two counts of misdemeanor trespassing for allegedly squatting in the building at 888 Turk St.
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In the strongest crackdown on Occupy San Francisco tactics since the movement began in September, District Attorney George Gascón announced Thursday that some demonstrators will be charged with misdemeanors and felonies — a far more serious punishment than the citations they normally receive when arrested.
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Twenty-six people were arrested early Wednesday morning after police cleared protesters, many affiliated with Occupy San Francisco, from a building they had taken over at Turk and Gough streets.
Protesters took over the building at 888 Turk St. owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco on Tuesday after marching to the property from a May Day rally at Market and Montgomery streets. It is the same building protesters occupied April 1.
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Police arrested 26 people early this morning while clearing protesters from a building they had occupied at Turk and Gough streets in San Francisco on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
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A march against economic inequality Tuesday that began in the Financial District with a festive demonstration complete with puppetry and a marching band ended with an Occupy San Francisco takeover and standoff with police at the same vacant building the group called home for 24 hours last month.
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The Occupy movement’s frenetic commemoration of May Day got plenty of attention as Bay Area demonstrators came out in droves to spread the message that income disparity has created a nationwide crisis. But fallout from the labor holiday could provoke backlash from otherwise supportive observers.
Click on the photo to see more photos from the protest.
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Pandemonium could reign Tuesday as the Occupy San Francisco movement conducts actions across The City in honor of May Day, internationally observed as a celebration of labor rights.
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Board up your vacant buildings, please. Police are asking property owners in The City to do whatever it takes to keep members of the Occupy SF movement from squatting.The global Occupy movement against economic disparity has apparently changed tactics in San Francisco, police say, as rumors swirl about a May 1 takeover of an undisclosed property.
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Here’s the good news: a man who allegedly stabbed another man at the Occupy San Francisco camp showed up again, whereupon a number of Occupiers grabbed him and called the cops.
Here’s the bad news: there were two stabbings at the Occupy SF encampment.
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