At 4:00 AM this morning, Oakland and Oakland Unified School District Police arrived en masse at the Lakeview Elementary School and ordered everyone, children, parents, and occupiers, out. The school had been the site of an Occupation for the last eighteen days. Lakeview peeps are calling for a reconvergence at the school at 5:00 PM today.

Two arrests were made. Fortunately, no police violence occurred, and most people evacuated the school voluntarily. The police allegedly did warn the school occupants that they would use chemical weapons if necessary.

Latest: The police are apparently now ticketing anyone who tries to take their picture at the school! (see bottom of diary).

Previous, related diaries:

Oakland Public School Still Occupied After Five Days!

Chop From the Top, or "When Children Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? Sit In, Fight Back!"

Here's how the raid came down. Once again, Kossack allie123 (twitter alyssa011968) was there tweeting and taking these pictures. Tweets are in chronological order starting approximately at 4:00 AM.

