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Google: "We received a request from US law enforcement to remove YouTube videos of police brutality." bit.ly/t1MNhj  #OccupyOakland

This 'breaking news' points to a Google Website about requests to remove information between January and June of 2011. There is nothing to link it to Oakland, and it pre-dates #OccupyOakland. Sloppy.

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BREAKING NEWS: Oakland Police Chief Batts Resignsbit.ly/o7Hbss  #occupyoakland #ows

This points to an article from about two weeks ago when Oakland Police Chief Batts resigned. Again, nothing breaking here. The Washington Post story from October 13th, goes into more details about the long history of problems with the Oakland Police Department

Jordan takes over amid a rising violent crime rate; after the City Council recently tabled three crime-fighting initiatives; and a judge threatened to put the department under federal control because it has not yet met the terms of the corruption settlement in 2003.

Maybe it's time for the Oakland Police Department to be put under federal control.

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