Number of violent clashes between Tea Partiers and police: Zero.
(SF Examiner) — Occupy San Francisco demonstrators clashed with police Wednesday night after they returned to Justin Herman Plaza following the clearing of their encampment by police in an early morning raid.
About a half dozen Occupy protesters were arrested and later released during the evening, but police eventually pulled back after demonstrators refused to leave the plaza. The group greeted the police retreat with cheers and chants of “our park” and “cops are the 99 percent.”
“I feel like we’re all refugees of the 1 percent and the police were trying to kick people out of a public space,” said Michael Sampson, 25, who was part of the Occupy Oakland protest, as he set up a tent in the plaza. “This belongs to the people.”