Via San Francisco Chronicle:

Work crews and employees of trashed buildings in downtown Oakland set to work this morning cleaning up from the post-midnight riot that broke out after Occupy Oakland’s daylong general strike. Graffiti was spray-painted on many buildings along Broadway from 14th to 16th streets, where masked vandals shattered windows and threw objects at police. Officers responded by firing tear gas and flash-bang grenades and making dozens of arrests. As the sun rose, downtown Oakland business owners were again assessing the damage, much as they did after a series of protests related to the killing of unarmed BART rider Oscar Grant in 2009. . .

Here’s my favorite part, from later in the article, “At the Men’s Wearhouse, which had closed Wednesday and put up signs in support of the general strike, windows were shattered.” Obama wanted a class war and that’s what he’s got. — Greg Pollowitz