Oakland mayoral adviser resigns over Occupy raid

Reuters,

14 November, 2011

A top adviser to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan resigned on Monday over the city's handling of anti-Wall Street demonstrations, describing a morning raid to clear a downtown protest camp as a mistake that could trigger more volatility.

Civil rights attorney Dan Siegel told Reuters he resigned at 2 a.m., hours before the raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment, after insisting that police should protect, not dismantle, the camp.

"I feel like the city has really made a mistake in the way in which it decided to deal with Occupy Oakland," Siegel told Reuters. The decision, he said, was "putting city officials on the wrong side of the dispute."

"I don't know if it will remain calm or if it will become very volatile," he added.....

A self-described "grown-up 60s activist," according to his Twitter account, Siegel publicly announced his decision to resign on the social media site and said: "Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1 percent and its government facilitators."

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