Oaksterdam Raid - DEA break the window at Coffeshop Blue Sky
Channel: TeamOaktownLive
Date: 11/04/2012

On Monday, April 2, 2012, agents from the DEA, IRS, and U.S. Marshals Service raided Oaksterdam University and several other businesses associated with Oakland cannabis activist Richard Lee. The Oakland Police Department was not notified in advance of the raids and did not participate in them, but did provide crowd control as the morning progressed and increasing numbers of angry locals opposed to the raid arrived at 19th and Broadway.

In this clip, DEA agents who have locked themselves inside Coffeeshop Blue Sky and drawn all the curtains break a window from inside. You can see from the crowd's body language and the spray of glass out on the street, theblow came from inside.

Transparency statement: Clipped from the longer raw video; captions, title, and end text added; otherwise unedited.

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