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Man Fatally Shot Near Occupy Oakland Protests

While you have hip hop mogul Jay-Z making money off the backs of the protest of Wall Street, there was a man who was fatally shot at a protest with wide controversy in Oakland, California.

The report reads:

A young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was somehow linked to the month-old gathering.

The man, whom several Occupy campers said they did not recognize, was shot in the head about 5 p.m. outside a BART station exit in Frank Ogawa Plaza, at 14th Street and Broadway. He was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he was pronounced dead, said interim Police Chief Howard Jordan.

Jordan – speaking to reporters over protesters who shouted, “This is not Occupy Oakland” – said two groups of people had gotten into a fight that ended when someone pulled out a gun and fired. Witnesses said they heard four to six shots, and saw several young men flee. No arrests have been made, and the dead man’s name has not been released.

The shooting happened in the busy heart of downtown Oakland. It also happened adjacent to the Occupy encampment, where drug use is prevalent and where devoted protesters have increasingly struggled to control fights and robberies and deal with mentally ill homeless people.

This terrible and these protests are getting really dangerous for all involved and in the vicinity of the protests.

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