The arrests were made on Saturday night after a brief scuffle between police and a group of Occupy Oakland protesters.
The demonstrators were angry at the way police treated and detained a female driver.
This is the second Saturday night march since a running street battle between Occupy protesters and Oakland police that led to hundreds of arrests in late January.
The Occupy Oakland website has said that the marches will continue “weekly on Saturday – forever.”
The protest campaign owes its inspiration to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, which began when a group of demonstrators gathered in New York’s financial district on September 17 to protest, among other things, against the excessive influence of big corporations on the US policies and the high-level corruption in the country.
According to the website occupyarrests.com, with the exception of the latest arrests, at least 6,319 Occupy protesters have been apprehended since the emergence of the movement.
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