Police in riot gear, tear gas, and arrests. How did you celebrate May Day for 2012

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Police prepare demonstrator for arrest.

Photogs scramble to record Police vs. Protester scuffle

Police in riot gear cordon off Broadway in Oakland, Tuesday morning, after first arrests were made.

The Noon May Day rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland CA was marred by a scuffle between Police and Demonstrators.

The World's Laziest Journalist has learned a thing or two about photo editing and we realize that the photos taken early on May 1 ^st in Oakland aren't strong candidates for winning any of the press photographer clip contests for this month, but after putting in time to get to the event, get images, edit them, and then get to the Public Library to post them, we figured:   "What the heck, they are better than no images at all."

Specific details were lacking in the initial news reports on Bay Area media.   The World's Laziest Journalist will include more details in Friday's Week in Review Column.

Police in riot gear, tear gas, arrests made for a memorable May Day for this columnist.   How did your May Day go?   Feel free to post a description telling how you spent May Day of 2012.

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Authors Bio:

BP graduated from college in the mid sixties (at the bottom of the class?) He told his draft board that Vietnam could be won without his participation. He is still appologizing for that mistake. He received his fist photo lesson from a future Pulitzer Prize winner. (Eddie Adams in the AP lunch room told him to get rid of the everready case for his new Nikon F). A Pulitzer Prize winning reporter broke BP in on the police beat for a small daily in Pa. By 1975, Paul Newman had asked for Bob's Autograph.
(Google this: "Paul Newman asked my autograph" and click the top suggested URL.)
His co-workers on the weekly newspaper in Santa Monica,(in the Seventies) included a future White House correspondent for Time magazine and one of the future editors high up on the Playboy masthead. Bob has been to the Oscar ceremony twice before Oscar turned 50.
He is working on a book of memoirs tentatively titled "Paul Newman Asked for my Autograph." In the gold mining area of Australia (Kalgoorlie), Bob was called: "Col. Sanders."