Occupy Oakland Live Blog: Mayor’s legal adviser quits over police raid
“..Dan Siegel, Mayor Jean Quan’s legal adviser, posted on Facebook that he has resigned over raid of Occupy Oakland.
His Facebook post: “No longer Mayor Quan’s legal adviser. Resigned at 2 am. Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators.”
Siegel and Quan have been friends for decades, since they attended University of California, Berkeley together. Siegel was on Quan’s transition team before she took office in January and stayed on as an adviser after that, drawing controversy when he openly opposed a gang injunction policy sought by the city attorney…”
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