Update: Eureka attorney Laura Cutler arrived at the county courthouse this morning to find the scene pictured above — the lawn scattered with debris and cordoned off with police tape. The protesters, she said, were given only 10 or 15 minutes to vacate the encampment in the dark, early-morning hours under threat of tear gas. Those who weren’t arrested have been seeking permission to cross the tape and clean up the cardboard signs and other detritus.

Two calls this morning to the Eureka Police Department’s public information officer, Sgt. Steve Watson, went unanswered.

Cutler said she’s serving as a mediator between protesters and local government officials, including Eureka City Manager David Tyson, Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey and Humboldt County Chief Administrative Officer Phlilip Smith-Hanes. The two key questions at this point, according to Cutler, are a) what are the charges against the dozen or so protesters who were arrested this morning and b) whose jurisdiction does the courthouse lawn fall under? It’s county property in the middle of Eureka.

The Occupy Eureka protesters are planning a “general assembly” today at noon on the corner of Fifth and I streets (in front of the courthouse). “There needs to be a public meeting with all the parties,” Cutler said. “The community needs to speak up about whether they want to support this and how they want to see it.”

According to Cutler, the protesters up the road at Occupy Arcata are planning to march in solidarity this afternoon, departing from the Arcata Plaza at 4 p.m., proceding south on Hwy. 101 to the Eureka courthouse. Both Occupy groups are hoping to rally supporters via Facebook and Twitter for a demonstration outside the courthouse this evening.

Original post: Police action at the Occupy Eureka protest at the Humboldt County Courthouse at 3:40 a.m. resulted in multiple arrests. 

This article appears in Why Do People Hate Kirk Girard?.

Ryan Burns worked for the Journal from 2008 to 2013, covering a diverse mix of North Coast subjects,...

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  1. Perhaps now the message of Occupy Humboldt will not be obscured by those looking for a place to camp and an excuse to flap their gums at “the man”….oh, and a place to poop.

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  2. @Beachcomber: Do you have personal knowledge of these allegations? Proof of the facts?

    Seems to me we may have lost the definition of “public property”.

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  3. If Occupy Arcata is marching at 4pm, they will end up marching in the dark. That is around 8 miles and it is dark by 5:30ish. Please, everyone marching and driving the corridor be extra careful.

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  5. Have you seen the “interview” footage? The KIEM TV reporter WAS the provacateur. In my opinion, she was insuffiectly assaulted!

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  6. The EPD has jurisdiction outside the courthouse although the lawn could be viewed as a part of the courthouse. With Harpham in charge we are back to the bad old days. What happened to the tents and other equipment? The EPD, in the bad old days, was known for destroying all camping equipment of homeless campers. Very ugly.
    I agree that the KIEM reporter was a provocateur as well as being completely incompetent. No competent, professional station would hire someone like that.

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  7. So let me get this straight, Wall Street and the banksters steal billions from us, one person may or may not have taken a saucer of milk, and it is the milk crime that will be prosecuted? Really?

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  8. About time they took out the trash. This isn’t political, this is about a bunch of vagabonds wanting to set up permanent squatting villages against the law, fire hoses would have been a better way to remove the fleas.

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  9. Eureka is a hellhole. How can anyone pretend that tents and scruffy people some how deface the senic beauty of the crackheads, whores, and ramshackle buildings that blight 101?

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