Oakland Port Shutdown Chronology

7:05am- Police have arrived and are wearing gas masks facing a non-violent legal moving pickett line at the Oakland Ports
7:16am- First order to disperse was given to one group; most given the order disperse started to walk away
7:30am- People in this group started dispersing west after dispersal notice given. Police tell them that "it's legal for them to be there as long as they're moving"
7:40am- exploding noises heard about 100ft away by group dispersing. People are saying it's tear gas. Police are advancing towards the dispersing pickett
8:02am- group is being rushed by motorcycles at high speeds; order to disperse given again after they left the last site they were told to disperse from; police are shooting something (people say that they're shooting wooden/rubber bullets and concussion grenades); people running; location: around middle harbor road; groups are being divided; people who were driving down the street are getting out of their cars and running; "it's mayhem"; police telling people that they have 2 minutes to disperse as they are dispersing and being shot at with concussion grenades and tear gas.
8:08am- picketers at another site in the Oakland ports called and said that they recieved notice that the ILWU sent their workers home for the day.
8:10am- attempted to reach group running from police; no answer
8:24am- attempted to reach group running from police; no answer
8:27am- Group running from police calls; things have settled down a little bit; they're being pushed towards the North by the police; location: they can see the Bay Bridge and Marin; they're walking along side chicken wire fences and can see a lot of trucks; the police had been shooting rubber bullets (at least one person was knicked in the shoulder by a bullet in this group); police are shooting concussion grenades as they push the crowd that is walking; a woman driving her car was dragged out of her car and hand-cuffed with zip-ties @ around 8:12am; her car was confiscated; other than that, this group didn't hear of any particular arrests
8:40am- At least one person from the group had been hit in the hand by the rubber bullets; the group was currently at 7th and Maritime; one cop car is ahead of group dispersing directing traffic; at some point they asked to see the organizers of the group; the group responded that they had no leaders; a couple hundred people at this point could be seen down the street marching in a tightly-knit group
8:50- At least three members of one group had been arrested on the train tracks as they ran from concussion grenades and tear gas earlier.
9:20am- Person who had been hit in the hand by the wooden bullet seems to have a broken hand; he is to be brought to Alta Vista hospital
9:40am- Report from protestor at the scene that the protest had been completely non-violent and that she was very suprised that one of the gates had been targeted with tear gas, concussion grenades and rubber/ wooden bullets even as the group dispersed when the police asked them to disperse. Many non-violent picketers remain at the docks.