Oakland police: "Let slip the kittens of war"

Xeni Jardin 12:32 pm Wed Oct 26, 2011

Matthew Yglesias, observing Shani O. Hilton's twitpic of the Washington Post front page today: "It's amazing that Oakland PD managed to disperse the Occupy Oakland crowd solely by petting kittens." Says Shani, "Not teargassing a soul!" She writes more about it here.

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