A Twitter and Ustream user named @mareejane was broadcasting from the Oakland protest/riot/mayhem for Trayvon Martin late Monday night. On her Twitter profile and on her livestream, she identified herself as an Occupy Wall Street member.
As chaos erupted around her, however, the dangers to citizen and professional journalists increased. Next thing you know, social media users were witnessing the live seizure of @mareejane’s cell phone. Amid shouts and yells, her livestream was abruptly shut down. Based on what they saw on the livestream, some Twitter users believed that @mareejane had been assaulted.
https://twitter.com/odgreen26/status/357020559848128512
@mareejane got mugged and her phone stolen by trayvon supporters, so much for peaceful protest
— Echoplex25 (@Echoplex25) July 16, 2013
Oakland, an unknown male (citizen or police unknown) assaulted & has seemingly stolen @mareejane's phone. It WAS alerting her to mentions.
— Bearentined Bear (@GotdamBear) July 16, 2013
@mareejane hope you're okay. was watching your ustream and it went down after you got your phone took by someone.. 🙁
— Juan Espindola (@thegoodsoldier5) July 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/AndrewBlejde/status/357026027953856512
@mareejane tweeted that a “masked up white kid” had accused her of videotaping for the police.
Appreciate all the love guys. I'm fine. Anyone who knows me knows I wasn't filming smashysmashy. That guy was a douche.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
@buddrums I'm OK. Just some masked up white kid who accused me of being a cop.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
Some viewers weren’t buying that the thug who took the cell phone was white:
https://twitter.com/revulv/status/357027711044169728
https://twitter.com/TheMahouShoujo/status/357027648364494849
https://twitter.com/Gannicus008/status/357027565686358016
https://twitter.com/BeltzinMoy/status/357028681333481473
@mareejane why the need to point out he was white?
— Allen Tesch (@allentesch) July 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/sscrewreps/status/357029351465820160
https://twitter.com/GodKingJaffa/status/357030010411945985
https://twitter.com/vanwulfn/status/357030379456176128
https://twitter.com/DavidDavidson96/status/357030708377681921
@mareejane replied:
https://twitter.com/mareejane/status/357031602599100416
you guys will not believe the racist shit in my timeline right now. LMFAO so much fuckin ignorance in this world
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
She then confirmed that, yes, her phone had been taken:
https://twitter.com/mareejane/status/357033383504789504
@OcularSinester may stream again tomorrow if something goes down, but I just got back from backpacking last night & I need to get some rest.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/mareejane/status/357036188793716737
She described what happened to her as an “attack”:
https://twitter.com/mareejane/status/357037575229284353
And she stayed up late to add more:
https://twitter.com/Noah_Sheklstein/status/357036735529615360
And the rape jokes have started…
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
@karbinite phone is fine. it got a little chaotic & I need to figure out how 2 turn off notifications. when someone @'s me, the stream stops
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
So I was told the dude who threw my phone actually hit another female in the crowd with it. Real tough guy.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
@hellabaytogo glad you're home safe and sound. thanks for hangin.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
@t_NYC Some people in the crowd helped but a few idiots accused me of being a cop. He had at least a couple friends with him backing him up.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
@mareejane I don't understand how this guy got away with doing this, did no one try to help you? Was he alone?
— thomas Jr. ? (@t_NYC) July 16, 2013
@t_NYC It's frustrating. So tired of people fucking up the solidarity. We can't win the war this way.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
@mareejane I am from nYc, new to Bay Area, seems to be a lot more violence at protests here. In NY it was just NYPD being violent..
— thomas Jr. ? (@t_NYC) July 16, 2013
@t_NYC I'm not surprised. The marches in SF never seem to get as crazy as Oakland. Lots of pent up rage here, shit gets out of control.
— mareejane (@mareejane) July 16, 2013
You can say that again.
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