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One protester approached the barricades at 1:40 p.m., unaware that all the camp’s contents had been removed.

“You took my home,” the man shouted, before likening the city’s maneuver to the removal of Native Americans in the pre-colonial era.

“Did you know we killed the Indian people?” one officer asked another, smiling.

“You learn a lot here,” his colleague said.”