Occupy Oakland Biz Owner Has Advice for Portland Businesses at Risk Today from Occupy Portland

February 29, 2012

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Since Portland Police have all but conceded to Occupy Portland’s blackmail on this #F29 planned riot, may I direct you business owners to this post about minimizing the damage to your business and our city  (here) AND an exhort you to take a page out of the Phil Tagami Anti Occupy Play Book:

    “I just racked it and they ran.”

Oakland developer Phil Tagami is used to working behind the scenes to broker some of the biggest deals in town. Late Wednesday, he was using different persuasive skills – holding a loaded shotgun to scare away rioters trying to get into a downtown building.

“We had people who attempted to break into our building,” the landmark Rotunda Building on Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall, Tagami said Thursday. He grabbed a shotgun that he usually keeps at home, went down to the ground floor and “discouraged them,” he said.

“I was standing there and they saw me there, and I lifted it – I didn’t point it – I just held it in my hands,” Tagami said. “And I just racked it, and they ran.”
Although they didn’t get inside the building – Tagami, 46, oversaw its $50 million renovation and has an office there – vandals did scrawl graffiti on the outside walls during the post-midnight riot that broke out after Occupy Oakland’s daylong general strike.

Tell ’em where you saw it. Http://www.victoriataft.com