Dateline San Francisco (where else?)…

- Police officer hit in head during anarchist protest

- Protest turns violent in the Mission District:

San Francisco police clashed Friday night in the city’s Mission District with anarchists who broke windows and sent one officer to the hospital with a head injury. The anarchists were protesting the G-8 summit meeting in Scotland.

Police arrested three protesters, said police officer Maria Oropeza.

Billed as the “West Coast Anti-Capitalist Convergence and March against the G8,” the protest drew anarchists who used sticks, poles and skateboards to break windows of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant and a Wells Fargo Bank. Protesters also overturned news boxes at several intersections along Valencia Street to prevent police from driving up those streets, witnesses said.

Someone threw a large foam mattress under a police car, Oropeza said, and when police got out of the car at 23rd and Bartlett Street they were swarmed by protesters.

“One officer was hit in the head with an unknown object and has a serious head injury,” Oropeza said. The officer was taken to San Francisco General, and his name will be released after the family is notified.

The moonbats at SF Bay Indymedia bark up a storm about the riots here.

Indymedia Watch is monitoring all the antics.