The dawn raid saw the 300-strong camp in Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza swept away, but also triggered a series of counter-protests by Occupy Oakland supporters who repeatedly tried to retake the square on Tuesday night.
At that point, they ran into another group of counter-protesting locals, who were African-American.
At Palisades High School, in a high-income suburb of Los Angeles, members of the football team shaved their heads by way of counter-protest to the incursions of the longhairs.
The church has faced a number of counter-protests in recent weeks, including a zombie-themed demonstration and numerous human wall formations.
On Monday, thousands of Germans turned up to counter protests against the group, which calls itself Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, or Pegida for short.
Two counter protests with hundreds of diverse people forced the 'Pro-White' demonstrators behind police barricades.
Protests, counter protests and acts of civil disobedience are expected in Denmark Wednesday, as the country implements a nationwide burqa ban.
In a post to the organization's website, Heimbach wrote that he was aware of plans to counter-protest but said: "After carefully weighing the pros and cons, we have decided that this would be our Thermopylae, no matter what it costs.
Ms Kelly, speaking at a debate at the House of Commons, the first on artistic freedom of expression, also called for "counter-protests" in favour of freedom of speech.
Far from it; it's cranking up a gear as taxi associations demand a firewall for their sector by overruling the on-demand convenience of app-based rivals which are counter protesting in the hopes of steering out of a looming regulatory bind.
