Posted on 11/05/2010 8:11:59 PM PDT by SmithL
7:45 p.m.: Police arresting people at 7th Avenue and East 17th Street
Police have announced to the crowd that they are going to begin arresting people. They are telling protesters not to resist and to follow officers' orders.
Officers are using wristbands to secure people's hands. People are surrendering and allowing themselves to be cuffed. A few people are on the ground.
Police are declaring the area a crime scene.
"Do not resist arrest," police are saying. "You will not be hurt in any way."
Someone has lit a trash can on fire, and an officer is putting the fire out with his boot.
At least six people have been arrested so far.
One man is fighting back and being tackled.
7:35 p.m. Police have boxed in about 200 people at 7th Avenue and East 17th Street
Police have boxed in about 200 people at 7th Avenue and East 17th Street. It looks like the police have contained them.
One officer had his gun ripped from his gunbelt in a backyard in the area. Other officers intervened and made an arrest.
7:30 p.m.: Reporters stuck between police, protesters
Reporters are stuck between the police skirmish line and protesters at 6th Avenue and East 18th Street. Protesters are yelling, "We are all Oscar Grant."
A thin layer of press photographers is between the police and protesters. There are a lot of angry people, and the police appear to have decided to end this here.
7:20 p.m.: Officer hit in chest with brick, two BART stations closed
The Fruitvale and Lake Merritt BART stations are closed, but trains are still running through the stations.
A police officer has been hit in the chest with a brick at 6th Avenue and East 18th Street. He fell to the ground but got back up.
In the same area, police have their beanbag shotguns out and are moving in on the protesters. A homeowner in the area came out of his house and yelled at a protester after he jumped on his car. At least one police officer has been injured by a rock.
Police have arrested at least one person. The crowd continues to splinter off and run though backyards. Someone at an apartment complex on 6th Avenue threw a firecracker in the air, but no one was injured. There is another group on 5th Avenue at Foothill Boulevard.
7 p.m.: Protesters bust out bus and business windows
Protesters have busted out two windows of an AC Transit bus at Lakeshore Avenue and International Boulevard and broken a window at a sign company at 22nd Avenue and International.
There is graffiti on buildings there that says "Justice for Oscar Grant" and "(Expletive) the police." The main group has splintered into smaller groups as police follow behind the crowds. Some groups have walked 15 blocks.
The city of Oakland has set up a hot line for people to get updates about the situation. The number is 510-444-2489. There also are updates on www.oaklandnet.com.
6:55 p.m.: Police box in crowd at East 2nd and 10th, crowd pushes down fence
A few hundred people were blocked in at East 2nd Street and 10th Avenue as police call in extra officers. Someone ripped down a temporary construction chain-link fence near the Kaiser Center, and now the crowd is marching in a stream and is nearing the lake.
Many are wearing bandannas over their faces. There are helicopters in the air, shining lights on the crowd. The crowd is stretched out on 1st Avenue and East 10th Street to about International Boulevard, possibly heading toward the Fruitvale BART station. Police are trying to contain them as they march.
6:50 p.m.: Crowd turns unruly near Laney College
The crowd, about a block long, is moving east on 10th Street and could be headed to the Fruitvale BART station.
There are people in the crowd fist-fighting one another. The unruly crowd has reached Laney College, and there is no order to the group.
Police have Fallon Street blocked off. Protesters have stomped a car at 10th and Oak streets. Some protesters have T-shirts covering their faces.
Excerpt: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-bart-shooting/ci_16533309
Surely ex-mayor and Gov-elect MoonBeam can calm his beloved citizens down...
Early christmas shopping? “These big screens ain’t gonna liberate theyselves!”
Or did some other high profile loser of color get justice?
Sounds like a target rich enviroment.
jk
fyi
I should legally adopt one of the rioters. If he gets beat up while resisting arrest I can sue and be a billionaire!!!
Sounds like the shooting was an accident.
How funny... Union thugs beating on unemployed union thugs... with a city that needs to be rebuilt. can’t wait to see what happens next :)
what the hell do they have to protest for?
Ok, I guess I have been out of the loop, who the heck is Oscar Grant?
I heard they just made it illegal for Happy Meals to contain a toy. I thought it applied to just San Francisco, but maybe these nice folks next door in Oakland thought it meant them too.
Amazing how no one goes to San Fran and protest the death of a father and his two boys who were shot at the hands of an illegal leaving a wife and mother heartbroken.
They protest because the are morans....alot of the morans probably don’t even live in Oakland I am sure they were bused in from an organizer.
I am sorry NO ONE was at Bart the night of the incident, accidents do happen we don’t know the whole story. I doubt that this officer shot this guy on purpose. This group from what the newspaper said on that night they were causing trouble I wasn’t on Bart nor do I go on Bart let alone in Oakland. I am afraid to go to the mall in Hayward due to the violence.
But hey these nuts ruin homes, businesses, trash the streets and look like crazy people. Like the rest of the USA needs to see how much more crazy we are in CA
Like Oakland a struggling city can afford crap like this I am sorry I think this officer has suffered enough as with his family. The Grant family has suffered at the loss of their family. He is serving his time in a court of law this is what the judge decided.........move on.
YEEEEEHAAAW!!!DRINK~N~DANCE~N~STAB~N~SHOOT!!!...
Thanks but after posting I remembered, he was the one on the subway, guy shot in the back, cop sentenced to two years. I guess the people in Oakland(that wonderful law abiding town)don’t like the sentence, huh?
and loot
What’s sad is all the young black men who have been killed in Oakland since Grant’s death, but no one riots about them.
They are only rioting now because it was a cop who killed the guy. If some black guy had killed him they wouldn’t say a frickin’ word about it, even if they acquitted the shooter.
I ate some pigs feet and Mexican cheese balls at an upscale eatery in Oakland once. Looked like slop joint but the food was pretty good.
Just a drunk guy who thought it would be fun to fight with the BART cops and ran into one who didn't know how to handle his weapon.
In the hierarchy of law enforcement officers, you have your university piglets, your mall cops, your BART cops, your BATFE agents, your armed private security guards and finally, your real law enforcement officers. The guy who ended the life of the intoxicated Mr. Grant was a BART cop. Somewhat tragic but more of an example of incompetence than racism.
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