Posted on 12/22/2008 2:17:26 PM PST by Crazieman
A band of demonstrators, many wearing black masks, stormed a bustling San Francisco mall Saturday evening, upending garbage cans and foliage and damaging crystal merchandise at one kiosk.
An estimated 50 to 75 people were involved in the disruption at Westfield San Francisco Centre, police said.
"It felt like random, vague anarchy," said Sam Cantrell, who sells sunglasses at a kiosk near the escalators on the street level where the protesters gathered.
"Everyone's yelling," he said. "Some people started running up the escalator the wrong way. People were grabbing their babies and running away in fear."
The disruption began around 6:30 p.m. as holiday shoppers crowded the mall on the last Saturday before Christmas.
Some protesters threw food, police said. Others tried to toss a large planter onto the food court below.
According to mall management, the protesters were part of a "Solidarity with Greek Uprising" demonstration, which began in the Mission District earlier in the afternoon. An international day of action was called on Saturday to protest the death of a young man in Greece in early December.
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(In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.)
I miss the Romans. The Ancient ones. The Romans of Legion.
Looks like the typical product of typically suburbanite WASP kiddies going to college on someone else's tax dollars. This is the future of your America. Fabulous.
Lol...looks ligh a target rich enviornment.....
Damn straight.
Best met by deliberate, well aimed answers.
Repeat until random, vague anarchy ceases twitching.
Read this and come back telling me he is minion of Satan. He was a fine Christian man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moscone
and Gavin Newsome was in the front line stopping them and saving the city, right??
I'm sure he was if the unimpeachable WIKIPEDIA says so.
50 years of personal on site knowledge of San Francisco and San Franciscans wouldn't count for much.
And finally, Dan White didn't murder anyone.
You have pegged them precisely.
These guys are wimps btw. And there aren’t more than a hundred or so in the City. The residents of SF are mostly either recent immigrant Asians who don’t vote much, Hispanics who are too busy working to be very political, or wealthy white liberals who have more in common with Marie Antoinette than Che Guevara.
That “riot” will make no friends in the City.
Er, no, there are lots of good cops. They are often frustrated by our putz of a DA.
As for these guys, they will just piss off the locals, and they will get rounded up if they can get up the energy to do more of this.
I’ve got twenty-two years, and on-going.
Theres no doubt Dan White murdered two people. Whatever the qualities of the men he murdered, thats a sin and a crime. He was angry because they double-crossed him politically. Thats no excuse for murder.
Is California a conceal carry state?
What do you call shooting an unarmed person?
Nope. Done on a county basis. Generally not as restrictive as NY or NJ, however. Washington and Oregon, however, are shall-issue states.
Necessary in some cases, but the jury, the LAW, called it voluntary manslaughter. Pay attention.
Right you are he didn’t murder him, he just killed him on purpose. LOL
Dan White murdered no one, the court, the jury, the LAW, called it voluntary manslaughter, so that’s what it is.
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