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Protests over BART shooting turn violent { Riots in Oakland }
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/7/9 | Demian Bulwa, Charles Burress, Matthai Kuruvila

Posted on 01/07/2009 7:41:07 PM PST by SmithL

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1 posted on 01/07/2009 7:41:08 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Oakland? Let me guess. Baptists?


2 posted on 01/07/2009 7:42:39 PM PST by libs_kma (F.U.B.O.)
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Oakland — when Philadelphia is too boring.


4 posted on 01/07/2009 7:44:09 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
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To: libs_kma

>> Baptists?

Nah. ObamaNation.


5 posted on 01/07/2009 7:46:08 PM PST by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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“Nah. ObamaNation.”

Nah, ObamaAmish!


6 posted on 01/07/2009 7:48:39 PM PST by Batman11
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To: SmithL

Well it did look like the cop did kill the guy execution style in front of witnesses and cameras.I can understand the crowds anger. The victim was black but notice some of the protesters are white.


7 posted on 01/07/2009 7:49:09 PM PST by eastforker
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Man, kops be trippin, po-leece beatin’ up un us...pazz da mutha....in joint dawg!


8 posted on 01/07/2009 7:50:48 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: eastforker
some of the protesters are white

Community organizers.

9 posted on 01/07/2009 7:52:04 PM PST by Revolting cat! (After all is said and done I'm goodier goodier than you!)
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To: SmithL

One thing to note is that the MSM dug up the officer’s name, despite the pleas from the investigators. Public’s right to know, ya know. He and his family are now in hiding, from the mobs agitated by a notorious Oakland shyster.


10 posted on 01/07/2009 7:55:19 PM PST by Revolting cat! (After all is said and done I'm goodier goodier than you!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Gee, don’t you think that officer should be held accountable? As far as I care his name should be published like any other common criminal and he is worse, he did what he did under color of law.


11 posted on 01/07/2009 7:58:52 PM PST by eastforker
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The videos are up on FR. I had to watch several times to be sure I was seeing correctly.

It looked like two cops were arresting the kid, got him off the wall he was sitting against, got him on the floor face-down and were in the process of cuffing him. One had the kids neck, one was straddling his back, looked like they were in control. A third officer walked over, reached for his handgun, drew, aimed, and fired.

I’m not the rioting type but I’d sure like to know what happened, besides my view of blurry cellphone videos.

The people are reacting to those videos and no doubt some inflammatory talk from community leaders.


12 posted on 01/07/2009 8:01:25 PM PST by DBrow
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Gee, don’t you think that officer should be held accountable?

Gee, I said that? Oh, no, you did!

13 posted on 01/07/2009 8:05:56 PM PST by Revolting cat! (After all is said and done I'm goodier goodier than you!)
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You said.....Public’s right to know, ya know. He and his family are now in hiding, from the mobs agitated by a notorious Oakland shyster.............Sounds like you think his name should be kept secret just because he’s a cop. I hope he gets covicted and put in GP.


14 posted on 01/07/2009 8:09:20 PM PST by eastforker
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There needs to be some explanation or rationalization, at least, for why the officer appeared to take careful aim at a man who was on the ground and did not appear to be moving or otherwise restrained and shot him. Did the officer see that the man was thinking about hurting the officer?


15 posted on 01/07/2009 8:10:54 PM PST by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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To: eastforker
If you can say "sounds like", so can I. Sounds like you want your voyeuristic desires satisfied by the MSM and amateurs posting cellphone videos. None of that has anything with justice which will be done whatever you or I "sound like". The cop is finished. See Kurosawa's Rashomon.
16 posted on 01/07/2009 8:12:59 PM PST by Revolting cat! (After all is said and done I'm goodier goodier than you!)
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/01/07/MNOV154P0R.DTL&o=1


17 posted on 01/07/2009 8:13:07 PM PST by DBrow
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To: Revolting cat!
I have no problem with that, when he gets to jail they will all know who he is anyway!!
18 posted on 01/07/2009 8:15:27 PM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: Revolting cat!

MSM and amateurs posting cellphone videos...............if it was not for the media who probably would not be so involved if it wasn’t for the video, how else would we know about this murder. If it was just the cops word without the video he more than likely would go scott free.I am damn sick and tired of LEO’s getting away with this crap. A badge does not give one the right to violate someones civil rights. And that kids civil right was definately violated.


19 posted on 01/07/2009 8:21:19 PM PST by eastforker
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Hmmm. I doubt very much the cops or the investigators could have covered it up - too many witnesses, with or without cellphone videos. But as I pointed out on another thread, the circus is just starting.The dude is dead, what really happened then we’ll never know, in my opinion. Watching it in the printed media (I haven’t and won’t watch the videos) I see how the witnesses, that is to say the dead man’s pals, have started to change the stories, once the media and the crooked shyster became involved. As for the MSM, they seek to sensationalize anything they touch, and their idea of “public’s right to know” is arrogant and self serving, that’s all. They don’t represent me, or anyone!


20 posted on 01/07/2009 8:28:32 PM PST by Revolting cat! (After all is said and done I'm goodier goodier than you!)
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