Oakland exodus as verdict is read (BART cop shooting)

SFGate ^ | 7-8-10 | Matthai Kuruvila, Drew Joseph

[dynachrome]

It was an exodus just a few ticks short of panic.

As word spread throughout Oakland around 2:30 p.m. that a verdict had been reached in the Johannes Mehserle murder trial, the downtown streets suddenly flooded with workers rushing out of their workplaces to go home.

The normally placid lanes became clogged, people hurried along the sidewalk, and there was an almost electric air of worried anticipation. BART trains streaming in and out of downtown were jammed.

At the downtown federal building, announcements were made over loudspeakers to tell everyone to go home. At many of the big businesses throughout the area, internal e-mails and other notices went out advising the same.

"People are kind of nervous," Cinderella Lee, communications manager for the Public Health Institute at the corner of 12th and Clay streets, said as she prepared to head home shortly after 3 p.m.. "We got official word from Human Resources that we can leave and go home safely."

Most of the co-workers around her had already left.

[dynachrome]

I'd have left early, too.

[GSWarrior]

Red Dellums is on the radio right now rambling on about something.

[blam]

"I'd have left early, too. "

Early?

Sane people don't live there.

[dynachrome]

Some sane ones work there, I guess. If there are big riots there will be a lot less honest citizens in Oakland

[Trueblackman]

GOD only knows we need the New Black Panther Party to sweep in and make sure that their are no riots, since the police can never be trusted according to DC’s Micheal Brown.

[AbeKrieger]

Why would actual humans still live in that town?

[NormsRevenge]

I don’t think we’re talking a Watts or Detroit style response, but with the roving hordes of paid anarchists in black and thugs, who knows, Red Dellums can only hope the night passes without much going down. They have beefed up the streets and protection, and would bet they have a hotline to the Gub if they need troops.

[NormsRevenge]

They got a live mike talking to a dude on the street. things will go down, he will take out a store or two to get ‘justice’. sad..

[Windflier]

I'd have left early, too.

Yeah, say 30 years ago.

[dynachrome]

It will be just an excuse for the parasite class to loot. Kind of like Katrina. I hope not, but the signs are there.

[spodefly]

If I am reading this right, what it is saying is that there is a general consensus among corporations and governmental entities that blacks will not accept a verdict delivered in a court of law unless it follows their prescribed notions, and will respond with violence in the streets if things don't go their way. This is covered as a matter of fact in a liberal San Francisco newspaper.

That sounds racist to me. Why on earth would people be so judgmental?

Oh yea ... that's why.

[randog]

Well it’s a good thing that law-abiding citizens are allowed to arm themselves to protect their lives and property against this type of anarchy.....

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Fooled ya’!

OK, seriously, at least they can dial 911 and the cops will be there in no time to protect them.....

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Fooled ya’ twice!

[dsrtsage]

Next time a black cop shoots a white guy, I’m going to burn down san francisco

[GonzoGOP]

Next time a black cop shoots a white guy, I’m going to burn down san francisco

Do we have to wait for the shooting?

Personally I hope they go crazy and burn Oakland to the ground. The more bad things that happen in the socialist butt banging paradise of California the better. Someplace is going to burn before this is over. Since California inflicted liberalism on the rest of us it is only fitting that if anyplace burns it should be California. I'd prefer to see San Francisco or LA burn but in a pinch Oakland will do quite nicely.

[popdonnelly]

Mob rule. Lynch mob. I wonder if the Obama Administration will support the civil rights of the people of Oakland. That is, the right not to be threatened by riots.

[popdonnelly]

Dellums is an old-time radical.

[popdonnelly]

That dude robbing a store is not justice. It’s bullshit..

[TaxPayer2000]

just heard on the scanner that about 1000 people have “gathered” at 14th and Broadway.......

[popdonnelly]

A black mob now runs Oakland. And if they get anything by intimidation, the same thing will happen again and again.

What if it was a white mob?

[popdonnelly]

That would be a flashmob looking to do some looting.