Posted on 07/09/2010 12:08:07 PM PDT by nmh
(07-08) 23:33 PDT OAKLAND -- There was outrage, there was looting and there were skirmishes between police and protesters, but that wasn't the whole story of how Oakland reacted to the Johannes Mehserle verdict.
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They smashed windows of shops including the trendy Ozumo restaurant, and one building was spray painted with the words,
"Say no to work. Say yes to looting."
A boutique called Spoiled was spared. It had a sign outside and pictures of Oscar Grant with the words,
"Do not destroy. Black owned. Black owned."
JJ Fryzel, an Oakland artist who just moved into a gallery called Show And Tell Art on Thursday, said a group of looters threw rocks through her window.
"They were throwing rocks at me," Fryzel said. "I was standing right there. I said, 'Oh s-, spare me.' ... They have no idea what they are doing. No clue."
Outside, the windshield of Fryzel's Mazda four-door sedan was shattered and the side view mirrors were knocked off.
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Officials said the main instigators appeared to be organized "anarchist" agitators wearing black clothing and hoods. Many of the most aggressive demonstrators smashing the windows of banks and shops were white.
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Tony Coleman, a community organizer with New Years Movement 4 Justice for Oscar Grant - the black man shot Jan. 1, 2009, by then-BART police Officer Mehserle, who is white - was one of the first speakers at the podium as hundreds gathered at 14th Street and Broadway.
"I'm angry as hell, but he was found guilty of something," he said into a microphone. Then, referring to calls for federal civil rights officials to look further into the Mehserle matter, he added: "It ain't over yet."
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OK, I didn’t care for that court reversal on Gay Marriage. So tonight I’m going to go smash the glass in at my local Dunkin’ Donuts and steal the cream-filled ones. By golly, that’ll teach ‘em!!! Yum.
“Why these rioters aren’t shot down in the streets is absolutely beyond me.”
The leftists missed a great opportunity to assist with population control but they’ll more than make up for it preying on the innocent and helpless.
Well as voter intimidation by blacks is now legal, I assume rioting and theft are as well.
They were privileged white hippies. They were part of the mommy-daddy-and-radical leftist funded contingent that moves around the world showing up at “anti-globalization” riots, anti-IMF riots, etc. They do thing like burn to death innocent Greek bank employees.
They were wearing ski-masks, so that may be difficult. The police arrested about 80, and I suspect they had been told only to arrest the white ones. The whites are anarchist loonies out there trying to ride in on the back of blacks who just want a free pair of sneakers.
no Amstel for them either...
Probably the Anarchist crowd.
Don’t worry. The Department of RACIAL Justice will bring in the (white) perpetrators and the (white) victims and press full charges against all involved (white) parties.
I watched LIVE COVERAGE. I listened to the OAKLAND POLICE SCANNER.
The protesters were racially mixed. And peaceful. And they dispersed when asked.
There were a large number of SEIU Union thugs in the crowd. There is an SEIU headquarters two blocks from the center of the 'riots'.
The police EXPECTED and estimated the arrival of 50 ANARCHISTS. Most of the UNION thugs and All the ANARCHISTS were white. I watched them arrest, handcuff, and load the violent ones into vans and buses.
This event was well planned. They even had spotters on the roof of one building with binoculars and walkie talkies.
The Oakland police were well prepared, and did an excellent job.
There was no BLACK RIOT. It was supposed to be blamed on them, though.
The MEDIA tried to help by frothing at the mouth asking the Chief of Police if anyone had gotten killed yet.
Poor babies.
You don’t want to know ... .
Are they unionized at that paper?
You are leaving out the SEIU Union thugs who were paid to be there, they were mostly white.
That's one of my favorite things about FR.
“A boutique called Spoiled was spared. It had a sign outside and pictures of Oscar Grant with the words,
“Do not destroy. Black owned. Black owned.”
My goodness. Obama has set us back 100 years.
I assure you they were white.
Many of the protesters were black. They were not the rioters, however.
The rioters consisted of a bunch of SEIU Union thugs (about 300) and 50 Anarchists, mostly white.
You are correct. Getting paid by the taxpayers to waste taxpayer money and destroy taxpaying businesses. Nice scam the SEIU has going.
I don't know. Communized perhaps.
From what I saw on TV last night around 99% of the people milling around in the streets were 'blacks', whereas there was a small contingent of white 'youths' (male and female anarchists) who were trying to stir up crap.
Although this 'victimology' attitude sickens me, I have a greater animosity towards these 'privileged' anarchist arses that try to inflame the emotions of others and create mayhem.
Our judges need to treat these mobs with dam harsh justice. Give them five years without parole.....hard labor. If they get caught again, give them 20 years.”
Alledgely, only 78 were actually arrested.
Most of them have ‘been processed’ & turned loose already, according to noon news out of San Fran.
I wonder if insuramce will cover all these losses.
Seattle had a police car vandalized, windows smashed & tires flattened. Spray painted “Oscar Grant Was Here”.
All you ever hear out of the trouble makers in cities like Oakland is what you saw last night....
It was MURDER!”....
Mehserle ws on that platform for less than 2 minutes to assess the situation & join other officers in trying to subdue a number of trouble-making blacks who were raising Hell on the BART system- inside the cars. They were intimidating passengers & being overly troublesom. Passengers in the moving cars called 911 for help. This station was the first place they could get the troublemakers off the train & try to take them into custody.
Oscar Grant was on his stomach—& he was in handcuffs-—
BUT: He continued to try & move & kick at officers who were trying to subdue other blacks who were part of the problem. I am convinced that the officer thought he had his Taser in his hand.
The gangs & troublemakers raise Hell with the general population & then cry “foul” when they get caught. The politicians work overtime to push decent citizens into MASS TRANSIT, where you are then a contained target for becoming a victim.
How many ‘officers’ work for only the Mass Transit systems nationwide?
That alone is a terrible statistic-—but when you are trapped in a moving train car with men & women bent on giving you trouble....now you need more & more ‘mass transit police’.
These are officers completely separate from the regular police in your cities.
Now-—NObama & the Feds who thought it was OK to turn loose CONVICTED Black Panthers who were intimidating voters in Nov 2008 are willing to step in & think about trying Mehserle AGAIN of “violation of Oscar Grant’s civil right’s charges”.
Who thinks for one minute about the passengers on that train & others all over the country who are in fear every minute they are on these trains?
Want to push me out of my car? Think again.
Street justice...don’t you mean a “shopping spree”?
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