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Photo slide show: Oakland cleans up after rioting following Mehserle verdict
Oakland Tribune / insidebayarea.com ^ | Posted: 07/09/2010 10:10:25 AM PDT, Updated: 07/09/2010 10:37:05 AM PDT | By Angela Hill, Oakland Tribune

Posted on 07/09/2010 12:46:22 PM PDT by thecodont

OAKLAND — Mike Issa couldn't believe the "gift" last night's looters left behind in his ransacked Jitters & Shakes coffee shop at 21st and Webster streets in downtown Oakland.

"You know what I say to the people who did this?" he asked, slapping a cracked cell phone on his counter. "I say, I have this phone here that you left when you smashed my store. That's a gift you've given me. Thank you for doing that. I can't wait to give this to the police."

Issa was one of dozens of downtown business owners who arrived at work to find shattered windows, stolen goods and spray-painted obscenities after Thursday night's protests against the verdict for the BART police officer in the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bart; mehserle; oakland; oaklandriots; oscargrant
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1 posted on 07/09/2010 12:46:25 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Van Jones must be proud.


2 posted on 07/09/2010 12:48:37 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Freddd

GIVE DEM DA WELF!

GIVE DEM DA WELF!


3 posted on 07/09/2010 12:50:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: thecodont

Can’t we all just get along?


4 posted on 07/09/2010 12:50:33 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: thecodont

“Oakland is our amusement park tonight”.


5 posted on 07/09/2010 12:52:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: thecodont

As rioting goes, this was a lousy bunch. Very disappointing.

They were, obviously, the lazy generation “X” or whatever
spawn of their much more prolific rioter parents down in LA.


6 posted on 07/09/2010 12:52:59 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: thecodont
If grafitti messages left by the rioters are any indication, 'rage' doesn't quite describe their mood, in spite of what the media reported.

"Oakland is our amusement park". What the hell does that mean?

7 posted on 07/09/2010 12:54:05 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: thecodont

Sometimes I wonder what the “authorities” would do if white people rioted every time something didn’t suit them. I’m guessing that it will never happen because white people have to pay the bills for the clean up.

When will African Americans give up such primitive methods of political dissent?


8 posted on 07/09/2010 12:54:20 PM PDT by chickadee
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To: skeeter

“”Oakland is our amusement park”. What the hell does that mean?”

Their own playground, their property, their plaything.


9 posted on 07/09/2010 12:57:22 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: skeeter

I’m thinking that the educated kids from out of town were responsible for the spray-painted graffiti: note its legibility, good spelling, and good grammar.


10 posted on 07/09/2010 12:57:46 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: chickadee

Maybe the middle-to-upper class white anarchists who were egging them on should give it up, too.


11 posted on 07/09/2010 12:57:46 PM PDT by livius
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To: chickadee

Not until the State does something like roll in tanks and shove the the thugs against the wall and execute them via firing squad.


12 posted on 07/09/2010 12:58:13 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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Why would anyone leave their store unprotected.

I would do just what the Korean storekeepers did in LA.

Grab my AK and a couple thousand rounds and shoot every one who tried to break into my store or anyone elses store.

Let them eat lead.

13 posted on 07/09/2010 1:01:17 PM PDT by troy McClure
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To: thecodont
"I say, I have this phone here that you left when you smashed my store. That's a gift you've given me. Thank you for doing that. I can't wait to give this to the police."

Good luck with that. It will probably lead you to the person/store the phone was stolen from not the one who dropped it in your store.

14 posted on 07/09/2010 1:02:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL!


15 posted on 07/09/2010 1:02:55 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: thecodont

Now the feds (Holder Justice Dept) whom we know will not prosecute blacks for any crimes, are going to look into this case and see if they can prosecute on federal charges.

Of course they will find them.

Wish California would tell them the state is already taking care of it, it’s a state crime, not a federal crime, and we know you don’t want states helping you out with law enforcement issues, so we also don’t need your help, we’re taking care of it.


16 posted on 07/09/2010 1:05:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: thecodont

I see several white kids—probably trust fund babies from Washington and Oregon—in these photos perpetrating the violence. These are paid agitators.

Think twice before accusing black or Hispanic kids of this violence.


17 posted on 07/09/2010 1:09:58 PM PDT by Palladin (David Petraeus: "I don't use terms like victory or defeat.")
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To: thecodont

“Say no to work, yes to looting!”

“You can’t shoot us all.”

“Looting is fun!”

Some of the slogans left behind by the Oakland hooligans.


18 posted on 07/09/2010 1:20:42 PM PDT by Kandy Atz ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want for bread.")
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To: Kandy Atz

“You can’t shoot us all.”

If only they’d have shot 10% of them.


19 posted on 07/09/2010 1:24:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: thecodont

Interesting that all the visible “protestors” are WHITE !


20 posted on 07/09/2010 1:28:55 PM PDT by jimt
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