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Oakland Streets Erupt Into ’12 Hours Of Non-Stop Chaos’; Homicides, Shootings, Sideshow Violence
CBS, San Francisco ^ | July 6, 2021

Posted on 07/06/2021 8:56:24 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — The Fourth of July reeled into “12 hours of non-stop chaos” Sunday night with several victims wounded by celebratory gunfire, a homicide and a massive sideshow marred by gunfire. The night culminated at the sideshow, where more than 200 participants pelted police officers with debris and flashed them with hand-held lasers.

Embattled Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong told reporters that the level of violence and gunfire overwhelmed his officers.

“ If you look at the shoot period of time of 6 hours with 6 shootings, that requires a lot of resources,” Armstrong said. “That was difficult and officers had to run from scene to scene.”

“This was 12 hours of non-stop chaos,” he continued. “This is one of the most violent July 4ths I can remember.”

While celebratory gunfire has been a hallmark of New Year’s Eve and July 4th for years, Armstrong said it reeled completely out of control on Sunday.

“The level of violence is far too high,” he said. “Our officers were stretched and did the best we could. We are dealing with challenges. Celebratory gunfire led to the vast majority of these shooting and injuring others. The last 24 hours has been very difficult in the city of Oakland.”

At one point, there were no ambulances available to help treat the injured.

“That just goes to show you to the level of violence that we were managing that we didn’t have ambulances available to help to come and provide medical support it was taking them a significant amount of time to get there,” Armstrong said. “That even concerned our officers.”

There were 7 shootings overnight, one that claimed the life of a 48-year-old man. An eighth shooting took place at around 9:54 a.m. Monday in the 2400 block of 88th Avenue near MacArthur Boulevard.

Arriving police officers discovered a woman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was rushed to the hospital, but Armstrong said she was not expected to survive.

While they were racing to respond to several reports of shootings, Oakland officers were also confronted with trying to deal with a massive sideshow.

“We encountered a violent and dangerous sideshow with 300 vehicles and 200 spectators with the use of firearms and lasers,” Armstrong said. “It went across the city.”

Police made three arrests related to the sideshow and five weapons were seized. Armstrong said one spectator was struck by a vehicle and suffered severe injuries that could lead to lifelong treatment.

“This is a warm summer,” Armstrong said. “We are at 67 homicides…We have seen violence and shootings continue to occur. It’s a challenging time. Warm weather brings people out. We will have to do something as violence continues. We are losing people at an alarming rate and we all need to recognize how much trauma and hurt and pain is in our community and we have to stop. Previously I would have told you hopefully this will slow down as the pandemic slows things to open back up but we haven’t seen that. We have seen violence continue.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; bidenamerica; blm; burnlootmurder; california; july4th; obamalegacy
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To: Reno89519
State police? National Guard? Or is this just another no-go zone left to fester locally?

With all due respect, any law enforcement will be criticized and then the officers will be up for indictments and prosecution by hostile DAs and sent to vengeful anti-cop juries for the Chauvin treatment.

"When you grabbed the black man about to throw the burning Molotov cocktail at his ex girlfriend, how did you know he wasn't about to start a block party barbecue with the flame?"

I know you would like justice to be served but it doesn't work when the Left runs it all.

21 posted on 07/06/2021 9:14:05 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“A massive sideshow marred by gunfire”?
The gunfire was the main event.


22 posted on 07/06/2021 9:18:37 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: SgtHooper

If this is true, then why am I not seeing this kind of chaos in the southeast?


23 posted on 07/06/2021 9:23:50 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Feral animals.


24 posted on 07/06/2021 9:24:12 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Mr. Mojo

wherever there is at least 1 black there is a strong likelihood of some sort of chaos or violence. Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Stillwater all canceled the 4th of July celebrations giving as their excuse that it wasn’t in their budget, the real reason is that they knew that there would be an eruption of violence and chaos by their pets.


25 posted on 07/06/2021 9:26:10 AM PDT by euram
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

You mean pull out all resources and leave? Well, leave all the equipment for them to use.


26 posted on 07/06/2021 9:27:13 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Mr. Mojo
This was obviously a dispute over the nature of the protagonist/antagonist relationships in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Is it Ishmael (the narrator) the protagonist? Is the whale itself the antagonist? It can be argued that Ahab is the antagonist, as he is willing to sacrifice everything - the ship and the crew - in order to achieve his revenge on the whale, Moby Dick.

Naturally, violence was the only resort.

27 posted on 07/06/2021 9:35:22 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Not to be talked about. (Just some celebrants letting off steam.)

The important thing is to get Trump’s tax returns and then prosecute him so that he can never run for office again.


28 posted on 07/06/2021 9:45:42 AM PDT by RAldrich
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To: Mr. Mojo

What is a “Sideshow”? I don’t think we have those around here, certainly not in my neighborhood.


29 posted on 07/06/2021 9:51:11 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: SpaceBar

“Oakland has been known as the anus of the Bay Area for at least sixty years.”

I was stationed at NAS Alameda in 69’ and went to Oakland to see a movie. I was standing out front when three Hell’s Angels pulled up and said ‘you need to leave now, it’s not safe for you here’. They waited with me till the bus came.


30 posted on 07/06/2021 9:56:10 AM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: rktman
More or less. What's different about what is actually being done in Portland? Is there any effort to re-civilize Portland going on?

In terms of retrieving gear, it probably costs about as much or more to load a used, tired Humvee onto a transport plane (which in no small way would be vulnerable to shoot-down during the loading) as to buy a new one. Nothing that a $15 thermite charge atop the engine wouldn't fix in about 45 seconds. Or shoot the block w/a .50 BMG.

31 posted on 07/06/2021 10:15:03 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Maybe, we should give Oakland the Afghanistan treatment.

You mean: Declare victory and then withdraw?

Regards,

32 posted on 07/06/2021 10:16:21 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: certrtwngnut

So let the sideshow begin
Hurry, hurry, step right on in
Can’t afford to pass it by
Guaranteed to make you cry
Let the sideshow begin (hurry, hurry)
Hurry, hurry, step right on in
Can’t afford to pass it by
Guaranteed to make you cry

-Blue Magic


33 posted on 07/06/2021 10:20:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Who knew?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow_(automobile_exhibition)


34 posted on 07/06/2021 10:22:21 AM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: catnipman

Yep, they got a whole year to prepare


35 posted on 07/06/2021 10:26:55 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Mr. Mojo

“This is a warm summer,” It’s ALWAYS a warm summer in the Deep South but we usually just turn on the air conditioning as opposed to shooting each other. Have they been able to determine whether it was racism or white supremacy that caused this?


36 posted on 07/06/2021 10:34:06 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: SpaceBar
The Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton used to have a wonderful July 4th celebration until the BART station opened and gangs from Oakland and Richmond started to show up.

The first year after the BART station opened ended with gunfire at the midway rides, and the fair closed at 6:00pm on all Independence Days since then.

-PJ

37 posted on 07/06/2021 10:34:17 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Mr. Mojo

If we only still had Midnight Basketball.


38 posted on 07/06/2021 10:39:51 AM PDT by SIDENET (ISAIAH 5:20)
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To: SpaceBar

Great. Now you’ve managed to insult the anuses of the world.


39 posted on 07/06/2021 10:43:34 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Mr. Mojo

NYC ALREADY DOES THIS TYPE STUFF IS WHAT GOT GULIANI ELECTED GOVERNOR. BROKEN WINDOW THEORY BROUGHT THE RATES WAY DOWN, IDIOTS FORGOT, AND ELECTED LIBERALS, IT CLIMBED AGAIN.

400 SHOOTINGS, 150 DEAD https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-july-4th-holiday-weekend-400-shootings-150-dead-gun-violence-20210706-mqorbsc3ijhufm3wgabj4k3ev4-story.html

CHICAGO 80 SHOOTINGS 14 DEAD https://www.theepochtimes.com/officials-more-than-80-shot-14-dead-over-july-4th-weekend-in-chicago_3887354.html


40 posted on 07/06/2021 10:43:47 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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