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More protests: Highway 24 blocked; vandalism, looting in Berkeley
SFGate ^ | 12-8-2014 | Kale Williams, Erin Allday and Evan Sernoffsky

Posted on 12/08/2014 12:59:30 AM PST by tcrlaf

Hundreds of protesters returned to East Bay streets on Sunday for a second night of raucous demonstrations against police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.

Sunday’s protest started out largely peaceful in Berkeley, but by 9 p.m. crowds had climbed past lines of California Highway Patrol officers onto Highway 24 in Oakland, where they blocked multiple lanes of eastbound traffic.

Even as the crowd chanted “peaceful protest,” a group of people jumped on top of two law enforcement vehicles and kicked at the sirens, and several set small fires nearby. Police eventually moved protesters away from the cars, one of them damaged by fire.

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Later in the evening, large crowds still remained in the streets, migrating to downtown Berkeley. On Shattuck Avenue and nearby streets, some businesses were vandalized and looted, and some trash bins were set on fire. Downtown Berkeley BART station was also closed.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; ferguson; looting; protest
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Several stores looted, including Radio Shack and Whole Foods.

Because nothing says "SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!" more than looting Cell Phones and stealing booze! Hopey-Changey!!!

1 posted on 12/08/2014 12:59:31 AM PST by tcrlaf
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Well, that’s a responsible first line... /s

Seriously, GFY, SFGate. And I ain’t no boot-licker.


2 posted on 12/08/2014 1:05:31 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: tcrlaf

I want more than almost anything to be reincarnated in 5oo years and asked by the survivors “WTF was WRONG with people in your era?”

Because I would tell them. And they would know the truth forevermore.

“Lineralism.”


3 posted on 12/08/2014 1:45:28 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: tcrlaf

Bezerkley deserves their fate by worshiping liberalism.


4 posted on 12/08/2014 2:04:49 AM PST by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: tcrlaf

meanwhile when Conservatives protest even for 2nd amendment rights no business is burned or looted!


5 posted on 12/08/2014 2:07:21 AM PST by RginTN
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To: tcrlaf
killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.

with their hands up. Do not concern yourself with the full set of facts or contexts of the cases.

6 posted on 12/08/2014 2:15:53 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: tcrlaf

Oh no, they’re looting the acai and tofu! Time to take action!


7 posted on 12/08/2014 2:24:36 AM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: windsorknot

At least a few looked like preppy Bezerkly Students. No doubt their Professors are proud and will be handing out extra credits.


8 posted on 12/08/2014 2:25:32 AM PST by DAC21
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To: tcrlaf

Sot he Socialist have taken over the Racist riots. What’s next Anarchists?


9 posted on 12/08/2014 2:26:36 AM PST by McGruff (I'm thinkin)
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To: McGruff

They are Anarchists...lol


10 posted on 12/08/2014 2:27:51 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: DAC21

Yes, the useful idiots are out in force.


11 posted on 12/08/2014 2:28:33 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: tcrlaf

This is what happens when you try to ride the tiger.

Berkeley has been living off of this Social Justice crap since the 60s. Now the children have returned home, and they are carrying torches!


12 posted on 12/08/2014 3:07:39 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Every driver with a "Ready For Hillary" bumper sticker had to scrape off an "Obama 12" sticker)
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To: DAC21

I went to Berkeley about thirty years ago. When I see stuff going on, I am always cautious to not apply my experience so long ago to what is going on today, since things have surely changed and my experience from back then is no longer relevant.

Then I walk down Telegraph Avenue for about five minutes, and I realize that absolutely nothing has changed. Berkeley is caught in a time bubble, and they like it there. Things are just as screwed up now as they were back then.

It is frustrating, when you think about it.

Maybe having a bunch of real-life radicals coming in and “burning the bitch down” will rouse them from their fifty-year folly.


13 posted on 12/08/2014 3:13:30 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Every driver with a "Ready For Hillary" bumper sticker had to scrape off a "Obama 12" bumper sticker)
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To: tcrlaf

Bezerkley looted come now that could not happen in the liberal bastion of the scion of radical liberalism. Is not that where sandra Fluke is from too? I think I just answered my question - California the land of nuts, flakes and cereals!


14 posted on 12/08/2014 4:19:36 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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“demonstrations against police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York”

Oh please. They couldnt care less. Just need it for an excuse to vandalize and act like the a-holes they really are.


15 posted on 12/08/2014 4:59:17 AM PST by lowbridge
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You are correct about their glomming on as an excuse.

Across the board the rioting is the result of failed expectations

Obama hasn’t delivered. His continuous screwing up produced nothing but rhetoric.

There is no there there


16 posted on 12/08/2014 5:09:58 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Kackikat

“They are Anarchists...lol”

Anarchists want no government or a very small , limited government. The protesters thrive off of big government, thinking it’s the answer to everything. These people are not Anarchists. Everyone you don’t like is not an anarchist.


17 posted on 12/08/2014 5:14:33 AM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: tcrlaf

Whenever I want to persuade someone else to think like me, I always like to win them over by interfering with their commute ,yelling at them and setting fires.


18 posted on 12/08/2014 5:27:14 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: tcrlaf

These folks aren’t even smart enough to loot a good store. Radio Shack? Seriously?


19 posted on 12/08/2014 5:31:05 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: TurboZamboni

Whenever I want to persuade someone else to think like me, I always like to win them over by interfering with their commute ,yelling at them and setting fires
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Well, that is the ‘new world’.

Pols spend 10s of millions for a job that pays a smidgeon of that and spend all their time at their own party rallies.

Silly me, I always thought that the reason to campaign was to convince the OTHER side they should be voting for you, not turning away people from your hand picked rally.

Granted when they go to certain groups they get booed away, W from NAACP, Clinton and BO don’t always get ‘good’ visits from Vets Groups but when you are speaking at a ‘Service Organization’ it should be non political in the sense of not campaigning etc..

I don’t ‘like’ Clinton and BO for their obvious ‘dislike’ of the Military but they are ‘damned if they do and damned if they don’t go to say a wreath laying on Memorial Day’.
If they ‘show up’ the question is asked why are you on ‘Sacred Ground’ and if they don’t they get accused of not caring or ‘disrespecting’ (and they say I don’t get along) the group.


20 posted on 12/08/2014 5:41:53 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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