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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:31 PM Original message |
Protests Over BART Shooting Turn Violent (Oakland) |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. Some Oakland BART stops were closed for awhile. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. Do you know if the coverage is streaming anywhere? |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. That's what I would have recommended. There are already some videos... |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's about time people started fighting back. |
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subsuelo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
63. Hey if Israel can massacre hundreds of Gazans and get away with it |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. Completely foreseeable. It's insane that they've been so lax in dealing with this. |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. What's fucked up is that they destroy their own neighborhoods. Why not go the cops neighborhood. |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 08:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
40. What's actually fucked up is that the cops don't live in the neighborhood they police. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 02:58 PM Response to Reply #40 |
61. Who patrols the neighborhhods were police officers live? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 11:00 AM Response to Reply #6 |
54. The officer in question lives in a small city in a rural county |
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Threedifferentones (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 03:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
62. This is the sad truth about riots, at least in America, from what I have seen. |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. "No justice, no peace. Fuck the police." |
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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. They just blew up a random car parked on the street |
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chollybocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. The revolution starts at 11 |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. I knew this was comming. If they exonerate the officer. |
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SpookyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 12:39 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. If they exonerate that cop, I'll be on the steet as well. |
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VP505 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
11. What would they expect the public reaction to be |
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Peggy Day (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
13. Rioting in Oakland, Ca because of the Bart killing |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. You might want to give a description....some of us are on dial-up |
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Peggy Day (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. My take is that some people were protesting, and it got out of hand. |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #15 |
41. Thanks for the info. n/t |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Here's a link |
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npk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. They burned an AA owned business |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. It's a disgrace and a dishonor, but they have arrested 14 people |
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npk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I agree 100% |
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Sultana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Dumb fucks |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #18 |
29. Well no they didn't burn any businesses... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 10:46 AM Response to Reply #29 |
52. It's certainly going to hurt all the businesses in the area |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Luckily the Oakland Police are on top of this, surely more competent than BARTpolice |
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npk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Yeah the officers who have to clean up this mess |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. According to KTVU tonight, the theory about mistaking gun for taser is undermined |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. I wonder how they defend the taser |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. attorneys and experts interviewed are saying he was not supposed to draw his gun |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Transit beat cops shouldn't even have weapons. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Transit cops should ride the trains...BART police ride these |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #30 |
38. I agree with all of what you wrote, because I never see them |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 11:19 AM Response to Reply #30 |
58. BART doesn't run the buses? |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. BART only includes specific rail lines |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 11:12 AM Response to Reply #28 |
56. they don't here in sacramento |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
53. Two words "forcing compliance" |
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WTF_2009 (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. Rioting in Oakland, Ca because of the Bart killing |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
32. You are generous. I can't see "accident" in that video. n/t |
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John Kerry VonErich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Only a matter of time before riots get perverted into a Warzone |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
27. Is this any surprise? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. The footage I saw tonight showed downtown completely out of control. |
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mackerel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. I heard the cop resigned-any truth to it? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. He seems to have submitted a letter of resignation. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 09:30 AM Response to Reply #35 |
45. "Johannes Mehserle" |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #45 |
55. Sounds Krautish to me |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Could be.... |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #31 |
37. BART cops have a reputation of abusiveness? |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 08:46 AM Response to Reply #37 |
42. Oakland cops do. n/t |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 09:15 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. I'm aware of that, but (A) they weren't the officers who shot this |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 09:39 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Me neither. |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
36. FOr those that don't know the root cause -- A BART Police Officer executed a civilian |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 07:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
39. The rioting in Greece started over the killing of one man. |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 08:47 AM Response to Reply #39 |
43. It was the killing of a 14yo boy, actually n/t |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #43 |
49. Yes, and he was killed by a ricochet, not an aimed bullet. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
46. I don't understand. What is it about summary executions that they don't like? |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 09:41 AM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Remember when "Suicide by Cop" was in fashion? |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
50. 105 arrested |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
51. Shouldn't people wait until the cop is exonerated before they start rioting? |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
59. Does anyone know if this was the Black Bloc? |
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