Why Nashville didn't have any looting during the floods.
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love the pic, but it's an old one. The first time I saw it was after the last big hurricane that hit Houston.
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Oakland wasn't as fortunate--
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<TD style="PADDING-TOP: 1px" vAlign=top>Oakland Chaos: Video of riots after BART ...
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Video courtesy: Tom Vee ( www.youtube.com ) and Stefan Reich ( www.youtube.com ) A jury has convicted a white former transit ...
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<TD style="PADDING-TOP: 1px" vAlign=top>Shocking Footage: Oscar Grant Verdict - Looting ...
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Foot Locker on 14th & Broadway gets looted after the verdict of involuntary manslaughter is announced on July 8, 2010. Funny ...
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<TD style="PADDING-TOP: 1px" vAlign=top>Riot in Oakland After Killer Cop Gets ...
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On January 1st 2009 Officer Johannes Mehserle shot Oscar Grant in the back after he was already restrained and on the ground ...
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<TD style="PADDING-TOP: 1px" vAlign=top>Oakland Chaos: Video of riots after BART ...
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<TD style="PADDING-TOP: 1px" vAlign=top>Reaction to Mehserle Verdict: Oakland, CA: 8 ...
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Community response to US systemic
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On January 1st 2009 Officer Johannes Mehserle shot Oscar Grant in the back after he was already restrained and on the ground ...
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Video courtesy: Tom Vee (www.youtube.com and Stefan Reich (www.youtube.com A jury has convicted a white former transit officer ...
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Community response to US systemic
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The media largely overplayed this. It was about a few dozen black-bandanna anarchists egging on about the same amount of black guys to break some windows in a very confined area of downtown Oakland.
Basically the police limited them to a very small area for possible mayhem. It was extremely minor. A few storefronts with broken windows. This is like G8 protests on heavy doses of marijuana.
That being said, I avoid Oakland on a peaceful day, so I was nowhere within teargas range of this event.
I honestly think the sentence was just and while some protesters were outraged, the relative lack of massive protests speaks to the point that it was pretty fair. Cop should lose his job (done) and do a few years behind bars for accidentally shooting someone.
Only a few dozen participated?
-- 80 arrested/800 participated? :SIB
However might note one paragraph that proved very promising--
Residents could be heard yelling at the younger protesters in the street to ?go home. This is our city. Don?t destroy it.?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...t-in-oakland-at-least-80-people-arrested.html
BART verdict: Oakland damage extensive from unrest; at least 80 arrested
July 9, 2010 | 7:16 am
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Oakland officials on Friday morning were trying to sort out the damage after serious looting in the downtown area following the BART verdict in which an ex-officer who killed an unarmed man was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Crowds of people roamed the streets following Thursday?s verdict into early Friday, smashing storefront windows, stealing merchandise, setting trash fires and tagging walls.
According to Oakland police, more than 80 people were arrested. Among the stores looted included a Foot Locker, Sears, 24 Hour Fitness as well as jewelry stores.
As of Friday, officials said calm had returned, and BART service -- which was stopped at some stations during the unrest -- had resumed.
Men sprayed graffiti on walls and windows on Broadway; one outside Tully?s Coffee read: ?You can?t shoot us all.? Large fires billowed out of dumpsters on 20th Street and Telegraph Avenue.
At 20th Street and Broadway, authorities released smoke to disperse a crowd that was overrunning police and throwing bottles at officers, according to Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts.
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/Batts said there were probably about 100 troublemakers out of up to 800 people who showed up at 14th Street and Broadway after Thursday?s verdict, in which former transit Officer Johannes Mehserle, a white man, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Oscar J. Grant III, an unarmed black man, at the Fruitvale BART station on Jan.1, 2009. Prosecutors had sought a stronger conviction of second-degree murder.
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http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/Batts described the troublemakers as ?anarchists? who came to Oakland to cause trouble and not peacefully express their views on the verdict.
?This city is not the wild, wild west,? he said. ?We will allow people to protest, but we will allow it to be done peacefully.?
Workers in Oakland evacuated the downtown core after news broke that the verdict was to be read, and store owners boarded up windows.
The demonstration throughout the early evening was largely peaceful but tense. People held up photos of Grant as police equipped with helmets and riot gear looked on. A sign draped over a light post read: ?Oakland says guilty.?
As darkness fell about 8 p.m. and most of the demonstrators went home, a group of people dressed in black and wearing black masks moved toward police.
?It was clear that they were taking an aggressive posture. ... We started taking a number of rocks and bottles,? Batts said. ?We then made a dispersal order.?
By 8:30 p.m., the looting began. People broke windows at a Rite-Aid drugstore. A California Highway Patrol car window was smashed, as was the window of a news television van.
Residents could be heard yelling at the younger protesters in the street to ?go home. This is our city. Don?t destroy it.?
The reaction in Los Angeles, where the trial was moved because of intense publicity in the Bay Area, was peaceful. A group of people upset with the verdict gathered in Leimert Park late Thursday, but the event was so peaceful that even the police left before the end.
Grant?s uncle, Kenneth Johnson, 48, came to see the rally but did not stand up to speak. Johnson, who lives in Los Angeles, said he was unhappy with the verdict and thought justice had not been served.
He was, however, glad to see Angelenos rallying for Grant.
?L.A., Oakland, the same things go on both places,? he said.
-- Maria L. La Ganga in downtown Oakland; Abby Sewell in Leimert Park; and Rong-Gong Lin II and Louis Sahagun in Los Angeles
Photo: A demonstrator taunts officers in downtown Oakland. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
-- 80 arrested/800 participated? :SIB
However might note one paragraph that proved very promising--
Residents could be heard yelling at the younger protesters in the street to ?go home. This is our city. Don?t destroy it.?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...t-in-oakland-at-least-80-people-arrested.html
BART verdict: Oakland damage extensive from unrest; at least 80 arrested
July 9, 2010 | 7:16 am
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Oakland officials on Friday morning were trying to sort out the damage after serious looting in the downtown area following the BART verdict in which an ex-officer who killed an unarmed man was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Crowds of people roamed the streets following Thursday?s verdict into early Friday, smashing storefront windows, stealing merchandise, setting trash fires and tagging walls.
According to Oakland police, more than 80 people were arrested. Among the stores looted included a Foot Locker, Sears, 24 Hour Fitness as well as jewelry stores.
As of Friday, officials said calm had returned, and BART service -- which was stopped at some stations during the unrest -- had resumed.
Men sprayed graffiti on walls and windows on Broadway; one outside Tully?s Coffee read: ?You can?t shoot us all.? Large fires billowed out of dumpsters on 20th Street and Telegraph Avenue.
At 20th Street and Broadway, authorities released smoke to disperse a crowd that was overrunning police and throwing bottles at officers, according to Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts.
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/Batts said there were probably about 100 troublemakers out of up to 800 people who showed up at 14th Street and Broadway after Thursday?s verdict, in which former transit Officer Johannes Mehserle, a white man, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Oscar J. Grant III, an unarmed black man, at the Fruitvale BART station on Jan.1, 2009. Prosecutors had sought a stronger conviction of second-degree murder.
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http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/Batts described the troublemakers as ?anarchists? who came to Oakland to cause trouble and not peacefully express their views on the verdict.
?This city is not the wild, wild west,? he said. ?We will allow people to protest, but we will allow it to be done peacefully.?
Workers in Oakland evacuated the downtown core after news broke that the verdict was to be read, and store owners boarded up windows.
The demonstration throughout the early evening was largely peaceful but tense. People held up photos of Grant as police equipped with helmets and riot gear looked on. A sign draped over a light post read: ?Oakland says guilty.?
As darkness fell about 8 p.m. and most of the demonstrators went home, a group of people dressed in black and wearing black masks moved toward police.
?It was clear that they were taking an aggressive posture. ... We started taking a number of rocks and bottles,? Batts said. ?We then made a dispersal order.?
By 8:30 p.m., the looting began. People broke windows at a Rite-Aid drugstore. A California Highway Patrol car window was smashed, as was the window of a news television van.
Residents could be heard yelling at the younger protesters in the street to ?go home. This is our city. Don?t destroy it.?
The reaction in Los Angeles, where the trial was moved because of intense publicity in the Bay Area, was peaceful. A group of people upset with the verdict gathered in Leimert Park late Thursday, but the event was so peaceful that even the police left before the end.
Grant?s uncle, Kenneth Johnson, 48, came to see the rally but did not stand up to speak. Johnson, who lives in Los Angeles, said he was unhappy with the verdict and thought justice had not been served.
He was, however, glad to see Angelenos rallying for Grant.
?L.A., Oakland, the same things go on both places,? he said.
-- Maria L. La Ganga in downtown Oakland; Abby Sewell in Leimert Park; and Rong-Gong Lin II and Louis Sahagun in Los Angeles
Photo: A demonstrator taunts officers in downtown Oakland. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
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Let me guess -- your not surrised because even after you took your shoes off you could figure diff between a few dozen and 800???
Never meant to say there weren't more than a few dozen people present, just that the "riot" was miniscule. 800 people protesting is really quite small in the scheme of things.
Tea-Party gatherings, G8 conferences, Miley Cyrus concerts, Free sub day at quiznos all trump this "riot"
I am not saying there wasn?t misbehaving or crimes or arrests or property damage.
More than anything I am saying this could have been so much worse and it?s a testament to the preparedness of law enforcement to contain problems and not let them get out of hand.
I hope the media's reporting of this situation reflected that.
Tea-Party gatherings, G8 conferences, Miley Cyrus concerts, Free sub day at quiznos all trump this "riot"
I am not saying there wasn?t misbehaving or crimes or arrests or property damage.
More than anything I am saying this could have been so much worse and it?s a testament to the preparedness of law enforcement to contain problems and not let them get out of hand.
I hope the media's reporting of this situation reflected that.
When was free sub day at Quiznos ?
Fuck ! I missed that ?
This thing took a radical turn from the start of the thread.
A bunch of citizens take up arms to protect their neighborhood in case Quiznos makes it a Combo !
Uhhh shitbags of all colors and stripes and polka dots too... decide to be bad.
Fuck ! I missed that ?
This thing took a radical turn from the start of the thread.
A bunch of citizens take up arms to protect their neighborhood in case Quiznos makes it a Combo !
Uhhh shitbags of all colors and stripes and polka dots too... decide to be bad.
Fek remarks were not intended for you--Your my fav and most reliable judge on west coast activity.
I do think you mistated event somewhat in this case on the #'s
--and on Tea parties -g-8 etc trumping this riot.
Are you inferring they trumpted the looting/rioting/arrests or just #'s that attended.
