Posted on 07/09/2010 12:37:21 AM PDT by NoLibZone
As the verdict reached the streets, hundreds converged in downtown Oakland for mostly peaceful protests before swelling to a crowd of more than a thousand, with a hard-core splinter group of rioters clashing with police and wreaking havoc in downtown.
By late evening, hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the Bay Area had descended downtown to help local police quell the protesters. Wearing black masks, many looted stores, smashed windows and rolled trash bins into the streets while setting them on fire. At one point, protesters began throwing M-1000 fireworks at law enforcement officers and other demonstrators.
Stephen Allen, a 22-year-old protester from West Oakland, got caught near a mob that broke through the gate of the Foot Locker shoe store and looted the store of sneakers and sportswear. Moments later, a masked man, in one swift and violent blow of a long object, broke the window of the Far East National Bank across the street.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
LOL like the people at the G20 or Greece.
I can take out some of the later responses about “reparations” and “redistributions” If one can cull even a fraction of the murder,rape,manslaughter,robbery loss,etc done to “whites” it far exceeds, It was like an internal war which even the sSoviets played on and continue to. It was like the “useful idiots” it was the seed of rot or things we as Americans don’t see. It is seen and we pay for it over and over.
I would tend to agree with you, but I think Obama is only truly happy when the government does the redistribution - people doing on their own diminishes his heavenly province.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_15469932?nclick_check=1
This is a set of reports with a time line. The latest is first, so it makes better sense read from the bottom up. It appears to be reasonably unbiased straight reporting of facts.
DG
Our multicultural society only works when people value and identify with being American first and foremost.
The bamster is having the DOJ look at the verdict in this trial. I guess whitey did not get enough punishment for shooting a "Brother". Do you think the DOJ is going to look into the riots for possible hate crimes? This whole administration is the MOST RACIST in US history.
I firmly believe that there a lot of good black men and women who could be president, but this guy has ruined that for them. My future grandchildren will have grandchildren before another black man or woman is even considered for president.
Dontcha just LOVE anarchists? /S
“I say we pull out and nuke ‘em from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
I wonder what new sneakers are going for on eBay? At least it wasn’t BestBuy. Ever notice BestBuy hies themselves off to suburban shopping malls?
No way, man!
The 60’s radical “make love, not war” crowd have now become reps & senators. They all gave up what they thought they stood for. NO moral compass!
Such is life in a third world country...
How sad is that?
I’ll take the Shadow for 500. =)
That’s not good enough. They want the death penalty.
obamanites
I am so sick of this racial crap!
It seems that black leaders and the dems want to fuel the fire.
They turn the other way when it’s black on white crime.
They are fueling a race war and it will be horrible.
CWII will be Soro’s race war.
They are “peace challenged”.
Eric Holder has pronounced that it (black on white crimes) are to not even be investigated! It’s coming...the next civil war....and it’s is being fomented and sanctioned by this regime...be prepared!
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