Crazy Shit going down in Oakland

[OSUBlazerfan]

@californiabeat BREAKING: Mass vandalism and looting being reported throughout Uptown Oakland. Beauty shop windows broken, fires being set

NOW: Vandals spraypainting Caltrans building at Webster and Grand.

Bottles being thrown at police officers at 17th and Broadway now.

BREAKING: Protesters are breaking windows to a bank at 14th and Broadway. CHP has arrived to provide assistance to Oakland Police.

Reaction to Mehserle's involuntary manslaughter conviction:

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Well, OSU football players make it with sheep and Oaklandites loot, plunder and pillage.

It's what this world has come to.

 

[julius]

Well, U of O football players physically assault girlfriends, steal laptops and get kicked off football teams (and then get kicked out of school) and Oaklandites loot, plunder and pillage.

It's what this world has come to.

indeed.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

? necessary?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

...yeah, how is this different than any other Thursday?

 

[Eastoff]

Well, OSU football players make it with sheep and Oaklandites loot, plunder and pillage.

It's what this world has come to.

I would wager the shop owners dislike your attempt at humor.

 

[jlprk]

And what do black people dislike? Getting shot to death while lying face down?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

And what do black people dislike?

the police?

law and order?

respect for private businesses and individuals?

otherwise they wouldn't riot. These people don't give a fuck about the cause. They just want free shit and to break stuff.

 

[The Sebastian Express]

the police?

law and order?

respect for private businesses and individuals?

otherwise they wouldn't riot. These people don't give a fuck about the cause. They just want free shit and to break stuff.

It's always good to make sure Black people aren't seen as individuals. It is also good to say they don't care, because surely people can never be sick and tired of being profiled and abused by other human beings.

 

[J~Rush]

the police?

law and order?

respect for private businesses and individuals?

otherwise they wouldn't riot. These people don't give a fuck about the cause. They just want free shit and to break stuff.

I'm sorry.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I'm sorry.

well, at least you have a new playstation?

 

[BrianFromWA]

I hadn't heard a lick about this story, so I went to look up some articles. Struck me as a bit odd that NPR's take on this was:

Peaceful protesters filled city streets, furious over the involuntary manslaughter conviction of former BART officer, Johannes Mehserle. Mehserle, who's white, shot unarmed passenger Oscar Grant in the back and killed him on Jan. 1, 2009. Some protests turned ugly after dark, after a group of people faced off with officers, and at least 50 people were arrested.

from last week's SFGate.com:

Mehserle's claim that the shooting was accidental may be plausible, he said, but Grant is dead and someone needs to be held accountable for that. If the shoe were on the other foot, and the victim was a white guy, regardless of the cop's race, someone would surely answer for it, Reeves said.

Tears don't convince
The former police officer's teary-eyed explanation from the witness stand last week did nothing to change Reeves' opinion of the case. If anything, it only hardened his well-founded cynicism toward the justice system.

"I've seen a lot of brothers who offered tearful apologies," he said. "They weren't cops, and they received the maximum sentence."

Oakland not villain
For scores of people in the Bay Area, the videotaped killing of Grant is the Bay Area equivalent of the 1991 Rodney King beating in Los Angeles. To them, the Grant video is the latest in a pattern of African American residents being abused by government authorities who are sworn to protect them.

Still, while there will almost surely be some public reaction to the Mehserle verdict on the streets of Oakland, about the only thing more discouraging to some than absolving the former officer of blame and responsibility would be to vent that anger at the struggling city of Oakland and its residents.

 

[mobes23]

Well, OSU football players make it with sheep and Oaklandites loot, plunder and pillage.

It's what this world has come to.

... and UO football players play with their dildos.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

indeed.

Now don't be messin' with my post.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I would wager the shop owners dislike your attempt at humor.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.............. maybe. Maybe not. But then again, I'm more interested in needling an OSU fan than appeasing shop owners in Oakland.

 

[crandc]

The report was correct. The protests were angry but peaceful.

The idiots were out of towners who come along for the ride on every protest as an excuse to act like assholes. Not that it takes much acting. BTW, most of them are white. The call themselves "anarchists" but they are not. Anarchism is a polltical philosophy. It is not about taking shoes from Foot Locker. These jerks know nothing about anarchist theory or history. They are just jerks. We don't want them in our city.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

the police?

law and order?

respect for private businesses and individuals?

otherwise they wouldn't riot. These people don't give a fuck about the cause. They just want free shit and to break stuff.

I would somewhat agree. It's not about a cause, it's about rioting to riot. I notice they aren't tearing down their houses or their businesses.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

... while posters named mobes 23 play with their dildos.

There we go.

 

[Shooter]

I love the logic . . . If a court ruling goes against you, turn your own neighborhood upside down. Same thing happened after the Rodney King verdict; the local people burned down local grocery stores, liquor stores, and shops, and then had to drive even farther to buy the things they needed. Not to mention the fact that they ruined their own streets and lowered their property values even more.

Does it ever occur to these people to go into SOMEONE ELSE'S neighborhood and burn that down??

 

[crandc]

I love the logic . . . If a court ruling goes against you, turn your own neighborhood upside down. Same thing happened after the Rodney King verdict; the local people burned down local grocery stores, liquore stores, and shops, and then had to drive even farther to buy the things they needed. Not to mention the fact that they ruined their own streets and lowered their property values even more.

Does it ever occur to these people to go into SOMEONE ELSE'S neighborhood and burn that down??

Not that facts ever deterrred Talkhard/Shooter, but that is exactly what did happen. People came to our city. I know he has me on permanent ignore, but could someone link him to actual Bay Area media? Not his blogs and talking points?

 

[tlongII]

Not that facts ever deterrred Talkhard/Shooter, but that is exactly what did happen. People came to our city. I know he has me on permanent ignore, but could someone link him to actual Bay Area media? Not his blogs and talking points?

I quoted you so maybe he'll see your response.

 

[crandc]

Thanks. I may sound harsh but this is my city, people here know it was not the locals. And what those who don't know really mean is "there go those n---s again being criminals".

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

why would the city ANTICIPATE riots then? They would only do this if they are being racist! They make assumptions based on.....

 

[THE HCP]

What you fools know about fucking riots FAMS!?!?! Any of you been in a riot with Mexicans and Blacks?!?!?!? Thats what I thought FAMS! I been caught in a riot 20 times FAMS! I'm typing this in the computer room in prison right now.............. and my password is FAMS!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

i heard the federal government wants to look into this case now? wtf.

 

[Minstrel]

i heard the federal government wants to look into this case now? wtf.

A civil rights investigation, apparently:

Mehserle could be facing more than state prison time if a civil rights investigation planned by the U.S. Justice Department leads to charges and a federal conviction.

In a move reminiscent of the Rodney King beating case in Los Angeles, federal authorities said they will investigate the shooting.

Federal officials stepped into the King case after a state court jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in 1992 of using excessive force, touching off three days of riots, 53 deaths and more than $1 billion in damage.

The two officers convicted of federal civil rights violations in the King beating were each sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. A federal jury acquitted the two other officers.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...ughter-in-train-station-killing-98089889.html

 

[jlprk]

The report was correct. The protests were angry but peaceful. The idiots were out of towners who come along for the ride on every protest as an excuse to act like assholes. Not that it takes much acting. BTW, most of them are white. The call themselves "anarchists" but they are not. Anarchism is a polltical philosophy. It is not about taking shoes from Foot Locker. These jerks know nothing about anarchist theory or history. They are just jerks. We don't want them in our city.

Crandc never fails to agree with the conservatives and criticize the left. Every...single...time.

After 7-8 years of watching, I'm still waiting for the first exception.

 

[crandc]

According to Oakland PD, hardly sympathetic to protesters, about 25% of those arrested were Oakland residents. Over half were from out of area or out of state.

I know it is safely racist to blast Oakland for trashing our own city, but that did not happen. Suburban white kids came in and trashed the city, no politics, just parasites. Oakland protested, not trashed.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

link to the suburban white looters?

i'd love to see that video!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Suburban white kids came in and trashed the city

That's why the Government is getting involved. Only black kids are allowed to loot and trash the city.