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Oscar Grant Protest - 1/14/09

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Uploaded by on Jan 15, 2009

This protest took place in downtown Oakland, CA on January 14, 2009 to condemn the shooting of Oscar Grant by BART police. Approximately 1,200 protesters marched from City Hall to the Alameda County Administration building and back remaining peaceful throughout its duration. After the rally ended, a small group of lingering protesters engaged in several stand-offs with the police. As you can see in the video, the police often backed away, retreating the immediate area to minimize escalation of tensions. Even when several bottles were thrown the police continued to remain neutral. Around 8:30pm a rash of vandalism suddenly broke out as a small group of protesters smashed windows of multiple businesses and cars in the area. I quickly left the area as soon as this started to happen! Sorry youtube!

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  • who were the people with the orange flashing vest? protestors? or like volunteer protest organizers?

  • volunteer security....they did a good job forming barriers between the crowd and police but that only worked for so long, haha.

  • Oh man, that guy at 3:00 must be a San Fran legend. I saw him on TV in a program on the Lovefest. They let him ramble for about three minutes. His philosophy is all about an absurd mish mash of made up pseudo-scientific words. By the way,nice footage jayson. I hope some amount of justice can be made out of this mess.

  • That guy is a legend. There's even a wikipedia article on him. Thank you for watching!

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  • @italianruler1

    Let's start a survey - How many kids have you hassled and stalked????

  • Lets start a survey---- Whats worse? Niggers or Police????

  • Fuck Greece!

  • NO JUSTICE

    NO PEACE

    FUCK THE POLICE

    solidarity from greece

  • there was a riot in my middle school and the teachers backed the fuck off and flares were going up

  • man i love fucking riots

  • I used to stay in oakland long time ago thank god I aint there no mo.

  • Good post!

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