Mehserle Sentencing Protest: OPD no dispersal order 11/05/2010

November 5, 2010

Protest stemming from the Mehserle sentencing that took place in Los Angeles earlier today, November 5, 2010. In Oakland the community response was to rally, but then also to march to Fruitvale BART station, the station where Oscar Grant was killed.

Rachel Jackson speaks to the few official press people left just before police began making arrests. At this moment no one knew where they could go, how to get out nor what was going to happen.

Loud speaker announcements were made that the area was declared a crime scene. There was never any indication to disperse, no dispersal order given, no declaration of martial law or anything like that at all. No one was allowed to leave once the police penned people in. Prior to that people were marching toward Fruitvale BART peacefully on city streets, they were met with riot gear police every few blocks until they were trapped in a culdesac type neighborhood.

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News & Politics

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• Oscar Grant
• BART
• OPD
• police brutality
• arrests
• verdict
• injustice
• involuntary manslaughter
• murder
• justice