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NEWS: Protestors Demand Justice In Oakland Police Subway Shooting

Thursday, January 8, 2009

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Protesters wear signs on their backs that say ‘don’t shoot’ during a demonstration at the Fruitvale BART station Wednesday in Oakland, California.

grant.gif Oscar Grant was fatally shot in the back by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (B.A.R.T.) police officer early on New Year’s morning after police responded to reports of fighting on a train.

Protests, which began peacefully erupted shortly after Oscar Grant was laid to rest on Wednesday night.

According to CNN, the Oakland Police Department made 105 arrests, including a mass arrest of about 80 people at 11 p.m., said Officer Jeff Thomason. The charges include inciting a riot, vandalism, assault on a police officer and unlawful assembly, he said. One officer was injured, but not seriously, Thomason said.

Keep reading to view CNN video of the protesters in Oakland.

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76.

JUDAH

Friday, January 9, 2009 /

@Dukesman

Alright, I agree, but how does that resolve the issue? Whites have been PUT IN POWER for a certain dispensation of time by the Most High until their rulership is fulfilled like the empires before it. We are in the midst of the end of their reign. All that has nothing to do with the topic at hand which is the aimless rioting of people who are not aware of what is going on around them. You don’t go to war unless you have a plan and a goal. What is the plan and the goal of this rioting?

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dukesman2000

Friday, January 9, 2009 /

@Judah…

Right at this moment I do not believe the rioters have a plan or a goal and that is good. Sometimes when people sit down and think things over, they tend to lose their fervor. They are hurt and right now they are irrational, unreasonable and illogical. They don’t want to talk, they are a like a wounded animal that doesn’t care about anything but self preservation… Like the animal we are at our most dangerous…lol

Strategy comes later..lol

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JUDAH

Friday, January 9, 2009 /

We’ll see. If this was a nationwide issue with the black community, then I could agree that possibly emotional rioting could be translated into something organized. Not this though.

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FallBackHaters

Friday, January 9, 2009 /

SMH. I bet the police loved arresting the black folk that day. Once again they seem to have the power SMH.

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israel

Saturday, January 10, 2009 /

I feel sorry the family of this young man. A child should never die before their parents. SMH(sigh). Hopefully justice will be served.

Angel, question how come you can’t say anything homophobic on here yet there are clearly a lot racial comments be made all the time and they never get deleted?

Duke, and Judah I respectfully disagre with those outlandish comments.

81.

TRAY*TRAY

Saturday, January 10, 2009 /

I’m Black ……But i hate how Black people go on about the Police n stuff…….Yh what happened in Oakland was Horrible, But it was just a group of Officers not all the officers in the United States.

And to be honest, what does this riots really accomplish anyway, it still brings more Police anyway. The Police will never go away, they are there to serve n protect. And where are the riots, when its comes to Black on Black Violence, Why do we brush the bad things under the Carpet when it comes to Rapes, Burglaries, murders or drug dealing. Its like we ignore it, as along as it has nothing to do with u or your families.

I love Black People, don’t get me wrong, but we have to work on a lot of things..about ourselves

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JUDAH

Saturday, January 10, 2009 /

@Israel

What is so outlandish about my statements?

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mel

Saturday, January 10, 2009 /

The solution is to disconect from the emperialists as their time is coming to an end do no get caught up in anymore of their madness once these people have no one to rule will turn amongst themselves like the savages they are ,reconnect with your ancestral way of living, we shunned the whites because of their albino state and they are doing the same to us the only thing that will keep these people empowered is money and greed we have subconsconsciously been taught to hate ourself which is now hereditary ,do not carry on the hate disconect from the tel –lie vision ,the mis-education the misconception plus media and the self loathing .free your mind and the rest will follow our time is coming spiritually our ancestors are coming to claim their lost children ,black people are forced to beleive that the whites are superior and untouchable ,we have such a self loathing we would rather kill our own than kill a white person killing is something that is not in our genetic makeup ,we were never people to kill one another white people hate the way they look and are jealous of us because we are the original , look up the word for an australian black man aboringinal ,once you free your mind everything will fall into place you pay the police to protect not to kill this is why harder to accept, when they do this if their is no protection the kids will find their own way which i agree is wrong, hang in there my people remember our time is coming, educate your children love yourself, treat white man as equal to you, dont feel that you are anything less and dont settle for anything less ,violence is not the cure remain calm at all times think logically, respect family remember tha blacks were taken from our ancestral homeland you have choices to go back or stay and build a better future, we are a nation of builders remember th blacks built pryamids we were geniuses and still are ,dont be side lined by foolishness, love your fellow man hug each other when you see each other respect your women and children and women raise your children right get them off the t.v with all these programmes which are defemminsing our men remember when you talk amongst your girlfriends you have sons dont include them in the feminine tit for tat and gossiping do what my parents did send the out the room and men be fathers to your kids peace

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dukesman

Saturday, January 10, 2009 /

Israel

I don’t give a d@mn what you think. This isn’t a popularity contest; I am not looking for votes. Man, get the hell outta here.

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bay area trice

Sunday, January 11, 2009 /

@ salty:
amen brotha! that is exactly what I was thinking.

@ 58:
why were the signs idiotic? im sure the protestors didnt truely believe they were going to get shot. they were just trying to prove a point. and “dykes?” theres no need for name-calling. and those looked like guys to me.

@ 61:
store owners werent complaining about the riot damage b/c they didnt care about they cause. its b/c the damage was pointless. it didnt help the cause. the officer who shot Grant wasnt affected by the cars getting burned. he was probably sitting at home with his family eating dinner. but the shop owners, whether they had insurance or not, were negatively affected FOR NO REASON. they werent the ones who shot Grant. mostly minority protestors were destroying minority property and businesses. if they were mad at the BART organization and the OPD, it wouldve have made more sense to cause them some damage. b/c if the OPD is racist like many claim, then theyre not gonna care if minorities destroy their own neighborhoods.

and the protestors werent destroying their own personal property. none of them would go and burn their own car or business. why? b/c thats part fo their livelihood. that is why the oakland business owners were upset. are they not supposed to be able to make money b/c of Grant was murdered? even Grants own family still has to put food on the table. [and many of the protestors that were arrested werent even natives of Oakland. so they were destroying someone else's community]

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love

Sunday, January 11, 2009 /

reading this post I am amazed to see how blacl folks react to a white man killing ablack man or even worse a police officer……but yet when we kill each other we want to start that don’t snitch shit…..so is it ok for blacks to kill each other…turn your cheek s that what we are suppose to do in an afr-american community does life have no meaning when it is black of black ……or worse whena white person does it….life is precious and should be treated as such regardless of the perpetraitor killing in our community is wrong black, white,asian hispanic should be trearted like this incident is being treated

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israel

Sunday, January 11, 2009 /

@dukesman Yet you clearly think someone cares what you think.

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dukesman2000

Monday, January 12, 2009 /

@Israel

You obviously do because you took the time to read my post and were “infected” by it so much you made a comment. Imposter!

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Israel

Friday, January 16, 2009 /

@duke I really don’t care what you think. I just got tried of you hogging the post with your crazy talk so I broke the flow of the discussion and told y’all how I felt. That’s all.

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