This is a follow-up to the story of the BART shooting. The Community felt the white cop who accidentally shot the thug who resisted arrest wasn’t being lynched quickly enough, so they organized a mob to pressure authorities to punish the cop for being white. Predictably, the mob got out of control. This is what happens whenever black people get together to protest violence.
BTW, this is the only reason I own a car. I’m an environmentalist at heart and would love to get rid of my car and use public transportation, but how can I ride mass transit with people like this? The last time my car was in the shop and I had to use mass transit, I saw a young black man checking his scalp for lice. I love my car!
How BART protest devolved into anarchy, rioting
…Shamar and others organized their rally to pressure authorities to more rigorously investigate the fatal shooting by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle of Oscar Grant , who was unarmed and lying on his face on the Fruitvale Station platform on New Year’s Day.
To organize the rally, Shamar said he and others drove from Dublin to Vallejo to San Francisco, handing out thousands of flyers. He posted notices online on a slew of sites, including Facebook groups, Indybay.org and MySpace.
The event began at 3 p.m. as a peaceful forum at the Fruitvale BART Station, where hundreds of participants waved signs and listened to speakers take turns at a microphone to voice their anger over the shooting and alleged police abuses. They sang civil rights songs. They said prayers.
Dereca Blackmon, 38, another one of the organizers, said the rally was intended to provide a “safe and proactive venue where citizens would be able to express the pain and the outrage that they felt at the execution of Oscar Grant III.”
…When the marchers reached the Lake Merritt BART Station around 6:15 p.m., Shamar saw things start to go bad. Marchers began kicking newspaper stands and using papers to start fires. As he saw them throwing bottles and spitting on police cars, Shamar said he wept and returned to the Fruitvale Station.
For the next four to five hours, marchers smashed and burned cars, shattered storefronts and clashed with police. Eventually, police arrested 105 protesters.
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