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East Bay | Police State and PrisonsStreet Action After Oscar Grant Rally and March, Oakland, 1/7/09: photos & video (2 of 3)
After a police car was attacked and riot police fired tear gas at 8th Street and Madison, protesters ran through the streets in small groups, occasionally re-massing until standoffs with police forced them to split into smaller groups again.  oakland_010709631_1.jpg The original march numbered in the hundreds, but after the tear gas attack from police the number of protesters remaining was halved overall for the rest of the night.
This first photo was taken after still-active protesters had dispersed west down 8th Street toward Broadway and most of the riot police had moved slowly after them. The two officers who had abandoned their vehicle to marchers stand to the right. Video of the precipitating escalation with the police cruiser can be found here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/08/18560134.php.
§8th Street between Madison and Broadway
At the end of the first of two short clips here, you can see riot police walking up Washington after the group. Then as the riot police move toward the group, people disperse down 9th east toward Broadway.
 oakland_010709650_2.jpg  oakland_010709657.jpg The crowd that had scattered down 8th Street and some down 7th Street after the tear gas, began to coalesce and move up Broadway together. Second-hand reports of some arrests on 7th Street between OPD police station and parking lot before stand-off on 9th.
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 oakland_010709710.jpg  oakland_010709712.jpg  oakland_010709724.jpg Most businesses in that area of Broadway locked their security gates and closed for the night
 oakland_010709728.jpg  oakland_010709730_1.jpg  oakland_010709730_2.jpg  oakland_010709741.jpg  oakland_010709744.jpg  oakland_010709751_2.jpg  oakland_010709751_3.jpg The police pushed slowly, but hard, using batons and knocking several people to the ground.
From here, the serious social unrest began... Street Action Begins After Oscar Grant Rally and March, Oakland, 1/7/09: short video clip (1 of 3):
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/08/18560134.php Street Action After Oscar Grant Rally and March, Oakland, 1/7/09: photos (3 of 3): http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/11/18561459.php |
