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East Bay | Police State and Prisons | Racial JusticeThis Is What a Police State Looks Like, Oakland City Hall, 1/31/09: photos
Tonight's "Justice for Oscar Grant! Oakland City Hall Rally" was met by a small army of police determined to shut down any demonstration by those demanding accountability for police abuses.  cityhall01_013109619.jpg Cops on every corner at 14th and Broadway. The two corporate drug store chains and other businesses had their security gates drawn early tonight — perhaps after a warning from Dellum's new "immediate, real-time" communication with corporations downtown.
§Too many patrol cars and cops in the area to even count
 cityhall02_013109624.jpg  cityhall03_013109625.jpg  cityhall04_013109634.jpg  cityhall05_013109642_2.jpg similar to the one from yesterday: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/31/18567351.php#18567359
 cityhall06_013109645.jpg They think it's cute to shine their lights at you when you try to photograph them.
 cityhall07_013109724.jpg  cityhall08_013109730.jpg  cityhall10_013109642_1.jpg  cityhall11_013109734.jpg and it's little wonder why when IA has shown itself to be corrupt time and time again, currently under investigation by the FBI as the head of IA, Capt. Ed Poulson, participated in the beating death of a suspect in 2000: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/24/18565434.php and http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/27/18566002.php
 cityhall12_013109640_1.jpg  cityhall13_013109637.jpg  cityhall14_013109626.jpg  cityhall15_013109657_2.jpg  cityhall16_013109657_1.jpg  cityhall17_013109659.jpg  cityhall19_013109723.jpg Two speakers spoke at the top of the stairs to the BART entrance. As they spoke, the security gates were closed. Several demands were declared, including the conviction of Mehserle and the arrest of BART officer Pirone, who was videotaped punching and then holding down Oscar Grant when Mehserle shot him in the back (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/24/18565520.php). After the speakers expressed the community's demands, demonstrators dispersed to take the fight for justice to another day.
Hopefully, video taken of speakers will make it over current technical glitch and be able to be posted here soon. view it here:
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Saturday Jan 31st, 2009 11:18 PM
thanks for the coverage dave id! always good to see your posts.
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