This month's ride is sure to be met with police repression given the current state of affairs in oakland. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

organised this protest but even tho i dislike there political maoist views ill be going for a shared cause and i think every one else who feels the same should come also

Unarmed Couple Shot at By Salinas Police
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/04/18568396.php

"A routine traffic stop Tuesday night on Sanborn and Freedom Pwky ended with gunfire as two Salinas police officers opened fire on a SUV. The couple inside the car is speaking out and saying they did nothing wrong and that the officers shot at them with no warning."

"Velasquez said the officer thought Hernandez had a gun, which she said was just his wallet."

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Never forget Amadou Diallo.

"Investigation found no weapons on Diallo's body; the item he had pulled out of his jacket was not a gun, but a wallet."

"Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975 – February 4, 1999) was a 23-year-old immigrant to the United States from Guinea, who was shot and killed on February 4, 1999, by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers: Sean Carroll, Brendan Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss. The four men fired a total of 41 rounds. Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside New York City. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Diallo

Don't forget the 20 year old black man Gary King who was shot and killed on September 20, 2007 by Oakland policeman Pat Gonzales. King was unarmed and had been talking with his friends in front of a store on MKL Way in North Oakland. The cop, who had seen Gary King from the other side of MLK, thought that King "might" be someone of interest in an ongoing investigation. He accosted King, who likely panicked and ran away. The cop shot him as he ran.

Gary’s mother, Cathy King, said “[Gary] was 20. He had his whole life ahead of him and now he doesn’t.” And she said, “I want the cop arrested for murder. I believe that man murdered my son in cold blood.”

According to an article in Counterpunch by George Cicarriello-Maher, who investigated the killing of Gary King:

"…Gary King and a group of friends were walking out of East Bay Liquors. A patrol officer, Sgt. Pat Gonzales, was headed southbound on the other side of MLK, near the 55th Street light. The officer claims to have identified King as a potential suspect in a murder that had occurred nearby a month prior - note here the words “potential” and “suspect.”

For anyone who knows the geography of the incident, this “identification” was quite a feat: A full block away, looking diagonally across six lanes and between the thick pillars supporting the BART tracks, Gonzales was allegedly capable of identifying King.

The officer crossed under the tracks, tires squealing, to confront the group of teens in front of the liquor store. According to witnesses, Gonzales grabbed King by his dreads, while it remains unclear if the officer was attempting to carry out an arrest. After King pulled away from Gonzales, the officer used his Taser to try to incapacitate this “potential suspect.”
When this didn't work, King took off fleeing across the MLK crosswalk. Before even reaching the divider, Gonzales had shot him twice in the back. No fewer than a dozen witnesses corroborated this to me, which isn't surprising since the shooting took place in broad daylight on a busy street..."

rot in hell cop