KOSTI

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Rally for Justice for Oscar Grant

When:
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Time:
4:00pm - 7:00pm

Location:
Oakland City Hall
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA


If you are interested in going, shoot me a PM I'll be attending this second protest/rally!

JArnaud

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I hope this one goes better than the last...

KOSTI

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there are always a few knuckleheads who **** up shop... so no telling. However I am sure OPD will be ready for the fight.

JArnaud

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well, be careful. I'd suggest, if anyone starts to take advantage of the situation by acting like a fool, get the hell out of there. I don't think the cops are going to be as friendly this time around.

KOSTI

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I survived the last one. However you are right, OPD will be ready to go.

Jabberwocky

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These protests have lost sort of gone off into a tangent. I was at the Wednesday night protest. Frankly, I don't think half the people there are even protesting the shooting. Having talked to people at the protest, a good many of them have some kind of grudge against OPD or just the police in general. It didn’t need to be a racial issue either, but some people are making it into one.

JArnaud

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Well, hopefully this time they will respect Grant's family and his mother's request to STOP the violence and destruction.

nachomc

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Good one

JArnaud

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^^?

Irrational X

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its funny that people are out 'protesting' violence by being violent, which also means they are completely ignoring the wishes of his family.

nachomc

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My favorite part is that they were protesting Bart and Bart PD but a lot of protesters got there on Bart

KOSTI

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I feel what you are saying. I too was there and I saw the same things. However, I know why I was there and I know what for. You'll always have people who just show up to go dumb.

About the OPD, well you gotta look at it this way. I aint sure where you are from Oakland but a lot of people within Oakland have been dealing with several issues from the OPD. There are still a lot of "unsettled" matters which the OPD was involved with. Naturally when you have such an incident, like Oscar's, these people come out to vocalize as well.

If you remember during the protest there were several speakers who had thier kids die in similar nature. So ofcorse you'll see annamosity towards OPD. Top that with another person being wrongfully killed, you got yourself some really upset people!

I support the protest, I support my community (oakland), and I as a black man understand what frustrations are out there. Not to say being black gives me anything different. I however do not support seeing others destory my community, property, and turning a protest in to a playground to **** on.

I only hope this time people well respect whats behind this protest. However, I am sure somethings will pop off.

Chrisnonstop

Seriously, the officer is only exercising his rights. Right now he has the right to remain silent. The internal investigation is going to continue and when it's completed the officer will have to face the music. This lynch mob mentality pisses me off. It's just a reminder of how many violent people walk the streets freely among us looking for an excuse to cause harm.

flatline

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Oh trust me, OPD will be very prepared.

the day following the "riot" people tried to protest again in front of frank ogawa plaza. They got shut down VERY quickly.

RussB

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they are protesting because the officer hasn't been lynched yet.

kinda ironic since any sort of knee jerk reaction would be essentially the same sort of action that caused this mess in the first place.