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    oakland shootings part deux

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    that giant burger spot if and i mean IF im not mistaken, its at macarthur, not than anyone cares....but anywho, across the street, they got this liquor store with a great selection on some mom and pop brews...the owner said if they dont carry it, just write it down, and in a week or less, they will have it in their fridges..random fyi

     

     

     

     

    do want.

    oakland shootings part deux

    in Channel Zero

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    weird.

     

    i was at lukas yesterday, 50 was there today.

    i was at chicken and waffles yesterday, lily was there today.

     

    i definately want to come back.

     

    there was this little burger stand around the corner from luka's selling burgers for cheap.

     

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    24/7....come down on a 1st friday. lily dresses up hella cute and they have old school cars and djays there.

    oakland shootings part deux

    in Channel Zero

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    So I ended up downtown last night after all...my friends wanted to check out the action, and since they didn't have any experience with large/unruly crowds or riot situations I went alng to keep an eye on them.

     

    I lost them about ten minutes after we got to City Hall, and five minutes after that the cops on the skirmish line at 12th Street pushed a crowd of about 500 people up Broadway to 14th Street. There was another line at the 15th/Telegraph/Broadway intersection, which pretty much had the main protest pinned right in front of Foot Locker. Once everyone realized they were stuck, they started looting Foot Locker, but the cops stuck to the line and didn't stop all the kids walking past with boxes of shoes.

     

    I looped back through Frank Ogawa Plaza and headed north, got behind the line on 15th and masked up in case the cops started throwing gas into the crowd. I ran into some other friends there, so we grouped up and made a plan to meet at a coffeeshop on Telegraph called Mama Buzz. We slowly made our way north to 17th, and when we got there some cops moved on a small group who were pushing garbage bins and dumpsters into the intersection to block traffic. The crowd moved on the cops and pushed them back down to the line on 15th but we headed back north and waited between 17th and 18th till we noticed another line of cops waiting for us at 19th and Broadway. About that time someone lit up the dumpsters, then someone cut the power to the streetlights so the only light was from the flaming dumpsters and the light bars on the cop cars.

     

    We sat there for a few minutes and waited to see what would happen next...around 10:30 or so the 15th Street skirmish line started to moved north while throwing smoke canisters and flash grenades in front of them. The crowd broke towards us so we rode west on 18th and headed up Telegraph with about 300 people behind us with the cops behind them...that's when we said "fuck it", got out of there and headed home because we weren't there to fuck shit up or get arrested. All we wanted to do was observe and let the cops know when they were fucking up.

     

    There's a pretty good chance I got on the news, I got my picture taken a whole bunch of times...if you see a masked-up guy with long blond hair on a bike with a bike pump strapped to his back, that's me.

     

    On the riot scale I'd give it about a 7 or so. Didn't see any cops catching licks or cop cars getting flipped and lit up, and I didn't get gassed. Which is a good thing.

     

     

     

    from what i saw and what you saw...i cant believe ron dullums said he is proud of oakland for making the night so peaceful......is he crazy???

    oakland shootings part deux

    in Channel Zero

    oakland shootings part deux

    in Channel Zero

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    they let me out. its a long story. but basically, i went on top of a building downtown -not supposed to be there. took some pics and the helicopters caught me. cops thought i was 'shotting at them'. arrested me - handcuffs, etc....but let me go when i explained that i was from the niehgborhood and just taking pictures. they said they had more important things to worry about....cut off my cuffs.

     

     

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