Protesters who trashed Oakland missed the mark

For law-abiding Oakland residents already besieged with violence and high crime rates, Wednesday night's demonstration to protest the shooting death of a young man at the city's Fruitvale BART Station was mayhem masquerading as social justice. Well-meaning...

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Source: SFGate: Chip Johnson · 01-09-09 · 1 Comment »

One Response to “Protesters who trashed Oakland missed the mark”

  1. norman wrote:

    Absolutely not. Oakland residents should have gone a few steps further including razing the home of the BART officer involved. Its hilarious to watch you Americans get stuffed up the butt by your authorities time after time after time, and you just sit there like a bunch of lumps. America has become a nation of war-mongers internationally and passivist pussies domestically. Tell me, can i slice off your own kid’s arm and then ask you for a dollar? :) After all just because i swung the axe and your kid had onyl a single arm left and bood spurtin from the other does not mean all the facts have been heard. Get it? Your Americans are being played by your governments like a bunch of marionettes. None of the facts have been heard unless it’s a private citizen being arrested - then the facts don’t matter.

    January 9th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

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