Berkeley protest swells to more than 1,000
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Updated 6:58 pm, Monday, December 8, 2014
Hundreds of protesters gathered on Telegraph Avenue near UC Berkeley on Monday evening for the third straight night of demonstrations and marches against police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.
Now-familiar chants of Hands up! Dont shoot! and Out of the houses! Into the streets! rang out as the march moved up Durant Avenue and protesters called for students to leave their dormitories and join the demonstration.
The crowd swelled to more than 1,000 after 6:30 p.m. and made its way through downtown Berkeley and to police headquarters on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, where officers in riot gear stood behind barricades as protesters chanted, Who do you protect?
... Cindy Pincus, an intern minister at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco, was injured Saturday night after allegedly being hit in the head by a police officer with a baton. Another minister with the congregation, Dawn Fortune, said Pincus was making a swift recovery.
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I can't believe it's by chance.
annm4peace
(6,119 posts)so glad to see more came out tonight.
I hope this momentum continues.
Stop_cruelty
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(10,597 posts)JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)Newsjock
(11,733 posts)Protesters began marching for a third night in a row in Berkeley Monday night, following a violent march Sunday.
A group numbering in the hundreds began marching down Durant Avenue in Berkeley shortly after 5 p.m., causing the Downtown Berkeley BART station to be closed.
A service advisory was issued at about 6:25 p.m. announcing the closure. Trains were not stopping at the station located at 2160 Shattuck Ave., a BART dispatcher said.
Protesters walked onto the East and Westbound lanes of I-80 at University just before 8 p.m., bringing traffic to a halt.