Hundreds march in fourth day of protests in California

Source: AP-Excite

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters angered at the killing of unarmed black men by white police officers marched through downtown Berkeley streets, briefly blocking traffic on a state highway, and delaying metro and train services in the area as protests continued in Northern California.

Organizers of a protest planned for Wednesday morning in Oakland say they expect hundreds of white people to come out and help shut down a federal building.

"As white people, we are outraged by the constant and ongoing violations against black people's lives from Ferguson to Oakland to San Francisco to Cleveland to Staten Island," said Jason Wallach of Showing Up for Racial Justice, one of the organizations involved in the demonstration expected to be replicated in 27 cities.

In Berkeley, protesters stopped at City Hall late Tuesday, where a city councilman addressed the crowd and said he will ask for an investigation into police response to the protest on Saturday, when the latest wave of demonstrations began.

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California Highway Patrol officers block a freeway entrance from protesters in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. Hundreds of people marched through downtown Berkeley Monday in a peaceful demonstration in reaction to the grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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