More protests: Highway 24 Blocked; Vandalism, Looting in Berkeley
By Kale Williams, Erin Allday and Evan Sernoffsky
Monday, December 8, 2014
Hundreds of protesters returned to East Bay streets on Sunday for a second night of raucous demonstrations against police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.
Sunday’s protest started out largely peaceful in Berkeley, but by 9 p.m. crowds had climbed past lines of California Highway Patrol officers onto Highway 24 in Oakland, where they blocked multiple lanes of eastbound traffic.
Even as the crowd chanted “peaceful protest,” a group of people jumped on top of two law enforcement vehicles and kicked at the sirens, and several set small fires nearby. Police eventually moved protesters away from the cars, one of them damaged by fire.
A crowd of about 100 demonstrators moved east on the freeway toward Claremont Avenue while several hundred more protesters followed on the streets below. A little after 9 p.m., CHP officers in riot gear released tear gas and began herding protesters off the freeway. Officers arrested 8 people.
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| Berkeley continues demonstrations against police violence. |
Monday, December 8, 2014
Hundreds of protesters returned to East Bay streets on Sunday for a second night of raucous demonstrations against police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.
Sunday’s protest started out largely peaceful in Berkeley, but by 9 p.m. crowds had climbed past lines of California Highway Patrol officers onto Highway 24 in Oakland, where they blocked multiple lanes of eastbound traffic.
Even as the crowd chanted “peaceful protest,” a group of people jumped on top of two law enforcement vehicles and kicked at the sirens, and several set small fires nearby. Police eventually moved protesters away from the cars, one of them damaged by fire.
A crowd of about 100 demonstrators moved east on the freeway toward Claremont Avenue while several hundred more protesters followed on the streets below. A little after 9 p.m., CHP officers in riot gear released tear gas and began herding protesters off the freeway. Officers arrested 8 people.
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