SF News [Update] Video: Polk Street Crowds Dance On Cars, Light Stuff On Fire Before Super Bowl Involving No Bay Area Team It appears the crowds on Polk Street Saturday night were excited/drunk/angry (who can tell with these things) in anticipation of the Super Bowl, despite the fact that no Bay Area team
SF News Up To 5,000 People Riot Near UC Berkeley Campus Overnight Thousands of partiers and college students took to the streets in Berkeley near the Cal campus on Saturday night and early Sunday morning as Halloween revelry devolved into a massive riot. Hundreds gathered
SF News SFPD Already Planning How They're Going To Keep You From Rioting If The Giants Win The World Series We here at SFist have no interest in writing yet another Stupidest SF Giants Celebration 'Incidents' post if the Giants win the World Series, so we were pleased to see that the San
SF News Since You Asked: What Happened To The Giants Riot Muni Basher? "I forgot about that dummy!" SFist commenter PorkedBun exclaimed after being reminded of that photo of Gregory Tyler Graniss, one of the men accused of vandalizing a Muni bus after the SF Giants
SF News SFPD Braced For Shenanigans If The Giants Win Tonight If the SF Giants win tonight, there will be much cause for rejoicing. After all, this will be their third National League pennant, and their next stop will be the World Series. Hooray!
SF News Have You Seen These Muni Bus Arsonists? SFPD posted footage of these dimwitted fellas who lit a Muni bus ablaze on Monday shortly after the Giants won the World Series. Police are now asking for you help in identifying them.
SF News San Quentin Riot Injures 4 After a dining hall riot broke out at San Quentin on Sunday, four prisoners were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The minor melee involved at least 200 convicts. No idea what, exactly, prompted the
SF News Unruly Protesters Arrested In Oakland After Mehserle Sentencing After Johannes Mehserle received the minimum sentence of 2 years jail time, as many as 500 people gathered outside Oakland City Hall to sing songs and present speeches in protest. However, according to
SF News Oakland Riot Speculation Swirls as Mehserle Verdict Looms Oakland riots, will they or won't they happen? Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop accused of killing Oscar Grant at the Frutivale station, could face 2nd degree murder (15 years - life), voluntary manslaughter
SF News Video: Police Attack I-880 Takeover Protesters Your browser is not able to display this multimedia content. The spirited folks over at Indybay.org bring our attention to this video, one that chronicles last week's I-880 protest that resulted in
SF News Video: Girl Arrested During UC Berkeley Riot Presumably moments before last night's rally / dance party flash mob at UC Berkeley, sparked by cranky tuition-hike protesters, gained momentum, this student protester was swallowed up by riot police. According to the this
SF News Happy White Night Riots Anniversary! Akin to Judy Garland's death or Adam Lambert losing last night's American Idol finale -- damn you to hell, Bill O'Reilly! -- 30 years ago today the White Night riots erupted after supervisor
SF News Peaceful Oakland Protest Turns Mildly Irate Even though BART officer Johannes Mehserle was arrested and charged with the murder of Oscar Grant, violence hit the streets of Oakland last night as yesterday's protest ended. About 18 people were arrested
SF News Non-Terror Wreaks Non-Havoc at Civic Center BART Protest Remember how there was supposed to be a protest cum riot at Civic Center tonight? "The kids in Oakland know how to party. Let's show them they are not alone," they puffed chest-ily
SF News Melee Hits Oakland Streets for Second Night Police in riot gear closed down a main street in Oakland after protesters tried to stop cars, light a fire, and threw trash cans into the street last night. Office buildings around 14th
SF News Photos from BART Police Shooting Riot in Downtown Oakland, 1/7 Scenes from last night's BART shooting protest turned riot in Downtown Oakland.
SF News Protest Over BART Shooting Turns to Riot Several hours of violence erupted Wednesday night as demonstrators at "smashed storefronts and cars, set several cars ablaze and blocked streets in downtown Oakland." The riot started after a protest was held at
