SF News [Updated] May Day Protest Grows In Oakland As Hundreds Converge On Downtown Crowd gathering at 40th & MLK, Oakland to protest gentrification by blocking tech busses during the morning commute. pic.twitter.com/LcEgKlye0z— The Outsider (@OutsiderEditors) May 1, 2015 In the wave of marches
SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News CHP Says Plainclothes Officer Who Drew Gun At Protesters Was Justified Undercover police ARE violent protesters. In Oakland, cop pulls gun (not badge) on crowd after being exposed. pic.twitter.com/nBYc8MurZq— The Dreamkiller (@Eyeslam) December 11, 2014 Concluding an investigation into the incident,
SF News How The Police Union Intimidated Supervisors Into Voting Against Police Brutality Resolution Remember the non-binding resolution, introduced by Supervisor John Avalos, that caused a stir among the SFPD and its union back in December? Well, the Examiner has now unearthed the strong-arming emails in which
SF News A 5 A.M. Protest At Oakland Mayor's Doorstep And Monday March Cap Off Weekend Of Protests Newly inaugurated Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her family were not permitted to sleep in this morning since a group of about 50 protesters gathered at her home to scream at her to
SF News Montgomery BART Station To Be Possibly Shut Down By Protest On Friday If an announcement posted to both Indybay and Facebook is to be believed, your Friday BART commute might be a little trickier than you expected. According to event organizers, a day-long demonstration planned
SF News [UPDATES] LGBT Protesters Block Octavia And Market Freeway Entrance In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter A planned march to show LGBT solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on Christmas Eve morning is expected to attempt to block the Octavia and Market on/off-ramp during rush hour. SFist
SF News Judge Rules That Names Of Officers Who Shot Alex Nieto Must Be Revealed Though the SFPD and the City Attorney have been stalling for time in the case of the officer-involved death of Alex Nieto this past March, a federal judge has just ruled that the
SF News CHP Was Using 'Plainclothes' Officers Since Protests Began, Oakland Police Claim Ignorance Undercover police ARE violent protesters. In Oakland, cop pulls gun (not badge) on crowd after being exposed. pic.twitter.com/nBYc8MurZq— The Dreamkiller (@Eyeslam) December 11, 2014 The CHP drew intense criticism last
SF News White Activist Discusses Getting Beaten Up During Oakland Protest You may have heard that there's some tension among Bay Area protesters of racial injustice over the fact that there are not enough black voices, and too many white ones, being heard in
SF News Police Officers Pissed Over Board Of Supervisors Resolution Supporting Protests A resolution being voted on today by the Board of Supervisors, sponsored by John Avalos, has got the Police Officers Association riled up because it paints a broad picture of all police as
SF News A Weekend Of Protests Continues Into Monday Morning At Oakland Police Headquarters Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in well organized, peaceful marches in Oakland and San Francisco on Saturday as part of a national event dubbed Millions March. The San Francisco march included a mass "die-in"
SF News Fourth Night Of Protests Includes Trash Fires, BART Disruptions, Five-Hour March From Berkeley To Downtown Oakland In the fourth consecutive such rally in a row for Berkeley, protesters took to the streets Tuesday night for a lengthy, mostly peaceful march that extended many miles from Berkeley to downtown Oakland
SF News Another Large Protest In Berkeley Shuts Down Freeway, 150 Arrested Following on a violent and chaotic Saturday and Sunday in Berkeley where at least 400 people were protesting police violence against unarmed civilians, about 1000 to 1500 protesters gathered again on Monday to
SF News [UPDATES] Saturday Night's Berkeley Protest Ends In Tear Gas In the latest local protest in a national movement for police accountability in the killing of black Americans, over 400 protestors marched for five hours Saturday night along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Police
SF News [UPDATES] Protests In Oakland, SF For Third Straight Night, More This Afternoon The Bay Area, and Oakland in particular, continues to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Last night's rally in West Oakland, which shut down the West Oakland BART Station and
SF News Second Night In A Row Of Local Protests With Third Coming Tonight Last night Oakland and San Francisco saw more marches, "die-ins," and calls for accountability in the deaths of black Americans at the hands of police. The most recent rallying cry was the decision
SF News Scenes From Last Night's Peaceful Eric Garner Protests In SF, Oakland, And Palo Alto Last night, in the fourth such Oakland rally in two weeks, protesters once again called for police accountability in the deaths of black Americans. The demonstrations were spurred by a grand jury decision
SF News [UPDATES] Protesters Hit The Rainy Streets Of Oakland And SF In Wake Of Eric Garner Case In NY Following the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, major protests hit the streets of New York and other
SF News Out Of 79 People Arrested In Violent Protest Friday, 23 Were From San Francisco The Ferguson protest that turned into a violent and vandalism-heavy riot Friday in Union Square and in the Mission led to 79 arrests and charges filed against 4 individuals, as police chief Greg
SF News Friday Night Protests In Union Square Bring Violence and Vandalism To SF Though the Ferguson-related fracas has stayed mostly across the Bay in Oakland this week, Black Friday brought a chaotic night with a couple hundred protesters to the middle of San Francisco. Several dozen
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To BART Trains At West Oakland, Temporarily Halt Transbay Train Service [Updated] Following a quiet Thanksgiving Day in Oakland, protest-wise, a group of 20 to 25 Ferguson-related protesters managed to chain themselves together and chain themselves to two BART trains at West Oakland Station, shutting
SF News Second Night Of Ferguson Protests In Oakland Leads To More Looting, Fires, 43 Arrests For the second night, protesters canvassed different parts of Oakland Tuesday in response to Monday's grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, briefly disrupting traffic on two freeways, setting bonfires, looting, and generally harkening
SF News Ferguson-Related Protest In Oakland Snarls Traffic On 580, Causes Late-Night Chaos In Downtown A protest and "die-in" in downtown Oakland involving a reported 1,000 people led to a traffic-snarling march onto the I-580 freeway Monday night, as Bay City News reports. The protesters came out
