Wednesday, December 10, 2014

East Bay protesters block Highway 24, light trash fires


The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Frustrated that the Berkeley City Council canceled a meeting they had planned to pack, protesters denouncing racial injustice marched through Berkeley Tuesday for a fourth straight night — and then defied California Highway Patrol vows to block them from freeways by briefly shutting down Highway 24.

The demonstrations began around 7 p.m. with hundreds converging on Berkeley’s Old City Hall for a rally where they were joined by a pair of the city’s council members. From there, they set off south on Telegraph Avenue — and then, over the next few hours as they marched several miles to downtown Oakland, the gathering got sporadically destructive as well as confrontational with police.
If you are a business owner do you really want to be located in Berkeley , California?