Crime & Safety

Protest Against Police Brutality Blocking Entrance to OPD Building

The protest in support of Eric Garner and Michael Brown started around 7:45 a.m.

Protesters are blocking the entrance of the Oakland Police Department headquarters this morning to call for the end of police killings of unarmed black people.

The protest started around 7:45 a.m. at the police building at 455 Seventh St. Protesters cited the recent deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island in New York as examples of police brutality against unarmed black men.

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After grand juries declined to indict the officers involved in both deaths, protests have sprung up nearly every day the past few weeks in Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco and elsewhere in the Bay Area.

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