Protesters Against Police Brutality Chained Across I-880 Ramps, Blocking Entrance to OPD Building

Update at 9:05 a.m.:

Dozens of protesters are blocking entrances to Oakland Police Department headquarters this morning to call for the end of police killings of unarmed black people. The action started around 7:45 a.m. outside the police building at 455 Seventh St. Most entrances to the building were blocked by people chained with thick, heavy chains and at least one of the entrances had a shattered glass door.

Broadway was also shut down between Sixth and Seventh streets as of 8:30 a.m. by activists locked together with PVC pipes and chanting “black lives matter.” California Highway Patrol officers advised drivers to avoid Interstate Highway 880 if possible because of protesters affecting the highway ramps near downtown Oakland. Alameda police said drivers should also avoid the Posey Tube between Oakland and Alameda because of the protest.

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. 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.

Original story:

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.

By Bay City News

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