What is Digg?Sponsored by Sony Pictures
Do you believe the 2012 Mayan Prophecy? view!
whowillsurvive2012.com - The Mayan Calendar predicts the end of time: 2012. See the trailer for 2012, opening November 13.
368 Comments
- tjdegroat, on 01/08/2009, -7/+160Sigh... The AP story has a good (wise) quote from the mayor of Oakland (Ron Dellums): "Even with our anger and our pain, let's still address each other with a degree of civility and calmness and not make this tragedy an excuse to engage in violence."
- r0g3r, on 01/08/2009, -16/+131Yes, the proper solution is to destroy the property of other innocent civilians....idiots.
- coheedcollapse, on 01/08/2009, -19/+115Awesome how people can use this event as a method to get money and destroy the lives and welfare of others. Looting? Really? Bravo, human race.
Seriously. Christ - anders5689, on 01/08/2009, -7/+99GREECE STYLE
- jamesllc, on 01/08/2009, -2/+81More photos and video: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/ ...
Highlights from flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Oakland+Riot&d ...
Not exactly sure what these people think they're accomplishing. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -9/+84I don't know about you guys, but when *I* am the victim of police brutality or social injustice, my first instinct is to set fire to the care of someone totally uninvolved in the situation.
/sarcasm - rorymenteer, on 01/08/2009, -4/+56Where are the riots? This footage just appears to be a group of people moving down the street. I don't see any looting taking place, any cars being set fire to. Frankly, I don't even really see any police in this at all, granted it is just helicopter footage but the description seems overstated.
- haentz, on 01/08/2009, -11/+61WTF? I see exactly NONE marchers attacking any police car or any burning cars at all. Just a burning trash can.. Big deal...
- californicator, on 01/08/2009, -4/+51Johannes Mehserle has resigned as a member of the BART so-called "police". He was supposed to appear at an interview to explain what happened to BART investigators on 1/7/2009, but he sent his attorney instead with resignation in hand. He is a douchebag, pure and simple. What is even more pathetic is that this murdering douchebag walks free among us... now as a civilian.
Pulling a gun on a man who is face down and surrounded by other officers, by itself, should be reason for immediate disciplinary action. But to then pull the trigger is un-*****-forgivable! Don't give me this "cops have the right" and "you don't understand what it's like wearing a badge" *****. If you can't do the job right, then you shouldn't do the job at all!
This smelled of a cover-up from the beginning when BART spokesman Jim Allison said, "The camera systems very from station to station. Fruitvale station does not have a tape system, so there is no BART tape of surveillance video". Also, two other male witnesses were detained for questioning and were later released; they claim cell phone videos were confiscated by BART "police". From the looks of it, Jim Allison is also a douchebag and should resign, and possibly charged with conspiracy with the other douchebags involved in any cover-up. I mean, seriously... who the ***** is going to believe they don't have a tape backup system in place at Fruitvale Station?
The Blue Code of Silence was protecting Johannes Mehserle, but I wonder how long that is going to continue now that public outrage has boiled-over and turned violent... and he ain't even a cop anymore!
They should have immediately locked his ass up when those videos started appearing. What the ***** were they thinking!!! - anders5689, on 01/08/2009, -5/+50Honestly, I'm generally for peace. But it has been over a week now since a youth with a wife and child was shot and killed - excuse me - since a youth with a wife and child was EXECUTED while face down on the floor, and we have not heard a word of explanation from the rogue, deadly police force that is BART. The officer has not been interviewed, and in fact resigned from the force instead of facing internal investigations.
Quote from the head of BART when shown the video: "I don't see him pull a gun. I don't see him pull a gun." (yes he repeated it twice, like the nervous little rat he is)
BART is a terrible police force and a disgusting tarnish on the image of officers everywhere who risk their lives to protect us.
If you don't believe me, check out these stories about other prior BART shootings, with even more sickening coverups. The only difference is, they weren't caught on tape;
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2009/01/beware_ ...
BART needs to be taught a lesson, and peace hasn't been doing much good. Honestly, when I read these stories and watch the tragic video that has been circling, I literally get sick to my stomach. - Meursault, on 01/08/2009, -6/+48"Excuse me, Mr. Hooligan, why are you burning my Honda Civic?"
"Cuz that BART cop shot that guy"
"Yes, of course. Carry on, then." - Skab, on 01/08/2009, -18/+57YES YES it's diggs fault, i think you and jack thompson should join forces.
- coheedcollapse, on 01/08/2009, -4/+37I don't know how destroying a bunch of storefronts owned by innocents and burning cars is going to get any good done. If anything, it'll make the country sympathize with the police, which is the exact opposite of what the goal is here.
- jackson32, on 01/08/2009, -7/+40police shooting an unarmed individual = riots. Should have learned from Greece.
Bravo, human race - ChromaVita, on 01/08/2009, -4/+35Burning civilian cars? I'm sure that went a long way towards speaking out against the problem. They couldn't find some cop cars to burn?
- nedzeve, on 01/08/2009, -1/+30To give folks a sense of the geography here....
The guy who was shot lived in Fremont... and he was shot by the police of the regional transit agency (BART).... but that happened in Oakland.... so the thug-- err protesters decided to riot in Oakland and burn the cars and smash the storefronts of the citizens of Oakland (again, the Oakland PD had NOTHING to do with the shooting).
You know, they did this when the Raiders _won_ the AFC championship. I don't get it. - Volatile36, on 01/08/2009, -1/+29I don't think most people who riot vote.
- JesusHimself, on 01/08/2009, -1/+28yo, you guys called?
- deema1, on 01/08/2009, -41/+68The good news is that there were a number of people on Digg who were calling for riots in response to this shooting. So now that they're taking place, isn't this much better than just punishing the cop who did this?
- la7ydub, on 01/08/2009, -2/+28I can't believe the lack of coverage on this story.
No one I've talked to has even heard about any of this.
BTW, did you see the other videos where they tried to flip the cop car?? They failed, I chuckled a bit. - bizkit00, on 01/08/2009, -4/+30Bravo, human race.
Sincerely,
Christ - McNash, on 01/08/2009, -6/+31Burning dumpster=Violent?
- haikuFU, on 01/08/2009, -0/+25Why don't people riot like this when political ***** goes all wonky?
- Cloned, on 01/08/2009, -6/+30I love (hate) how they destroy innocent people's stuff. What is that going to accomplish? I can maybe understand the logic behind breaking the windows of a squad car, or throwing stuff at riot police, but destroying cars that are on the street? Looting? If those people supported your cause before, they most certainly don't anymore. I'd be pissed if I came out of a store to see my car on fire, and I would've otherwise been on your side!
- solmakou, on 01/08/2009, -3/+26Here is a question:
If Oscar Grant was III was white would the recently resigned cop not be in jail? - coheedcollapse, on 01/08/2009, -8/+31Please tell me you're joking and this is just a bad attempt at sarcasm.
Vandalizing, stealing, and burning the property and possessions of innocent people will do nothing to start a revolution and only make the general public forget about the actual problem at hand and concentrate on how horrible the people who started the riots were.
I bet you'd be singing a hell of a different tale if you were at ground zero and those asshats had burned down your house. Hey, you might be homeless, but it's all part of the revolution, right?!
This isn't a revolution, this is crowd action getting out of hand and a bunch of idiots breaking ***** because they can get away with it in a mob. - deema1, on 01/08/2009, -2/+24Ugh. I have to explain this to you too?
I'm not blaming "everyone but the murdering cop." Quite the opposite. I'm blaming ONLY the murdering cop. My point is, how is rioting the proper response for the actions of a single cop? What will a riot solve here? People would be better off focusing their attention on the cop, and making certain he doesn't get away with it, not on how they can start tearing things to shreds and endangering others in order to send some convoluted message. - Jensaarai, on 01/08/2009, -2/+24That's not what he's saying at all. Don't build a strawman.
People in the initial thread were decrying how a "less worse" situation in Greece led to riots, but we were oh so passive here in America.
Now there are riots. Those people should be happy, right? It's not an issue of blaming them, it's the logical followup question to idiots spouting off and glorifying violent mob reactions to already ***** up situations.
So, the question that this poster is asking -- are those people happy now? Is the situation better?
It's easy to sound high, mighty, and disgusted using Internet snark, but if half the ***** people called for on here actually came to pass, it'd be a real ***** that'd actually make ***** worse. Here we have one example where it came to pass, and low and behold, it didn't ***** solve anything.
Again I ask, are those commenters happy? Will things magically get better now that what they wanted has come to pass?
If not, maybe they should think a little bit more before saying stupid *****. That's all. - impei, on 01/08/2009, -0/+21We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ‘em stories that don’t go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones... - kawaiirobo, on 01/08/2009, -5/+26Responding to a horrible violent atrocity with more violence? God people are dumb. I totally think the cop who shot the man should be tried and imprisoned for murder, but rioting is just retarded, especially when, as in this case, innocent people's property is what ends up destroyed.
- bringitdownnow, on 01/08/2009, -26/+45Desperate times call for desperate measures. State-sanctioned violence and repression has gone on at its worst for far too long. The time has come to retaliate and take back our liberty and dignity from the stifling swine of the ruling class. Everyone to the streets!
Who cares what gets burned, who cares what gets broken. This society is nothing but a prison, let's take it the ***** down and build the world we want to live in atop the smoldering rubble.
FULL SCALE REVOLUTION - MORE PATRIOTIC THAN VOTING - sciencelovesyou, on 01/08/2009, -0/+18And if the gun had fired gumdrops instead, would not all of Oakland be full, content, and sleepy?
- Volatile36, on 01/08/2009, -0/+17Riots never make any damn sense. I'd be raiding the BART offices or city hall or something. Not setting some guys car on fire.
- zenerdiode, on 01/08/2009, -9/+26Time to go get me a new TV.
- cslewisster, on 01/08/2009, -0/+16Ehhh, Philly was worse when we won the World Series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvsb-e-S3wg&fea ... - solmakou, on 01/08/2009, -7/+22That's not a riot that's a march, good for them. I hope the fallout from the murder of that father brings the full force of the law upon the cop and anyone that attempts to falsify information to better his case.
- r0g3r, on 01/08/2009, -4/+19How are people justified to destroy the property of innocent bystanders? Moron.
- coheedcollapse, on 01/08/2009, -1/+15http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Oakland+Riot&s ...
Also many burned cars and bashed-in storefronts. Straight from Flickr. - coheedcollapse, on 01/08/2009, -3/+16Tell that to the multiple accounts of cars on fire and businesses with broken windows. The media lies, the media is sensationalist, but in this case there are plenty of pieces of data that corroborate a full-on riot.
I mean there are already a ton of photos on Flickr chronicling the thing: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Oakland+Riot&s ... - jamesinraro, on 01/08/2009, -5/+18What makes you think that the officer will be punished?
- sockpuppets, on 01/08/2009, -13/+26It was a dumpster on fire. Hardly violence. The title of this digg is sensationalist.
- Jensaarai, on 01/08/2009, -4/+16@Kiloboba
Because if there's one thing that's shown in the past to effectively prevent police brutality, it's riots.
It's not like they provide opportunities for more police brutality or anything like that under the guise of "keeping the peace."
People who riot are idiots. How does smashing up the local businesses and victimizing other innocents (including good cops who weren't involved) send a message to police again?
"Don't do bad things to civilians! Or we'll put you in a position to do bad things to civilians again!"
Real ***** effective. - BitKid, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12I know, right? They play their BS commercials perfectly fine in Flash player and then force you to download WMV plugin to watch the news clips.
- anders5689, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12although they should probly be rioting in the subway, seeing as those are oakland officers on the streets, but oh wellll
- ferkranus, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12The head of BART seems like a moron. There is no use in denying something that was caught on video - everyone saw him pull the gun.
If only people understood the power of honesty and admitting fault. This past year here in Toronto, several people died after eating packaged Maple Leaf meats that were laced with Listeria. Within days of the story breaking, the president of Maple Leaf had a commercial running...just him talking to the camera...he apologized profusely for what had happened, admitted they had hurt people and laid out a plan to make things better. Since then he has appeared in other commercials addressing the same issue and telling us what they have done to prevent this from happening again.
I and others I know, really appreciated this. Obviously it was damage control...but it was damage control done well. Yes, we ***** up, no it shouldn't have happened, and this is what we're going to do to fix it. That's what people want to hear. If the president of Maple Leaf Foods had instead commented that it wasn't a huge problem and it wasn't their fault...well, I would have felt much differently.
Obviously there are differences between this and the shooting - but the reaction can be the same.
Admit it was ***** up...and tell the community how it will be fixed. Then fix it and tell the community what you've done. That would make BART seem truly remorseful and show a sense of caring for the community they serve.
The head of BART is not doing damage control - he's furthering the damage.
Also, the officer resigned - but there must still be legal proceedings happening right? I mean, resignation is not punishment. - Erfus, on 01/08/2009, -1/+13Man, love those WMVs.
- orville1151, on 01/08/2009, -5/+17So you think burning everything down will magically cause people to change in such a way that we will end up with some kind of utopia? The only thing that would change is that different douchbags would be in charge.
I'm not saying that there aren't problems to solve, but I just don't see general destruction as a useful way of solving our problems. But that's just my opinion. - coheedcollapse, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Oakland+Riot&s ...
Burned cars and smashed storefronts so far. Expect the photo list to grow exponentially as the day goes on I'd assume. - californicator, on 01/08/2009, -3/+14Sorry for the dup.
- sparf, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11"Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."
-
Show 51 - 100 of 377 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is