[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Toughy

Kind of reminds you of Katrina when all the black folks were looting and the white folk were just trying to get supplies. Yep there were some black folk looting the Foot Locker......however it was brief and they didn't clean out the store...and that footage gets played over and over......

My question for Foot Locker is why in the hell didn't you board up your windows......everyone knew there was going to be broken windows and most of the stores downtown were boarded up. All the stores around the Fruitvale BART station were boarded up and closed by 3:00pm. That's the BART station where Oscar was killed. Nothing at all happened there.

My little sister called me this morning to check and see if I was OK...........she and her husband are in northwestern Oregon dredging and panning gold. The news she saw was all about riots and nothing about the 2000 or so folks who peacefully took over a small part of downtown Oakland.

At my work we have several firefighters and cops and county sheriffs who bring their precious dogs for daycare/boarding..........I got the same info from them MsDemeanor reported

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Susan.........I really am sorry I misread your post......it was entirely my fault.

We are cool.

UGH.. there is a lot of footage/talk of this incident and not much about the real heart of people demonstrating in a peaceful manner and what they were trying to get across.

I have heard some reports that are not even using the word riot, mostly demonstration- that is good (one was CNN). And reporting about the fact that so many of those causing problems were not even from Oakland.

But, yes.... there has been an awful lot of press focused on this instead of all of the issues this case represents. There is a conversation to have that never seems to get addressed.