OAKLAND

not only that but it looks like the same location that Oscar Grant was killed?

looks like window confusion to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBFjP-GV8BE

"game over drunk man... that cop is not fucking around"

that glass breaking sound is almost comical. it sounds so perfect and fake.

wtf

"don' touch him, put some gloves on if you're gonna touch that blood"

that looks like West Oakland station to me

it was West Oakland. I doubt the guy meant to throw his head through a window at the BART station. cop was injured as well.

more quality policing

even when they're in the right, they do it wrong

true

I'm sure Shakey will love me referring to his "favorite" tv show - but the whole incident with Mehserle reminds me of when Prez accidentally shot the undercover cop in The Wire - it was a tragic mistake made by someone that probably shouldn't be a cop and carry a gun.

that guy is a little too excited to help out the police.

can anyone recommend a decent hotel/motel? my folks are going to be in town in april for a week and are looking for somewhere that has a room with a kitchenette type of thing.

http://www.claremontresort.com/

liiiiiiitle bit out of my parents' price range! but yeah, beautiful hotel.

just applied for a job here lol

maybe try the executive suites next to the Best Buy in Emeryville? The Jack London Inn is supposed to be okay. I think there's at least one not too pricey hotel in Jack London Square. Probably steer clear from no-tell motel row on Macarthur.

The French Hotel in North Berkeley is kinda barebones, but very good location.

what kind of job, mookie???

think i'm gonna recommend them the hawthorne suites in alameda

web production thing; v. unlikely tbh

will it be a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Oakland RIP

my friend's live 3 blocks from there. i told them to stay at our house when the verdict hits (or to figure out where they want to loot first [probably jamba juice])

there was supposed to be a downtown circuit rice for bicycles on monday but the event promoter was forced to move it to..... MERCED because the po-po said hell naw.

popo have one of those sonic crowd control devices, apparently.

and tasers that fire bullets too apparently! :-(

from Chip Johnson's column:
"If violence occurs, like before, it will also be the story of outside anarchists from our neighboring professional protester incubation cities."

I hope all the violence makes it easier for me to find a new apartment.

lol - had guilty thought that maybe if things get really fucked up, i'll finally be able to afford a house

friend who lives in fruitvale (a few blocks from the bart station where this went down) posted a ton of photos around his neighborhood where all the businesses boarded up their windows

one of my BFF's moved out of 94110 (20th & Mission) in 1991 because his landlord raised his 1BD apt rent from $150 to $175. He said fuck that and moved in to the BlackJack Records hq off 14th & MLK in post-earthquake Oakland for $125 for the master bed and master bath top story of a 3 floor house. ye good olde days.

last night heard that 2bd are 2800 in oakland now

depends on the neighborhood - i pay $940 for a 2bd

I might move to Oakland one day. It's the secret best city in America imo

I agree that it's definitely one of the top 2 cities in the east bay.

pretty glad we just moved to el cerrito, tbh. been dreading this trial and its verdict for awhile now (we were living right by lake merritt).

I agree that it's definitely one of the top 2 cities in the east bay.

ok, i'll bite... what's the other? EC?

san leandro obv

ha I was about to make the exact same joke

san leandro vs san lorenzo shootout!

after 15 years of not living adjacent to these two (I used to live in Hayward) I can't remember the difference between them.

san lorenzo is smaller. san leandro has a bunch of car dealerships, and a mall visible from the freeway with a blindingly bright billboard

San Leandro has a proper downtown. San Lorenzo is actually a 'district', not its own municipality at all. And then there's unincorporated Hayward....

Hayward has a drive thru liquor store

no verdict today: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/BAIC1EA4LC.DTL

i pay $1400 for 2br @ lake merritt. I have to say that everyday I am in oakland, I like it more. yes, I will probably move back to city at some point, but there's a lot here that makes it hard to leave (esp around lake area)

there's a Specialty's bakery now in an office tower near Harrison and Grand - was very excited to discover this the other day

yeah they did a demo for my office when they first moved in! cookies are TITE

i smelled the cookies while i was walking to work one day last week - also the Rocky Road brownies