OAKLAND

yeah

what a joke. fuck LA.

for reals

Watching the ABC news feed and just saw Frank Chiu.

he goes where the action is

seriously, he follows the camera crews around

I love him so much.

texted friends to make sure they get out of town

eh I think the riot fears are a little overblown tbh

Prosecutors in Los Angeles have not won a murder conviction in a police shooting case since 1983!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Cops put a hurtin' on your ass, man, you know. They really degrade you. White folks don't believe that shit, don't believe cops degrade;--`Ah, come on, those beatings, those people were resisting arrest. I'm tired of this harassment of police officers.' Cause the police live in your neighborhood, see, and you be knowin' 'em as Officer Timpson. `Hello Officer Timpson, going bowling tonight? Yes, uh, nice Pinto you have, ha, ha, ha.' Niggers* don't know 'em like that. See, white folks get a ticket, they pull over, `Hey, Officer, yes, glad to be of help, here you go.' A nigger got to be talkin' 'bout `I AM REACH-ING INTO MY POCK-ET FOR MY LICENSE--'cause I don't wanna be no motherfuckin' accident!'"

Richard Pryor
That Nigger's Crazy, 1974

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ac/96/a79b828fd7a0df3cb68b7110.L.jpg

There really is nothing more infuriating than when this exact situation plays out exactly like this -- what year is it??

friends going to watch the riots
lots of helicopters overhead
plenty of parking

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9SUeizW7rD4/TDTFznO18-I/AAAAAAAAALQ/mNGzsj4kKHM/s1600/car+pool+to+the+riots.jpg

Yeah everyone loves the police in LA

xp - i got that shirt!

i asked erin to save me one.

i just think it's funny, because the whole background to these "riots" was so planned and premeditated, in contrast with the common connotations of riots as being spotaneous.

it's this post modern age I tell you

Yeah everyone loves the police in LA

― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Thursday, July 8, 2010 6:45 PM (2 hours ago)

27 proud years of juries letting 5-0 off the hook!

i got a new pair of jordans. stoked. u guys?

I swear there are as many photographers down there as "protesters". I just saw some footage of some idiot riding down the street on his bike, dragging a smoking garbage can behind him, and like 35 photographers were following him.

channel 11 is saying it's all a bunch of "anarchists" fucking shit up; just showed some footage of white dudes being cuffed and dragged away. Man, they must have really felt it in their guts when news of the verdict reached them.

they imported cops from as far away as Vacaville

"don't fuck with the black owned stores/but hit the Foot Locker" - Ice Cube "We Had to Tear this Motherfucka Up" (1993)

oh those Black Bloc kids... I mean, I sympathize with their ideologies in some ways, but they're so fucking stupid/silly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFK2zZdpZY

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/09/BAQB1EC3T3.DTL&tsp=1

Mehserle is likely looking at 2 years behind bars. I wonder what the sentence would have been in Grant had "accidentally" shot Mehserle?

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Suffer-These-Crimes-in-Oakland-Dont-Call-the-Cops-98266509.html

Suffer These Crimes in Oakland? Don't Call the Cops
Dozens of layoffs effective at midnight, barring last minute deal
By LORI PREUITT and KRIS SANCHEZ
Updated 9:16 AM PDT, Tue, Jul 13, 2010

Oakland's police chief is making some dire claims about what his force will and will not respond to if layoffs go as planned.

Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live and Oakland and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line.

Some 80 officers were to be let go at midnight last night if a last-minute deal was not reached. That's about ten percent of the work force.

"I came her e to build an organization, not downsize one," said Batts, who was given the top job in October.

That deadline has been extended to 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Here's a partial list:

* burglary
* theft
* embezzlement
* grand theft
* grand theft:dog
* identity theft
* false information to peace officer
* required to register as sex or arson offender
* dump waste or offensive matter
* discard appliance with lock
* loud music
* possess forged notes
* pass fictitious check
* obtain money by false voucher
* fraudulent use of access cards
* stolen license plate
* embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
* extortion
* attempted extortion
* false personification of other
* injure telephone/ power line
* interfere with power line
* unauthorized cable tv connection
* vandalism
* administer/expose poison to another's

Negotiations are going on at Oakland City Hall in the mayor's office.

Batts said the 80 officers slated to be laid off - mostly new officers - are "pretty sad and pretty depressed," and those feelings are shared by the Police Department as a whole.

The Oakland City Council voted June 25 to eliminate the positions to help close the city's $32.5 million funding gap. According to the city of Oakland, each of the 776 police officers currently employed at OPD costs around $188,000 per year. Most of the officers who will be affected by the layoffs were on the streets of Oakland when Johannes Mehserle's involuntary manslaughter conviction caused riots last Thursday.

The sticking point in negotiations appears to be job security. The city council asked OPD officers to pay nine percent of their salary toward their pensions, which would save the city about $7.8 million toward a multi-million dollar deficit. The police union agreed, as long as the city could promise no layoffs for three years. No dice, says city council president Jane Brunner.

"We wish we could offer them a three-year no layoff protection we just can't financially. It would be irresponsible of us," Brunner said. The city agreed to a one-year moratorium on layoffs, but it is not enough for the union.

The problem is money. In the last five years, the police budget -- along with the fire department budget -- have amount to 75 percent of the general fund. After years of largely sparing those departments the budget ax, now it appears there are few other places to cut.

These are the last hours of negotiation and Brunner is hopeful that the city and police will find some sort middle ground.

"It's been very good conversation and not a whole lot of grandstanding." Brunner said. "There's actually real conversations. Each side understands the problem," she said.

Mehserle is likely looking at 2 years behind bars. I wonder what the sentence would have been in Grant had "accidentally" shot Mehserle?

giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you mean what if Grant had been the cop. I suppose he would have been tried in Oakland, and with a lot less public outcry (definitely no marches or riots) but who knows what the verdict would have been. guess it would depend a lot on the jury selection.

xp - now rethinking moving back to the east bay.

my friends' apartment building just off of macarthur, up by the lakeshore trader joe's, was broken into last fall, and my friend called OPD five times in the two hours after the burglary (another apartment in the building had stuff stolen, but my friend was un/lucky enough to have been home when the burglar started to break the door of her (ironically unlocked) apartment, so she yelled and scared him/her/but-cmon-obviously-him away), and OPD NEVER CAME. LIKE NEVER. so like, if they are publicly SAYING theyre not responding to these 44 situations, what the fuck are they ACTUALLY going to ignore?

yeah i may be moving to the east bay in the fall but um...this doesn't bode well

Move to Berkeley or Alameda! Plenty of cops!

tell me about alameda

thinkin about residency there

man what is wrong with Oakland

Fairyland is superdope, at least

Alameda has a great public utility

also a Burma Superstar!

tell me about alameda

Flat, quiet, suburban, dull-even but pretty good deals from what I've heard. Easy to get into Oakland or SF.

It lacks night life, but is a safe, sleepy little town with some great ethnic food, some good dive bars, and is well situated for any commute.

gotcha. tho i guess that's where the county hospital is right? that's serving all of oakland? it's way early in the game, but i'm scoping potential residency spots. also ucsf

uh - I thought that was Highland, which is in Oakland?

Alameda definitely pretty sleepy, but I know a few people who lived there and loved it. If you can find a good place, might be worth checking out.

Alameda is home to many aging hipsters w/kids

isn't it built on trash?

xp i don't know! i don't live there!

it's really lovely there, though it is built on landfill and will be one of the first bay area cities to be hit by rising oceans so certainly rent but don't buy a home