OAKLAND

that was the first place I ever had Thai food, about 10 yrs ago. nothing I've had since has ever really lived up to it.

Haha, sorry... it has been a while for me too.

PLS: NOT IN OAKLAND

They did make the best Thai you could get for years, and I'm sure they still have good weekends. But if I'm going to wait for an hour I want consistency.

srsly though do y'all like SHAN DONG? hand-pulled-to-order noodles and DUMPLINGS!

where is Shan Dong?

Mmm, think I'll get Shan Dong on the way home tonight.

it's at 9th and webster, right ard the corner from cam huong -- get the spicy sesame paste noodles and the pea shoots!

Mmm, think I'll get Shan Dong on the way home tonight.

― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:19 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

honey i was just grabbing a drink with the guys honest

<rimjob>

isn't there a King Dong in Berkeley?

the best thing about bakesale betty's is that the people who work there are incredibly nice. as are most people who work in businesses on that strip of temescal.

yes there is (or was) a King Dong on Shattuck

xp omg i asked that game-shop lady if she could make change for me for the parking meters once, and it touched off a seven-minute pun-war

there's a bakesale betty's now on grand at broadway - was unscathed in the "riots"

downtown one is amaz cause i work so close, but their slaw is a lil less jalapeno-y than the old location, and they have yet to perfect their line-anticipation, which makes the sandwiches like 5% less fresh than at the temescal one

Can she make something other than a chicken sandwich for once?

Man killed during confrontation with Oakland police, BART officers
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 17, 2010 6:15 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- A man was shot and killed Saturday in Oakland, California, during a confrontation with Bay Area Rapid Transit officers and Oakland police, police spokesman Jeff Thomason said.

The incident occurred after Oakland police received a call about 8:15 a.m. (11:15 a.m. ET) of an armed man walking toward the Fruitvale BART station, according to Thomason. Police notified BART officers, who also responded.

BART officers were the first to reach the suspect, described as a Hispanic male between 30 and 40 years old, Thomason said. The BART officers chased the man from the station to the street, where Oakland police joined in the pursuit over four blocks in the Fruitvale area.

Thomason said Oakland police tried to Taser the man twice, but to no effect. The man then turned on one of the officers with a knife and police opened fire, killing him, Thomason said.

The man has not yet been identified, Thomason said.

The shooting is under investigation by the Oakland police homicide unit, internal affairs and the Alameda County district attorney.

The incident comes more than a week after a former Oakland police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 shooting death of an unarmed black man on a train platform at the Fruitvale station.

The January 1, 2009, shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant was captured on a bystander's cell-phone video camera. The video was widely circulated on the Internet and on news broadcasts, and it spurred several protests in and around Oakland.

The video showed former officer Johannes Mehserle pulling his gun and fatally shooting Grant in the back as another officer knelt on the unarmed man.

Mehserle and other Bay Area Rapid Transit police had been called to the Fruitvale station after passengers complained about fights on a train. Officers pulled several men, including Grant, off the train when it arrived at Fruitvale.

in all fairness, this guy was armed and resisted arrest (unlike Grant). they also tasered him successfully before killing him (unlike Grant).

Still...bloody typical, innit?

can't even ride the bart with knives in each hand, sheesh

freeway shooting around 1am
helicopters now?

Drove around East Oakland with my step father while waiting for my mom's sister to arrive at the Oakland airport. He grew up in Oakland on 73rd in the 50's. His dad had a pharmacy on 73rd! We were driving around in a Crown Victoria, Police Car. We must have looked like some honkey undercover cops. If you never have been to Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, you need to go. The Singing Pastor died in 1978, he has a nice grave. The pharmacy his father had is now called the Heavenly Divine Beauty Parlor :). Actually it is kind of sad, it is by the Eastmont mall, my last memory of that place is from the 70's, they had a orange julius, I must have been three or four.

the Eastmont Mall is kinda sad - it's about a block or so away from where Lovelle Mixon blew away the four cops - it has a large McDonalds, and some Senior Center, and not much else, apart from the Eastern District Police Station. It's an odd area, because right across the freeway offramp is this new housing complex. Set against the foothills, it looks like it's made of clapboard, or cardboard - unreal - compared to the mint green and faded pink houses, the barber and braid shops, the donut shop that probably has good donuts and a loaded rifle under the counter as you wind your way down the hill on 73rd Ave.

Mehserle = 2 years

lame

I wonder what kind of security detail he gets when he gets out because that is one weak ass sentence!

looking forward to my trip to downtown Oakland tonight

*sigh*

The jury also found that Mehserle, a Napa County resident, had used a gun during the crime. However, Judge Robert Perry threw out the gun conviction today, saying it was not supported by the evidence.

"the law is where facts go to die" - Steve Aylett

Good to know that institutional racism is alive and well in 2010.

They did him no favors with that sentence. The man is pretty much a walking target.

I wonder what the judge thinks Mehserle killed Grant with? candlestick? lead pipe? kindness?

+ credit for time served, which is?????

maybe Grant's head just spontaneously exploded all by itself

it means the dude will be out in a few months

The jury also found that Mehserle, a Napa County resident, had used a gun during the crime. However, Judge Robert Perry threw out the gun conviction today, saying it was not supported by the evidence.

"the law is where facts go to die" - Steve Aylett

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, November 5, 2010 8:52 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is slightly-imprecise reporting. the gun enhancement was thrown out, because in its formulation is included an assumption of INTENTIONAL USE, the question of which is sorta the crux of this entire thing.

people gathering right now downtown for rally (as heard from my open window on 6th floor @ 14th and broadway), but no sign of danger or anything.

so the jury basically issued contradictory verdicts. way to go Los Angeles

That gun conviction should only matter in degrees of murder 1st-3rd. In involuntary manslaughter, intent is of no matter so the jury fucked up in the initial sentencing afaic.

maybe Grant's head just spontaneously exploded all by itself

i know you were joking, but he got shot in the back. nobody's head 'sploded.

maybe mehserle should have gotten more time for being a moron, but whatever. i never bought that he was some kind of deranged homicidal maniac. i'm inclined to believe he shot the wrong weapon simply because shooting someone with a gun at that kind of close range, at that angle, right into that kind of surface, is extremely dangerous to yourself and everyone around you. seems more likely to me that he was scared stupid and poorly trained. i have no doubt that if the victim had been white, he would have gotten a lot more time and that really sucks.

Judge said that it was his muscle memory that led him to do the shooting. So actually, he was so WELL TRAINED to use that gun that he couldn't not draw it and fire it into Grant's back.

i don't understand why this sentence was a surprise to anyone.

Unsurprised, still dismayed.

The kid was restrained, was he not? why would there be any need for a weapon of ANY kind to go off? He intentionally pulled a weapon on a restrained man, then executed him. Intentional or not, someone's child is dead because of poor training/stupididty or whatever and he should have to suffer the full consequences of said action...cop or not. Not surprised by the verdict, but this is still very disgusting and we shouldn't be so jaded as to brush this off as business as usual. People have served more time for harming animals (Michael Vick, anyone?).

i have no doubt that if the victim had been white, he would have gotten a lot more time and that really sucks.

this is the real issue

who knows, maybe if the victim had been white, he wouldn't have shot him - though the thing is, the gun enhancement, as mentioned upthread, didn't make sense. the fact that mehserle is gonna do any kind of time for this is some kind of accomplishment. i was under the impression that historically, a guy like mehserle wouldn't have gotten any time at all.

he fact that mehserle is gonna do any kind of time for this is some kind of accomplishment. i was under the impression that historically, a guy like mehserle wouldn't have gotten any time at all.

^this.. not that it is much comfort

Spinspin: i read earlier today in an SF Chron article that it was some kind of common misnomer that he was cuffed/restrained

"After careful analysis of the video, it is clear that both Grant's hands were behind his back, a position hands are commonly placed in by police officers in order to handcuff individuals," the Oakland police filing said. It concluded that Grant had been "restrained and unarmed" when he was shot.

Whoa, Jean Quan is in the lead in the Oakland mayoral race! Ranked balloting, I KISS YOU.

I saw that race as Corrupt vs. Clueless vs. Kaplan

this fucking guy

it's cool; he "did his best"!