Riots and looting after verdict in then
Riots and looting after verdict in the murder of a black man.
Washington, July 9 .- Police in Oakland (California) dozens of people arrested during the riots and looting that occurred on Thursday night, after a jury convicted a former white police manslaughter of a black citizen, reported authorities.
Prosecutors had asked that the former agent of the police traffic Mehserle Johannes was convicted of second-degree murder for the death of Oscar Grant, while traveling, ffxiv gil, on a train between San Francisco and Oakland.
The protests began as soon as he met the verdict and, about midnight, downtown Oakland was a battlefield between hundreds of protesters and police.
At the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and 20th Street, the rioters set fire to large garbage containers, and protests painted on the walls. One of them said:, tera gold, "They can kill us all."
In the first hours of 2009, the Police Authority Bay Rapid Transit (BART for its acronym in English) is mobilized by warnings of a brawl on a train full of passengers traveling between San Francisco and Oakland.
The officers arrested several people, including Grant, in the Fruitvale station and then, tera gold, Mehserle agent and other members of the police grabbed the young man who, according to the report, he resisted arrest.
When the young man, who was not carrying any weapon, was on the floor, Mehserle shot him in the back.
The incident was recorded by many digital cameras and cell phones, and in the days following the dissemination of images, were peaceful and violent protests in Oakland.
The dnse never disputed the fact that Grant killed Mehserle, argued that the police had no intention of shooting and that in the nervousness of the moment, the agent tried to use his "taser"-an instrument that makes a strong shock electric-to subdue the detainee.
Because of the publicity about the case, the trial had moved to Los Angeles where the jury convicted yesterday of manslaughter Mehserle, which has a milder prison sentence that the crime of second-degree murder.