As I walked through the streets of Berkeley tonight listening to the overwhelmingly white crowd chant things like “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “This is what democracy looks like!” I felt uncomfortable. I passed white people holding signs that said “I can’t breathe” and I felt uncomfortable. Then, when we were instructed to sit down in the middle of the main street that runs through downtown Berkeley and were made to listen to a white person on a bullhorn declare “All lives matter!” I felt invisible. Ignored. Forgotten.

Stop whitewashing our movement. Stop pretending that “All lives matter” means anything other than “HEY ME TOO! WHAT ABOUT MY WHITE FEELINGS! DISREGARD THE ACTUAL REALITY OF BLEEDING AND DYING BLACK PEOPLE AND CATER TO THE HYPOTHETICAL AND EXTREMELY RARE POSSIBILITY THAT POLICE OR VIGILANTES WOULD BE ABLE TO EXTRAJUDICIALLY MURDER A WHITE PERSON AND FACE NO CONSEQUENCES!” Black people know our lives don’t matter because white people’s hypotheticals matter more than Black people’s reality.

Lurie told Berkeleyside: “The vast majority of people there were peaceful, but a small group (5-15 people) of black bloc / anarchist agitators continually engaged in acts of vandalism, including tagging buildings with spray paint, breaking windows, and overturning trash cans. I had photographs of these acts, but some in the group saw me taking pictures, at which point I was surrounded and forced to delete all my pictures. I don’t know what would have happened to me if I had refused, but I definitely felt physically threatened.”

These people care very little about Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the two black men who were killed at the hands of police. They have their own agenda.

They’ve been operating in the Bay Area for quite some time. It doesn’t matter to them what the demonstration is about. They’re just looking for cover so they can vandalize, destroy, attack and loot.

We first saw them here — the so-called black bloc — during the Iraq War protests of 2003. A splinter group dressed in black — covering their faces — would break off from the mostly peaceful demonstrators and begin destroying property — lighting fires, spray-painting graffiti, breaking windows. We saw the same violent actions from splinter groups during the Oscar Grant protests in Oakland — and then the Occupy Oakland protests in 2011. The tactics divided the Occupy Oaklanders, many of whom objected to the destruction of property.

Now, they’re hijacking the latest demonstrations in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley

Any time that Berkeley is mentioned, I just assume white thugs.

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The fake news about the poor child who was "murdered" while his hands were in the air or shot in the back took off and was used by opportunists from the liberal wing of the government and Democratic party...

Citation to a legitimate source for this presented-as-fact statement?

Read the Grand Jury transcripts...over 60 witnesses from forensics to ballistics all confirm he tried getting the the cops gun. Not to mention the 9 black witnesses who ALL testified that he charged the officer like a football player with his head down. Not one witness Black or white testified he was on his knees with his hands up.

Well I consider Obama a very large part of the government...just look at what he has said and by his actions(or inaction)to perpetrate the lies. He also "nominated" Al Sharpton (I would consider that the left-liberal wing of the Democratic party) to do the usual race bating on behalf of the administration. Anyway..The whole scam of the last six years is to not have a "legitimate" source. Nobody ever knows anything in this administration.

The word "Scum" comes to mind.

Brown was a thug and a criminal who got shot for good reason. The fact that the lies made better stories than the truth led to the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" bullchit becoming a slogan and having staying power even after it was proven that it never happened.

So we have a dead thug who assaulted a cop. He floated to the top.

The fake news about the poor child who was "murdered" while his hands were in the air or shot in the back took off and was used by opportunists from the liberal wing of the government and Democratic party.

The likes of Al Sharpton floated to the top. The fires of racial hatred were fanned to the maximum extent possible.

Eric Holder and Obama made public comments about a case under investigation while the investigation was ongoing.

.... more chit floating to the top.

Other cases are brought to the attention of the public as proof of racial injustice and hatred (the "chokehold incident) even though the officer in charge during the event was black. Regardless, the event was proof of racial injustice and an excuse for the liberals (who just got a helliva' azz woopin' in the election) to bring out the base and fight for the obvious injustice!

Riots ensued. Buildings burned. Looting occurred. All of which are examples of what floated to the top.

Many of the peaceful protesters didn't know for what they were protesting when asked why they were still chanting "Hands up, don't shoot".

The white liberal crowd, i.e., Berkley, et. al., joined the action, not wanting to be left out. The white opportunists hit the stores and looting began because it was there for the taking and it was fun.

.... they floated to the top.

So remove all the scumbags that floated to the top and what exactly are you left with? Some bright bulbs that don't understand that the reason the cops pay 90% of their attention to blacks is that blacks commit 90% of the crimes?

They don't understand that the reason the blacks commit so many crimes is because they were not raised properly or parented correctly. Crime is cool, school is not. Thuggishness is cool and taught by peer pressure. Common decency is a taught behavior so that didn't happen.

If one was to really help the black situation they would change how teenage girls, who end up single parents, keep repeating the same mistake. The children of this system would be moved to an environment that does a better job of raising children than what is happening now.

It is amazing the benefit a real education could cause and education begins at home, not the school system.

Thank you. I am well aware of what the transcripts say...I've been one of the few who's actually been citing and quoting it in most of these discussions.


I wanted a citation to a legitimate source that says this version of the story was created and perpetrated by "opportunists from the liberal wing of the government and Democratic party", given that - factually speaking - the people who are giving this bastardized version of the story are the "eyewitnesses" (who couldn't keep their stories straight and/or admitted, under oath, they hadn't seen a thing), NFL-football players, and thug-wannabe opportunists looking for a *good* excuse to loot a few free TVs just in time for Christmas gift-giving.

None of those are affiliated with the "government" - either from its "liberal wing" or from the conservative Bible-thumping branch and many are too young TO be registered with ANY political party.


So, I'll still wait for the citation legitimate source that verifies the "Don't-Shoot-Arm-Uppers" are affiliated with the government and/or work for the Democratic party.

The word "Scum" comes to mind.

Brown was a thug and a criminal who got shot for good reason. The fact that the lies made better stories than the truth led to the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" bullchit becoming a slogan and having staying power even after it was proven that it never happened.

So we have a dead thug who assaulted a cop. He floated to the top.

The fake news about the poor child who was "murdered" while his hands were in the air or shot in the back took off and was used by opportunists from the liberal wing of the government and Democratic party.

The likes of Al Sharpton floated to the top. The fires of racial hatred were fanned to the maximum extent possible.

Eric Holder and Obama made public comments about a case under investigation while the investigation was ongoing.

.... more chit floating to the top.

Other cases are brought to the attention of the public as proof of racial injustice and hatred (the "chokehold incident) even though the officer in charge during the event was black. Regardless, the event was proof of racial injustice and an excuse for the liberals (who just got a helliva' azz woopin' in the election) to bring out the base and fight for the obvious injustice!

Riots ensued. Buildings burned. Looting occurred. All of which are examples of what floated to the top.

Many of the peaceful protesters didn't know for what they were protesting when asked why they were still chanting "Hands up, don't shoot".

The white liberal crowd, i.e., Berkley, et. al., joined the action, not wanting to be left out. The white opportunists hit the stores and looting began because it was there for the taking and it was fun.

.... they floated to the top.

So remove all the scumbags that floated to the top and what exactly are you left with? Some bright bulbs that don't understand that the reason the cops pay 90% of their attention to blacks is that blacks commit 90% of the crimes?

They don't understand that the reason the blacks commit so many crimes is because they were not raised properly or parented correctly. Crime is cool, school is not. Thuggishness is cool and taught by peer pressure. Common decency is a taught behavior so that didn't happen.

If one was to really help the black situation they would change how teenage girls, who end up single parents, keep repeating the same mistake. The children of this system would be moved to an environment that does a better job of raising children than what is happening now.

It is amazing the benefit a real education could cause and education begins at home, not the school system.

Any time that Berkeley is mentioned, I just assume white thugs.

no,, 90 percent of crime is not black folks,, there are a number of categories of crime and most have a predominant percentage of non blacks,,

but this is the IMAGE associated with blacks so successfully that allows their deaths too often to be excused and even applauded and twisted to be about nothing but their inferior values or character


the justice system deals with 'criminals' of all colors,, but there is disparate treatment amongst the CRIMINALS....which is nothing to do with whether those involved are criminal

and more about how some groups are less valued than others,, or at least certainly SEEM to be,,,,

Well, I do not know about other areas of the U.S. But I do know about mine (NY.C. Metro area) From what I see. Most of white collar crime is committed by non blacks.

and most violent crimes are committed by blacks. And I base that on the news ( channel 7 Eyewitness News) that I watch ever day before heading out. Each day the news shows clips and camera shots of people wanted for various violent crimes committed overnight or recently. ( Murders, shooting, drug dealings, rapes, robberies, assaults, car jacking's, ect, ect.). 9 out of 10 faces that are shown on the cameras (and there are cameras everywhere here) are black.

NYC did have a black police commissioner awhile back ( Ben Ward) who stated " lets stop the charade, the vast majority of violent crimes are committed by blacks.. and black on black crimes lead the way.

Now don't take my word for it.. watch channel 7 news for a week or 2... you tell me.

B-b-b-b-but that's Politically Incorrect!

You apparently have a reading comprehension problem. Read what was written without you rewriting it to fit your agenda...

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The fake news about the poor child who was "murdered" while his hands were in the air or shot in the back took off and was used by opportunists from the liberal wing of the government and Democratic party...