SHE SAW YOU!

There were helicopters in the sky in different directions two hours ago. This blogger does not like helicopters; they remind him of unpleasant places, humidity, and buggy things. Which I'm sure is not part of the programme. Tonight's protest and the necessary festive looting that will accompany it are supposed to be happy welcoming events!

In all seriousness, any movement will be "borrowed" by people with different agendas. That's just the nature of mass action. You could have a parade of stoned buddhist peaceniks moving down the street chanting slowly and beatifically about the peaceable nature of the noble sloth, and somewhere nearby a plate glass window would be broken and a hundred dollar pair of designer jeans would disappear off the shelf.

Let us all support the peaceable sloth.

Who does not wear designer jeans.


The corner store was being boarded up when I returned home. The CVC a few blocks south was looted last night, the one on Van Ness was completely boarded up. When I went out for a quick smoke after curfew started there were very few cars, and as few pedestrians. The helicopters were still overhead; closer to the civic center area.



Market Street has wannabe looters ("random white kids") moving east, staying a few steps ahead of the police. Some activists are busy preventing destruction and vandalism wherever possible. Arrests are being made. The streets around my old office (near Montgomery Station) are chaotic. Cops, protestors, potential looters in conflict with both of the above .....

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations closed down in response to unrest.
Cutting off escape routes.

Powell Street Station, Civic Center, Bayfair, Concord, Oakland 12th. Street, Walnut Creek, Hayward, Lafayette .....

Arrests soon on Market Street. Small group heading north on Kearny.

Confrontation between two sides at Fifth Street.

It's going to be a long night.




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