Video Of Protests and Riots in California After Zimmerman Verdict. Dozens gathered on the streets of Oakland, California in protest hours after a jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin.
Americans angry at the acquittal of George Zimmerman over the death of Trayvon Martin took to the streets in US cities throughout Saturday night, with more protests expected today.
Spontaneous marches of varying sizes erupted in cities including San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Atlanta and Philadelphia and were largely peaceful, although there were sporadic acts of vandalism.
The protesters appeared to be heeding the advice of officials and others who urged them not to resort to violence.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson tweeted within minutes of the acquittal: "Avoid violence, it will lead to more tragedies. Find a way for self construction not deconstruction in this time of despair."
Several hundred demonstrators marched peacefully amid a heavy police presence in downtown San Francisco soon after the verdict. Many carried signs with slogans such as "The people say guilty".
Hours later angry protesters marching through Oakland - just across the bay from San Francisco - spray-painted cars and smashed windows, helicopter video footage posted by the Oakland Tribune showed. One vandalised vehicle was a police cruiser.
In Chicago, to the cry of "No justice, no peace! No racist police!" a crowd of activists held a noisy downtown rally, the Chicago Tribune reported, while protesters gathered at Times Square in New York to vent their anger
Los Angeles police declared a "citywide tactical alert" when some 200 demonstrators gathered at a park to demonstrate, but police later told local media that it was as a precaution, and that there had been no acts of violence.
In Washington, dozens of mostly African-American youths marched chanting slogans in a city neighbourhood. They were followed closely by patrol vehicles, one journalist reported.
One Washington protester said: "This shows that our children really are not safe.
"Anybody can do anything to them while they are out there minding their business so I think it's a sad day for our justice system and there needs to be some reform. People really need to think about the decision that was made today."
The decision drew angry shouts from some of the dozens of demonstrators who had gathered on the streets but another protester said the outcome of the trial was expected.
"There is nobody out here that is surprised about what took place this evening. People are disappointed but not surprised," he said.
A crowd of several hundred gathered all day Saturday outside the courthouse in Sanford, Florida -- and many were outraged when the verdict was read.
"It's the end of our justice system," said Ashton Summer, a 20-year-old Puerto Rican. "Justice is not equal for everyone."
The ANSWER coalition, which helped organise large protest rallies during the Iraq war, said it would hold marches Sunday in seven US cities, as well as three separate ones in New York.
Celebrities also reacted. Beyonce called at a Nashville concert for a moment of silence for Martin. Elsewhere, rapper Young Jeezy released a song in Martin's memory and Russell Simmons called for a peace.
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump acknowledged the disappointment of Trayvon Martin's supporters. However, he said, "for Trayvon to rest in peace, we must all be peaceful".
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ReplyDeleteThese Sub-Humans will riot in the streets for ANY REASON! You didn't see RIOTS like this when O.J. Simpson was found NOT GUILTY!!! Tell me about "Racism" you MORONS! Oh, and the sign that read "Justice ONLY for White Americans" Really, tell that to Ronald Goldman or Nicole Brown Simpsons family! And Zimmerman is Hispanic, FOOLS! This is a DIVERSION PLAIN AND SIMPLE!
ReplyDeleteThank God Travon didn't live to see his supporters generate this nonsense in his name; However it's typical of the historically ill-educated reactions in the South Bronx, Watts, Detroit, Chicago and every other major inner-city ghetto in America reacting to imagined black entitlement. Thank you Democrat Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter for re-creating illiteracy and "the plantation" for blacks who, almost unanimously and consistently, support your political party. They don't even understand that the "old Southern Democrat" mentality that caused the civil rights pain and anguish of the 60's & 70's moved into Northern Cities leaving the Southern State populations as staunch Republican Conservatives. The "Bill Cosbys" and "Thomas Sowells" and "Walter Williams" and their educated generational peers were typical examples of their generation before DEMOCRATS felt the threat and the need to "return the Negro to the plantation". Hence, the actions of Lyndon Johnson and Jimmi Carter. SAD, so SAD..! Obama is NOT the "champion" of our American-Black population;..he is the very antithesis of Black education and progress by setting back Black civil rights and 'class warfare' to before the time of Martin Luther King
ReplyDeleteThere was only one witness to the event where Zimmerman shot Martin, so all the people who are condemning Zimmerman and the police don't know what actually happened and are judging on racial grounds. Shame on them, not on the jury that weighed the evidence as best they could and judged that it was not sufficiently conclusive to support a guilty verdict. That, by the way, is not saying that Zimmerman was faultless.
ReplyDeleteThese Typical White Conservative opinions is why America will have a Race War. Blacks have had it with the Entitled Conservative White Class of this country.
ReplyDeleteThese Conservative Whites feel entitled to White: Power, Privilege, and dominance over the entire world with us African Americans at their colonial boot, in the same way the Northern Irish are at the Boot of the Racist British.
America needs a Racial Revolution. America is a White Conservative male ran Apartheid State. White Males make up 22% of the population and have like 90% of the jobs and businesses. No Wonder why Blacks even those with College Degrees are forced on "Give Me" Programs.
I think it's funny that Conservative Libertarian Whites even entertain the idea of Asking us Blacks to put our Racial Differences aside in order to fight the NWO when they are just as Racist and Colonial Minded as the NWO.
Helping the Conservative Libertarian Whites fight the Global Elite would be like replacing one Racist Slave Master with another, and that's why America is doomed.
Then again, the continued existence of America, China or any other Nation subverts the will of God, and that's to merge all nations into his Global Government of 1000+ years of peace after Armageddon ruled by the Rod of Iron of Jesus.
By the Way, WHAT FLASH RIOTS?
ReplyDeleteYou People want to see some real motherfucking Black Flash Riots?
Continue to piss us off, and LA 1992 will be even in the small conservative Middle American towns of the Midwest and South, while LA, NYC, Jersey, Chicago will look like Haiti after the Earthquake faster than you can say Molotov.
Not a threat, a Promise.
- The Black Man
You "NEWZ", like Obama, are a sad example of your Mau-Mau history and heritage; and yes Barak's alleged Father, Barak Obama senior (the man with the twisted dreams) was in fact associated with Jomo Kenyatta, the leader of South Africa's Mau-Mau uprising. However "Newz",.. the fruits of YOUR genetic composite will never benefit the likes of you or Black-AMERICANS who THINK LIKE YOU. To victimize and destroy your own neighborhoods to demonstrate your displeasure will no longer be tolerated by YOUR OWN neighbors or communities. Wake up, your ilk is not in the model of the Sowells, Williams, Cosbys or any members of educated generations before yours..YOU, my friend, are an anomaly in your own country and your fate is short lived with the attitude you display here.
ReplyDeleteNot a threat, a promise.
You watch too much Fox News.
DeleteNobody except White Conservatives like Sowell, Thomas, Williams, Carson, Elder, or Cosby. "Burning down your own neighborhoods" is a stereotype. Study the History of the LA Riots. Gangs of Blacks and Mexicans were burning joints in White Brentwood and Hollywood, my man.
This was the Super Primitive Early 90s before: cell phones were necessities for all people, social media, the internet was accessible to anybody, the advent of Flash Mobs, and more..
Imagine the fires and Flash Mobs that will be in the White Suburbs soon. We have the White Suburbs as the target mainly in the protests, as a Black Man will walk anywhere he wants with a hoodie and not have a problem when we get done. There are groups of protesters in various Metro Areas today, and the rest of this week that are and will be protesting under the banner of "Wearing Hoodies in the Suburbs."
There are plenty of Educated Black Men Protesting today, including myself. There's a difference between being educated and being a Tom to please White Conservatives and Libertarians.