To file. In and we will go to our nbc bay area sky ranger. Back there, to that red carpet area, it looks like the main stage, for this rally, it started around 4 00, this evening, so about an hour ago. And again, organized in part by Many High School students, and the plan here is to stay here at Mission High School, and delores park, and then at some point, march toward one of the Police Substations just a few blocks away. We will continue to follow this sizable march, in just a moment and lets go back down to the ground level, and rejoin thom jensen. We have your audio and video back. Take it away. Reporter we are having audio problems but you can see the size and scope of this rally here. From our sky ranger. Lets go across the bay here now, where what were seeing here, another Diverse Group of protesters in oakland today, including many of the warriors. In fact, the last time steph curry and Klay Thompson walked this route was two years ago, almost to the day. You can see him, step
Literally minutes ago this scene just cleared out we saw about 4 to 5 police cars leave as well as a tow truck that tow truck had a white ford fusion it on top of it and it looked like it had been shot out now we know that this all folded around 2. 30 this afternoon in this block again like i said it was completely taped off and we know that according to neighbors, they say one of these homes was most likely involved as well so even though this street is clear here still a lot of questions remain now exactly what led up to those shots we still dont know, but earlier we spoke to the police chief he said he still had an interview the officers involved however what he did tell us was that the man who died was suspected of killing a homeless man in another case from a first a neighbors were surprised to learn someone died here earlier today, they say that the police often respond to calls in this area we spoke to a man who says his friend was at his house when the shots rang out and texted
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