Downtown area, angry over George Zimmermans acquittal. Right now, the protesters are assembled in front of the Alameda County courthouse on fallen street, between 12th and 14th. Thats not far from lake merritt. This is a live picture from news chopper 2. You can see the crowd has gotten slightly installer. We have a team of ktvu reporters on this breaking news tonight. We begin with ken wayne, who was following the protesters when they decided to walk up an on ramp to shut down intersate 880 tonight. Reporter 6th street at broadway is still closed. You can see the officers car behind me. But the good news is the nimetz freeway is now open. After protesters walked to 6th and broadway, they were met with a line of officers in riot gear blocking their path of 6th street. Some protesters broke away, and simply walked the opposite direction up the unguarded off ramp, and up to the elevated elevated portion of the busy freeway. Traffic came to a stand still in both directions. Despite the in
[ applause ] thank you. So i am going to wrap it up since we went over our time. So much experience here. That was my fault. My fault too, i did not get to make sure that we only had a couple and a few minutes and they were just so excited to talk to you about the programs. Since there are so many people in the room who were interested in giving Public Comment but we are going to ask them to hold the Public Comment because we are short on time and the commission needs that time. But if they want to write us something and we can make it as part of our record. That would be great and we love that. I want to ask the people to stand so that they could be acknowledged from each of the programs and particularly from all of the nonprofit partners that we have had and so if i could get apri, and collected impact, and Hunters Point family, lyric, podar, som cans, success center, Vietnamese Youth Development center to stand up and please be acknowledged. Maus plause [ applause ] the. I want to t
Getting pretty intense down there. Just about 15 minutes ago protestors started throwing things at police and the Police Answered back with flash agree canadian and emotional crowd and many say the verdict opened up the wound of the oscar grant verdict. Started out peaceful but lick most oakland demonstration the crowd dynamic changes dramatically when the sun goes down. By nature fall protesttors had dwindled to crowd of few hundred. March around lake merritt then small group tried to march up the lake shore on ramp to i5 80. Another small group up broadway off ramp on to interstate 8 80 holding up rush hour traffic momentarily. Officers have reported rock and bottle being drone at them and affecting arrest. How long will we allow this the horsepower . It can no longer happen. Protest began with rally at city hall. Some demonstrators talked about the emotional impact of the Trayvon Martin verdict how it effects their lives as parents. I have fear. I cant sleep at night until i know th
Jessica akerman, San Francisco bay chapter of the sierra club, i wanted to echo comments from everyone about how inaudible to move forward on transitioning to just and safe and Healthy Communities for everyone and part of that is giving people the community to move away from fossil fuels and giving the opportunity for good paying job and an opportunity to move forward to that ideal future together. And we do hope that you can continue to move forward with this program but the nottoexceed rate and thank you for all of the work that you did. Any other comments . All right, we will. There is no resolution to approve, right . So moved. Is that it. Thank you very much. Presentation. And number eight. Bawsca update. You are never going to retire . No, i am but i will be here for the end of september, i will be not at that one august meeting. You will be absent to the best one. Darn. I have invested all of these years. And well,vy good news to report and that is last thursday night the board
And it is such an Interactive Community to where you can get to talk to people one on one and get to know their ideas and what they are thinking and just to see them smile makes a smile. So if you come back to if you have any role in the future, what is a job that you would like to have . Since you are in college right now, why dont you answer that. Go ahead. Well i am a bio major. So probably a commissioner if i could get there i am a bio major. And so you need to see me. I want to put you in touch with my stem cell agency. Well the states stem cell agency. Sure. You might give me a call. All right. That is the kind of thing that we, that our mentors teach us and that we have the speakers who are just like networking and how maybe did they major in what they are working at as a puc and a lot of people went to the city college and some people went to stanford and i think that it shows the students that it does not matter where you came from, it doesnt matter what situation you might be