City, that bothers me more. A number of guns were seized. Several individuals were detained. There will be more information on friday. In oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Business owners in oakland spent thanksgiving morning cleaning up shattered glass. Vandals broke windows for a third consecutive night. Damage concentrated along the broadway corridor. 35 people were arrested last night. 170 arrests since monday. Oaklands Police Department cancelled all time officer saturday. There will be more bikes on foot and bicycle so they are more nimble. A looting in ferguson was edited to vand lialism in oakland. This was an intentional. This was an error in the video process. We made a mistake and we regret the jer popper error. Man and woman were held at gunpoint and kidnapped early this morning. Victims were sitting in their car when three men confronted them demanding money. At least two of the suspects had guns. One got into the couples car and ordered them to drive to a nearby atm to
Elissa harrington, abc 7 news. Civil rights leaders met at city hall to discuss the decision. They are calling for peaceful protest if the officer is not indicted. Pastors are also asking for peace. The sanctuary will be open tonight for people to share their feelings and discuss community activism. We might be able to create a safe place for all who are gathered to not only show up and express the anger or frustration or excitement, but that they may in community be able to imagine where do we go next. The sanctuary will open in half an hour. A night of anxiety in ferguson as the city along with the nation waits for the jurys announcement. Taking a live look at some of the protesters gathering, these are people heading into the streets and the crowds are growing. There is also a Group Protesting in front of the police station. Police have been preparing, putting up barricades, planning to put 1,000 officers on the ground. The National Guard and fbi are also in ferguson ready to respon
And heavy bike locks managed to shut down a good portion of the b. A. R. T. System by locking themselves to two trains in west oakland. Its a very big chain. My ancestors were in chains like this. This is nothing. We are especially sending this message today on black friday when we are trying to purposely interrupt commerce. Reporter when it became clear the demonstrators werent moving, the passengers on this train were evacuated. Im trying to get home to livermore. Reporter what do you think . They need to move. I mean, its sad that he lost his life, but i have things i have to do. I agree with the message but it should be done another way. Reporter b. A. R. T. Police gave several dispersal orders before moving in to arrest those in the human chain. Once we separated the person from the train by taking off the piece of the train that they were chained to, we took the entire group off the train. Reporter 14 demonstrators in all, seven on each side, were eventually cuffed and led away.
We had oakland pd in riot gear come out 10 minutes ago and they are preparing right now behind me for those protesters from 0 gala plaza to headache to make their way to this intersection. We talk to mayorelect libby shaft were going to have a new mayor in the new year. We asked her the horrific vadalism we saw in oakland last night once shes mayor what would she do differently. Three days until the biggest shopping day of the year and olli doesnt have a thing to sell. These looters took about everything he has. Copycating the vandalism in ferguson, missouri. Its sad to see the democratic process get tan ished by anarchy but thats the state that we live in. Trashing of oakland was completely unacceptable. Reporter mayorelect libby shaft didnt agree request the grand jurys decision in ferguson but equally appalled by the vandalism in her hometown. We are absolutely committed to making sure that not only do we prevent it but that people who engage in that type of destructive behavior get
Arrests were talking about around the range of 40 or so is what were hearing. [ sirens ] very loud because they are working on the glass. Lets back up over here. Still, they are working on making sure that that glass is taken care of. After midnight there were shots of tear gas and rubber bullets. Back to you thank you. You have been there for a good hour or so this morning. Can you give us a feel of the whole scope, how much damage in the city of oakland . Do you have any idea . Reporter yeah. So were talking about six yeah, were talking about a six block or so stretch downtown oakland and broadway where we have seen the damage. Thats where weve seen the broken glass, broken windows. Most ill tell ya, most of the shops what was interesting like oaklandish, also youth radio, local shops that were hit in previous protests like occupy or in the Trayvon Martin situation, they were not touched. Mainly the focus of the protestors have been big banks. Live in oakland, ryan takeo, kpix 5. The