ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. â For the second night in a row, police and those protesting the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr. clashed in the streets of Elizabeth City on Wednesday. At least 5 protesters were arrested.
Shortly before 11 p.m., Elizabeth City police in tactical gear moved on curfew violators. Police chanted Move Back! Move Back! and took half steps at a time as they approached from two sides and ordered media to leave. Some media members were threatened with arrest. Stay peaceful! one of the protesters said.
The town s curfew had passed 3 hours earlier, at 8 p.m.
Police loaded those arrested onto a bus.
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Maiden Lane between Main and Berry Streets will be closed to through traffic for at least six months, beginning Monday, during the construction of the new Ashberry parking garage and mixed-use development, the city of Fort Wayne has announced.
Amazon Buys Recology Site in SF for $200 Million, Scuttles Plan to Make it Housing
Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre distribution facility in San Francisco.
E-commerce giant and aspiring surveillance menace Amazon is considered more of a Seattle company than a Silicon Valley company, but does actually have a significant footprint in the Bay Area. The Chronicle reported last year that Amazon has “more high-paying Amazon jobs than anywhere besides Seattle,” with 7,000 office workers in SF, Palo Alto, and East Palo Alto, and god-knows-how-many delivery and warehouse workers. Amazon also owns SF-based streaming/gamer thingy Twitch, which has another 1,500 employees. Now Amazon hopes for an even bigger Bay Area presence, as the Chronicle reports this morning that Amazon has bought a six-acre Recology facility for $200 million, with hopes of turning what is currently a waste management facility into a delivery