Why I Got Arrested For Eric Garner and Michael Brown
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The following is a guest post from my son, Dayton Thorpe, a PhD candidate studying at UC Berkeley. On Tuesday December 9th, I was released from the Alameda County Jail charged with being a public nuisance for the previous night’s protest in Berkeley, California. Spurred by the recent police killings of unarmed black men and the choice of grand juries not to hold trials, Americans of all colors have realized that full equality won’t come just with the passage of time. Activists in Ferguson, New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and elsewhere have taken to the streets in protest. In Berkeley, after two days of protests that were mostly peaceful but marred by roughly ten mask-wearing looters, I worried the energy would be lost. On the third night, I was elated and proud to find the largest crowd yet – 2,000 peaceful protesters. The Berkeley Police Department later confirmed there were no instances of looting or property damage. Starting at the police headquarters downtown, we marched all over Berkeley, eventually flooding onto I-80 to block ten lanes of traffic.
Why I Got Arrested For Eric Garner and Michael Brown
Why I Got Arrested For Eric Garner and…
Why I Got Arrested For Eric Garner and Michael Brown
The following is a guest post from my son, Dayton Thorpe, a PhD candidate studying at UC Berkeley. On Tuesday December 9th, I was released from the Alameda County Jail charged with being a public nuisance for the previous night’s protest in Berkeley, California. Spurred by the recent police killings of unarmed black men and the choice of grand juries not to hold trials, Americans of all colors have realized that full equality won’t come just with the passage of time. Activists in Ferguson, New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and elsewhere have taken to the streets in protest. In Berkeley, after two days of protests that were mostly peaceful but marred by roughly ten mask-wearing looters, I worried the energy would be lost. On the third night, I was elated and proud to find the largest crowd yet – 2,000 peaceful protesters. The Berkeley Police Department later confirmed there were no instances of looting or property damage. Starting at the police headquarters downtown, we marched all over Berkeley, eventually flooding onto I-80 to block ten lanes of traffic.