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Thu Aug 21, 2014, 06:40 AM Aug 2014

Protesters in Oakland join solidarity march tied to Ferguson shooting

Source: Ken Pritchett KTVU.com

More than 200 protesters took to the streets of Oakland Wednesday evening in another solidarity march tied to the shooting of an 18-year-old man in Ferguson, Missouri.

“Hands up! Don’t shoot,” the protesters chanted as they marched from 14th and Broadway in the direction of Oakland Police Headquarters on 7th street.

They were stopped short of the building by a line of officers blocking off Broadway.

The protesters pledged the march would be non-violent and it was.




Read more: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/oakland-offramps-closed-streets-blocked-ferguson-p/ng6RQ/

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