{"id":12101,"date":"2010-07-09T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-09T04:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:27:05","slug":"oakland-update-july-8-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/09\/oakland-update-july-8-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Update &#038; July 8 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' title='yfrog.com - Image And Video Hosting' href='http:\/\/yfrog.com\/j0sm8oj'><img src='http:\/\/a.yfrog.com\/img684\/8807\/sm8o.jpg' align=right width=300 border='0'\/><\/a>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/ybenjamin\/detail?entry_id=67466&#038;tsp=1\">Yobie Benjamin at SFGate<\/a> says the crowd downtown is less than 1000 people, and it is pretty orderly right now.<\/p>\n<p>From my friend Beth Spotswood at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbslocalblogs.prospero.com\/n\/blogs\/blog.aspx?webtag=kpix_eyeonblogs\">CBS5 Eye on Blogs<\/a>, here a few links for the Oakland situation now that the Mehserle verdict has come in. &nbsp;The photo is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmonty\">tweets of KevMo<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/uptownalmanac.com\/\">Uptown Almanac<\/a>, showing an AC Transit Bus being blocked by protesters in Downtown Oakland. <a href=\"http:\/\/yfrog.com\/5zwmej\">This image of police lined up to block the street<\/a> is also pretty dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>* First, to state the obvious, the family and supporters of Oscar Grant are <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/07\/bart-verdict-some-activists-not-satisfied-with-manslaughter-ruling.html\">not satisfied with the Involuntary manslaughter verdict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* That being said, with the gun enhancement, the minimum prison sentence is now 5 years, with a maximum of 14 years. Alameda DA Nancy O&#8217;Malley said that she was disappointed about the verdict, but that Mehserle will be going to prison.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/sfist.com\">SFist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sfappeal.com\">SF Appeal<\/a> will be updating with the latest news, as will the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\">SF Chronicle<\/a>. Of course, check out some of the local Oakland blogosphere, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandseen.com\/\">OaklandSeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* In the end, Violence is not Justice:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XqofgXqteuQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' title='yfrog.com - Image And Video Hosting' href='http:\/\/yfrog.com\/j0sm8oj'><img src='http:\/\/a.yfrog.com\/img684\/8807\/sm8o.jpg' align=right width=300 border='0'\/><\/a>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/ybenjamin\/detail?entry_id=67466&#038;tsp=1\">Yobie Benjamin at SFGate<\/a> says the crowd downtown is less than 1000 people, and it is pretty orderly right now.<\/p>\n<p>From my friend Beth Spotswood at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbslocalblogs.prospero.com\/n\/blogs\/blog.aspx?webtag=kpix_eyeonblogs\">CBS5 Eye on Blogs<\/a>, here a few links for the Oakland situation now that the Mehserle verdict has come in. &nbsp;The photo is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmonty\">tweets of KevMo<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/uptownalmanac.com\/\">Uptown Almanac<\/a>, showing an AC Transit Bus being blocked by protesters in Downtown Oakland. <a href=\"http:\/\/yfrog.com\/5zwmej\">This image of police lined up to block the street<\/a> is also pretty dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>* First, to state the obvious, the family and supporters of Oscar Grant are <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/07\/bart-verdict-some-activists-not-satisfied-with-manslaughter-ruling.html\">not satisfied with the Involuntary manslaughter verdict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* That being said, with the gun enhancement, the minimum prison sentence is now 5 years, with a maximum of 14 years. Alameda DA Nancy O&#8217;Malley said that she was disappointed about the verdict, but that Mehserle will be going to prison.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/sfist.com\">SFist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sfappeal.com\">SF Appeal<\/a> will be updating with the latest news, as will the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\">SF Chronicle<\/a>. Of course, check out some of the local Oakland blogosphere, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandseen.com\/\">OaklandSeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* In the end, Violence is not Justice:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XqofgXqteuQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XqofgXqteuQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9094,406],"class_list":["post-12101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9094","tag-406"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-39b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}