When President Obama was elected in 2008, miraculously, all the anti-war protest just stopped, like someone turned off the spigot. And for the next 3 1/2 years, we have rarely heard of any anti-war protests until now.
From the San Francisco Chronicle: Oakland police admitted Monday they were caught off guard by a
fast-moving group of vandals who tore through the city's downtown center
and were gone before shorthanded authorities could organize a response.
The
masked vandals dressed in black splintered off from an antiwar protest
march Sunday night and wreaked havoc, smashing windows, lobbing paint
bombs, and spray-painting graffiti on storefronts.
And then they walked away.
The
all-too-familiar sequence left city officials, residents and business
leaders frustrated - yet again - by the violent attacks on the city's
civic and business center.
Police said they didn't see it coming
as what began as an antiwar protest of 30 to 40 people suddenly grew to
between 200 and 300 people with varying agendas and motives.
Police
were staffed at regular patrol levels when they received reports of
smaller groups breaking off from the larger march to break windows,
damage parked vehicles and smash glass storefronts along 20th Street
near Broadway. Vandals also shattered windows at City Hall and the
Oakland police internal affairs and recruiting office in Frank
Ogawa Plaza.
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