" okay, enough is enough. what exactly are they "protesting" anyway? seriously.... "

" Destroying your city is obviously the best way to show that you are unhappy... "

" OMG - talk about beating a dead horse...Seriously they need to get over it and move on and secondly, so far there hasn't been anything peaceful about their protests...Smashing windows, cars, destroying property is not what I would call peaceful. "

" Where's the protests of the brutal beating of the Vallejo student who tried to intervene in a fight? Where's the outrage of the beating these same animals gave girls trying to intervene for the poor guy who'll possibly die from the kicks to his head while he was down? "

" It would have been somewhat more informative to print the times of the march, but at least we got what day it will be.

If the organizers wanted the march to be peaceful, wouldn't "March for Peaceful Resolution" be less inciting than "March for Justice" ?

I'm starting to believe that people who organize these marches should be held liable for any damage that occurs. I understand that we have a right to demonstrate and voice our opinions and wishes. But when someone KNOWS that violence might occur, and they create the situation to gather a crowd that might get violent, they are contributory.

There are good prople in Oakland that don't need their property destroyed because of something they have no control over. "

" "March For Justice"? The guys locked up facing murder charges, Its almost like these protesters just want to skip the trial and hang the guy in the town square. Theres no need to protest, everything that can be done is being done. How about they start protesting the protesters that vandalised and destroyed peoples lives. Most the vandals could care less about Oscar or the "Cause", they just got an excuse to destroy things. Lets start a protest against those people "

" Liability, reasonator, is the reason for the unrest. As a white person living in Napa, can you imagine if there were a history of black cops here shooting more white suspects than black?

What is most outrageous is that the officer was not taken into protective custody given the volatile circumstances. That he remained free and out of state is an outrage in terms of equal justice. "

" Oscar Grant probably didn't deserve to die, however he wasn't a model citizen. I'm tired of this being about race. The cop is in jail, Oakland has had protest after protest for "justice", the mother of the victim is suing Bart for millions, the family of the cop is receiving death threats, etc...what more do they want. Oaklands kill each other daily and I guess that is ok. Look at those 6 kids that beat the crap out of the other kid in Vallejo. They are all black. Is that ok because the victim and the suspects are all black? "

" I don't understand the events leaders stand? He says african americans are dieing needlessly, but 99% of it is black on black crimes and murders. How often do you really here of cops killing black men unjustifiably? Maybe once a year. Henry Clarks says the shooting "symbolizes the ongoing oppression of black people.” Most black crime and murders are done by other black people. This has been going on for decades. If they want to protest then they should be protesting to stop the violence that blacks are doing to other blacks. Cops are there to help stop crime and solve murders but these protesters are trying to say cops are out there killing black men, that just isn't true. Black men are killing other black men in record numbers "

" Just excuses to destroy the city of Oakland as if it were not already in shambles. I can see why the Black community is enraged, but this is beyond a race issue. Let's take out the race factor and focus on what really happened; an unarmed handcuffed man was shot in the back. This man was NOT a threat there is no way he could have been resisting arrest; he was already cuffed and was laying on his stomach with his face towards the ground. In this day and age we have trigger happy cops. It does NOT matter if the man who shot the subject in question was the President of the United States or the Pope fact is he shot a defenseless man, this is cold blooded murder California PC 187 "

" I disagree with you wowquebonita
Cold blooded murder would be the officer planning this shooting for a period of time, It would be him thinking about what he was going to do, then acting on those thoughts. If he really did it purposely then why wouldn't he just admit to it. This officer just had a kid and was 2 years into a career, if he was going to murder someone in this way with hundreds of witnesses and other officers present he would do it with out the thought of getting away with it, he wouldn't think about the punishment. He wouldve already come out and said YES I murdered him. And if he did murder someone with the intent of getting away with it then why didn't he try to flee the moment he left the BART station that night? Guilty people run, innocent people stay behind to prove there innocents "

" I couldn't be happier that the Oaklanders and their thuggy pals continue to protest - in Oakland.
It means they aren't here. "

" If african-americans want to play the race card then why dont they look at the prisons. African-Americans make up a majority of the prison population. "

" VERUM - The only 'history' is the one you're making up in your little brain. 999,999 incidents of white cops acting decently and you jump all over the one incident and it's now historically abusive behavior!?

The worst part is that this is most likely a complete accident yet somehow it's turned into an execution by the uninformed and ignorant. If he wanted to execute blacks he had 20 or 30 potential victims all around him. Why stop with one?! "

" The people in Oakland responsible for and participating in these protests disgust me more than the murder that occurred. A murder is not an excuse for a riot or a huge settlement. They should all be ashamed of themselves. Any of their speeches about race fall on thousands of deaf ears. "

" I am so sick and tired of how cops pick on black people in Oakland. If you look at number of people doing crime in Oakland I wander what color they are.
This is exactly like the Napa PD picking on Hispanics in Napa. Who's doing the most crime? "

" they are american's. not african americans. They were born here.

anyhow they should move if they don't like how police operate in oakland. Just move. That is why I moved out of napa cause napa cops hassled me "

" It is wrong to think that the people in Oakland aren't making an effort to stop violence. I work in Oakland, and every day I see at least one person wearing a shirt with slogans like "Stop the Violence", or other pleas or declarations of feeling about how so many young people in Oakland so readily get caught up in violent situations.

To understand the outrage, one needs to be aware of the history that we up here in Napa don't really feel, even if we've read about it. It goes beyond the Riders, the Chauncey Bailey dis-investigation, etc. It is things that many of the people in Oakland live in, not read about.

There are misguided young people of ALL colors everywhere. Some of the most noted violent criminals aren't the stereotypical black youth. Nobody in Napa was anxious to racially categorize the white kids at Columbine, but they sure would have if they'd been black kids in Oakland.

I really feel for the people of Oakland. There are MANY good people in Oakland who don't deserve to have people judge them incorrectly. "