Protests over BART shooting turn violent

A protest over the fatal shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed man mushroomed into a violent confrontation tonight, as a faction of protesters smashed a police car and storefronts, set several cars on fire and blocked streets in downtown Oakland.

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I am getting the sense that the cop really did shoot that kid to provoke exactly this kind of civil unrest, as a distraction from what Israel is doing or possibly to create a national crisis justifying the suspension of the Constitution.