A march for racial justice Friday night turned ugly as hundreds of protesters converged on Union Square and frightened crowds of shoppers by smashing windows and attacking police. Shopkeepers lowered metal gates to protect their entries while shoppers with children dashed inside the giant Macy’s store and cowered behind locked doors. About 30 demonstrators had gathered at the square at about 5 p.m., and at first were nearly drowned out by loud holiday tunes blaring from the ice rink and the din of thousands of people who came to shop and to watch the annual tree lighting in the square. [...] once the tree was lit around 7 p.m. and hundreds of other activists had marched to the square from the Ferry Building, the confrontation with lines of police who were flanking them turned nasty. The demonstration was the latest of several in the Bay Area this week in reaction to a grand jury decision to not indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., for shooting an unarmed black man who had allegedly attacked him. #SF #News #49ers
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 06:02:07 +0000
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