Helicopters have been buzzing overhead for hours today. It’s 22:30 and they’re still flying around. I got home around 16:00 and they were flying around. Why? There is a protest going on in Oakland because a police officer shot and killed an individual on BART the other day.
I took a 2-day firearm training course once in Nevada. The class was filled with police officers and a couple civilians like myself. We all got on the firing line, went through a little routine to be sure that are weapons were not loaded, and then the instructors would go up front and lecture. One of the police officers had an accidental discharge while the instructor was up front lecturing. So, the moral of the story is this: if a police officer is pointing a weapon at you, you are in GRAVE danger. At the training course, the police officer was calm because he was not threatened. On the streets, it’s different. He may just have chased you down or whatever. An accidental discharge when he’s pointing the weapon at you can be fatal.
Most of the photos are very similar. I only posted them all here just so I can study them a little bit closer to see if I can see anything interesting. They depict individuals walking down the street. Eventually, the car that’s pretty much in the center of the last photo was torched and the riot police came. Needless to say, there was a lot of commotion outside as the rioters and police marched through.
I baked a banana bread today and just as I was going over to get it out of the oven, I heard knocking on the door. It was my next door neighbor, Phung. I opened the door and then ran over to get the bread out of the oven. She said she was scared but I wasn’t really convinced. I had my window wide open because I was videoing the car burning and she was whispering the entire time because she didn’t want people on the street to hear us. There were helicopters flying overhead and many people down there. I don’t think they would be able to hear us talking 3.5 stories up. Furthermore, she was taking pictures from my window with her little digital camera … and she was using the flash. I couldn’t make sense of it. I gave her a third of the banana bread on her way out.
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