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BART #blacklivesmatter Protests: Facebook Briefly Removes Page

Facebook briefly shut down a page dedicated to informing activists planning a Friday protest for charges to be dropped against the arrest of 14 activists who chained themselves to trains and shut down the West Oakland BART station last November. The page was restored a few hours later.

Massive protest shuts down parts of the Mall of America on a busy shopping day

Sharpton: Selma Snub Ironic in the ‘Age of Ferguson’

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation,” host Al Sharpton claimed even though Selma was nominated for Best Picture, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ lack of diversity, citing the member voters are 93 percent white and 76 percent male,

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Police Release Photos of Ferguson Looters

Police in St. Louis County have released surveillance photos and video of looters connected to the riots that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, in the days after a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer for shooting a teenager in August.

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‘Black Brunch’: Collectivism Gives Anti-Police Protests Rationale to Strike Random Targets

Anti-police protesters decided it would be a good idea to storm restaurants in New York City and Oakland, California on Sunday, targeting eateries they decided were “white spaces” based on the skin color of the patrons. This was supposed to link the current anti-cop fever to the lunch-counter civil rights protests of the Sixties — an attempted theft of moral credibility that should enrage the surviving veterans of the civil rights era.

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Shots Fired at Ferguson Officers

On Wednesday, KSDK reported that Ferguson police officers investigating a burglary were shot at on Tuesday. The officers were responding to a burglary at Beauty Town, a business that had been burned in riots after the grand jury’s decision not to indict

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Rose Parade Faces Small ‘#BlackLivesMatter’ Protest

About ten protesters showed up for a planned protest of Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses Parade with signs and a banner heralding the name and image of Ezell Ford and others who have died in confrontations with police, along with the declaration “#BlackLivesMatter.”

Ezell Ford and Black Lives Matter protest at Rose Bowl Parade. (@Garrick Ruiz / Twitter)

More Protests for New Year’s Eve in California

Protesters plan to ring in the New Year in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Pasadena, California as #BlackLivesMatter and Occupy movement activists have laid out a busy night, as well as demonstrations on New Years’ Day at Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses parade.

Arrests in New York dropped 66 percent after police officers were killed

Ferguson Protesters Damage MO Store

KSDK reported that a Sunday protest at the St. Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights, MO resulted in damage to the inside of a store after two protesters over the grand jury decision in Ferguson ignored police orders to disperse and damaged

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‘All Lives Matter’ vs. ‘Black Lives Matter’ at Dueling LAPD Protests

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department on Sunday to stage an “All Lives Matter” rally in support of police, who have come under increasing criticism from the “Black Lives Matter” movement in Los Angeles and around the country. A small “Black Lives Matter” counter-demonstration gathered opposite.

All Lives Matter Rally (@LAcycleHELPER / Twitter)

Vallejo, CA Residents Rally for Police

In Vallejo, CA, roughly 30 miles north of San Francisco, roughly 60 demonstrators rallied Saturday in support of their police officers, according to the Vallejo Times-Herald. The police supporters met in front of the Vallejo Police Department, holding signs emblazoned with messages such as “police lives matter.”

Vallejo Police Department delegation to funerals of NYPD officers Rafael “Ralph” Ramos

Silent Ferguson Protesters Block Downtown St Louis Street

Only the sound of footsteps were audible as protesters marched down the streets of St. Louis past City Hall with duct tape on their mouths in silent protest over the police-involved shooting deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York . Activists got loud, however, as they ended up down at the landmark St Louis Arch, flooding the entrance to the Visitor’s Center chanting, “FTP, F**k the Police” and “Hands Up Don’t Shoot.”

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Oakland Police Blast ‘Politicians and Media Pundits’

The Oakland Police Officers Association has joined police unions in San Francisco and San Jose in condemning recent violence in anti-police protests across the Bay Area and the nation, singling out “politicians and media pundits” for their “vilification of front-line public servants.”

Oakland Ferguson Protest (AP)

Member of Ferguson Commission Rushes to Condemn Cops After Berkeley Shooting

After 18-year-old Antonio Martin pulled a gun and was subsequently shot and killed by a police officer at a Berkeley, Missouri gas station on December 23, Pastor Starsky Wilson blamed the police–saying that “most of the protests [since Ferguson] have been nonviolent” but the police escalated things anyway, which in turn caused violence.

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