Skip to Nav
Skip to Main
Skip to Footer

KQED Radio

KQED News see more

Latest Newscasts:KQEDNPR

Player Sponsored By

upper waypoint

Oakland Mayor and Police Chief React to Continuing Protests Over Zimmerman Acquittal

Jul 16, 2013 at

Save Article

Failed to save article

Please try again

Email

(Abrahamhyat/Flickr)

Protests in Oakland turned violent last night in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin. About 100 people tussled with police, and at least two people were injured. Marchers blocked portions of Interstate 880 in the third day of protests in response to the verdict. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Oakland’s Interim Police Chief Sean Whent join us to discuss last night’s events.

Highlights from the Related Discussion on Twitter

@KQEDForum Oakland Mayor @JeanQuan & #OPD Chief Whent should have held #Oakland #Trayvon rally – not be on your radio show.

— Zennie Abraham (@zennie62) July 16, 2013

@jeanquan Oakland Mayor @JeanQuan & #OPD Chief Whent need to show they stand with the people – bad #Oakland leadership.

— Zennie Abraham (@zennie62) July 16, 2013

Alameda caller to @KQED calls Mayor @JeanQuan & city "indefensibly incompetent" for failing to plan ahead for protests

— Henry K. Lee (@henryklee) July 16, 2013

Guests:

Demian Bulwa, staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle

Sean Whent, Interim Police Chief of Oakland Police Department

Jean Quan, Mayor of the City of Oakland

Sponsored

@henryklee @KQED @jeanquan Yeah, that pretty much nails it.

— Echa Schneider (@ionecha) July 16, 2013

@henryklee @EastBayPatch @KQED @jeanquan That's unfair… who could have possibly predicted that Oakland would protest over something?

— Sean Cusiter (@seaninsjca) July 16, 2013

@henryklee @AbleDart @KQED @jeanquan Why anyone has a business in downtown Oakland now, given this total incompetence, is beyond me.

— suldrew (@suldrew) July 16, 2013

@henryklee @KQED @jeanquan – Oakland of all places, they should have had a preparedness plan.

— JD Bennett (@JDBennett4AD31) July 16, 2013

@KQEDForum During Saturday night's protests: #OPD were dealing w/6 separate shootings. Legal settlements re: excessive force not the issue

— Ali Winston (@awinston) July 16, 2013

@HarryElephante @KQED And why not? Same type of damage, same masked thugs, same neighborhood, same targets. #OO redux. We saw it all before.

— Geissl (@rgeiss) July 16, 2013

FYI @KQEDForum: there have been more than $60 million in #OPD-related settlements in the past 10 years from "forceful" policing. #Oakland

— Joshua Daniels (@HarryElephante) July 16, 2013

lower waypoint

next waypoint

are u addicted to ur phone José Vadi’s “Chipped” Looks at Life from a Skateboarder’s Lens ‘The Notorious PhD’ on How Hip Hop Made America San Francisco Voters Face a Crowded and Contentious Mayor’s Race Who Is Responsible For One of the Largest Internet Hacks Ever?So You Want to Be a DJ?RFK’s a Spoiler – But for Which Party?Legendary Stanford Women’s Basketball Coach Tara VanDerveer Announces Retirement Why Trees Contain Multitudes Doing Democracy: Should America Adopt a Parliamentary System of Government?