“Tonight (Sunday) Oakland will continue to have a strong law enforcement presence to prevent and enforce against any illegal acts, ” Mayor Libby Schaaf and interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer said in a joint statement. Oakland, where tensions have also been high, didn’t call for the same restrictions Sunday evening - a sign of the loaded decisions balancing public safety and free speech. Santa Clara County’s presiding Judge Deborah Ryan announced she was closing the courthouse on Monday in “an abundance of caution and in the interest of safety.” Police continued to block off streets around Santana Row, as well as Valley Fair Mall. The department’s preparation appeared to pay off as officers repelled a band of about 50 marauders who broke windows at the BevMo! and CVS along Stevens Creek Boulevard before making an unsuccessful run at Santana Row. Since Friday, vandals had caused “millions of dollars in damage” to public and private property, and 100 people were arrested. The department received “intel of planned looting” Sunday night in areas across the city, Garcia said, which is why the curfew extends beyond downtown. We’re not instituting martial law, we’re going to use it very judiciously.” San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia said that while his department has “heard the calls for change, we’ve heard the calls for accountability,” after the police killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man, “we can’t allow our city to devolve into chaos. Videos showed numerous people running out of Best Buy and loading their trunks with TVs. In San Francisco, which also instituted a curfew, high-end shops, including Saks Fifth Avenue in Union Square, were ransacked Saturday night, and in Emeryville, whole strip malls were picked clean. San Jose’s curfew, which will remain in place for at least a week, came in response to peaceful protests that turned into frenetic crime sprees over the past two days. The officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes before his death was fired from the force and charged with third-degree murder. The lawlessness obscured the message of protesters who turned out in force to demonstrate across the country Sunday against the killing last week of George Floyd, a black man, by police in Minneapolis. The evening became so chaotic with roving bands of ransackers throughout the Bay Area that at one point, a false report of a tiger on the loose at the Oakland Zoo was tweeted, then retracted, by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. “That’s all you gotta do, we appreciate it!” yelled one demonstrator caught on video. Looters appeared to move on to San Leandro where “we have already recovered one gun, and we’ve seen multiple fights, and we’re taking rocks,” said San Leandro Police spokesman Ted Henderson Sunday.Īnd just one night after clashes in downtown Oakland, a line of police officers in riot gear, facing kneeling protesters, took to their knees in a show of peace and solidarity. Please ensure your doors are locked & secured.” curfew and asked all businesses “to close immediately. In Walnut Creek, where one woman was shot in the arm as scores of looters stormed Macy’s and the Broadway Plaza business district in broad daylight Sunday, the city imposed an immediate 6 p.m. CLICK HERE if you’re having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device.Īs clashes between protesters and police continued for a third night across the Bay Area on Sunday, with looting and violence rampant across the East Bay, San Jose, Walnut Creek and Danville joined San Francisco on Sunday in imposing curfews to try to restore the peace.
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