Vandals damage BART station after protest arrests (SF)

[AsahinaKimi]

(09-09) 13:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO --



Vandals damaged vending machines at BART's Glen Park Station in San Francisco on Thursday night, hours after at least two dozen people were arrested during a protest at the Powell Street Station.

About eight to 12 men dressed in black hoodies came into the Glen Park Station and used hammers to smash fare gates, eight Clipper Card readers and ticket vending machines at about 9:45 p.m., said BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver.

The vandals tore lights off a flower booth and spray-painted "Osca" in black on train schedule signs, apparently in reference to the fatal BART police shooting of Oscar Grant in 2009, and "Charles Hill" in white letters on the ground of the station's plaza, Salaver said.

The group then left the station. No arrests were made.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/09/BACH1L2EF6.DTL#ixzz1XUu2w5BH

[arcane1]

1. Interesting, I was unaware there was a protest yesterday.

I wonder when they'll ever decide to protest outside of BART or BART Police headquarters :shrug:

[Retrograde]

3. Nah, the cameras are all in San Francisco

Protesting outside BART headquarters would mean they'd have to go all the way to Oakland.

[demosincebirth]

2. Ahh, peace loving demostrators protesting freedom of speech.