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No mutual aid: Oakland Police on their own to protect city from rioters as other agencies refuse to help

No mutual aid: Oakland Police on their own to protect city from rioters as other agencies refuse to help 1

OAKLAND, CA – Last Wednesday, the Oakland Police Department was left completely on their own to fight the rioters downtown.

For background, there are several agencies in the area that often go into the city to assist for major incidents, such as the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and the California Highway Patrol.

So, why was Wednesday’s riot different?

Sources tell Law Enforcement Today that it had everything to do with the federal order prohibiting proper crowd control techniques to be utilized in the crime-ridden city.

Thanks to the order, officers within the OPD can’t use effective crowd control tactics such as stinger grenades, wooden bullets, rubber or rubber coated bullets, pepper balls or similar munitions.

Vandalism was everywhere during the “protest” regarding the shooting of Jacob Blake.

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Alameda County Sheriff’s Sergeant Ray Kelly said:

“And that’s the second time in a number of weeks that we have not responded to those vandalism related anarchist protests.

“As a result of responding to mutual aid in Oakland, we fall under the guideline of that federal court order and we are not able to use the tools that we are trained to use and it greatly restricts us in our ability to do crowd management and to stop vandalism.”

The Oakland Police Department released a statement, reading in part:

“The intentions of the protesters were not peaceful but deliberate; through their words and actions they demonstrated their focused and targeted intentions to destroy and damage our already vulnerable business community.”

Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project told reporters:

“Good! I am glad that they are not coming to Oakland.

“I want to be very clear that the injunction that is based on an ATPT lawsuit does not say that they are not allowed to come. It says they’re not allowed to come and bring their toys and use Oakland as a playground for violence.”

While the order may not prohibit outside agencies to come to the area, the “toys” they speak of are valuable crowd control tactics that are used to keep police, bystanders, and rioters as safe as possible.

Sergeant Kelly said: 

“When they have to put officers in harm’s way. I don’t think we’re going to put anyone in harm’s way over property. That includes protests too, but we’ve assured Oakland. That should there be any need to protect life within that city we will absolutely respond.”

The City of Oakland released a statement prior to Wednesday’s riots, saying:

“We celebrate passionate protest, but remind Oaklanders that when they attend protests after dark they may be providing cover for agitators who are more intent on vandalism and stoking civil unrest than advancing social justice.”

As Oakland suffers from being understaffed to begin with, it remains to be seen what will come of the city as mutual aid stays away if officers become overworked in response to continued rioting.

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Here’s our original report on the rioting in Oakland on Wednesday.

This may come as a shock, but there was yet another “violent & destructive” protest that took place on the evening of August 26th in Oakland, California in relation to the Jacob Blake shooting.

In this episode of protesting something that happened in a different state thousands of miles away, police say there was roughly 700 people were present at the protest where cars were set on fire, businesses were damaged and overall chaos was present.

The typical tropes of the “peaceful” protests of late were in attendance – smashed windows, lasers being pointed at police officers, illegal fireworks, someone trying to set a business on fire.

You know, things indicative of peacefully assembling.

The irony is, the Oakland Police Department issued their proverbial commendation toward people peacefully protesting before the nonsense escalated into riotous conduct.

The OPD issued the following statement on Twitter that read:

“We at OPD support your right to demonstrate. We ask that organizers help us facilitate safe spaces and safe places for the demonstration. We ask attendees not to cross barricades.”

While it is unclear who was the exact organizer of the enormous crowd that formed in Oakland, it didn’t take long for these protesters to effectively leave I-580 where they were marching and to start the destruction on Broadway street.

Locals that were present that had nothing to do with the protest or vandalism were clearly not pleased, as evidenced by one woman speaking her piece against those committing the vandalism and chaos.

Oh, and then there were people in the above video instructing those in Oakland to start smashing windows:

“No snitches…it’s like for real. Because that’s how change is made – your walking around is great, but if we smash up all the windows every time they do something, they’d stop doing stuff. They’re not going to smash out their own windows, we have to do that shit. And don’t be scared to burn them down, because they’re not scared to burn you down.”

And what’s this? A video of these peaceful folks instructing protesters to form a shield line at the front of their formation. Of course, don’t forget that they also had to say admonish President Trump as well prior to delivering said instructions.

Then there was this angry man speaking…or yelling rather, about what happened in Wisconsin. Once again, this protest was in Oakland, California. On top of that, apparently the man was upset about those two people killed in Kenosha that were in attendance of the riots.

Luckily, there were no reported injuries to officers. It’s unclear what the total assessment of damages were during the protest on the evening of August 26th.

You know who isn’t a fan of all this rioting?

Jacob Blake’s mother. 

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