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Despite a drenching rainstorm, almost 500 people gathered in Emeryville’s Huchiun Park and marched to Emeryville’s Target store and Home Depot to protest corporate connection to ICE and Donald Trump tonight. The event lasted about three hours and was peaceful.
The City of Emeryville received two days warning about the event hosted by EBASE and other local social justice organizations and they were told more than 100 people would likely be in the park but the City refused to provide toilet paper for the park bathroom which stays open until 8:00 PM. The police were called when the crowd swelled and people started getting desperate, could an officer bring some toilet paper? But EPD said NO and they added that is the job of the Public Works Department.
Several shoppers at the stores put down their merchandise and joined the protest. The crowd loudly marched through the Target store and the Home Depot and dispersed peacefully by about 9:00 PM.
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This is the second Tattler story that I know of that's about the police not wanting to let citizens use the bathroom. Is this a thing with them?
ReplyDeleteGood memory! The first story (July 4, 2022) was about how the police did a remodel of their station and they took away our public bathroom.
ReplyDeleteGood work. Wish I'd been there. Joe C.
ReplyDeleteThank you for covering this event, Brian!
ReplyDeleteAt the protest that is, not the removal of the bathroom.
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