Emeryville sent their police to help Berkeley PD keep the peace at an anti-Nazi rally at Berkeley City Hall today. The peaceful demonstration included many Bay Area social justice organizations, including labor groups such as SEIU and clergy from interfaith groups. The protest was attended by many families including lots of babies. Emeryville police were there, in muscular force (if not their awareness of the bad optics) with full riot gear and they donned their gas masks amid the grandmothers and baby carriages.
Notable among the police forces: virtually no other police (including Berkeley and Oakland) had the gas masks on.
UPDATE/CORRECTION: 8/28 10:35 An Emeryville police spokesperson reports that some Berkeley police had gas masks on (perhaps five or so) at the time. Oakland police did not and neither did the vast majority of Berkeley police. The babies there also did not have gas masks on.
Today at 1:30 PM in front of Berkeley City Hall, Emeryville sends its representatives:
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
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