Quotes of the Day
Friday, Jul. 09, 2010
This city is not the wild, wild West. We will allow people to protest, and we will allow them to do it peacefully.
- ANTHONY BATTS,
- Oakland, Calif., police chief, after at least 50 people were arrested during violent protests that broke out after a former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, not murder, in the death of an unarmed black man.
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