San Jose Police Declare George Floyd Protest An Unlawful Assembly, Fire Tear Gas Into Crowd

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SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Police in San Jose Friday evening have declared a protest over the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis earlier this week an unlawful assembly, firing tear gas into the crowd of activists following a hectic afternoon of freeway shutdowns and smashed windows.

The protest had spilled onto city streets after activists had earlier shut down busy US Highway 101 in both directions for an hour, smashing windows of police cars and other vehicles during the angry protest march.

After shutting down the freeway, a growing crowd of protesters ended up gathering about a block from San Jose City Hall at the intersection of Seventh and Santa Clara Streets, where a line of police in riot gear stood across from the main group of demonstrators, with some activists coming closer to the officers waving signs and taking video with cell phones.

Police could be seen firing non-lethal projectiles into the crowd that gradually grew in size, numbering upwards of 1,000 people by some estimates.

At least one demonstrator got in a physical confrontation with officers, scuffling with several policemen before being taken away. In a separate incident, a San Jose police officer was knocked unconscious by a thrown rock before being helped by fellow officers into a police vehicle and taken from the scene.

Shortly after 5:30 p.m., police announced that the protest had been declared an unlawful assembly and the crowd was ordered to disperse. The police line began to advance on the protesters down Santa Clara Street towards city hall with officers firing tear gas into the crowd.

Protesters continued to confront officers, leading to additional scuffles and arrests. Protesters could be hear chanting “Hands up don’t shoot!” as they stood their ground or in some cases took a knee in front of the line of officers in riot gear. At least five or six more protesters were taken into custody as the standoff continued.

Earlier, a group of what appeared to be around 300 protesters started blocking all southbound lanes of the highway near Santa Clara Street at around 3:10 p.m. Some vehicles were managing to skirt their way around the crowd, but the southbound traffic backup was already stretching for miles.

Traffic was also stopped in the northbound direction as CHP officers diverted cars off the freeway at Alum Rock Avenue. The exiting freeway traffic triggered gridlock on city streets in the area.

The main group of protesters blocked southbound lanes for the better part of an hour before walking across the freeway to the northbound side and eventually getting off US 101 at about 4:15 p.m.

However, CHP and San Jose police units could still be seen holding up southbound traffic after an initial group of vehicles was able to pass. Northbound traffic was moving again as of about 4:20 p.m.

There were some reports of confrontations between protesters and drivers on the freeway, including some broken vehicle windows. Protesters were also seen smashing the windows of San Jose police vehicles as well as flattening at least one tire and defacing the police SUVs with graffiti at Santa Clara Street.

The protesters appeared to be headed back to San Jose City Hall about a half mile away from where the group had blocked the freeway.

KPIX 5 reporter Len Ramirez was with the protest when the march wound its way to the Santa Clara Street freeway onramp.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo issued a statement on the protests early Friday evening.

“Anger and peaceful protest will always be appropriate responses to injustice; violence will never be. San Jose is united in outrage over the atrocious crime committed in Minneapolis and in sadness over George Floyd’s horrible death,” the statement read.” SJPD will take a measured approach in facilitating peaceful protest, but there will be no tolerance of violence to our people or damage to our city.”

The police officers’ unions of San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco issued a joint statement Thursday condemning the actions of the Minneapolis officers.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

It’s about time!
I would bet all if not most of these states where these thugs are allowed to be out of control,
are DEM GOVERNORS states or DEM MAYORS! They want Trump out and to help that they want him to look like a NAZI stopping this. Next they will want FEDERAL money to rebuild the damage.

MAS
MAS
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The only way this nonsense is suppressed is by force against the violent ones (and prosecution of the leaders). Protest is one thing vandalism, theft, and assault is another. If that’s portrayed as being Nazi like, well, sticks and stones…

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

THE IMPORTANT THING is to stop people from wrecking their own neighborhoods over some faked video.
AND if those cops really did kill that guy, we can all riot tomorrow, or next week. There is no urgent need to riot right now today.

White and black Republicans working together started the US civil rights movement, and we are still working on that project. Republicans freed the slaves, and we are not about to let the Democrats push blacks into subjugation and misery again

The 1960’s commies sparked the many ghetto riots in the 1960’s, and that caused massive poverty and misery for decades. That’s why the commies did it.
“How the 1960s’ Riots Hurt African-Americans”
The National Bureau of Economic Research
https://www.nber.org/digest/sep04/w10243.html

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

You sound almost like a ‘moderate’. Telling violent people to WAIT is like telling SATAN to be GOOD. These people do not realize they are hurting their own cause as Americans watch these thugs and hoodlums destroy what taxpayers have built. IT ANGERS ME but I am not going to go out an create mayhem over it, but I WILL POLISH AND OIL MY GUNS just in case they come to my home. THEN, THEY WILL BE SO SORRY, WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR EYES IN HELL.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

Tom: “I WILL POLISH AND OIL MY GUNS”, well that’s a very good thing, I’m serious. The shopkeepers with guns in those riot zones are heroes. They defend themselves, and the law, and they suppress further violence. When Rodney King rioters in LA attacked a nearby South Korean neighborhood, the armed Koreans on the rooftops suppressed the looting and damage.

RE: “You sound almost like a ‘moderate'”. Well you know what I’m doing, enraged people calm down and lose interest after a few days. We all do this. So asking them to wait, reduces the damage. But also, the real work of maintaining civil liberties must be done with patience an persistence over decades. Tyrant cultures spring up on their own, and must be suppressed. So asking people to wait is also asking people to persist.

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago

GIVE THEM 10 MINUTES TO DISPERSE, THEN START SHOOTING and I don’t mean BLANKS.

PUT THE FEAR OF GOD INTO THESE GODLESS PEOPLE.

joe shmoe
joe shmoe
3 years ago

black lies matter

Eric
Eric
3 years ago

Again with the useful idiots…

patd
patd
3 years ago

Nothing but feral animal criminal parasites!!!!! Time to run these POS morons over!!!!

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