Protesters chain selves to door at Oakland police headquarters

Protesters chain selves to door at Oakland police headquarters

With chains wrapped around their necks, several protesters on Thursday morning locked themselves to a door at the Oakland Police Department headquarters one day after Black Lives Matter activists performed a similar demonstration at the Oakland police union building.

Thursday’s group, made up of mostly white folks supporting national Black Lives Matter protesters, chained themselves to a side door of police headquarters at 455 Seventh St. around 9 a.m. while holding a sign reading “No one is free until we are all free.”

At least one Oakland resident who was trying to get into the station to retrieve a police report Thursday was extremely livid at the protesters but declined to be interviewed.

On Wednesday, four protesters hooked U-locks around their necks and looped them through the door handles of the Oakland Police Officers’ Association building at Fifth and Clay Streets while two others chained themselves to chairs.