OAKLAND (KRON) — Protesters with Black Lives Matter are chaining themselves to Oakland Police Department’s headquarters on Thursday afternoon.
Protests are expected throughout the day in Oakland in addition to other locations as The Movement for Black Lives has called for a national day of action against police violence.
Rallies are planned at both Oakland police headquarters and Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Thursday afternoon which are a part of nationwide #FreedomNow protests that are expected to take place throughout the day.
Autonomous direct actions are likely to spring up, such as two protesters who chained themselves to the front door of the Oakland police building located at 455 Seventh St. Thursday morning.
Thursday’s protest actions follow a lengthy sit-in staged Wednesday afternoon when several protesters chained themselves to the Oakland Police Officers’ Association building around the corner from police headquarters.
The protesters were allowed to stay but left voluntarily at about 3:00 a.m., according to Anti-Police Terror Project organizer, Cat Brooks.
Similar actions were staged at police union buildings in New York and Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Protests have resurged in Oakland and throughout the country in recent weeks following the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana, Philando Castile in Wisconsin and Delrawn Small in New York.
Recent protests over Sterling and Castile’s deaths shut down Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland for hours.
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