Protesters chain themselves to Oakland police station doors | Reuters.
(Reuters) – Protesters chained themselves to the doors of the police headquarters in Oakland, California, on Monday, prompting several arrests, and one demonstrator scaled a flagpole to hang a “Black Lives Matter” banner in front of the building.
Oakland and neighboring Berkeley have been the site of demonstrations for more than a week over decisions by grand juries not to charge white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City.
Scores of people have been arrested as police in riot gear face off with protesters, some of whom have thrown rocks at the officers and looted businesses.
Most of the confrontations have happened after dark, but on Monday morning more than two dozen demonstrators used PVC tubes, ropes and locks to chain their arms together and block entrances to the Oakland Police Department.
