Broken glass on Oaklandish storefront (at 1444 Broadway) on the night of July 13. Photo by Oaklandish.

“Nothing sends a clearer message of ‘I stand by Trayvon Martin,’ and 'I’m against police violence’ quite like breaking the windows of Oaklandish, Dogwood, and other locally-owned businesses,” an unidentified Black Bloc protester told Oakland Unseen.

The white twenty-something female protester continued, “We want to deploy a diversity of tactics, aimed not only at large multinational corporations, but those that bring valuable jobs to Downtown Oakland, because we feel that this is the only way to constructively show our anger about the George Zimmerman verdict,” she said before lighting another dumpster on fire.

Dogwood Bar (at 17th and Telegraph) window shattered the night of July 13. Photo by John Alston.