Four people were arrested during a Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend march demonstrating against the deaths of unarmed black men and other police violence that ended at a police substation in East Oakland Saturday evening, according to an Oakland police spokeswoman.
Organizers called for the gathering to meet outside Oakland's Fruitvale BART station at 3 p.m. Marching started around 4 p.m.
The marchers called for justice for Mike Brown, the teenager shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, killed in a police chokehold in New York. Both deaths occurred last year, according to organizers.
Demonstrators are also fighting against what they call racist police violence in the black, Latino and other minority communities.
A group of about 50, slimmed down from about 100 people at the beginning of the march, made it to the police substation at 2651 73rd Ave. around 6 p.m., according to police.
The protest ended around 7 p.m., according to police.Police spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson said in an email tonight that the march was "largely peaceful." There were four arrests for "various
crimes," which were not specified.
The march was part of a series of protests and rallies held this holiday weekend throughout the Bay Area and beyond in honor of the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was assassinated in 1968.
