Protesters against police killings have been marching through Oakland Tuesday afternoon and briefly blocked an on-ramp to Interstate Highway 880.
About 200 demonstrators gathered in Frank Ogawa Plaza starting at about 1 p.m.
After that, they flooded into City Hall, where they briefly occupied the City Council chambers.
The crowd included students from several Oakland schools who staged walkouts today. As they marched through Chinatown, they stopped briefly by Oakland Charter Academy, claiming the school's principal had threatened to suspend students who walked out Tuesday.
After marching through the Laney College campus, protesters briefly blocked the on-ramp to northbound Highway 880 near Jackson Street.
They arrived just after 3:30 p.m., running up an embankment behind a homeless encampment, but California Highway Patrol officers prevented them from blocking the highway.
The protesters then continued back to city streets about 10 minutes later and were headed late this afternoon to Oakland police headquarters at Seventh Street and Broadway.
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Similar actions were taking place in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose and across the nation Tuesday in protest of recent police killings of unarmed black men.
A couple hundred people gathered outside San Francisco City Hall this afternoon and then briefly interrupted the city's Board of Supervisors meeting.
880 freeway now clear of protestors. Multiple lanes were blocked momentarily. #Oakland pic.twitter.com/nhwlqPualG — CHP Oakland (@CHPoakland) April 14, 2015
