Oakland police had a very busy Sunday morning, responding to multiple sideshows, shootings, and a mob of people ransacking a gas station.
This comes as the city is looking to shrink the police force and balance the budget.'It happens all the time, you hear gunshots,' complained Oakland resident Debra Harper, who was not surprised by the Sunday incidents. 'This is every weekend. Every single weekend, they do donuts out here, they fight.'Harper said it's become lawless and dangerous. She carries a can of mace just to smoke a cigarette outside of her San Pablo Avenue apartment.
, a mob of roughly 50 people broke in and ransacked the Coliseum Shell gas station on Hegenberger Road. The gas station owner, Sanjiv Patel, said the clerk who was working alone feared for his life.'He reached inside the restroom and he locked himself in the restroom and turned off the lights,' said Patel. Patel believed the robbers were probably some of the same people who were doing the sideshows. Police were still investigating that possible connection.
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