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OAKLAND, Calif. -- A march protesting the slaying of young Oakland father at the Fruitvale BART station early New Year's Day became violent Wednesday evening as a group of marchers attacked a police and lit a dumpster on fire.
An estimated 500 people gathered at the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit station Wednesday afternoon to protest the shooting death of Oscar Grant III at the hands of a transit agency police officer at the station early Jan. 1.
For safety reasons, BART trains are bypassing the Fruitvale station while the protest continues. Organizers said the rally was planned to last until 8 p.m., but by 5:30 the protestor spontaneously started marching through the streets of Oakland.
While the majority of the marchers were well behaved, just after 6:30 p.m. a splinter group of protestors started causing trouble at the intersection of 8th Street and Broadway.
A fire was lit in a Dumpster on wheels that was rolled into the middle of the street and an unoccupied police car was nearly tipped over as the angry protestors beat on the vehicle with sticks and rocked it back and forth.
Oakland riot police responded, shooting tear gas and approaching the crowd with shields, helmets and batons to force them to disperse.