About 150 people marched through downtown Oakland and through the 12th Street-City Center BART station yesterday afternoon to draw attention to the fatal shooting of Sahleem Tindle by a BART police officer on Jan. 3 outside the West Oakland BART station.
Residents of an East Oakland homeless camp will have to move yet again. The East Bay Times reports that just months after city officials gave them the green light to create a homeless camp at E. 12th Street and 23rd Avenue, they’ll have to move by November in order to make way for a retrofitting project of the 23rd Avenue bridge.
Speaking of the housing crisis, Mother Jones has a story about local families who are squatting abandoned homes.
A rare spring storm is headed toward the Bay Area Thursday evening and is expected to drop several inches of rain, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. So, if you were thinking of heading to First Friday, you may want to make other plans.
A mountain lion was spotted at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus early Monday morning, reports Berkeleyside. It’s the second time a mountain lion has been spotted on the campus since last July, although a cub was also reportedly seen near the Greek Theatre in January.
And, finally, The Weeknd, Florence + the Machine, and Janet Jackson are among the headliners at this year’s Outside Lands festival. Local acts will include SOB X RBE, Caleborate, Shannon & The Clams, and Dick Stusso.
