In Oakland, large groups of people were caught on camera fighting, and police could be seen detaining people early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
The footage shows multiple fights between large groups of people near 19th and Jefferson at around 1 a.m. Police appeared to use some type of spray deterrent and can be seen pushing back crowds and detaining someone in the ground.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area reached out to the Oakland Police Department regarding this footage, but hasn’t heard back. <\/p>\n
Organizers of the official Oakland First Fridays event said these incidents were not part of it and happened after the event had been cleaned up.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd what we are seeing is at our event in particular, we are not seeing a lot of those activities that are happening outside of our footprint and outside of those hours. It doesn\u2019t make us feel good that they\u2019re happening regardless, whether its inside our event or outside of our event,\u201d said Oakland First Fridays Festival Director Venessa McGhee<\/p>\n
On Friday, the city launched an official program to boost safety efforts around arts and culture events, adding things like parking restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Oakland, large groups of people were caught on camera fighting, and police could be seen detaining people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-350530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}