The Oakland Police Department is investigating a violent and chaotic “sideshow” that ended with a mob setting a car on fire and someone ramming another vehicle.

A video posted on Twitter shows the terrifying scene unfolding Friday night near the intersection of Oak Street and 10th near the Oakland Museum of California.

Wild video from Oakland, California last night

(@ppv_tahoe) The video footage was filmed in the 100 block of 10th Street overnight. #oakland #sideshow #california
📸 _okpatrick pic.twitter.com/Nc6laXxTEB

— PPV-TAHOE – News Reporter (@ppv_tahoe) May 6, 2023

In a series of tweets, journalist Michael Shellenberger said the proliferation of dangerous sideshows is the result of “a progressive DA who has stopped enforcing many laws.”

Oakland voters felt law enforcement was too strict, so last fall they elected a progressive DA who has stopped enforcing many laws. The result is lawlessness, “shows” and assaults carried out with impunity. pic.twitter.com/xf6xWc6EPD

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 6, 2023

Shellenberger said police are powerless to stop “criminal demonstrations because @MayorShengThao and DA Pamela Price refuse to prosecute ‘non-violent crimes’.”

In this video you can see Oakland police casually filming the chaos, which lasted for hours. It’s not their fault. Police are powerless to stop criminal demonstrations because @MayorShengThao and DA Pamela Price refuse to prosecute “non-violent crimes”pic.twitter.com/iPu9zhD0IY

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 6, 2023

He noted that District Attorney Pamela Price is backed by Soros.

“To date, the Soros PAC has spent more than $559,000 to help [Oakland DA] Price” who “said she was drawn to the race by what she sees as the ‘absolutely outrageous’ over-prosecution of young black men” pic.twitter.com/FmvuxkMPFw

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 6, 2023

Another sideshow was down the street from Mark Zuckerberg’s mansion in San Francisco.

This sideshow happened a few blocks from where Mark Zuckerberg lives in SFpic.twitter.com/Z68xazMGjg

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 6, 2023

Illegality is spreading like cancer throughout the progressive management Bay Area.

Here’s another one, also from last night, in a different neighborhood in Oakland @MayorShengThao pic.twitter.com/xc8l1Lkfd3

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 6, 2023

These shocking scenes stem from the inability of the city’s progressive leadership to maintain law and order. Similar incidents have recently been seen in cities such as Baltimore and Chicago, where groups of youths wreak havoc on city streets. As they say…stay out of the cities.

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