Authorities say they have linked an attack by vandals on an outlying San Francisco transit station Thursday night to an earlier protest downtown that brought out police in riot gear and ended in two dozen arrests.
Shortly before 10 p.m., 10 to 12 hammer-wielding men in black hooded sweatshirts smashed fare gates at the Glen Park Bay Area Rapid Transit station toward the southern edge of the city. They also spray-painted "Charles Hill" and the first several letters of the name Oscar Grant on the ground.
Hill was an intoxicated, knife-wielding transient shot to death by a BART police officer July 3. Grant, who was unarmed, was shot to death by a different BART officer on New Year’s Day in 2009. In recent months, the two deaths have sparked a string of demonstrations that have snarled commutes.
Hours before the vandals struck, several dozen demonstrators protesting Hill's and Grant’s deaths converged on the Powell Street BART station during the evening rush hour.
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