--- description: Police said more than 100 demonstrators marched through Oakland and Berkeley, which has a history of social activism title: See an Undercover Cop Draw His Gun on Protesters in Oakland image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53c691d375053d99/69876e3d524fc0dce4deb59a/berkeley-protest-police-gun.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See an Undercover Cop Draw His Gun on Protesters in Oakland by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2014 4:43 PM CUT  An undercover police officer aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 10, 2014. An undercover police officer aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 10, 2014.Noah Berger—Reuters by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2014 4:43 PM CUT An undercover police officer, who had been marching with demonstrators, aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in Oakland, California on Wednesday. Police said more than 100 demonstrators marched through Oakland and Berkeley, which has a history of social activism, to protest grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men. Under cloudy skies, turnout was smaller than earlier in the week, when demonstrators in the area threw rocks at police and shut down a major freeway… [Read the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/undercover-cop-draws-gun-protesters-oakland-n266176?cid=par-time-article%5F20141002 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3630044/cop-gun-protesters-oakland/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3630044/cop-gun-protesters-oakland/"},"headline":"See an Undercover Cop Draw His Gun on Protesters in Oakland","datePublished":"2014-12-11T16:43:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:46:50.437Z","description":"Police said more than 100 demonstrators marched through Oakland and Berkeley, which has a history of social activism","url":"https://time.com/3630044/cop-gun-protesters-oakland/","keywords":["Crime","protests"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53c691d375053d99/69876e3d524fc0dce4deb59a/berkeley-protest-police-gun.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53c691d375053d99/69876e3d524fc0dce4deb59a/berkeley-protest-police-gun.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"An undercover police officer, who had been marching with anti-police demonstrators, aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in Oakland","caption":"An undercover police officer, who had been marching with anti-police demonstrators, aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in Oakland","creditText":"Noah Berger—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3630044/cop-gun-protesters-oakland/","name":"See an Undercover Cop Draw His Gun on Protesters in Oakland"}}]}] ```