BART police are beefing up patrols at Oakland stations after dozens of juveniles terrorized riders Saturday night when they invaded the Coliseum Station and commandeered at least one train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones and leaving at least two with head injuries.
The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses told police that 40 to 60 juveniles flooded the station, jumped the fare gates and rushed to the second-story train platform. Some of the robbers apparently held open the doors of a Dublin-bound train car while others streamed inside, confronting and robbing and in some cases beating riders. “I’ve been there 24 years and this is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this happening,” said Keith Garcia, a BART police officer and union president.

Source: BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, hold up riders – SFGate

Paying the merest of attentions to the comings and goings of the city of Oakland, one soon realizes that it is the culmination of the best (worst) liberal policies you can find anywhere. Gangs do their trade almost unmolested by the police, rioters can pretty much vandalize what they want and police probably gets punished if a “misunderstood angel” gets as much as a finger nail broken during an arrest.  Basically the odds are stacked in favor of the bad guys

I don’t buy the surprise about the attack. Maybe the mass-gathering is something somewhat new to that particular day, but the BART system and that particular section has long had well-known troubles. This is from December 22, 2014 :

•Bay Fair, Hayward, Fruitvale, Concord and North Concord/Martinez stations were the top five stations for violent crime per capita in 2014.•Bay Fair, El Cerrito del Norte, Hayward and Civic Center joined Powell to round out the list of five stations with the most violent crimes in total.•Civic Center, Coliseum, Bay Fair and Pittsburg/Bay Point followed Powell as the stations with the most calls for police help.•The worst station for theft in 2014 was Hayward, followed by Coliseum, Fremont, Pittsburg/Bay Point and San Leandro. Coliseum Station was the undisputed leader in vehicle thefts, well ahead of the other 33 stations with parking lots or garages. But Jennings expects that may change. The Coliseum lots have been surrounded with security fencing, he said, and an officer is stationed full time at the station or inside its lots.

Source: Analysis shows which BART stations have most, least crime – SFGate

So they know those stations are dangerous, but they are simply overwhelmed by stupidity and the user are defenseless  against the Bad Guys that somehow do not understand that laws ought not to be broken. Imagine that!

But it is them states with lax gun laws that are the problem.