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Hundreds of protesters marched from the UC campus down to west Berkeley and stopped traffic briefly at the corner of University and San Pablo Avenue Friday night. Protesters smashed glass and vandalized property at the intersection's largest building which has several commercial properties as well as 26 residential apartment units, some housing families with children, which are part of a low-income housing co-op. They tagged the front wall of the building with the traditional anarchist symbol of the letter A in a circle. The protesters attempted to set the building on fire until two young Latino tenants of the building, physically stopped them. 

One of the other tenants encountered a protester she described as a middle-aged long-haired white man as he was rolling their recycling bin away from the building. When she remonstrated with him, he told her it belonged to Wells Fargo and he was taking it to block the freeway. She told him it belonged to the apartments, and insisted that he put it back in place, which he did reluctantly. 

One observer said that most of the protesters she saw at this location were white and probably at least 40 years old. 

The police were absent during the vandalism and arson attempt, arriving fifteen minutes later in full riot gear when the protestors had moved north on San Pablo, and took no reports from witnesses.