I read a lot of anti-police and criminal apologist rhetoric from that part of the world. Granted I may have some sort of selection bias or sampling bias, but it really does not surprise me to see this take place. It seems to me that there are certain political movements that you can't really criticize publicly for a variety of reasons, who have - through political pressure, rendered the policing power of the state to be largely ineffective.

Unrelated to the Bay area: in a region with similar politics - Portland Oregon, I was watching some YouTube videos where some very obnoxious black clad youth were attacking and threatening cars passing to the area. One elderly driver was asked to "go back to North Carolina". It was unlike anything I had ever seen before - and frankly shocking to see in a first world country. This kind of thing routinely happens here in India when there is unrest - police are told to stand down for political reasons when there are violent protests. I imagine that a similar kind of politics have taken hold in some of these areas.

I believe Oakland is also the place where a college campus was attacked by the same extremist group. From what I remember reading of the incident, the city's Mayor asked the police not to establish law and order, and they essentially watched on while it happened. I watched a young lady participating in an interview wearing a "Make Bitcoin Great Again" hat get pepper sprayed by one of these miscreants.

Is there a reason why this group has not been designated a terrorist threat?