(Editor's note: The following piece written by OL writer/videographer Oriana Bolden is a first person account of events that took place Nov. 5 in downtown Oakland, following the sentencing of Johannes Mehserle in the Oscar Grant murder trial.)

As night fell arrests became free flowing. Information, not so much.

On Saturday, more than 250 cyclists from all age groups, backgrounds and ethnicities came out in support of the Third Annual Bikes 4 Life Peace Ride through Oakland.