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News Pix: Protesters Shut Down BART and Yosemite Climbers Reach the Top

Katrina Schwartz
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Protesters gathered on the Montgomery BART station platform early Friday morning to protest police brutality and shut down the trains. BART employees and police officers lined the platform and guarded the train entrances.  (Anya Schultz/KQED)

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Police arrest a protester at the Montgomery BART Station around 7:30 a.m on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. (Anya Schultz/KQED)

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Members of the Bay Area legal community gathered outside the California Supreme Court on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. For 15 minutes, attorneys, legal staff, law students and allies lay silently on the steps of the courthouse in a "die-in" to advocate for racial justice. (Anya Schultz/KQED)

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Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson became the first rock climbers to scale the "Dawn Wall" of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park using only their hands, feet and safety ropes. (Corey Rich via Instagram)

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