Sowing the seeds of discontent: Protesters with slingshots launch salvo at People’s Park

It was an unusual protest, even by the standards of a city that has experienced hundreds of them over the decades.

A Leap Day demonstration this past Thursday at the shipping container wall around People’s Park in Berkeley continued a tradition of using leap year’s extra day for protest. But in addition to the usual banners, chants and music accompaniment from a small marching band, there were… slingshots.