Clean-up efforts were under way Tuesday in downtown Oakland after a third night of demonstrations against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting case left windows smashed and the streets littered with debris.

Police said nine people were arrested in connection with Monday's protest, and a local businessman said one of the protesters assaulted a waiter.

Phil Tagami, CEO of the California Capital and Investment Group, was at Flora restaurant at 1900 Telegraph Ave. on Monday evening for a benefit event for local businesses after the eatery was one of several vandalized in protests over the weekend.

Afterward, Tagami returned to the Rotunda Building at 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, where he found broken windows and spray paint and received a call from someone who said

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