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Rioting can't be far away
Topic Started: Mar 22 2009, 07:33 AM (269 Views)
Horace
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HOLY CARP!!!
Four police officers were shot, three killed, yesterday in Oakland, about 10 miles from me:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090322/ap_on_re_us/police_shot_ca

This part of the story really struck me:

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People lingered at the scene of the first shooting. About 20 bystanders taunted police.

Tension between police and the community has risen steadily since the fatal shooting of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a transit police officer at an Oakland train station on Jan. 1.


Rioting can't be far off. That'll be fun.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Mikhailoh
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I would suggest that right now is a very poor time to try to test the patience of Oakland police officers.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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1hp
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Things are definitely going south in Oakland.

Group rallies for Mixon (the shooter) in Oakland

Organized by Oakland's Uhuru Movement For Economic Development, the group of about 40 people marched down MacArthur Boulevard past the two sites where Lovelle Mixon killed four Oakland police officers before police killed him.

"Lovelle is a hero! Lovelle is a hero!" shouted a woman in the rally.

Demonstrators say Mixon was fighting back against what they see as an oppressive police force.

"I don't condone what he did, but karma comes around. What goes around comes around," said a man speaking to the crowd.




Some background on Mixon:

Parolee in OPD Killings tied to girl's rape

A parolee with an "extensive criminal history" who killed four Oakland police officers had been linked by DNA evidence the day before the shootings to the rape of a 12-year-old girl, according to Oakland Police.

The girl was raped on Feb. 5 in the 2800 block of 73rd Avenue, just blocks away from where the officers' shootings occured Saturday, Sgt. Kevin Wiley said.

Police believe Lovelle Mixon grabbed the girl off the street at 7:30 a.m., threatened her with a gun and then put a bag over her head. She was sexually assaulted after being dragged into a secluded area between homes, police said.

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Mixon was one of 164 Oakland parolees in mid-March who had outstanding arrest warrants for parole violations, state prison records show.

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Mixon was convicted of assault with a firearm in San Francisco in 2002 and was sentenced to six years in state prison.

Hinkle said Mixon was paroled on Oct. 6, 2007, after serving about five years but was returned to prison on Feb. 26, 2008, for violating his parole.

Mixon was paroled a second time on Nov. 1, 2008, he said.

Mixon was a suspect in a murder case in Alameda County in late 2007 but police didn't have enough evidence to charge him in the case, according to Hinkle.



Not exactly hero material.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and................
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Mikhailoh
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Lovelle is a hero. Wow.

This is going to end badly.
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John D'Oh
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I don't condone what he did, but...[snip]
The minute you see the word 'but' in a sentence like this, you know you're dealing with knobheads, not to put too fine a point on it. There should never be a 'but'.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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