Do you want to see pure hate?
You'll find it in Oakland.
Last Saturday, Lovelle Mixon gunned down four Oakland police officers in the line of duty.
Read about Mixon's victims -- Mark Dunakin, John Hege, Ervin Romans and Daniel Sakai: "Oakland prepares to remember 4 fallen officers"
From CNSNews:
As the city prepares for a massive public funeral for four police officers slain in the line of duty, dozens took to the streets in a show of support for the man authorities say was their killer.
Organized by International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, the march Wednesday evening took participants near a police substation within sight of the two locations where Lovelle Mixon allegedly shot the veteran officers before being slain himself.
Loved ones and supporters walked through the streets chanting, "OPD you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!" There were no officers patrolling the march route.
"I don't condone what he did, but it's bringing to light the frustrations between the community and the police," said Uhuru Movement member Kihad Deen. "This gives people a chance to speak their minds."
Mixon's cousin, Dolores Darnell, 26, addressed the small crowd, calling him "a true hero, a soldier."
"This is the real Lovelle," she said, holding a picture of a smiling Mixon with his wife. "We do apologize for what he did to the officers' families. But he's not a monster."
Authorities say a day before the shooting the 26-year-old fugitive parolee was linked by DNA to the February rape of a 12-year-old girl who was dragged off the street at gunpoint.
The event took place a day after a city-sponsored gathering drew about 1,000 people to the crime scene to honor the slain officers: Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40; John Hege, 41; Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43; and Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35.
Police said Hege and Dunakin were gunned down Saturday when the two motorcycle officers pulled over Mixon. In a manhunt that followed, Romans and Sakai died when the city's SWAT team stormed an apartment where Mixon was hiding. Mixon also died in the gunfire.
Yeah, Mixon is a real hero. He's no monster. No, of course not.
He raped a 12-year-old girl. He may be responsible for several other rapes in the neighborhood.
But according to his cousin, Mixon is a "true hero."
Mixon took the lives of four officers, but he's not a monster.
How utterly absurd!
Certainly, Mixon's loved ones would mourn his death; but they're blind to his crimes and showing such callousness to make him out to be a martyr and a hero.
The people at this vigil for Mixon chanted, "OPD you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!"
That's insane.
This video is incredible.
Bakari Olatunji, spokesman for the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, makes some absolutely vile comments. He's delusional. He's a liar. He's a hatemonger.
BAKARI OLATUNJI: We're here today to do no different than what you saw yesterday as they paid their respects for their slain comrades. We pay respect for a young brother who we felt symbolized the resistance of African people who are terrorized daily by the police force, which are an occupying army in the African community. And not just here in Oakland, but all throughout this country, you see every day black people are dying at the hands of the police.
African people? African community?
They're Americans. They're in Oakland. They're in America.
The Mayor of Oakland, Ronald V. Dellums, is an African-American. The Acting Chief of Police, Howard A. Jordan, is an African-American. Assemblymen and representatives are African-Americans.
It's crazy to talk about a "resistance." The power is in the hands of blacks. The chief executive of Oakland is black.
OLATUNJI: Oscar Grant was no blip on the radar screen. Only thing that made Oscar Grant what it was, it was caught on video.
So we look at Lovelle Mixon, who was not political, who was not an activist, but who took the stand that we hope people take in terms of resistance to a very vicious, a very brutal, colonial system where the police are the first arm of the state; and that the police do not represent anything good in the African community. That's a historical fact. I don't make that up, and that's the reality that we deal with. So again, Movelle represented that, and we're here to pay respect for a brother who we think took a very righteous stand in the face of all kinds of terror that comes down in our community at the hands of the police.
Olatunji's claim that he lives under "a very vicious, a very brutal, colonial system" is positively ridiculous.
This man is inciting violence. His words are incendiary. He's dangerous.
He claims that the police don't represent anything good in the African community. Again, that should be African-American community, or just American community. And again, the chief of police in Oakland is black.
Olatunji charges the police with carrying out "all kinds of terror." Those are extremely strong words. Although there are cases of police brutality and abuse, it's irresponsible to label the police force as perpetrators of terror.
OLATUNJI: The marching itself is a symbol to organize people and let people know that there's another side of the coin. There's a voice out here. This is the voice of the slave. What you heard yesterday was the voice of the slave master. The reality is we're a colonial people who are oppressed and we want economic development and social justice is what we demand.
Olatunji's comments are disgraceful.
He's no slave. The people who are mourning the officers that Mixon murdered are not slave masters. They are grieving spouses, children, parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, and colleagues.
Has Olatunji noticed that the president of the United States is African-American? Is Obama a slave master?
From AP:
Pleasant Hill Police Chief Peter Dunbar, who spent almost 25 years working as an officer in Oakland, said that while the Mixon vigil was bound to chafe emotions already rubbed raw from the officers' slaying, the police would handle it with professional detachment and "shrug things off."
"You can't let that get to you," Dunbar said, adding that in its hiring the department looks for individuals who exercise restraint in volatile situations. "People are waiting for someone to go off, ready with cameras and everything else. But that department is much more professional than these activist agitators think."
It is unconscionable for Olatunji and his group of agitators to be so insensitive. It's inexcusable for them to act as apologists for Mixon.
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From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Thousands of police officers from across the country and Bay Area residents are expected to fill Oracle Arena today for the funeral of four Oakland police officers shot and killed in the line of duty.
Officers from throughout California and from as far away as New York and Florida will attend the 11 a.m. service in the arena, which holds more than 19,000 people. A contingent of officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is also planning to be there.
People who can't get into the arena will be able to watch the service on big screens in the adjacent Oakland Coliseum.
The funeral will also be televised live on several television stations, an unprecedented action that police officials said was commensurate with the outpouring of grief over the single deadliest loss of life in Oakland Police Department history.
"It is very overwhelming and touching," police spokesman Officer Jeff Thomason said.
The funeral will be unprecedented in at least one other respect - all 815 members of the Oakland Police Department are being allowed to attend, meaning the city's streets will be patrolled most of the day by officers from 15 law-enforcement agencies in Alameda County, including the sheriff's office, the California Highway Patrol and city and regional police departments.
...Speakers at the service will include acting Police Chief Howard Jordan, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and state Attorney General Jerry Brown. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will attend and meet privately with the officers' families, but will not address those attending the funeral.
The funeral will be followed by a number of rituals, including the playing of bagpipes, a 21-gun salute with a military cannon, and flyovers involving 20 law-enforcement helicopters from across the nation.
Police Capt. Paul Figueroa has been overseeing planning for the funeral. The families of the slain officers embraced during an emotional meeting Tuesday night, Figueroa said.
Asked to describe the challenges in putting together such a service, Figueroa said, "What I'm doing is nothing compared to ..." His voice trailed off, and he abruptly left a media briefing.
In the first-floor lobby of the police headquarters on Seventh Street, a worker was busy sandblasting four new names Thursday onto a memorial wall, joining those of 47 other Oakland officers killed in the line of duty.
17 comments:
He was no hero he was no soldier he is not to be admired...What he did is unforgivable...The family's blindness to the crimes being put upon him only shows their ignorance and to have such disregard to the fact that he killed 4 innocent men in cold blood is just heartbreaking...
this man was a monster!!!! he broke the law but he is a hero??? why would these people teach young people in the community that it's ok to act his way. This man had no job but he bought a car and was carrying two guns. Where did he get those from. And why would he carry two guns if he wasn't a violent monster. Why is there DNA linking him to raping people. Why did he shoot and murder 4 menleaving widows and fatherless children? He is not a monster though and people think he is hero. Well lets hope there are more "hero's" like him out there to rape and kill all these people that were protesting that he was so they can feel the pain and loss that those officers families feel and will continue to feel. Let there daughter get raped by a hero like this man. Let a hero like this man shoot thier husband while they are at thier job. Then lets see how they feel about "hero's"
My heart goes out to the families and friends of these four good men.
They're in my prayers.
Message to Certain Blacks in Oakland: I’m Tired of Your Lame Excuses
By Robert Oliver
Yes, that’s right. You love your blackness more than you love common sense, sometimes even more than your own people. Must I sue for divorce from the Black community on the grounds of mental cruelty?
I’m black. I grew up in Chicago, the most segregated city in the North. I’m from “da hood” too. There was a time I experienced racism every day for 4 years there. So I know what racism is about.
But yet, you scream, yell and protest because of a CRIMINAL who murdered four cops. They did not shoot him first. He shot them first. Is that an act of Black bravery, qualifying for the El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) Peace Prize? Is a hero now? (Remember Malcolm had to protect his family, not from white folks, not from cops, but from his own people who eventually killed him.)
You all claim you are like Palestinians in Gaza, in an “occupied territory” as if you are shut in a “prison” with nowhere to go. You are the occupiers. Who took you from Africa and put you in Oakland? Who is keeping you in slavery there? If you don’t like the “oppression,” you should do what you can to leave if you were serious. You are in a prison with unlocked jail cells. You are free to go anywhere, even to Africa, the Motherland, if you wanted to. I don’t hear about oppression in San Francisco. I don’t even hear about oppression in Los Angeles. Even blacks in Chicago don’t scream about oppression as you are doing as bad as things are there.
The whole world watches, and I’m tired of your lame excuses.
Your guy Mixon shot the cops, not even in self-defense. He pulled the trigger first, killing those four cops doing their jobs, and that makes him a Black hero, right? They did not shoot him until he had to be killed because he was killing others. This is what the Los Angeles Times says:
“In October 2007, Lovelle Mixon was released on parole after serving five years of a six-year sentence for assault with a firearm. Within months the 26-year-old Oakland resident was in trouble again, authorities said.
“In February, Mixon was placed on a parole hold as a possible suspect in a homicide in Alameda County, according to Scott Kernan, undersecretary of operations for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Prosecutors declined to file charges in that case, saying there was not sufficient evidence, but Mixon was detained on various parole violations and sent back to prison for nine months, Kernan said.
“Here is a look at Mixon's interactions with the parole department since his Nov. 1 release from the California Correctional Center in Susanville, as reported by the department :
“Nov. 3: Mixon reports to his parole agent for an initial interview and undergoes his first mandatory drug test.
“Nov. 5: Mixon reports to Parole and Community Team, a state program that offers a broad range of services to parolees. The agency provides job placement, drug treatment and other services. During the visit, he met with his parole agent and again was tested for drugs.
“Nov. 7: Mixon's parole agent makes an initial residential visit, meeting with Mixon at his mother's home in Oakland. The agent also met with relatives of Mixon to evaluate his living conditions and who he was interacting with while on parole. During the visit, Mixon is referred by the agent to America Work, an employment service.
“Dec. 17: Mixon's parole agent makes a residential visit, also meeting with one of Mixon's cousins as part of their continuing effort to assess his family situation.
“Dec. 19: Mixon reports to the parole office and takes a drug test.
“Jan. 6: Mixon reports to the parole office and takes a drug test.
“Jan. 23: Mixon's parole agent makes a residential visit and refers Mixon to another employment service, Project Choice Employment.
“Feb. 6: Mixon reports to the parole office and takes a drug test.
“Feb. 18: Mixon's parole agent makes a residential visit but cannot locate him.
“Feb. 24: Mixon's parole agent makes another residential visit but Mixon cannot be located. The agent talks with his mother.
“Feb. 26: After another residential visit, the agent still cannot locate Mixon.
“Feb. 27: The parole agent prepares a parolee-at-large report and a warrant is issued for Mixon's arrest. The state Board of Parole Hearings suspends Mixon's parole effective Feb. 19, the day after his parole officer first failed to find him. The case is referred to the corrections department's Fugitive Apprehension Team.
“March 6: The Fugitive Apprehension Team and members of the Oakland Police Department visit three Oakland addresses, including Mixon's mother's home, his address of record. The following week, they distribute a bulletin to the Oakland Police Department. The case is also referred to the U.S. Marshals Service to check on reports that Mixon might have been in the Auburn, Wash., area. They are unable to locate him.
“March 21: Mixon is pulled over by Oakland motorcycle officers for a traffic violation shortly after 1 p.m. Authorities said he began shooting at the officers, killing Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, and fatally wounding Officer John Hege, 41. After trying to hide in a nearby apartment building where his sister lives, Mixon kills Oakland SWAT sergeants Ervin Romans, 43, and Daniel Sakai, 35, before he is shot and killed by police.”
I’m really disgusted at your lame excuses. I’m tired of your “wolf cookies.”
I could understand anger if he was shot by a cop for no reason. I could understand if he was not threatening anyone. But this man was a convicted felon on parole (assault with a handgun). He shot the cops first. Get a clue, please. Why do you all want to celebrate a criminal? I remember the good old days when we would celebrate people like Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Adam Clayton Powell and Martin Luther King, Jr. But we black people have evolved. We are more enlightened now. We have to celebrate our criminal element too, especially our cop-killas. Al Sharpton and the NAACP did that last year for black thugs who tortured, sexually assaulted, and robbed a BLACK woman in Florida. They had no pity for the victim, just for the thugs who tortured her. Are you giving the whole world the impression that blacks seem to care more about criminals than law-abiding people. This is my “I’m-embarrassed-to-be-Black” moment. I understand there a "Stop Snitching" campaign in Oakland? Why? Is it a black thing and I don’t understand? When blacks do crap to other blacks, don't tell the police, right? We have to protect our beloved criminals, right. It is the law-abiding black citizens, especially senior citizens, who live in terror of the black criminals who should go to hell right? It is your own black neighbors who live in oppression because of black thugs, not because of cops.
Why is it we do in each other in when we celebrate our own criminals?
This is what a friend wrote:
“Hi, Robert. This makes me sick to my stomach. I seriously need to plan to move from these United States of America. Some blacks are idiots, and they make me ashamed of my race with this madness. I feel for all the families involved. But he shot the cops first so they were just protecting themselves from this dangerous criminal. What is wrong with black people? He was a criminal not an advocate of any community. Black people wake up please before it’s too late.”
The black editor of the Oakland Tribune Chauncey Bailey was shot dead by a Black Muslim in 2007 in broad daylight. How many of these blacks of you marched and protested that? Were you all demanding justice? Were you all outraged when one of your own gunned down one of your own? Those who knew Bailey were outraged. I did not see outrage from you. I understand “Stop Snitching” was going on there in Oakland about that murder. Again, it is your own black neighbors who live in oppression because of black thugs, not because of cops. Or did you decide it was not really a tragedy since a white man or a cop did not shoot Bailey?
He was down for your community. Were you down for him? Bailey was a strong advocate for the black community, even for those same people who are celebrating Mixon. Yet the outrage in the black community in Oakland was very little. Mixon was not an advocate for the black community at all, a convicted criminal and murderer, and people march and protest and this criminal gets celebrated. He is a role model for all young Black children in Oakland right?
Rev. Walter Hoye, a black minister in Oakland went to jail because he was telling women, including black women, that there was an alternative to abortion. Were any of you outraged over the brother being a “victim” of the white racist justice system? How many of you were protesting with signs ‘FREE REV. HOYE!”?
Is not something wrong with that picture? Keep your lame excuses because they won’t fly, even out of Oakland International Airport.
Robert Oliver is a writer and photographer. He can be reached at interactionswest@gmail.com
Mixon was human garbage.
http://thedirty.com/?p=144622
That is all.
As an African, I'm extremely insulted that Africans and the African continent are being associated with this idiocy.
It is so sad that "We the people" have not evolved more than this. It is a shame that officers lost their lives. I understand that Mixon's mother is grieving. She lost her son ..The same as the officer's families lost a loved one. I just hope that she can realize that he was indeed a criminal..Maybe through no fault of her own. She must accept that fact before she can move on. To all the victims families. I am sorry that the human race does these things to each other. It is time to face up to what we have been doing and change it. We have to make a difference regardless of our skin color and religious beliefs. No matter what we have to leave this world for our children..Our future.. Let's make a difference!!!
um I don't see a parallel between radical groups in Oakland to Obama... . Grouping them together because of skin color is racist. Lovelle Mixon= rapist
Barak Obama= college graduate and law school graduate, senator
signs of economy getting better. THe proof is in the pudding... look if you want to make claims about radical groups in Oakland being wrong about racism you shouldn't make racist web sites. I agree they should not have rallied for Mixon...
but it seems like arguing that will lead to a myriad of faces pasted next to it of many different black leaders and a doomsday message. Come on now, if we want to destroy a notion of race, we can not embrace it.
"Anonymous,"
Who is grouping radical groups in Oakland with Obama?
Who is grouping them together because of skin color?
Who is grouping them together at all?
You write: "um I don't see a parallel between radical groups in Oakland to Obama... . Grouping them together because of skin color is racist."
Where did that come from?
I wrote: "Has Olatunji noticed that the president of the United States is African-American? Is Obama a slave master?"
That's the only time Obama is mentioned on this post. The point is Olatunji's comments are remarkably off base and hateful.
Olatunji and those of his ilk are the problem.
The people view him as a martyr not in light of his crimes; but the concept, that continued violence against Blacks does not have to be tolerated. In that, what of ignored martyrs for justice i.e. PFC LaVena Johnson; Sean Bell; James Bryd Jr.? Not to spark a riot or insinuate, but on the note of Black officials, i.e. the president; the mayor of Oakland; and acting police chief, has no one ever heard the term "Field Negro?" I am in no way condoning unprovoked violence against police officers, but how many young brothers have been killed by those sworn to protect them? What of Billey Joe Johnson and the countless others? In a sincere heart, one must admit that Black lives are worth less than any other race in the eyes of this country. In that, no one can deny criminals are not forced into their way of life, for the most part. But what alternative is there when the children must eat and no one is hiring? Rape is one of the most despicable crimes one can commit. But what can we say of our government bringing drugs into the country via "Freeway" Ricky Ross; they're lame attempts to stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic; or the children which make up 50% of the impoverished population? This country is in desparate need of reform, that goes without saying. But surely there are two sides to every story. On the note of "Why don't Blacks go back to Africa?" That would be like a women being raped, and then told to hike home without a hint of remorse from the violator. However, one must wonder what America would be like without Blacks. Africa United would be a Utopia compared to getting targeted by one's own government.
Mixon was a monster and anyone who defends him is a horrible person.
What about those officers that were murdered trying to do their jobs?Cops don't go after you unless you're doing something wrong.Don't commit crime,and you won't have to worry about cops messing with you.
Personally I don't feel Lovelle Mixon is a hero but I do support what he did. And here's why:
Constantly we see innocent people (often black) being arrested, racially profiled, and even killed by police. And, for once, we see a black man murder 4 innocent cops. It's about time they know how it feels to be shot at for no good reason. And, even better, killed.
Amadou Diallo had 41 shots fired at him for reaching for his wallet. Sean Bell got 50 shots fired at him because police officers thought he had a gun. Oscar Grant was handcuffed and was clearly no threat at all, but he was shot in the back and killed, and for what? And there are others who have been shot for no reason. Unarmed men being gunned down by cops for no reason at all. Honestly, there is NO reason a man should have 41 or 50 shots fired at him. And yet these men supposedly "protect and serve."
This man, Lovelle Mixon, did exactly what police have been doing for years. Police officers constantly get away with crap that they shouldn't. And while what Lovelle did was nothing more than cold-blooded murder and he definitely had no thoughts in his mind of taking a stand and/or being a hero, I still support his decision to murder those 4 cops. This man murdered 4 innocent police while other police have murdered much more than 4 innocent black men. I don't care if anyone disagrees with me and I don't care if you all consider me a monster. I stand by every word.
I'll agree with you that he's no hero and I'll agree that what he did was horrible. But I'm glad he did it.
To lovelle mixons family member who is asking for ten thousand from Oaklands Finest for doing the job of protecting us from people who agree with you;YES,lovelle is and always was a monster to say the least.He was a child molester,among other things.Like the old saying goes"The Nut Dosent Roll Far From The Tree".
So it has almost been a year to the day…and I can still remember your smile like I had just seen it yesterday…I know how soft your touch actually was, and how big you heart would open up for the love and joy of others. But yet we are faced with untruthful, heartbreaking lies, that the media are considering to be “FACTS”. Know your family loves and supports you even if your choices were not the best. I miss you dearly Velle…I know for sure you are in a better place, and I am awaiting the day that we are able to reunite.
Rest in Paradise Lovelle Mixon!!!
Gone but will NEVER be forgotten!!!
Seriously? LOL - you are so ignorant to think that a man that murders another man should be held high as a hero or maryt of some sort. If you want to fight a war fight it amongst your own groups killing each other off(black or otherwise), but police have a reason to assume the worst and I don't blame them for their actions, but if we're all AMERICANS stop the black/white bs and anger over slavery -that attitude will only keep you down.
^^ Well, what do you think is going on in Iraq? You guys are calling the American soldiers that have killed thousands of people in the Middle East for a 'cause' "heroes", and quite frankly, Mixon's cause is no different.
Yes, I don't personally believe that he should have killed or raped anyone (if he truly raped someone), but racial issues truly exist. And to the person who implied that Blacks are warring Asians and Hispanics also -- you are a liar.
The point is, racial issues exist. I know because I am faced with them everyday as an African American. You can say that it isn't happening anymore because you choose to ignore it and because you are white and don't have to suffer through widespread racism, but it is.
I'm 17 years old, and have already experienced more than enough racism to call this life quits.
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