Calling him a 'true hero', mourners hold vigil for suspected Oakland cop killer Lovelle Mixon
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, March 26th 2009, 2:12 PM
Suspected Oakland cop killer Lovelle Mixon, who was shot dead in a gunfight with police. Oakland Police Dept./AP
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OAKLAND, Calif. - 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.
Speaking at the event honoring the officers Tuesday night, Acting Police Chief Howard Jordan said the department was being sustained by an outpouring of public sympathy that included flowers, food, donations for the officers' families and more than 3,000 e-mails, cards and calls.
"It speaks volumes for us. To see so many people here today, in the very same community we lost four officers, means so much to us," Jordan said, noting that the condolences have far exceeded any hints of criticism. "We're going to get through this, with the support of our families and with the support of you, the community."
Meanwhile, the state inspector general said Wednesday that Mixon was properly monitored by corrections officials after he was released from prison in November. Mixon was wanted on a parole violation when the shootings happened, although it is not yet known whether that was the reason Hege and Dunakin pulled him over on Saturday afternoon.
Sgt. Dom Arotzarena, president of the Oakland Police Officers Association, said Wednesday that the rank-and-file is trying to cope with the tragedy while preparing for a public funeral Friday that is expected to fill the arena where the Golden State Warriors play.
"Everyone is devastated," Arotzarena said. "Everyone is trying to seek answers to it all, including, 'Why did this happen?'
"Our reaction is no different than anyone else."
According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 133 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2008, a 27 percent decrease from year before and the lowest annual total since 1960.
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.
Oh yes his family is so right. He truly was a hero . I wish the reporter had asked every supporter in the street that day if they also support individuals who rape children, at gunpoint for that matter. It's amazing how f'ed up some people are.
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InPDUM is a grassroots organization, led by the black working-class community. It was founded in 1991 in Chicago by the African People's Socialist Party.
Four of Oakland's finest killed in the prime of their lives and their careers likely leaving behind grieving families.
What is the local, state and federal government doing to ensure that this doesn't happen again, perhaps in another community? Has our President spoken out against this act and extended his condolences to the families of the officers?
InPDUM is a grassroots organization, led by the black working-class community. It was founded in 1991 in Chicago by the African People's Socialist Party.
InPDUM membership is open to anyone united with democracy for the African community and that self-determination is the highest expression of democracy.
InPDUM is a courageous organization that stands as a beacon to people everywhere who are used to seeing our so-called leaders sell-out to fill their own pockets.
InPDUM is known and respected around the world for demanding reparations to African people for slavery and colonialism, demanding an end to the police containment of our communities, pushing for real economic development instead of more police, protecting the dignity of our children as intelligent, capable and talented human beings, and taking the right stand on many other issues that face the African community, even when it is unpopular to do so.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
NO ONE should kill the police EVER but this man may have been mis- treated somehow in hiring or jobs or discrimination so we need to listen to the root causes that make these men go off track a little in life over there and DONT FORGET that the italian people were once treated like this to
NO ONE should kill the police EVER but this man may have been mis- treated somehow in hiring or jobs or discrimination so we need to listen to the root causes that make these men go off track a little in life over there and DONT FORGET that the italian people were once treated like this to
So is this why the Mafia was created Sal?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Mafia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the Sicilian criminal society. For the American counterpart, see American Mafia. The Sicilian Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a Sicilian criminal society which is believed to have emerged in late 19th century Sicily, and the first such society to be referred to as a mafia. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct. Each group, known as a "family", "clan" or "cosca", claims sovereignty over a territory in which it operates its rackets - usually a town or village or a neighborhood of a larger city.
Offshoots of the Mafia emerged in the United States and in Australia[1] during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian and Southern Italian emigration (see Italian-American Mafia).
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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Nice post- are you trying to say something relevant ? Its about as relevant as remembering that Serial killer Dennis Rader -BTK was a Registered Republican and a Church Elder - This sickness infest ALL Republicans; the party of the Privileged White Male Psuedochristians
Nice post- are you trying to say something relevant ? Its about as relevant as remembering that Serial killer Dennis Rader -BTK was a Registered Republican and a Church Elder - This sickness infest ALL Republicans; the party of the Privileged White Male Psuedochristians
And your point is?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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. I wish the reporter had asked every supporter in the street that day if they also support individuals who rape children, at gunpoint for that matter. It's amazing how f'ed up some people are. 
