{"id":230,"date":"2009-03-25T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=230"},"modified":"2009-03-25T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:11:59","slug":"the-oakland-police-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-oakland-police-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oakland Police Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The atrocity last Saturday in Oakland, California has sickened a nation.\u00a0 Lovelle Mixon, 26, had first gone to prison at age 20 for assault with a firearm, but had amassed numerous serious felony convictions in his short life. He was free on parole, and it has since been confirmed that he knew he had violated his parole and was likely to be arrested and sent back to prison for five to nine months.<\/p>\n

It was announced yesterday that DNA evidence tentatively links Mixon to a violent sexual assault some weeks ago. The rape victim is a 12-year-old girl.<\/a> If he believed he was going down for that, he would have known he\u2019d be looking at a much longer prison term. When two Oakland motorcycle cops pulled him over for a routine traffic stop Saturday, he approached them at their bikes, sneaked out a semiautomatic pistol, and shot them both down.\u00a0 As the gravely wounded men lay helpless, Mixon stood over them and fired execution shots into both.<\/p>\n

Mixon fled to his sister\u2019s apartment, arming himself with a 7.62X39mm semiautomatic rifle. When an OPD SWAT team made entry a few hours later, Mixon opened fire, killing two of the officers and wounding one more. Return fire, reportedly from the wounded team member, finally dispatched the murderer to the entry portals of Hell.<\/p>\n

Five good cops had been shot. At this writing, three are deceased and the fourth has been declared brain-dead as surgeons wait to harvest his body organs for transplant. The fifth survived.<\/p>\n

What sickens me even more than this tragic loss is that at the scene of the first double cop-killing, some twenty people \u2013 some of whom witnessed the execution-murders \u2013 taunted police and shouted \u201cPayback for Oscar!\u201d\u00a0 They were speaking of Oscar Grant, killed on New Years when a young officer of the Bay Area Transit Police shot him during an arrest. Facing murder charges, the BART officer has stated through his lawyer that he was trying to deploy his TASER and drew and fired his pistol by mistake instead.<\/p>\n

Once Mixon was ensconced in his sister\u2019s apartment, it turns out, many people in the building knew he was there but none would \u201csnitch\u201d on the cowardly murderer. When someone finally did call in a tip, rather than leave the suspect unmolested to shoot more people from the apartment windows, police made the entry that cost two of them their lives.<\/p>\n

Words fail me.\u00a0 Printable words, anyway.<\/p>\n

Deepest condolences to the families and colleagues of the lost guardians: Sgt. Mark Dunakin, Officer John Hege, Sgt. Erv Romans, and Sgt. Dan Sakai. Donations to the memorial fund can be sent here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

May the families of those martyred cops \u2013 and a certain 12-year-old girl \u2013 one day be able to spit in the faces of those who mocked the dead policemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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