19,000 mourners fill Oakland Coliseum to honor slain police officers
Law enforcement officials from around the country joined Oakland citizens today to honor four police officers murdered in a bloody shooting spree. The service at the Oakland Coliseum has drawn 19,000 people. Crowd are overflowing.
Full coverage here, with info on how to express condolences and contribute to a memorial fund for the fallen police officers.
Jim Hoft noted yesterday that 60 morons turned out for a demonstration in support of the psychopath who murdered the officers.
In the latest development, the SFChronicle reports that the killer, Lovelle Mixon, had been linked through DNA evidence to the rape of a 12-year-old girl:
The day before Lovelle Mixon unleashed a barrage of gunfire that killed four Oakland police officers, the department’s investigators learned that DNA evidence had linked the fugitive parolee to an unsolved rape this year, authorities said Monday.
The possibility that Mixon feared being arrested for rape is a key factor for investigators trying to understand why the 26-year-old Oakland man opened fire on two motorcycle officers who pulled him over for a traffic stop Saturday afternoon at 74th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard.
Witnesses said Mixon stood over the wounded officers, Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, and Officer John Hege, 41, and fired at least one round into each with a handgun before fleeing on foot to his sister’s apartment half a block down 74th, acting Police Chief Howard Jordan said.
Although the reason for the traffic stop isn’t known, Jordan said witness accounts indicate that Dunakin, possibly suspicious of what turned out to be a fake driver’s license, motioned to Hege to remove Mixon from his car just before Mixon opened fire.
When SWAT officers, acting on a tip, later stormed the nearby apartment, Mixon opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, killing Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43, and Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35, and wounding Sgt. Pat Gonzales before other officers shot him to death.
At first, police suggested that Mixon might have shot the motorcycle officers because he knew he was being sought for skipping a meeting with his parole officer in February, something that would have resulted in a prison sentence of no more than six months.
Had he been convicted of rape, however, Mixon could have been looking at a state prison sentence of several years.
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If anyone is ever visiting DC, one of the places just off the beaten path is the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, which honors those killed in the line of duty. It is really a beautiful, solemn memorial.
Every May, officers from all over the country come here for a ceremony where the names of those officers killed in the past year are memorialized. it is quite a sight if you are around then.
Also, stop by the Irish Times, a bar nearby where all the cops seem to congregate that week, and check out the very impressive collection of law enforcement patches from all over the world.
I pray God will be with all those fallen police officers and their famlies. I am sooo happy that dirtbag is drt.
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You should hear the sound bites of this tool’s sister: “I don’t want people making out like my brother was some sort of bad guy, he wasn’t”
And then trying to blame it on “he was just defending himself after what happened to that kid on the BART” like he was just some innocent bystander about to be whacked by rogue cops.
She fails to mention how she happened to have an AK-47 in her apartment.
Tragic. I really felt for the families of the slain officers when I saw the sickening protesters. This would have been an occasion for Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to redeem themselves, but not a peep from them. You don’t get much lower than defending the actions of a monster like Mixon.
*thug life*
May they rest in peace.
Uhuru House?!
One of the mouthpieces actually said ‘(Mixon) was a victim of state-sponsored violence’–gulp. This is the mentality we’re dealing with. Did this same mouthpiece think the Sept. 11 hijackers were victims too?
probably.
I think he was just upset about how the credit default swaps made a mess of his retirement investments. Just the mention of derivatives made this guy’s head explode.
I live in the area, my wife works in Oakland and I used to work there. This is the most corrupt city in the State. Jerry Brown is right when he complains (as he has done for a least 7-8 years) that the California Prison dumps felon parolees on the city and the State fails to provide the funds to hire parole officers and regular law enforcement officers. Or, my theory is that Oakland does get the funds, the politicians just steal it.
The sister? Typical product of the Oakland school district,one of the worst in the Country and the “victim” mentality encouraged by “activists” and Jerry Springer and company.
What was he supposed to do? He really, really, really didn’t want to go back to prison!
Just because he kills four policemen and rapes a 12-year-old, it doesn’t make him a bad person.
It doesn’t?!
What does one have to do to be a bad person? That’s easy:
Vote for Bush. Support tax cuts, even for the rich. Be anti-gay marriage, anti-affirmative action, pro-life, and pro-military.
I just ignore the protesters. All they really want is attention and a forum which I refuse to give them.
The world is clearly a better place without Mr. Mixon in it, but at an apalling and heart breaking cost.
20,000 honoring the corageous heros vs 60 race baiting morons for Mixon. Should be a higher ratio I guess, but still makes the statement well.
And this is a “hero” to the people who will now be working on Civil “villainteer” service squads?
Yeah, I would have a bit more than one AK 47 in my apartment too if I had to live there. In fact … well, mostly AR15’s here but …
jwm, if Oakland’s public school district is worse than LA’s, the teachers there must sit around feeding the kids lead paint all day.
Either way, California is becoming increasingly illiterate and dangerous, and I believe it is the canary in the coalmine for the rest of America.
*I shall lift them and their families up in my thoughts and prayers.
*Never gonna happen, but would be nice to see OPD resign en masse to see how long before the citizenry cries out that they don’t much like the inmates running the asylum; Rat bastards like the ACLU are responsible for the L.M.’s of this country.
*L.M., the poster child for a 70% out of wedlock birth rate among the black folks; Recognize it, admit it, and work towards fixing it; I commend P-BO for placing the family unit in high regard in his own life, but everything else he is doing is counterproductive for the black folks; So sad.
On second thought; arming the black panthers and a bunch of thugs from MS13 and putting them out on the street together … what could possibly go wrong?
In case you missed it there were about 60 people who held a rally and march in Oakland for support of Mixon and blamed the Oakland police for his death. Dozens march for Mixon, against police
This is why this city is so messed up right now.
I also heard the sister say that her brother was “backed into a corner and didn’t have a choice”. And that, my fellow posters, is what we are dealing with. Those are the ones who voted for Obama. I am pro-life, but sometimes I wish their parents had chosen abortion. A lot of these idiots are products of poverty, bad education and single parents. And they do NOT give their children up for adoption. They raise them in the culture of welfare entitlement and they end up on the streets, either killing cops or praising someone who kills cops. Human garbage. (And don’t call me racist…there’s plenty of white human garbage to go around! I am fed up with all of it!) We are being over-run by these low-lifes. There isn’t even room in our prisons any more because there are so many out there breaking the law.
I’m afraid you’re right Gator. And I fear for my children and grandchildren.
Poverty has NOTHING to do with it.
Statistical correlation would say single parenthood is leading cause.
Kids who come from lousy schools with two parents tend to do ok. Poor kids coming from lousy schools tend to do ok.
Single parent kids coming from “well off” situations tend not to do as well.
chap, how am I supposed engage your ideological jihad when you post compelling and compassionate stuff like this? Thanks for the thoughts. As it turns out, I’l be in DC around May, and I’ll definitely check out the memorial and have a brewski (ale perhaps) at Irish Times.
I thought you were being burned at the stake. Now what am I supposed to do with these marshmallows?
Really? NOTHING? Why do you say that? Surely there is a poverty component in this…isn’t there?
Hang on to those marshmallows, Swede. Chappy will come up with some reason for you to want to use them…trust him.
Rant approved. Mr. Holder notwithstanding, seemed the only ones concerned with ethnicity in this whole tragic mess were 60 race baiting morons. Mr. Mixon was human waste, black, white, or purple. How he got that way is not our fault.
Support 100club.org if you wish, although there are not nearly enough of them for every state. Well run and very little overhead.
‘Bet his mama still thinks he was a good boy.
The key word here is “WAS”. Thank goodness the world is rid of that scumbag.
Welcome to Oakland.
There will be more unrest. Us folks in suburbs are not immune to the inevitable spill over. Arm up, have plan and don’t count on the cops. I know because I am one and like the saying goes, we are only minutes away.
Poverty has nothing to do with this, I agree. That’s the same illogical reasoning behind terrorist’s motivation.
It’s all in the upbringing. No parents leading the household lead to , well , no leadership.
Thug thizzle.
Without parental leadership, rogue thoughts can predominate.
For the fallen police officers, May God the Father Almighty rest their souls and comfort their families.
If that’s what it takes to be a bad person in the eyes of the left, then I want to be Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World.”
Oh, yeah, I have a quote for precisely this situation:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20
My you rest in peace my fallen brother’s in blue!!
One of the toughest days of my police career was attending the funeral of Mark Stahl who died in the line of duty with the Boise Police. I know the pain his fellow officers feel today.
I hope the families can one day find closure to all this.
Is it possible that the reprobates by the bay could have written a more emotionally drab story about a guy who raped a twelve year old child and murdered several police officers within as short a time frame as a couple of weeks. When I finished reading the story I felt like I had just tasted a piece of rice cake.
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Ahhh, Jerry Brown’s city across the bay. Now he wants to rule California again.
It is sickening.
I pray for the families of the murdered police officers.
My husband is a police officer and this is something that I really worry about…he has always told me that car stops are the most dangerous things they do… next is domestic violence calls.
So sad.
The murderer is burning in hell now.
He did NOT have an AK47 so-called “assault rifle”. He used a SKS semi-auto (which shares no commonality of parts with an AK). A real AK is extremely difficult to obtain in the USA legally, and only slightly less so illegally. Semi-auto versions (which he also did NOT use) can be legally bought in Federally licensed and controlled gun stores….even here in California.
Another example of piss-poor Liberal bent reporting by the piss-poor Liberal bent Sf Chronicle. It is no wonder why they are going quietly into the history bin.
Liberal solution – Make rape legal. I can hear Nancy Pelosi’s half-hearted attempt to sound like she’s mourning the slain officers now…
“If only this poor man had not been in fear of going to prison for rape, these police officers would be alive today.”
His sister was in court that day or the day before for skipping a court date on a drug charge as it was.
You can go to YouTube and watch the videos of those apologists claiming that Lovelle was a “king” and a “soldier” and that he died fighting the corruption of the White policemen and how he is just like Marcus Garvey and all sorts of other filth.
It is just more victim mentality filth. You know, how White people have nothing better to do than think up new and unique ways of keeping the Black Community oppressed. For some reason, the White Community just has it out for Blacks in this country. Whites pump drugs into their community and force them to become addicts, force cheap alcohol into the community and pour it in their mouths through funnels in order to make them all alcoholics, they have set up labs all over the country to formulate new diseases strictly to wipe out Blacks and no one else…
Yes, the Whites in this country surely has it out for the Blacks. Why, if the White Community could just dedicate HALF of the time it spends on thinking up new and exciting ways to frame and oppress the Black Community on other issues, we could end world hunger in a week.
I was also disgusted with the fact that Feinstein was there and spoke.
It is the laws that she and those in her Party make that allowed this kidnapping, raping, cop-killing thug to be out on the streets in the first place. It is the Liberals that have made the it so that the criminals have more rights than their victims. It is the Liberals and their views that allows for these thugs to get out on parole when they KNOW they have no business being on parole in the first place.
And I hope that Ahhhhnold was paying close attention. This thug was out on parole for a non-violent crime. The same type of crime he has decided is good enough to let thousands and thousands of this states convicts out of prison LONG before they are even up for parole, let alone finished with their sentence…all in the name of saving money. If he gets his way, there will be tens of thousands of Lovelle Mixons roaming the streets and neighborhoods of California, all ready to promote up the crime ladder.
well said txgator. our values, laws, morality, decency, and judgement have become so perverted we victimize murderers and terrorists and condemn and demonize the citizenry who plays by the rules and lives a normal decent life.
God bless their families and God bless these officers.
The mayor was asked not to speak at the funeral at the request of family members…if that doesn’t show you how The City of Oakland treats its men and women in blue I don’t know what does. Very very sad.
I watched the funeral procession along 880 North. It was a very moving sight watching family, friends, firefighters, and law enforcement officers taking these four fallen to their final resting place. Heartbreaking.
After an unfortunate shooting incident in January, there were protests, rioting and vandalism in certain sections of Oakland in the days following. Most of this was happening very close to where I work – Downtown Oakland.
The Oakland police were out on those days in the hours before night fall to be sure that commuters, shoppers, residents and workers all made it out of that area safely so they could go home to their families unharmed. They assisted the local business district by requesting building management in the immediate surrounding areas (of scheduled protests) by keeping them informed of the protests and encouraging them to dismiss their employees early from work on a few days of when tensions were high. They were out on foot patrol those days, providing service and protection.
All too often, their efforts to keep their citizens safe go unappreciated, unrecognized and unnoticed.
Thank you Oakland PD, Oakland Officers, and SWAT for your service and protection. And God’s Speed to your four fallen. May they rest in peace.
The nerve of Feinstein and Boxer and these other liberal hacks to show their faces and spit in the faces of the officers and as RetFireman said it is their liberal policies and tying the hands of the police that have caused this tragedy.Their group always defends the thugs and terrorists,it’s only the innocent unborn that they have pleasure in getting rid of.Soo there will be Gitmo detainees on our soil.
Oakland, where the Punk Minority rules and the Majority is punked by thugs. Last time I saw it, it looked like Mogadishu.
Heavy Obama voters there.
I share your disgust. I wish Feinstein did not have to mouth all those empty words! I am glad Oakland Mayor Dellums was prevented from attending and speaking at the funeral services. He, and other liberals in CA are the cause of the prolification of crimes in this state.
This tells you the mind set of our opposition. Folks who admire ths guy or the likes of Che for example have no clue of what’s right. They do not know of Mixon’s crimes or that Che is responsible for over 1000 murders, or maybe I should say honor killings., whatever. The warped sense of justice in these folks protest is simply unbelievable. Get ready for wrong is right and right is wrong status quo.