Dont read this if you have high blood pressure

[Jason_]

ALAMEDA COUNTY (KRON) – Many law enforcement officials are openly expressing dismay that the public held a rally for gunman Lovelle Mixon in Oakland.

KRON 4’s Mark Jones spoke to Alameda County Sergeant J.D. Nelson who is outraged, “I just don’t understand how people in the community can support an individual, a criminal, who was a carjacker, who raped a 12-year-old and murdered four people. How people can rally behind him, I think it’s terrible, just terrible. Our hearts go out to the Oakland police department and to have people rally for that person who is responsible for their murder is disgusting.”

On Saturday Mixon opened fire on two officers during what appeared to be a routine traffic stop, leading to a gun fight in which two more officers died before police killed him.

The officers killed were 43-year-old Sergeant Ervin Romans, 35-year-old Sergeant Daniel Sakai, 40-year-old Sergeant Mark Dunakin and 41-year-old Officer John Hege.

Nelson also told Mark that when Mixon is mentioned, he only thinks of the victims, “The only thing that I will ever think about him for is the many numerous families and lives that he ruined. That’s what I’ll be thinking of when I think of him. What about the 12-year-old girl, how is she supposed to overcome all this? And the other victims he may have raped. And the carjacking victim in San Francisco, he has affected all those people.”

On Friday, just a day before the shooting, Oakland PD learned that DNA evidence had tentatively linked Mixon to the February rape of a 12-year-old girl.

The event, organized by the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, started at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Uhuru House on 7911 MacArthur Boulevard.

According to the organization’s website, the march was designed to “Uphold the Resistance of the African Community as Represented by Brother Lovelle Mixon.”


yayyyy. My friend sent this to me and I am going to bed angry now. :rolleyes:
Can anyone say "culture warrior?"

http://www.kron.com/News/ArticleView/tabid/298/smid/1126/ArticleID/868/reftab/36/t/Many-Law-Enforcement-Officials-Outraged-at-Rally-for-Oakland-Gunman/Default.aspx

[csquare]

http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=uhuru-movement-statement-on-lovelle-mixon

Here is the organization's rebutttal....... Apples and oranges, apples and ornages.

[Richard]

FWIW...I grew up in the Sacramento Valley and Oakland - for a laundry list of reasons (including a push for ebonics as an acceptable language form to be taught in public schools in lieu of formal American English) - has never been on my list of the top 1,000,000 places to live in this country. The culturally divisive issues flowing through Oakland's dominant working-class community run perpetually deep and explosive. :(

Richard's $.02 :munchin

[SF-TX]

Based on a reading of their mission statement and their links page, Uhuru is socialist(communist) revolutionary organization. In a confrontation with the police, regardless of the situation, if the perpetrator ('victim') is non-white, he will never be at fault.


Mission

Uhuru News is the online voice of the International African Revolution. It is dedicated to giving voice to the struggles of the African working class from around the world through its programming in an effort to unite and inform the struggles of African people and forward the International African Revolution.
POINTS OF UNITY

Uhuru News recognizes that there is a war of ideas between the ruling class media and the media of the conscious African workers and other oppressed and colonized peoples of the world. Therefore we cannot rely on mainstream media, which is imperialist media, for truthful representation, analysis or leadership. Instead we, the oppressed African masses, must build and control our own media that consciously represents the interests of the poor and oppressed African working class.

The programmers and staff of Uhuru News recognize the need for the African working class to have its own voice uncensored and uncontrolled by other forces, be they the white ruling class or their neo-colonial stooges throughout Africa and elsewhere.

We demand the right to freedom of speech and the right to political association without fear of political imprisonment and loss of life, limb, or livelihood.

We oppose programming that oppresses, criminalizes or slanders African people, and we are dedicated to creating programs that raise up and defend the African working class as the leadership of our people.

We oppose programming that oppresses or slanders African women, and we are dedicated to programs that raise up African women.

We recognize that African people are an oppressed people and that Uhuru News and its programs are tools in the process of ending that oppression.

We are united in the purpose of raising the consciousness of African people through talk shows, news, music and other culture to facilitate the unification of African people as one people worldwide in the process of liberating Africa.

We are committed to developing self-reliant, community-controlled media capacity in the hands of the African working class. We take responsibility for the recruitment and training of forces from the African community into Uhuru News.

http://uhurunews.com/mission

Links

http://uhurunews.com/links