Oakland Police Killings – Who’s the Real Victim?
Categories: Bay Area News, Focus on Concord
Written By: Mayor Concord California
Saturday was the most tragic day in Oakland Police history. What appeared to be a routine traffic stop kicked off a killing spree leaving four police officers dead, a killer stopped and a community lost. The Oakland Police officers were from Concord, Danville and out to Tracy, the shockwave of these events went much further than Oakland.
Then I read this news report in the CoCo Times that gives a different spin on the man who ended the lives of four police officers.
Cop shooter was frustrated with parole system, was person of interest in 2007 homicide
His parole officer stood-him up when they had planned a meeting, family members said. He couldn’t find a job. He was depressed.
“He wasn’t being treated right and wanted to get rehabilitated and find a job,” said Mixon’s uncle Curtis Mixon.
Just three months after being released from prison, Mixon was on his way back, deciding in February to skip a meeting with his parole officer immediately resulting in a no-bail warrant for his arrest.
Mixon was ready to go back to prison, his grandmother Mary Mixon said, if only to get a new parole officer upon his release.
But when he was stopped Saturday afternoon by two Oakland Police motorcycle police officers, Mixon apparently decided prison was not where he wanted to be. He shot at the officers killing both.
Huh? Are we really going to entertain the idea that Mixon was the victim of a poorly managed system?
How is it that whenever a monster is identified in a community, someone is always there to say “It wasn’t all his fault.” and blame outside forces for the reason they snapped? Has society lost it sense of responsibility?
It really bothered me to watch some of the local news reports with people walking down the street during and after the event shouting “Fuck the Police“. What’s going on in when people treat the law enforcement officers with such disrespect?
I’m asking a lot of questions and I don’t expect answers to all of them. I just needed to vent. The real victims here are the families of these officers that will never see their loved ones again. The kids that won’t see their fathers and the brothers they had at the Oakland PD that lost a member of their family. Mixon was not a victim. Mixon was the monster.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 am
This is some crazy stuff. For this piece of crap to get head shots in on four police officers is something that is being overlooked. This guy trained for this. Don’t kid yourselves. He was an armed monster awaiting a day of glory. I watched a news program last night. An older black lady was speaking to a newsreporter. The lady was obviously very emotional and sad for the loss of the police officers. A red car stopped and yelled,”Shut up you f*cken bitch, f*ck the police!”. She had a look of shock and fear on her face. Other newsreporters have said many in Oakland support the killer. I saw an interview with another black lady who claimed she represented a civil rights organization. She said many people are coming from outside Oakland to create make shift memorials for the fallen officers. This crazy lady said they don’t have the right to do that. She clearly didn’t want any public support for the officers. That city is completely out of control. It’s time for the mayor to declare martial law.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Mixon deserves no sympathy. I don’t want to hear anything about a “troubled young man” or “the system.” People in America commit violent crime constantly. Few of them are caught and of those caught only some of them go to prison. Mixon was a violent criminal before this weekend. He was a monster.
Also his family deserve no camera and microphone time. Their feelings about Mixon and what happened are worthless. I hope Mixon’s family suffer greatly.
My sympathy to the families of the real victims.
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
The families are always the victims.
There are no victors in this scene just horrors of pain and sorrow. The mentality that is broken and resorts to violence does not stir sympathy as much as it does disgust for the individual and disappointment for his circle of associates and family that could not provide support for another path for this person to take.
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Well said Mr. Mayor.
DUBC’s last blog post..WCPD Bomb Squad
March 30th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
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
March 31st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Robert- You probably have said it better than anyone could. The thoughts and feelings you have expressed are the same ones that have gone through my mind. I’m not black, but I’m on the same page as you. Hopefully some will listen. I couldn’t understand why on earth someone would want to celebrate a criminal. Especially one who had kiiled 4 men who had given their lives to protect others. My husband was a reserve peace officer for 15 years and has been an emergency services dispatcher for 21 years. He and many of his friends and comrades were deeply affected by the loss of the 4 officers, even though they didn’t know them personally. They have cried for the officers and for their families.
I pray that every person no matter their ethniticity or their financial means takes and seeks out every advantage they have to make themselves a better person and to rise above.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:34 am
they should just do what the police do when they murder someone…give him a month leave for stress.