I’m left in disbelief over this…
Lovell Mixon fatally shot four Oakland police officers last week. Mixon, a fugitive parolee, was pulled over for a traffic stop. He was also implicated in rape cases. Ultimately, he was killed in a stand off. This is shocking and sobering. However…
Roughly 60 people marched in protest of these events. The shouted their support, not for the slain officers, but for MIXON! I’m not going to claim to understand what life is like in their community. I’m not going to claim that all cops are clean and honest. But, these people need a dose of reality.
The march was sponsored by the Uhuru Movement who stated that:
[Lovelle Mixon] faced a hopeless dead end of joblessness, poverty and criminalization by a society that would rather lock up young African men than make college or jobs available to them.
Brant Ward / The Chronical
Really? So, because someone didn’t give him a job or send him to college, he gets to shoot four cops? And, people are proud of him for doing so?
…it’s just wrong…
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