Many Law Enforcement Officials Outraged at Rally for
Oakland Gunman
Created by Kimberlee Sakamoto on 3/25/2009
10:05:12 PM
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.”
(Copyright 2009, KRON 4, All rights reserved.)
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