Oakland, CA -- Today's march is being called a Day of Action Against Police Repression and its set to begin at 8:30 a.m. at the Alameda County Courthouse. Protesters will then hold a noon rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Protesters will also fill the courthouse during the afternoon session.
‘Chief of Anti-Occupational Forces’ - 2012!
PUBLISHED: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Interim Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan (pictured left) was officially named the city's top cop Wednesday by Mayor Jean Quan (pictured right). Asked why she took so long to name Jordan chief, Quan quipped that she and other city officials had been "preoccupied."
The announcement comes at a critical time for the city, which has been plagued by plunging tax revenue, escalating employee retirement costs, layoffs and concerns over crime. The 650-officer Police Department has also been struggling with tensions from continuing Occupy protests and criticism by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, who believes the department is moving too slowly to implement the reforms he is overseeing in the wake of a decade-old police scandal. "What we're doing today is stabilizing our leadership to move forward," the mayor said.
"I have very high expectations for his leadership," Quan said. "He's coming in at a very tough time." Jordan, 46, was interim chief in March 2009 when four police officers were shot and killed in the single deadliest day in the department's history. Later that year, Jordan was passed over as chief when then-Mayor Ron Dellums hired Batts away from Long Beach.
Quan reappointed Jordan as interim chief after Batts quit in October, expressing frustration with the city's bureaucracy. A few days later, "the first tent went up," Jordan said - alluding to the Occupy Oakland encampment on Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall. Controversy over the movement, and how the city and police should handle it, has dominated Oakland ever since.
Jordan, a 23-year veteran of the Police Department, has served as assistant chief, a SWAT team commander, head of internal affairs and Oakland schools police chief. He was interim chief for about eight months before the city hired Anthony Batts to run the department in 2009.
First Posted: 1/20/12 - Updated: 01/21/2012 02:44:16 PM PST
"Police did this to me!"
-- Janauary 28, 2011: A pregnant protester being medically wheeled away from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza after witnesses said she was hit in the kidney by a Oakland police baton. Oakland Occupy:Occupy Oakland protesters burn an American flag found inside Oakland City Hall during an Occupy Oakland protest on the steps of City Hall, Saturday, January 28, 2012, in Oakland, Calif..
Oakland, CA -- Saturday marked the first major clashes between protesters and police since November and left three officers with minor injuries, as protesters threw bottles, metal pipes, rocks, spray cans and "improvised explosive devices," police said. Oakland police received mutual aid throughout the day from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and city police, including Fremont, Hayward, Berkeley, Pleasanton, Union City and Newark.
Video: Occupy Oakland March - January 28, 2012
The events followed a week where Occupy Oakland organizers announced plans to take over a vacant building to create the movement's headquarters, with plans for a two-day party. Police and city officials vowed not to allow it. Late Saturday, paramedics wheeled a pregnant protester away from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza after witnesses said she was hit in the kidney by a police baton. She yelled: "Police did this to me!" Demonstrators spent the day temporarily occupying City Hall and a YMCA, all the while snaking around lines of riot-clad police periodically shooting bean bag projectiles, among other uses of nonlethal force.
At 1:30 p.m., the group began marching with a crowd of about 450 protesters. Forty-five minutes later, some of the marchers entered the campus of Laney College, city officials said. That was when police first fired tear gas, a witness said. At 2:50 p.m., marchers began tearing down perimeter fences around the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, city officials said. Police declared an unlawful assembly and fired more tear gas. Witnesses said police fired rubber bullets at protesters soon after.
The first large skirmish of the day took place on the front steps of the Oakland Museum of California. Police arrested 19 marchers during that confrontation. The rest of the marchers headed to City Hall. Later, about 100 protesters were arrested after police ordered them to disperse at the YMCA on Broadway, police said. By 4 p.m., most of the Occupy crowd, which had grown to about 500, returned to Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. After regrouping, the marchers headed out again and congregated at the Oakland YMCA. About 6:30 p.m., police ordered protesters to disperse and those who remained were arrested, with some hiding in the YMCA building. As police processed the 100 or so arrested protesters, the rest of the demonstrators headed to City Hall, where they broke into the lobby.
Demonstrators left the City Hall building with at least two American flags, which were quickly burned. Police regained control of the building, arrested more and guarded the trashed lobby.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke moments after the City Hall occupation, saying the city would ask for "stay away" orders against many of the protesters who have repeatedly been arrested in Oakland. "This particular faction of Occupy ... they're very violent and I'm going to be asking for a lot more mutual aid," Quan said, adding that the weekly marches prevent the city's police force from patrolling other parts of Oakland. "They are hurting the neighborhoods by continuing to do this on Saturday nights."
The police department received heavy criticism late last year for breaking up earlier protests, including from the mayor. Earlier this month, a court-appointed monitor submitted a report to a federal judge that included "serious concerns" about the department's handling of the Occupy protests.
The city will pay $314,000 to a former police officer to settle a lawsuit that asserted white officers harassed him and accused him of sexual harassment because he is black. DeWayne Stancill, a San Leandro police employee from 1998 to 2010, also will be eligible to receive a disability retirement as part of the agreement, said his attorney. San Leandro police did not comment on Stancill or the lawsuit.
Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli, who took over in January, said much has been done recently to create a better, more diverse work culture, such as requiring that every department employee undergo harassment and discrimination training. "We've come a long way since 2007. It's a new day for this department."
When Stancill was promoted to sergeant in 2007, his attorney said, fellow officers told him his promotion was solely based on race and called him "stupid" and "ghetto."
"There were a group of white officers unhappy about that (promotion), and they started a campaign of harassment," his attorney said.
In 2009, several female police employees filed sexual harassment lawsuits against the city, saying that Stancill made inappropriate comments at work about breast implants and the way clothing fit the women. The city settled the lawsuits last year. Stancill's attorney said the sexual harassment accusations were "trumped up and bogus" and stemmed from the racially charged mistreatment that Stancill received.
Stancill was exonerated of all accusations connected with the sexual harassment lawsuit, according to the settlement agreement with the city.
As part of the agreement, Stancill, now 41, retired Jan. 25, 2010, and will begin drawing from a disability pension because he was physically unable to continue as an officer.
OPD: Another Murder!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
OAKLAND, CA (WCJB) -- Two witnesses say a man shot and killed by an Oakland police officer had his hands up. The shooting happened late Sunday afternoon near 10th and Cherry Streets. According to The Bay Citizen, the mother of an 11-year-old boy says her son watched the shooting from a bedroom window. The boy says the man threw an object over the fence into their yard and left his hands raised. Police later said the object was a gun.
But a neighbor across the street tells media sources he saw the suspect throw a bag of drugs over the fence -- not a gun -- and put his hands up before he was shot by an officer standing behind him.
After running from a traffic stop in east Oakland, the man was killed by an OPD officer Sunday, police said. Officers pulled over a car with two occupants in the 1800 block of 99th Avenue at 4:56 p.m., and the passenger in the car fled on foot.
Police claim they chased the man to the 9900 block of Cherry Street and caught him, and in the ensuing struggle the man threatened the officers with a gun, according to Oakland police. Oakland police and the Alameda County DA's office are investigating.
OPD: Resistant to Change!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
OAKLAND, Calif. (WCJB) -- A federal judge blasted Oakland city leaders Thursday, saying he is tired of listening to excuses and that its police department needs to make changes immediately. This comes almost a decade after the controversial "Riders" police abuse case first surfaced; it was the biggest police misconduct case in Oakland in memory. The city settled a lawsuit which included instituting major reforms in the department, but federal Judge Thelton Henderson said he believes the department remains pretty much the same and he added he is losing patience quickly.
"I don't know and don't have real confidence that the kind of changes that we hope for are really taking place," said plaintiff's attorney John Burris.
Burris says the Oakland police are not moving fast enough to make the changes ordered by a federal judge.
It's the latest chapter in a saga that began in 2000 when four members of what prosecutors called a "rogue band of officers" were charged with planting evidence and beating suspects in Oakland. Three were fired. The fourth disappeared. Two prosecutions ended in mistrials. But a lawsuit filed by those who say they were victimized ended three years later in a $10 million settlement.
The department was also ordered to make changes to prevent future abuses. At Thursday's hearing, Henderson also said he was frustrated by the slow pace of change. He said, "The Oakland Police department is behind modern times& there is an attitude of resistance [to change]."
Also appearing at the hearing was Mayor Jean Quan who said she'll make sure reforms happen.
"I'm going to take responsibility for, as chief executive officer of the city, to monitor on an on-going basis whether or not a federal court agreement," said Quan.
Burris says what's needed is federal intervention.
"What the court can do is appoint a monitor to run the department, it's called a receivership, and essentially makes all decisions be made by that monitor," said Burris.
The hearing follows the release of a study by the federal monitor overseeing the reforms. It looked at 80 incidents in a three-month period in 2011 when officers drew their guns and most cases involved African-American suspects. The study concluded that in 28 percent of the cases, the individuals posed no threat.
Judge Henderson was appalled and said, "The level of the unnecessary draw of firearms is astounding."
Quan and Police Chief Anthony Batts told the judge that quick-draw incidents need to be scrutinized more closely to see if there needs to be more training or better supervision in the field. The chief also said there have been many changes that he's re-organized his department from top to bottom. The judge ordered everyone to come back in January for another status hearing.
Anthony Batts
Chief of Police
Oakland, California
August 13, 2009
In California, on the other hand, city governments routinely fail to maintain minimal hiring standards. Anthony Batts (pictured left) formerly a cop working for the Long Beach city government’s police department, had at least four crime reports taken against him for domestic violence charges in the cities of Long Beach, San Pedro, and San Diego. At one point he gave his then-wife, Laura Richardson-Batts, a black eye; she later sought refuge in a friend’s house to get away from him. That didn’t stop Batts from being promoted by the Long Beach city government to chief of police, and once he was, he put the domestic violence reports under lock and key in the police chief’s office and altered reports to conceal their contents. Other cops working under him kept copies of the originals and used the reports to blackmail Batts to insulate themselves from disciplinary actions during a scandal over unprofessional conduct and retaliation and vandalism against whistleblowers within the department. Batts’s domestic violence history has caused him problems in securing FBI security clearances and in maintaining his permit to carry a firearm. None of which, of course, has stopped the corrupt wife-beater Anthony Batts from being named chief of police for the city government in Oakland, California.
That's right, Long Beach police Chief Anthony Batts will be Oakland's next Chief of Police. He will begin his tenure in September. Batts, 49, served more than 25 years on the Long Beach force during which time he became chief in October of 2002. He holds a doctorate in public administration. Batts' appointment comes 51/2 months after former Chief Wayne Tucker's resignation Feb. 28, 2009. Information about what Batts will be paid was not available.
Councilmember Larry Reid (Elmhurst-East Oakland), head of the council's public safety committee, said that though he does not know Batts personally, he has heard he has an outstanding reputation. However, Oakland's crime rate is considerably higher than Long Beach's crime rate. In addition, the Oakland Police Department remains under the watch of a federal judge. The Oakland Police Department has been hit by a number of scandals from its much-criticized investigation of the 2007 killing of journalist Chauncey Bailey to confirmed allegations of officers falsifying affidavits for search & arrest warrants.
The Long Beach department has not been without its controversies, however. In February, a unanimous jury awarded a total of $4.1 million to a Long Beach police sergeant and two officers who said that during Batts' tenure they were retaliated against after reporting that other Long Beach officers were going on illegal lobster dives while on duty. The imbroglio was dubbed "Lobstergate." This article appeared at: Oakland Tribune. By Harry Harris and Sean Maher. Article Last Updated: 09/29/2008 11:27:20 PM PDT
OAKLAND — At least eight Oakland police patrol officers have been removed from street duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation into concerns about how those officers obtained search warrants in drug cases. Numerous drug cases could be dismissed depending on the outcome, officials said. Allegations involve officers using purported narcotics obtained through undercover buys from suspected drug dealers as probable cause to get warrants to search the suspects' homes. The problem lies in the possibility the officers obtained search warrants before the police crime lab confirmed the purchased substances were actual narcotics.
Sources said the department launched a weeks-long investigation after discovering the potential problem, but it does not appear the officers involved were deliberately using false information to obtain search warrants. Rather, they said it was more a case of carelessness and a lack of training.
"It may be that one or more police officers are making misrepresentations as to a fact in support of searching someone's house," said Alameda County Assistant Public Defender Ray Keller. "If that's the case, then it could have a dramatic impact on whether the search is lawful or not."
Keller said if the alleged misconduct is proven, evidence could be thrown out or convictions overturned, but these would not be automatic outcomes. "We don't know the scope of the problem yet," Keller said. "At this point, we don't know if it was widespread; it could affect just two or three cases, or it could affect 50 or more. We're anxiously waiting to find out the results of the investigation." Keller said the public defender's office was alerted to the investigation last week, when it requested evidence from Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff.
Orloff declined to comment, except to say his office is "still receiving information." He added, "We have not started a criminal investigation at this point." Police officials declined to comment Monday. They are expected to discuss the issue today, after meeting with the Oakland city attorney.
The Oakland Police Department has not had a dedicated narcotics unit for several years, and most street narcotics enforcement is now done by "problem-solving officers," who don't answer regular service calls but are dedicated to quality of life issues and ongoing, neighborhood-specific problems, and other specialized units. Almost all the officers under investigation work in East Oakland and are problem-solving officers. As investigations continue, the officers could face disciplinary action ranging from suspension to termination.
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-- July 2011 Statement by Oakland Public Schools Police Chief Pete Sarna, referring to an African-American police officer.
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Self-Defense!
Posted: 6:32 PM EDT, Mon March 19, 2012 - Updated: 4:12 PM PDT, Mon March 19, 2012
"The evidence and testimony we have so far does not establish that Mr. Zimmerman did not act in self-defense. We don't have anything to dispute his claim of self-defense, at this point, with the evidence and testimony that we have."
-- Statement by Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee on why George Zimmerman has not been arrested for the killing of an unarmed African-American, 17 year old male.
Sanford, Florida (WCJB) -- Protesters upset about the shooting death of an unarmed Florida teen rallied outside a local courthouse Monday, demanding the arrest of a neighborhood watch captain who told police he shot the teen in self-defense. Martin was carrying a drink and candy when George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain, called 911 to report a suspicious man, authorities said. The 911 dispatcher told Zimmerman not to confront him. But by the time police arrived, Martin lay dead with a gunshot wound in the chest, according to Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee (pictured left). Zimmerman told police he shot the teen in self-defense, authorities said, and remains free as the state attorney investigates. Police said he has not been charged because there are no grounds to disprove his story of what happened.
Many carried signs in remembrance of Trayvon Martin, 17 (pictured below, center) who was shot on his way from the store to the Sanford home of his father's fiancee last month. "Gone but not forgotten," read one that had a picture of the young man wearing a football uniform. "No justice for Trayvon. No peace for Sanford!" read another. Inside the Seminole County Courthouse, a handful of student protesters and a law professor from Florida A&M University met with a representative of the state attorney's office to discuss the ongoing investigation. Assistant State Attorney Pat Whitaker told the group it would take several weeks to look at the case, but that the "investigation of the Sanford police needs to be greatly supplemented," Jasmine Rand, the FAMU professor, said after the meeting.
The state attorney's office also said a voice analysis would be conducted on 911 calls from the night of the shooting to determine who was yelling for help, students said. A spokeswoman for the state attorney's office confirmed Whitaker met with the group, but declined to comment on the specifics of what was said. According to the 911 calls released on Friday, terrified neighbors implored dispatchers to send police as a voice in the background screamed for help. According to Sgt. David Morgenstern of the Sanford police, Zimmerman (pictured left) called 911 46 times since 2001.
A Justice Department official said Monday that federal authorities are monitoring Martin's case. "The (Justice Department's) Community Relations Service will be in Sanford this week. They will be working with civil rights leaders, community leaders, and local law enforcement to address tensions," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
OPD Kills 2!
OPD Lies & Kills Again!
May 21, 2011 04:38 p.m. PDTOfficers fatally shot the two men during an unspecified operation by police and drug enforcement agents, authorities said. The shooting occurred about 10:30 p.m. in the 3000 block of Curran Avenue, between 35th and Coolidge avenues, in the Upper Fruitvale neighborhood. Officers arrived and spotted the vehicle occupied by Jackson and the two other men. They ordered the car to stop. Two of the men emerged from the vehicle with firearms, police said, and one fled into a nearby yard while officers shot the other two after a confrontation.
Investigators did not identify the officers or any of the suspects. But family members identified one of the dead as Antoine Jackson, 30, a parolee who lived in El Cerrito with his girlfriend and their 5-year-old son. Jackson's family also identified the other man shot and killed by Oakland police Wednesday night as John Sloan. Neighbors said they had heard six to 12 shots ring out in rapid succession. Police officials, however, said none of the suspects had gotten off a shot.
Orlin Dale, whose house sits next door to where the shooting happened, said he looked outside his living room window when the gunfire erupted at about 10:30 p.m. He said he saw Jackson leaning against the curb, handcuffed and bleeding through his white T-shirt from a wound to his side. Less than an hour later he stepped outside and found a man shot in the head on the cement walkway that leads from the front stairs, along the side of the house to the backyard. It was after 11 p.m. Neither man had received first aid, Dale said. Authorities were focused on finding the third suspect. "It was terrible," Dale said "I don't know what they did but it didn't justify being killed." Police said the men died despite receiving medical aid.
"The third occupant of the vehicle was also shot during a confrontation with officers." Police did not say how the third, unarmed suspect, whose body fell near the curb, had allegedly threatened officers during the 10:30 p.m. encounter on the outskirts of the Fruitvale neighborhood. They said Jackson's dead companion may have been shot while trying to run away. They noted that he had fallen on a lawn just in front of a narrow passageway between two homes.
Jackson "never would shoot at police," said his girlfriend, 23-year-old Michelle Heard. "We've had situations where he's gone to jail for evading the police. If anything, he would run."
The Oakland Police Department Homicide Unit, Alameda County District Attorney's Office and Internal Affairs Division routinely investigate officer-involved shootings and have begun looking into the incident.
Justified Homicide!
March 8, 2011OAKLAND, CA -- The two city police officers who killed an East Oakland barber after a foot chase last year were justified in believing the man had a gun and that their lives were in danger, a report by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office concluded. Police officers Eriberto Perez-Angeles and Omar Daza-Quiroz followed their training and reacted reasonably when they shot an unarmed Derrick Jones, 37, nine times after he ignored their orders to show his hands as he was standing against a fence near the corner of Seminary Avenue and Trask Street, the report states. As a result, neither officer will be charged with a crime.
"In the present case, both officers fired their weapons in the belief that they or their fellow officer was about to be shot by Mr. Derrick Jones," according to the report, written by assistant district attorney Richard Klemmer. "Their belief was actual and reasonable based on the circumstances, including the fact that Mr. Jones continued to conceal his hands and keep them in the area of his waistband."
The killing occurred Nov. 8, 2010, sparking several protests as, once again, it highlighted concerns and anger from some in Oakland who continue to feel police are not being held accountable for killing suspects. It occurred just three months after a Los Angeles jury found former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter instead of murder for killing an unarmed passenger.
Jones' family along with many activists called for criminal charges as they urged District Attorney Nancy O'Malley to charge the officers with murder. But O'Malley's office found that neither officer could be arrested or charged because both acted with reason when they decided to chase Jones and then shoot him after he ignored their orders to show his hands. "Given the totality of the circumstances as presented and corroborated by civilian witnesses and the physical evidence recovered, it appears that (the officers) actually and reasonably believed they were in imminent danger of great bodily injury or death," the report states.
Jones' mother, Nellie Jones, said she was not satisfied with the report and continues to believe that her son did listen to police and was shot while both his hands were in the air. "This is ridiculous, I am appalled, I am very disappointed and I am hurt," said Jones, whose family filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the city. "Every time they talk to someone, they tend to come up with a different story than what we are hearing."
The events that lead to Jones' death began when Perez-Angeles and Daza-Quiroz were flagged down by a woman who said she was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of Jones. The woman, who the officers said appeared physically and emotionally harmed, told Perez-Angeles and Daza-Quiroz that Jones was at his barber shop on the 5800 block of Bancroft Avenue and they found him there locking the front door, according to the report.
When confronted by the officers, Jones ran away, keeping his hands in his waistband area, the report states. During the foot chase, the report states, the officers saw a shiny metal object in Jones's hand and believed it was a gun. The shiny object was later determined to be a scale.
Eventually, the officers caught Jones and cornered him against a fence where two witnesses said they heard the officers yelling at Jones to show his hands, the report states. Jones ignored the commands, the report states, and instead "turned towards the officers, squared himself up and reached his left hand into the left pocket of his jeans where officer Daza-Quiroz observed a bulge." Both officers fired their weapons with Daza-Quiroz shooting Jones seven times and Perez-Angeles shooting him twice.
Jones was pronounced dead at the scene.
Klemmer concluded that both officers were "reasonable" in believing their lives were in danger given that they were responding to a domestic dispute and the woman reporting an assault appeared to have physical injuries. The officers also had the right to believe Jones was armed because he ignored their orders and appeared to be carrying a shiny object in a neighborhood known for gun violence, Klemmer wrote.
"There is a lack of evidence to support a prosecution against either officer," the report states.
Oakland attorney John Burris, who is representing Jones' family in its $10 million claim against the city, said he is not surprised by the district attorney's report. Burris said his office has also conducted an investigation and has found some witnesses who contradict what the officers and the witnesses in the district attorney's report said.
"I am not certain this is that clear-cut," Burris said of the facts. "I certainly have conducted my own investigation and interviewed several witnesses who contradict those statements."
No Charges!
Posted: 02/08/2011 09:56:07 PM PST
Updated: 02/09/2011 07:07:02 AM PSTOAKLAND, CA -- The two officers who last November shot and killed Derrick Jones, a father and barbershop owner, will not be charged by the Alameda County District Attorney's office, sources said Tuesday. Late Tuesday, a spokeswoman from the district attorney's office said, "We are not commenting at this time."
On Nov. 8, 2010 the unarmed 37-year-old was shot by two officers in the 5800 block of Trask Street after a brief foot chase. The officers were trying to detain Jones after a report of a domestic dispute.
The officers involved were later identified as Eriberto Perez-Angeles, who has been with the department for three years and is also a member of the SWAT team, and Omar Daza-Quiroz, an officer for four years. The case has been under investigation for three months.
The officers told investigators that Jones kept reaching toward his waistband and that at one point they saw a "shiny object" that turned out to be a scale. Police said such scales are often used to weigh drugs and a small amount of marijuana was found on Jones.
February 9, 2011
This is proof that it is the "Official Custom & Policy" of the City of Oakland, Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County District Attorney's Office (the State) to kill unarmed black men under the pretense of "reaching for his waistband." Last week, OPD kindly asked the CAUCASIAN male (in the mist of a shooting spree and evasion of police pursuit) to drop his weapon ... before they resulted to lethal force.
" ... [E]riberto Perez-Angeles, who has been with the department for three years and is also a member of the SWAT team, and Omar Daza-Quiroz ..."
Sgt. Pat Gonzales is one of the TRAINING leaders of the OPD SWAT team. Accordingly, Sgt. Pat Gonzales has MURDERED three (3) unarmed black men under the pretense of "reaching for his waistband." Hector Jiminez MURDERED two (2) unarmed black men under the pretense of "reaching for his waistband."
In Southern California and the California Department of Corrections (the State again) the Mexican Mafia has ordered all Southern Mexican gang members (Sur 13) to KILL Blacks (gang-bangers and law-abiding blacks) under a racist reign of terror. We know it's only a coincidence that Sgt. Pat Gonzales (Mexican) Eriberto Perez-Angeles (Mexican) Omar Daza-Quiroz (Mexican) Hector Jiminez (Mexican) and Jessica Borello (Mexican) have all killed unarmed blackmen.
Shame on all you "N-Words" who work for the City of Oakland, Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County District Attorney's Office (the State). You aid the killing of your own race for a mortgage you can't afford. Barack signed all the foreclosed property over to Dianne's husband (Richard Blum) dba as C.B. Richard Ellis (CBRE). Dianne and Richard are Jewish. A "N-word" is defined as an "Ignorant Fool."
Harry J. Williby
Editor-in-Chief
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"Safe" Neighborhood!
Posted: 01/30/2011 07:11:30 PM PST
Updated: 01/31/2011 10:26:48 AM PSTOAKLAND -- A 39-year-old man fatally shot after pointing what turned out to be a replica assault rifle at officers Saturday in the Rockridge district was identified Sunday as Matthew Cicelski, a former Marine and father of at least one child. Cicelski, who lived in Oakland, was shot about 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the 5500 block of Taft Avenue on the front porch of his ex-girlfriend's home. He had been acting erratically in the neighborhood, marching up and down the street with the realistic-looking assault rifle and a knife and threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend, police said.
He ran inside the woman's home when officers arrived on scene. Another woman who lives in the house ran outside screaming for help and officers could hear the ex-girlfriend also yelling for help, police said. As officers were about to go inside, they said Cicelski, who was wearing camouflage, suddenly burst out onto the porch and pointed what they thought to be a real assault rifle at them. Three officers fired, killing Cicelski. Police said Sunday that the rifle is still being examined by the crime lab to see what type of projectile it could fire, if any.
Police also said that Cicelski and the woman had known each other for at least a couple of years and that officers had responded to calls in the past about problems between them. Police said Cicelski had an arrest record, including at least one arrest for battery, but it was not known Sunday if that was for any dispute involving the ex-girlfriend. Cicelski was said to have at least one child, and possibly three. None of them are with the woman living on Taft.
Murderous Humor!
November 18, 2010NEW ORLEANS, LA — A New Orleans police officer was laughing after he burned the body of an African-American male who had been gunned down [shot in the back] by police in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, a fellow officer testified Thursday. The testimony came during the trial of officer Greg McRae and Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann, who are charged with burning the body of 31-year-old Henry Glover in a car after he was shot and killed by a different officer outside a strip mall on Sept. 2, 2005. Three other current and former officers also are charged in Glover's death.
Lt. Joseph Meisch (pictured above, left) testified Thursday that he was standing outside a police station near the Mississippi River when he saw a car followed by a pickup truck driving on a levee. McRae (pictured above, right) was driving the car and Scheuermann was driving the truck, according to prosecutors. Moments after the car drove off the levee, Meisch saw a plume of thick, black smoke. Meisch didn't know who was driving the vehicles until McRae and Scheuermann ran toward him. Scheuermann had a blank look on his face, but McRae was laughing, Meisch said.
(Rebecca Glover, aunt of Henry Glover, who police allegedly shot and later burned his body in a car in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, talks outside the courthouse where five New Orleans police officers are on trial in New Orleans, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)) "Laughing like somebody had just played a joke?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracey Knight asked. "It could have been humorous or nervous laughter," he said. Meisch said he asked what had happened, and McRae told him not to worry about it. "I got it," Scheuermann added, according to Meisch.
U.S. Marine!
November 9, 2010LOS ANGELES, CA - A Montebello man was among three former Marines in a group of five people arrested by federal agents on suspicion of selling illegal assault weapons to Florencia 13 (Mexican) gang members in the San Fernando Valley. The deal was carried out June 23, 2010 in the parking lot of a Pasadena post office, where suspected ringleader Adam Gitschlag, along with a former Marine and an active-duty Marine, met with a postal service supervisor, a Florencia 13 street gang member and two other men, then sold them the weapons for $6,000, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Tuesday.
Florencia 13 - Gun & Gang Video
On Monday, ATF agents arrested Jose Smith Pacheco, 31, of Montebello, and Miguel A. Ortiz, 49, of Northridge, both former Marines. Also arrested were Edwin Cano, 33, of Northridge, and Christopher John Thomas, 32, of Van Nuys. Gitschlag, 28, of San Clemente, was arrested Nov. 2, 2010. The five are charged with five counts each of having unlawful assault weapons, including four AK-47 assault rifles and an AR-15 assault weapon. Cano faces three additional counts, including two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Reached on his cell phone, Gitschlag told The Associated Press the charges are "definitely untrue," and that he is a private weapons collector who loves his country. "I did not sell any gang members any weapons," he said. "I love my country with all my heart. I would never expect my government to do this."
The sale allegedly occurred on U.S. Postal Service property after Ortiz, who works for the post office, opened the gate to a secured parking lot to the other defendants. Unbeknown to Gitschlag, one of the men was working as an ATF informant. In front of the F-13 gang member, the informant asked Gitschlag if he would be willing to sell more firearms to other gang members in the future. He agreed, according to a search warrant affidavit. The gang member never took possession of the weapons and the informant gave them to ATF agents after the sale. Florencia 13 is a long-established Latino street gang which has grown to control large swaths of South Los Angeles. The gang has been blamed for numerous homicides, including the racist killings of black residents.
Stunned neighbors stood at the end of Gitschlag's driveway as agents raided his house last week. Boxes of ammunition and dozens of pistols and rifles were hauled out the building, including camouflaged, tactical-looking rifles with high-power scopes. In all, authorities seized more than 20 handguns and 45 rifles and shotguns, as well as 4,000 rounds of ammunition.
Gitschlag said most of his weapons were antiques, and he denied having any assault rifles. Gitschlag left the Marines in 2005 after serving in Fallujah. He said he is a disabled combat vet.
Thomas, Ortiz and Pacheco pleaded not guilty Tuesday at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center, Department 30. They were ordered back to court on Nov. 18 to set a date for their preliminary hearing. They are being held on $95,000 bail each. Gitschlag, who was released earlier on $20,000 bail, is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 24 in Department 30. Cano was released on $100,000 bail. If convicted, each defendant is facing more than 20 years in state prison.
U.S. Navy Seal!
November 4, 2010LAS VEGAS, NV — A Navy SEAL in California and men in Nevada and Colorado have been arrested and accused of smuggling machine guns from Iraq into the United States for resale on the black market, federal authorities said Thursday.
The special forces SEAL, Nicholas Bickle, 33, of San Diego, Las Vegas resident Andrew Kaufman, 36, and Richard Paul, 34, of Durango, Colo., were arrested Wednesday in those cities, the U.S. attorney's office in Las Vegas said.
A complaint filed Oct. 29, 2010 and unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas accuses the trio of conspiring to smuggle and sell 18 weapons and 14 other firearms since June to an undercover federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent in Las Vegas and Colorado.
Bickle is accused of smuggling about 80 AK-47 weapons from Iraq or Afghanistan, including factory-made 7.62 mm Iraqi machine guns that the complaint said would be difficult or impossible to trace. Other weapons included Ruger handguns. "According to the other members of the organization, this was possible because Navy SEALs are not searched when returning from deployments," the document said.
The investigation began on tip from a confidential informant who faced felony battery domestic violence and robbery charges in Nevada and is cooperating with authorities, the complaint said. Neither the informant nor the undercover agent is identified. Las Vegas-based ATF Special Agent Eric Fox alleges in the complaint that at least one of the accused coconspirators bragged that the guns were from the military in the Middle East and would be untraceable. The complaint cited text message and bank records, and said at least one sale involved 10 AK-47 rifles for $1,300 each, and six handguns at $300 apiece.
The conspiracy charge alleges that Bickle, Kaufman and Paul engaged in firearms dealing without paying a special tax, possessed a machine gun that wasn't registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, and transferred an unregistered machine gun.
A statement from Daniel Bogden, U.S. attorney in Las Vegas, said Bickle was due to appear Thursday in federal court in San Diego. Paul appeared Wednesday in federal court in Durango, and was ordered held pending another hearing Thursday, Bogden said. Kaufman was due Thursday before a federal magistrate judge in Las Vegas. If convicted, each faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Racist Gang Death!
March 30, 2010A little more than a year after the racially motivated killing of James Shamp, a 48-year-old black man (pictured left) the prosecution of his killers appears to be drawing to a close. Last week, Richard Bordelon, 22, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, one count each of attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit murder, as well as admitting to special-circumstance allegations of drive-by murder, racial killing and that he was an active gang member at the time of the offense, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Daniel Akemon of the Hardcore Gang Division. The defendant confessed that the victim was killed because he was African American, officials with the district attorney's office said. Los Angeles police sources said the case was part of a larger series of incidents in which Latino gang members in the West Valley threatened blacks and sprayed racist graffiti.
At Bordelon’s March 24 appearance, Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Martin Herscovitz sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 47 years to life. The judge also ordered Bordelon to pay $14,386 in restitution for burial expenses and mental-health costs incurred by the victim’s family.
According to police, Shamp, a husband and father of two, was taking out the trash at his job in Winnetka on Dec. 22, 2008, when a car carrying Latino gang members pulled up. A group of men approached him and shot him in the chest. Friends heard the shots and ran outside, where they found Shamp lying face down. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
The same evening, authorities made three arrests in connection to Shamp's death — Bordelon; Martin Sotelo, 25; and a juvenile.
Sotelo, the alleged driver of the getaway vehicle, is awaiting trial. The district attorney’s office has not decided whether to seek the death penalty. Sotelo is currently being held at the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles.
The juvenile conspirator admitted a juvenile petition for conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to a Division of Juvenile Justice facility.
An additional arrest in the case was made May 21, 2009, according to district attorney officials. LAPD Topanga officers arrested Orlando Perez, a 25-year-old Latino, who was then charged as accessory after the fact to murder. Perez, of Canoga Park, pleaded no contest and admitted a gang association. He was sentenced to three years and four months in state prison. He is being held at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco.
September 11, 2009Sgt Patrick Gonzales is one of Oakland Police Department's most notorious killers. In 2001 Gonzales was accused of strip searching a young man in broad daylight and then dislocating his jaw; In March of 2002 he shot and killed Joshua Russell for supposedly be involved in an armed robbery; In June of 2006 Gonzales shot and wounded Amir Rollins for supposedly being armed with a shotgun; In September of 2007 Gonzales shot and killed Gary King who was unarmed; and On March 21, 2009 Gonzales after being shot in the shoulder shot and killed Lovelle Mixon (pictured below, center) as he and other Oakland Swat moved on the apartment Mixon was in. At the moment this murderer is being paid more then 200,000$ a year for terrorizing the residents of Oakland.
The city of Oakland is expected to pay $1.5 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shot in the back and killed by a police sergeant. Sgt. Pat Gonzales shot Gary King Jr., 20, of Oakland on Sept. 20, 2007, near 54th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in North Oakland. King fit the description of a "person of interest" in a killing that happened the month before, and officers found a loaded gun on him after the shooting, police have said.
But in their lawsuit, King's parents, Gary and Catherine King, said their son (pictured left) "did not pose a significant and immediate threat of death or serious physical injury" to police and that the shooting constituted excessive force. Gonzales "created the situation where deadly force was used," said the lawsuit, which named the sergeant, the city and former Police Chief Wayne Tucker as defendants. Among the plaintiffs was King's child, who was born last year.
The City Council discussed the settlement in closed session in July and is expected to ratify it Sept. 22, 2009. In a memo to the council this month, Assistant City Attorney Randolph Hall urged that the deal be approved "to avoid the risk of an adverse jury verdict and exposure to civil damages and attorneys' fees."
Police have said King ignored Gonzales' efforts to detain him and shook off the effects of a stun gun before the officer opened fire. Gonzales thought King was reaching for a handgun, police said.
Gonzales has been the supervisor of a police crime reduction team, a department firearms instructor and a SWAT team member. He has been cleared of wrongdoing in two other shootings since 2002, one of which was fatal. He was "allegedly" wounded March 21, 2009 by Lovelle Mixon in East Oakland who killed four other Oakland Police officers, who were attempting to kill him.
The King Murder!
September 20, 2010
Oakland Police Officer, Sgt. Pat Gonzales (a Mexican), a 10-year veteran, shot and killed Gary King Jr., 20, about 5 p.m. Thursday, September 20, 2007 near 54th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in North Oakland (California).
Gary W. King, 20, was shot twice in the back after authorities said he broke away from Sgt. Pat Gonzales during a struggle and appeared to twist and reach for the weapon. Gonzales told investigators King started to reach down toward his waistband. Gonzales tried to stop the movement and felt the gun. Anela Hobbs said she saw Gonzales use his Taser several times on King and saw King reach deep into his low-slung pants. Gonzales then let go of his braids, she said. King had turned to run away when the officer shot twice at him.
"I don't know protocol. I don't know policy. I just know life," Hobbs said. "It was a lose-lose situation all around." Gonzales, a department firearms instructor and SWAT team member, was cleared of any wrongdoing in the previous two shootings, police said.
One witness, Ailene Romero, said she never saw a gun, and Gonzales shot King as he was running away. "There were a lot of young people there, and people just started screaming," Romero said. At one point during the struggle, witnesses said, Gonzales held King by his braids as he tried to break free and escape. She questioned why the police would not aim for King's leg instead of shooting him fatally. Both practices are Oakland police policy in such cases.
Thursday's shooting shocked witnesses, and a group of community members gathered Friday at the scene. Semir Jehar, who was working at a shoe and clothing store that day on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, ran outside when he heard the commotion. When outside, Jehar said he saw King cooperating, but when Gonzales tried to subdue King, he resisted and tried to get out of Gonzales's hold. "I thought the police officer maybe shot him with rubber bullets," Jehar said. "The police officer shouldn't have resorted to his gun." A memorial dedicated to King was growing on the median strip across from a liquor store near where the shooting occurred.
"He laid there and died right in front of us," said Shamar Bell, who said he witnessed the shooting and said he had known King since grade school. He said he did not see the officer pat King down before detaining him. "(Gonzales) put handcuffs on him while he was on his stomach (in the street) in front of us," Bell said. "If he so feared for his life, why didn't he call for backup?" Romero said seeing King handcuffed after being shot was distressing.
Lt. Ersie Joyner III said Gonzales made what is considered "an investigative stop" on King after he saw King exit a nearby store. King "was cooperative at first," Joyner said, and it was a "low-key situation." The situation escalated, however, and a struggle ensued. Joyner said Gonzales twice tried to use his Taser to subdue King, but apparently the Taser malfunctioned and had no effect on King. Joyner said King refused repeated commands by Gonzales to surrender.
In June 2006, Gonzales shot and wounded 17-year-old Amir Rollins, who was armed with a sawed-off rifle on the 1800 block of East 25th Street, police said.
In March 2002, Gonzales shot and killed Joshua Russell, 19, of Hayward after he and an accomplice tried to rob a man at gunpoint in the parking lot of a Burger King restaurant at 14th Avenue and East 12th Street.
Florencia 13!
The Florencia 13 (aka F13, Florence 13) gang is the largest single Hispanic gang in Los Angeles County according to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff Department and the mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa. The Florence 13 gang got its name from the major street, Florence Avenue, which runs east and west, parallel and between Imperial Highway and Firestone Boulevard. Many early members of the Mexican Mafia were recruited from the Florencia gang. Florencia 13 has a long history of being involved in drug trafficking in Los Angeles, where they have held a leadership position even in its already drug saturated area. They have been known to deal directly with both major African American drug distributors and Colombian and Mexican drug cartels. Like the other two super Hispanic gangs - 18th Street and the MS-13 - Florencia 13 is now primarily made up of undocumented (illegal) immigrants. They continue to finance themselves primarily through narcotics trafficking, although false document and identification mills are also a large source of income for all three gangs.
Authorities believe that the Mexican Mafia has pushed Hispanic gangs (such as the F13) in the South and Central areas of Los Angeles to attack blacks at every opportunity, to take over control of drug trafficking in these areas, and to secure and maintain the Mafia's dominance. Their main rivals include the 38th Street Gang, all Watts Varrios, 18th Street, and the Play Boys Surenos. Their main African American rivals are the East Coast Crips. It is alleged that the Florence 13 gang has members in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, Detroit, Arkansas, Miami, Texas, Atlanta, Sinaloa and Mexico.
Mexican Mafia Targets L.A. Blacks
Ethnic Cleansing
Racist Mexican gangs are indiscriminately targeting blacks who aren't even involved in gang culture, as part of an orchestrated ethnic cleansing program that is forcing black people to flee Los Angeles. The culprit of the carnage is the radical Neo-Nazi liberation theology known as La Raza, which calls for the extermination of all races in America besides Latinos. Far from being gang on gang violence, the Latinos are targeting innocent blacks in accordance with a concerted ethnic cleansing campaign that seeks to eradicate all blacks from Hispanic neighborhoods.
The fatwah against blacks began in the mid-nineties, with a 1995 LAPD report concluding that Latinos had vowed to "Eradicate black citizens from the gang neighborhood." In a follow up report on the situation in east Los Angeles, the LAPD warned that "Local gangs will attack any black person that comes into the city."
Almost all of those Latino gang members in L.A. -- let alone those in other California cities -- are loyal to the Mexican Mafia. Most have been thoroughly indoctrinated with the Mexican Mafia's violent racism during stints in prison, where most gangs are racially based," writes Mock.
Mock blames the "Mexican Mafia" for ordering the campaign of ethnic cleansing from prison, as part of a turf war with the Black Guerilla family, another prison gang, but fails to pinpoint the racist creed from which the Mexican kingpins draw their inspiration - the long standing Aztlan invasion agenda.
Aztlan's goal, known as La reconquista, is to cede and take over the entirety of the southern and western states by any means necessary and impose a Communist militant dictatorship. President Bush's blanket amnesty program goes a long way to helping the extremists achieve their aim.
Similar to his co-worker Officer Hector Jimenez, every person shot or killed by Officer Gonzales happens to be African-American male (or Black).
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Interim Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan (pictured left) was officially named the city's top cop Wednesday by Mayor Jean Quan (pictured right). Asked why she took so long to name Jordan chief, Quan quipped that she and other city officials had been "preoccupied."
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In California, on the other hand, city governments routinely fail to maintain minimal hiring standards. Anthony Batts (pictured left) formerly a cop working for the Long Beach city government’s police department, had at least four crime reports taken against him for domestic violence charges in the cities of Long Beach, San Pedro, and San Diego. At one point he gave his then-wife, Laura Richardson-Batts, a black eye; she later sought refuge in a friend’s house to get away from him. That didn’t stop Batts from being promoted by the Long Beach city government to chief of police, and once he was, he put the domestic violence reports under lock and key in the police chief’s office and altered reports to conceal their contents. Other cops working under him kept copies of the originals and used the reports to blackmail Batts to insulate themselves from disciplinary actions during a scandal over unprofessional conduct and retaliation and vandalism against whistleblowers within the department. Batts’s domestic violence history has caused him problems in securing FBI security clearances and in maintaining his permit to carry a firearm. None of which, of course, has stopped the corrupt wife-beater Anthony Batts from being named chief of police for the city government in Oakland, California.
Councilmember Larry Reid (Elmhurst-East Oakland), head of the council's public safety committee, said that though he does not know Batts personally, he has heard he has an outstanding reputation. However, Oakland's crime rate is considerably higher than Long Beach's crime rate. In addition, the Oakland Police Department remains under the watch of a federal judge. The Oakland Police Department has been hit by a number of scandals from its much-criticized investigation of the 2007 killing of journalist Chauncey Bailey to confirmed allegations of officers falsifying affidavits for search & arrest warrants.
