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O.P.D.
July 15, 2009
OAKLAND — Two Oakland police officers shot and killed a man after he [allegedly] fired at them Wednesday, July 15, 2009 in East Oakland, said police spokesman Officer Jeff Thomason. About 3 p.m., the two uniformed officers were approaching the man, whose name was not released, in the 1400 block of 16th Avenue when the man pulled out a handgun and fired at the officers as he ran away, Thomason said. It was unclear why police wanted to speak with the man. Both officers fired their guns, police said.
The gun battle continued into the 1600 block of International Boulevard when the suspect was shot by police and fell to the ground, Thomason said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Neither officer was hurt, but someone in a nearby market was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening after being struck by window glass, police said. The names of the officers involved were not released. They have been placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated, which is a standard procedure. Investigators recovered the man's handgun, and police said they are not looking for any other suspects.A resident on 18th Avenue, who would only give his name as Paco, said he heard about 10 shots followed almost immediately by police sirens. He said police responded quickly. Investigators from the homicide unit, internal affairs department and the Alameda County district attorney's office were on the scene conducting independent investigations.
This was the third Oakland Police Department officer-involved shooting in 2009. The first was the killing of Lovelle Mixon, 26, on March 21 after he fatally shot four police officers. In the second shooting, an officer on June 21 shot at a suspect who had fired a weapon, and neither was hit. Police said the department's officer-involved shootings are down this year. There were 11 in 2008 and 10 in 2007, police said.
Hector Jimenez
July 8, 2009
The Oakland City Council is expected to vote Tuesday night to approve paying $650,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed drunken-driving suspect who was shot to death by a police officer, according to the family's attorney. The Attorney who represents the family of 27-year-old Mack "Jody" Woodfox III, said the settlement will be split by Woodfox's mother, Janice Collins, and his three sons, ages 12, 10 and 4.Officer Hector Jimenez also shot and killed another suspect in 2007. Jimenez shot and killed Woodfox when he attempted to flee on foot after leading police on a high-speed car chase, at Fruitvale Avenue and East 17th Street about 3:50 a.m. on July 25, 2008. Shortly afterward, Oakland police Lt. Ersie Joyner said the incident began when Jimenez and another officer were patrolling the Fruitvale Avenue area and observed that Woodfox appeared to be "a dangerous driving under the influence of alcohol driver."
June 20, 2009
Officer Hector Jimenez was terminated earlier this month in connection with the 2008 shooting death of Mack "Jody" Woodfox III, 27, in the city's Fruitvale District, said Jimenez's attorney, Justin Buffington. Woodfox was shot three times in the back, his family said. The department said Jimenez violated use-of-force policies because Woodfox no longer posed a threat to the officer at the time of the shooting, Buffington said. But the attorney said the firing was "completely inappropriate" and that Jimenez will appeal."I don't think the department wanted to terminate him but had to terminate him for political reasons," Buffington said, referring to the public outcry that resulted because Jimenez had shot and killed two people within seven months. Buffington went further saying his client is "confident in his actions on both occasions, and he certainly felt that he was put in a position where he had no other choice. It's every cop's nightmare to have to use deadly force and, unfortunately, he was confronted with circumstances that required it."
Brief History
OPD officer Hector Jimenez and Officer Jessica Borello shot and killed an unarmed Andrew Moppin exactly one year (December 31, 2007) before BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered an unarmed Oscar Grant (January 1, 2009). Andrew Moppin was murdered by Hector Jimenez on New Year's Eve 2007. Hector Jimenez was then placed on temporary adminstrative leave (i.e. paid vacation) and was allowed to return to patrolling the streets of Oakland a short time later. Just seven months passed before Hector Jimenez killed again, this time shooting an unarmed Jody Woodfox III in July 2008. Once again, Hector Jimenez was placed on paid leave, where he remained for a full year until he was finally fired this month for having murdered Jody Woodfox.
[T]he excuse Jimenez gave after both killings is sufficient to avoid any "discipline" worse than paid leave -- Jimenez claimed both times that the unarmed young men he killed were reaching for their waistbands. This time, though, OPD said Jimenez violated use-of-force policies because Woodfox did not pose a threat to the officer at the time of the shooting.
L.A.S.D. Double Homicide
July 14, 2009
Two deputies shot a man "after mistaking" his cell phone for a gun. Sheriff's officials said the deputies responsible for the shooting acted properly. Sheriff Lee Baca pledged a "full and open investigation" into the killing and another fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy by L.A. Sheriff deputies.Sheriff's officials have refused to identify the deputies involved.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the killings are tragic but it appears deputies in both cases didn't violate deadly force policy because they feared for their lives.
"We believe that the deputies acted well within their scope and duties," Whitmore said. The two men killed were Woodrow Player Jr. and sixteen year old Avery Cody.
Player, 22, who was shot Friday, July 10, 2009 in the unincorporated Athens area, was only carrying a cell phone. Some relatives claim he was shot in the back. Officers shot him multiple times after they "saw what they believed to be a weapon in the suspect's hand," authorities said. He was declared dead at the scene.
Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, promised a thorough review of the shooting and said "the suspect reached for his waistband and turned toward deputies."
C.J. Question: If the cell-phone gun was in Player's hand, why would he need to reach for his waistband?
One witness, 35-year-old Shendall Duncan of Athens, said she saw deputies shoot Player three times in the back. Player attempted to keep running and was shot again, Duncan said.
Player's relatives told television news crews at the scene that Player had been harassed by deputies on multiple occasions since 2008.
The department, along with the District Attorney's Office and the county Office of Independent Review [claim they are] investigating the shooting [of Player, 22] and the July 5, 2009 killing of Cody, a 16-year-old Compton boy.
Sheriff's officials [claim] Cody pulled a loaded, .38-caliber revolver and pointed it at deputies. The boy's family denies he threatened [deputies].
As part of procedure, the deputies involved in both shootings were placed on five days of desk duty and psychological evaluations, Whitmore said. Baca told reporters his department would be forthcoming about the investigation, which will take about 90 days.
L.A.S.D.'s Murderous History
July 23, 2008
A deputy shot and killed an unarmed 35-year-old Lennox man on Wednesday night. Deputies patrolling the area believed he was a drug dealer who was reaching for a gun, according to police reports.
Christian Portillo, 35, was shot twice in the chest and died at the scene.
With the fatal shooting of Portillo the number of deaths this year at the hands of law enforcement in Los Angeles County has reached 28 - or roughly four a month.
Deputies were patrolling the area and decided to conduct a narcotics investigation after they spotted “a known narcotics dealer” sitting in a SUV in his driveway in the 11000 block of Dalerose Avenue near West 111th Street around 11:45 p.m, according to police reports.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Portillo became startled when he saw the deputies and quickly reached under his seat. One of the deputies fired striking Portillo in the upper chest. After a search of the vehicle, deputies found a silver colored cell phone. No drugs or a weapon were found.
Coast-to-Coast
July 12, 2009
An undercover cop was wearing earphones to keep in touch with his NYPD team and didn't hear an irate Brooklyn homeowner's command to get off his stoop until it was too late, law enforcement sources said. (This doesn't make since. How was he to hear the drug-dealers?) 
[NYPD alleges that] [w]hen the undercover officer didn't budge from the Clinton Hill stoop Saturday night, resident Shem Walker (pictured left) kicked the man he thought was a vagrant in the back of the head, sources said. "With the earphones on, the cop just didn't hear anything. The next he knew, someone had kicked him, and the fight starts, with a tragic end," a law enforcement source said. The 36-year-old undercover cop, reeling from the blow, turned toward Walker, only to be punched in the face by the 6-foot-tall Army veteran. [T]he seven-year NYPD veteran pulled his gun. Another undercover officer nearby said the cop called, "Police! Freeze!" Civilian witnesses heard only calls to "freeze." [Allegedly] [a] panicked Walker punched the undercover cop a second time in the face. Both men tumbled down the stoop in a struggle for the gun, sources said. Two shots were fired. Walker died of a single gunshot wound to the chest. Walker's relatives, who said he routinely shooed drug dealers off his mother's front stoop, demanded an independent investigation into the fatal shooting.
Cops & Domestic Violence
• Wife Killing Cops! - Part I
• Wife Killing Cops! - Part II
• Deputy Paul R. Kovacich, Wife Killer
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• B.A.R.T.+L.A.P.D.=187(P.C.)(LAPD Detective arrested for cold case homicide; and B.A.R.T. Transit Killer-Cop!)
• Cops or Killers?
• Five - "O" Homicide(White Cop kills black cop after "mistaking" black cop for criminal!)
• NYPD - A History of Homicidal Cops(A history of NYPD Officers committing murder!)
• Arthur Tessler, Jason R. Smith & Gregg Junnier(Alanta Police Officers lie to obtain search warrant; murder 90-year old woman; and then plant drugs to cover-up murder)
• PA State Trooper Kevin Foley, Murderous(Convicted March 18, 2009 of First-Degree Murder. Killed girlfriend's ex-hubby (Dentist)!!)
• PA State Trooper Samuel J. Hassan, Murderous(March 15, 2009 Murder of Unarmed motorist. Previously shot and killed 12 year old African-American boy!!)
• Homer Police Department(February 20, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, 73 year old black man by two white police officers in Homer, Louisiana!!)
• Taser Deaths by the Police!
• New Orleans Police Department(January 1, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, shot nine (9) times in the back!!)
Oakland, California Police Department
• Officer Pat Gonzales: Racist, Murderous Oakland Police Officer - 3 Killings
• Officer Hector Jimenez: Racist, Murderous Oakland Police Officer - 2 Killings
• Captain Edward Poulson, OPD(Beating Death of Suspect (2000) Promoted in 2008)
• Investigator interfered in police probes of former bakery CEO
• Oakland Police Department, Corrupt, I
• Oakland, California Police Department, Corruption, II
• Oakland Police Department, III
• Oakland Police Department, IV
• Oakland Police Department, V - Major Corruption
• Jeff Loman, Deputy Chief, OPD(Updated: Re-instated as a (demoted) Lieutenant)
• Deborah Edgerly, Corrupt former Oakland City Administrator
Oakland, CA Transit Cop Shooting
• Mehserle Makes Bail!!!(Updated May 18, 2009) January 1, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, shot once (1) in the back!!)
• Tony Pirone, B.P.D.(Mehserle Accomplice - Jan. 1, 2009 Homicide)
• Johannes Mehserle, Killer Cop(Oakland's New Year's (2009) Transit Killer Cop)
• The B.A.R.T. Shooting Investigation(The Investigation of Oakland's New Year's (2009) Transit Killer Cop)
• The B.A.R.T. Aftermath (The Oakland Riots New (2009))
• B.A.R.T. Police, Racism, Homicide(Video of The Oakland New Year's Day (2009) Transit Shooting )
Cops that Sexually Offend
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part I)
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• Sexually Offensive Cops! (Part III)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part IV)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part V)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part VI)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part VII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part VIII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part IX)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part X)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XI)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XIII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XIV)
Sexually Offensive Judges
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Judges of Interest
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• Douglas E. Swager, Corrupt Judge
• Martin Jenkins, Corrupt Judge ("Uncle Tom")
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• John T. Noonan, Corrupt Judge of the 9th Circuit
• Former Judge Ralph B. Robertson, Racist
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