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I knew this dude when we were younger.
Police fatally shot an unarmed black man in East Oakland.
Derrick Jones, 37, was shot Monday night on the 5800 block of Trask Street.
Officers say, he repeatedly reached for his waistband and produced what officers believed was a metal object. Deputy Police Chief Jeff Israel declined to say what that object was or whether Jones had been armed.
But family members said Jones had no weapon. They decried what they said
was an unjustified killing, comparing it to the 2009 slaying of an unarmed
man by then-BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle.
"Those who knew Jones say he often barbecued in front of his Kwik Cuts barber
shop and shared the food with his friends," reports ABC 7. Sharon Tatmon, a friend
of the shooting victim, said, "He had his own shop. He would bring his daughter to
work with him. He didn't bother anybody."
There's a fully biased police-friendly article here:
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...10/BAAQ1G9BR3.DTL&feed=rss.news#ixzz14psuxkKr
If you don't think the press and the cops work hand in hand, you're sadly
mistaken. They can kill any one of us. All they have to do is say we were
reaching for something and put an article in the paper the next day.
Police fatally shot an unarmed black man in East Oakland.
Derrick Jones, 37, was shot Monday night on the 5800 block of Trask Street.
Officers say, he repeatedly reached for his waistband and produced what officers believed was a metal object. Deputy Police Chief Jeff Israel declined to say what that object was or whether Jones had been armed.
But family members said Jones had no weapon. They decried what they said
was an unjustified killing, comparing it to the 2009 slaying of an unarmed
man by then-BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle.
"Those who knew Jones say he often barbecued in front of his Kwik Cuts barber
shop and shared the food with his friends," reports ABC 7. Sharon Tatmon, a friend
of the shooting victim, said, "He had his own shop. He would bring his daughter to
work with him. He didn't bother anybody."
There's a fully biased police-friendly article here:
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...10/BAAQ1G9BR3.DTL&feed=rss.news#ixzz14psuxkKr
If you don't think the press and the cops work hand in hand, you're sadly
mistaken. They can kill any one of us. All they have to do is say we were
reaching for something and put an article in the paper the next day.