Posted on 03/25/2009 5:37:44 AM PDT by SonnyBubba
Oakland shooter unable to escape cycle of violence By JULIANA BARBASSA – 2 hours ago OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Lovelle Mixon died at 26, hiding in an apartment, shot by police during a gun fight that left four officers dead and stunned a city already plagued by violence. Court records show a lifetime of wrong turns spent largely behind bars. Family members, angry and upset after their loss, describe Mixon as an deeply frustrated young man who likely snapped under the weight of opportunities missed or denied.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
I wonder how many of Mixon’s “homies” are celebrating the four to one kill ratio by their bro...
...and my nitro-cellulose, too!
Fixed it for you Juliana!
Probably all of them. He'll be recognized as a martyr.
Liberals see a poor young man who was just another victim of society. Conservatives see a career criminal with a history of violence ultimately ending in multiple murders.
Or the parent(s) of the 12 y.o. girl he raped repeatedly.
He couldn't work two jobs for a while and save a pile of money, and he couldn't take night classes, and he couldn't acquire associates other than hoodlums. Simply couldn't.
I, on the other hand, angry and upset that four innocent men are dead at his hand, describe Mixon as a sociopathic piece of flotsam that would have been better off strangled in his cradle than neglected, not by society, but by the people who brought him into this world and upon whom he was traditionally encouraged to rely.
Alternative headline: “Young Einstein Killed by Police!”
Well, we can’t be overly “judgmental” about guys like this—
Reserve that for people who really deserve a lifetime of abuse and misfortune as a result of their heinous actions.
Y’know, like John Rocker.....
2001 arrested again for theft. Mixon applied for a work furlough program through the Alameda County Sheriff's department in 2001 but was turned down.
"Applicants' past case of violence could pose a threat to the program, staff and community," records documenting the denial state.
Sounds like there was more to the earlier arrests than was reported. None of them mention violence, but it's obviously in his records.
In 2002, served six years in state prison for assault with a firearm.
Paroled in 2007, he was brought in again in February 2008 as a suspect in an Alameda County murder. He was not charged for lack of evidence.
Served another nine months in state prison for parole violations involving identity theft, forgery, fraud, grand theft and other charges.
He was released in November 2008, according to state records.
On Friday, Oakland officers using DNA evidence had tentatively linked him to a February rape.
The next day, authorities say, Mixon opened fire on two officers during what appeared to be a routine traffic stop, leading to the gun fight in which two more officers died before police killed him.
He got what he deserved. It's a tragedy that he had to kill the police officers. The sad part is that this thug should be behind bars for his criminal past and not out on the streets. His rampage is sparking calls for more gun control. He broke dozens of laws just by being a felon in possession of a firearm. More laws wouldn't have changed anything.
Cycle of violence my eye. That boy had an unchecked sin problem.
Another product of the rapcrap culture!
OOH RAH!
The sob was an animal.
Truly one of the most sickening piece of Liberal insanity I have ever read.
From the time he was 18 he was committing crimes and getting breaks, in the form of light sentences. He committed a assault with a firearm and was out is 6 years, I believe.
The guy committed 4 murders, (at least, he was suspected of another), and according to the DNA, it looks like a rape last month.
He was a violent, career criminal. How dare the writer suggest that the parole officer somehow let him down, by failing to magically finding an employer foolish enough to hire this animal.
He "figured his life was over," said Todd Walker, of the Khadafy Foundation for Non-Violence, speaking on behalf of the family outside the Mixon home. "He didn't want to go to back to jail."
The Khadafy Foundation For Non-Violence. Is that like the Mugabe Institute for Economics? Or the Kim Jong Il Community development Center? There's an entirely seperate world with its own entirely opposite set of rules colliding with what we understand as civilization here. I don't understand it at all, but I do fear that if this isn't faced head-on and fixed, the future of Liberty in this country can't be assured.
read the article. He was angry that his parole officer wasn’t working hard enough at finding him a job. Apparently once you are in jail, the state is in charge of handing you everything as soon as you get out.
“I didn’t think even the AP would go this far. I was wrong.”
Then you need to familiarize yourself with the standard template for this kind of story:
“Same day / next day is repeating whatever they’re told, resulting in constantly changing and usually contradictory articles.
“Second day is trying to resolve the contradictions, playing ‘gotcha!’ with police sources, and armchair quarterbacking and second-guessing.
“Third day is sympathetic interviews with momma, baby-momma, and fellow homies: ‘he was trying to turn his life around’, ‘my baby never hurt nobody before’, ‘the system failed him’, ‘he ran with the wrong people for too long’, etc.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2212761/posts?page=73#73
I wrote that on Monday; my “day three” would have been yesterday, March 24. How did I do?:
‘he was trying to turn his life around’ == “in the months leading up to the shooting, Mr. Mixon seemed to mix the elements of both the striving and the sinister, struggling to find legitimate employment — he took a real estate class, for example...”
(But I leave it to the reader to decide if “In recent weeks, Mr. Mixon had started to carry himself with an unexpected swagger, something his cousin said he might have owed to a new profession: pimping...” (see NYT article below) can be considered “turning his life around”.)
‘my baby never hurt nobody before’ = “He’s not a monster,” said his sister, 24-year-old Enjoli Mixon...”I don’t want people to think he’s a monster. He’s just not. He’s just not.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/22/BAAU16L4OI.DTL&tsp=1
‘the system failed him’ == “a man failed by an overloaded and flawed California penal system” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/us/25parolee.html?ref=us
‘he ran with the wrong people for too long’ == well I’m going to admit to a swing and a miss here. this guy didn’t run with the wrong people — he would have been the “wrong people” others would have run with. I can’t find anybody blaming anybody else for Mixon’s innate evil.
His frustration? What about our frustration?
This guy couldn't go a week without breaking committing a felony, and he's the frustrated one?
This idiot was caugth for:
Crack cocaine and majijuana
Ripping off $5000 in merchandise from his local Toys R Us
Fights and violence while in prison
Assault with a firearm
Suspected in a murder
Identity theft
Forgery
Fraud
Grand Theft
Rape
This guy should have been dropped in a hole and forgotten a long time ago.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.