Posted on 12/28/2009 7:17:43 PM PST by KJC1
OAKLAND — A sister of Lovelle Mixon who was inside the East Oakland apartment where Mixon killed two Oakland SWAT sergeants March 21 is claiming the city should pay her and her grandmother more than $10,000 after she was wounded by a stun grenade and, she says, subjected to hours of subsequent mistreatment by police.
The tort claim, which could be a precursor to a lawsuit against Oakland, was ripped by an attorney whose firm represents nearly all the SWAT officers on scene when police stormed the apartment where Mixon was hiding after he fatally shot two motorcycle officers earlier the same day.
"It's nothing short of an outrage," said attorney Michael Rains, later adding, "I'm just astounded at the depths that people will go to these days to try to get some money from governmental agencies."
Rains said as far as he's concerned the sister should be considered an accessory to Mixon's crimes for not alerting police about his location.
Mixon was a 26-year-old wanted parolee March 21 when he fatally shot motorcycle Officer John Hege, of Concord, and Sgt. Mark Dunakin, of Pleasanton, and then killed SWAT Sgts. Erv Romans, of Danville, and Daniel Sakai, of Castro Valley, before police killed him. The Oakland Police Department is due to release a report on the March 21 shootings in early January.
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Not one dime. They shoudl spend hundreds of thousands defending the case so this human dreg never sees a dime. Harboring fugitive murderers?
Mixon’s family should be held financially liable for what he did.
She’s lucky she’s not taking a permanent dirt nap. Witch.
They kill the civilians, too, in the ‘wedding parties’ in Iraq. It’s just darned dangerous to harbor a criminal, and neither of them turned him in or called for help.
I’m with the SWAT guys’ attorney — some folks will stoop to any depth to get ‘free’ money.
She prolly forty-fo’.
The grandmother, in Oakland, probably had her first of many kids when she was 12 or 13. Her kids did the same. She’s probably a great, great, great grandmother and fifty. And whattya wanna bet nobody’s got a job?
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