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On March 21, 2009, at 1:08pm. PDT, Mixon was pulled over in a routine traffic stop, while driving a 1995 Buick sedan; two motorcycle officers, Officer John Hege and Sergeant Mark Dunakin, stopped him for a traffic violation on 74th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland, one block from Eastmont Town Center and an Oakland Police Department (OPD) substation.
About an hour later, police gave orders to disperse and fired tear gas, rubber bullets, [66] and other less-lethal weapons and devices at demonstrators. [67] Protestors threw bottles, rocks, and other objects at police. [68] Police pushed the crowd east along 14th Street into Lakeside, and the scene dissolved into a riot along the 14th Street ...
[9] [6] [10] [11] He was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. [9] Bobby Hutton's death at the hands of the Oakland police was seen by those sympathetic to the Black Panther Party as an example of police brutality against blacks. Hutton was the first Panther to die and "immediately became a martyr for the cause of black power." [4]
Oakland police have released a compilation of surveillance videos the day an Internal Affairs sergeant shot and killed an armed man.
One of four men initially suspected in the shooting death of an Oakland police officer late last year had all charges against him dismissed this week, the Alameda County district attorney's office ...
Mervin Ray Hughes (born January 27, 1969), known as The Serial Shooter, is an American serial killer who committed at least eight drive-by shootings during a two-week spree in Oakland, California, in 1999, killing two people.
District Attorney Pamela Price, the first Black person to hold the position in Alameda County, California, is reinvestigating six fatal The post New Oakland DA reinvestigating fatal police ...
Over a week later on June 6, Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies were shot at and also attacked with improvised explosive devices; one of them died as a result. U.S. Air Force sergeant Steven Carrillo was arrested soon after the second attack. A second suspect, Robert Justus, surrendered to authorities five days later.