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(AP Photo/Oakland Police Department)
A routine traffic stop in East Oakland on Saturday afternoon resulted in the violent shooting deaths of four police officers. According to reports, "a 26-year-old gunman shot two motorcycle officers after being pulled over at 1:15 p.m. Saturday, killing one and wounding the other." The gunman then quickly escaped the scene, hiding at a nearby apartment. After the police hunted down the assailant and broke into the apartment, "he shot two more officers with an assault rifle, killing them both, before he was shot dead by the police."
The names of the victims are Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43; Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35; Sgt. Mark Dunakin 40; and Officer John Hege, 41.
Acting police chief Howard A. Jordan told The New York Times, “I’ve been to a lot of police funerals ... [t]his will be a pretty traumatic and daunting task for us as a department. It’s not going to be easy and it’s not going to happen tomorrow, but in the end, I think we will move on from this.”
The lone gunman was Lovelle Mixon an Oakland resident who "was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon." A "no bail" warrant was out for his arrest.
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I come from a background of police officers and this kind of loss is tragic. I can't help but be a little pissed off at such a crappy quote from the police chief.
1. will be 'pretty' traumatic
2. "it's not going to be easy"
3. "We'll move on from this."
What? What a crappy choice of words! It's not pretty traumatic, it's fucking traumatic and heartbreaking. Of course it's not going to be easy. These men are leaving behind families and friends and you'll move on? Of course you will but you don't say that. That was horrible and I hope he gets flack for a shitty response like that.
These guys all looked pretty young and they were shot down. It happens and it's party of the risk of being a police officer but I think the city should have something better to say then what was printed.
What a terrible day.. and yeah, Howard Jordan isn't doing much to make me think that the "acting" portion of his job title is gonna go away. By the way, SFist, what took you 24 hours to get on this story? "Old" media did its job this weekend, new media did not.
IDK. Is it Brock's job to report breaking news? I don't see it in their about page, "we report breaking SF news."
All i see is, "SFist is a website about San Francisco." So....
Is the sfgate.com comments section old media or new media?
SF Gate's comments is not media. It is a vile cesspool.
Old media was television cutting away from some idiotic Saturday afternoon programming to inform us that cops were shot. They offered nothing more, except that you could tell that things were pretty bad when everyone started crying and hugging then got in their cars and left. That pretty much told the story that nobody was reporting.
SFGate had a 'breaking news' headline with the same information that was on KTVU. The hospital would not say anything on air and the OPD didn't even release an official statement until several hours later.
Coming to Sfist for news is like watching the Daily Show for news.
"Like the Daily Show" in that nobody else had decent coverage either?
That's always my feeling on the more complex issues, especially economic and political issues. In this case the story is pretty cut-and-dry though.
Also, old media probably wasn't sleeping one off when the shit went down.
Most heartfelt condolences to these four families. Our thoughts are with you.
My condolences as well. These fine men died in the line of duty, and deserve our utmost respect.
I only hope we can seriously examine the underlying causes of this and prevent such tragedies from happening in the future.