Comments on: Community protests OPD murder of Alan Blueford, 18

By: Werwolf

Werwolf — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:13:24 +0000

Diversity is a strength

By: the 56%

the 56% — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:50:11 +0000

You dont say. Maybe the best idea is to not comitt crimes.

By: The 56%

The 56% — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:48:47 +0000

The police should just stop solving black murders, then 2 problems would be solved. The blacks wouldnt be able to blame the police for killing their people and the black population would fall due to them killing each other. Everyone is happy.

By: John Mulligan

John Mulligan — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:30:36 +0000

That's what I've read in the papers. Do you have some other kind of information?

By: John Mulligan

John Mulligan — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:10:35 +0000

What are you saying Ms. Garrison? I'm curious to know. Do have a particular point of view?

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:08:49 +0000

You're saying that he had a gun, and he pointed the gun at the officer on the night the officer shot him? And that's why the officer shot him?

By: John Mulligan

John Mulligan — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:23:59 +0000

I wrote that it was a justified shooting, so no, it was not murder. This article is similar in many ways to the articles written following the shootings of Lovelle Mixon. Mr. Mixon was proven by DNA to be responsible for the rape, at gunpoint, of a 12 year old girl. He had been to CYA and prison since the age of 13, including for assault with a deadly weapon and robbery. Mr. Mixon was also linked to two additional rapes.

Despite that people hold up signs of Lovelle Mixon as if he were some kind of hero: http://sfbayview.com/2012/the-army-sergeant-and-l…. Worse, he was defended by this very website, "Mixon, unsurprisingly, was quickly attacked in the press, false rape accusations were levied at him posthumously and he was immediately demonized – a monster. "

Mr. Blueford, again, is a similar case. He had a gun, multiple civilian witnesses saw Mr. Blueford point a gun at an officer and still people here defend Mr. Blueford. It's just insane.

By: Questions

Questions — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:33:14 +0000

Crazier idea… If you want to live and have a gun shoot first. (You'll get one after death if you do otherwise)

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:24:43 +0000

So, this was a preventive murder, by the OPD?

By: John Mulligan

John Mulligan — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:12:08 +0000

No, I'm saying that Mr. Blueford did have a gun and was involved in violent crime. That is the kind of conduct that justifiably gets you shot by the police. I'm also saying that Mr. Blueford was exactly the type of person who would have killed other young black men, and thus, his death likely saved lives. I'll tell you what is sick though, trying to turn someone like Mr. Blueford into a martyr. His family should be ashamed of themselves, and that people are now trying to equate this shooting to a civil rights litigation is utterly twisted. It is precisely this type of attitude that is causing so much crime and destruction in the black community.

Make no mistake Ms. Garrison, it is open season in the Bay Area, but it's men like Mr. Blueford doing the hunting. You can call it genocide if you like, I don't think there is a word for suicidal genocide, but that's what it is. Black on black crime.

By the way Ms. Garrison, I was curious to read your thoughts on this article: http://sfbayview.com/2012/swedes-revive-ridicule-…

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:00:14 +0000

So, Mr. Mulligan, you think this makes it open season? You are one sick mofu.

By: Selina

Selina — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:06:20 +0000

My the spirit of Levell Nixon Live on :)

By: Selina

Selina — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:03:39 +0000

Whoa LOL

By: Pickles

Pickles — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:06:18 +0000

Crazy idea…don't run from the Police in the middle of the night (especially if you are a felon).

By: John Mulligan

John Mulligan — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:27:50 +0000

Here's a website with a slideshow of Oakland homicide victims from 2011 and a list of victims from 2010. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-homicides

Take a look at the pictures, mostly black faces right? True, maybe one or two were shot by a cop, but the remainder were shot by people just like Mr. Alan Blueford. How is this possible? According to the 2010 census, Oakland is only 27% black. How then can 90% of the murder victims be black?

Unfortunately it's people like Mr. Blueford doing the shooting. People with violent priors who are armed and run from police because they know they're going back to prison. Here's that slideshow again: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-homicides/ci…

I dare you to look through those 107 pictures of dead young black people and tell me that someone just like Mr. Blueford wasn't likely responsible for each death. So who is to blame, Mr. Blueford's mother? His friends? Probably a combination of both.

By: janice morris

janice morris — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:20:38 +0000

sick of this it,s so oldednow time to speake up cop just keep killing and killling an getting away with it

By: renaldo ricketts

renaldo ricketts — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:04:08 +0000

We need to wake up to genocide , this is their national policy . There is no doubt in my mind they want to kill us,it happens daily. White youth are not being blown away on a daily bases, we're the target market . i WILL NOT BE SHOCKED IF they handed out prizes for killing Black youth. Vigilantism is alive and well in the land of the freeze of people who've frozen you out the job market. We need to wake up to genocide , this is their national policy . There is no doubt in my mind they want to kill us,it happens daily.
Lets wake up and smell reality -it's looking at you daily !

By: renaldo ricketts

renaldo ricketts — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:54:19 +0000

Killing Black youth has turned into a national pass time! The vigilantes have formed a pack to murder young Black men, this is a national disgrace and we shouldbe outraged and marching daily against genocide. The youth are the target marker they are perdeived by the police as lesser than human and are killed then handcuffed. We need a moratorium on this type of activity too many youth killed by the death squads in this country ,we need to march on the white house and bring this to a natioanal forum.
We need to wake up to genocide , this is their national policy . There is no doubt in my mind they want to kill us,it happens daily. White youth are not being blown away on a daily bases we're the target market . i WILL NOT BE SHOCKED IF they handed out prizes for killing a Black youth. Vigilantism is alive and well in the land of the freeze and home of the slave.

By: L Rene Evans

L Rene Evans — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:30:07 +0000

@John: you paint a poignant picture. Unfortunately you believe the rhetoric of the media. This is your interpretation of events where you do not have all the facts. It is because of you that I will forever show up for jury duty so you and your kind do not falsely incarcerate anyone just because the look like me. I will forever hang a jury, based on fact. I pledged to do my civic duty to ensure that the jury that hears our cases has our face on it and will forever thwart your attempts to subjugate us to the position of being criminal because of the color of my skin.

By: L Rene Evans

L Rene Evans — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:22:45 +0000

It doesn't matter that he had made a mistake, how many of us have made a mistake. That is not an excuse to execute. It also should not be a reason to turn this anger and frustration inward against our own community. Let's use this as an opportunity to rally against injustice of any kind, including crimes against us by us. Let's stop giving others permission to disrespect us by disrespecting ourselves. If we are going to stand then stand tall and stop tolerating any crimes against us by anyone!