The protesters say Lavelle Mixon was a victim of state sponsored violence.
He shot dead four police officers last weekend:
Protesters marched yesterday in Oakland in support of cop killer Lovelle Mixon.
His mother joined in the march.
Mixon killed for Oakland police officers last weekend.
SFGate reported:
About 60 people marched and rallied in Oakland on Wednesday to condemn the police and honor Lovelle Mixon, who was killed by Oakland police after he fatally shot four officers Saturday.
“OPD you can’t hide – we charge you with genocide,” chanted the demonstrators as they marched along MacArthur Boulevard, near the intersection with 74th Avenue where Mixon, 26, a fugitive parolee, gunned down two motorcycle officers who had pulled him over in a traffic stop. He killed two more officers who tried to capture him where he was hiding in his sister’s apartment nearby.
The protest was organized by the Oakland branch of the Uhuru Movement, whose flyers for the march declared, “Stop Police Terror.” Many marchers wore T-shirts featuring Mixon’s photo, including a woman identified by march organizers as Mixon’s mother. The woman declined to comment and gave her name only as Athena.
Lolo Darnell, one of Mixon’s cousins at the demonstration, said, “He needs sympathy too. If he’s a criminal, everybody’s a criminal.”
Asked about police allegations that Mixon was suspected in several rapes, including that of a 12-year-old girl, marcher Mandingo Hayes said, “He wasn’t a rapist. I don’t believe that.”
One day before parolee Lovelle Mixon killed four Oakland police officers, he was linked by DNA evidence to the rape of a 12-year-old girl. On February 5th the girl was taken off the street, had a bag placed over her head and was taken to an abandoned building in Oakland where numerous sexual acts were performed.
The Uhuru Movement released a statement on Lovelle Mixon’s shooting.
UPDATE: 19,000 mourners fill Oakland Coliseum to honor slain police officers.
