Four Heroes, One Zero
Topic: Decline of the West
The day after a man named Lovelle Mixon murdered four Oakland, California police officers, a vigil was held in front of an Oakland Police Department Substation. But it was not, as you might imagine, a vigil held in memory of the slain officers. No, the individual being honored was their killer, described by a relative as “a hero, a soldier.”
The vigil was organized by International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), a pan-African extremist group with branches around the country. It was founded in 1991, right here in Chicago, by the African People’s Socialist Party. The politics of groups like InPDUM have become familiar to Americans since Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, achieved notoriety. I wouldn’t be surprised, indeed, to learn that he and his church had some involvement with InPDUM.
Speaking personally as a retired soldier and the father of a serving soldier, I find his relative’s characterization of Mr. Mixon offensive in the extreme. Lovelle Mixon was a common criminal. At the time of the shootings he was free on parole after serving five years of a six-year sentence for assault with a firearm. On March 6 it was determined that he was in violation of the terms of his parole, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The day before the killings, Mixon was linked by DNA to the rape of a 12-year-old girl. On March 21, two Oakland motorcycle officers pulled him over for a traffic violation, and he started shooting.
The officers killed by the “soldier” Mixon were Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Officer John Hege, Sergeant Ervin Romans and Sergeant Daniel Sakai. The oldest of them, Romans, was just 43. All four were married and leave children behind. Mixon himself was killed in the final shootout, which at least will spare the families the ordeal of a trial—but InPDUM is doing its despicable best to salt this terrible wound—all in the name of “democracy” and “justice,” of course.
Posted by tmg110
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