Protest results in Fruitvale Station closure (after alleged police brutality in Oakland)

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(11-11) 17:35 PST OAKLAND -- BART closed its Fruitvale Station this evening because of a protest over Oakland police officers' fatal shooting of a domestic violence suspect earlier this week.

The protest started about 3 p.m. on Bancroft Avenue in East Oakland, where officers shot and killed 37-year-old Derrick Jones on Monday night. Police said Jones, a parolee who owned a hairstylist shop, had choked and beaten a woman, then reached into his waistband when officers chased him down.

Police would not say whether they had found a weapon, however, and Jones' relatives denied he had one.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/11/BA961GAUNC.DTL

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Jones http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/10/BAAQ1G9BR3.DTL">was shot on Monday night after assaulting a woman; a Taser failed to contact him. Later, Jones "repeatedly reached for his waistband and refused to put his hands up."

The timing of this incident is interesting; it was 3 days after former BART cop Johannes Mehserle was sentenced to 2 years in prison for the shooting death of Oscar Grant at Fruitvale Station.

[Tumbulu]

1. Sorry, no sympathy here - it is not OK to beat a woman (or anyone up for that matter)up

and run away from the police when she calls 911. Oh and look like you are pulling a gun out. What really are the police supposed to do?

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. I agree, but I think the reaction is largely due to the verdicts from earlier in the week

..police shootings are a touchy subject at the moment.

[EFerrari]

3. Oh -- did anyone find a weapon?

[ProudDad]

9. Nope -- probably a comb...

Police spokesman Officer Jeff Thomason said Thursday that Jones had a shiny, silver object, but no weapon. He declined to say what the object was.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/11/BA961GAUNC.DTL#ixzz155U5zqUh

Don't ya' just love the authoritarian followers who post their knee-jerk pro-cop shit on this board in these kinds of threads...

[EFerrari]

10. It's disturbing how easily people buy in. n/t

[ProudDad]

12. Ain't that the truth...

:hi:

[CBGLuthier]

4. The Police Lie their asses off. Like they do every time.

"He made a furtive gesture" is the first expression they teach in cop CYA school.

[LeFleur1]

5. Jaysus

He was only beating up a woman. It wasn't as if it was someone who mattered.

[ProudDad]

8. Jaysus -- SHE SAID...

Police said Jones, a parolee who owned a hairstylist shop, had been the subject of a 911 call by a woman who said he choked and beat her. Jones reached into his waistband when officers chased him down, police said, forcing two officers to fire.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/11/BA961GAUNC.DTL#ixzz155TRvlLc

But "black parolees" are fair game for cops...

[EFerrari]

11. Cops aren't supposed to be executioners and as ProudDad points out,

that was the charge. You don't know if that was a fact.

[jancantor]

13. It's an allegation

It may or may not be true. It seems people are selective (look at the case of the rape accuser in HS who was a cheerleader, etc. where most everybody assumes she was telling the truth). We may never know whether her allegation was true, but given the allegation (and there may have been corroborating physical evidence/witnesses etc.) it certainly justifies a Terry stop at a minimum, if not PC. MOST allegations of domestic violence are bona fide, just like most rape allegations. And then of course once he runs, etc. it becomes obstructing. Regardless, it made him a fleeing VIOLENT crime suspect, and depending on the severity of the choke - a fleeing suspected violent felon. Whether he reached to his waistband etc. is also of course an allegation. It may or may not be true.

[ProudDad]

7. She SAID...

Police said Jones, a parolee who owned a hairstylist shop, had been the subject of a 911 call by a woman who said he choked and beat her. Jones reached into his waistband when officers chased him down, police said, forcing two officers to fire.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/11/BA961GAUNC.DTL#ixzz155TRvlLc

[lunatica]

6. That's my BART station

The day Mehserle was sentenced there was a large police presence when I returned from work. There were snipers there too.