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"Supporting A Cop Killer Is Simply Unacceptable"

On Saturday, March 21, four Oakland police officers were gunned down by a local thug named Lovelle Mixon, who was pulled over on a routine traffic stop. Mr. Mixon, who had a long criminal history, was eventually shot and killed himself after a standoff with police.

Shortly after this tragic event, a rally in the city of Oakland was held. Only, this rally was not in support of the four innocent officers who woke up on that fateful day and went to work to support their families, only to be killed in action. Instead, this rally was organized in support of the murdering thug.

Our featured guest writer this week is David Hay. Dave's father is a cop. His father-in-law is a cop. His brother-in-law is a cop. And many of Dave's friends are cops. Dave felt that he couldn't just stand by and listen to people marching in support of a murderous thug who was responsible for the death of four cops.

Dave's letter is to the organizers of the rally in support of Lovelle Mixon, the Uhuru Movement. This movement is supposed to be "committed to the total liberation of Africa and African people everywhere." I'm not sure how supporting a murderous thug helps accomplish that mission.

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Uhuru House
1245 - 18th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33705

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to express my disappointment, or dare I say disgust with your organization and its response to the tragic killing of four Oakland Police Officers at the hands of Lovelle Mixon on March 21, 2009. I began to look into your organization after seeing reports of a demonstration/vigil organized by your group outside of the apartment where the lives of Officers Romans and Sakai were cut short by this violent criminal.

If the killing of police officers isn’t disgusting enough, your organization and others like it want to lionize this man and his reprehensible actions. On one of your organizational websites, this statement was found:

“Knowing the history of how the police treat Africans, Lovelle Mixon felt he had to defend himself in the face of the oppressive police state. And he did so, honorably.”

I completely fail to see how gunning down two police officers who were completing a routine traffic stop and then holing up in an apartment with an assault rifle and killing two more officers is honorable. This “honorable” man just widowed three women and left 10 children without their fathers, yet you and your organization continue to hold him up as some sort of hero.

Additionally irritating is the fact that you attempt to justify Mixon’s actions by citing some perceived systematic social inequity or injustice in the Oakland community. While the environment in Oakland may not be ideal, it is absurd to claim that Mixon’s actions were unavoidable or in some way caused by some abstract notion of police occupation, as you have asserted in your official statement. This wasn’t a crime committed by some starving man trying to feed his family. This wasn’t a man defending himself from being attacked by crazed racist police officers. This was a crime committed by a person who had been identified years earlier as someone with little or no regard for human life. He killed four officers who were doing their job. He killed these men not because of racism or class difference. He killed these men because he was a violent animal. He knew he was facing jail time for his various crimes and/or parole violations (after all, he had a criminal record that included drug offenses, an armed carjacking, assault, and had he been apprehended that fateful day in March, he would have added child rape and capital murder to his cornucopia of felonies). This man is not honorable, nor is he a hero to the black community. He was a criminal. He was a coward.

I read through various Uhuru websites and the corresponding literature, and cannot seem to get a grip on what purpose is served by the Uhuru Movement. In the end, an organization like yours doesn’t exist to further any cause. After all, what rational individual is going to support a group that calls a cop killing rapist a hero? As far as I can see, your organization simply prays on the ignorance of the lowest achieving and most disenfranchised members of the black community not to elicit any real change, but instead to simply justify your existence. So I ask this: Stop spreading hate. Stop supporting killers. Stop bilking already impoverished communities out of their much needed money. Stop being an embarrassment to hard working, moral African Americans. Please just stop.

Sincerely,

David Hay

 

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