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SWAT
What It Was Like to Watch the Oakland Tragedy Unfold on TV
At first, details were sketchy. “Breaking News: Four OPD officers shot…two motorcycle and two SWAT…gunman also shot…No word yet on the conditions of the officers or the gunman.”
March 26, 2009
Patrol
60 Oakland Radicals March in Support of Cop Killer
The protest was organized by the Oakland branch of the Uhuru Movement, whose flyers for the march declared, "Stop Police Terror." The marchers were supporting Lovell Mixon, who was killed after he shot three Oakland sergeants during an ambush.
March 25, 2009
Patrol
Oakland Grieves For Slain Officers
Grief is rippling from department headquarters on Seventh Street throughout the city after the shooting deaths Saturday three Oakland sergeants by a 26-year-old parolee whom police had pulled over in a routine traffic stop.
March 25, 2009
Special Units
Slain Oakland Officer's Organs Save Four Men
Even in death, Oakland police Officer John Hege has saved four lives. Hege, who was among four officers killed Saturday by a gunman in East Oakland, has given renewed hope to four men.
March 25, 2009
Patrol
Big Turnout at East Oakland Vigil for Police
A thousand people pressed into a three-block area around the slaying site at 74th Avenue near MacArthur Boulevard, where the doves were released. The mourners wept, sang songs and prayed for the fallen officers and for the city's healing.
March 24, 2009
Patrol
Oakland Cop Killer Suspected of Raping 12-year-old
Lovelle Mixon was linked by DNA to the February rape of a 12-year-old girl who was dragged off the street at gunpoint in the East Oakland neighborhood where Mixon's sister lived, police said Tuesday.
March 24, 2009
Patrol
Oakland Cop Killer Linked to Rape
The day before Lovelle Mixon unleashed a barrage of gunfire that killed four Oakland police officers, the department's investigators learned that DNA evidence had linked the fugitive parolee to an unsolved rape this year, authorities said Monday.
March 23, 2009
Special Units
Parolee Stood Over Stricken Oakland Motor Officers and Fired Again
Lovelle Mixon, a parolee on the run, already had shot Oakland police Sgt. Mark Dunakin and Officer John Hege. Then, as the two men lay on the ground, Mixon stood over them and fired again.
March 23, 2009
Patrol
Oakland Officers' Slayings Reignite Assault Weapon Debate
Chuck Michel, a civil rights attorney representing the California Rifle and Pistol Association, said such talk is "political opportunism at its worst," in furtherance of flawed public policy.
March 23, 2009
Special Units
Oakland Officer Removed from Life Support
Oakland police Officer John Hege has been removed from life support, three days after a parolee unleashed a barrage of gunfire that killed three other officers, authorities said today.
March 23, 2009
Special Units
Oakland Police Deaths: What Went Wrong?
Police and law enforcement experts will dissect the case to find out what went wrong Saturday, likely breaking the incident in two: the traffic stop that left two motorcycle officers fatally wounded, and the SWAT operation two hours later that left two officers and the suspect dead.
March 22, 2009
Special Units
Killer of 4 Officers Wanted to Avoid Prison
According to authorities, Lovelle Mixon used a semiautomatic pistol to shoot and kill Hege and Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, two motorcycle officers who pulled him over during a routine traffic stop.
March 22, 2009
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