I’m not going to co-sign or explain away LOVELLE MIXON’s deadly actions this past weekend. I can’t acquit him of the reprehensible act of killing people because he was afraid of returning to prison. However, MIXON’s fate was struck many years before this incident. Before he was even sentenced to prison the first time he was already placed on this path. We are lucky that MIXON had only killed these four people.
More people will die though. More criminals like LOVELLE MIXON. More police officers like the four this past weekend. And even more innocent victims like OSCAR GRANT. This is America’s war on poor people and we have a whole lot more poor folks to expend so I suggest all you mourners visit the botanica and buy the extra big candles because the shit hasn’t even touched the fan.
What no one will discuss though is the high rate of recidivism that American ex-convicts experience. The highest rate of all developed countries.
* chants We’re number #1!*
No, not really a reason for celebration. The prison industrial complex is keeping the maid in ‘Made In America’. The only place that the social and technical skills learned in prison are valuable is regrettably, in prison. Now what if prison labor was the only thing that could save the United States economy?
“Karma, Police” – Radiohead.
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Being from the town I understand Lovelle’s fate all too well. As a matter of fact when i heard about the story on twitter the first thing that ran through my mind was “could it be someone I know”
the town goes hard, historically our police were imported from the the south, New Orleans to be specific to help “control” the “movement” meaning Black Panther Party. The police have always been looked at the enemy in the town. As a child I was taught not to get out of the car for them, not to pull over on dark streets, etc..
As a woman I have been slapped by police, robbed by the police, watched them stomp the sh*t out of my homeboys and rob them, countless criminal acts with no recourse.
The town is no place to wear a badge. period. dot.
With the Oscar Grant trial ramping up, and now this shooting it looks like a long hot bloody summer for the town and that alone scares me.
Aunt Jackie, did you ever peep the well research documentary a little while back produced by the former gang member. I saw it on HBO, but his documentary discussed the police force being brought in from the south to control and forcibly subdue the community well before the BPP came into existence.
Your 3rd paragraph makes me think of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s run-in with a cop where she reported slapped a cop.
I’m not going to cosign, endorse Mixon’s actions but I do understand that strong attitudes and tension against law enforcement officers. His act was purely random and unjustified but so are the many acts against citizens like Oscar Grant.
“Now what if prison labor was the only thing that could save the United States economy?”
I’m glad i live in Canada.
I wonder if he survived and released a statement saying he did what he did because he didn’t want to be the next Oscar Grant would people understand.
Vee – you’re talking about “Bastards of the Party”.
Unfortunately, many of our youth subscribe to the mantra “go hard or go home”. They do not realize that that is not reality and that there exists a big divide in between. TOO sad.
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as usual dp, right on time.