Revolutionary Romanticism
About 60 people marched and rallied in Oakland on Wednesday to condemn the police and honor Lovelle Mixon, who was killed by Oakland police after he fatally shot four officers Saturday.
"OPD you can't hide - we charge you with genocide," chanted the demonstrators as they marched along MacArthur Boulevard, near the intersection with 74th Avenue where Mixon, 26, a fugitive parolee, gunned down two motorcycle officers who had pulled him over in a traffic stop. He killed two more officers who tried to capture him where he was hiding in his sister's apartment nearby.
The protest was organized by the Oakland branch of the Uhuru Movement, whose flyers for the march declared, "Stop Police Terror." Many marchers wore T-shirts featuring Mixon's photo, including a woman identified by march organizers as Mixon's mother. The woman declined to comment and gave her name only as Athena.
As reported by the SF Chronicle.
Which would be much more convincing to Wonks Anonymous were it not for the fact that thugs like Mr. Mixon gun down far more black people in Oakland in one month than the police have managed to in years and for the fact that drugs and the thug life destroy far more.
But in the minds of these people Mr. Mixon is a potent figure, a revolutionary fighting "the man", striking a blow against oppression by a corrupt legal system that intruded into his life and was stacked against his people. Of course he needed automatic weapons to wage this revolutionary struggle.
We saw him as a thug terrorizing his neighbors and destroying the lives of his fellow citizens but we just did not understand the role of a well armed militia in preserving freedom.
Oh. was Wonks Anonymous just signifying there? Sorry folks.



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