Sunday, November 14, 2010

Trigger Happy Oakland Cops

SF Gate reports on the latest police shooting.

Two Oakland police officers apparently mistook an electronic scale commonly used to weigh drugs for a handgun when they opened fire on the owner of a hair salon Monday night, killing him, police said Friday.

Derrick Jones, 37, of Oakland also had marijuana in a glass jar in his pocket when police shot him on the 5800 block of Trask Street in East Oakland.
I know we weren't there, we don't really know what happened, but they should be more careful, don't you think?

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2 comments:

  1. Smoking some herb shouldn't be the death of you! Cops believe in shooting first and asking questions later. Then they can always lie and say they were threatened.

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  2. Yes, indeed, we see daily reports of this kind of abuse.

    The thing that cracks me up is the civilian gun owners seem to think they're better.

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