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Two families of the four Oakland Police officers slain on March 21 asked that Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums not speak at the televised funeral. One of the officers specifically requested that the Mayor stay away in the emergency packet he compiled in case he was killed on duty. See the San Francisco Chronicle article here.

What do you make of this snub? Do you think it was racially driven, or was it a statement on Dellums’ inabilities as a Mayor?

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rijali/ Rijali

    True. I don’t condone what the young man did but i can say that what goes around indeed comes back around.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/THE-QUBE/ THE-QUBE

    why does blackplanet always have to give us articles dealing on some racial issue? Cant you guys come up with better material?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NativeSon64/ NativeSon64

    Better material? BP is right to spread the word on this issue. I live in Oakland and this city is in trouble. Since the New Year’s morning execution of a young black man, Oscar Grant, on the platform of BART, to the controversial killings of these 4 OPD officers, tension between cops and the community has been high. It’s like a powder keg here and these events are clearly leading to a blowup. BP is right to publicize this national news.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/supersoftball/ supersoftball

    This is the reason why I stay away from Black planet; dumb ass comments like these! How in hell do you call this disgrace to the black race a hero of any sort, no matter how you criminals who always seem to be in trouble with the police, this fools victims are black, prior to the killing of the officers, he was victimizing us, you idiots!!! I could give a damn about his daughters, shame that he was reproducing in the first place, with no job or job skills, besides being a crook! I grew up in hell, got my education, and got as far away from n****rs like him as possible! I NEVER experienced problems with the police, because I did not antagonize them, by doing things to draw their attention! Do these ignorant Negros think that by calling this fool a hero, it is going to make them safer, now the police are going to be even more scared and prone to putting the hand on the pistol for fear of being injured or killed! You people are stupid! The kid who was murdered in the subway, was his killer not charged with murder? Police do police themselves! These fools in the streets are creating more tension! The police were killed pursuing a criminal who was victimizing blacks!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4merHorse06/ 4merHorse06

    Amazing. Just amazing.

    I don’t know what’s worse, 40 dumb n****rs calling this rapist a hero or BP covering the story.

    Oh, but let a anti-Obama cartoon come out, & n****rs is all up in arms.

    We as a race are in deep s**t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/greywolf5/ greywolf5

    You gotta be kiddin me? When are we going to learn that every one of color ain’t black? People like this guy live among us, prey upon us and then successfully hide in our midst because we protect them. Why? I feel that its a post slavery thing where our collective conscious is repulsed by turning one of our own kind over to massa and his paddy rollers. What made sense then is out place now. “snitches get stitches” is just another chain around our necks which keeps us on our knees as a people. When are we gonna face the fact that since our diaspora there is and always has been a war between black folks and n****rs? Black folk represnt what’s great about our people: courage, self sacfifice, strength, detemination, amazing love, other worldly talent and spirituality…Whereas n****rs are a creation of slavery. Before slavery there WERE NO N****RS! Slavery needed n****rs to begin (like the ones who sold us for some beads and a keg of rum) and the niggas who kept it going and still continue to do so. Colored people like this kill more of us than the cops and the KKK put together. How many of us today know someone who was killed by the KKK? How many know someone who was killed by the cops? Now how many know someone who was killed by niggas? Do the math, black people. This madness makes us look stupid and still not ready for prime time!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Baby-Baby/ Baby-Baby

    Hell if it wasn’t for BP, I wouldn’t have heard about this. Not that it matters, I sick of the bad news anyway.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/marcusdarealles/ marcusdarealles

    Born and raised oakland!!!! California and you got very few good police and a lot of crooked police. I have got dope planted on me,the crap beat out of me,and a messed up criminal record that I’m still feeling the repercussions from all because of Oakland Police Department. They got what was coming to them as simple as that. Expect to see more. F**k The Police.

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