Thuggish Occupation Continues

[shannon_a]

We've been hearing for months that police attention has been hurting in the worst parts of Oakland due to Occupy Oakland's weekly thuggery. Maybe folks will sit up and notice now that the same thing is occurring in Berkeley. In the nicer areas.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/20/BAFU1N9T8J.DTL&tsp=1

The victim had called police on a nonemergency line after first seeing Dewitt, according to sources familiar with the case. But police were busy monitoring an Occupy Oakland march to UC Berkeley, and officers were dispatched only to high-priority calls.

An officer who noticed the call about Dewitt on his computer told a dispatcher he would respond, but was told not to go, sources said.

Minutes later, the victim's wife heard her husband yelling for help and called 911 after seeing the suspect dragging him into bushes and hitting him with a potted plant, sources said.

(The victim was subsequently murdered. Afterward, the police decided that maybe they should respond.)

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[webmacher.livejournal.com]

Hindsight is 20/20 and all, and it's unfair to blame the victim, but if this account and others I read are accurate, he actually called the nonemergency number and as much as said that the cops shouldn't come. Then he left his house to walk to the fire station nearby to get help.

Lesson for me is: if a crazy person shows up at my house and won't leave when shouted at from inside the house, I'm calling 911. I'm NOT going outside.