such a sad situation, and also I'm sick of the knee-jerk 'f*** the po-lice' response many in the 'community' seem to espouse. I'm sick of the psuedo-gansta rap culture that glorifies the 'snitches get stitches' rhyme. I'm glad I'm out of the SF school I used to teach in, but I'm worried about some of the wannabe's in my freshmen classes. If I hear that stuff today, I'm going ballistic!
I certainly agree.
I did see a young woman, 20-ish, either a sister or cousin of the parolee, on Channel 5 news that night. She was movingly contrite about what her relative had done. She even said "We're sorry. We're all so very sorry." It's pretty rare for immediate family of the perpetrator of this kind of calamity to be that apologetic. Mostly you just hear them expressing disbelief. Not that I believe them guilty by association, but it just seems people find it very hard to say 'I'm Sorry' in public these days.
On Saturday afternoon we left our house in Dublin to head into the city at about 1:10pm. Coming over the Dublin grade into Castro Valley on 580 traffic was moving a bit slowly, and it turned out that it was due to an Oakland PD car driving the speed limit exactly, and folks not wanting to pass him to obviously. Eventually we were directly behind the car & I could see there was someone in the back, undoubtedly being transported from Santa Rita jail which is a mile from our house. Just as I made that observation to my wife, the car put on its lights & siren and took off at high speed, leaving all of us faithfully driving 65 behind him wondering what was up. At this point we were about 5 miles south of the shooting, which was very close to the Edwards Ave exit on 580. And it was about 5 minutes after the first shooting. A few minutes later we were north of the scene and saw another 3 Oakland PD cars racing to the south, and I commented that whatever the first car was responding to must be something pretty big. Of course we didn't know what had happened yet, and when I heard the news I could barely believe it.
