Cops Kill Again in Oakland
Fred Collins, 48, Dies in a Hail of Bullets After Taser Gun Fails
[SIZE=+1]By DENNIS BERNSTEIN [/SIZE]
Here we go again: last Saturday, July 19, another police kill at the same rail transit station in Oakland, California, where 22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot in the back last year.
And while the circumstances of Saturday?s early morning police shooting are very different from those in the Grant case, there are many questions that need to raised about a violent police over-reaction.
On Saturday, Oakland and Bay Area Rapid Transit police shot and killed a reportedly ?Hispanic looking? man near the Fruitvale station in Oakland. The first reports, all from the police, said the man was ?armed,? wielding two knives.
The dead man was not identified until Sunday, when an OPD spokesperson gave his name and age as Fred Colllins, 48. None of the dozens of officers who answered the call were hurt during the incident.
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Fred Collins, 48, Dies in a Hail of Bullets After Taser Gun Fails
[SIZE=+1]By DENNIS BERNSTEIN [/SIZE]
Here we go again: last Saturday, July 19, another police kill at the same rail transit station in Oakland, California, where 22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot in the back last year.
And while the circumstances of Saturday?s early morning police shooting are very different from those in the Grant case, there are many questions that need to raised about a violent police over-reaction.
On Saturday, Oakland and Bay Area Rapid Transit police shot and killed a reportedly ?Hispanic looking? man near the Fruitvale station in Oakland. The first reports, all from the police, said the man was ?armed,? wielding two knives.
The dead man was not identified until Sunday, when an OPD spokesperson gave his name and age as Fred Colllins, 48. None of the dozens of officers who answered the call were hurt during the incident.
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