Four Oakland cops would still be alive if their killer had been given vocational training and a big hug.

Lovelle Mixon killed four Oakland cops,..... four. The first two were killed when they pulled him over. Mixon was wanted on a parole violation. He did not want to return to the joint, even though a parole violation doesn't mean you automatically go back to the joint, in fact you can violate numerous times and never set foot back in prison. The average violation won't set you back more than 6-9 months even if you do go back. Lovelle Mixon, a parolee with a violent criminal past, pulled over for the police, once they were stationary targets, he stepped from his vehicle , and murdered these two cops. He killed two more with an AK47 before he was taken out. In many circles today, from the streets of Oakland, to the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, Mixon is a Martyr, a victim, and as distasteful as it is to write this, to many, he is a hero. Get your head around that one, and we'll get back to it in a minute.

Mixon's DNA was tied to the rape of a 12 year old girl, the link was made a day or two prior to his murderous rampage. He was an ex con with not one but two guns, a semi auto pistol, which he used to shoot both cops a final time to make sure they were dead. None of those facts has stopped various groups and columnists from tossing out rhetoric, diatribes laced with phrases like " tacit racial profiling" " white plot to keep Africans enslaved", and on and on it goes. Here is one writer claiming Mixon must have felt disrespected by his parole officer. You heard me right, it wasn't Mixons fault. It was the California dept of corrections fault, because they can't stop young thugs from being young thugs. It was the Law Enforcement community's fault for stopping him in the first place. There are actually people questioning if he was stopped illegally. It was BARTS fault for shooting a black man three months ago, which was totally unrelated to Mixon. Poverty did it, white America did it, everyone is to blame, except Mixon. Except the community he grew up in. Except his family, except himself.

I did a google search on Lovelle Mixon. For every article or commentary reviling him as a cold blooded sociopath, there is one absolving him of any accountability or culpability in 4 cold blooded murders. Those articles in support of Mixon fail to mention the assault rifle, they fail to mention that he absconded from parole, they fail to mention he was a suspect in at least one homicide , they fail to mention that he may be tied to other sexual assaults. Rather than lay the blame at the feet of the killer, they cast accountability to the wind, scattering it like the seeds of a dandelion, letting it rest in a multitude of places, except where it belongs, which is solely at the feet of Lovelle Mixon.

When serial killers go on killing sprees, snuffing out innocent lives, and are finally caught, the vast majority will be found to have been victims of abuse, physical, sexual, mental, the psychiatric trinity of root cause and effect. The killers history as a victim being the root cause of why they turned out to be what they became. What you won't hear is these freaks given a pass for their crimes, and you sure as hell won't hear anyone making martyrs or heroes out of them. Jeffery Dahmer may have been molested as a child, but nobody came forward to excuse him for cooking his victims up like a pot roast, because of it.

We live in a bizarre world, where shit is so twisted, up is down, right is wrong, and god help you if you insinuate that a killer should have been put down like a rabid dog. We can't get past race in this country. We can't get beyond the blame game, from white guilt to militant outrage over previous injustice, race hangs over it all. I can't claim to have gone out and done an independent poll of black Americans regarding their opinions about the Lovelle Mixon case. But I feel pretty safe in saying that the vast majority of Americans, from every racial and ethnic group, would agree that Lovelle Mixon was a bad guy. He was a predator, a bully, a rapist, a thug, and a sociopath, and when he chose to kill 4 men to avoid returning to prison he became a monster.

I don't subscribe to political correctness, if I write about an instance of obvious racism, I write it just as I see it, I don't take it easy on the racist, be they white, black, or day glo orange, I call it like I see it. I also have no problem pointing out the utter bullshit of writers or militant groups, like the black Klansman better known as the Uhuru Movement, who want to blame every misdeed committed by a person of color, on the litany of excuses from Slavery to Jim Crow , from CIA crack conspiracies to poverty. Make no mistake, racism is alive and well in this country, sadly it always will be. It is harder to rise above poverty, get a decent education, a job, the list goes on, if you are a person of color, be it black or brown. Areas that are not predominately white often do get the short end of the stick. When columnists pander to the black community by implying that guys like Mixon are victims, it does more harm than good. It allows the people who really DO want to keep these folks down, to point and say, I told you so. Groups like the Uhura Movement sling hate like it's crack, they push it on their own people, rather than work towards actually resolving problems they incite and inflame.

The truth about Lovell Mixon is this ; He killed 4 men to avoid going to jail. It's just that simple. It has nothing to do with the color of his skin, an unsympathetic parole officer, poverty, prison, police brutality, the Bart killings, or any of the litany of excuses that have been offered up. Prison is full of guys like Mixon, guys who would just as soon kill you as look at you. They come in a wide array of skin tones, from all walks of life. The same clueless apologists who lay the blame at the doorstep of society would quickly sing a different tune if they were locked up in the same room as one of these animals. Maybe that's not a bad idea. Most writers who have blamed the system for Mixon's actions don't have a clue. They decry the lack of programs, but vocational training would'nt have kept Mixon from being Mixon. What area of vocational training or drug treatment prevents child rape? If Mixon had learned to weld or drive a nail, would that have prevented him from killing four cops? My feelings about the Lovell Mixon's of the world can be summed up in one short sentence. "The world is a better place without him." The only tragedy in the death of Mixon, is that he didn't get his ticket punched sooner, before he raped a child, before he deprived 4 families of thier loved ones.