Powell was shot in the head at about 12:30 a.m. after handing William Holloway a hot dinner of fish and chips from his family’s van on the 1000 block of 47th Avenue. Bullets struck Powell’s 3-year-old stepdaughter in the arm and grazed his wife’s shoulder. Powell’s 7-year-old stepdaughter was also in the van but was not hurt.
What a craphole of a city. I always laugh when people tell me they are moving to Oakland because they “got a good deal.”
Actually, John, we in the television news refer to Oakland as a SHIT-hole of a city.
There is only one reason why Oakland is such a craptown. It is the low level of intelligence and civility of the people living there. I could go on and on, but the problem lies in the fact that it is politically incorrect to refer to the low-level sub humans living there. Many, many of the people in these communities are fine people, but they tolerate the savages amongst themselves, have a youth culture that looks up to hoodlumism as a lifestyle, and the whole city has to live with their own culture.
Oaktown has been a cesspool for decades as far as I’m aware. I cannot ever remember a time when a person would be happy about moving to Oakland (unless they had never been there). The only reason they can fill Alameda stadium is that there is a direct walkway from the BART to the stadium. If people had to actually walk or drive through Oakland, neither the A’s nor the Raiders would ever get a sell-out (not that they do now but the odds are higher).
OK, added Okland to list of places I have no need to visit.
Go ebonics.
What a craphole of a state.
Let it flush into the Pacific.
Seems like there is more to this story unless it was just a knee grow gangsta that was robbing him.
Maybe we should just wall off Oakland and turn it into a high security open-range prison like the movie “Escape from New York”. Escape from Oakland… I like the sound of it.
And the mayor of that city convinced CA population to vote him Governor … That is where the guilt lies (voters).
Having lived in both California and New Jersey, and driven through the respective cities several times, I claim Oakland CA is the Camden NJ of California.
Also, California is the New Jersey of the Pacific.
I feel better now.
I’m with #7-Steve S, Oakland is a fracking war zone! The only place where ordering at a KFC involves an intercom, bullet proof glass, and a sliding/locking drawer. Made that mistake coming home and having to land at the Oakland airport and not eating before I left. At least my buddy and I had just come back from a shooting competition and were armed.
Add the Bart police to those stupid people
I stayed in Oakland for a week (I was at a conference in ’91 for Computer Language Magazine and AI Expert.) There were still digging out from the ’89 Loma Prieta Earthquake.
It was depressing as hell, but the hotel rooms were cheap.
Feeding the homeless at 12:30 a.m., with 2 children and a pregnant woman in the car, in Oakland?
#13 My thoughts exactly. WTF?
I visit Oakland and have never had an issue. I think most of their crime comes from the surrounding area because during the day it’s a great place (I’ve bumped into Dirty Harry twice when walking around the city business park). It’s a great place and right between Berkeley and San Francisco, the other two greatest cities in the world after Sacramento.
My best friends house is just below the picture taken there. No finer living than the Oakland/Berkley hills. Leaving your own house is always a burden. Crowded for sure.
Downtown/AM is dangerous all across America. Increasing wealth divide, tv touting avarice, and guns: not a good mix.
It is not just Cal.every state is like this.A guy went for a jog here in Vegas at 7pm they found him dead on the street in a so called nice area.When you spend little to no money on education,sell guns to everybody 24/7 because it is your right, what do you expect.And guess what it is not getting better!!
For confused foreigners, Oakland is a city province in middle central California. High levels of homelessness, unemployment and violent crime have wrecked the once prosperous community. Areas nearby Oakland, are suffering a net outfux of Oaklanders, economic refugees from said conditions. Policing, law enforcement, educational institutions, schools, libraries and public facilities in the Oakland area have fallen in standard or have disappeared due to a general failure of the state and of the local economies.
Oh yay! this is that Cali filth that just keeps pourin into our beautiful Texas.
#16. who knew, this is caused by the increasing wealth divide!