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.”
#16, I guess you blamed everyone except the party that has been running Oakland for the last 40 years. Nope they have not caused any of their own problems, just like Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago, ect.
Mickey–I noted 3 things, not just one. There are more of course, but why bother when you can’t deal with more than one? Haw, haw!!!
Bob–only a partisan hack takes a social issue and turns it into a political one solely so that they can falsely blame one side as opposed to the other.
Bob…..how does it feel to be even more stupid than Mickey?
You people crack me up. If you have ever lived or visited some really crappy cities on the east coast, you would know that Oakland isn’t nearly as bad. I was scared shitless driving through Camden, NJ one day–in broad daylight!! And living in Philadelphia for over 8 years showed me what a real shithole looks like and feels like. 12 inch bullet proof glass is a common site at every single store, bank, and fast food place. Row upon row of fire-bombed houses is a common site. I had to remove drunks, crack addicts, and bags of human feces from our front door–and this was in a decent neighborhood.
I lived in Oakland for about 6 months upon returning to California. It is a piece of cake after my 8 years of “east coast city living.”
oven–so right you are. I was driving thru South Philly one bright summer day and thought I was on a post Apocalypse movie set. It was worse than South Baltimore. If I had gotten a flat tire, I think I would have kept going.
Ha, ha. Took the subway to South Chicago to visit the Frank Lloyd Wright Museum. End of the line for a half mile walk. The japanese tourists behind me refused to get off the train preferring to get arrested rather than wait for a return subway.
What is it about the South?
#22 Kudos for accepting you are a political hack. And best of all, one out of meds that can’t see that how you contradicted yourself in that failed deflecting post.
San Diego was like this a few years back but the city did a fantastic job in cleaning up downtown, the homeless and instituting laws. The homeless problem hasn’t been resolved 100%, it can’t be, but there are more shelters and help available or them.
If you choose to live in a “rougher” neighborhood because you want to help out you are taking a risk, not matter what you might think otherwise. It’s rough because people are in a desperate and hopeless period in their life. You cannot expect the worst to not happen even when you’re trying to help.
Look, I help out at the shelters myself. I’m always careful of my surroundings. Just because you’re helping others doesn’t mean you have to stop. Like I said before you are in a tougher neighborhood so you have to be extra cautious.
I’m feel bad for the lost but things like this does happen, even to good people. I partially blame the city for not having successfully done what my city has done.
Oakland is pretty bad but it is nothing new: it was crime ridden 40 years ago. More like 70 years ago, Gertrude Stein wrote, “There’s no ‘there’ there.”
Still largely true. The crime ridden industrial underbelly of San Francisco.
Well 12:AM in any big city with high crime is just asking for trouble these day’s. Not sure about Oakland because I live near Chicago. But even some of the moderately big cities are seeing more crime problems with the bad economy.
#23 If Oakland is “a piece of cake” because you don’t have to remove bags of shit from your porch, you have really low expectations of your quality of life. I would not ever even have to consider such a disgusting proposition, because I chose to locate myself in a decent neighborhood, and I work hard to support myself so I can. As John D wonders, why would ANYONE live in Oakland when they can just as easily live in another Bay Area city? There are good places to live in this country, and for some reason, you and others continue to live in the cesspool that is Oakland.
I tried to write something here to explain why Oakland is such a rat hole. But I had to keep deleting stuff for one reason.
So I won’t bother.
Oakland is a rotten place. Why is that? I know why. You all take your best guesses.
Gee, as a resident of the largest city and the Seat of the County of Alameda; the eighth largest city in the State of California; home of the NFL’s Raiders professional football team, the NBA’s Golden State Warriors professional basketball team and the MLB’s Athletics professional baseball team; the corporate headquarters of businesses such as Clorox, Kaiser Permanente, Dreyer’s, Cost Plus World Market, Ask.com, and Pandora Radio; the place where the “Posicle” frozen treat, the diamond-shaped roller pantograph used for electric streetcars, the “Rocky Road” ice cream flavor, and the “Mai Tai” alcohol cocktail were each invented; where the United States’ first theme park catering to families with young children was created and still operates as Children’s Fairyland (inspiring the creation of places like Disneyland, as it did for Walt Disney); where the public can visit and use the observatory and interactive displays at the Chabot Space and Science Center; where the only museum devoted to the art, history, culture, and natural environment of California is located and visited daily; where an Accredited Zoo that’s nationally acclaimed for it’s use of the “Protected Contact” animal management style allows elephants to live in a more natural environment, where there are old and new buildings as diverse as the modern architecture of the Roman Catholic Church’s Cathedral of Christ the Light was primarily constructed of glass and steel, to the last remaining commercial building in California with its original gas lighting, Heinhold’s First and Last Chance Saloon is still operating as it did when the future American author known as “Jack London” spent much of his young adulthood, I can certainly understand why anyone wouldn’t want to be out late at night here. There just isn’t anything this city could offer a law-abiding visitor, besides a wayward bullet during a drive-by shooting.
Gauran-fuckin-tee it was one of them negroe folk who dun did the shootin
Oakland, apparently, isn’t any different than any other place that’s full of niggers.
There is so many reasons this place is crappy. The beggars harrassing me every corner they are on. The little assholes that rob innocent people. Inorant loud black people, it is dirty the list goes on and on.
#29 at least they had the decency to leave the shit in a bag. Oakland can’t possibly nearly as bad as Camden, the scariest place in the US. Gary, IN also comes to mind. America has some very scary places that should be cleaned up.
A lot of Oakland is a decent place ~ the shooting took place down in the shit hole area of International Blvd., which is quite a bit southeast from the rest of Oakland. The only reason to go down there is to find a whore or a taco truck. I recommend the taco Truck at 1st and International, which is close to the lake and has awesome carnitas but the truck isn’t located in a garbage strewn pit further down the road.
Most of Oakland’s problems stem from it’s culture in the ghetto. Teen kids get guns and rob. The rest suck on welfare and throw their trash on the ground making the place look like a big garbage dump. Even worse, a lot of teen girls get pregnant and have more kids perpetuating the problem.
Wow, what a messed up world we live in. I just moved into Harlem in NY, but that seems to be wonderful compared to Oakland!