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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Ron Dellums

Ron Dellums stories: 3 news summaries




 SF Cop Charged 
 in BART Slaying 

Ex-officer surrendered on suspicion of murder

(Newser) - The transit officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on New Year's Day, sparking San Francisco-area riots, was arrested last night in Nevada on suspicion of murder, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Sources say Johannes Mehserle, 27, had fled California after receiving death threats in the wake of Oscar Grant's... More »

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 Cop Victim's 
 Mom Pleads 
 for Calm 

Rioters trash streets in Oakland after officer shoots unarmed man in BART station

(Newser) - The family of a 22-year-old man shot dead by police at an Oakland BART station have appealed for calm following violent protests, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Hundreds of businesses and cars have been trashed and 105 people arrested in disturbances. Prosecutors are considering filing criminal charges against the... More »

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Editor's Murder Shows Failure
of Tolerance

Hitchens hits cops for abetting criminality
in religious guise 

(Newser) - The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that... More »

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