Police: Shootout Interrupts Peace Demonstration (Richmond CA)

[struggle4progress]

Source: NBC11

Tent Organizers Say Shooting More Of The Same
POSTED: 8:11 pm PDT September 26, 2007
UPDATED: 8:14 pm PDT September 26, 2007

RICHMOND, Calif. -- On the same Richmond streets that an anti-violence demonstration was taking place Wednesday, a gun battle broke out when the occupants of a car opened fire on a group of men in the street, hitting one man in the leg, police said.

The shooting came just as hundreds of violence-weary citizens pitched tents in Richmond parks to protest the violence that plaguing the city. Organizers of the tent-laden protest said that ongoing crime wave has got to end and camping out is their way of saying "enough is enough." ...

On Wednesday, the mayor and the police chief visited Tent City to publicly voice their support ...





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[seriousstan]

1. On the plus side...nobody snitched.

[monktonman]

2. I hate to laugh but thats funny

[saigon68]

5. The New Frontier

[NOLALady]

6. Really?

[ClintonTyree]

3. Makes me wonder....

just WHO did the shooting? Sounds like a perfect psy-ops set up to discredit the peace marchers.

When did I become so :tinfoilhat: 'ish? I never used to suspect things like this before the Bush administration's vile deeds. Now I see conspiracies everywhere. Am I paranoid, or are they REALLY after me? :shrug:

[Igel]

7. Perhaps if the were protesting something at the national level.

The Iraq war, Afghanistan, *.

In this case, it's city-level violence: Murders and gang violence.

"The shooting came just as hundreds of violence-weary citizens pitched tents in Richmond parks to protest the violence that plaguing the city. Organizers of the tent-laden protest said that ongoing crime wave has got to end and camping out is their way of saying 'enough is enough.'"

I think it's psy-ops. Just done by one of the local groups committing the violence, and rather liking it.

[Toots]

4. If only we had more assault rifles and cop-killer bullets all this violence would end.

Ya think?........

[benEzra]

8. You realize both of those are tightly controlled by Federal law, right?

"Cop-killer bullets" were banned in 1986. http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvcopk.html

Assault rifles (real ones) are very tightly controlled by the Title 2/Class III provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/nfa_faq.txt

Non-automatic civilian rifles with modern styling ("assault weapons," not actual assault rifles) are legal--my wife and I own a couple--but are pretty much irrelevant to the crime picture.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_20.html
Total murders............................14,990.....100.00%
Handguns..................................7,795......52.00%
Other weapons (non firearm, non edged)....2,158......14.40%
Edged weapons.............................1,822......12.15%
Firearms (type unknown)...................1,465.......9.77%
Shotguns....................................481.......3.21%
Hands, fists, feet, etc.....................833.......5.56%
Rifles......................................436.......2.91%

Protruding rifle handgrips are also restricted in California, but not the rest of the nation.