Yet another out-of-control police department—getting tattoos to celebrate shooting people seems a very bad idea. Shaun King writes at Daily Kos:
At 1 AM this past Saturday, Meagan Hockaday, a 26-year-old African-American mother of three, was shot and killed by an Oxnard, California, police officer after he arrived at her home to check out a reported domestic dispute. A knife was found near Hockaday’s body, but it’s unclear why lethal force was used on a mother with her children present in her own home.
The shooting death of Hockaday must, though, be viewed in context with the sordid history of the Oxnard, California, police department. Less than a year ago, the city of Oxnard was forced topay a record $6.7 million to the family of Alfonso Limon, an innocent man who was shot 16 to 21 times by Oxnard police as he was walking home from a high…
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