< p>Murdered by OPD 12 years ago today\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T170000 LOCATION:Oakland City Hall or Zoom @ 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza\, 3rd Floor\, O akland\, CA 94612 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Support Oakland Resolution Honoring the Life of Alan Dwayne Bluefor d URL:http://occupysf.net/index.php/event/support-oakland-resolution-honoring -the-life-of-alan-dwayne-blueford/ X-COST-TYPE:free END:VEVENT END:VCALENDARBeloved Community\,
\nT omorrow Oakland City Council will vote on a resolution Honoring the Life o f Alan Dwayne Blueford\, who was murdered by Oakland Police Department 12 years ago today on May 6\, 2012 at the age of only 18-years-old. His mothe r\, and our sister in struggle\, Jeralynn Blueford\, is calling on us to s how up in support.
\nWe are asking you to show up tomorrow\, Tues day\, May 7 at city hall to help this family\, forever-impacted by OPD’s t error\, continue to fight for Alan and his legacy.
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\nW HAT: Support Oakland Resolution Honoring the Life of Alan Dwayne Bluef ord
\nWHEN: Tuesday\, May 7 at 3:30 pm
\nWHERE: In person at City Hall (1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza\, 3rd Floor\, Oakland\, CA 94 612) or onli ne on Zoom\n
\n\n- All public speakers must submit a spe aker card before the meeting. Members of the public must (1) Visit the City Of Oakland meeting calendar webpage (2) Click the hyperlink labeled ‘eComment’ in the far right column of the meeting yo u wish to participate\, (You will be redirected to the specific meeting we bpage)\; and (3) Register to ‘Sign In To Speak’ for agenda item 5.8\n
- For more instructions\, please refer to the meeting agenda
\nOn May 6\, 2012\, then Oakland Police De partment Officer Miguel Masso — a transplant from New York with a histor y of violence — rollled up in the nighttime hours\, in an unmarked car wit h his lights off\, on three young African-American men in deep East Oaklan d. Alan Blueford\, a high school student with a 3.0 GPA\, and two friends were walking to the corner store to grab a few snacks while they waited fo r their ride home. Officer Miguel Masso jumped out of the car\, never aski ng for names or identification. He immediately threw one of the boys down on the curb.
\nTerrified\, the teenagers asked\, “What did we do?* M asso grabbed a second youth by the shoulder\, pushing him forcefully again st the fence and twisted his arm behind his back. Masso kept shouting and roughing them up. None of the children were placed under arrest or read th eir rights.
\nAlan started to walk away. Masso vigorously ran tow ard him. Alan ran\, Masso gave chase. According to witness statements\, Al an was yelling at the top of his lungs\, “I didn’t do anything!” At this point\, Masso turned off his lapel camera\, chased Alan for five blo cks\, and shot him in the chest three times\, as he lay on his back in the driveway of a residential home.
\nMasso would later claim to bo th the police and the press that Alan had shot him in the foot to explain the wound he was discovered to have. This claim proved to be false. A poli ce investigation revealed that Masso had in fact shot himself. However\, t hat initial lie interrupted what would have been swift and immediate outra ge from the Oakland community. As a result\, Jeralynn and her husband (Ala n Sr.)\, would spend the next few years not only demanding justice for the ir son\, but also trying to clear his soiled name. Meanwhile OPD and its a ssociation did everything it could to defend MAsso and cover up the eviden ce of his vile transgression.
\nDespite this litany of egregious beh avior and attempts at cover up – the Blueford family was awarded one of th e smallest settlements in the history of Oakland for the murder and slande r of their son. But they have never stopped fighting.
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\nFighting for Alan and for any family that finds themselves in this exclu sive club no one wants to join.We are asking you to show up to morrow and help them continue to fight for Alan\, his legacy and all those impacted by the violence of the Oakland Police Department and the State. Fight for those who have not yet been impacted but one day may conside r it luck to be a “survivor�\, like myself. Fight so that this never h appens again. Fight for all of our sakes and in the many names of too many ancestors slain by law enforcement in America.
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\nJoin us tomorrow to scream “Justice for Alan Blueford�! Let’s get this day passed for A lan\, his family and all of us.In service and solidarity\,
\n< p>Cat Brooks
\nAnti Police-Terror Project