One of these guns were actually used in the recent murder of one of my cousin's former students that he taught high school art to. It also loosely resembles the case that I was wrongly accused of and had to fight for two years.
Artist killed as he painted anti-violence mural in Oakland
The Feds Lose Hundreds of Guns a Year, and They Keep Turning Up in Bay Area Homicides
This is a post I made on my case a while back to where one of the guns I was accused of stealing from a cop's home was used in a murder.
Artist killed as he painted anti-violence mural in Oakland
The Feds Lose Hundreds of Guns a Year, and They Keep Turning Up in Bay Area Homicides
The Feds Lose Hundreds of Guns a Year, and They Keep Turning Up in Bay Area Homicides
Posted By Adam Brinklow on Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:18 AM
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A sick sense of déjà vu accompanied the announcement last week that the gun used to kill Oakland muralist Antonio Ramos in September was the same weapon stolen from a federal agent’s car in San Francisco weeks earlier. A federal agent’s gun was also the murder weapon in the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle in July, and again in that case the weapon was snatched during a car break-in.
In neither case is it clear how a government-issued sidearm got into the hands of the killer. Alleged Steinle shooter Francisco Sanchez says he found the Bureau of Land Management ranger’s gun stashed under a bench on Pier 14, a head-scratching claim that is probably impossible to disprove no matter how unlikely it sounds. The burglary of the ICE-issued gun that killed Ramos was solved, but without securing the missing weapon.
Federal agents and police lose track of their guns all the time. UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennett had her gun stolen out of her car in August. Cops in San Francisco and Hayward pulled similar boners this year, too. FBI agents, DEA agents, and even a Secret Service agent assigned to protect President Obama have suffered the same embarrassment, almost always because the guns were left in cars, just like the ones that killed Ramos and Steinle.
This is a trend with a long and unfortunate pedigree: A GAO report from 2003 showed that federal agents lose about 250 guns every year, 80 percent of which are never recovered. This includes the occasional shotgun and “submachine gun.” More recently (and embarrassingly), the ATF, the very federal agency tasked with preventing illegal gun trafficking, lost about a dozen guns every year from 2009 to 2013.
That’s just too many guns, guys.
San Francisco magazine’s Joe Eskenazi spent months trying to get the Bureau of Land Management to explain their policy on the proper storage of firearms, only to get essentially a blank sheet of paper in response.)
There is at least a halfway reasonable excuse for this: If the public knew where the feds stashed guns, it would only make it easier to steal them. Fair enough, but there’s one big problem: Whatever the rules are, it seems a lot of people aren’t bothering to follow them, and at some point there needs to be accountability to the public.
Given that carelessly “lost” guns have now killed two people in the Bay Area in a span of under three months, that point is now. But ICE has not commented so far, and nobody’s exactly holding their breath.
It’s not surprising that they want to keep covering their butts, but what will it take for this seemingly simple lesson to sink in? Even non gun-owners in San Francisco know that the dumbest thing you can do is leave your gun in the car, so there’s no excuse for trained law officers to do it this often.
Supervisor David Campos has proposed a city law that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to leave an unsecured gun in a car. Campos called it a “no-brainer.” He’s right.
One missing gun is a drop in a bucket in America’s gun-saturated culture, but again and again we keep learning how easily one missing gun can become one too many.
This is a post I made on my case a while back to where one of the guns I was accused of stealing from a cop's home was used in a murder.
I was almost railroaded before, fortunately the jury found me innocent. This is why I tell everyone I can to take jury summons seriously.
It's not just cops that are fukked up, the entire system is rotten to the core.
My house was raided because my fingerprint looked like a partial print that was found at a crime scene. Guns, money, laptops and jewelry were stolen from a cop's house, two of the guns were later recovered with one of them being used in a murder.
They initially looked for me at my mom's because that's the address I had on my license. She was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and they treated her very badly. When I was arrested at my house, it was while I was watching my daughter and studying for a midterm. I was placed on my lawn and cuffed at gunpoint wearing just a pair of boxers in front of my entire neighborhood while they searched my house with my daughter inside.
I cooperated because I knew I was innocent and they never said anything about me being under arrest initially. When I asked to see the object that my supposed print was found on, the detectives refused to show me. They told me they were going to put me in a holding cell for a few hours while they got somebody to perform a polygraph on me.
Those hours turned into days and being transferred to a whole different jail. When I went before the judge to ask for a bail reduction (from $110k) or to be released on my own recognizance, I was denied on both requests. My public defender at the time asked why, since only a single, small partial print was found at the scene. The judge denied and replied that the report he had sitting in front of him stated that my prints were found all over the residence.
When I was being interrogated they told me they narrowed it down to a week's time period and that I needed to have an alibi for all seven days. We ended up hiring our own private detective later on and he was able to narrow it down to the night that it happened with and eight hour window just by interviewing one neighbor. The night that it happened was the night before I got married.
About a year into it, we invoked my right to a speedy trial, and we were told that the prosecution's case wasn't ready
Long story short, two years later the case went forward, and I was found innocent after two weeks of trial and two days of deliberation. The prosecuter that got stuck with the case was a rookie black guy that obviously didn't want to take it in the first place. Luckily the judge we had for the trial was a cool black lady that could tell what was going on and she helped us out quite often.
The cancer had spread from my mom's lungs to her brain shortly before the trail started and she passed away not too long after I beat the case.
I assume the cops figured we couldn't afford to fight the case financially or emotionally, which is probably why they went out of their way to pin it on me despite having such a weak case. It's disgusting how they tried to stack the odds in their favor with the week long alibi window, fake polygraph holding cell BS, and having the judge deny my basil reduction. On top of that, what the hell were cops doing investigating their own? We almost exhausted my mom's savings fighting the case and I really feel for those that do not have the money to do so, which I'm sure is the case more often than not. I was raised never to trust the system and this really cemented it for me as well as opened my eyes to how truly sick, twisted, and shady it can be.
Lessons learned: Never talk without a lawyer under ANY pretense and take jury duty seriously because otherwise you're leaving your brother's fates up to a bunch of cacs.
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yea people really don't believe that its A LOT of young black guys going to prison for crimes they didn't do..my nephew is currently going through this same situation right now smh
I also got sent to prison on a attempt robbery that I had nothing to do with as well...I took it to trial and everything, because just like Browder, I couldn't cop out for some shyt I didn't do..the shyt was crazy though because my bullshyt PD let me see the paperwork regarding my case and you can tell the cops wrote that shyt up because everything that i was wearing the day they arrested me, was exactly what the alleged robber was wearing..then on top of that, the victim of the incident came to court, sat on the stand, and said that i did it as well..
I ended up getting sentenced to 5 years and did 18 months in the joint..and during that time at one point i spent 4 months locked in a cell for 24 hours a day...
I came home dirt broke & fukked up, no job, with a violent felony that i didn't commit on my record( i already had two prior felonies, but those were drug cases)..I moved from my old hood, eventually got a decent job, and now, 12 years later, i'm living pretty damn good, got my own place, riding foreign and all that
but since I already did time, the robbery case didn't break me, but i feel for Browder because that was his 1st time going through that and I could understand how it could change a person mentally..RIP*/quote*
My best friend's little brother is going through almost exactly the same thing right now. His jury selection began last week and it's going to be populated with nothing but white people.
Congratulations on overcoming your situation though, that shows an incredible amount of strength and character on your part.
RIP Kalief Browder
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