Race Issues Raised When Oakland Firefighter, Kids Detained By Police Officer
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — A black Oakland firefighter has filed a complaint with the Oakland Police Department after he and his young kids were detained by a white police officer outside the station where the firefighter worked.
It was 10:45 p.m., after a recent Raiders game. Veteran firefighter Keith Jones and his two sons, ages 9 and 12, were walking back to their SUV at Station 29. A fire crew responding to an emergency had forgotten to close the garage door. Jones went in to make sure everything was secure.
As Jones walked out, he said a police officer, responding to a possible burglary in progress, yelled “Don’t move, put your hands up.”
“And his hand is on his gun. He was crouched, he was low, and he was basically in a shooting stance,” Jones said.
Jones complied, but noticed his 9-year-old son Trevon was starting to cry. The officer saw the two kids first and had already told them to raise their hands.
Jones said he told the officer that he was an Oakland firefighter, that he worked at the station and that they were his kids. He asked the officer to allow his kids to lower their hands and tell them everything is OK. Jones said the officer told them to keep their hands up and not to move.
The firefighter said this lasted for a few minutes.
“I’m pretty much thinking he’s going to pretty much shoot me,” Jones said.
“I was thinking is he going to shoot my dad the whole time,” said 12-year-old Keith Jones II.
“I was getting ready about to cry. My hands started to get tired, but I kept them up,” said 9-year-old Trevon Jones.
Eventually, the lone officer allowed Jones to reach into his pocket and show his firefighter ID. Jones said the incident traumatized his kids and changed their perception of police officers.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/29/race-issues-raised-when-oakland-firefighter-kids-detained-by-police-officer-opd-keith-jones-station-29-profiling/
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I've said this before, and I'll say it again: The DoJ *needs* to clean house in a lotta places; there are a fair number of incompetent, and/or corrupt, cops, that could use the proverbial boot to the ass.
My condolences go out to the Jones family. They *did not* deserve to be put thru this kind of trauma. 
the Raiders game or the fire station? Was he closing up the firehouse and leaving after the emergency crew had left? Did he happen to be driving by when he noticed the garage door was open? Or was he sent there to close it?
rocktivity
though I'd hate to think Jones would run a security check with his kids in tow instead of telling them to wait in the car.
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...(T)he cop...eventually listened to reason and allowed the man to prove his identity...(But) who takes their kids on a burglary? They were probably all well dressed/groomed/clean or at least presentable and they weren't scurrying about collecting stuff to steal as a thief would have been doing...Who takes their kids on a burglary? NON-white criminals and terrorists, that's who! But there are exceptions:
Four black men in a light brown car cleverly evaded capture by disguising themselves as a black woman and four children in a dark red car.
And here's the story of a white male human trafficker who was "caught" photographing a pair underage Asian girls in a compromising embrace while on a public ferry before dozens, if not hundreds, of witnesses!
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than the fireman!
But it's the person responsible for closing the garage door who's to blame: otherwise, the cop might have concluded that Mr. Jones was simply trying to steal a firefighter's SUV...
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He has a record of police brutality.
And he has such high integrity and respect for the law that he collects disability from Oakland while running around as a hot shot FBI agent!
This is the Oakland police.
And this is also Oakland politics: thinking that guys like this deserve a fat pension while Oakland's poor can't have one penny in direct cash for necessities? The underlying assumption is, of course, racist. Everyone on welfare is black. Therefore everyone on welfare is a scammer/doing drugs/making bad decisions...and thus can't be trusted with even a few dollars to buy toilet paper. And thus, they should be denied all means to buy toilet paper.
Naturally, they will go without toilet paper instead of turning to begging, prostitution, and crime to meet their needs. And naturally hey would never resent their Betters for drawing up such utterly bone-headed policies that leaves them at the mercy of corrupt, profiling police. Naturally.
