Hit man kills newspaper editor on Oakland street

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-TiM C- said:
right, right. i understand oakland is comparable to the west bank, but this man was trying to help the community. and he gets murdered in broad daylight in the same city he's trying to better? pretty senseless if you ask me
Oakland is like that because the people in charge like it like that rule by fear. This guy was most likely trying to do good bye using the press to speak up and speak out about shit that was going on. Some suit running shit got sick of him and sent a message. Keep your mouth shut or get shot. Its sad and that why oakland is not growing like san jose or san francisco nobody wants to invest money in oaktown. They keep trying to fix up the downtown area they need to fix the hood first. Knocking some old buildings and warehouse's down to build condos and townhouses is not enuff.
 

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-TiM C- said:
ok, so where in there does it say he ws a "snitch"? sure, he was "assertive in questioning the city" that means he's questioning people who pay the police salary. i would think the open forum would praise this man.
do you think he got killed execution style because he ate all the chedder and chives orville reddenbocker popcorn?

people like that get killed because they need to be silenced

theres never any other reason a city official will be killed in broad daylight

those are the type of people that attempt to keep positive images of themselves and wont be involved in too much illegality due to fear of scandal
 
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Gas One said:
do you think he got killed execution style because he ate all the chedder and chives orville reddenbocker popcorn?

people like that get killed because they need to be silenced

theres never any other reason a city official will be killed in broad daylight

those are the type of people that attempt to keep positive images of themselves and wont be involved in too much illegality due to fear of scandal

gas i understand what your saying and i think my post may have came out wrong. people lke that need to be silienced, true, but the people who are worried about what he has to say, and likely the poepe who ordered him dead, work for the city. the same city that pays these police officers who are shooting 15 yr old kids in the head. you would think that this man (the one who got killed) would be praised for raising questions about corruption of the city, the corruption on a street level that would affect you and me out there in the streets. they dont give a fcuk about any of yall in east or west or north oakland. the peopel in city hall work for those sittin pretty in the hills, and this man was fighting against that. then he gets murdered and you guys are like

"oh i dont give a shit"
"town bidness"

i know its just for laughs and you're probably not serious, i just dont think its a very funny issue.
 

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it IS town bidness. that dosent mean i dont care.

well i DONT care, but you know what i mean.

he worked for the city of oakland, sounds liek town bidness to me.

dont mistake me saying 'town bidness' as "im glad he was killed, good shit!"

it means its a city issue....which it is.
 
Nov 20, 2005
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Gas One said:
do you think he got killed execution style because he ate all the chedder and chives orville reddenbocker popcorn?

people like that get killed because they need to be silenced

theres never any other reason a city official will be killed in broad daylight

those are the type of people that attempt to keep positive images of themselves and wont be involved in too much illegality due to fear of scandal
he wasn't a city official.

~k.
 
Nov 20, 2005
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he doesnt work for the oakland tribune anymore.

media news group owns the oakland tribune and the rest of ang newspapers.

~k.
 

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did that stop him from getting blapped in the back and face?

no it didnt.

if you work for a newspaper, people will think youre involved with the city. its really the same shit. you have power to speak on things and possibly change them.

i know out here, thats how it is. people who write for the tribune are involved in the city.

might not be the same there. but if he didnt have some say in the city he wouldnt have gotten dumped on.

people kill threats.
 

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"This is madness," Holmgren said of the slaying. "He held our feet to the fire; he kept me on my toes."
This is the Police spokesman talking....its not town biz its corporate biz....someone with big pockets wanted him dead....Dude qustioned everything these top officials were doing....Its a white collor who had him blapped...he wasnt snitchin for shit.....He was putting pressure on the police department, and got fired from the tribune, because he had his own mind and wasnt down with the blindfold that the media puts out there!!!!!
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/bcn_chauncey_bailey_fatally_shot_upd2_070802.shtml
Or maybe it was her...
 

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Gas One said:
did that stop him from getting blapped in the back and face?

no it didnt.

if you work for a newspaper, people will think youre involved with the city. its really the same shit. you have power to speak on things and possibly change them.

i know out here, thats how it is. people who write for the tribune are involved in the city.

might not be the same there. but if he didnt have some say in the city he wouldnt have gotten dumped on.

people kill threats.
How do you know he wasnt trying to help the people and not the city...Cause thats what he was trying to do.....Not snitch people out......he was going against the city and its officials....Where are you From?
 

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-TiM C- said:
gas i understand what your saying and i think my post may have came out wrong. people lke that need to be silienced, true, but the people who are worried about what he has to say, and likely the poepe who ordered him dead, work for the city. the same city that pays these police officers who are shooting 15 yr old kids in the head. you would think that this man (the one who got killed) would be praised for raising questions about corruption of the city, the corruption on a street level that would affect you and me out there in the streets. they dont give a fcuk about any of yall in east or west or north oakland. the peopel in city hall work for those sittin pretty in the hills, and this man was fighting against that. then he gets murdered and you guys are like

"oh i dont give a shit"
"town bidness"

i know its just for laughs and you're probably not serious, i just dont think its a very funny issue.
Real shit right Here, and no that shit aint funny at all.....
 
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Man... shit like this is so depressing, I originally was going to type up my reactions and elaborate on them but after reading the responses in this thread I decided otherwise.

Reading some of what you guys said really just further shows the ignorance and bullshit that surrounds our generation and youth. When Messy Marv got sent to jail for holding an illegal firearm, hundreds of people rushed into these threads to spam free someone who really doesn't GIVE a FUCK about you. But when someone who actually did and lived up to what most people only talk about, that is, when someone who worked to give back and better the community dies, people come in here and try to justify his death by saying he was a snitch. Its always "me first" these days, dont nobody give a fuck anymore. Our world is so fucked up, from our communities to the federal government, in more ways than one.


Ignorance is one of the things I truly cannot stand in people, and it seems like its becoming more and more prevalent especially in our youth and current generations. People got reality and fiction so fucked up these days, it's people like this man who we as a community, especially the hiphop community should be looking up to, and not these rappers. If hiphop truly embodies the essence of working from nothing to something, then it is the mailmen, the 9-5 worker, the journalists, the moms and dads who are SACRAFICING to raise their children right, its those people we should Glorify as the hiphop community; instead of D-boys and senseless bullshit. Tell me that aint the truth.

Man I usually dont even type this much, but shit, reading this thread struck a nerve in me cause it just makes me so sad to see people who actually try to make a difference die senselessly like that. I dunno how yall feel but thats how I feel man