{"id":4442,"date":"2009-03-23T06:01:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2009-03-23T04:50:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T09:50:46","slug":"police-fourth-oakland-police-officer-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4442","title":{"rendered":"Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our prayers and sympathy go to the families and comrades of the officers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090322\/ap_on_re_us\/police_shot_ca\">Pslain by a paroled con in Oakland:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police say the fourth Oakland police officer shot on Saturday has died at a city hospital.Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason says 41-year-old Officer John Hege died Sunday at Highland Hospital after being gravely wounded during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say a 26-year-old parolee opened fire on Hege and 40-year-old Sgt. Mark Dunakin after they pulled him over around 1 p.m. on Saturday, killing Dunakin.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect Lovelle Mixon was slain later that afternoon in a gunfight with police that left two more officers dead. Thomason identified those officers as 43-year-old Sgt. Ervin Romans and 35-year-old Sgt. Daniel Sakai.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No getting around it; it&#8217;s a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Boy; it&#8217;s a good thing California, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=gun+control+oakland+CA&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">especially Oakland<\/a>, clamp down hard on the rights of law-abiding Californians to defend themselves; goodness only knows how bad this tragedy could have been otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our prayers and sympathy go to the families and comrades of the officers Pslain by a paroled con in Oakland: Police say the fourth Oakland police officer shot on Saturday has died at a city hospital.Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason says 41-year-old Officer John Hege died Sunday at Highland Hospital after being gravely wounded during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}