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DESCRIPTION:On Sunday, November 15th, the Oakland police were in chaos, trying to 
 suppress an “outrageous” Oakland “Side Show”.*  Up to 700 cars and 
 motorcycles from as far away as Fresno, San Jose and Los Angeles converged, 
 shutting down numerous street intersections and a portion of Interstate 
 880, doing donuts and kicking up clouds of smoking rubber from the tires of 
 all manners of vehicles, from jacked-up big rim floaters, to family sedans 
 and motorcycles. \n\nAt one point Oakland Police, Sheriffs and Highway 
 Patrol encircled suspected participants and onlookers alike, busting 
 people, writing tickets and towing motorcycles. Cops were pissed, they had 
 been made fools of all day, but now they were “in control” and 
 definitely wanted to let people know it. It was against that backdrop that 
 Richard Perkins was shot and killed by police. "I just heard pow, pow, pow, 
 pow, pow, many shots," said a witness. “He wasn’t doing nothing!” 
 said another.\n\nRichard Perkins, a 39 year old truck driver, and was the 
 father of two children. He loved his community and helped at his church. 
 Richard was not a participant in the “side show”, but was attracted by 
 his love of motorcycles. His mother told us fondly how Richard loved to 
 work on “bikes”, “but could never keep his running long enough to 
 ride it.”\n\nPolice claim that Richard walked toward them pointing a 
 “replica” gun at them, so they had to shoot.  Four cops opened up on 
 Richard, shot at him 20 times, with up to 16 bullets hitting him. Holes 
 from high-powered police bullets ripped into cars and the nearby gas 
 station, and Richard was murdered on the spot. Later, Oakland police 
 produced what they are calling the “replica weapon.” \n\nWitnesses have 
 said that there was nothing in Richard’s hands and when he saw the cops 
 aiming at him, he lifted his shirt and held his hands up and yelled 
 “Please, Don’t Shoot!”. But the cops opened fire anyway. Then they 
 let Richard’s body lay where he fell for 10 hours! \n \nRichard's mother, 
 Ada, went to the murder site and prayed for the family of the dead man who 
 lay beneath the tarp, NOT KNOWING IT WAS HER OWN SON! After Richard was 
 killed, he laid on the ground from 5:30pm til 3am “They left him there 
 like a dog!”\n\nThe family didn't learn of Richard's death until the cops 
 called 2 days later on Tuesday morning, even though the family lives a 
 block away.! They were not even able to identify the body until Thursday 
 morning. \n\nThe police story is that he pointed a gun (what turned out to 
 be a pellet gun) at officers. Cops told local news that four officers, 
 "fearing for their lives, had no choice but to protect themselves." Several 
 witnesses say however that 4 cops shot at him 20 times, with up to 16 
 bullets hitting him, while nothing was in his hands. In fact, witnesses say 
 that he lifted up his shirt to show the cops his pellet gun in his 
 waistband, while yelling "PLEASE DON'T SHOOT!" Bullets went into the nearby 
 gas station and even the neighbor's car!\n\nOne of the100 Castlemont High 
 students who walked out of school to demonstrate Richard’s murder said, 
 "A lot of us decided we had to take action ASAP. There's been a lot of 
 police killing in Oakland, and we're TIRED of it." The focus on sideshows 
 is bullshit. The problem is police terror and racism!”\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/08/18781622.php
SUMMARY:Justice for Richard Perkins Jr and all lives stolen by police
LOCATION:Rally at 90th and International at 12 noon\nMarch to 90th and Bancroft at 
 the site of Richard's murder
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/08/18781622.php
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