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DESCRIPTION:Beloved Community,\n\nTomorrow Oakland City Council will vote on a 
 resolution Honoring the Life of Alan Dwayne Blueford, who was murdered by 
 Oakland Police Department 12 years ago today on May 6, 2012 at the age of 
 only 18-years-old. His mother, and our sister in struggle, Jeralynn 
 Blueford, is calling on us to show up in support.\n\nWe are asking you to 
 show up tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7 at city hall to help this family, 
 forever-impacted by OPD’s terror, continue to fight for Alan and his 
 legacy.\n\nWHAT: Support Oakland Resolution Honoring the Life of Alan 
 Dwayne Blueford\nWHERE: In person at City Hall (1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, 3rd 
 Floor, Oakland, CA 94612) or online on Zoom\n\nAll public speakers must 
 submit a speaker card before the meeting. Members of the public must (1) 
 Visit the City Of Oakland meeting calendar webpage \n(2) Click the 
 hyperlink labeled ‘eComment’ in the far right column of the meeting you 
 wish to participate, (You will be redirected to the specific meeting 
 webpage); and \n(3) Register to ‘Sign In To Speak’ for agenda item 
 5.8\n\nFor more instructions, please refer to the meeting agenda\nSign up 
 to Speak  \nDownload the Meeting Agenda\n\nOn May 6, 2012, then Oakland 
 Police Department Officer Miguel Masso — a transplant from New York with 
 a history of violence � rollled up in the nighttime hours, in an unmarked 
 car with his lights off, on three young African-American men in deep East 
 Oakland. Alan Blueford, a high school student with a 3.0 GPA, and two 
 friends were walking to the corner store to grab a few snacks while they 
 waited for their ride home. Officer Miguel Masso jumped out of the car, 
 never asking for names or identification. He immediately threw one of the 
 boys down on the curb.\n\nTerrified, the teenagers asked, “What did we 
 do?* Masso grabbed a second youth by the shoulder, pushing him forcefully 
 against the fence and twisted his arm behind his back. Masso kept shouting 
 and roughing them up. None of the children were placed under arrest or read 
 their rights.\n\nAlan started to walk away. Masso vigorously ran toward 
 him. Alan ran, Masso gave chase. According to witness statements, Alan was 
 yelling at the top of his lungs, “I didn’t do anything!” At this 
 point, Masso turned off his lapel camera, chased Alan for five blocks, and 
 shot him in the chest three times, as he lay on his back in the driveway of 
 a residential home.\n\nMasso would later claim to both the police and the 
 press that Alan had shot him in the foot to explain the wound he was 
 discovered to have. This claim proved to be false. A police investigation 
 revealed that Masso had in fact shot himself. However, that initial lie 
 interrupted what would have been swift and immediate outrage from the 
 Oakland community. As a result, Jeralynn and her husband (Alan Sr.), would 
 spend the next few years not only demanding justice for their son, but also 
 trying to clear his soiled name. Meanwhile OPD and its association did 
 everything it could to defend MAsso and cover up the evidence of his vile 
 transgression.\n\nDespite this litany of egregious behavior and attempts at 
 cover up – the Blueford family was awarded one of the smallest 
 settlements in the history of Oakland for the murder and slander of their 
 son. But they have never stopped fighting.\n\nFighting for Alan and for any 
 family that finds themselves in this exclusive club no one wants to 
 join.\n\nWe are asking you to show up tomorrow and help them continue to 
 fight for Alan, his legacy and all those impacted by the violence of the 
 Oakland Police Department and the State. Fight for those who have not yet 
 been impacted but one day may consider it luck to be a “survivor”, like 
 myself. Fight so that this never happens again. Fight for all of our sakes 
 and in the many names of too many ancestors slain by law enforcement in 
 America.\n\nJoin us tomorrow to scream “Justice for Alan Blueford”! 
 Let’s get this day passed for Alan, his family and all of us.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/07/18865981.php
SUMMARY:Justice 4 Alan Blueford
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/07/18865981.php
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