The 'Crime' Of Walking While Black.....the DEADLY consequences for a 16 year old.

[Keith Millea]

I have to change my opinion about this shooting.The teen apparently pulled a gun on the officer.This would give the officer full authority to use deadly force.That's the way it is.......:nono:

Oakland cop cleared in slaying of teen

Teen who died pointed pistol at officer, report says

Demian Bulwa

Updated 10:31 p.m., Tuesday, October 9, 2012

• Alan Blueford, 18, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer on May 6. Photo: Blueford Family / SF
  
• Alan Blueford, 18, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer...
  
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  The Oakland police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford during a foot chase this year acted in self-defense and will face no criminal charges, Alameda County prosecutors said Tuesday.
  
  In an 18-page report on the controversial May 6 shooting, Senior Deputy District Attorney Kenneth Mifsud said Officer Miguel Masso shot Blueford three times in the chest and left shoulder after the fleeing teenager pointed a loaded semiautomatic pistol at him.
  
  "Officer Masso actually and reasonably believed that his life was in danger after he had made eye contact with Mr. Blueford and that if he did not shoot, he would be killed," Mifsud wrote.
  Mifsud quoted Masso - whose account of the shooting was revealed for the first time - as saying he "went into survival mode."
  
  The officer shot himself in his right foot during the chaotic encounter, the prosecutor said, and had to be carried from the scene because he "was in a state of shock and unable to move his legs."
  
  The shooting happened just after midnight at 92nd Avenue and Birch Street. The prosecutor said a 9mm pistol - a .380-caliber Sig Sauer P230 - was found "several feet" from where Blueford was shot, and had his left thumbprint on its ammunition magazine.
  
  Mifsud noted that the gun had been taken during the burglary of a police officer's home in Mountain House on Nov. 29, 2011 - "some 12 miles from Blueford's residence in Tracy."
  
  Two sources said the burglary victim did not work for the Oakland police force. According to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department, the thief kicked in two doors, then made off with a safe holding six firearms.
  
  Blueford's father, Adam Blueford, said Tuesday that he was disappointed by the district attorney's conclusions.
  "We thought it might go this way," he said. "My son didn't commit any crime at all other than running. This is alarming."
  
  The report was made public Tuesday but was given to Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan on Oct. 3, the day after Jordan - under pressure from Blueford's family - released a set of investigative reports into the shooting.
  
  The family has led demonstrations against the shooting and has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming Blueford did not have a gun when he was shot and did not pose a lethal threat.
  
  The family's supporters protested angrily at a City Council meeting last month, prompting officials to shut down the meeting and draft new rules limiting public access to the chambers.
  The family's attorney, John Burris, said he was not surprised by the report.
  
  "The standard of proof (in a criminal prosecution) is beyond a reasonable doubt, and without a video, it's very difficult to prosecute a police officer," he said.
  
  When Blueford was killed, he was nearing graduation from Skyline High School in Oakland, where he commuted to attend. He had earlier been convicted of a burglary in San Joaquin County, police said.
  
  Masso was hired in 2008 after working as an officer in Morgan Hill and New York, and as a military police officer for the Army.
  
  The report by the district attorney's office said Masso and his patrol partner, Officer Joe Fesmire, watched Blueford and two companions from afar as one of the other teens "moved his right hand to his waistband" as if he was concealing a gun, and then appeared to toss something through a fence.
  
  After the officers got out of their patrol car and detained the teenagers, the report says, Blueford initially complied with orders to sit down before jumping up and running.
  Masso said he gave chase because he thought Blueford might have a gun.
  
  According to the report, Masso said he shouted 10 to 15 times at Blueford, ordering him to stop, and threatened to shock him with a Taser. The officer said Blueford ran for nearly three blocks with his left hand on his jeans and his right hand at his waist, as if he was armed.
  
  Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakl...z290bl19eH