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“There is definitely a balance,” said Officer Roland Holmgren, department spokesman. “This thing had potential — who knows where the suspects were going to take the situation? But by no stretch of the imagination are we agreeing with or justifying what the owner did.”

Holmgren said, “We’re not saying that we want citizens to go out there and arm themselves and take the law into their own hands. We want citizens to be good witnesses, to be good report-takers and to identify suspects.”

IE, we want the public to be helpful victims, rather than kill wife-battering armed robbers in the process of holding up a family business.

The shooting has left two families traumatized, Holmgren said. “There are no winners in this whole case,” he said.

I'd say there are winners, but they're not in the San Francisco police department.

Mr. Piedra deserves a standing ovation for a job well done.

aspiring rap artist

Yawn...

AFW, where are you when we need you? :P

They aren't standing, but maybe this will help.

It would have been "tragic" only if Mister Piedra had missed.

The morons chime in:

Mohammed Ali, the manager of a market on the busy thoroughfare that has seen its share of robberies, had mixed feelings about business owners arming themselves. "Of course they have a right to protect themselves, but from what? If we have law enforcement, should (businesses) have guns? I don't think so. They're inviting trouble."

Hicks was remembered at a growing makeshift memorial Friday near the corner of 90th Avenue and Olive Street in East Oakland. Friends left balloons, candles and bottles of Hennessy cognac on the street and wrote messages on white boards tied to a fence.

"Hard-headed ass, Boonie," one message read. "The world's gone miss u boy."

"He always had a smile on his face," said a 22-year-old man who identified himself as a rapper named Little Al. "He was a solid dude, loyal."

He didn't express any anger at the pizzeria owner for shooting his friend. "Life happens," he said. "I'm not upset, you feel me? You wouldn't want it to happen, but it happened. Ain't no telling why that shooting occurred."

Oakland cop:....We want citizens to be good witnesses, to be good report-takers and to identify suspects.

Uh, that officer has some confusion on just who works for whom.

"If we have law enforcement, should (businesses) have guns? I don't think so. They're inviting trouble."

Who do they think they are? Public school principals?

So where's Zorkie today?

She's busy working on her next game :-)

Yay!!!

I am baffled as to why an armed robber got shot dead. Just inexplicable.