-The Mercury News, January 7, 2009 by Sean Maher and Josh Richman
http://www.mercurynews.com/localnews/ci_11394377
“Normally, what you get in a police deadly force interaction is a ‘he said, she said’ in which there’s at least an accusation like, ‘There was a flash of metal as he reached toward his pocket,'” Zimring said. “But this guy was already down on the ground…. He’s not in a position to be threatening anybody.” Use of deadly force is considered “in terms of a threat to the physical safety of the officer or somebody else and there’s none there in this case,” he added. “So it’s accident versus intention, but justification is off the table.”
-Oakland Tribune, January 8, 2009 by Kelly Rayburn
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_11411613
“What on earth are the Oakland police doing staying out?” he asked. BART police “don’t have exclusive jurisdiction over (homicides) in the city of Oakland, even if it’s in a BART station,” he said.
-Oakland Tribune, January 15, 2009 by Josh Richman
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_11465336
“At the beginning of this year, I thought that the district attorney’s office in Alameda County was one of the better departments in the United States, and nothing that’s happened since New Year’s Eve has changed my view,” he said, adding that if anything moved too slowly in this case, it was the Oakland Police Department’s involvement. “The missing moving parts were in police investigation. There was nothing slow and nothing dysfunctional, at least in the public accounts, with what went on in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.”