This is a very sad issue granted, but me being from Oakland, me being from East Oakland, and me being 4 blocks from where the officers were killed I will say this. People die in Oakland via murder damn near everyday. It really makes me sad to see that go ignored year after year but when a tragedy like this happens it gets national news. I not saying that what happened was right because my thoughts and prayers go out to the OPD and their families. But people gotta realize this shit happens everyday in the hood, and should looked at because a life is a life whether you sell drugs for a living or fight crime. People don't understand a person who has nothing to lose mind state. It is sad but that's how the system we live in is set up. So I just wanted to say that for people to think about because people die everyday, innocent people die everyday and who are to honor and hold someone else s life of more value than the next person, a life is a life. RIP to the FIVE people who lost theirs lives on 74th and Mac, March 21, 2009