Berkeley Man Beaten To Death While Police Too Busy Monitoring Occupy Oakland Protest To Respond…
Occupy claims another life.
(SFGate) — Residents of the tranquil Berkeley hills were in shock Sunday after police described a horrific slaying, with a homeowner beaten after confronting a young man – an apparent stranger – who had trespassed onto his property.
Authorities did not identify the victim, but neighbors and public records indicated that the owner of the home where the Saturday night killing occurred was Peter Cukor, 67, who owned a logistics consulting firm. His family declined to talk.
Shortly after the attack outside the large home near Tilden Park, a Berkeley police officer found Daniel Jordan Dewitt, 23, of Alameda, less than a block away. Dewitt was booked on suspicion of murder, and was being held Sunday without bail.
Dewitt suffers from mental illness, said his mother, Candy Dewitt.
The victim had called police on a nonemergency line after first seeing Dewitt, according to sources familiar with the case. But police were busy monitoring an Occupy Oakland march to UC Berkeley, and officers were dispatched only to high-priority calls.
An officer who noticed the call about Dewitt on his computer told a dispatcher he would respond, but was told not to go, sources said.
Minutes later, the victim’s wife heard her husband yelling for help and called 911 after seeing the suspect dragging him into bushes and hitting him with a potted plant, sources said.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, February 20, 2012, at 5:50 pm | 
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and so it begins…
Did he live in a gun free zone?
Huh. I would guess a man being beaten to death would count as “high priority.”
RIP Peter Cukor.
First of many to come!!!
Wonder if this murderer was also an owser. Sounds like the type these commies use for cannon fodder.
When you have to call 9-11 always have a contingency plan and do not confront criminals without it.
Did he live in a gun free zone?
The only reason I avoided Cali when I went cross-country last year.
VT – i wouldn’t be surprised if it was as ows beating up a homeless vet who might have said something he didn’t like. Totally guessing.
God bless their spontaneity and effectiveness, right Nancy P?
mother said he suffers from mental illness…..he needs to suffer from having his ass beaten to death.
Another reward of the great OWS movement .
An advanxed scout from Barry’s OWS Jihadists.
He was a suicide attacker.
Read the headline and not the story when i posted the comment… oops
CA is is only a gun free zone if you are a fool. I am in Oakland, and while there are some criminal cops here and in Berkeley that think the constitution does not apply, free men are armed and understand that their life is more valuable than the cost of a legal hassle.
The Occupodder in the orange mask covered his face but not his tattoos.
I feel very sorry for this man. Sad loss of life.
I hope he was not an occupier fan, no doubt many in that area are supporters of the whole lunatic occupier fringes. And they will not learn until it comes to their doorsteps, which it appears it has now.
Isn’t there some saying that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged?
1. We need to register flower pots!
2. Why would anyone want to occupy Oakland?
3. Remember, the police aren’t obligated to protect us.
Sadly, loss of the man’s life is horrible.
When seconds count, the police are but minutes away.” Yeah Right
Mental illness=Registered Democrat
Stupid annoying occupyers responsible a death and the jerks in the picture like true bolshivec pigs showing the commie pig salute to their fellow commie pigs and their cowardly faces hidden behind their bandanas
Your move, Olbermann…
The man’s widow should sue Mayor Kwan for encouraging Obama’s Occupiers to begin with and not enforcing the law.
@Spurwing Plover
Excellent description of Obama’s Occupiers, but you forgot one thing: their rank and rancid odor.
Pelosi to comment in 1.2.3.
“The victim had called police on a nonemergency line after first seeing Dewitt, according to sources familiar with the case.”
Of course, the Berkeley liberal didn’t want to involve the fascist pig cops on an emergent basis. In our liberal victim’s mind, the home intruder may have been some vagrant looking for a slice of bread. If the guy would’ve called 911 instead of being politically correct, he might be alive.
“Dewitt suffers from mental illness, said his mother, Candy Dewitt.”
The “mental illness” he suffers from is “frustration from not being able to be president of a multimillion dollar internet company immediately upon graduating college”.
Not unexpected… Take a look at the red-green goon in the center with the orange scarf over his face: Arabic on his shirt and Arabic scribbled on his right-hand arm raised in an islamomarxist salute.
OMG – nobody’s mother is really named Candy! I’m from that neck of the woods and it still blows what’s left of my mind the stupid silly names of some women.
The thing is Berkeley is crawling with cops, both city and University police. Unreal, but that is Berkeley for you.
The Mayorette and the Chief of Police should be held personally responsible for the death.
Why isn’t Gloria Allred shooting her mouth off and getting face time on all the TV stations?
“An officer who noticed the call about Dewitt on his computer told a dispatcher he would respond, but was told not to go…”
Told not to go???…..hmmm, the dispatcher made a decision to NOT render police support to a citizen who requested assistance. Not good.
Even though Berkeley is a swarming pit of insurrection, the Berkeley hills are a very prestigious area, very little of the madness downtown spills out into the hills of Tilden Park, so it’s not a hot bed of problems, quite the contrary … as to the Occupissants, I think we should start shooting the bastards … thin out the nappy headed parasites … they just want to inflame and cause trouble… to hell with them.
I would like to see one of those jerks with their bandanas walk into some place and end up with abackside full of bird shot
Guess that neighborhood learned what the Obama Army is really about. Rape, pillage and death to white people. Moonbats die first.
I am sure Obama will say these officers acted stupidly… Wait. Was the dead guy white? Henry Louis Gates unavailable for comment.
I can’t remember who said this, but if fits: I carry a gun because a police officer won’t fit in my pocket. Law enforcement does a pretty decent job at solving crimes. At preventing them? Meh, marginal success.
Point taken, yet who could argue the population of Berkeley doesn’t need a thinning-out?
If the crazy-assed son of a bitch comes into your house uninvited in Texas, it’s a reason to use deadly force. As long as you don’t shoot the psychobastard in the back, it’s good night Irene between the eyes with a Glock.
Looks like a muzz-slime leading the procession!!
didn’t zero do a fund raiser there last week?
Look, I don`t understand the problem. It was just a rich white guy and he was probably a racist homophobe. I `m sure our leftist rulers look on this as a good thing…. But seriously, why would anyone go out side a confront a unknown threat without a weapon, its califorina NO guns, but at least a baseball bat. or a can of pepper spray and a roll of quarters.
Colateral damage.
Joe McCarthy warned us of these evil communists slimeballs
The asshole at the front is probably not a Muzzie. He’s probably some trust fund dropout from the San Fernando Valley wearing a kaffiyeh and pretending to be important.
A few years ago in Austin, there was some kind of protest that got a bit ugly. Some UTAustin asshole fratboy was wearing a kaffiyeh and black ski cap in some lame attempt to intimidate the cops. The kaffiyeh and ski cap got pulled off of him when he was arrested. The pictures of him made our local paper, and when he got home his father gave him holy hell and sent him off to a bible college. I’ll bet idiot fratboy is still trying to dig his father’s boot out of his ass.
sorry, but mental illness is not a excuse for MURDER— the Blood of all these people are on our dictator and holder the pigs—G-D HELP US!!!
@Dapandico yes he lived in a gun free zone, he lived in Berkeley, ca. Home of radical leftists.