Mural artist Antonio Ramos was murdered in broad daylight on Tuesday morning in West Oakland while working on a community art project.
BH: Ironically, Ramos, 27, was painting a mural with a message of non-violence for the crime-ridden community when he was shot and killed.
#AntonioRamos murdered in #Oakland while painting boy with powers to heal and stop violence. @oaklandpolicecapic.twitter.com/T5e8Bit0FC
— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) September 30, 2015
“Everybody’s devastated,” the mural project director for Art Esteem Amanda Harris told KRON 4. Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent, who called the fatal shooting “tragic” and “totally unacceptable” said the artist was “someone who was trying to make a positive difference in this city and lost his life.” Continued
It’s not a “community”. It’s an enclave of savages.
sick
sick
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“…Ramos was painting under the Interstate 580 underpass at West Street and 35th Street in West Oakland.”
I’m not from there, but I missed a ramp near that same spot last Summer. What white hipster prog living off a grant at Art Esteem told him it was a good place to paint any time of day? Whoever it was should be made to go finish Antonio’s work at midnight.
A cesspool
It’s Oakland…what the hell did you expect.
Oakland, hey?
What passes for Culture in Oakland is “Raider Nation.”
Maybe it was a Concerned Citizen who mistook him for a tagger?
Yeah, a concerned tagger.
There goes one less vote for Bernie….But not to worry, his friends will vote for him in droves.
Irony. And that’s a hot one. (repeated headdesk)