PACOVILLA follower Steelheader says, “It is always better to have a gun in the hand than a cop on the phone. Another avoidable tragic death.”
COPS DIDN’T COME, HOMEOWNER DIED
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
February 22, 2012
Peter Cukor, 67, was by all accounts a good guy. He was beaten to death at his Berkeley home Saturday night when the cops didn’t come. They were only responding to “real emergencies” at the time because they were on standby for an Occupy Oakland response.
Cukor first called the cops about 8:45 p.m. on the non-emergency line to report a suspicious person hanging around his property. After that call Cukor walked 160 feet to the nearby fire station to request assistance. The firefighters were out on a call. When he returned home he was confronted by the suspicious person, Daniel Jordan DeWitt, 23, who is something of a nutter. DeWitt picked up a large ceramic pot and beat Cukor to death with it.
At that time Cukor’s wife called the cops. They responded in less than five minutes and arrested DeWitt, who was still in the area.
It turns out there was an available cop nearby when the first call came in. That cop volunteered to respond but was reminded by dispatch that they were only responding to emergency calls at that time. On that particular evening the Occupy mob was quite and numbered only about 40. No arrests were made.
DeWitt also has a charge pending from an assault on a nurse at a psych facility in San Leandro.
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