Dozens gathered Friday at Lake Merritt for a block party that organizers called a "Justice in July" event. They want the Alameda County DA and officers to be held accountable for police shootings and in-custody deaths.
Pamela Price, a new district attorney in Northern California, is the latest to reopen cases that had seemingly been shut, including one from more than 15 years ago.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) The new district attorney for California's Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area said Tuesday that a new Public Accountability Unit will re-investigate eight police shootings and custody deaths, including two killings of unarmed men by the same Oakland police officer.