Good evening, developing at this hour, the new batch of candidates for Oakland Police chief. This has been a long and controversial process between the mayor and police commission. The comes after mayor thao protected the first pool of candidates. The latest batch, Cincinnati Assistant Police chief, lisa davis, luis molina from new york, former San Leandro Police chief abdul pridgen, and former texas police chief, lloyd missile. Noticeably absent is former Oakland Police chief, armstrong, who was fired a year ago. That is how long it has been since oakland has had a chief. Lets bring in Jocelyn Moran with the late details. , and to do right now, this has been a long process with a lot of drama. The next chief of police will be walking into this just as the city is facing a number of issues. Come thursday, residents will be able to weigh in and hear from the candidates. Also important to note, all four are not from the city of oakland. It has been a year since oakland mayor, sheng thao,
Good evening, developing at this hour, the new batch of candidates for Oakland Police chief. This has been a long and controversial process between the mayor and police commission. The comes after mayor thao protected the first pool of candidates. The latest batch, Cincinnati Assistant Police chief, lisa davis, luis molina from new york, former San Leandro Police chief abdul pridgen, and former texas police chief, lloyd missile. Noticeably absent is former Oakland Police chief, armstrong, who was fired a year ago. That is how long it has been since oakland has had a chief. Lets bring in Jocelyn Moran with the late details. , and to do right now, this has been a long process with a lot of drama. The next chief of police will be walking into this just as the city is facing a number of issues. Come thursday, residents will be able to weigh in and hear from the candidates. Also important to note, all four are not from the city of oakland. It has been a year since oakland mayor, sheng thao,
Of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christian Movement for human rights to launch the Birmingham Campaign together, they sought to Bring National attention to the efforts to desegregate public facilities in
About 120,000 people. The force has been devastated into officer misconduct including allegations of racist and homophobic text messages. Jose martinez spoke to the longtime antioch resident who has felt the impact of rising crime and is eager of any kind of intervention. Reporter Hector Robles has been there in 1997. Many have been coming here for many years. Families that hoped. And the coworkers have had the catalytic converter. Calling the police, hector said nobody comes. If they do, that they are excited there. And the police department, having severely impacted by the joint investigations that have launched in march of 2022, by the fbi and the contra costa district attorney. Its the safety crisis, allowing 60 of the police force in the last few months. Over 30 . And that is the governor and chp commissioner to please consider providing the help that they need to keep that community safe. And they tell me that more than half of the city authorized officers that are on leave becau
Carrying signs and waving flags. Many of whom were also wearing some type of mask. Out of concern for my future and a concern for my familys well being, i dont want to be identified. Reporter this Berkeley Student asked us not to use his name saying he fears the repercussions of attending the rally. There is a lot of backlash coming at people who are in support of this and mischaracterization of their opinions. That will lead to people losing jobs, getting kicked out, expelled from school, having future job offers. Completely wiped off the board. Reporter he points out the irony of the current situation, given that the Free Speech Movement was started here at uc berkeley in the 1960s. Yet many of the students who attended todays rally say they are afraid of publicly supporting palestine, pointing to numerous examples of backlash including right here at cal. Where Corporate Law professor Steven Solomon recently wrote an oped in the wall street journal titled dont hire my antisemitic law