Against sexual misconduct. Charges ranged from oral copulation with a minor to obstruction of justice. This investigation has been a key focus at this office and every resource necessary provided and expended on uncovering that truth. Earlier this week oakland mayor libby schaaf announced that 12 oakland officers will be fired or suspended over this. Joins us now. Alex, nice to see you. Nice too see you. Are the officers charged in the Oakland Police department or other cities as well . Learned about seven criminal charges, seven officers charged with criminal charges. Five within the opb, some retired or resigned. One from livermore and one contracosta. Disciplinary action in connection with this. Any of those among the ones charged today . Appears so with at least one opb officer but its hard to tell. Reason is in the criminal realm, what we learned today, you get names, people charged are named. Open and public process. Police discipline and personnel files in california are extreme
Against sexual misconduct. Charges ranged from oral copulation with a minor to obstruction of justice. This investigation has been a key focus at this office and every resource necessary provided and expended on uncovering that truth. Earlier this week oakland mayor libby schaaf announced that 12 oakland officers will be fired or suspended over this. Joins us now. Alex, nice to see you. Nice too see you. Are the officers charged in the Oakland Police department or other cities as well . Learned about seven criminal charges, seven officers charged with criminal charges. Five within the opb, some retired or resigned. One from livermore and one contracosta. Disciplinary action in connection with this. Any of those among the ones charged today . Appears so with at least one opb officer but its hard to tell. Reason is in the criminal realm, what we learned today, you get names, people charged are named. Open and public process. Police discipline and personnel files in california are extreme
Against sexual misconduct. Charges ranged from oral copulation with a minor to obstruction of justice. This investigation has been a key focus at this office and every resource necessary provided and expended on uncovering that truth. Earlier this week oakland mayor libby schaaf announced that 12 oakland officers will be fired or suspended over this. Joins us now. Alex, nice to see you. Nice too see you. Are the officers charged in the Oakland Police department or other cities as well . Learned about seven criminal charges, seven officers charged with criminal charges. Five within the opb, some retired or resigned. One from livermore and one contracosta. Disciplinary action in connection with this. Any of those among the ones charged today . Appears so with at least one opb officer but its hard to tell. Reason is in the criminal realm, what we learned today, you get names, people charged are named. Open and public process. Police discipline and personnel files in california are extreme
That came to them straight through their cellphones. The alarm system is disguised as a decoration on the table. You see threat. And investigators tracked see it there. And investigators tracked down one suspect and now they are looking for the other two. And a live look at tampas skyline this morning. Make sure you give yourself extra time for the commute. There is fog in the bay area which could mean a longer drive this morning. It was so soupy when i drove in but not for gene. Exactly. This is extremely patchy. Meaning places like downtown tampa and polk county, perfectly clear. You can see for miles. But go a few miles and you run into almost a wall of fog. Thats what were seeing between hillsborough and polk county, plant city, brandon. You can only see about a quarter mile in front of you. You can see several miles in winter haven and lakeland. And fog in Pinellas County and up into pasco and hernando. Around at least through sunrise. So this is 5 30 this morning. Again, still pa
J edgar hoover. Two images come to mind. The first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. Targeting communists and leftists. Using his files to get his way with politicians. Image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. One of those is verifiable. The other is not. An irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. They capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. The fbis preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. The fact of the matter is we dont know. We cannot know what his sexuality was. Unless were willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. Not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the fbi targeted gays fo