Transparent. An intentional way including stop. Students community and board and put the Districts Police department is separate from opd according to the district the unit consists of more than 100 sworn personnel in school site officers who oversee the schools and neighborhoods across the city of oakland in the wake of the killing of george floyd districts across the country are calling for Police Free Schools wednesday afternoon activists, students and parents held a press conference calling for change we are clear action. You know the point ust board of educators only introduced the legislation in their virtual noodle this is a way to re imagine. How we educate children without harming them with Constant Contact with police and this isnt to say that our Police Officers and usc are bad people. So the board of educators daybell vote on this new legislation on june 24th on the other hand, the of the labor at 4 o ust Police Department made a Public Comment in tonights meeting. Telling
The main drag through atlanta for about an hour. Traffic was backed up for miles eventually the people moved off the freeway traffic started flowing again and that is right near that wendys the freeway runs close to that this is south of downtown atlanta. And the wendys has been the focus though of the protests because that is where brooks died last night and the building figures to burn to the ground firefighters have been nowhere in sight they have said it is too dangerous for them to battle the fire you see all the people there earlier tonight. The building is now on fire. But earlier there were about 4 fires throughout the parking lot outside that wendys says we say good evening, thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock with us im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis this all started when officers got a call. Last night about a man who was asleep at the wheel in the drivethru line. Other cars were driving around him. Police showed up then they say they found this man rush hour brooke
For only 29. 95 a month for three months. Call or go online today. Video showing an incident at a protest involving the San Francisco Sheriffs Office has sparked a new criminal investigation. Coming up, wihat the San Francisco District Attorney has to say about it. A Bay Area Police chief drawing criticism tonight for comments he made about shooting guns during a protest. Without your help we will not survive. The desperate plea from a longtime Silicon Valley trade school at risk of closing because of covid19. It was a hot day again across the bay area, but cooler weather is about to move in. Well have the details in the accuweather forecast. Abc 7 news starts right now. Defund opd happening now, hundreds of people marched to oakland mayor libby schaafs house chanting the names of men and women killed by police. Theyre calling on the mayor to defund the Oakland Police department and reinvest the money in education. Abc 7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is live in oakland. J. R. . Reporter ye
On a Police Department in the central coast. The shooting following two similar attacks in the oakland and santa cruz mountains. Attacks that left two Law Enforcement officers dead. Sources tell us those attacks are linked. We could have three cases of domestic terrorism all linked in our area. Nbcs Terry Mcsweeney has the inside story from oakland. Reporter federal authorities believe two bay area attacks on Law Enforcement are the work of the same domestic terror cell. The ambush that led to David Underwood dead and the attack that killed Sergeant Damon gutsweller. Federal sources tell us that Steven Carillo is believed to be the sun gan gunman of the shoot oakland. Justin earhart trained with him in utah and never had a hint he was capable of an attack, especially on Law Enforcement. It was a shock. A lot of us have known him as someone who was nice and helpful and very friendly. Reporter at the times of the killings, he was stationed in fair field, training explosives and tactics.
They let their voice be heard. And you can see that tonight in the signs. The many signs that they left outside of the mayors house. That one there saying defund the police. Now, i do want to go to some of the video because it was pretty incredible seeing the amount of people who came out to march from one walgreens in oakland and up to the mayors house. I can tell you their message, a clear one, in defunding the Police Department. Now, what does that mean, you ask, they made the point they would like to see a lot of that money that goes to the Police Department rerouted into other areas like education and services as well. This was a youthled rally tonight. So a lot of young people out here. We spoke with some of those young people who at times had lit candles in memor of thwhdit e hands of officers. This is what they had to say. Being a resident from oakland and having a mayor like libby schaaf, who is complicit and completely complacent with the violence of opd on their brown and bl