Peterson she is not afraid of much. The former ballet dancer and now yoga and structure instructor has plenty of Upper Body Strength as its clear by the tackle she made against her mugger. I was just focusing on getting inside the building. It was a sunny tuesday afternoon when Whitney Peterson walked into this Market Street building for an appointment in San Francisco, not noticing the man who falls behind her to steal her louis purse. He just basically grabbed my waist. And then he just took his other hand and he, you know, grab the purse. Security camera showed the thief running out the door, but peterson wasnt going down without a fight. Tackling the man to the ground. I felt, you know, i feel angry and i felt i know like help like, who are you like . We think you can do this to me. No peterson says she almost got her purse back, but a getaway car was waiting for her attacker who drove away from the scene during the tackle. She ended up hitting her head off the sidewalk, resulting
Media giant. Thank you for joining us for kron. 4 news at 8. Im pam moore and im ken wayne. The string of violence continues. The city of oakland has now recorded 101 homicide so far this year. With 2 lives lost in just the past. 24 hours, most recently, police say a man died around 4 oclock this morning on everett avenue in the citys glenview neighborhood. Officers say they were responding to reports of a catalytic converter theft when they arrived. They say they found a man who had been shot a number of times and he died at the scene. The escalation of violence in oakland is pushing some Community Groups to call for the resignation of the council. President Nikki Fortunato bas well force to resist asio explains. Find an open east out of control. How many you might have thought about all you have attendant. And also how many big toes jeff attendance that you are way off fed up with ongoing violence in oakland, Community Activists and chinatown, chamber of commerce, president carl chan
Campus where 3 different schools are located in. Tonight, were learning more about the victims, one of them, a School District carpenter here, Jason Arbuckle says he is recovering tonight at the hospital. He was shot in the head tells us hes thankful to the people at the school who helped him stop the bleeding and were able to keep him calm. While paramedics raced to the scene, 6 people total were shot to our students. One is a school counselor, another a School Security guard and 2 others also worked at the school. Police say the 2 suspects breached the entrance of the school. They went inside with the intent to shoot. Oakland city officials held a Virtual Press conference today. Our kron fours rob nesbitt joins us now live with the details of what weve learned about the victims and the shooters rob oakland. Police say security cameras show 2 gunman going into the reds. Dale school, the shooters identify their intended target and began to fire. Wednesdays mass shooting was a targeted
And one of them died of his injuries. Now the Oakland Police chief chief armstrong is revamping Police Deployment in the city hoping to put more of icers on the streets. He hopes that will put more criminals in jail. Kron fours dan kerman reports. Escalating violence in the city of oakland. The citizen video shows yet another murder in east oakland tuesday morning. This one oaklands 96th of the year. We are going all hands on deck to address gun violence in the city of oakland. Now Oakland Police chief Leronne Armstrong is getting more officers on the streets, especially in the east and west oakland in hopes it will curb the violence. We will have all of our specialized units, including our Violent Crimes operation center. Our ceasefire teams as well as our Community Resource officers deployed into the field to provide a greater presence in areas where weve seen violence continue to spike 8 recent graduates from the academy have been added to the criminal investigation division. And ot
Department says it still hired people who did not pass the evaluation. Amanda . Good evening. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office, Public Information officer tells me its because of a law prior to 2016 receiving a d on your exam was considered passing and how its considered a fail. Were being transparent in coming forward and acknowledging the issues that that went on here on friday. 47 Alameda County sheriffs deputies were stripped of their duties as Law Enforcement officers after receiving a letter from sheriff gregory ahern, obviously. This was very devastating news to them. They have no idea that they did not have the passing score that was required. A lot of them were in shock. Were initially delivered the News Lieutenant ray kelly with the Sheriffs Office says they did an audit of their department after one of their deputies. Devon williams was arrested in connection to a double homicide. Thats when kelly says the office determined that a d not suited. Is no longer considered a pa