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Oakland officers found a man unconscious in a car with a gun. Then police reform advocates stepped in
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Mabel Kimble (left) with Cat Brooks, executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, and Carina Lieu. The three helped call in intervention in a potentially violent standoff.Nina Riggio/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong calls for asking the question in any situation: “Do you need to use force at all?”Santiago Mejia/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
When Carina Lieu got home from dropping her son at day care on May 11, she saw nearly 20 officers, some with rifles drawn, surrounding a silver car that had crashed in the middle of the street outside her Oakland apartment.
Mayor Schaaf s proposed budget doesn t cut Oakland police funding. Police reform activists are angry
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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf released her proposed budget Friday morning.Jessica Christian/The Chronicle
Mayor Libby Schaaf proposed a budget Friday that would spend nearly $700 million, or 18% of Oakland’s overall budget, on the police department, a slightly smaller share of the city’s spending than in previous years.
Though the share is slightly smaller, the $3.85 billion two-year budget actually increases police spending to account for overtime expenses.
Activists who have pushed to cut the police budget in half criticized the plan, arguing that reducing police spending would free up money to fund social services instead.
County leaders want to examine policy, learn how officers were disciplined
March 31, 2021 | 6:16 pm
April 1, 2021
Body cam footage of the incident
This story was updated at 3:03 p.m. on April 1, 2021, to include comments from the Fraternal Order of Police and clarify details of the disciplinary process.
Montgomery County officials want a hearing to look at county police discipline and procedures after a video showed two officers accosting, handcuffing and screaming at a 5-year-old boy last year.
In the 51-minute video of body camera footage, which police released on Thursday, two officers can be seen and heard accosting the child on Jan. 14, 2020. The boy had walked away from his class at East Silver Spring Elementary School.