Public universities and Government Agencies stopped considering race in their hiring and admissions decisions. Today the assembly approved a proposal to repeal that ban. The bills author says recent police traiks tragedies are showing that race and gender still matter. The bill could be ratified later on this month and be up for a vote in november. Happening now, calls to disband Oakland Unified School Districts Police force. Kpix 5 is live in oakland with the plan and how backers say they would keep students safe. Reporter well, ken, backers say that there is a plan in place that they want to implement to keep students safe even without a Police Department. They say they are the only School District in Alameda County that has that Police Department and those millions could be better served serving the students. The idea of defunding the police is not a new one for the black organizing project. The idea was first introduced nine years ago with the proposal to reallocate 2. 3 million fr
Afternoon. Upper 60s in San Francisco. Mid70n oad,anmid eeco i will let you know when we will all cool down with breezy onshore flow kicking in for all of us. Details in a few minutes. Live look at oakland. The city is the target of a new lawsuit over police conduct, and it seeks a federal Court Injunction against using several types of nonlethal weapons against protesters. Kiet do has more on the lawsuit and the latest demonstrations in the streets of oakland. Kiet . Reporter good morning, and a group called the National Lawyers guild will be releasing details about the lawsuit in a few hours. Its a civil rights Class Action Lawsuit to try to stop Oakland Police from using rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash bang grenades against protesters, and they said despite 20 years of federal court oversight, the Oakland Police continue to violate the rights of Peaceful Protesters particularly African Americans and people of color. Defund the Police Reporter and yesterday thousands of protester
Showing you that, and you can see, upper 60sin San Francisco. Mid70s for oakland. Mid80s for san jose. Heating up inland. Concord at 90 degrees this afternoon, and 92 for fairfield. All of us cooling significantly by the end of the week. I will let you know what to expect at the end of the week, coming up. Im anne makovec and we just got the new numbers on unemployment from the department of labor, and in the last week, 1. 5 million americans filed for firsttime benefits, and thats slowing a little the bit as we have seen progressively from the peak at the end of march. That was when the oneweek total was 6. 9 Million People reliant on government aid. The total now at 20. 9 Million People in america on unem wl see how the numbers affect the stock market in less than half an hour. Oakland is the target of a new lawsuit over police misconduct. It seeks an injunction over using nonlethal weapons against protesters. Kiet do has more on the lawsuit and the latest demonstration in the street
Just a public official who is selling his office but also defrauding private individuals in a separate matter. He denied williams request to be let out to visit his ailing mother for fear of her passing away. You stole from her mother and now you want to visit her. A reference to evidence presented at trial that williams defrauded her nursing home out of 23,000. And the lawyer read his apologetic to the people of philadelphia for quote, letting them down. We didnt want to make this a sobbing spectacle. Obviously its not my day of sentencing to get his words across it was better that i read it. His wife and daughters were in court to support him and left Court Without responding and the girlfriend making an obscene gesture to the media. The Justice Department said it could be several weeks before Seth Williams low security prison is actually selected. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news at the federal courthouse in center city. Thank you vernon, you can find a wealth of material of the r
Im annemarie green. Americans are waking up to the thanksgiving holiday amid heightened security concerns. We are hours away from celebrations across the country. Police are relying on the public to be vigilant about any terror here in new york to show us how. Don, good morning. Reporter good morning. As part of the steppedup security here, officers in plain clothes will be among those in the crowd. Radiation detectors will also be used. Officials here and aacross the country maintain that everying possible is being done to make sure this holiday is a safe one. An army of Police Officers will keep watch over thanksgiving day parade. On the eve of the festivities authorities locked down mailboxes as crowds gather to see parade balloons come to life. Security is very tight, but considering what is going on, they need to take all of the precautions they can. Reporter the heightened security comes less than two weeks after terror attacks in paris killed 130 people. Isis has since threatene