Jack Newman and Brian Stieglitz, Daily Mail, June 30, 2021
Robbers held up a television crew at gunpoint during an interview with the director of violence prevention in Oakland amid the city’s huge wave of violence, police have said.
The attack took place outside City Hall on Monday just hours after the police chief blasted his city’s decision to defund its police department by $18.5million despite a 90 per cent increase in murders.
The NBC Bay Area news crew was interviewing Guillermo Cespedes at around 3pm when two armed men tried to take their camera, the Oakland Police Department said.
A scuffle broke out and a private security guard who was contracted by the news agency, pulled out a gun and told the robbers to leave.
Furious Oakland police chief blasts city for cutting his department s budget by $18.5M as crime spirals out of control and homicides spike 90%
LeRonne Armstrong, the police chief of Oakland, California, on Monday lambasted the city council s 6-2 vote to defund the police by $17M
Democratic Mayor Libby Schaaf proposed a $27M increase to the department, but the city only boosted its budget by about $9M
Armstrong says that the loss of money will cause major delays in response times and worsen the department s response to a growing crime wave hitting the city
Oakland is now at 65 homicides in 2021 so far, a 90 percent increase from the same period last year
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