Things like our Body Worn Camera program, our Community LeadPartnership Around cease fire. Our effort to combat implicit bias as well as our transparent and open data. Oakland City Council Member larry reid called it a, quote, sad day for the city. He said he spoke with the chief about his resignation. When i talked to the chief, the chief is very hurt. Andings certainly someone that i have respected and admired. Ive been around here for a long time, chief hart, all the others in between. This chief was getting us into compliance with the negotiated settlement agreement. If i was the chief, why would i resign . I dont think shes being forthright when she said the chief resigned. Reid would not speculate on why he thinks whent stepped down. Ben farrow will serve as interim chief. Hes got more than 20 Years Experience with opd and said that he will, quote, hit the ground running. The city said it will begin a National Search for a new chief. Henry lee joins us. This comes around so much controversy surrounding opd. We have the allegations of sexual misconduct. A federal monitor has been watching them for years. What is going on . Is i learned the internal affairs probe into the misconduct involving opd officers offduty was removed from internal affairs and given to the federal monitor, robert war saw. When warsaw started digging, heads started to roll. One was investigate for attempted Sexual Assault. His next target was chief whent. Initially, warsaw had big praise, but because of all these cases warsaw didnt think the top cop was moving fast enough. So the mayor is saying that he resigned, but calling this a resignation, not a firing what. Are we hearing from other sources . Multiple sources within the department telling us that indeed chief whent was told, you better resigned or be fired. So big pressure for him. He has moved a lot toward reforming the department. But a lot of people are saying, you know what, with all these offduty misconduct cases, the writing was on the wall, he had to go. We just found out that Violent Crime is down in oakland 39 . Homicides in oakland this year alone down 49 what. Are members of the force saying tonight about him being forced out, as you say, or resigning . No crime stats, good or bad, will completely replace the fact that with all the attention on misconduct what theyre trying to do, the morale is already down because theyre understaffed. With all these officers being accused of misconduct, ive talked to officers today. They dont want these bad apples on the force. But a lot of attention placed on all the misconduct certainly takes away from what theyre trying to do. Crime reduction, build the trust of the community. You have two big cities in the bay area, after chief suhr in San Francisco. The interim chief was a former high ranking chief in bart . He comes from the Bart Police Department but did he spend 21 years with oakland Police Department. So hes familiar with opd. He knows the community. He says he wants to hit the ground running and use Forward Momentum to bring Oakland Police into further compliance with the settlement agreement. I have known him since he was a patrol sergeant. He seems solid. There are some officers who are also very leery about him simply because he has also worked in internal affairs. As far as farrow is concerned, he wants to move this department in a forward direction. So why did this happen this way . Oaklands Police Department has been under the microscope since that rough riders case back in 2000. Thats what really started the federal monitoring. This has been going on for so long. So much suspicion in the city. Why would the mayor not just come out and say that she asked for his resignation . Why would she take this line making it look like it is his choice that she had very little to do with it . I think she just wanted to help the chief save face. Those two go way back. But we also note that ben farrow, the new top cop, and the mayor also go way back. So speculation, could farrow win the top job permanently. The big question who will lead the department permanently. If that person will be the change, or do we need to look further. Its almost like he could be the me sigh i cant. Its all up to you. Like the buck stops with you sort of thing. All the yours youve been covering oakland do you think this is going to make a difference . Ive seen four or five, six chiefs come and go and you know what, some of those chiefs have complained about interference from city hall. Others are saying, you know what, you cant let me do my job, why bother. The rank and file are just doing their job day in and day . Iew. Henry lee, thank you. Well watch you all night long in the rest of your reports. Our other top story, newly released Court Documents in the stanford Sexual Assault case are raising new questions about brock turners behavior before the night of the assault. The documents include evidence prosecutors claim contradicted turners statement that the Sexual Assault happened partially as a result of his inexperience with the Party Culture in college. The documents include photos. You are looking at some of them here from turners cell phone of what appear to be his friends and he and his friends smoking marijuana. They also include Text Messages of turner talking about drug use and drinking while he was still in high school. This is back in ohio. Prosecutors submitted these materials when they asked for a stiffer sentence saying the findings show that turner had lied about his drug and alcohol abuse. At the same time the push to recall the job in that case is now growing. The change. Org petition has been making the rounds online. Tom vacar is live in the newsroom with the story of one million signatures that theyve collected calling for this judge to be taken off the bench. Reporter a big number of signatures but it has no real legal force. But the anger nonetheless is palpable, and the pressure is mounting on the judge who says was simply acting within the legal guidelines when he sentenced this former Stanford University sexual offender to what may end up beg just a 90 day jail sentence. They came to the San Francisco state building today to present to the state council on Judicial Performance a petition bearing a million signatures including those of 11 state lawmakers. They demand the counsel investigate and discipline Santa Clara County judge aaron persky for giving a convicted sex offender a sixmonth jail sentence instead of many years. It says, if you are raped on a College Campus in california, you are on your own. And to potential perpetrators, it says, dont worry, we have your back. The victim of another rape stood with the activists urging more people to get involved. I am really upset about this lenient sentence because i am basically sentenced to life as a survivor of this. Reporter the activists say they will also collect signatures and file a formal recall petition in santa clara for judge per skis recall for judge perskys recall. Because of the young survivor of a horrific attack who only wanted justice. Reporter while the state does have limited powers, the long process of recall may come about sooner. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. It is not just change. Org. We know thats just more emotional plea. But moveon. Org, the white house, the we the people site, each of those has 100,000 signatures. So what do you think it will take or will this even matter . Reporter the only signatures that will do this are the required legally obtained signatures in Santa Clara County where this judge was elected just last i think tuesday, unopposed. Now, if they get enough signatures and these groups say they are going to do that, and then they put it on the ballot, then the voters of Santa Clara County and only of Santa Clara County will get to decide the fate of this particular judge who does have all kinds of pr problems, to say the least. We witnessed some of that in court today. But the pact of the matter is the only signatures that count are the ones inSanta Clara County from legal voters. Tom, this whole story has exploded across the entire country over the entire country, even the Vice President weighing in. I understand now that the judge is actually having trouble assembling juries in his own courtroom. Thats a huge problem for him. Reporter going back to my law school days, as a trial lawyer, either on either on either side, you have what are called challenges. One is a preempt tori challenge one is a pre emptory challenge. The other is called a challenge for cause. That means the person has said something or indicated something that allows the court to simply dismiss that juror, and in this case, many people said they didnt like the judge and what the judge did and all that, and many of them were dismissed. This is a real serious problem for this judge because it goes to the very heart of his ability to serve as a judge. You have to wonder, tom, what will it take and would it take anything to just get him to step down on his own. I am absolutely sure that he has thought about that. Right. But, you know, he was just elected unopposed. So hes got a number of years ahead of him. Its expwierl up to him what he does. But its up to the voters to decide if he doesnt decide to leave that they can make him leave. But they may not do that. This is a very difficult thing to do because many people do support judges, even ones that make very questionable decisions. Tom vacar, live in the newsroom, thanks. Another sports ledge handy died. Hockey great gordie howe has passed away. Known as mr. Hockey he led the Detroit Red Wings to four stanley cup championships. He played 26 seasons in the nhl including one final season when he was 51 years old. He is ranked second alltime with 801 career goals. Last year it was announced that a new bridge being built over the Detroit River between michigan and canada there will now be named after howe. Emotional tributes today from fans, world leaders, and family members as muhammad ali, the threetime heavyweight champion and the most celebrated boxer in u. S. History was laid to rest. Muhammad indicated that when the end came for him, he wanted us to use his life and his death as a teaching moment for young people, for his country, and for the world. In effect, he wanted to us remind people who are suffering that he had seen the face of injustice thearks grew up in a segregation, and that during his early life he was not pree to be who he wanted to be. But he never became imbittered enough to quit or to engage in violence. 15,000 people filled the stadium for a public celebration held in alis hometown of louisville, kentucky, including the king of jordan and former president bill clinton. His wife spoke, including rasheda who invoked the quote, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Shy once said, i know where im going and i know the truth, and i dont have to be what you want me to be. Im free to be who i am. Now you are free to be with your creator. We love so you much, daddy. Until we meet again, fly, butterfly, fly. So touching to watch that this afternoon. In keeping with muslim tradition, muhammad alis headstone simply says, ali. What a touching tribute. 15,000 people right there watching millions upon millions of people watching around the entire globe. A great testament to a great life. It absolutely was, ross, and it was a combination of emotion but also humor. All right. Well, coming up, it was rough go in game three so can the warriors take down the cavs tonight in cleveland . Our joe fonzi is live with details next. The weekend forecast is coming up right after the break. Were talking about temperatures that i think you are going to like. Lets take a look at traffic. 680 through sunol is sluggish northbound. It is friday afternoon. 4 14. Well be right back. It is a great time for bay area sports. Joe fonzi is on the road. Lucky guy. He is very lucky. In cleveland wednesday when the warriors lost to the cavs, he then drove to pittsburgh for the sharks and penguins. He is back on the road this morning. Returning for game four. Joe, ive got to ask you, which warriors are we getting . Are we going to get the warriors that we know and love or the warriors that lost the last game . What do you think . Reporter they better hope that we see the ones that we saw at home, not the ones we saw on wednesday night. You guys are right. These are unpress Department Times in unprecedented times in bay area sports. Its the first time weve had our Basketball Team and our hockey team in their respective championships. That required a little travel for us. Both of them beg in driving distance. But this basketball series is about two of the most iconic players in the game. Lebron james and steph curry. We took a side trip on our road trip yesterday to akron because, being mvps isnt the only thing that those two players have in common. On december 30th, 1984, Lebron Ramon James was born in the akron city hospital. 39 months later, march 14th, 1988, wardel Stephen Curry was born at that same hospital. No one could have possibly known at the time that those two babies would one day grow up to combine for six nba most valuable player awards. Some would say its that the odds are against us. I would say its magical and it speaks to who we are in akron, ohio. Were allstars. Didnt you know that this is the center of the universe . These players were born here. Some raised here longer than others. Some returned to us. The folks in the hospital no doubt a little more aware of the two most famous athletes born there. But the curry connection is a little more obscure for the people on the street. Steph was born during the time his dad spent just one of his 16 nba seasons in cleveland. The hospital is very famous for a couple of reasons. Can you think of why . Probably where lebron was born and that little dweeb on the warriors. Hes like always chewing on his mouthpiece. Steph curry. How did you know that . Because im a basketball fan. Lebron james first one that comes to your mind. Lebron james. And . There isnt anyone more famous than that. Steph curry . Whos that . I guess its a good thing for cleveland. For people who are fans, you cant be wrong if the cavs dont win a championship this year. Is it lebron james . Yes. And also, which is crazy, another most valuable player. Irving . How about for the Golden State Warriors . Oh, Stephen Curry. He is from akron, thats correct. Reporter the folks in akron very proud of their roots. In fact, they call it akron born. We were driving through the rust belt which doesnt really resemble much of what it was during the prime of the steel producing years, but they do make a lot of rish still in akron. This is an interesting promotion that theyre doing there. The goodyear company, to babies that are born during this playoff, to the families, they get a free set of tires. They get something they call a onesy, that shirt that babies wear, and a babysit. So if youre expecting in akron this is the time to have your baby. Now lets shift to hockey. We drove to pittsburgh. There was a huge contingent of people there hoping that the penguins would wrap up the stanley cup. The sharks were facing elimination, and largely due to the efforts of their goalie, martin jones. They held the penguins off for another game, wing 42. 44 saves for jones. He was the big reason why the sharks won that game. It felt good tonight. I thought our d did a good job in front of the net, and then we got a few bounces. So it was a combination of things. Unbelievable. Hes been doing it all year. He does it every game. Hes just a stud for us. He was great. He made some bigtime saves. Hes been playing like this for a long time. Regular season, playoffs. A lot of people p unfortunately dont get to see him, us being on the west coast, but hes been unbelievable for us. Reporter so back to these unprecedented times, the sharks will play a game six back at home on sunday. Another Elimination Game for them. The warriors playing a game four here. They will be back home for a game five for sure on monday. They would love to win tonight and then get a chance to wrap things up at home on monday. Who knows what. We do know is sports is very important in the bay area these days. The other thing, guys, you know the relationship that los angeles and San Francisco kind of have with each other with their sports teams, very much the same with cleveland and pittsburgh. We experienced that. When they want people to boo here in the stadium, when the warriors are shooting a free throw, they flash a picture of steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger up on the scoreboard, and they get the entire intended result. The whole place intos like crazy. Thats the relationship between cleveland and pittsburgh. Nice, joe. All right, joe fonzi, we will be paying close attention. Thanks, joe. The founder of the harborside medical Marijuana Dispensary in oakland spent six hours on the witness stand this week. The federal case embroiled them with the irs and the nations largest dispensary that will affect all of the rest of them. The four on 2 will be right back. It is flash back friday. Mike mibach is off today, but he is getting very close to turning 40 so weve got a bit of a tribute for him. How close can you get before youre actually 40 . Hes about 10 minutes away. No, a few more days. Heres a look at the headlines ktvu was covering during his first week