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In 2015, Brooks was arrested protesting Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's ban on night-time marches on public roadways. [1] [4] In 2018, Brooks was a candidate for mayor of Oakland, running against the incumbent, Libby Schaaf. [5] Her campaign involved collaborative assembly meetings intended to gather public feedback on local policies.
Mark Everett Comfort (February 6, 1934 – November 6, 1976) was a community activist who worked in early Oakland grassroots civil rights movements in the 1960s, before moving to Lowndes County, Alabama.
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Copwatch calls for responses to, or critical evaluation of, police controls in order to support those affected, especially by racial or class profiling. [7] Educational work regarding the powers of the police as well as civilian rights is a focus of Copwatch in order to support more people in their encounters with police. [8]
Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is extending a plan that he says has tamped down violent crime, but for some activists the strategy is a return to failed policies of the past. Oakland ...
However, Oakland is the only city in the state with an anti-pursuit regulation - something that CHP Deputy Commissioner Ezery Beauchamp says is to the detriment of the community.
The Occupy movement has been met with a variety of responses from local police departments since its beginning in 2011. According to documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, [1] the FBI, state and local law enforcement officials treated the movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat [2] and used fusion centers [3] and counterterrorism agents to investigate and ...
The Oakland Police Department has been under federal supervision for more than 20 years, stemming from a scandal in which four officers known as "the Riders" were accused of assaulting and framing ...