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The Berkeley Police Department was in turmoil Thursday following the leak of text messages that allegedly show the president of the police officers union making racially charged remarks and ...
On May 15, 1969, at the request of Berkeley mayor Wallace J.S. Johnson, Governor Ronald Reagan ordered the Berkeley PD and California Highway Patrol to clear People's Park, at the time a vacant lot that local left-wing activists had been turning into a garden. This prompted the "Bloody Thursday" riots.
Shortly after midnight on Oct. 26, police officers “responded to a series of gunfire incidents in the south campus area,” according to the Berkeley police statement. In an email, Berkeley ...
Berkeley's fire and police headquarters in 2020. After the police department was rocked by a scandal involving racist texts, past allegations against the interim chief have arisen.
On June 6, 2022, Tucker Carlson, on his Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, discussed the killing of Seth Smith, describing it as a "racially motivated attack".He cited the fact that the Department of Justice did not pursue hate crime charges and the voluntary manslaughter plea deal as a case of "politicized law enforcement".
In the early morning of Thursday, May 15, 1969, local police cleared the park, arresting three people who refused to leave. [12] [13] University work crews arrived later, destroyed many of the changes that had been made to the park, and erected an 8-foot (2.4-metre)-tall perimeter chain-link wire fence around the site.
Police responded to a report of an armed man on Martin Luther King Junior Way, on the North Oakland/South Berkeley border. Officers were able to detain two suspects, but say there is no ongoing ...
Protesters and police face off at a barricade near People's Park on August 3, 2022. Just after midnight on August 3, 2022, the UC Berkeley Police Department and contractors began fencing off People's Park. Protesters gathered after multiple "bulldozer" alerts were shared when workers began unloading heavy machinery and construction equipment ...