Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf suggested on Tuesday that police officers should be replaced by public employees who can respond to traumatic scenes and other situations she described as unrelated to law enforcement."We are excited, as many cities are, to reimagine public safety," Schaaf said during a call with three other mayors and Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., "and that means…
A couple walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland, where several nooses were found hanging from trees. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP A couple walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland, where several nooses were found hanging from trees. Jeff Chiu/AP Nooses found at a public park in Oakland, Calif., will be removed and…
Oakland’s mayor says five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident says he put them up simply for exercseJune 18, 2020, 5:10 AM3 min readOAKLAND, Calif. -- Oakland’s mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and…
Oakland, Calif., is investigating nooses that were found hanging on trees as a hate crime, Mayor Libby Schaff (D) said Wednesday. Schaff said several nooses were found on trees around Lake Merritt and were removed. She said reports that the nooses were part of exercise equipment "do not remove nor excuse their torturous and terrorizing effects.” “We are…
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square, has announced that he will donate $10m toward computers and internet access for public schools in Oakland, a city where half of students lack reliable access to either. Dorsey dropped the news after the Oakland mayor, Libby Schaaf, tweeted a video of one those 25,000 students without…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…