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(38,893 posts) Fri Oct 5, 2012, 04:35 PM Oct 2012

Motion Asks Feds To Take Over Oakland Police Dept. [View all]

Anon GovernmentWatch ‏@Anon_GovWatchCA

Plz Read n RT THIS >> Motion Asks Feds To Take Over Oakland Police Dept. http://cbsloc.al/SCxMbn

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – Lawyers overseeing the terms of a settlement stemming from an Oakland police corruption lawsuit have filed a motion requesting that the federal government take over the department.

Attorneys John Burris and Jim Chanin filed the motion Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco claiming that Oakland city officials and the police have chronically failed to meet court-mandated reforms nearly a decade after the settlement was reached.

KCBS’ Margie Shafer Reports:
Motion Asks Feds to Take Over Oakland Police Dept.

The reforms are part of an agreement reached with the department in a 2003 lawsuit involving police brutality and other claims that included nearly $11 million in payments to 119 plaintiffs and attorneys.

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I wondered about that during the overreaction to the Occupy protests. PDJane Oct 2012 #1

Ten years? It looks like there is no oversight. Even aside from the OWS brutality sabrina 1 Oct 2012 #2

Oscar Grant nt tama Oct 2012 #3

And now Adam Bluefeld, a man shot dead by OPD. His last words are reported to have been Fire Walk With Me Oct 2012 #4