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The suspected driver has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062859/suspected-u-haul-driver-charged-with-assaulting-federal-officers-after-bay-area-protest\">been charged\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12062859 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP.jpg']Sean Maher, a city spokesperson, said the request to give up the land would require review and City Council approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Coast Guard may already have an ally on Oakland City Council. Noel Gallo, whose district includes the road to the island, told KQED on Friday that he has been meeting with the Coast Guard “on a regular basis” and is willing to consider the request in exchange for “their help” with issues in their vicinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes a nascent idea to build a $25 million housing project for veterans near Union Point Park, south of the approach that the Coast Guard hopes to annex. 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That doesn’t mean that they won’t come back,” Sanchez told KQED. “I think that we should be ready for operations to go at any point in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll just say quite candidly, I’m not put at ease by that,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">homing in on the Bay Area\u003c/a> as his next target for expanded immigration enforcement and National Guard deployment for weeks, on Sunday telling Fox News that forces would go into San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fears escalated Wednesday, after the Coast Guard confirmed that up to 100 Customs and Border Protection officials would begin staging at the agency’s Alameda base.[aside postID=news_12061436 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-11-BL_qed.jpg']In other cities, expanded immigration enforcement has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; and Portland, Ore. Though he has cited alleged spikes in crime and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the deployments have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called the move part of the “authoritarian playbook” being used by Trump’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In other cities, expanded immigration enforcement has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; and Portland, Ore. Though he has cited alleged spikes in crime and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the deployments have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called the move part of the “authoritarian playbook” being used by Trump’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression,” he said during a press conference Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As CBP-marked vehicles arrived in Oakland on Thursday, hundreds of protesters gathered at the bridge access to Coast Guard Island to block their path, spurring scuffles with law enforcement agents that injured at least two protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Thursday night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061436/2-injured-after-officers-shoot-at-truck-outside-alameda-base-following-day-of-protests\">two people were shot\u003c/a> and injured by law enforcement officials after a U-Haul truck attempted to back onto the bridge to the base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061451\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security personnel stand at the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero in front of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2025, as demonstrators return following a shooting late last night in which security personnel opened fire on a U-Haul near the base. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A smaller protest reconvened near the island Friday morning, where at least one person was sprayed by pepper balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said she was unsure how many federal agents did arrive on Coast Guard Island, or whether they had departed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said that she was concerned the federal agents were baiting Oakland, and that the situation remains fluid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is easy to point the finger at because people think we’re a violent city and that we’re lawless — we’re not,” she told reporters Friday. “It is just an easy example for the administration to come after people, specifically people of color, in a democratic city. That’s what I expect. Do I know that? No, that’s what my gut says.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>East Bay officials say they are still prepared for a possible increase in federal immigration enforcement in the absence of clear information about what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">President Trump’s decision to call off a federal “surge” in San Francisco\u003c/a> means for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press conference at Oakland City Hall Thursday morning, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said the city was monitoring the situation and would keep residents informed of any developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is very fluid,” Lee said, flanked by East Bay officials at the local, state and federal levels. “There’s no information we can bring to you today to bring you up to date on what plans they have in place, but we are moving forward with our plans and we are prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s press conference was called Wednesday afternoon after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-immigration-operation-21114328.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that the Trump administration would dispatch more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the federal agents would do was called into question Thursday morning after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced he had spoken to Trump via phone late Wednesday and that the president had said he was calling off plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco. Trump, in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">Truth Social post\u003c/a>, said he was cancelling a “surge” in the city planned for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person attending Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s press conference holds a sign that reads ‘Immigrants Are Essential’ at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters gathered at the road leading to Coast Guard Base Alameda Thursday where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">they told KQED\u003c/a> that vans of CPB officials had entered early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference in Oakland, Lee told reporters she had spoken with Lurie about his conversation with the president, and had been in touch with the governor’s office, but had not spoken with anyone in the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal administration, of course, has escalated its rhetoric and its enforcement posture in the Bay Area,” Lee said. “We know that Border Patrol agents are being stationed on Coast Guard Island. But let me be clear, [in] our city, as I said, we are fully prepared. We’re monitoring developments closely and will keep our residents informed if there are any confirmed changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday afternoon, Lee’s office said that she still had not received any communication from the White House or the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will engage with anyone, at any level of government, to protect Oakland residents, as long as it respects our community’s values and constitutional rights,” Lee said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, law enforcement officials from Oakland and Alameda County reassured residents that local police would not assist federal immigration officers should they ramp up enforcement in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also urged protestors not to give the administration an excuse to escalate any possible response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that they’re baiting Oakland and that’s why San Francisco all of a sudden is off the table,” said Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson. “I’m not going to be quiet about what we know is coming. We know that their expectation is that Oakland is going to do something to cause them to make us the example. That’s not what we’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said local law enforcement cannot stop federal officials from coming into Alameda County or exercising a legal warrant, but the DA’s office will protect the rights of victims of crime, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Assistant Chief James Beere reminded residents that local police should be identifiable by their uniforms or their credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Beere, assistant chief of police with the Oakland Police Department, speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to make it clear, if anyone attempts to enter your house and detain you and they are not in uniform, or they do not show official credentials, please call 911 immediately,” Beere said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other officials from the region, including State Senators Jesse Arreguin and Aisha Wahab, State Assemblymembers Mia Bonta and Liz Ortega and Alameda County Supervisors Nikki Fortunato Bas and Elisa Marquez were also in attendance, along with Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington, OUSD Superintendent Denise Sadler and members of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who recently announced he will leave the department in December, was absent.[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Immigrant rights advocates disseminated a hotline phone number and urged people to call if they witnessed immigration officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are anticipating an escalation,” Lourdes Martinez with Centro Legal de la Raza said at the press conference. “What has happened in other cities, such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Portland, is that if there has been deployment of additional federal law enforcement, it has really strengthened ICE and their ability to execute more detentions. So that is what we are bracing for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on Truth Social just minutes before the press conference, Trump wrote that he had decided to call off the San Francisco operation after receiving calls from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the post, East Bay Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, said she was more concerned about Trump’s decision-making processes than the influence tech has on his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s really concerning to me,” Simon said, “[is] not just Silicon Valley, but the fact that the president of the United States would move our men and women, our military, based on hunches and then get a phone call, not based on data, and then call it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That tells you all you need to know about an administration not focused on fact, not focused on public safety, not focused on coordination, not focused on ensuring that the people of this district and beyond are doing well,” she added. “I think that we’re in trouble as a nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Trump, in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">Truth Social post\u003c/a>, said he was cancelling a “surge” in the city planned for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person attending Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s press conference holds a sign that reads ‘Immigrants Are Essential’ at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters gathered at the road leading to Coast Guard Base Alameda Thursday where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">they told KQED\u003c/a> that vans of CPB officials had entered early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference in Oakland, Lee told reporters she had spoken with Lurie about his conversation with the president, and had been in touch with the governor’s office, but had not spoken with anyone in the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal administration, of course, has escalated its rhetoric and its enforcement posture in the Bay Area,” Lee said. “We know that Border Patrol agents are being stationed on Coast Guard Island. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two people have been arrested at the entrance to Alameda’s Coast Guard Island Thursday, where hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents have been stationed for hours, protesting the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Coast Guard Base Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents began arriving early Thursday morning, according to activists, as part of President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated expansion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">immigration enforcement operations in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters said they began picketing at the intersection near the sole access bridge to the Coast Guard base overnight, before San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and President Donald Trump announced Thursday that a planned federal “surge” into San Francisco this weekend had been called off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has not addressed other Bay Area cities, which remain on high alert, or clarified what this means for the CBP officers who arrived in the East Bay early Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on protesters to disperse and reconvene at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland around 4 p.m., after California Highway Patrol officers said they would arrest people who didn’t clear the intersection to allow civilians working on the island to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security stand guard as demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some protesters refusing to move have engaged in an ongoing standoff with the law enforcement officials. By 3 p.m., CHP had largely cleared the middle of the intersection, but many people remained on the sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions first flared early Thursday morning, when around six marked CBP vans were able to enter the base shortly before 7 a.m. One official threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was attempting to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader attempting to block the road, according to Penny Nixon, with the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, U.S. Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road on Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland. Federal agents have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area for immigration operations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He [the reverend] was saying, ‘I come in peace’ in front of a car and an [immigration] agent geared up, masked, got out of the car, raised his weapon and shot,” she said. “What they are doing is immoral. It is anti-American, anti-democracy. But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. Alameda resident Nadine Skinner stopped by on her lunch break with apple strudels and beignets for the protesters who’d been standing in the streets for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are still here staying, I want to support them and support our community,” she told KQED. “It’s hungering work protecting your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is a way to send a message … and right now, what’s going on is that ICE is not welcome in the Bay,” said Melanie Jasper, who’s been at the protest since 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that after at least some federal agents have accessed the island: “We don’t want to let them off their s—-y little island. If they want to hang out there, they can. They can’t come into our community.”[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to have a clean conscience for the future generations after,” Diermayer said. “That I’ve done my part. For my grandchildren, and children, and nieces and nephews … I want to give them some hope that there’s a future for them here in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">\u003cem>Erin Baldassari\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Federal agents have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area for immigration operations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He [the reverend] was saying, ‘I come in peace’ in front of a car and an [immigration] agent geared up, masked, got out of the car, raised his weapon and shot,” she said. “What they are doing is immoral. It is anti-American, anti-democracy. But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> As federal funding is cut, Lee, state Sen. Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley, and mayors from Vallejo, Berkeley, Richmond, San Leandro, Antioch, and Stockton outlined local efforts to reduce gun violence, including youth programs and to trace guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton Mayor Christina Fugazi, a former educator, said she lost three of her former students to gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the schools, they’re bringing guns, and it almost makes you feel helpless,” she said. “But having an opportunity … like this, to be … able to share some of the things in my community that we’ve learned … is something that we all need to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also need to create opportunities where youth, in particular, do not focus on a weapon as a sign of power or as a sign of safety,” San Leandro Mayor Juan Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to provide the programs and the services that provide people the opportunity to feel wonderful, to feel like they’re thriving in their communities, and that weapons and violence is not the approach that we should take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials also discussed the issue of the illegal firearm supply. In Richmond, a city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011533/this-bay-area-city-takes-the-lead-on-gun-violence-prevention-it-starts-with-neighbors\">long-regarded for its innovative efforts\u003c/a> to treat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10889015/other-cities-emulate-richmonds-innovative-approach-to-ending-gun-violence\">gun violence as a public health problem\u003c/a>, Mayor Eduardo Martinez addressed work by the Richmond Police Department to trace illegal guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905_OAKLANDWALKOUT_GH-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students carried handmade signs calling for an end to gun violence during the Sept. 5 walkout at Coliseum College Prep Academy. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Locally, we can deal with the results of violence, but together is the only way we can deal with the source of violence. And the source of violence is the supply,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, and Alameda County at large, has long grappled with higher-than-average gun violence rates — a December 2024 report by then-District Attorney Pamela Price concluded that gun violence was the leading cause of death among Alameda’s children and young people under the age of 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school students from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054838/oakland-walkout\">Coliseum Prep Academy recently walked out of class\u003c/a> demanding an end to gun violence in their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the group will report back on next steps at a later date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A man who was charged with sending racist and threatening emails to Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a> has struggled with mental health issues in the past, according to court records and his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Brooks Pokorny was arrested Oct. 7 in Southern California on suspicion of sending numerous emails with “extremely racist tones and threats to kill multiple different government officials,” including the mayor, according to a statement of probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny, 45, pleaded not guilty Oct. 10 to one felony count of threatening public officials or judges with a hate crime enhancement. An Alameda County judge set Pokorny’s bail at $70,000. As of Thursday, he remained in custody at the Santa Rita Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone on Wednesday, Pokorny’s father, Gary Pokorny, said his son hasn’t lived in the Bay Area for years and does not have a permanent address that he is aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he knew his son had been arrested but didn’t know why, and had been trying to reach him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Pokorny, a former city manager for El Cerrito and Walnut Creek, said he had no idea why his son would make threats against Lee but expressed sadness at his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A blue door framed by a fence with a sign at the top saying "Alameda County Sheriff's Office"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56996_GettyImages-1321825234-qut-1536x924.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intake, transfer and release area at the Santa Rita Jail, in Dublin, on Aug. 4, 2016. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has had some mental health issues in the past,” Gary Pokorny said. “That’s all I’ll say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public records show Pokorny’s parents asked for a court’s protection several times in 2014 and 2015 after they said their son had been violent or threatened them and was taken to a mental health facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2014, the Pokornys alleged, the father and son were involved in a physical altercation that left Gary Pokorny “severely bruised” and ended with David Pokorny getting into an ambulance to go to a crisis stabilization unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, in July, David threatened his mother after she did not immediately move a TV set for him, according to a statement included in a May 2015 request for a restraining order filed by Gary Pokorny.[aside postID=news_12055131 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed.jpg']According to the statement, David Pokorny threatened and physically assaulted his mother. He allegedly told police responding to a 911 call that day that he had considered suicide many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He talked at length about conspiracies to control thought, i.e., ‘My mind has been hijacked by the Russians.’ He wanted Gary to get a tape recorder to record him talking about all these things,” the document reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pokorny was restrained and hospitalized after the incident, according to his parents’ statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, his parents filed another request for a restraining order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply worried and anxious about David’s health. He must get help, or his [and our] future is bleak,” they wrote in a detailed description of an incident in which they returned from a trip to Europe and were unable to reach David, who was house-sitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pokorny eventually called his mother, telling his parents “to go back to Europe and die” and that he was tired of being pushed around for 35 years. He later arrived at his parents’ home and tried to spit on his father, they alleged, telling him to “kneel down in front of me and lick the bottom of my shoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny’s parents wrote that they later discovered their son had sent them emails containing statements like, “Do not try to call me, visit me, or text me. I have fucking had it with you two,” and “You are a brutal, sick, twisted individual, and I do not like you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the May 2015 statement, his parents wrote that they told a police officer they had previously been granted temporary restraining orders but had not served them because they thought they could work things out and get David into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee holds a press conference in Oakland on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are asking for a temporary restraining order today and will serve it to make it permanent this time as his condition and his threatening behavior is worsening with time,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That month, a court barred David Pokorny from coming within 100 yards of his parents, their home or his father’s workplace. It expired in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Pokorny declined to comment on the restraining order in a phone call with KQED, saying that it was “in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny said his son previously worked in coding and was once an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. He said he couldn’t recall the last time he had spoken to his son.[aside postID=news_12059022 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/258_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-1020x680.jpg']On Wednesday, David Pokorny appeared in a downtown Oakland courtroom alongside his public defender, wearing a red Alameda County Jail shirt and glasses. His greying beard appeared unkempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Pokorny could face up to six years in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police records describe threatening emails to Lee reminiscent of the violent language Pokorny’s parents said he used with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators first became aware of the recent threats against Lee and other government officials after a staff member in the mayor’s office discovered a large number of explicit threats from an unfamiliar Google account in the mayor’s inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first email, sent on Sept. 7, according to a declaration of probable cause for warrantless arrest filed in Alameda County, was rife with racist slurs, saying that Black people in Oakland “and the people that want to keep them alive are enemy combatants, and I have a legal right to kill them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should kill all of the government officials in Oakland and all of the police officers and judges in Oakland as well,” the email continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another email, sent to Lee on Sept. 21, read: “You are a psychopath, and I’m going to torture and murder you,” according to the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city staffer provided police with screenshots and a USB with a large number of other emails, including some with references to slavery and people in cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement following Pokorny’s arrest, Lee said: “Violence has no place in our city or our democracy. Intimidation and hate will not silence Oakland public servants or the communities we represent. We will continue to do the people’s work — regardless of circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to the statement, David Pokorny threatened and physically assaulted his mother. He allegedly told police responding to a 911 call that day that he had considered suicide many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He talked at length about conspiracies to control thought, i.e., ‘My mind has been hijacked by the Russians.’ He wanted Gary to get a tape recorder to record him talking about all these things,” the document reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pokorny was restrained and hospitalized after the incident, according to his parents’ statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, his parents filed another request for a restraining order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply worried and anxious about David’s health. He must get help, or his [and our] future is bleak,” they wrote in a detailed description of an incident in which they returned from a trip to Europe and were unable to reach David, who was house-sitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pokorny eventually called his mother, telling his parents “to go back to Europe and die” and that he was tired of being pushed around for 35 years. He later arrived at his parents’ home and tried to spit on his father, they alleged, telling him to “kneel down in front of me and lick the bottom of my shoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny’s parents wrote that they later discovered their son had sent them emails containing statements like, “Do not try to call me, visit me, or text me. I have fucking had it with you two,” and “You are a brutal, sick, twisted individual, and I do not like you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the May 2015 statement, his parents wrote that they told a police officer they had previously been granted temporary restraining orders but had not served them because they thought they could work things out and get David into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-BARBARA-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee holds a press conference in Oakland on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are asking for a temporary restraining order today and will serve it to make it permanent this time as his condition and his threatening behavior is worsening with time,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That month, a court barred David Pokorny from coming within 100 yards of his parents, their home or his father’s workplace. It expired in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Pokorny declined to comment on the restraining order in a phone call with KQED, saying that it was “in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny said his son previously worked in coding and was once an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. He said he couldn’t recall the last time he had spoken to his son.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Wednesday, David Pokorny appeared in a downtown Oakland courtroom alongside his public defender, wearing a red Alameda County Jail shirt and glasses. His greying beard appeared unkempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Pokorny could face up to six years in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police records describe threatening emails to Lee reminiscent of the violent language Pokorny’s parents said he used with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators first became aware of the recent threats against Lee and other government officials after a staff member in the mayor’s office discovered a large number of explicit threats from an unfamiliar Google account in the mayor’s inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first email, sent on Sept. 7, according to a declaration of probable cause for warrantless arrest filed in Alameda County, was rife with racist slurs, saying that Black people in Oakland “and the people that want to keep them alive are enemy combatants, and I have a legal right to kill them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should kill all of the government officials in Oakland and all of the police officers and judges in Oakland as well,” the email continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another email, sent to Lee on Sept. 21, read: “You are a psychopath, and I’m going to torture and murder you,” according to the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city staffer provided police with screenshots and a USB with a large number of other emails, including some with references to slavery and people in cages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement following Pokorny’s arrest, Lee said: “Violence has no place in our city or our democracy. Intimidation and hate will not silence Oakland public servants or the communities we represent. We will continue to do the people’s work — regardless of circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokorny is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oaklanders took to the streets on Sunday to celebrate the Oakland Ballers after their victory in the Pioneer League Championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-32_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-32_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man and white man pose while seated in the back of a topless car.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-32_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-32_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-32_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers players Malik Binns, left, and Michael O’Hara, right, cheer during the Oakland Ballers championship parade in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Ballers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057075/ballers-bring-home-oaklands-first-baseball-title-since-1989\">secured the city’s first baseball title since 1989\u003c/a> when they triumphed against the Idaho Falls Chukars in the independent Pioneer League’s final game last month, 8–1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-13_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058695\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-13_qed.jpg\" alt='Several people hold green signs that say \"Built by Oakland\" and cheer.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-13_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-13_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-13_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fan Kelly Groth, center, poses for a photo at the Oakland Ballers championship parade in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Celebrations kicked off with a rally at Oakland City Hall, bringing out elected officials like Mayor Barbara Lee, who presented the team with a key to the city, commemorating October 5 as Oakland Ballers Championship Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-29_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-29_qed.jpg\" alt='A Black woman wearing yellow clothing waves while holding a green sign that says \"Built by Oakland\" in a red vehicle.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-29_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-29_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-29_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee attends the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To every single player who put on that Ballers uniform, you played hard,” Lee said. “You played for a city that needed this. You played for every single child here who deserves to see champions that look like them and who come from communities like ours and theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-4_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058693\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Three men wearing t shirts stand on the front steps of a building. The man in the middle is holding a large plaque.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-4_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers co-founders Bryan Carmel, left, and Paul Freedman, right, applaud during a rally celebrating the Oakland Ballers’ Pioneer League championship win, at Oakland City Hall. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of fans lined the parade route around the team’s home stadium, Raimondi Park, holding “Built By Oakland” signs with music by E-40 and Too Short blaring from speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re riding the high out as long as we can, and we’re all going to be a little indulgent today,” Oakland Ballers player Luke Short said. “We win a championship for stuff like this. It’s a good time for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person dressed in a possum mascot suit waves while standing in the middle of the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scrappy the Possum, the Oakland Ballers mascot, dances ahead of the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parade featured the team’s mascot, Scrappy the Rally Possum, lowriders, and Ballers players like Connor Sullivan and Malik Binns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excitement surrounding the team, which has vowed to never leave Oakland, helps fill a void left by the departure of the A’s last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Several people dressed in green clothing are seated in the back of a pickup truck with drums.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland 68 drum crew bangs drums during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had fans say to me the first time they went to a Ballers game was like going out on a first date after a divorce…” team representative Casey Pratt said. “An independent Pioneer League is never gonna replace Major League Baseball. But what it does do is it replaces the ability of fans to get together, and root for a common cause, and create new memories and spend quality time with their family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed.jpg\" alt=\"People on both sides of the street wave to people in a white car.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers players Christian Almanza, left, and Tyler Lozano, right, cheer during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A man holding a green flag stands in front of a building with "B's" painted in white.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Gomez poses in front of the Ballers logo during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the fans who came out on Sunday used to cheer for the A’s in Oakland, some of whom are still grieving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12057075,arts_13972636\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“This means a lot to baseball fans in Oakland and the East Bay,” said Jorge Leon, who came out with a group of friends to celebrate the team’s win. “I didn’t think it was going to happen this soon with the Oakland Ballers coming out like this. But it just goes to show you how resilient the city is and how amazing these fans are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon is the founder and president of the Oakland 68’s fan group as well as the elected fan representative on the Oakland Ballers’ board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their opening season last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001178/oakland-ballers-offer-fans-stock-and-a-say-in-how-team-is-run\">the Ballers began selling fan shares\u003c/a>, giving their fanbase a voice when it comes to the team’s major decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A man, woman and two young girls pose together in front of a car wearing similar clothing.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Leyva family poses for a photo during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move came after years of frustration at Oakland A’s team management, culminating in the heartbreak felt by fans after the team left the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Six people wearing pink shirts and black pants dance and wave pom poms in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SASS dance crew appears in the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Ballers also made history when manager Aaron Miles experimented with letting \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6599707/2025/09/05/artificial-intelligence-baseball-manager-oakland-ballers/\">AI drive gametime decisions for one game\u003c/a> in early September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman pose together. They both are wearing hats with a toy possum on top as well as sun glasses.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed-1536x1067.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans Jamie Gray, left, and Armando Miller, right, wear possum hats during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who came to a Ballers game this year or last year, what you experienced in West Oakland was magic,” Oakland Ballers co-founder Bryan Carmel said. “So this championship and all of the future championships that we intend to win right here in Oakland, this is for the future [generations]…and let’s just keep bringing magic to Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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You played for every single child here who deserves to see champions that look like them and who come from communities like ours and theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-4_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058693\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Three men wearing t shirts stand on the front steps of a building. 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It’s a good time for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A person dressed in a possum mascot suit waves while standing in the middle of the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scrappy the Possum, the Oakland Ballers mascot, dances ahead of the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parade featured the team’s mascot, Scrappy the Rally Possum, lowriders, and Ballers players like Connor Sullivan and Malik Binns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excitement surrounding the team, which has vowed to never leave Oakland, helps fill a void left by the departure of the A’s last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Several people dressed in green clothing are seated in the back of a pickup truck with drums.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland 68 drum crew bangs drums during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had fans say to me the first time they went to a Ballers game was like going out on a first date after a divorce…” team representative Casey Pratt said. “An independent Pioneer League is never gonna replace Major League Baseball. But what it does do is it replaces the ability of fans to get together, and root for a common cause, and create new memories and spend quality time with their family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed.jpg\" alt=\"People on both sides of the street wave to people in a white car.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-28_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers players Christian Almanza, left, and Tyler Lozano, right, cheer during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A man holding a green flag stands in front of a building with "B's" painted in white.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-47_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Gomez poses in front of the Ballers logo during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the fans who came out on Sunday used to cheer for the A’s in Oakland, some of whom are still grieving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But it just goes to show you how resilient the city is and how amazing these fans are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon is the founder and president of the Oakland 68’s fan group as well as the elected fan representative on the Oakland Ballers’ board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their opening season last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001178/oakland-ballers-offer-fans-stock-and-a-say-in-how-team-is-run\">the Ballers began selling fan shares\u003c/a>, giving their fanbase a voice when it comes to the team’s major decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A man, woman and two young girls pose together in front of a car wearing similar clothing.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-41_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Leyva family poses for a photo during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move came after years of frustration at Oakland A’s team management, culminating in the heartbreak felt by fans after the team left the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Six people wearing pink shirts and black pants dance and wave pom poms in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-14_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SASS dance crew appears in the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Ballers also made history when manager Aaron Miles experimented with letting \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6599707/2025/09/05/artificial-intelligence-baseball-manager-oakland-ballers/\">AI drive gametime decisions for one game\u003c/a> in early September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman pose together. They both are wearing hats with a toy possum on top as well as sun glasses.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251005_OaklandBallersParade_GC-43_qed-1536x1067.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans Jamie Gray, left, and Armando Miller, right, wear possum hats during the Oakland Ballers championship parade. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who came to a Ballers game this year or last year, what you experienced in West Oakland was magic,” Oakland Ballers co-founder Bryan Carmel said. “So this championship and all of the future championships that we intend to win right here in Oakland, this is for the future [generations]…and let’s just keep bringing magic to Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> city officials are putting together a plan in preparation for the possible deployment of National Guard troops to the city, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not intend to welcome federal intervention and a military occupation,” Lee said, speaking on KQED’s Forum. “We certainly know how to police, and we certainly do not need federal intervention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the city is coordinating with Alameda County and California Attorney General Rob Bonta on the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be unveiling the full plan as soon as all of the pieces are in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C. in August, President Trump has suggested for weeks that he could send troops to other cities as part of a crackdown on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/07/nx-s1-5533191/trump-chicago-threat-baltimore-new-orleans\">told reporters\u003c/a> that he planned to “clean up” major U.S. cities struggling with crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2229572233-scaled-e1756854510343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump announced he will use his authority to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control to assist in crime prevention in the nation’s capital, and that the National Guard will be deployed to D.C. Also pictured (L-R) are Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to war. We’re going to clean up our cities,” Trump said as he was leaving the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before, he posted an \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115158096026629509\">image on social media\u003c/a> of himself with the Chicago skyline in the background and references to the 1979 Vietnam War film \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, accompanied by the words: “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning …’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Trump included Oakland on a list of cities he said were “so far gone” when it comes to crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city has struggled with crime in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1979139463103\">police data show\u003c/a> violent crime is down 26% compared to this time last year.[aside postID=news_12052249 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250814-OAKLANDPUSHBACK-08-KQED.jpg']“He has targeted certain cities, he has talked about certain cities, including Oakland, and so we have to be prepared, and that’s what we’re doing,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parts of the plan, she said, are already in place and on the city’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor’s office pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/Government/City-Council-Leadership/Leadership/Office-of-the-Mayor/Immigrant-Rights-and-Resources\">web page on immigrant rights and resources in Oakland\u003c/a>. The site includes details about Oakland’s policies as a sanctuary city and “know your rights” information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Attorney General’s office declined to comment on, or even confirm, any discussions with Oakland officials, but said the office is “committed to holding President Trump and his administration accountable for overreaching their authority under the law and infringing on Californians’ constitutional rights. We’ll continue to monitor any federalization and deployment of National Guard troops closely.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security announced a new immigration enforcement operation on Monday in Chicago as part of the Trump administration’s effort to target sanctuary policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said Oakland does not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and that the city will protect its immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038301\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250430-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250430-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250430-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250430-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250430-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250430-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250430-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in Oakland on April 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a unified effort, we’re going to make sure that we circle the wagons with our immigrant community,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also urged residents who choose to protest to do so peacefully. 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