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Non-urgent procedures and appointments have been rescheduled or converted to telehealth appointments, and updates will be provided to patients as the strike continues, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody wants to go on strike, Villanueva said, calling it a necessary sacrifice to make sure that workers are treated fairly and patients are given the best care possible long into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us have had to grapple with these different changes [UCSF is] proposing, but we never let our patient care slip,” she told KQED. “It’s taken a toll on morale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland and satellite clinics across the East Bay are employed directly by the hospital, a private nonprofit that functions separately from the university. 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Thousands of children are on a waitlist to see her, and a weaker contract under UCSF would make it even harder to provide patients with the specialized services they need, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s plans would hurt both workers and the East Bay community, Rosselli told KQED. 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"content": "\u003cp>The sweet sound of the crack of a wooden bat once again filled the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday night as Major League Cricket \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/12032881/oakland-coliseum-host-major-league-cricket-could-2028-la-olympics-be-next\">made its debut\u003c/a> at the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 5,000 fans came to cheer and wave orange flags as the San Francisco Unicorns took on the Washington Freedom in the 2025 MLC season opener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unicorns fans celebrate a 6 during the San Francisco Unicorns opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Major League Cricket is only in its third season in the United States, where the second-most-watched sport in the world is hoping to establish a foothold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket is a religion in India,” said Shripad Gokhale, who traveled with his wife, son and daughter from Arizona to attend the match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the game, fans dressed in Banana costumes (just for fun) set up their own friendly cricket match in the Coliseum parking lot. Amid the crack of beer cans and music, people took turns bowling cricket balls and batting in front of a plastic wicket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans, dressed as bananas, play a game of cricket in the parking lot at the Oakland Coliseum, ahead of the inaugural Major League Cricket game between the San Francisco Unicorns and Washington Freedom, on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket’s part of our bloodline in Australia, it’s pretty huge. So it’s pretty exciting to see cricket here in the states,” said Bobby Bent, who drove up from Fresno to catch the first match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cricket has a reputation for matches that can last up to five days — sometimes without a clear winner — MLC plays a faster-paced version, called T20, in which games last around three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns play Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thursday night’s matchup was a rematch of last year’s MLC finals, which saw the Freedom walk away with the trophy over the Unicorns. But this time the Unicorns prevailed, besting the Freedom by 123 runs, in a final score of 269–146.[aside postID=news_12039317 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625-1020x765.jpg']The game was a slugfest, with the Unicorns breaking multiple MLC records. Unicorns opener Finn Allen hit a league record 19 sixes (that’s the cricket equivalent of a home run), in a game that saw the Unicorns also break the league record for the widest margin of victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other major league sports in the U.S., MLC does not have a home-and-away stadium format. Instead, the six teams in the league play tournament-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum is set to host nine matches over the next week before the tournament moves to Texas and Florida for the remainder of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arrival of cricket at the Coliseum, the MLC hopes to tap into dedicated fans in the Bay Area as it seeks to grow the sport’s reach in the United States. The sport is particularly popular among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935325/cricket-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-sports-goes-to-bat-in-the-tri-valley\">Bay Area’s South Asian communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave San Francisco Unicorns flags during the Unicorns’ opening game of Major League Cricket, against the Washington Freedom, at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ You can walk through any park in the city of Fremont on a weekend, and you’ll see that the fields are packed,” Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan said during a news conference on Wednesday at the Coliseum. “ This is more than just a game. It’s a celebration of our diversity, and a dream come true for so many local fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave flags as the San Francisco Unicorns play the Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Subbu Kuchibhotla, who plays in a weekend league in Fremont, said he’s seen cricket grow exponentially in the South Bay in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about six or seven leagues across San Ramon, Fremont, Sunnyvale, you name it. It’s pretty competitive,” Kuchibhotla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum games mark a bittersweet moment for the city of Oakland, which has seen the departure of the Warriors, the Raiders and most recently the A’s. The stadium has had a second life, hosting other local professional sports teams, such as the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mikey Seraydarian of Oakland said he’s recently gotten into cricket and is just excited to see a sports team call the Coliseum home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll take any chance to be in the Coliseum again. Even just like walking over the BART bridge, I got chills,” Seraydarian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Unicorns player practices bowling ahead of their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Wednesday news conference, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee thanked MLC for investing $3 million into improvements to the Coliseum to help make it ready for cricket. These efforts included trucking in a pitch — the hard grassy surface similar to an infield in baseball — from the East Coast and bringing in cricket groundskeeping experts from Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We are deeply grateful. That’s jobs. That’s economic activity. That’s energy and momentum for this part of town, and that’s what our residents need the most,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns celebrate during their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to city officials, the MLC games at the Coliseum are an opportunity to showcase the venue as a probable host for cricket matches in the 2028 Olympics. The sport is set to return to the Summer Games for only the second time in Olympic history, after a 128-year hiatus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six teams in the MLC have an obligation to build a home stadium in the coming years. Whether MLC will return to the Coliseum next season is still up in the air, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">is the future ownership of the Coliseum itself.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unicorns said in a statement to KQED: “As we look to the future, we’re actively exploring all options for a permanent home for Bay Area cricket fans to enjoy for generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket is a religion in India,” said Shripad Gokhale, who traveled with his wife, son and daughter from Arizona to attend the match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the game, fans dressed in Banana costumes (just for fun) set up their own friendly cricket match in the Coliseum parking lot. Amid the crack of beer cans and music, people took turns bowling cricket balls and batting in front of a plastic wicket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans, dressed as bananas, play a game of cricket in the parking lot at the Oakland Coliseum, ahead of the inaugural Major League Cricket game between the San Francisco Unicorns and Washington Freedom, on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ Cricket’s part of our bloodline in Australia, it’s pretty huge. So it’s pretty exciting to see cricket here in the states,” said Bobby Bent, who drove up from Fresno to catch the first match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cricket has a reputation for matches that can last up to five days — sometimes without a clear winner — MLC plays a faster-paced version, called T20, in which games last around three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns play Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thursday night’s matchup was a rematch of last year’s MLC finals, which saw the Freedom walk away with the trophy over the Unicorns. But this time the Unicorns prevailed, besting the Freedom by 123 runs, in a final score of 269–146.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The game was a slugfest, with the Unicorns breaking multiple MLC records. Unicorns opener Finn Allen hit a league record 19 sixes (that’s the cricket equivalent of a home run), in a game that saw the Unicorns also break the league record for the widest margin of victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other major league sports in the U.S., MLC does not have a home-and-away stadium format. Instead, the six teams in the league play tournament-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum is set to host nine matches over the next week before the tournament moves to Texas and Florida for the remainder of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arrival of cricket at the Coliseum, the MLC hopes to tap into dedicated fans in the Bay Area as it seeks to grow the sport’s reach in the United States. The sport is particularly popular among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935325/cricket-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-sports-goes-to-bat-in-the-tri-valley\">Bay Area’s South Asian communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-26-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans wave San Francisco Unicorns flags during the Unicorns’ opening game of Major League Cricket, against the Washington Freedom, at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ You can walk through any park in the city of Fremont on a weekend, and you’ll see that the fields are packed,” Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan said during a news conference on Wednesday at the Coliseum. “ This is more than just a game. 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It’s pretty competitive,” Kuchibhotla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum games mark a bittersweet moment for the city of Oakland, which has seen the departure of the Warriors, the Raiders and most recently the A’s. The stadium has had a second life, hosting other local professional sports teams, such as the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mikey Seraydarian of Oakland said he’s recently gotten into cricket and is just excited to see a sports team call the Coliseum home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll take any chance to be in the Coliseum again. Even just like walking over the BART bridge, I got chills,” Seraydarian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-6-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Unicorns player practices bowling ahead of their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Wednesday news conference, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee thanked MLC for investing $3 million into improvements to the Coliseum to help make it ready for cricket. 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That’s energy and momentum for this part of town, and that’s what our residents need the most,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unicorns celebrate during their opening Major League Cricket game against the Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to city officials, the MLC games at the Coliseum are an opportunity to showcase the venue as a probable host for cricket matches in the 2028 Olympics. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-highway-patrol\">California Highway Patrol\u003c/a> has released video footage showing the high-speed police chase that caused the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042539/after-fatal-chp-pursuit-crash-oakland-police-watchdog-says-systemic-changes-are-needed\">death of an Oakland teacher \u003c/a>and reinvigorated debates surrounding pursuits and the state agency’s presence in the city last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly-released aerial footage shows suspect Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia, 18, driving at dangerous speeds while fleeing CHP through the city’s streets during a chase that activists from the Anti Police Terror Project called “reckless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization, which said it works to eradicate police fear in communities of color, will rally Thursday to demand that highway patrol follow Oakland’s police pursuit policy, and that the city’s police commission reject a recent proposal by the city’s police chief to repeal it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, police high-speed chases kill more people than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined. They don’t solve crime and they don’t prevent crime,” said Cat Brooks, the executive director of APTP. “It’s exhausting, we keep doing the same thing over and over, and now we have a police chief … that wants to roll back the very loose regulations that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pursuit, Hernandez-Garcia crashed twice, first ramming into the front of a minivan and, seconds later, skidding onto an East Oakland sidewalk, hitting a fire hydrant, a parked car and two pedestrians, including Castlemont High School teacher Marvin Boomer, who died on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footage showed his car travelling about 80 miles per hour when he crashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043976\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/A79A6150-KQED_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/A79A6150-KQED_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/A79A6150-KQED_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/A79A6150-KQED_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Marvin Boomer in Oakland on June 3, 2025. Boomer was killed when a suspect fleeing from the California Highway Patrol struck a fire hydrant, which struck the Castlemont High School teacher, who was out walking with his partner. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The four-minute video compilation showed CHP officers first attempting to pull over Hernandez-Garcia, whose vehicle was wanted in association with a felony evading incident by the Alameda County Sheriff’s office, in a parking lot near 102nd Avenue and International Avenue around 7:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fled, and the two-man police team pursued him. After about 30 seconds, they halted their chase after losing sight of Hernandez-Garcia due to the “reckless manner” of his driving, according to Shawna Pacheco, an assistant chief with CHP’s Golden Gate division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aerial team continued to follow Hernandez-Garcia as he weaved through residential streets and on and off Highway 880 at speeds topping 90 miles per hour for the next 13 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the video showed him parking on the 1800 block of Fifth Street. Officers once again tried to apprehend him, but Hernandez-Garcia drove away in the vehicle.[aside postID=news_12042539 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The two CHP officers resumed their vehicle pursuit, following him through more residential roads in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 22 seconds later, the video showed Hernandez-Garcia crashing into a minivan while turning onto 21st Street, which caused minor injuries to its passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP vehicle stopped its pursuit at the site of that incident, the video shows, while Hernandez-Garcia continued, picking up speed for another 20 seconds before he appeared to lose control of the car while barrelling between two parked vehicles just before the intersection of 12th and 21st streets. The car skidded onto the sidewalk and hit Boomer and his partner, Oakland resident Nina Woodruff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boomer was pronounced dead at the scene, and Woodruff was transported to a local hospital with multiple injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident came just as Oakland’s police commission has been tasked with reviewing the city’s pursuit policy, which restricts chases when a suspect is not putting themselves or others in imminent danger and limits police vehicles in pursuits on residential streets to traveling under 50 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, OPD Chief Floyd Mitchell requested that the commission further relax the policy, which he said “deviates from national best practice,” by eliminating the requirement that chasing officers gain approval to travel above 50 miles per hour. Brooks said the policy, even as it stands, is “loose,” and still allows officers to engage in chases, including at high speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes restrictions should be placed on the risky missions, which some policing experts have said do little to lower crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OAKLAND-PURSUIT-POLICY-MD-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Marvin Boomer in Oakland on June 3, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jerusalem Coffee House, a small Oakland cafe on the northern edge of the city’s Temescal neighborhood, is easy to miss if you’re not looking for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this unassuming cafe found itself in the crosshairs of the federal government on Monday, after the\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-coffee-house-refusal-serve-jewish-customers\"> U.S. Justice Department\u003c/a> sued the cafe’s owner, accusing him of refusing to serve two Jewish customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed Monday in \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1402996/dl\">U.S. District Court\u003c/a>, argues that Abdulrahim Harara violated the Civil Rights Act when he allegedly kicked two people out of his cafe in separate incidents last year for wearing baseball caps emblazoned with the Jewish Star of David.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widely circulated \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBw8YKfyPOz/\">video footage\u003c/a> from a confrontation in October shows Harara, whose family is from Gaza, angrily telling a customer named Jonathan Hirsch to “Get out of my business.” Pointing to Hirsch’s cap, Harara said, “This is a violent hat and you need to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t ask me to leave because of my religion,” Hirsch said during the heated exchange, as his 5-year-old son watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043849\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland on June 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m not asking you to leave because of that,” Harara responded. “Are you a Zionist? Then get out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ lawsuit also cites a second incident several months earlier, in which Harara and cafe employees allegedly kicked out another Jewish man for wearing a similar hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men have filed separate discrimination lawsuits against the cafe, accusing its owner of religious discrimination and violating their civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal attorneys also say the cafe announced a new menu that included several beverages with controversial names to mark one year after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, when Hamas militants killed more than 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges that one juice drink, dubbed “Sweet Sinwar,” is named for slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who is often credited as the mastermind of the attacks. Another drink, called “Iced In Tea Fada,” is allegedly a reference to “intifada,” an Arabic word that means rebellion or uprising.[aside postID=news_12043653 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-08-KQED.jpg']“You can’t do that. And so we’ve sued them and we’re gonna stop this from happening,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/media/attorney-general-bondi-gavin-newsom-protecting-city-vows-prosecute-looters-rioters\">interview on Fox News\u003c/a> on Wednesday. “And anywhere in the country, if you do this, we’re coming after you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omer Wiczyk, an attorney with the Brandeis Center who is representing Hirsch in a separate suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court, called the incident “horrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if his client intended to stoke tensions by wearing the hat, Wiczyk said any narrative that portrays Hirsch as a provocateur is “utter garbage and nonsense.” Hirsch knew nothing about the cafe and its ideology, and had only gone there because his son needed to use the bathroom, the attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He walked into the location, ordered a drink, went to the restroom, came out and was essentially accosted,” said Wiczyk, noting that incidents of antisemitism in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/adl-survey-antisemitc-incidents-record-level-2024\">have surged\u003c/a> since the start of the conflict in Gaza. He pointed to the murder of two \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5408006/suspect-charged-with-murder-in-killing-of-2-israeli-embassy-employees\">Israeli Embassy\u003c/a> staff members in Washington, D.C., last month and the recent violent attack on a group of\u003ca href=\"http://colo.ra\"> people in Boulder, Colorado,\u003c/a> marching in support of Israeli hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re very happy that the Justice Department is stepping in and doing exactly what it’s supposed to be doing — which is not letting people or businesses in this country think it’s OK to exclude Jews because they’re Jews,” he said, adding that while federal officials contacted him about the lawsuit, he is not directly coordinating with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough. Regardless of your position on what’s going on in Gaza or in the state of Israel,” he said, “it’s got to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-08-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Books fill a shelf at the Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland on June 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s most recent offensive comes amid its ongoing efforts to quash what it calls rampant antisemitism in the United States. But critics, including a number of prominent Jewish leaders, have accused the administration of exploiting antisemitism to target universities and other institutions it deems antithetical to its political agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, five\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/trump-antisemitism-universities-democrats-letter\"> Jewish Democratic lawmakers\u003c/a> sent a letter to the president condemning his administration’s “assault on universities,” and accusing it of using “a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lawsuit is a good example of that, said Harara, who maintains that Israel is committing genocide, but adamantly denies he was being antisemitic in either of the incidents. He insists the administration’s action against him is a blatant “political ploy.”[aside postID=news_12042751 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg']“They’re trying to overwhelm us with corrupt power. It’s fascism protecting fascism,” Harara said on Wednesday afternoon, as customers in his cafe worked quietly on their laptops, large pieces of original art adorning the walls behind them. “This is all about protecting Zionism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harara declined to comment on the specific incidents, but said the Justice Department contacted him about it two weeks ago. He has since hired two lawyers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clad in chartreuse sweatpants, Harara has shoulder-length curly hair and a striking gaze. He said he opened his cafe — which he said he named after what he considers the capital of Palestine — in 2023, just months before the Oct. 7 attacks and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040753/at-stanford-growing-pro-palestinian-hunger-strike-silence-from-university\">Israel’s subsequent bombardment and blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza\u003c/a> that has so far killed more than 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harara pointed to an ornately lettered poem in Arabic painted across the back wall of his cafe that he said was written by an ancient Islamic theologian from Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rough translation is that he longs for the land of Palestine and would use soil from the ground as a cover for eyes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his strong political views, Harara said he “abhors antisemitism,” and wants people from all walks of life to feel welcome at his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place,” he said, “was created for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They’re trying to overwhelm us with corrupt power. It’s fascism protecting fascism,” Harara said on Wednesday afternoon, as customers in his cafe worked quietly on their laptops, large pieces of original art adorning the walls behind them. “This is all about protecting Zionism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harara declined to comment on the specific incidents, but said the Justice Department contacted him about it two weeks ago. He has since hired two lawyers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clad in chartreuse sweatpants, Harara has shoulder-length curly hair and a striking gaze. He said he opened his cafe — which he said he named after what he considers the capital of Palestine — in 2023, just months before the Oct. 7 attacks and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040753/at-stanford-growing-pro-palestinian-hunger-strike-silence-from-university\">Israel’s subsequent bombardment and blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza\u003c/a> that has so far killed more than 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harara pointed to an ornately lettered poem in Arabic painted across the back wall of his cafe that he said was written by an ancient Islamic theologian from Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rough translation is that he longs for the land of Palestine and would use soil from the ground as a cover for eyes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his strong political views, Harara said he “abhors antisemitism,” and wants people from all walks of life to feel welcome at his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place,” he said, “was created for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:04 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> city council just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">passed a spending plan\u003c/a> for the next two years, weeks ahead of the July 1 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a process virtually unrecognizable from last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992752/oakland-budget-talks-drag-on-as-council-faces-huge-deficit-last-minute-changes\">amendment marathon\u003c/a>, the city’s budget team approved adjustments after just one meeting — with a goal of preserving the essential services Oaklanders want while addressing a major funding shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who co-chaired the budget committee, said the quick work was the result of newfound collaboration amongst city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are looking up for Oakland,” she told KQED. “It’s not just bickering and fighting, there’s a sense of cohesion and shared core values on this council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives conceded that the budget, which closes a $265 million deficit over the next two years, makes difficult cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In past budgets, the city of Oakland has unwisely tried to be all things to all people,” said Councilmember Zac Unger, who serves on the ad-hoc committee with Ramachandran, Rowena Brown and Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills.The amended budget from Oakland City Council cuts one police academy to keep fire stations open. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We simply don’t have the money to do that anymore,” Unger said, announcing the amendments Tuesday. “The first rule of getting yourself out of a hole is that you have to stop digging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended budget passed with six yeses, with Carroll Fife excused and Noel Gallo casting the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran credited Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, who proposed the original budget while serving as interim mayor before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040935/barbara-lee-sworn-in-as-oaklands-mayor-says-today-marks-a-new-era\">Barbara Lee’s inauguration\u003c/a>, for giving her team a realistic and workable starting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments announced Tuesday removes the final fire station closure in the two-year budget, reverses employee layoffs and pads a reserve of $3 million to shield the city against likely state and federal funding cuts.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=news_12042374 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1020x680.jpg']“Despite a $265 million shortfall, we are proud to have come up with creative solutions to invest in the basics, invest in core and essential city services,” Ramachandran said Tuesday. “We want public safety. We want clean streets. We want economic revitalization. This is what our residents are telling us, and our budget amendments [do] exactly that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest changes to the budget proposed last month by then-interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins is a reallocation of police funds to try to increase the number of sworn officers with less money, cutting one of six police academies planned for the next two years, while increasing the department’s budget for recruiting prospective officers and funding to expedite hearings for officers placed on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is well below its baseline staffing level of 700 sworn officers, which was set by November’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measures#measure-nn\">Measure NN\u003c/a>. If the department fails to meet that level, its ability to collect parcel tax and the parking tax revenue the following year is reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the department has about 675 officers, about 100 of which at any given time are on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could struggle to even maintain current staffing levels in the coming years after canceling two training academies scheduled for 2025 due to budget cuts this spring. According to the police commission, OPD loses about five officers per month to attrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramachandran said that even with one fewer academy class, Oakland can take a smarter approach to increasing police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland Police Department squad car in downtown Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city of Oakland hasn’t been able to actually ever put on six academies in decades,” she said. “It’s a lofty goal, but at the end of the day, we want solutions that are actually going to work, not just throwing money at a problem and hope that magically increases the police number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five years, the average graduating class size for OPD academies has been 22. Last May, the graduating academy had just 12 new recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it’s natural that you’re going to have recruits dropping off, but to start at 22 instead of 42 and to end up with 12 [officers] for $4 million doesn’t make sense,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cutting one academy, the budget amendments would also add $220,000 to outreach efforts for police academies to help increase class sizes in a more cost-effective way, she said.[aside postID=news_12043062 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/026_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed.jpg']The councilmembers believe OPD can also increase the number of officers in the field by speeding up Skelly hearings, which officers have to go through when placed on administrative leave before they can return to the job and to determine whether they will face disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, there were 149 pending hearings and 42 officers on administrative leave, according to police commission reports. Eleven officers have been on administrative leave for between one and two years, which has cost the department nearly $3 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also now allocates $10 million more to the Fire Department’s budget to stop a rotating station brownout, which would have continued one of the most controversial budget cuts made in January after the city implemented a contingency budget to make up for unrealized revenue from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">stalled sale of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040592/all-oakland-fire-stations-open-ahead-of-wildfire-season-for-first-time-in-decades\">all 25 of the city’s fire stations have been open\u003c/a> for the last month. Before that, three stations, including two in the fire-prone Oakland Hills, had been shuttered throughout the year due to the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the additional funding, the only necessary brownout would be for a three-month period this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amendments’ impact on labor partners is more of a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the councilmembers’ proposal would reverse eight layoffs and salary reductions planned across various departments, it also proposes budgeting lower starting salary steps for some city positions, predicted to save about $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said it’s common for new workers to come into the city making more than the minimum required by Oakland’s deals with labor partners. The amendment requests roles be budgeted based on the salary scales agreed upon, and that new recruits to non-exempt roles not come in at a starting salary that doesn’t exceed a certain step three on the salary scale, Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also focuses on clean street efforts, sideshow prevention and building up economic zones and new businesses – interests shared by Lee, who took over the office shortly after Jenkins’ proposal was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jenkins said during his budget briefing last month that Lee had not had much input in the spending plan, Ramachandran said she has been supportive of the council throughout the amendment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overwhelming majority of her priorities overlap with ours, and she’s being creative on her own on how we can try to seek and obtain money from the outside, which is her area of expertise coming into this process,” said Ramachandran, who frequently sparred with former Mayor Sheng Thao before her recall in November. “This is a process of shared respect, which was glaringly absent under the Sheng Thao administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Despite a $265 million shortfall, we are proud to have come up with creative solutions to invest in the basics, invest in core and essential city services,” Ramachandran said Tuesday. “We want public safety. We want clean streets. We want economic revitalization. This is what our residents are telling us, and our budget amendments [do] exactly that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest changes to the budget proposed last month by then-interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins is a reallocation of police funds to try to increase the number of sworn officers with less money, cutting one of six police academies planned for the next two years, while increasing the department’s budget for recruiting prospective officers and funding to expedite hearings for officers placed on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is well below its baseline staffing level of 700 sworn officers, which was set by November’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measures#measure-nn\">Measure NN\u003c/a>. If the department fails to meet that level, its ability to collect parcel tax and the parking tax revenue the following year is reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the department has about 675 officers, about 100 of which at any given time are on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could struggle to even maintain current staffing levels in the coming years after canceling two training academies scheduled for 2025 due to budget cuts this spring. According to the police commission, OPD loses about five officers per month to attrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramachandran said that even with one fewer academy class, Oakland can take a smarter approach to increasing police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland Police Department squad car in downtown Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city of Oakland hasn’t been able to actually ever put on six academies in decades,” she said. “It’s a lofty goal, but at the end of the day, we want solutions that are actually going to work, not just throwing money at a problem and hope that magically increases the police number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five years, the average graduating class size for OPD academies has been 22. Last May, the graduating academy had just 12 new recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it’s natural that you’re going to have recruits dropping off, but to start at 22 instead of 42 and to end up with 12 [officers] for $4 million doesn’t make sense,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cutting one academy, the budget amendments would also add $220,000 to outreach efforts for police academies to help increase class sizes in a more cost-effective way, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The councilmembers believe OPD can also increase the number of officers in the field by speeding up Skelly hearings, which officers have to go through when placed on administrative leave before they can return to the job and to determine whether they will face disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, there were 149 pending hearings and 42 officers on administrative leave, according to police commission reports. Eleven officers have been on administrative leave for between one and two years, which has cost the department nearly $3 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also now allocates $10 million more to the Fire Department’s budget to stop a rotating station brownout, which would have continued one of the most controversial budget cuts made in January after the city implemented a contingency budget to make up for unrealized revenue from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">stalled sale of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040592/all-oakland-fire-stations-open-ahead-of-wildfire-season-for-first-time-in-decades\">all 25 of the city’s fire stations have been open\u003c/a> for the last month. Before that, three stations, including two in the fire-prone Oakland Hills, had been shuttered throughout the year due to the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the additional funding, the only necessary brownout would be for a three-month period this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amendments’ impact on labor partners is more of a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the councilmembers’ proposal would reverse eight layoffs and salary reductions planned across various departments, it also proposes budgeting lower starting salary steps for some city positions, predicted to save about $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said it’s common for new workers to come into the city making more than the minimum required by Oakland’s deals with labor partners. The amendment requests roles be budgeted based on the salary scales agreed upon, and that new recruits to non-exempt roles not come in at a starting salary that doesn’t exceed a certain step three on the salary scale, Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also focuses on clean street efforts, sideshow prevention and building up economic zones and new businesses – interests shared by Lee, who took over the office shortly after Jenkins’ proposal was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jenkins said during his budget briefing last month that Lee had not had much input in the spending plan, Ramachandran said she has been supportive of the council throughout the amendment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overwhelming majority of her priorities overlap with ours, and she’s being creative on her own on how we can try to seek and obtain money from the outside, which is her area of expertise coming into this process,” said Ramachandran, who frequently sparred with former Mayor Sheng Thao before her recall in November. “This is a process of shared respect, which was glaringly absent under the Sheng Thao administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds gathered near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> Fruitvale BART Station on Tuesday night to protest increased immigration enforcement and show solidarity with Bay Area immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interfaith vigil was planned in response to actions by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles over the weekend. The crowd held white church candles and protest signs as they listened to performances, speeches and rallying cries from faith leaders and local officials, including Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that the president and the current administration is grossly overstepping and abusing their power. And I feel that, as a religious person, communities of faith need to show up and stand in solidarity with immigrants who are threatened and afraid,” Rabbi Chai Levy, an Albany resident, told KQED. “It’s important to show up as people of conscience and morality and say that we’re against what our government is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy had a sign that read “Resisting tyrants since Pharaoh,” a reference to the biblical story of the Israelites’ oppression in Egypt, and a broader tradition of standing up against injustice and authoritarian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of our religious tradition to care for the stranger, to love our neighbor and to stand up to tyrants,” said Levy, 53.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather for an interfaith vigil at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland on June 10, 2025, in solidarity with immigrants and protesters in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dennis Kim, a registered nurse and Oakland resident, said he attended the vigil to stand in solidarity with other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m standing with my family — with my son, with my partner — and with all these beautiful people out here, because this is what Fruitvale is about,” Kim, 47, said. “\u003cem>This\u003c/em> is what Oakland is about. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> is what the Bay is about.”[aside postID=news_12043548 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25160742848163-scaled.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland resident continued: “When I see the people that they’re taking away on television, I see people that look like me. I see people who could be my uncle, who could be my auntie, and I don’t want to wait too late to speak up and to take a stand. If not now, then when? We got to do it now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who represented Oakland in Congress for more than two decades before being elected mayor in April, told the crowd she was born in El Paso, Texas, a city located on the Rio Grande along the Mexico–U.S. border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand firmly with Los Angeles families, firmly with our Los Angeles brothers and sisters facing federal immigration raids,” Lee said. “The Bay Area and Los Angeles are united. When any community is threatened, we all respond with compassion, with strength and with action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant communities — yes, our immigrant communities — are the heartbeat of Oakland, enriching our neighborhoods with diverse cultures, languages and experience, and deserve the quality of life that every human being deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds peacefully gathered at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland on June 10, 2025, in solidarity with immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Activists provided a hotline number and told people to report ICE sightings and arrests, like those that took place earlier Tuesday at immigration courts in San Francisco and Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, San Francisco’s immigration court was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">shut down for the day\u003c/a> after more than 100 people rallied against the arrests of at least two immigrants by federal officers at the downtown building. The arrests were the first in more than two weeks at the 100 Montgomery St. site, where ICE officers began making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">unprecedented detainments\u003c/a> of people reporting for asylum hearings last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, ICE officials detained \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">at least 15 immigrants\u003c/a>, including a 3-year-old child, attending check-in appointments at the ICE field office in San Francisco. On Friday, a man was arrested at the city’s federal courthouse after appearing for an immigration hearing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return of ICE agents to the downtown immigration court comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043544/dozens-more-arrested-in-calmer-night-of-san-francisco-ice-protests\">two nights of protests\u003c/a> across San Francisco denouncing the ramped-up enforcement efforts and the Trump administration’s deployment of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043548/california-asks-court-to-stop-national-guard-marines-from-patrolling-la-streets\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> — usually under states’ direction — to Los Angeles to quell protests there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 150 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043333/san-francisco-prepares-for-more-ice-protests-after-night-of-mass-arrests\">were arrested\u003c/a> after an offshoot of a San Francisco protest became violent Sunday night, and further arrests were made following a peaceful march that brought thousands of people to the Mission District on Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jovanna Diaz waves a Mexican flag during an interfaith vigil at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland on June 10, 2025. Diaz was there to honor her father. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday night in Oakland, about 500 people peacefully gathered at Fruitvale Plaza, standing beneath blooming lavender jacaranda trees. Some attendees waved Mexican flags, while others held candles or signs that read “Keep families together,” “Can’t spell cowardice without ICE,” and “I prefer my ICE crushed.”[aside postID=news_12043596 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time for us to say, ‘Not in our city.’ We will stop, we will block, we will drive out ICE,” said Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, the Oakland teachers union president. “We will protect our classrooms. We will protect our streets. We will protect our homes. Together, we rise for the dignity of our families and our right to live without fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd was both tense and energetic as community leaders and organizers took turns expressing support for immigrants. In between their remarks, a live band coaxed the crowd to dance to cumbia beats. The event had the feel of a family gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just feet from where the vigil was taking place, a group of workers feverishly cut two-by-fours and sheets of plywood to board up the windows of a Citibank branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jovanna Diaz waved a large Mexican flag from atop a trash can. The Oakland resident said she attended the vigil to honor her father, who was deported following an ICE raid in 2006. He died soon afterward from a heart condition, and she was never able to see him again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to make him proud,” Diaz, 31, said. “I want him to see me from above and see that I’m using my voice for him, for me and all our people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds gathered near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> Fruitvale BART Station on Tuesday night to protest increased immigration enforcement and show solidarity with Bay Area immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interfaith vigil was planned in response to actions by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles over the weekend. The crowd held white church candles and protest signs as they listened to performances, speeches and rallying cries from faith leaders and local officials, including Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel that the president and the current administration is grossly overstepping and abusing their power. And I feel that, as a religious person, communities of faith need to show up and stand in solidarity with immigrants who are threatened and afraid,” Rabbi Chai Levy, an Albany resident, told KQED. “It’s important to show up as people of conscience and morality and say that we’re against what our government is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy had a sign that read “Resisting tyrants since Pharaoh,” a reference to the biblical story of the Israelites’ oppression in Egypt, and a broader tradition of standing up against injustice and authoritarian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of our religious tradition to care for the stranger, to love our neighbor and to stand up to tyrants,” said Levy, 53.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather for an interfaith vigil at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland on June 10, 2025, in solidarity with immigrants and protesters in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dennis Kim, a registered nurse and Oakland resident, said he attended the vigil to stand in solidarity with other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m standing with my family — with my son, with my partner — and with all these beautiful people out here, because this is what Fruitvale is about,” Kim, 47, said. “\u003cem>This\u003c/em> is what Oakland is about. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> is what the Bay is about.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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When any community is threatened, we all respond with compassion, with strength and with action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant communities — yes, our immigrant communities — are the heartbeat of Oakland, enriching our neighborhoods with diverse cultures, languages and experience, and deserve the quality of life that every human being deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds peacefully gathered at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland on June 10, 2025, in solidarity with immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Activists provided a hotline number and told people to report ICE sightings and arrests, like those that took place earlier Tuesday at immigration courts in San Francisco and Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, San Francisco’s immigration court was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">shut down for the day\u003c/a> after more than 100 people rallied against the arrests of at least two immigrants by federal officers at the downtown building. The arrests were the first in more than two weeks at the 100 Montgomery St. site, where ICE officers began making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">unprecedented detainments\u003c/a> of people reporting for asylum hearings last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, ICE officials detained \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">at least 15 immigrants\u003c/a>, including a 3-year-old child, attending check-in appointments at the ICE field office in San Francisco. On Friday, a man was arrested at the city’s federal courthouse after appearing for an immigration hearing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return of ICE agents to the downtown immigration court comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043544/dozens-more-arrested-in-calmer-night-of-san-francisco-ice-protests\">two nights of protests\u003c/a> across San Francisco denouncing the ramped-up enforcement efforts and the Trump administration’s deployment of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043548/california-asks-court-to-stop-national-guard-marines-from-patrolling-la-streets\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> — usually under states’ direction — to Los Angeles to quell protests there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 150 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043333/san-francisco-prepares-for-more-ice-protests-after-night-of-mass-arrests\">were arrested\u003c/a> after an offshoot of a San Francisco protest became violent Sunday night, and further arrests were made following a peaceful march that brought thousands of people to the Mission District on Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-OAKLAND-ICE-VIGIL-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jovanna Diaz waves a Mexican flag during an interfaith vigil at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland on June 10, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> is calling out the swift reversal of many of her landmark initiatives just over 100 days after her successor, Ursula Jones Dickson, took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the county’s Board of Supervisors appointed Jones Dickson following Price’s recall in February, she has quietly withdrawn death row resentencing efforts for at least four people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias. For decades, Price has said, the office under prior district attorneys had covered up its practice of excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson has also dropped what Price called historic environmental justice charges and restructured her landmark Public Accountability Unit, which aimed to review police misconduct cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the residents of Alameda County understood that they were going to go back to the days when Black people and Jewish people were not allowed to serve on juries — that’s the danger that you have,” Price said during a press conference on Wednesday. “When the police got to tell the district attorney what she or he should or should not do, that’s the danger. We’re going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the hallmarks of Price’s administration were also flashpoints in the campaign to recall her, which succeeded in November following community strife over her progressive prosecutorial decisions and her office’s response to crimes, especially in cities like Oakland and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">Jones Dickson\u003c/a> vowed to right the office by retraining staff, rebuilding relationships with community and law enforcement partners and clearing a backlog of misdemeanor cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said on her 100th day in office that her main goals were increasing efficiency and accountability to victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s position is not a political position,” Jones Dickson said in an apparent dig at Price. “The goal is to be an elected public servant. We stay in our lane, we keep the main thing the main thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> first reported\u003c/a> last week that Jones Dickson has sought to withdraw motions Price filed to resentence four people on death row following a mandated review of 35 death penalty cases in Alameda County last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the review based on evidence that prosecutors had systematically struck Black and Jewish jurors from cases dating back to the 1980s. Last year, Price revealed notes written by prosecutors highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">release was reset\u003c/a> for this month under Price.[aside postID=news_12042069 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-04-1020x680.jpg']Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. She has alleged that her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also ignored evidence of such misconduct to protect the reputation of the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer of the court and someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, Judge Jones Dickson has an absolute duty to ensure that justice is done for those men,” Price said. “We all have a right to the rule of law and not have it compromised by corruption or nepotism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Accountability Unit, which Price created to review police misconduct cases and called a “reckoning” for Alameda County, has also been restructured under Jones Dickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been renamed the Public Integrity Division, and its procedures will more closely resemble O’Malley’s prosecutorial practices, spokesperson Haaziq Madyun \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/07/new-alameda-da-shakes-up-unit-that-pamela-price-created-to-prosecute-cops/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Price attempted to relitigate a case against three Alameda police officers in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed man who died after being pinned down by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She filed charges just days after the recall campaign against her qualified for last November’s ballot, and her office took heat after the cases against two of the three officers were dismissed for missing the three-year statute of limitations to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event, hosted by Protect the Win, was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price has also criticized the district attorney’s office for dropping an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042069/alameda-county-da-defends-dismissal-of-case-tied-to-toxic-fire-in-west-oakland\">environmental justice case\u003c/a> she brought against Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, over a 2023 fire that prosecutors said spread toxic smoke throughout the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office had charged the company and two leaders of its West Oakland scrap metal processing plant with recklessly managing hazardous materials, including aged vehicles and appliances, and later trying to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said her office dropped the case after finding that it did not meet high evidentiary standards.[aside postID=news_12034231 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20161112_181430-qut-1020x765.jpg']“The bottom line is we can not move forward ethically on a case that we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the case was reviewed along with others in the consumer division, some of which had been delegated out to a contracted law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not seen that before — a law firm being hired by a district attorney to do the work of DAs,” Jones Dickson said, adding that it was a concern to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said she could not comment on whether the office would bring a civil case against Radius Recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about her motivation for speaking out against Jones Dickson, Price confirmed she isn’t planning to mount another campaign for office or a recall effort against her successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that I feel it’s important [is] that the public should understand what is truly happening,” she told reporters. “It became clear in the last few days, and certainly with the 100-day report, that there are some things that the public needs to know about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a new direction. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the residents of Alameda County understood that they were going to go back to the days when Black people and Jewish people were not allowed to serve on juries — that’s the danger that you have,” Price said during a press conference on Wednesday. “When the police got to tell the district attorney what she or he should or should not do, that’s the danger. We’re going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the hallmarks of Price’s administration were also flashpoints in the campaign to recall her, which succeeded in November following community strife over her progressive prosecutorial decisions and her office’s response to crimes, especially in cities like Oakland and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">Jones Dickson\u003c/a> vowed to right the office by retraining staff, rebuilding relationships with community and law enforcement partners and clearing a backlog of misdemeanor cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said on her 100th day in office that her main goals were increasing efficiency and accountability to victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s position is not a political position,” Jones Dickson said in an apparent dig at Price. “The goal is to be an elected public servant. We stay in our lane, we keep the main thing the main thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> first reported\u003c/a> last week that Jones Dickson has sought to withdraw motions Price filed to resentence four people on death row following a mandated review of 35 death penalty cases in Alameda County last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the review based on evidence that prosecutors had systematically struck Black and Jewish jurors from cases dating back to the 1980s. Last year, Price revealed notes written by prosecutors highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">release was reset\u003c/a> for this month under Price.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. She has alleged that her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also ignored evidence of such misconduct to protect the reputation of the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer of the court and someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, Judge Jones Dickson has an absolute duty to ensure that justice is done for those men,” Price said. “We all have a right to the rule of law and not have it compromised by corruption or nepotism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Accountability Unit, which Price created to review police misconduct cases and called a “reckoning” for Alameda County, has also been restructured under Jones Dickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been renamed the Public Integrity Division, and its procedures will more closely resemble O’Malley’s prosecutorial practices, spokesperson Haaziq Madyun \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/07/new-alameda-da-shakes-up-unit-that-pamela-price-created-to-prosecute-cops/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Price attempted to relitigate a case against three Alameda police officers in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed man who died after being pinned down by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She filed charges just days after the recall campaign against her qualified for last November’s ballot, and her office took heat after the cases against two of the three officers were dismissed for missing the three-year statute of limitations to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event, hosted by Protect the Win, was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price has also criticized the district attorney’s office for dropping an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042069/alameda-county-da-defends-dismissal-of-case-tied-to-toxic-fire-in-west-oakland\">environmental justice case\u003c/a> she brought against Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, over a 2023 fire that prosecutors said spread toxic smoke throughout the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office had charged the company and two leaders of its West Oakland scrap metal processing plant with recklessly managing hazardous materials, including aged vehicles and appliances, and later trying to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said her office dropped the case after finding that it did not meet high evidentiary standards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One week after a high-speed California Highway Patrol chase led to a crash that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042178/oakland-chp-pursuit-crash-kills-a-beloved-teacher-renewing-debate-over-police-chases\">killed a high school teacher\u003c/a> in Oakland, the city’s Police Commission said systemic changes are needed to address how local police apprehend suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Revisions to the pursuit policy alone will not resolve the underlying issues that led to this heartbreaking loss,” the commission said in a statement on Monday afternoon signed by Chair Ricardo Garcia-Acosta. “Police pursuits are a complex, multifaceted problem requiring urgent, coordinated action across city leadership, public safety agencies, and community partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pursuit policy revisions proposed by Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell last month, a week before the fatal May 28 crash, would \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1PM8a3qLj2zhKqO2y02wRQ3Wbpm4WPr/view\">rescind a restriction on pursuits\u003c/a> established under former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong in 2022. 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Officers pursued him for around 30 seconds before discontinuing their ground chase while CHP aircraft continued to monitor Hernandez-Garcia from above, CHP said.[aside postID=news_12042178 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240408-FCIDublin-026-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']At one point, Hernandez-Garcia pulled over and began to exit the vehicle. When law enforcement approached him, however, he re-entered the car and a second ground pursuit ensued, CHP said, adding that the driver crashed into a minivan near Park Boulevard a few seconds later. The people in the minivan suffered minor injuries, and the pursuit was called off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few seconds later, around 7:45 p.m., the driver crashed into a fire hydrant and two pedestrians at the intersection of East 21st Street and 12th Avenue, killing one of the people and injuring the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Boomer, a beloved math teacher and academic coach at Castlemont High School in Oakland, was pronounced dead at the scene while his girlfriend, who was walking with him, was taken to the hospital for her injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boomer, 40, “was a source of light, always stepping up to help others, lead with kindness, and bring people together,” a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-dr-boomers-legacy?attribution_id=sl:9e2cda4b-3908-43f0-beeb-3b3d8e4a3d9e&lang=en_US&ts=1748728311&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_t1-amp14_c-amp15_t3&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&v=amp14_c\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> dedicated to Boomer said. “His warmth, wisdom, and joyful spirit left a lasting impact on his family and friends as well as the countless students, colleagues, and community members in his orbit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Garcia was arrested and booked into Santa Rita Jail on multiple felony charges, and CHP and the Oakland Police Department are investigating the incident. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At one point, Hernandez-Garcia pulled over and began to exit the vehicle. When law enforcement approached him, however, he re-entered the car and a second ground pursuit ensued, CHP said, adding that the driver crashed into a minivan near Park Boulevard a few seconds later. The people in the minivan suffered minor injuries, and the pursuit was called off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few seconds later, around 7:45 p.m., the driver crashed into a fire hydrant and two pedestrians at the intersection of East 21st Street and 12th Avenue, killing one of the people and injuring the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Boomer, a beloved math teacher and academic coach at Castlemont High School in Oakland, was pronounced dead at the scene while his girlfriend, who was walking with him, was taken to the hospital for her injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boomer, 40, “was a source of light, always stepping up to help others, lead with kindness, and bring people together,” a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-dr-boomers-legacy?attribution_id=sl:9e2cda4b-3908-43f0-beeb-3b3d8e4a3d9e&lang=en_US&ts=1748728311&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_t1-amp14_c-amp15_t3&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&v=amp14_c\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> dedicated to Boomer said. “His warmth, wisdom, and joyful spirit left a lasting impact on his family and friends as well as the countless students, colleagues, and community members in his orbit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Garcia was arrested and booked into Santa Rita Jail on multiple felony charges, and CHP and the Oakland Police Department are investigating the incident. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office said June 20 is his scheduled plea hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The cause is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first truck arrived at the area near the edge of Chabot Park less than three minutes after receiving the call, but just two weeks earlier, the response wouldn’t have been so quick, according to department spokesperson Michael Hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby Station 28, along with two others, had been closed for months until May 18 due to mid-year city funding cuts. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040592/all-oakland-fire-stations-open-ahead-of-wildfire-season-for-first-time-in-decades\">reopening of the three stations\u003c/a>, one of which had been closed since 2022, marked the first time in decades that all 25 of Oakland’s fire stations were operating. 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Oakland has also suggested that it could need to negotiate with labor partners in the coming years about their benefits agreements, as it approaches a steep rise in benefit and retirement costs, without a clear way to afford them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department is currently conducting interviews for a fire academy this fall, and is planning to host another in 2026. Still, Olyer said recruiting is an “uphill battle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has begun annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021911/oakland-hills-burned-before-la-fires-have-many-terrified-it-will-happen-again\">fire maintenance work\u003c/a>, which Olyer said is vital to keep the risk in the fire-prone hills down as much as possible. In July, the city will unlock a new estimated $2.6 million in annual funding to pay for vegetation clearing, thanks to a special tax that hills residents passed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olyer said the city still needs to focus on funding preventive efforts such as vegetation clearing and enforcing parking restrictions along the narrow, windy streets in the hills. Those parked vehicles can impede fire trucks from driving quickly up and residents from evacuating down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wants the city to work on legislation that designates high fire risk zones, which would open them up to more state and federal funding streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every little bit counts, and it’s a very delicate house of cards that we need to keep propped up statewide,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The death of a high school teacher who was struck in Oakland this week by the driver of a vehicle fleeing California Highway Patrol officers has intensified an already heated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001829/oakland-residents-divided-over-gov-newsoms-involvement-in-local-crime-solutions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">debate over police pursuit policies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the city.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/05/29/oakland-chp-chase-beloved-castlemont-teacher-marvin-boomer/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marvin Boomer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a veteran Castlemont High School math teacher who also worked as an academic coach, was pronounced dead at the scene on Wednesday after the vehicle slammed into him and another pedestrian around 7:45 p.m. at the intersection of East 21st Street and 12th Avenue. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second victim, a woman in her 40s who has not been identified, was rushed to the hospital and is stable, according to Oakland police, who were not involved in the pursuit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CHP and the Oakland Police Department said they have each launched separate investigations. The driver, 18-year-old Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia of Oakland, was arrested and booked into Santa Rita Jail on multiple felony charges, CHP said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pursuit started when CHP officers tried to stop Hernandez-Garcia as he drove a vehicle that was “wanted in association with a felony evading incident,” the agency said. CHP officers pursued Hernandez-Garcia on the ground for just over 30 seconds before pulling back as he drove west from 102nd Avenue, with aircraft monitoring him overhead. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seconds after CHP reinitiated its ground pursuit at a second location, the driver hit a minivan near Park Boulevard, causing minor injuries to its passengers, before continuing east to where the fatal crash occurred, CHP said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“While CHP terminated pursuit within mere seconds and CHP fixed-wing aircraft continued to monitor overhead, Hernandez-Garcia’s reckless and dangerous driving caused him to crash twice, within seconds of each other,” the agency said in a statement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12040592 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00044-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Cat Brooks, the co-founder and executive director of the Anti-Police Terror Project, directed much of the blame toward the officers who started the chase.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“No one was in danger until CHP decided to engage in a high-speed chase over a vehicle. What a waste of life,” said Brooks, whose group is holding a vigil on Friday evening at the site of the crash and demanding that CHP end what it called “reckless” chases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Police high-speed chases kill more people every year than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and lightning combined,” she said. “They do not prevent crime. They do not solve crime.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The crash happened just hours before the final day of the school year, leaving the Castlemont community in a state of shock and mourning as it prepared for Friday’s graduation ceremonies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Everyone was devastated, not just because someone had died, but because it was Boomer,” said George Arterberry, a fellow Castlemont teacher who started working at the school the same year as Boomer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arterberry said he and Boomer both graduated from historically Black universities in the South and came to Oakland with a deep sense of mission and purpose around empowering the next generation of Black and brown students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He was the genuine article. Authentic, likable, charismatic, relatable,” Arterberry said. “And so instantly, when you would meet him — whether you were one of the kids, teachers, adults — you liked him. You couldn’t help it. There just didn’t seem to be an agenda with him. He wasn’t trying to prove something.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After teaching math for four years at Castlemont, Boomer headed its career education department. While working at the school, he also completed a doctorate in philosophy from North Carolina State University, with a focus on educational research and policy analysis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said Boomer was a “beloved and vital member of the Castlemont family,” where he served for eight years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“His warmth, wisdom, and joyful spirit left a lasting impact on students and fellow educators,” the district said. “We extend our deepest condolences to everyone impacted by this loss. Dr. Boomer was more than a teacher — he was a mentor, a friend, and a source of strength and inspiration in the halls of Castlemont.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deadly crash comes a week after the Oakland Police Commission suggested it was leaning toward \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/05/23/oakland-police-pursuit-policy-proposed-revisions/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">revising OPD’s pursuit policy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which many residents argue is too restrictive and allows suspects to easily escape authorities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those rules, issued under former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong in late 2022, following a spike in police pursuits and deadly crashes, require officers who don’t have additional command approval to end a chase if any vehicles involved exceed 50 mph on city streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1PM8a3qLj2zhKqO2y02wRQ3Wbpm4WPr/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new proposal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, submitted to the commission last week by current Chief Floyd Mitchell, would rescind the pre-authorization requirement, a rule that he argued “deviates from national best practice.” Mitchell noted that police pursuits in Oakland have plummeted since the 2022 rule was put in place — from 130 that year to 68 in 2024 — even as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1743494392012\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">violent crime in the city increased\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, CHP officers are not bound by the city’s pursuit rules. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993611/newsom-to-quadruple-chp-deployment-in-oakland-ramping-up-states-policing-role\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">deployed the CHP\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Oakland last year to patrol high-crime areas and target vehicle theft, sideshows and organized retail crime, has been openly critical of Oakland’s chase rules. Last year, he even threatened to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/26/governor-newsom-oakland-police-chase-policy/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">withdraw CHP support\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> unless the restrictions were loosened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The governor’s office declined to comment on this week’s pursuit crash, instead referring KQED to CHP. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brooks, of APTP, criticized the Oakland police chief for seeking to loosen restrictions on chases in the city, suggesting he was bowing to outside pressure. Even with the existing restrictions, she argued, the department has repeatedly violated its own policies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is another knee-jerk policy reaction. 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They do not solve crime.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The crash happened just hours before the final day of the school year, leaving the Castlemont community in a state of shock and mourning as it prepared for Friday’s graduation ceremonies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Everyone was devastated, not just because someone had died, but because it was Boomer,” said George Arterberry, a fellow Castlemont teacher who started working at the school the same year as Boomer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arterberry said he and Boomer both graduated from historically Black universities in the South and came to Oakland with a deep sense of mission and purpose around empowering the next generation of Black and brown students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He was the genuine article. Authentic, likable, charismatic, relatable,” Arterberry said. “And so instantly, when you would meet him — whether you were one of the kids, teachers, adults — you liked him. You couldn’t help it. There just didn’t seem to be an agenda with him. He wasn’t trying to prove something.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After teaching math for four years at Castlemont, Boomer headed its career education department. While working at the school, he also completed a doctorate in philosophy from North Carolina State University, with a focus on educational research and policy analysis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said Boomer was a “beloved and vital member of the Castlemont family,” where he served for eight years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“His warmth, wisdom, and joyful spirit left a lasting impact on students and fellow educators,” the district said. “We extend our deepest condolences to everyone impacted by this loss. Dr. Boomer was more than a teacher — he was a mentor, a friend, and a source of strength and inspiration in the halls of Castlemont.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deadly crash comes a week after the Oakland Police Commission suggested it was leaning toward \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/05/23/oakland-police-pursuit-policy-proposed-revisions/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">revising OPD’s pursuit policy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which many residents argue is too restrictive and allows suspects to easily escape authorities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those rules, issued under former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong in late 2022, following a spike in police pursuits and deadly crashes, require officers who don’t have additional command approval to end a chase if any vehicles involved exceed 50 mph on city streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1PM8a3qLj2zhKqO2y02wRQ3Wbpm4WPr/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new proposal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, submitted to the commission last week by current Chief Floyd Mitchell, would rescind the pre-authorization requirement, a rule that he argued “deviates from national best practice.” Mitchell noted that police pursuits in Oakland have plummeted since the 2022 rule was put in place — from 130 that year to 68 in 2024 — even as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1743494392012\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">violent crime in the city increased\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, CHP officers are not bound by the city’s pursuit rules. 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