Federal Judge Places Limits On Oakland Police Use Of Tear Gas On Protesters
A federal judge has temporarily placed limits on the Oakland Police Department's use of tear gas, flash bangs and rubber bullets on protesters.
Watch CBS News
A federal judge has temporarily placed limits on the Oakland Police Department's use of tear gas, flash bangs and rubber bullets on protesters.
There's a big push to make Juneteenth, observed every June 19th to celebrate the end of slavery, a national holiday following recent incidents of civil unrest.
Police in Oakland confirmed on Thursday afternoon that they are investigating an effigy found hanging from a tree near Lake Merritt with an American flag as a hate crime.
Five ropes with nooses that were found in trees around Oakland's Lake Merritt have been taken down and will be investigated as hate crimes, according to Oakland police and Mayor Libby Schaaf.
A fire was burning at a metal recycling plant in Oakland Wednesday in the Jack London Square area, sending large billowing clouds of smoke in the air that could be seen across a wide area.
Facebook said it will continue to review groups on its platform associated with the extremist Boogaloo movement.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the state, local residents, family and friends gathered Wednesday at Cabrillo College football field to say farewell to Santa Cruz Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, who was slain when he and a fellow deputy were ambushed by accused slayer Steven Carrillo in Ben Lomond.
An Oakland City Councilwoman said Sunday night on social media that she will propose reallocating at least $25 million from the city's police department.
Black Lives Matter protesters blocked westbound traffic on the Bay Bridge for nearly three hours Sunday, painting #BLM on the roadway before police moved in and arrested 29 demonstrators, allowing traffic to once again move across the span into San Francisco.
Black-owned business owners in Oakland say they are seeing real change - not just in sales, but in people's consciousness of racial injustice.
Lower foreign and domestic consumer demand stemming from the novel coronavirus health emergency resulted in a 12.7 percent drop in freight traffic through the Port of Oakland in May compared to the same time a year ago.
The BART Board of Directors this week approved a mixed-use housing development at the West Oakland station that will include some 350,000 square feet of retail and office space.
A court hearing for a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant charged in the ambush slaying last weekend of a sheriff's sergeant in Ben Lomond has been continued to next month, prosecutors said Friday.
Steven Carrillo, the U.S. Air Force sergeant suspected in a deadly ambush of two Santa Cruz County deputies, was formally charged with murder and several counts of attempted murders with special enhancements that could carry with them a death sentence.
A new lawsuit set to be filed in the East Bay aims to change police tactics against protesters in Oakland.
Oakland's school superintendent is backing a proposal to eliminate the school police force, which critics have long argued contributes to the criminalization of young black people. Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammel and a majority of the school board support the proposal introduced at Wednesday's meeting.
With calls to defund her department growing louder, Oakland interim police chief Susan Manheimer penned an open letter to local residents Thursday detailing the challenges her officers faced during several nights of violent protest related to the death of George Floyd.
Thousands marched through the streets of Oakland Wednesday night, hoping to ask Mayor Libby Schaaf directly to defund the police department.
Recent protests over police killings have renewed calls to disband Oakland Unified School District's police department. On Wednesday, the school community met to talk about where to spend the money instead.
The sister of a federal security guard who was ambushed in a hail of bullets during a night of intense protests and unrest in Oakland, gave an emotional testimony before Congress, on Wednesday.
Protesters gathered at Elmhurst Middle School in Oakland Tuesday afternoon, demanding answers three days after a deadly CHP officer-involved shooting hours before Oakland police released new details about the incident.
Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation announced Monday it is leaving its longtime headquarters in San Francisco, established more than 100 years ago, and moving across the bay to Oakland.
Oakland native, Grammy award-winning Motown artist Bonnie Pointer, of the Pointer Sisters died Monday morning, according to a report. She was 69.
A Black Lives Matter mural stretching for three blocks was among artwork that popped up in Downtown Oakland over the weekend, amid ongoing calls seeking justice for George Floyd.
Hundreds of community members came together Sunday in Oakland's Chinatown to clean up damage from looters and vandals during recent unrest.
