OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — A number one civil rights group is expressing outrage after an ABC7 Eyewitness News I-Team report this week, exhibiting San Leandro officers battling a homeless man, driving him seven miles to Oakland, and “dumping” him – in their phrases. The I-Team is listening to from sources that San Leandro Police Chief Angela Averiett is attending roll calls and saying nobody did something fallacious. But the bodycam video reveals what occurred.
Monday’s I-Team report is drawing sturdy response from the Oakland Chapter of the NAACP.
“That was very, very disturbing, for me to watch. What has happened to people that you can do this callous and treat people this way,” mentioned retired Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte who investigates civil rights violations for the Oakland Chapter of the NAACP. She tells us that Shaquille Coleman mustn’t have even been handcuffed throughout the December 2024 incident. San Leandro officers admitted he had dedicated no crimes, however they compelled him into the patrol automotive, pulled out his braids, and drove him seven miles into Oakland, “dumping” him in their phrases.
VIDEO: San Leandro officers ‘dump’ homeless man in Oakland; I-Team questions PD supervisor
Bodycam video captured San Leandro police officers handcuffing a homeless man at a strip mall, after which “dumping” him seven miles away in Oakland.
Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte: “They should not be hired by any other police agency anywhere. There needs to have been something done, something that sends a strong message.”
Dan Noyes: “You’re saying that these officers, those who were involved, ought to be fired?”
Judge Harbin-Forte: “In my view, yes, absolutely.”
Police Chief Angela Averiett and Mayor Juan Gonzalez on Friday, once more declined my request for an interview, however Gonzalez put out a recorded assertion repeating that the town investigated and that the officers confronted corrective motion. “Their actions didn’t meet the standards of conduct and professionalism that the city expects of all employees,” mentioned Gonzalez.
The NAACP and different teams need to know the main points; they need extra transparency about how the town is dealing with the controversial case. That’s the message from a information convention held by the Anti-Police Terror Project.
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Cat Brooks, the APTP’s co-founder, mentioned, “And I personally am tired of responding to these incidents. When are we going to admit that policing as we do it does not keep people safe? That it in fact makes people usually our most vulnerable people less safe?”
Recalled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price additionally spoke; she’s working for the workplace once more. “And the fact that they felt like they could take this man, Mr. Coleman, and treat him like trash and dump him, dump him in Oakland is is a crime against humanity and it’s outrageous behavior,” Price mentioned,
Price desires the present DA to examine what occurred. Ursula Jones-Dickson known as the I-Team late at the moment to say she first heard about this case from our report, and that discussions are underway to work out which company ought to take the lead. On one other entrance, a number of teams are in search of Shaquille Colemen; they consider he could have grounds for a lawsuit in opposition to the town.
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