The leading cop-hater in Oakland, Cat Brooks, tweeted yesterday to Loren Taylor, who just narrowly lost the mayoral election to union-backed Sheng Thao. Brooks told him, “We are clear that IF you were mayor that you would have continued the collusion/corruption between the mayors [sic] office & OPD. You would have continued to reward bad actors with the ppls dollars. And made us no more safe. That’s why we didn’t vote for you.”

We saw it coming: the forces that have conspired for years to paralyze the Oakland Police Department have acted. Ruthlessly, waiting for barely two weeks after their seizure of power, the conspiracy—Mayor Sheng Thao, District Attorney Pamela Price, ambulance-chasing lawyers John Burris and Jim Chanin, Judge Orrick, the federal monitor Warshaw, all of them backed by powerful non-electeds like Cat Brooks—has just succeeded in forcing OPD Chief LeRonne Armstrong into involuntary semi-retirement.

https://www.cfabo.org/blog/racism-stop-talking-about-it

One of our complaints about Libby Schaaf is that, early in her administration, she began inviting homeless people to come to Oakland, whose motto under Mayor Schaaf had become “Love Life.”

I can hardly portray myself as a student of Dr. King’s teachings, although I did grow up with as much knowledge of him as was possible for a news-hungry, liberal White kid in the North who had access to television, newspapers and magazines. I even marched once with Dr. King, although it was not for civil rights but at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration he led in March, 1967, from Central Park to the United Nations (and which was nearly broken up by a pro-war march that was a precursor of today’s MAGA minions).