One of the most peculiar things about the Chief Armstrong incident, on which just about everyone seems to have an opinion, is the people who have nothing to say about it.
Price's Paradox
Pamela Price, in a Martin Luther King Day speech, said “As your District Attorney, I will do everything in my power to be worthy of the justice-pursuing tradition that Dr. King embodied and be a drum major for real justice reforms which lead to public safety.”
Such hatred!
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.”
The purge is on
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.