Articles tagged with: Officer-involved shooting
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Nearly one hundred people marched to the Fruitvale BART station today to protest the fatal shooting of an unarmed East Oakland barber by Oakland Police earlier this week.
Derrick Jones, 37, was fatally shot in the chest by two Oakland Police officers Monday evening after authorities responded to a domestic dispute call between Jones and his ex-girlfriend at a corner laundromat next door to the barbershop he owns on Bancroft Avenue.
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The Oakland Police Department defended the use of deadly force against a man who allegedly assaulted a woman and fled from authorities at a Tuesday afternoon press conference.
But the revelation that the man being pursued by two officers was not armed with a weapon stoked community skepticism over the justifiability of the fatal officer-involved shooting.
Cops & Courts, Oakland »
(7/19) — 15:34 PDT — OAKLAND — An Oakland Police officer who pulled a man over for a traffic violation Sunday night was shot at by a sniper perched in a high-rise apartment building near 8th and Adeline Streets, authorities reported.
The officer was not injured by the gunfire, but sent out an emergency call asking for back-up from other officers at around 11:30 p.m.
Cops & Courts, Oakland »
(7/18) — UPDATED 19:36 PDT — A knife-wielding man, who threatened police Saturday morning and shouted “shoot me”, was shot and killed by five police officers — three from Oakland Police and two from BART Police — in East Oakland, authorities said.
The shooting happened at 8:24 a.m. near the intersection of 33st Street and E. 18th Street in the city’s Fruitvale District — just blocks away from the Fruitvale BART station. Oakland Police identified the man Sunday afternoon as Fred Collins, 48, of Oakland.
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An Oakland Housing Authority Police officer, following up on a call about a suspicious vehicle, was rammed by a man driving the car and sent to the hospital around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday morning near 9th Avenue and East 25th Streets near Park Blvd. in East Oakland.
The man who allegedly rammed the officer was shot and wounded by another Oakland Housing Authority Police officer who feared that the driver would try to mow him down too.
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CALIFORNIA BEAT PHOTO
By TIM JUE
Beat Staff Writer
UPDATE (07/16/2009 16:12PM) — Authorities have identified the dead man as 36 year-old Parnell Smith, a wanted parolee that police say was stopped because he resembled the description of an individual wanted for rape. The Chronicle identifies the two officers who opened fire as Phong Tran and Scott Hewitt assigned to the department’s problem-solving unit — officers assigned to tackle a specific problem within a community. Both officers are on administrative leave as the investigation into the shooting continues.
OAKLAND — A gun-toting man was shot and killed by Oakland Police officers in the city’s San Antonio District Wednesday afternoon after a wild shoot out and chase that sent area residents ducking for cover.
The shooting occurred at 3:00 p.m. near the intersection of International Blvd. and 16th Avenue near Oakland’s “New Chinatown” commercial district.
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Hundreds of thousands of New Year’s revelers flocked to celebration sites around the Bay Area on New Year’s Eve to bid adieu to a dismal 2008 and welcome what everyone hopes will be a much better 2009. At the region’s largest celebration along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, celebrants were treated to a fireworks show that, at times, was subdued because of a low-lying fog ceiling that threatened to obscure the pyrotechnics.
But — fog or no fog — a mostly orderly crowd kept the energy level high. The event was proclaimed as the city’s official New Year’s celebration. Organizers said that there would be no alcohol and public drunkeness would not be tolerated. San Francisco Police were out in force Wednesday evening with full patrols along the Embarcadero and clusters of cops positioned all along Justin Herman Plaza.
