The Oakland Unified School District abolished its own police force at a school board meeting on Wednesday night, bowing to the wishes of radical left-wing activists and the Black Lives Matter movement. The decision came a day after the Los Angeles Unified School District board could not agree on a similar proposal. It follows nationwide demands…
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A black man who used several ropes in trees in a park near Oakland’s Lake Merritt as exercise aids is speaking out after they were mistakenly identified as “nooses” and the city launched a hate crime investigation and notified the FBI. ABC News reported: Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were…
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Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents were shot — one fatally — Friday night during violent unrest in Oakland, California, as protests spread across America over the case of George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned his neck for nearly ten minutes. “Two Federal Protective…