The decision to place Oakland's police chief on administrative leave was 'excessive,' Oakland mayoral runner-up and former City Councilmember Loren Taylor said Saturday.
The allegations consist of two infractions by the same police sergeant and a poor investigation by the Police Department's internal affairs division, which investigates officer misconduct.
'It could easily be that he believed the discussion to have already been sufficiently thorough based on the information presented to him and decided to move on to his review of the next case," Taylor said. The second infraction involved the alleged accidental firing of a gun in April 2022 in the freight elevator of police headquarters and waiting a week to report that. The sergeant also allegedly removed evidence of the discharge.
The report said leaving the scene of the collision amounted to a hit-and-run, yet the internal affairs division found that"that the officer had not violated a departmental rule requiring obedience to laws."One example is Brenda Grisham, executive director of the Christopher LaVell Jones Foundation, which honors her son who was murdered in Oakland in 2010, said the report only tells one side of the story.
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