The legal battle has been central to Thao’s short tenure as mayor.
Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong pauses as he discusses the homicide of a two-year-old child during a press conference at police headquarters on 7th Street in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. OAKLAND — Nearly a year after he was fired, Oakland’s ex-police chief has filed a lawsuit against the city and Mayor Sheng Thao alleging he wasof a sergeant’s hit-and-run — misconduct that an independent arbitrator in September said did not warrant the former chief’s punishment.
The local chapter of the NAACP has been a strong ally of Armstrong’s, and has critiqued the mayor’s job performance at every turn, while the independent, civilian-led Oakland Police Commission has pushed for the ex-chief to be rehired despite Thao’s repeated refusal to do so. The mayor’s office directed a request for comment on Armstrong’s lawsuit to city attorney Barbara Parker’s office, which said it hadn’t yet been served with the papers. The city has
“Despite good intentions of monitoring generally, the practical financial realities of a monitorship incentivize the monitor to continue to find ‘systemic problems’ and ‘leadership failures’ because the monitor personally benefits by requiring further supervision under the monitor’s well-compensated gaze,” the lawsuit states.
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