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Just hours after Oakland, California, Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong held a news conference on Monday to slam city officials for cutting the police budget as crimes surge in the municipality, a news crew interviewing the director of the Department of Violence Prevention were the victims of a robbery attempt in broad daylight.

The Oakland, California, city council diverted over $17 million from the city’s police department Monday, redirecting the funding to social programs.

Oakland Police Department Chief LeRonne Armstrong slammed the city council on Monday after it decided last week to “redirect” $18 million from the police budget to other priorities in the midst of a crime wave and a spike in murders.

Juneteenth celebrations in Oakland, California; Aurora, Colorado; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Clover, South Carolina; and Flint, Michigan, were marred by shootings and death.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) during his visit to downtown Oakland, authorities said Friday.

The Northern California city of Oakland is launching its guaranteed income program to give selected families $500 for 18 months.

Leaders of U.S. cities are walking back plans to slash police budgets in the wake of surging crime that threatens public safety.

Video captured in Oakland, California, showed the moment an Asian couple’s son chased four alleged robbers away from his parents with a machete.

An ice cream vendor was reportedly robbed and almost run over this week in Oakland, California.

Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) announced a program that offers poor minority families $500 a month. Poor white families are excluded for the sin of being white. However, illegal aliens qualify.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s new program to give $500 per month to 600 poor “BIPOC” (black, indigenous and people of color) families is a flagrant violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

The Mayor of Oakland, California, is rolling out a program that awards low-income black families, foreign nationals, and the homeless $500 a month — and apparently excluding white households living in equivalent poverty.

Oakland wants to make single-family home neighborhoods more “diverse” by inserting low-income, multi-family units into those communities.

A 91-year-old man was shoved to the ground in Oakland, California’s, Chinatown, causing him to be hospitalized for his injuries, according to a video.

A sculpture of Breonna Taylor in Oakland, California, was vandalized Saturday, just two weeks after it was first installed.

The Oakland City Council voted unanimously to ban natural gas from all future constructed residential and commercial buildings.

The cities of Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California, filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday claiming that the Trump administration’s effort to maintain law and order in U.S. cities and to protect federal property was unconstitutional. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler noted late last week that California’s recent blackouts had caused 50,000 gallons of raw sewage to be spilled into the Oakland estuary.

Rioters in Oakland, California, threw projectiles and shone lasers at police on Saturday night during a violent demonstration, ostensibly linked to the Black Lives Matter movement and outrage over the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Police said hundreds took part in “violent and destructive protests” Wednesday night in Oakland, California, over the shooting of Jacob Blake.

Biden selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate on Tuesday, reigniting public debate over her ethnicity.

In Democrat-run city after Democrat-run city, the left-wing terrorists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa are on a “mostly peaceful” violent rampage unlike anything we have ever seen.

Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf criticized violent Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Monday, issuing a statement complaining that rioters are helping President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

Riots took place in Democrat-run cities across the United States on Saturday as Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists took to the streets in solidarity with demonstrators in Portland who have confronted federal law enforcement nightly.

Rioters “peacefully marched” on Saturday evening in Oakland, California, before attacking police, damaging federal buildings, and vandalizing private property, according to media reports.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s (D) house was found vandalized early Tuesday morning with messages supportive of the “defund the police” movement, prompting an investigation by Oakland Police Department detectives.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday responded to renewed player protests at sporting events during the national anthem.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would send more federal forces into America’s major cities to help quell increasing violence.

Six-year-old Andy Soulard raised approximately $28,000 for the Oakland Zoo last week, in hopes of keeping its gates open.

Three events last week showed that Democrats do not want a mere transfer of power if they win the November election: they intend to revolutionize our entire system of government.

Boston has joined cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, and Cambridge in passing an ordinance to ban government use of facial recognition technology. Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu commented: “Boston should not be using racially discriminatory technology and technology that threatens our basic rights.”

Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, told a meeting of Democratic mayors on Tuesday morning that it was necessary not just to “defund the police,” but to “replace the police.”

A public memorial service was held Friday for a federal officer killed last month outside the Federal Building in Oakland, California.

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.

On MSNBC on Monday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) defended imposing an 8:oo p.m. curfew on the city by stating that the looting on Sunday, which impacted minority neighborhoods where people had already been hurt by the coronavirus. She also

A black federal officer, Patrick Underwood, was shot and killed in Oakland, California, Friday night as he attempted to keep the peace amid the violent riots sweeping California and the rest of the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota.