The Oakland Police Chief, Leronne Armstrong has been placed on paid administrative leave by Mayor Sheng Thao after he made the news for neglecting to follow through on punishments for an officer who violated policy and law multiple times – including a hit-and-run car accident while driving a city-owned vehicle and discharging his firearm in an elevator. Yesterday, Chief Leronne Armstrong teamed up with Public relations consultant Sam Singer – the same crisis communications manager that worked with terminated police chief Anne Kirkpatrick in her lawsuit against the city – and fired back demanding he be immediately reinstated and taking aim at the federal monitor Robert Warshaw. We speak with James Burch, the Deputy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project to address the situation, and also to discuss the latest work of APTP, including the opening of a new building called The People’s House. At the end of the conversation, we’re joined by April Green, aunt of Keita O’Neil who was killed by San Francisco police officers in 2017.

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