A coalition of community members are upset that the mayor fired Oakland Police Chief and are planning to publicly speak about it Thursday on behalf of ousted LeRonne Armstrong.
The chief organizer of the noon rally is Brenda Grisham of the Christopher LaVell Jones Foundation. Her son was killed in 1993 and she has been a staunch supporter of Armstrong.
She said she no longer had confidence in Armstrong – the 12th chief since 2009 – in helping the Oakland Police Department get out from federal oversight. did not take Internal Affairs investigations into his rank-and-file officers seriously and there were "systemic deficiencies" within the department.
Armstrong has repeatedly maintained these findings were "baseless" and "unsupported" and that he didn't do anything wrong.
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