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DESCRIPTION:City Council is set to give final approval to a $1.2M settlement with the 
 family of Demouria Hogg, a 30-year-old father of three shot to death last 
 year by Oakland police, the first in a new spate of questionable OPD 
 homicides.  The victim was unconscious in a car on a freeway offramp.  He 
 could not be roused by sirens, loudly amplified commands, the firing of 
 beanbag rounds, or even the breaking of windows in his car.  A pistol was 
 on the passenger seat, but police could have finished clearing out the 
 window over it, which they had partially broken, and grabbed the gun or 
 kept him from reaching it. They could have simply waited until he came to, 
 with a negotiator ready in case a standoff developed.  Instead, those in 
 charge decided to extract him.  They assigned a 28-year-old officer with 18 
 months' experience to provide "lethal cover."\n\nWhen officers started 
 breaking the driver's side window to pull Mr. Hogg through it, he, 
 predictably, twisted his entire body towards the passenger seat, i.e., away 
 from the glass being shattered near his face.  This movement led to his 
 being successfully tased by the cop providing non-lethal cover, but the 
 near-rookie charged with making an instantaneous life-or-death decision 
 fired too, killing him.\n\nOPD called this a "standoff";  immediately 
 showed videos to the lawyer for the shooter, who told the press they showed 
 Mr. Hogg going for the gun, but refused to release the videos publicly;  
 and put out the usual irrelevant smears about the victim's character.  
 Eight months later -- having waited until attention died down -- D.A. Nancy 
 O'Malley exonerated the shooter without even considering whether the 
 commanding offcers did anything wrong.  After another three months the 
 Citizens' Police Review Board concluded no one was blameworthy.\n\nClearly 
 someone told City Council that a jury could well disagree -- it doesn't 
 take a million dollars to settle a meritless nuisance suit!  Please come 
 and support our call for (a) accountability on the part of command staff, 
 (b) requiring authorities to decide whether charges should be filed as 
 quickly as they would if one of us shot an officer and claimed 
 self-defense, and (c) an end to selective release of information by OPD.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/30/18791805.php
SUMMARY:Demand Accountability for OPD Shootings
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall, 3rd Floor
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/30/18791805.php
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DTEND:20161005T033000Z
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