With job on the line, Oakland police chief goes on offensive: ‘This is part of the playbook’
“I should be the chief of police and remain in my position,” he said. “I did nothing wrong; I violated no policies.”
“This to me, clearly, is a last-ditch effort to destroy the credibility of me… and to make the community believe that Oakland police is involved in some shady business,” Armstrong said. He added later that Warshaw “clearly communicated with the mayor what he would like to be done.” Armstrong’s statements likely will not go unnoticed by federal court Judge William Orrick, who on Tuesday is set to hear an update on the OPD’s efforts to comply with the 2003 settlement of the infamous Riders brutality cases. Among other directives laid out in the settlement, the department is expected to clean up its disciplinary processes.
Armstrong’s news conference marked his first public statements since the independent report—compiled by San Francisco law firm Clarence Dyer and Cohen LLP—found that the chief had signed off on the findings of an internal affairs probe without fully reading or discussing its details, allowing both a sergeant involved in a hit-and-run collision and the officers who watered down the findings to escape accountability for their conduct.
But in the joint court statement, Oakland city attorney Barbara Parker said her office agreed the report “revealed failures that call into question the integrity of internal investigation processes.”
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