Forum Post: Special Comment: Oakland Mayor Jean Quan must repent or resign
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 28, 2011, 10:30 p.m. EST by anonymouse
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXj-sbzglfw
May as well go ahead and resign because she committed political suicide.
Bravo.
Let's not let the mayor simply "make the right noises" until we go back to sleep. Because that is surely the plan at City Hall right now.
Jean Quan's About-Face: Oakland Mayor Now Supports the Occupy Movement, Orders "Minimal Police Presence"
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/686295/jean_quan'sabout-face:_oakland_mayor_now_supports_the_occupy_movement,_orders%22minimal_police_presence%22/
Wow read this one and the link in there:
The Police Raid on Occupy Oakland Was Nothing New for This City
[...] In August, I completed a two-year long joint investigation for Colorlines.com and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute that identified 16 officers still on duty who were responsible for more than half of the department’s officer-involved shooting incidents in the past decade. These repeat shooters operate behind a wall of secrecy, built over decades and sealed with a 2006 California Supreme Court decision blocking public access to personnel records....
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/686821/the_police_raid_on_occupy_oakland_was_nothing_new_for_this_city/
I call that a Victory.