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School officials texted Oakland shooting victims to not cooperate with police investigation
ABC7 ^ | September 29, 2022 | ByDan Noyes

Posted on 09/30/2022 9:06:27 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Another disturbing headline about the shooting in Oakland comes from the ABC7 I-Team, law enforcement sources tell us school officials have sent text messages to shooting victims, instructing them not to cooperate with police.

We're hearing it's a pattern, and some parents at the school are worried that a lack of action by school officials after previous incidents may have led to this escalation in violence.

Law enforcement sources tell the I-Team, Oakland police investigators have obtained text messages from the shooting victims' phones in which Rudsdale school officials tell them not to cooperate with police.

During a virtual news conference, the I-Team's Dan Noyes asked Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong about that information. He answered, "Our investigation will be thorough, it will be complete and we will exhaust all options to figure out what happened on this campus. But at this time, I will not speak to any evidence that we've recovered at this time."

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7news.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; education; oakland; obstruction

1 posted on 09/30/2022 9:06:27 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

Slap’em with an obstruction charge just for starters...


2 posted on 09/30/2022 9:09:15 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (< < Wandering aimfully > >)
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To: Mr. Mojo

A conspiracy to deny civil rights.


3 posted on 09/30/2022 9:09:50 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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accessory after the fact


4 posted on 09/30/2022 9:10:26 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Obstruction of Justice.


5 posted on 09/30/2022 9:13:26 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Mr. Mojo

Maybe the school officials were in on the shooting.


6 posted on 09/30/2022 9:14:07 AM PDT by Brilliant
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is it because the shootets were “yo yo yo my homey” variety? and as such they dont want to make any more trouble for their “pocs”?


7 posted on 09/30/2022 9:16:20 AM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Gang warfare is encouraged in Oakland?


8 posted on 09/30/2022 9:20:59 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Mr. Mojo

I taught for many years in an urban public school district. We were strictly told that talking to the media after an incidence of violence was a firing offense. Calling the city police was also a firing offense.

We were told that we always had to call the (unarmed) school police, even when a weapon was involved. How crazy was that? But the district could control what the school police reported. They could not control what the city police reported. So don’t call the city police.

Ah, but suppose you ignored that, and dialed 911 from a school phone. Nope, that won’t work. The district automatically rerouted all 911 calls to the school police office.

I suppose it’s very different now, as everyone in the building has a cell phone.

Anyway, we teachers were furious over this. But the trash administrators always put PR over safety.


9 posted on 09/30/2022 9:22:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Hegemony Cricket
Slap’em with an obstruction charge just for starters...

Completely correct. Now you wonder just what side are the Oakland school officials on....

10 posted on 09/30/2022 9:22:48 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Hegemony Cricket
Slap’em with an obstruction charge just for starters..

I'm sure if the texts had been sent by radical parents who come to school board meetings with the misguided assumption that they have a right to influence their children's education and to challenge the supreme wisdom of the school board that there would have already been a pre-dawn raid by a SWAT team with the handcuffed parents perp-walked out.

11 posted on 09/30/2022 9:31:56 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: Leaning Right

Colleges do the same thing. Always call the real police, not school police.


12 posted on 09/30/2022 9:35:30 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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Isn’t that ILLEGAL?...........................


13 posted on 09/30/2022 9:55:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Maybe the school officials are making money off of the gangs.

Perhaps look the other way when the drugs are being sold, and various other activities..


14 posted on 09/30/2022 9:58:35 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Leaning Right

“We were strictly told that talking to the media after an incidence of violence was a firing offense.”


I taught at a semi-rural school with a similar policy. If you worked for the school, you let the administrators speak for you when it came to the media. I have no idea how a district would have any control over who non-employee victims of crimes talk to however.

Doing or saying anything that might be ‘embarrassing’ for the district will get even tenured teachers in trouble. Telling the press that a campus is dangerous and violent will get you fired.


15 posted on 09/30/2022 10:04:09 AM PDT by hanamizu
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School official’s kid involved? That could be extra special.


16 posted on 09/30/2022 10:30:51 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

There was not a single piece of evidence in the article. Unless i missed it?


17 posted on 09/30/2022 10:44:02 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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So cops, just stay away and let them handle it all. Do not respond to calls to the school.


18 posted on 09/30/2022 11:28:45 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Leaning Right
Calling the city police was also a firing offense.

That's bizarre. I imagine there is some law against such actions.

19 posted on 09/30/2022 11:31:55 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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