Cecilia Vega
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Heavy-hitters met in Oakland in the wake of police shooting and killing a man who turned out to be unarmed. The NAACP, Oakland’s mayor-elect and the city’s police chief are all there addressing allegations of abuse and police brutality.
The goal is to find solutions and ways to stop these officer-involved shootings. Members of the NAACP say the victims of these police shootings have been denied due process.
They say it’s not unique to Oakland and that this is a historic problem that goes back through history to lynching of African-American men and persists today around the country.
They say in the eyes of police in Oakland, the life of an African-American male does not have the same worth as other citizens.
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