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Oakland Mayor Announces $100,000 Independent Probe of Police Actions During Occupy Protests

Oakland Mayor Announces $100,000 Independent Probe of Police Actions During Occupy Protests

By: Brian Shields - Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:45:59 -0800

OAKLAND (KRON) -- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is primising "a public and transparent process" for a new independent panel she's setting up to investigate how the city's police force responded to this year's Occupy protests.

Former San Jose Deputy Police Chief Thomas Frazier will lead the investigation which will focus in part on allegations of police misconduct and brutality which lead to critical injuries for one Iraq War vet among others.

"We wanted to have an outside look at what happened," Quan said in announcing the review.  "We need to have a balance between maintaining the civil rights of our citizens and having effective policing."

Frazier says he anticipates the review will take about 90 days.  Retired San Jose Deputy Police Chief Donald Anders, retired Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Michael Hillmann and retired U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Richard Cashdollar will also participate in the probe.  Frazier says he may add a civil rights attorney to help make sense of the rules governing mutual aid for other police agencies who helped Oakland P.D. during the Occupy demonstrations.

"We will look at whether outside officers were allowed to operate under the policies in their cities or were governed by Oakland's policies," Frazier said. "I don't know the answer yet."
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