(Federal) Grand jury investigating Oakland schools police

[alp227]

Source: SF Chronicle

The Oakland Unified School District police force is the focus of a federal grand jury investigation, the district's spokesman said Friday.

The district was notified in a letter Thursday that its Police Department is the subject of an investigation by the FBI, and the grand jury subpoenaed unspecified documents from school officials, said district spokesman Troy Flint.

Sources said the grand jury is investigating two high-profile incidents, a fatal officer-involved shooting and allegedly racist remarks made by former schools Police Chief Pete Sarna during a drunken outburst after a golf tournament.

"We will provide whatever information that the federal government requests," Flint said. "I think we've been open in confronting any perceived issues, and we have nothing to hide in this instance."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/18/BA5T1OKIEI.DTL

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Article about the shooting: "Mother decries Oakland schools police shooting" (Chronicle, 1/26/11). According to the article, the dead suspect was shot after he "produced a screwdriver and tried to stab the sergeant near the passenger side, prompting the other sergeant to fire through the car."

[2banon]

1. gee... it's only taken a year to look into this.

oh, but the feds were otherwise too busy shutting down Oaksterdam and related businesses, unrelated to police corruption...