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#oakland-police-department

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao fired city Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Wednesday after an investigation into Armstrong's handling of police misconduct cases."I am no longer confident that Chief Armstrong can do the work needed," Thao said at an afternoon news conference announcing his dismissal.

LEREXIS/Getty Images Two men were wounded in a double shooting in San Francisco's Lower Nob Hill neighborhood on Wednesday, officials said.The San Francisco Police Department said in a report that it was dispatched to California and Polk streets at 7:34 p.m. and found one man lying on the ground and another inside a business.

OAKLAND The city of Oakland has been hit with a ransomware attack, police said Friday.The city's Information Technology Department is working with law enforcement and investigating the scope and severity of the attack, the Oakland Police Department said in a statement.The police department said the attack has not affected its ability to receive 911 emergency calls and members of the public can still complete online crime reports.

An SF jury found 39-year-old Clifford Stokes guilty of first-degree murder for the 2021 fatal shooting of Afghan refugee Ahmad Fawad Yusufi while he was working as a rideshare driver in Portrero Hill, according to DA Brooke Jenkins' office.Additionally, Stokes was convicted of charges including robbery, attempted robbery, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.

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In this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of "industrial music," founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions Genesis P-Orridge (1950-2020) takes us on a journey searching for identity and their true self.

Fife said it's not just people calling from faraway states - she said the rhetoric of some local residents is troubling as well.She has received videos of people shooting guns and calling for people to arm themselves, she said."They whip up all of this frenzy, [saying,] 'Carol is a criminal.She has relationships with thugs and her friends are the ones that are breaking into all of these homes.

San Francisco police can deploy so-called "killer robots" following a Board of Supervisors' vote on Tuesday, clearing the cops to use robots equipped with explosives in extreme situations.The robots primarily will be used to neutralize and dispose of bombs, and provide video reconnaissance, according to San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman.

The decision to approve the use of the remote-controlled equipment followed a two-hour emotionally charged debate.Officials in San Francisco have voted to give the city's police the power to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations.The 8-3 vote in favour of the move followed an emotionally charged two-hour debate and came despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups in the city on the west coast of the United States.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use deadly force by arming its many robots .This is a spectacularly dangerous idea and EFF's stance is clear: police should not arm robots
Police technology goes through mission creep-meaning equipment reserved only for specific or extreme circumstances ends up being used in increasingly everyday or casual ways.