Berkeley leaders refuse mutual aid agreements (with OPD)

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Source: Oakaland Tribune


Berkeley leaders refuse mutual aid agreements

By Doug Oakley
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 11/09/2011 02:03:05 PM PST
Updated: 11/09/2011 02:11:36 PM PST

Citing excessive force and free speech violations by police during protests in Oakland and at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley City Council this week refused a mutual aid agreement with university police and nixed agreements with other police agencies on regional domestic surveillance.

Council members used news reports of police using excessive force at the Occupy Oakland protests and at previous protests at UC Berkeley as reason for not renewing the agreements that usually are approved each year without fanfare.

In addition, the council did not renew an agreement with the federal government on detaining illegal immigrants at the city jail.

The 8-0 vote, with Mayor Tom Bates abstaining, means the council will revisit those agreements at a later date after scrutinizing them more thoroughly.

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Imo, all Bay Area communities have to look at their part in the police brutality in Oakland against #OO and OccupySF which would not be possible without their collaboration.

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1. Good. Nt

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Let the ostracism begin!

Even though the mutual aid agreement is largely symbolic, the vote against renewing it draws attention to the atrocities of the OPD.

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3. Wow! A city council with guts. eom.