OAKLAND \u2014 An Oakland police officer fired their duty weapon while assisting an \u201coutside agency\u201d with an arrest on Tuesday, the department confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n
The officer, whose name hasn\u2019t been released, discharged \u201ca department issued firearm one time\u201d around 10 a.m. Tuesday. No one was injured, but now the incident is under investigation by the department\u2019s homicide division and internal affairs, police said.<\/p>\n
The underlying investigation involved a suspected stolen vehicle located on the 800 block of 47th Avenue, a dead-end roadway near San Leandro Street and the railroad and BART tracks. One person was arrested, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Police haven\u2019t released the identity of the arrested person nor the underlying charges.<\/p>\n
The officer who fired their gun has been placed on administrative leave, in accordance with the department\u2019s policy for police shootings. Police taped off the neighborhood and spent several hours processing the scene, according to a nearby resident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 An Oakland police officer fired their duty weapon while assisting an \u201coutside agency\u201d with an arrest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,145,144,2452,52599],"class_list":["post-125561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police","tag-oakland-police-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}