{"id":166384,"date":"2026-02-06T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:20:29","slug":"fremont-names-floyd-mitchell-as-new-police-chief-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166384\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremont names Floyd Mitchell as new police chief \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a nationwide executive search, Fremont has selected Oakland&#8217;s former police chief, Floyd Mitchell, to be the city&#8217;s new top cop.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell resigned from the Oakland Police Department in December after 18 months on the job. He was hired by now-ousted Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who had fired the previous police chief, Leronne Armstrong, as one of her first acts in office.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell came to the Bay Area from Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a nationwide executive search, Fremont has selected Oakland&#8217;s former police chief, Floyd Mitchell, to be the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[394,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-166384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-fremont","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166384","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=166384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}