{"id":406016,"date":"2026-07-21T02:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406016\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:29:46","slug":"after-third-opd-shooting-this-year-advocates-demand-body-cam-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406016\/","title":{"rendered":"After Third OPD Shooting This Year, Advocates Demand Body-Cam Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advocates rallied outside Oakland police headquarters on Friday to demand a full timeline and answers after officers fatally shot a man in East Oakland last week. <\/p>\n

Jul 20, 2026<\/p>\n

Updated 12:04 pm PT<\/p>\n

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An Oakland Police Department vehicle parked on July 1, 2025.\u00a0(Martin do Nascimento\/KQED)<\/p>\n

After Oakland<\/a> police shot and killed a person they said was armed last week, community leaders, advocates and impacted families gathered on Friday outside the department\u2019s headquarters to demand greater accountability from law enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chanting \u201cNew badge, same gang,\u201d a coalition of restorative justice and Black-led public safety groups called on the Oakland Police Department to justify the use of deadly force on July 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to know what the legal \u2014 based on state law \u2014 justification was for them to move from what they call less-lethal to lethal weapons. Why this man is dead,\u201d said Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to the 4000 block of International Boulevard just after 2 p.m. Monday, July 13, after the California Highway Patrol requested assistance, according to OPD\u2019s initial statement. Officers said they found an armed man who ignored their commands and \u201clunged at officers with a weapon,\u201d then fired both less-lethal and lethal force, killing him at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weapons were recovered, the department said, and no officers or bystanders were hurt. OPD has not publicly identified the man.<\/p>\n

Organizers said they want OPD to immediately release unedited body-worn camera footage, dispatch and 911 audio, and a minute-by-minute account of the July 13 shooting.<\/p>\n

The shooting is the third by Oakland police officers this year, and the second fatal shooting. Advocates say it points to a troubling reversal for a department on the cusp of exiting more than two decades of federal oversight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brooks and others questioned why the department has not publicly specified what weapon the man was holding and why CHP officers were pursuing a suspect through Oakland neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016.<\/p>\n

OPD did not respond to a request for comment beyond its initial statement.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Cox, a policy advocate for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, said the simultaneous use of less-lethal and lethal force demands an explanation of: \u201cwhat happened, what was present, how far away the individual was, what de-escalations were attempted, and why less-lethal force was insufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being labeled a threat, he said, \u201ccannot become a blank check for death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is the outrage when our local police murder? Where is the transparency?\u201d asked George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With no weapon named and no footage released, he said, the object involved \u201ccould have been something completely benign.\u201d<\/p>\n

On April 27, officers fatally shot a man in the 1800 block of 89th Avenue after police said he pointed a gun at them. Less than two weeks later, officers shot and wounded a man on May 8 who they said dragged one officer and pinned another against a parked car while fleeing a traffic stop near Ninth Avenue. OPD said he survived and was in stable condition.<\/p>\n

The department placed the officers who fired on paid administrative leave. OPD is reviewing the shooting through its own criminal and internal-affairs investigations, a press release said, while the Alameda County District Attorney\u2019s Office conducts a separate, independent inquiry. The city\u2019s civilian Community Police Review Agency has been notified of the case.<\/p>\n

For those gathered on Seventh Street, none of that is enough without public evidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police cannot be allowed to take a life, control the evidence, shape the public narrative, and then ask the community to simply trust their conclusions,\u201d said Saabir Lockett, deputy director of civic engagement at the East Bay Action. \u201cWe will not accept silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

KQED\u2019s Paula Sibulo<\/a> contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advocates rallied outside Oakland police headquarters on Friday to demand a full timeline and answers after officers fatally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-406016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406016","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=406016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}