Oakland Police Chief Le'Ronne Armstrong Has Been Fired by Mayor Sheng Thao

Oakland’s new mayor, Sheng Thao, announced at a press conference Wednesday that she fired the city’s police chief, LeRonne Armstrong. In January, Thao placed Armstrong on administrative leave after an investigation by Federal Monitor Robert Warshaw concluded that the police chief failed to handle misconduct allegedly committed by the sergeant. Thao said she lost confidence in Armstrong because of how he failed to discipline a sergeant who was involved in a hit-and-run crash, and for how the chief later downplayed the seriousness of the sergeant’s alleged misconduct. A federal oversight monitor’s investigation concluded that the Oakland Police Department “repeatedly failed to rigorously investigate misconduct and hold officers accountable.” OPD has “serious flaws in the disciplinary process,” investigators concluded. The mayor said, “I made a commitment as your mayor to ensure the police department and city can prove, once and for all, that Oakland can ensure constitutional policing without federal oversight. Our police department has made great strides. But there is so much more to be done, and to do.” Do you feel Chief Armstrong was unjustly fired? Full story via KTVU HERE