CRIME NBC news crew held up while interviewing Oakland's head of violence prevention. Armed guard saves the day

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Housecarl

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Local TV news crew held up at gunpoint during interview on crime

A security officer with the crew came to the rescue.
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NBC Bay Area news crew held up at gunpoint during interview about Oakland crime
Joshua Bote, SFGATE
June 29, 2021Updated: June 29, 2021 12:03 p.m.

Midway through NBC Bay Area's interview with Oakland's head of violence prevention, Guillermo Cespedes, two robbers interrupted, holding up the crew and Cespedes. A "scuffle" took place, an Oakland police spokesperson told SFGATE, before a security officer with the news crew pulled out his own firearm and commanded the robbers to leave.

The incident took place Monday afternoon, shortly after Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong decried a city budget that reallocated an extra $18 million away from police out of a proposed police budget of $674 million. Those funds will be put into the city's Department of Violence Prevention, helmed by Cespedes, who joined the department in 2020.

The department was formed in 2017 with a focus on "community-led intervention strategies" for violent crime prevention. The $18 million allocation was proposed by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, reported the East Bay Times.

A representative for Oakland police told SFGATE that the suspects in the case have yet to be identified.

Oakland has seen 65 homicides so far this year; there were a total of 74 in 2019 and 102 in 2020.

Cespedes confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle that he was at the scene. (SFGATE and the Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)

Representatives with NBC Bay Area did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE. No one was harmed in the incident; an investigation is ongoing.

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Joshua Bote is a news reporter for SFGATE. He grew up in the Los Angeles area, went to UC Berkeley and has previously worked as a reporter at USA Today and a music writer at NPR. Email: joshua.bote@sfgate.com
 
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Robbery attempt disrupts anti-violence official's interview

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Robbers held up a television news crew at gunpoint Monday in Oakland as they were interviewing the city’s director of violence prevention, authorities said. The crime outside City Hall was just hours after the police chief slammed a move to cut the department's budget by...
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Robbery attempt disrupts anti-violence official’s interview
June 28, 2021

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Robbers held up a television news crew at gunpoint Monday in Oakland as they were interviewing the city’s director of violence prevention, authorities said.

The crime outside City Hall was just hours after the police chief slammed a move to cut the department’s budget by $18 million and redirect the funds in an effort to support alternatives to law enforcement.

The news crew was filming around 3 p.m. when two armed suspects tried to take their camera, the Oakland Police Department said in a statement. A scuffle broke out and a private security guard, contracted by the news agency, pulled out his gun and told the robbers to leave.

The suspects fled without the camera and no one was hurt, police said.

The crew was interviewing Guillermo Cespedes, head of the city’s Department of Violence Prevention at the time, the police department confirmed.

Less than three hours beforehand, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong denounced the City Council’s cuts to his department. Much of the funds will be diverted to the Department of Violence Prevention, which was created in 2017 with the goal of decreasing homicides by 80% over three years, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The city has recorded 65 homicides so far in 2021, the newspaper reported, which is almost twice the number counted at this time last year.
 
Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
How DARE that armed security guard brandish a firearm and threaten disadvantaged youth? He should lose his job for this! He should never be allowed to work anywhere! /s
 
Nowski

Nowski

Let's Go Brandon!
Just another example, of how brazen the POS Africans have become,
with their criminality. They know that they are protected now,
and can do pretty much as they please.

They should have been shot down in their tracks. They are nothing but vermin.

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
 
day late

day late

money? whats that?
What comes to my mind is that the message has been sent. Beginning now, at least the lower level ptb are no longer untouchable. You can bet the upper levels have noticed the peasants have become restless. They know their time is short if they don't do something soon. I say look for an FF real soon.
 
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Techwreck

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The bigger the dose of diversitay the better for those who worship it.

I'm sure the misunderstood yutes were trying to get money for medical school, and really have no options other than reallocating the wealth of others, which was stolen from them through systemic raycessism.
 
Nowski

Nowski

Let's Go Brandon!
Somebody was going to get robbed that day, is the bottom line.

The POS Africans saw the camera crew, and figured they would be
able to rob the camera crew, and then fence the stolen camera.

Their plan was thwarted. However, they are POS Africans,
controlled by their Stone Age Tribal Jungle Culture,
which would have commanded them, to find someone else to rob.

The camera crew won, but some else most likely lost.

This is why the POS Africans, should have been dropped in their tracks,
and that is the only way, to regain control in the NIHH's,
that have been taken over by the POS Africans.

Sadly, in the not too distant future, the camera crew would have been
required by federal law, to give the camera to the POS Africans,
simply because the POS Africans, wanted the camera.
That day is fast approaching, probably happen this year.

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
 
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Dozdoats

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You have to understand the thug mindset. They head out the door with the idea today is the day they get paid, and YOU are the ATM.

Too many places in the ZUSA, nothing ever happens to dissuade them.
 
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