4 Replies to “Oddments For The Weekend”

  1. …from one of the above links…

    Two armed robbers held up a television news crew that was interviewing Oakland’s director of violence prevention outside City Hall on Monday afternoon, just hours after the police chief warned of worsening crime amid cuts to the police budget.

    Less than three hours before the attempted robbery, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong held a news conference in which he criticized the City Council for passing a budget that reduced police spending by $18 million.

    The city tapped Guillermo Cespedes to run the Department of Violence Prevention in 2020, months before gun violence began rising at a staggering rate — a sudden unraveling after five years of progress. As of Monday the city had counted 65 homicides for the year, nearly double the amount for this time last year.

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Armed-robbers-held-up-news-crew-as-it-interviewed-16280448.php

  2. “Including a car-cum-helicopter…”

    I had to read that a couple times before I figured out you weren’t talking about some kind of transportation porn.

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