Business kron forcefully to karl reports, the state department of justice is investigating the shooting. A dark blue sedan slumped over the sidewalk just a few yards away from the velvet cannabis dispensary in martinez. Police say the 2 suspects who are inside of it crashed into a fire hydrant in an attempt to flee police were barking. So i got out. The shooting home at around 03 30am, in the morning. Martinez Police Responded to an alarm, alerting them of an attempted burglary at the dispensary on sunrise drive. When officers arrived. Police chief andrew white says a white suv was seen leaving the scene. White says at some point an officer was assaulted and 4 officers opened fire. Multiple mike. 10 to 15 paris believe he lives behind the dispensary on whether lee lane and woke up to the boom, boom room. Police say the suspects in the blue sedan that crashed were hospitalized. One was pronounced dead. The officer assaulted was also hospitalized with a minor injury. The dispensary annou
Antioch. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at 8. Im ken wayne and im catherine heenan. 10 officers have been charged between the antioch and the Pittsburgh Police departments. The u. S. Attorney and fbi announced those charges this afternoon. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson was there. She joins us now with what weve learned so far. Sarah. Well, inside one of the 4 indictments released today are disturbing and racist Text Messages. Those charges took fbi agents to multiple states, an effort to arrest 10 officers. After 2 years of investigating officers in the antioch and Pittsburgh Police departments, the u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of california announced indictments thursday afternoon. 10 officers have been charged. 9 of them are sworn officers and one is a community officer. 6 with Antioch Police and 4 with Pittsburgh Police. It took 100 fbi agents to successfully arrest officers in different states, including california, texas and hawaii. These are the 4 indictments announced
Officers were taken into custody by the fbi as part of the civil rights probe that started early last year. Among the allegations chains of racist and homophobic, Text Messages sent between as many as 45 antioch officers describing violence against suspects and allegedly going as far as threatening mayor thorpe, who is black, nearly half of ox. 100 officers were placed on leave because of the tax. In a Statement Released today, the mayor said, quote, today is a dark day in our citys history as people trusted to uphold the law allegedly breached that trust and were arrested by the fbi as our city absorbs this tragic news. We must come together as one. Todays actions are the beginning of the end of a long and arduous process. Civil rights Attorney John Burris and bennys and bob have also filed 2 lawsuits so far involving 13 plaintiffs accusing Antioch Police of civil rights violations. Among other allegations, forbes said todays arrests are demonstrative of issues that have plagued the A
This is the afternoon edition. This is almost unprecedented, parts of california are in the path of a hurricane. Right now, we are tracking hillary and how it could impact the bay area. Hundreds are still missing and the Emergency Services manager is out, residents step up to help. And californians are required to sort out compost, the problem is, a lot of us dont know how the process works. See how one family farm is ahead of the curve. Good afternoon, im elizabeth cook. It has been 84 years since a Tropical Storm made landfall in california but it looks like hillary could hit the state this weekend, bringing the threat of flash flooding and heavy downpours in some areas down south. First alert chief meteorologist paul heggen is tracking the hurricane and how it could impact us. Right now it is a major category three storm with 130mileperhour sustained wind, still well to the south of the tip of the baja peninsula, but it is beginning to make that turn to the north, that is going to t
Mayor herman and diet resigned citing unspecified health reasons. But he did face criticism for not activating disaster. Sirens during the fires in maui. Where as of tonight, 111 people including children, are confirmed dead. The fire is now the deadliest u. S. Fire in more than a century. Up until the last to the very last moment. And i a defended his decision for not activating the sirens. Concerns as i mentioned earlier is used primarily for tsunamis. And thats reason why many of them i found old enough own on the coastline. The public is trained to seek Higher Ground in the event that the sounded. In fact, the web said the hawaii Emergency Management agency, the following guidelines provided if you are in a lowlying area near the coastline, evacuate to Higher Grounds a very to the 4th floor and hire concrete building. Me also come in the form of a wireless emergency alert. Have the sound of the siren that night. Were afraid that people would have gone mocha. And if that was the cas