Bay Area news crew held up while reporting on crime increase nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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30 Jun 2021
Just hours after Oakland, California, Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong held a news conference on Monday to slam city officials for cutting the police budget as crimes surge in the municipality, a news crew interviewing the director of the Department of Violence Prevention were the victims of a robbery attempt in broad daylight.
Two armed men approached the NBC Bay Area news crew at 3:09 p.m. and reportedly tried to steal a camera before a security officer pulled a gun and ordered the suspects to leave.
The
San Francisco Chronicle reported the men fled, no arrests were made, and no one was injured.
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Oakland TV crew held up at gunpoint as police department s funding slashed The California news crew was filming an interview when 2 armed suspects tried to take their camera | 30 June 2021 | A pair of robbers in Oakland, California, held up a television news crew at gunpoint just hours after the city s police chief warned of safety concerns following officials decision to slash his department’s budget by more than $18 million, police said. The news crew was filming an interview with the city s director of violence prevention outside City Hall around 3 p.m. local time Monday when two armed suspects tried to take their camera, the Oakland Police Department said in a statement. At the time, the crew was interviewing Guillermo Cespedes, head of the city s Department of Violence Prevention, the police department confirmed.
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Alabama
Montgomery: Summer school teachers in Montgomery Public Schools are getting a bump in pay. The district has increased teacher wages from $25 to $50 an hour to get more teachers in the classrooms to handle an increase of students this summer, WSFA-TV reported. Superintendent Ann Roy Moore and the school board also are looking ahead to the upcoming school year. They’re planning to go back to face-to-face learning full-time. “We found that children don’t do as well virtually in most cases as they do face-to-face with a nurturing teacher in that environment,” Moore said. She said that virtual learning will be used on an as-needed basis.
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