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The five officers, fired after fatally shooting a homeless man in 2018, will have the chance to fight their terminations again in state court.

An Alameda County Superior Court Judge ordered Oakland to adhere to the findings of an...

Oakland Police officers dressed in riot gear. (Photo via Wikipedia Commons) (CN) — Five former Oakland police officers who shot and killed an armed homeless man in an alleyway in 2018 say they were fired despite several reviews and investigations that found their actions justified. On Monday, they told a Ninth Circuit panel their terminations by a court-appointed federal monitor did not comply with the city charter. Oakland police officers fired 22 rounds at 31-year-old Joshua Pawlik, found sleeping with a gun at his side in a West Oakland alley on March 11, 2018. Video from the shooting di...

Oakland Police officers dressed in riot gear. (Photo via Wikipedia Commons) OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — A new report concludes that four Oakland police officers were justified in shooting a homeless man in 2018 and that they should be rehired, despite contrary findings by a court-appointed monitor and the city’s police commission. The city hired Jeffrey Sloan, a Berkeley-based employment lawyer, to review the incident in which officers fired 22 rounds at 31-year-old Joshua Pawlik, a homeless man found sleeping with a semiautomatic gun in his hand in a West Oakland alley on March 11, 2018. The ...