Motion seeks to have feds take over Oakland police

KFMB TV San Diego ^ | 10/04/12 | Terry Collins (AP)

[RobertClark]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lawyers overseeing the terms of a settlement stemming from a decade-old Oakland police corruption scandal filed a motion Thursday requesting that the federal government take over the embattled department.

Attorneys John Burris and Jim Chanin filed the motion in U.S. District Court in San Francisco asking Judge Thelton Henderson for a federal receiver to oversee the department.

[Chode]

let the state take it over... why do I/WE HAVE TO PAY FOR IT???

[loungitude]

Police corruption? Impossible. They just want to go home safely at the end of their shift.

[Regulator]

I give up. What gives either the Federal Courts or the Federal agencies the power to seize control of a municipal agency?

The State's are sovereign and are not municipal subdivisions of the federal union. Is that a difficult concept for the average law school student?

[elkfersupper]

Inviting feds in is like inviting termites in.

You really, really NEVER want to do that.

[Chode]

ain't that the dying truth...

[Regulator]

Never mind.

Shoulda rememberd this "judge", who's just a Black Panther activist, the SOB who walked Johnny Spain and tried to kill Prop 209.

Whatta joke.

[BooBoo1000]

You know what this would be don't you?? The beginning of the Federal Police State, you don't think the Government has been buying all of that Ammunition, to go Hog Hunting do you. Obama does not plan to leave the White House and he does plan to take over the police/What the hell does he care about any state sovernity he would just issue a Presidential Order and the spineless congress will do nothing.

[Morris70]

Let them just try it

[Navy Patriot]

This is going to get real funny.

The wise citizens of Oakland moved out of Oakland long ago.

[matginzac]

And so it begins...
Today, Oakland....
Tomorrow,..................