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"It's hard to talk about." Shaquille Coleman committed no crime, but San Leandro police violently detained and dumped him seven miles away in Oakland. And now, activists are calling for the former lieutenant who approved the "dumping," to be fired from BART police.
The homeless were being offered $5 to sign someone else's name on 10 petitions. The petitions the I-Team saw come from "Building a Better California," an effort that would require government audits of proposed taxes and could block the billionaires' tax.
San Leandro police officers admitted Coleman had committed no crimes, but they forced him into the patrol car, pulled out his braids, and drove him seven miles into Oakland, "dumping" him in their words. Retired Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, who now works with the NAACP, says the officers should be terminated immediately.
"Chief, you have to answer to the public, you realize that, right?" The ABC7 Eyewitness News I-Team questions San Leandro's police chief about why she left the scene of an off-duty accident in her unmarked police car.
In the 2024 incident, SLPD officers got into a violent struggle and "dumped" the man even though they concluded he had committed no crime. The I-Team's Dan Noyes questions their police supervisor, who is now a Deputy Chief of Police for BART.