going through the Alameda Police Department clip files in the Oakland Tribune archives and the headline writer for a story about Chief Robert Shiells "retiring" in 1993 nailed it:
"Alameda's police chief retires at 48"
"Alameda's police chief retires at 48"
(same chief who ordered shredding of records showing officers in the nearly all-white department were exchanging racist messages over patrol car computers)
The great Tribune columnist Brenda Payton wasn't messing around and printed the transcript. It's terrifying.
1991: "Once you cross the bridge or go through the tube you're in a different world," said Darrell Hampton, a black Oakland resident, who was punched by an Oakland policeman in a well-publicized incident last year...I don't feel comfortable there and none of my friends do either"