Possible police chase before crash in Oakland
Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell stepped in front of the cameras Tuesday, one day after the chase. Mitchell said recent video evidence shows what happened.
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'It depicts our officer making a u-turn at the intersection of International. The officer activates their emergency lights and then observes the speeding vehicle collide with the fixed traffic pole,' he said.
Those moments between when the Oakland Police Department officer turned their lights on and when the speeding car crashed will be key to determining if an officer did in fact pursue the car.
'That will be fully flushed out during the investigative process,' Mitchell said.
The police pursuit policy in Oakland is complicated. It states that officers can only pursue a suspect if they have reason to believe the suspect has a gun or is committing a violent crime. Neighbors have rallied this year demanding a change, and small business owners say police could have stopped burglars from ransacking her store but didn't.
Even Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on Oakland police to change its pursuit policy if it wants to keep seeing mutual aid from California Highway Patrol.
'Here in Oakland, in order to consider extending this state subsidized partnership, we specifically are going to need to see changes in the pursuit policy,' he said.
KRON4 asked chief Mitchell about this specific case from Monday, if his officer is found to have initiated a pursuit.
'If a pursuit did occur they would check if it fell in or out of policy,' he said.
He also wouldn't commit to a timeline of when their investigation could finish.
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