The fate of Oakland’s embattled Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is up in the air after a new confidential report from an independent law firm determined that he violated his duties as police chief.
The law firm released public findings on Chief Armstrong back in January, giving the city of Oakland a deadline to discipline him.
The Oakland Police Commission’s Discipline Committee needs to prove just cause for dismissing him, however if the decision is left to Mayor Sheng Thao, she has the authority to fire him without cause.
A 57-page report by the San Francisco law firm Clarence, Dyer, and Cohen, accuses Armstrong of engaging in gross dereliction of