Their next full meeting will be on 11/17. They only meet once per month.
The meeting will be held in City Hall at 6:15 PM, Hearing Room 1 on the first floor.
You can read their agenda here:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/...
I suggest that members of this community write to the Board constructively with their own personal history if you were actually there in Oakland on 10/25 as a way to augment their research into the events. Offer to testify if you feel so inclined, or to have sworn affidavits sent if requested, or to share any photos and video you personally have taken. It is very important that we attend these meetings as many people as possible to keep the visible presence on the Board. They only meet monthly so this first meeting is critical.
It is equally viable to write to them and express respectfully your desired outcome of their investigations if you weren't there. Blanket assertions about what assholes the cops are will not help the process whatsoever and in fact may make us look less credible.
If our public interactions with the staff and the Board of the OPRB are as reasoned and non violent in their rhetoric as most of us have been on the streets, it will reflect better on us as the investigations and determinations of fact move forward.
I have conducted a review of 5 years of minutes of the CPRB, and in almost every single complaint brought to them the complainant was denied and the complaint was administratively closed.
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