Motion seeks to have feds take over Oakland police

[police brutality]

By Terry Collins Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers overseeing the terms of a settlement stemming from a decade-old Oakland police corruption scandal filed a motion Thursday requesting that the federal government take over the embattled department. Attorneys John Burris and Jim Chanin filed the motion in U.S. District Court in San Francisco asking Judge Thelton Henderson for a federal receiver ...

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