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Tuman and Parker Criticize Quan’s National Journal Comments

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Mayoral candidates Joe Tuman and Bryan Parker have taken Mayor Jean Quan to task following the mayor’s controversial comments in an interview with the National Journal this week.

Her comments were totally insensitive,” said Tuman, a political analyst for CBS5 news on television and KCBS radio.

[caption id=”attachment_28258″ align=”alignnone” width=”300″]Mayoral candidate Joe Tuman Mayoral candidate Joe Tuman[/caption]

He has worked for the past 27 years teaching politics, law, and communication at San Francisco State University. What Quan said “implies that you should be concerned if African Americans are in your neighborhood,” Tuman said. “I don’t think she is a racist.”

“Race is a major fault line for us in Oakland,” he said. “We need to talk more openly about it, but this is not the way to provoke the discussion. The African American community is a source of our strength.”

Parker also criticized Quan.

“I’m sure many, as I was, were taken aback by these remarks,” Parker said. “I think the comments miss on two fronts. First, her comments suggest that her belief is that there is a negative stigma associated with having a high number of African Americans in Oakland.”

Mayoral candidate Bryan Parker

Mayoral candidate Bryan Parker

“Second, like many of her other actions, her comments lack the structure of thoughtful leadership,” he added.

Parker served on the Oakland Workforce Investment Board and is a member of the Oakland Port Commissiono. Also an attorney, he works as a health care executive.

As originally published, Quan spokesman Sean Maher said that the mayor’s answer was so “truncated” as to be distorted.

In the interview with the National Journal, Quan was asked: “What remains your biggest challenge?”

Her reply: “Well, my challenge is to let people know what the new Oakland looks like. “Somebody just sent me an email saying, ‘Oh, you should have more black police since more than 50 percent of your residents are black.’ And I’m like, ‘Actually, no, 28 percent of my residents are black, but we’re pretty evenly divided between blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians these days.’ But that’s their image of Oakland–and this is somebody who lives in the Bay Area.”

For Quan’s full interview with the National Journal, go to www.nationaljournal.com/next-economy/america-360/can-oakland-escape-san-francisco-s-shadow-20131006

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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)
Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.

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