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San Leandro police officers admitted Coleman had committed no crimes, but they forced him into the patrol car, pulled out his braids, and drove him seven miles into Oakland, "dumping" him in their words. Retired Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, who now works with the NAACP, says the officers should be terminated immediately.
"Chief, you have to answer to the public, you realize that, right?" The ABC7 Eyewitness News I-Team questions San Leandro's police chief about why she left the scene of an off-duty accident in her unmarked police car.
In the 2024 incident, SLPD officers got into a violent struggle and "dumped" the man even though they concluded he had committed no crime. The I-Team's Dan Noyes questions their police supervisor, who is now a Deputy Chief of Police for BART.
"Those games, it felt like crack cocaine. It was like ridiculous." Kurt Freudenberg tells us the first seeds of his gambling addiction were planted when he was just 11 years old, selling the cosmetic upgrades he won on a first-person video game, called "skins."
The owners of the property say that Luke Brugnara has taken advantage of tensions in the family that owns much of the land leading to Thornton State Beach. We've also learned that the transfer of one small slice he got "for free" may not be legal in the first place.