Lt. Ersie Joyner, Detective Sgt. Derwin Longmire -- Oakland internal affairs wants state to take over Bailey probe - Inside Bay Area

Oakland internal affairs wants state to take over Bailey probe - Inside Bay Area: “OAKLAND — Police internal affairs detectives investigating the handling of journalist Chauncey Bailey's slaying will have state investigators present when they interview members of their department's command staff.
Investigators from the attorney general's office will be there to monitor the interviews, according to a letter the Department of Justice sent to Mayor Ron Dellums in November.
But the Justice Department won't take over the whole investigation — which is apparently what Oakland internal affairs investigators wanted, the letter stated.
"We do not believe, as has been suggested by the Police Department's Internal Affairs investigator, that the Police Department investigation be halted or postponed pending our review," George B. Anderson, Director of the Division of Law Enforcement, wrote to Dellums on Nov. 26.
While urging the mayor to order police to keep probing how the Bailey case was conducted, Anderson told Dellums that state investigators will take "appropriate independent actions such as "... pursuing their own investigative leads" and "we should be present" at any interviews with department commanders.
Detective Sgt. Derwin Longmire, the lead investigator of Bailey's killing; his boss, homicide unit Lt. Ersie Joyner; and Deputy Chief Jeffrey Loman are being investigated.”

949 W. MacArthur - Morning fire damages West Oakland home - Inside Bay Area

Morning fire damages West Oakland home - Inside Bay Area: “OAKLAND - Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a single-family West Oakland home this morning less than half an hour after it was reported, officials said.
The one-alarm fire at 949 W. MacArthur Boulevard was reported just before 6 a.m. and under control by 6:30 a.m., according to dispatchers. Nobody was reported injured and investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire.

Kid Tries To Lift Sumo Wrestler At Ozumo Grand Opening

An Insurmountable Task, originally uploaded by 4horsemen.

This is a totally funny photo that shows that the unexpected can happend when an unusual event is held. In this case, that even is the Thursday, December 4th grand opening of Ozumo Restaurant on the corner of West Grand and Broadway.

I don't know what this kid was thinking!