ICE operation in West Oakland causes schools to go into ‘secure protocol’

In response to experiences, ICE brokers had been noticed in West Oakland this morning by volunteer screens and workers from the Oakland Unified Faculty District.

At 12:35 p.m., OUSD despatched an e-mail alert to folks confirming that ICE brokers “had been noticed close to the intersection of thirty first Avenue and Market Avenue,” two blocks away from Hoover Elementary.

“Your youngster is protected,” the e-mail mentioned.

In response to OUSD officers, Hoover Elementary fell right into a “safe school protocolas a consequence of ICE enforcement exercise within the space. One other faculty, Harriet Tubman CDC, “adopted a safe faculty protocol earlier than imposing common dismissals for the day,” the district’s e-mail mentioned.

“Our different faculties are following customary protocol for potential ICE exercise locally,” OUSD defined.

Neither OUSD nor Hoover Elementary officers responded to questions from The Oaklandside.

The Alameda County Immigration Authorized and Training Partnership confirmed that ICE was within the space round 8:40 a.m. social media message it was “possible associated to a focused enforcement motion,” that means the officers had been in search of a selected individual and didn’t randomly cease individuals. “Right now, we’re not conscious of any associated ICE arrests in Oakland,” they wrote.

Councilman Carroll Fife, who represents West Oakland, mentioned in a social media publish that ICE officers could have focused an individual strolling his youngster to high school, inflicting a collision.

“They had been chased by masked males in an SUV which brought about this collision,” Fife mentioned.

Oakland police mentioned in a information launch that that they had not been notified of the ICE operation. “Preliminary findings point out that an outdoor regulation enforcement company carried out an investigation within the metropolis of Oakland,” OPD mentioned. “Throughout their operation, officers tried to contact the car concerned of their case. That car later collided with an uninvolved car.”

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