Oakland Mayor Schaaf faces well-known progressive candidates in election

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf would be considered very liberal in most parts of the country, but in the Nov. 6 election she’s being challenged by two well-known progressive candidates who say her policies aren’t liberal enough.

One of Schaaf’s opponents in the 10-candidate race is Cat Brooks, a nonprofit executive director who’s best known as a leader of the activist group the Anti Police-Terror Project, which describes itself as “a coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.”