Fired Oakland police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick listens to police union attorney Rocky Lucia outside union headquarters Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Kirkpatrick was fired by the city's police commission last week. (Photo by Jeff Shuttlesworth)

Former Oakland police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick filed an unlawful retaliatory termination claim against the city of Oakland on Wednesday over Mayor Libby Schaaf’s decision to fire her on Feb. 20 after three years in her post.

The claim, filed on Kirkpatrick’s behalf by San Francisco attorney Jamie Slaughter, alleged that during her three years as police chief, she raised a series of alarms about misconduct by the Oakland Police Commission that violated state and local law, but her reports went largely unheeded until she was fired for blowing the whistle.

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