Dozens of people rallied Thursday afternoon at Oakland City Hall in support of former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, who was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao a day earlier.

The group consisted of people from diverse backgrounds who want to clear Armstrong’s name and want to be heard. Thao unilaterally fired Armstrong on Wednesday just 90 minutes before the Oakland Police Commission was set to talk about the chief’s future in the wake of how he handled a misconduct scandal in the Police Department.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.