West Oakland native and former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong has sued the city of Oakland and Mayor Sheng Thao, alleging that he was wrongfully fired in 2023 and that a federal monitor pressured the mayor to do it.

According to the lawsuit filed Monday in Alameda County Superior Court, Armstrong had been unfairly punished for speaking critically about Robert Warshaw, who has served as federally appointed monitor overseeing the Oakland Police Department since 2010.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.