We still don’t know the identity of the undercover Oakland police officer who was shot and killed this morning, but at a Friday press conference, we learned he was shot by suspects who robbed an Oakland cannabis dispensary for the second time in one night.
We reported this morning that an undercover Oakland police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty early Friday morning, while responding to reports of a burglary at a cannabis dispensary. The undercover officer was driving a vehicle when he was “ambushed” and fatally shot, and according to Oaklandside, a second undercover officer was also shot but survived. At a Friday afternoon press conference, seen below, interim Oakland Police Chief Darren Allison gave more details on the shooting of the officers.
Allison did not identify the officer, but noted that he was a four-year veteran of the force, and was with another plainclothes officer. “The officer has been on with us for four years,” Allison said, adding that he was “one of our field team officers who works very closely in the field with some of our other specialized teams.”
And apparently, the dispensary in question had been burglarized twice within a five-hour period early Friday