The thing to realize about the Oakland Unified School District is that, like every other department in Oakland, they’ve been taken over by far-left radicals. In what’s become known as the Long March Through the Institutions, the wokes have infiltrated and dominated City Hall, OUSD, labor unions, nonprofits, philanthropies, the media, and even our biggest corporations. But OUSD is in some ways the worst of the worst, and now they’ve really stepped in it: The federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has launched an official investigation into whether the district engaged in hateful discrimination against Jews.

Justin Phillips has to be the worst opinion writer in the Bay Area. He was hired by the Hearsts, for some unknown reason, to gaslight on racial issues, which is ironic, since he himself is a racist.

[Yesterday, in Part 2, Chief talked about the importance of a District Attorney bringing appropriate charges against criminal defendants, which brought up the subject of Pamela Price.]

[We began by talking about Chief Armstrong’s reaction to the Police Commission including him on its list to be the new Chief—a list Thao wouldn’t even consider.]

[Editor: This is part 1 of my conversation with former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong. We sat with our coffee as he spoke to a variety of issues that have dominated media coverage lately. This transcript is mostly verbatim; I have lightly edited it for clarity.]