Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Monday claimed he was vindicated with the release of a new report he said clears his name after he was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao earlier this year.
The 50+ page report was issued by the judge who heard Armstrong's official appeal of what the former chief has described as his"retaliatory and wrongful termination" last February. Armstrong and his lawyer held a press conference Monday afternoon to discuss the report.
Thao fired Armstrong from his job in February after a report by a federal monitor detailing the chief's actions in connection with a hit-and-run collision involving a police sergeant and the alleged obstruction of the investigation that followed. Armstrong had been suspended a month earlier in connection with the report that concluded he had signed off on the findings without reviewing them or even fully discussing the incident.
"I think today is something that I envisioned happening a long time ago," Armstrong noted during the press conference."I said from the onset of this that I was not guilty of any of these allegations, that the facts will come out is this case and when the facts did come out, I felt like I would be vindicated. And today is that vindication."
Armstrong and his lawyer said the report could end in a lawsuit he filed against the city for wrongful termination. Armstrong said he will exhaust all of his legal options and that he would still be open to coming back as chief.
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