Jose Fermoso

California, Oakland

Freelance Reporter and Editor at Freelance

Road Safety Reporter at The Oaklandside

Road safety reporter for @oaklandside, @UMKnightWallace '22 Fellow, 🌳 Host of @elprogresopod: https://t.co/A39dWL56S1… TIPS: [email protected]

Articles

Community mourns Marvin Boomer, Oakland teacher killed after CHP chase

6 days ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso |Roselyn Romero

Students, teachers, and residents of Oakland’s Clinton neighborhood gathered at 12th Avenue and E. 21st Street Friday evening to remember the life of Marvin Boomer. Boomer was killed Wednesday around 7:45 p.m. when a suspect fleeing from the California Highway Patrol struck a fire hydrant, which broke off and smashed into the Castlemont High School teacher, who was out walking with his wife.
Anger, grief, and petitions at site where Oakland teacher was killed

1 week ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

Pastor James Polk of the Greater House of Prayer, a Pentecostal congregation in East Oakland, was leading a prayer at the church Wednesday evening when he got the call. Something terrible had happened outside the house he shares with his wife and mother at the intersection of E.
Man killed after Oakland CHP chase was beloved Castlemont teacher

1 week ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

The man killed following a police chase last night in East Oakland was Marvin Boomer, a beloved Castlemont High School teacher and mentor who was described by colleagues as a great leader and colleague with many accomplishments, The Oaklandside has learned. Boomer was walking with his partner on a sidewalk on E. 21st Street at 12th Avenue, in the area between the Clinton and San Antonio neighborhoods when a suspect who was fleeing the CHP crashed into a fire hydrant.
Bystander killed after Oakland CHP chase was beloved Castlemont teacher

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Jose Fermoso

14 hours ago Letters: What the Yosemite reservation system tells us about our dependency on cars and traffic Regarding “Here’s how it went on the first day of Yosemite’s controversial reservation system” (Outdoors, SFChronicle.com, May 24): The Yosemite … 5 hours ago Driver held after killing pedestrian in Oakland; CHP had terminated ground pursuit minutes earlier A woman was also critically injured in the Wednesday night collision OAKLAND — A pedestrian was killed Wednesday night in East...
Pedestrian bystander killed following CHP chase in Oakland

1 week ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

A police pursuit of a stolen vehicle through East Oakland ended Wednesday night when the suspect lost control of his car and struck a fire hydrant, which broke and collided with a pedestrian, crushing the man against a fence railing and killing him. The pedestrian, whose name is not known, was walking near the corner of E.
Oakland police chief proposes changes to OPD’s pursuit policy

2 weeks ago | oaklandside.org | Roselyn Romero |Jose Fermoso

The Oakland Police Department will likely lift a rule put in place in 2022 that some residents say makes it more difficult for officers to chase suspects. That outcome is expected after a Thursday night meeting of the Oakland Police Commission saw dozens of residents supporting OPD Chief Floyd Mitchell’s proposal to rescind Special Order 9212, which requires officers to end a chase if they or the suspect’s speed reaches or exceeds 50 mph without commander approval.
At the Oakland Ballers' opener, the A's are a distant memory

2 weeks ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

They have the whole city to themselves. That was the main feeling among the Oakland Ballers fans we spoke with last night as the team opened its second season at a sold-out Raimondi Field in West Oakland. Last year, amid a sad and long and occasionally angry goodbye to the city’s Major League Baseball team, the Ballers got a ton of local and national attention as the plucky alternative to the Athletics.
Cracking down on fare jumpers didn’t make BART safer or increase revenue, report finds

2 weeks ago | richmondside.org | Jose Fermoso

For years, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System has said that a big reason the system has lost revenue and gotten more dangerous is that a lot of people don’t pay fares. The theory is that people who are more likely to commit crimes are the ones who are also not paying; cracking down on the fare jumpers thus would reduce crime, make them more likely to pay next time, and increase revenue.
Cracking down on fare jumpers didn’t make BART safer or increase revenue, report finds

2 weeks ago | berkeleyside.org | Jose Fermoso

For years, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System has said that a big reason the system has lost revenue and gotten more dangerous is that a lot of people don’t pay fares. The theory is that people who are more likely to commit crimes are the ones who are also not paying; cracking down on the fare jumpers thus would reduce crime, make them more likely to pay next time, and increase revenue.
Cracking down on fare jumpers didn’t make BART safer or increase revenue, report finds

3 weeks ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

For years, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System has said that a big reason the system has lost revenue and gotten more dangerous is that a lot of people don’t pay fares. The theory is that people who are more likely to commit crimes are the ones who are also not paying; cracking down on the fare jumpers thus would reduce crime, make them more likely to pay next time, and increase revenue.