and the lawsuit uses sworn statements such as this one by assistant chief howard jordan to prove it.>> however, the documents also include evidence that he wasn't protecting the black muslims. showing as early as five years before bailey was shot he warned the police command staff that the bakery was a criminal enterprise and needed to be cleaned up. no serious sustained action was taken on those repeated warnings until it was too late. the department moved to fire longmyer in may of 2009 after a series of internal investigations he was exonerated. but even then, the oakland police offered him his job back, only if he promised not to sue. he refused and filed his lawsuit in april of last year. although longmyer is still prohibited by his bosses at oakland police from talking about the bailey case he did talk to ktvu when he filed his lawsuit against the department. >> there is so much media attention surrounding it when questions came up that they couldn't answer it, when they immediate their tactical mistakes early on. i think for them they felt that there was no other way other tha

and the lawsuit uses sworn statements such as this one by assistant chief howard jordan to prove it. >>> however, the documents also include evidence that he wasn't protecting the black muslims. showing as early as five years before bailey was shot he warned the police command staff that the bakery was a criminal enterprise and needed to be cleaned up. no serious sustained action was taken on those repeated warnings until it was too late. the department moved to fire longmyer in may of 2009 after a series of internal investigations he was exonerated. but even then, the oakland police offered him his job back, only if he promised not to sue. he refused and filed his lawsuit in april of last year. although longmyer is still prohibited by his bosses at oakland police from talking about the bailey case he did talk to ktvu when he filed his lawsuit against the department. >> there is so much media attention surrounding it when questions came up that they couldn't answer it, when they immediate their tactical mistakes early on. i think for them they felt that there was no other way other t

problem with the new guns was discovered while they were being tested but assistant police chief howard jordan will not say what the issue is with the glocks. >> the malfunction was discovered in training. none of the officers were injured. >> recalling the guns so that officers will not encounter any malfunctions when they are on duty. >> even with the other issues with the radio we have responded immediately once we found out about it. the city has invested a lot of time and energy and money to fixing that problem and at no time at all was the public at risk either in this case or the other cases. >> is it frustrating, embarrassing? >> it is a little bit of both but like i said we have to deal with it. and we found it, we discovered it ourselves during a training exercise and we are making corrections to fix that problem. >> the officers' old guns were returned to them for the time being. the assistant chief jordan says the new guns are under warranty and are being sent back to the manufacturer to be repaired. in oakland, kron 4 news. >>> an oakland man is under arrest tonight. he is accused

. >> reporter: assistant chief howard jordan says about 1/3 of the force including himself had already made the switch to the new glock handguns and today got their old guns back. he said the issue was identified in training and no weapons had malfunctioned while officers were on duty, but the problem comes just a month after many officers reported their two-way radios weren't working. >> is this frustrating? is it embarrassing? >> it's a little bit of both. >> reporter: this is an example of the previous model that opd is now going back to for safety reasons. officials won't say what the malfunction was, but industry insiders say the olders models might be more reliable anyway. >> unfortunately it had to take place, but a good decision of. >> reporter: opd insists the issue never put officers or the public in danger, but some still didn't like to hear officers might have been on the street with faulty weapons. >> i know how bad it is and it's -- yeah, i'd like for their guns to work properly definitely. >> reporter: now today assistant chief jordan told me they simply don't know yet i

. >> reporter: assistant chief howard jordan says about 1/3 of the force including himself had already made the switch to the new glock handguns and today got their old guns back. he said the issue was identified in training and no weapons had malfunctioned while officers were on duty, but the problem comes just a month after many officers reported their two-way radios weren't working. >> is this frustrating? is it embarrassing? >> it's a little bit of both. >> reporter: this is an example of the previous model that opd is now going back to for safety reasons. officials won't say what the malfunction was, but industry insiders say the olders models might be more reliable anyway. >> unfortunately it had to take place, but a good decision of. >> reporter: opd insists the issue never put officers or the public in danger, but some still didn't like to hear officers might have been on the street with faulty weapons. >> i know how bad it is and it's -- yeah, i'd like for their guns to work properly definitely. >> reporter: now today assistant chief jordan told me they simply don't know yet i

we have just learned from assistant chief howard jordan that two people in fact died during this shootout a look behind me you can see it happened at the very end of the street right where that fire truck is actually. they just finished hosing down an area there at the end of the street and the coroner arrived about half hour ago. right now look at video that our crews shot last night. ktvu was the first to arrive on scene and we were the only ones to get a look just minutes aft the shooting happened. now at 9:00 officers received some inside information that violence was about to erupt here. they got a tip on a target vehicle. a light blue van tailed by what they say was the victim's car a red lexus. within an hour and a half they spotted the cars and moved in. gunfire started. two suspects, the two that died were wounded and transported to the hospital where they later died. a third suspect took off. and neighbors say they were actually surprised by the violence here. >> well, this kind of behavior is shocking. i've been in this neighborhood since the mid-90s. i got to tell you neighbor

spins and the distortions really anger me and yesterday eric and i were on wbi and the moderator howard jordan said why aren't we getting upset about what happened with sean bell the way we were upset back in the 60s and i think that's a very good question. >> on the other hand, the freedom riders themselves when you think about what the freedom riders were attempting to do. they were trying to attest a specific piece of jushl -- judicial decision that said that at the federal level and state law prevailed. you could go from one place to another without having to worry about being and segregated circumstances if you weren't in the state passenger. the court did decide in our favor and from that point on you had no more interstate and soon after that intrastate segregation n transportation facility,. you didn't have to ride in the back of the bus anymore. you didn't have to ride in a special train anymore and ultimately you didn't have to go into seg dpre gaited -- segregated facility,. that's the one things that has never backed up that has never back slid. the voting rights act you know, fair

assistant chief howard jordan did confirm that the two people involved in the shooting that the officer shot did die. the shooting happened at the end of this road. we're in an area north of 580. the tow truck hauled away a car that had its back window shot out. a look at some video that our crew shot last night. ktvu was the first to arrive on scene. at 9:00 officers received inside information that violence was about to erupt here. they got a tip on a target vehicle, a light blue van. within an hour and a half they spotted the cars and moved. gunfire started. two suspects were shot. neighbors we talked to said they were surprised by the violence. >> this kind of behavior is shocking. i've been in the neighborhood since the mid-'90s. every once in awhile you see this activity, helicopters, speeding cars. >> reporter: police were able to find the third suspect in a nearby yard two hours later using an infrared device on his helicopter. he was not hurt. we do know that federal investigators were here and officers recovered several weapons. two were found on a rooftop wrapped in a towel o

and among whose past and present leadership, howard university alumni, and including the former president, who is on stage. and the distinguished jordan, a member of the board of trustees. we often congratulations to the howard university. like howard, the national urban league shares a mission, and i am proud that our state of american town hall took place here in on the campus and thank you dr. ribeau and howard university. and now for the class of 2011, whether you have graduated sumna claude or just thank you, laude, i say this is the day that the lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice in it. and class of 2011, give yourselves the warmest, loudest congratulations. that you can muster. now i promise to be brief. and then to be seated. i got 11 minutes and 11 seconds. but it does remind me of a little story. many years ago i met a woman when i was practicing law, who wanted help in drafting a prenuptial agreement as she prepared to marry for the fourth time. now she was nearing the ripe age of 80. and i asked her, please tell me just a little bit about those first three husbands. because i really need to know what assets you are

leadership count hundreds of howard university alumni including the distinguished john jacob, our former president who is here on stage. [applause] the very distinguished vernon jordan a member of the board of trustees, we offer congratulations to the howard university community. like howard, the national urban league shares a historic mission, and this year as president ob received, i am proud that our state of black america town hall took place right here on howard university's campus in the auditorium. thank you, howard university. [applause] now, for the class of 2011 -- [cheers and applause] whether you have graduated summa cum ladi or just thank you lordy -- [laughter] i say this is the day that the lord hath made, let us be glad and rejoice in it! [cheers and applause] class of 2011, give yourselves the warmest, loudest congratulations that you can muster. [cheers and applause] now, i promise to be brief. [laughter] and then to be seated. i've got 11 minutes and 11 seconds. it does remind me of a little story. many years ago, i met a woman when i was practicing law who wanted help in drafting a prenup agreement as she prepared to marry for the fourth time. [l

howard university. the shoulders of kenneth clark and vernon jordan. the shoulders of malaak compton rock, cathy hughes, and edward brooke. the shoulders of judge robert carter, mayor david dinkins, and mayor shirley franklin. the shoulders of attorney general kamala harris, mayor kasim reed, and governor douglas wilder. the shoulders of ambassador andrew young, general benjamin davis, fredricka whitfield, and laurie stokes. the shoulders of toni morrison, taraji henson and michelle miller. you stand on the shoulders of our mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, we stand on the shoulders of all who have struggled, all who have sweated, all who have bled, all who have yearned, all who have sacrificed, because they join in celebrating howard university's class of 2011 united, under god, indivisible, with liberty, justice and a commitment to excellence, equality and high expectations for all . . congratulations class of 2011. this is your mission. this is your moment. good luck and godspeed. [applause] [captioning performed by national captio