CA news crew held up at gunpoint — during interview with anti-violence official
A Bay Area television news crew was held up at gunpoint while interviewing Oakland’s director of violence prevention — just hours after the city’s police chief warned of surging c…
A Bay Area television news crew was held up at gunpoint while interviewing Oakland’s director of violence prevention — just hours after the city’s police chief warned of surging crime.
Two armed robbers tried to snatch a camera from the NBC Bay Area journalists as they filmed outside City Hall on Monday at around 3 p.m., the Oakland Police Department said in a statement.
A scuffle ensued and a private security guard — who was contracted by the news agency — pulled out a gun and told the suspects to scram.
The would-be robbers fled without the camera and no one was hurt, police said.