In a new video compilation presented in court in a wrongful death case, two former Oakland police officers can be heard laughing after witnessing — and arguably causing — a high-speed crash on June 26, 2022 that killed 28-year-old Lolomanaia “Lolo” Soakai.
As KTVU reports, lawyers for the family of Lolomanaia Soakai presented a 25-minute compilation video in court this week in support of the family’s civil wrongful death lawsuit against the officers and the city of Oakland. The officers involved, Walid Abdelaziz and Jimmy Marin-Coronel, were rookies at the time, and they were removed from duty before ultimately tendering their resignations last March.
The incident began after 1 am on June 26, 2022 when Abdelaziz and Marin-Coronel spotted 19-year-old Arnold Linaldi doing donuts in an intersection on International Boulevard in his Nissan 350Z. The new video compilation, portions of which you can see below and all of which can be seen here, shows Linaldi’s car in surveillance video, and side-by-side images then show bodycam footage from inside the OPD squad car being driven by Abdelaziz as he and his partner begin chasing Linaldi at high speed, without their lights or siren on…