New details from last year’s fatal police chase in East Oakland revealed that police may have treated Oakland teacher Marvin Boomer’s girlfriend Nina Woodruff, who was also a bystander seriously injured in the crash, as a suspect and failed to give her treatment at the scene.
Michelle Bernard, an attorney for the family of Marvin Boomer, the Oakland math teacher and bystander who was killed in a horrific crash caused by a suspect fleeing authorities last May, as well as his girlfriend Nina Woodruff, intends to file lawsuits against the California Highway Patrol and the Oakland Police Department this week after receiving no response from the city of Oakland over a legal claim she filed last fall, as Oaklandside reports.
In last fall’s legal filing, Bernard claimed negligence by the city of Oakland over poor road conditions, including a nearby sinkhole, along with the manner in which Oakland police officers responded after the crash. Bernard says CHP also contributed to the crash, claiming officers should have called off the pursuit…