In front of the California Highway Patrol’s Oakland office on Telegraph Avenue yesterday morning, representatives from four Oakland civil rights and safe streets advocacy groups demanded an end to Governor Gavin Newsom’s highly publicized surge of state cops in the city.
They said CHP car chases in pursuit of suspects put residents in danger.
The action was sparked by the death of Castlemont teacher Marvin Boomer, who was killed last month in a collision with a speeding driver named Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia, who had been fleeing a CHP pursuit…