Oakland California police chief Howard Jordan faces legal action that could remove him from office for ignoring emails relating to an internal investigation of police brutatlity in the wake of
videos posted to YouTube during Occupy Oakland protests. Chief Jordan ordered his IT department to set up his spam filter to block all messages with the terms "Occupy Oakland" and "police brutality,"
and had therefore not seen any of the official and urgent messages about the case and pending lawsuits for over a year.
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