A timeline look at Oakland's gang injunctions as judge makes long-awaited decision

Published on Friday, June 24, 2011
Last updated on 08:58AM, Friday, June 24, 2011
Photo by Eric K. Arnold/EKAphotography

It's been a long, winding, controversial, emotional and provocative road to TODAY's - June 24's - court hearing on the proposed Oakland gang injunctions, which could end "Phase I" of the proceedings.

At this point, you may be saying, how did we get here?

To help answer that question, and place the injunction effort and its opposition in context, we've created a timeline of events. This is a living document, which means it will continue to be expanded over time, as further events dictate.

Oakland Gang Injunctions Timeline on Dipity.

About Eric K Arnold
Eric K. Arnold has been writing about urban music culture since the mid-1990s, when he was the Managing Editor of now-defunct 4080 Magazine. Since then, he’s been a columnist for such publications as The Source, XXL, Murder Dog, Africana.com, and the East Bay Express; his work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, Wax Poetics, SF Weekly, XLR8R, the Village Voice and Jamrock, as well as the academic anthologies Total Chaos and The Vinyl Ain’t Final. Eric began his journalistic career while DJing on college radio station KZSC, and remembers well the early days of hip-hop radio, before consolidation, and commercialization set in. He currently lives in Oakland, California.