They were back at it on Wednesday.

On one side: lawyers from the City Attorney’s office and co-counsel from the Meyers Nave firm, representing what was termed (in a remark ultimately stricken from the record) “the police point of view.”

More than 17,500 children in Alameda County have no health insurance.
Yet four out of five of them are eligible for state and federal public health care programs if only their parents would enroll them.

As testimony resumed Tuesday in the Oakland Fruitvale gang injunction case, several witnesses were expected to testify, but only two of them did: OPD officer and Hispanic gang expert Douglass Keely and Alameda County Department of Corrections parole agent Joey Morino.

But before the hearing even started, the tension had begun to mount outside of court.

For a guy who’d just completed nearly six hours of testimony (over a three-day period), Officer Douglass Keely didn’t seem winded. Nor did he appear daunted by the prospect of another appearance on the witness stand the following day.