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An alleged thief stoleOaklandMayorBarbara Lee’scity-owned vehicle after breaking into her office just two days earlier, according to theCaliforniaedition of theNew York Post.
The Oakland Police Department recovered the vehicle within hours, two days after somebody tampered with her office’s door.
“The Oakland Police Department is investigating the theft of a city-owned vehicle.On February 17, 2026, OPD was notified thatthe vehicle was stolen from Oakland City Hall,” the OPD said through a spokesperson.
“The vehicle was recovered within hours. OPD is following up on potential leads.”
Lee took office in May 2025 after serving more than two decades in Congress.
She previously expressed support for efforts to “restructure” and “overhaul” policing during the 2020 protests, language widely associated with the “defund the police” movement.
In 2020, she toldPoliticoshe was “really proud” of the Minneapolis City Council’s pledge to defund the local police.
In December 2020, she also said, “We have to restructure our funding priorities in terms of how we make our communities safe.”
“We have seen video after video over the last few weeks of peaceful protestors being met with extreme violence from police,”Lee said during the 2020 protest in favor of George Floyd.
Source: ZeroHedge News
