Oakland youth football team moves game to Santa Rosa for safer environmenthttps://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-youth-football-team-moves-game-to-santa-rosa-for-safer-environment/SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KRON) — Oakland’s East Bay Panthers youth football team is looking for somewhere new to practice after the team experienced two shootings in less than a week at Verdese Carter Park. On Saturday, they moved their game from Oakland to Santa Rosa to ensure everyone would be safe.
Parents of these kids say there are a lot of bad things happening in Oakland. But, a football team like this keeps their kids from getting involved in trouble. However, after two shootings in such a short time, many kids and families want to quit because they’re afraid to participate.
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“Just to see the children running for their lives and just scrambling not knowing where to go and on the ground and running behind cars. It was very scary,” said one parent.
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The team bussed the kids more than 60 miles away to Santa Rosa on Saturday. It was supposed to be a home game, but they decided to travel to their opponent instead. Board member and parent Candisha Scott says they don’t feel safe holding the games anywhere in Oakland.
It may be like loading straws onto the back of a camel, but at some point the Mayor and City Council of Oakland and DA of Alameda County are going to be forced to realize that thugs are Oakland's enemy, not the police. I do not like to think what those last few "straws" may be.
