CHP’s investigation into an incident involving San Leandro Police Chief Angela Averiett, who’s accused of clipping a car on I-580 — knocking its side mirror with hers, found that the damage was consistent on both cars’ mirrors, but no charges were ever filed.

ABC 7’s Dan Noyes spoke to Daffani Ryan, who was driving eastbound on I-580 with her husband and two children last May, when a Jeep came flying by on the shoulder, snagging her driver’s side mirror. Ryan described the bang from the impact as being as loud as a shotgun, which woke her kids up in the back seat.

“It woke up both my kids instantly,” she said. “My four-year-old, when kids sleep, they're sleeping.”

She said the driver of the Jeep, which was unmarked, initially turned on its police lights before the impact, but then afterward turned off all the lights and quickly crossed four lanes of traffic before exiting the highway. Ryan’s husband took note of the license plate info, and the California Highway Patrol dispatcher told them the car was from San Leandro.

Ryan told ABC 7 that when she called the San Leandro Police Department, watch commander Lt. Antwinette Turner first claimed the Jeep wasn’t from their department.

“The lady at San Leandro’s like, ‘Oh, that's not ours,’ and I was like, ‘Yes, it is. I’ve already, I already called the police,’” said Ryan.

Turner reportedly called back five minutes later offering to fix the damage if Ryan skipped the police report.

“It was very suspicious,” she told ABC 7. “I even told her, I said, ‘it's very weird that you're trying to stop me from making a police report about a police officer.’”

According to ABC 7, Turner, who refused to answer any questions, is no longer with the San Leandro department. She’s now Deputy Chief of BART Police, in charge of the “Progressive Policing and Community Engagement Bureau.”

Chief Averiett declined to speak to Noyes, but she told the CHP during the investigation that she “started to experience chest pain” while stuck in traffic and “wanted to expedite her return home.” She told the CHP investigator the chest pains stopped after exiting the freeway, so she didn’t go to a hospital. She claimed she didn’t hear any noises when she allegedly clipped Ryan’s mirror.

Although the damage was consistent on both cars’ mirrors, the CHP didn’t file charges due to Averiett’s claims that she had no recollection of the incident.

“There's no way in hell that you did not hear our mirrors hit,” Ryan responded. “You could do a test drive, two cars going — one going 55, one going 65 and hit mirrors and tell me you don't hear anything. Do a suburban and a Jeep. You'll hear it, I promise.”

The police department's Internal Affairs sergeant, Mike Olivera, reportedly filed a nine-page complaint with the city manager last month, claiming Turner and Averiett's actions create “a troubling pattern of lack of accountability, selective enforcement, and concealment of violations.”

Mike Rains, the attorney for the San Leandro Police Officers' Association, told ABC 7 he also believes Averiett received preferential treatment.

Rains said the police officers’ association is considering splitting the cost with the city to hire a retired judge to look into the case and come to his own determination.

“It just absolutely destroys the fabric of morale in the department, to think that your leader, to think that your chief, believes that she or he is above the law. And that's what's going on in San Leandro,” he said.

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