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 v.— «Clark isn’t fighting the transfer, and under the Oakland police union contract, there is little that can be done because Clark was bumped—or “punked” in the parlance of Oakland police officers—out of the North Oakland squad by officers with more seniority.» —“Beat reassignment saddens residents; Officer helped improve area in 3 years there” by Jim Herron Zamora in Oakland San Francisco Chronicle (California) Jan. 3, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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