Oakland homeless woman steals city council candidate's fundraising money: 'I was left to fend for myself'

They say no good deed goes unpunished. 

An Oakland, California, City Council candidate, who is running for office on a platform of addressing the city’s homeless crisis and “skyrocketing levels of crime,” said she had a bag full of donations stolen by a homeless woman during her campaign kickoff event on Sunday. To make matters worse, she said the police never showed up when she called 911.

Charlene Wang, who is running for the at-large seat in the California city, says the homeless woman grabbed the bag — which contained about $1,000 — at Clinton Square Park at around 4 p.m. Her team confronted the woman and pleaded with her to hand over the bag, but in the end, she made off with her ill-gotten gains, Wang said.

Video of the interaction shows Wang begging the disturbed woman to hand the bag back, but the homeless woman gets angry and refuses to turn it over.

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Oakland City Council candidate Charlene Wang confronts a homeless woman who allegedly stole a bag of cash, left, and Wang speaking, right.

Oakland City Council candidate Charlene Wang…

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