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The lawsuit doesn’t mention any cases of that kind of coercion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tischer, instead, got another doctor, who gave her a different diagnosis. She left the hospital and recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tischer and the other plaintiffs raise fears of a subtle kind of discrimination — what Michael Bien, the lawyer who filed the challenge, calls “steering.” Bien says people who have difficulty getting the care they need may feel compelled, instead, to see assisted suicide as their best option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The End of Life Option Act requires people to make a clear choice to end their lives. But, Bien argues, the choice of people with disabilities gets clouded by whether they get the medical care and support that helps them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it really a choice,” Bien asks, “when society makes it very difficult to access home health care support?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people in California with disabilities, there are long waits — often months long — to get a direct support professional to provide the in-home support that allows them to live independently. California is known to have a generous program. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-109.pdf\">report by the state auditor (PDF)\u003c/a> in 2021 found that even when people get into the In-Home Supportive Services Program, some 40,000 a month don’t get all the care they require. 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When health care providers feared possible shortages of ventilators and other treatments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8957387/\">states issued guidelines\u003c/a> — called “crisis standards of care” — that sometimes gave doctors and hospitals permission to put disabled and elderly people at the back of the line if care got scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stepped in and stopped it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among several states that agreed to rewrite their triage guidelines: \u003ca href=\"https://public3.pagefreezer.com/content/HHS.gov/31-12-2020T08:51/https:/www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/26/ocr-resolves-complaint-tennessee-after-it-revises-its-triage-plans-protect-against-disability.html\">Tennessee\u003c/a> revised rules that let care be denied to people who already use a ventilator, those with advanced neuromuscular conditions like ALS, and some people with dementia and traumatic brain injuries. Officials in \u003ca href=\"https://public3.pagefreezer.com/content/HHS.gov/31-12-2020T08:51/https:/www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/04/16/ocr-resolves-civil-rights-complaint-against-pennsylvania-after-it-revises-its-pandemic-health-care.html\">Pennsylvania\u003c/a> changed standards that told hospitals it was OK to cut off care to some people with chronic lung disease or cancer. \u003ca href=\"https://public3.pagefreezer.com/content/HHS.gov/31-12-2020T08:51/https:/www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/04/08/ocr-reaches-early-case-resolution-alabama-after-it-removes-discriminatory-ventilator-triaging.html\">Alabama\u003c/a> rewrote rules that allowed the denial of ventilators to people with “moderate to severe dementia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who work with California’s assisted suicide law acknowledge that disabled people often struggle to get adequate medical care, but they say the state’s end-of-life law is set up to avoid precisely that kind of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a disability would not qualify someone for aid-in-dying,” says Nathan Fairman, a psychiatrist and palliative care doctor who oversees cases at UC Davis Health in Sacramento. “Someone who’s disabled and has end-stage cancer would potentially qualify. And they would have to step through all of the safeguards that are set out in the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two doctors, he notes, need to confirm that someone is terminally ill and mentally competent to choose to die. Health care systems like his, Fairman says, add psychological and other evaluations that go beyond the state law to further protect against abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oregon went first and other states followed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was filed by four disability rights groups — United Spinal Association, which advocates for veterans and others with spinal cord injuries; Not Dead Yet and the Institute for Patients’ Rights, two groups that oppose assisted suicide laws; and CALIF, a Los Angeles nonprofit run by people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health, the agency that keeps the statistics on who uses the assisted suicide law, said it “does not comment on litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon was the first state to implement a right-to-die law, in 1997. Washington state was next, in 2009. Since then, such laws have spread quickly. Now, 10 states and the District of Columbia allow assisted suicide for terminally ill people who are competent to make that choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, between 2016, when the law took effect, and the end of 2021, 3,766 people got prescriptions for the medications and 64.3% of them are known to have taken those pills, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/CDPH%20Document%20Library/CDPH_End_of_Life%20_Option_Act_Report_2021_FINAL.pdf\">annual report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, argues that the state’s assisted suicide law violates due process protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and violates the anti-discrimination provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some want to use the law to end their lives — but can’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the only challenge to the law under the ADA. Dr. Lonny Shavelson, a proponent of assisted suicide laws, recently sued California on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-17/death-with-dignity-right-to-die-laws-leave-patients-with-impossible-choice\">disabled people who want to use the law to end their lives but can’t\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The End of Life Option Act says that a person who gets lethal medications must be able to take those pills themselves. That’s a common safeguard in assisted suicide laws, to prevent coercion by family members or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shavelson, a co-founder of the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying, says it ends up discriminating against some of the people who most clearly want to use the law — but can’t take the pills themselves because of the progression of their disease, such as people with ALS and Parkinson’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are denied “the same access to the law that able-bodied people receive because they’re unable to self-administer the medications, ” he says. “We’ve denied them assistance to a legal medical procedure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavelson’s lawsuit was rejected by one U.S. District Court in California and is now on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ingrid Tischer is working again, helping nonprofits do fundraising. She looks back at the time two years ago when she was hospitalized, having difficulty breathing and ready to give up. She says she was driven then by fear — of dying or moving to a nursing home and of a “mass of misplaced guilt” that she’d become a burden to her husband. “I just wanted out,” she says. “I don’t think I was thinking very clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tischer had resources that turned her around — that supportive spouse, a solid family income, a house, reliable health insurance and her long personal experience navigating the medical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many people in this world who are a lot more vulnerable than I,” she says, and — as a result — more likely, she believes, to seek assisted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of people with disabilities is suing to upend California’s assisted suicide law, saying the bias they faced trying to get health care during the pandemic shows the system is too quick to offer death as an appropriate outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://endassistedsuicide.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Complaint_Accessible.pdf\">lawsuit, filed against state officials and agencies (PDF)\u003c/a>, argues that California’s 7-year-old law that allows terminally ill people to choose to get lethal drugs to end their life — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/chsi/pages/end-of-life-option-act-.aspx#:~:text=The%20End%20of%20Life%20Option,of%20Public%20Health%20(CDPH).\">End of Life Option Act\u003c/a> — puts disabled people at greater risk of being coerced into seeking assisted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit says people with disabilities often face a denial of the medical care they need and, as a result, may be quick to seek assisted suicide as an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingrid Tischer, who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, says she experienced that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tischer, who lives with a form of muscular dystrophy, has been around doctors her entire life. In 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, Tischer was hospitalized for pneumonia. When she asked for therapy to regain her strength, the doctor said she didn’t qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kind of looked at me and said, ‘Well, I mean, look at you, there’s nothing we can do for you. And you’ve known this is coming for a long time. So why are you surprised?'” Tischer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tischer, who was 55 then, says she was devastated. She thought she was facing the end of her life. “For me, it was a very solid gut punch,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a doctor had told her she should apply for California’s assisted suicide law, she says she might well have said yes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>No doctor ever suggested that to Tischer. The lawsuit doesn’t mention any cases of that kind of coercion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tischer, instead, got another doctor, who gave her a different diagnosis. She left the hospital and recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tischer and the other plaintiffs raise fears of a subtle kind of discrimination — what Michael Bien, the lawyer who filed the challenge, calls “steering.” Bien says people who have difficulty getting the care they need may feel compelled, instead, to see assisted suicide as their best option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The End of Life Option Act requires people to make a clear choice to end their lives. But, Bien argues, the choice of people with disabilities gets clouded by whether they get the medical care and support that helps them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it really a choice,” Bien asks, “when society makes it very difficult to access home health care support?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people in California with disabilities, there are long waits — often months long — to get a direct support professional to provide the in-home support that allows them to live independently. California is known to have a generous program. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-109.pdf\">report by the state auditor (PDF)\u003c/a> in 2021 found that even when people get into the In-Home Supportive Services Program, some 40,000 a month don’t get all the care they require. For someone with quadriplegia, getting an attendant to help them get in and out of bed may determine whether they can go to school or work, and stay out of a nursing home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lonnie VanHook, another individual plaintiff in the lawsuit, has quadriplegia and needs round-the-clock assistance, including people who can move him in his bed or wheelchair to prevent him from getting painful bedsores. But when he couldn’t get enough hours of care, he became depressed and considered assisted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jules Steimnitz, a rehabilitation doctor, calls this “attendant deficiency diagnosis, that you can’t get attendants.” Steimnitz, who first treated VanHook more than three decades ago, kept in touch and helped talk him through that desperation. “This is his main problem. This is what’s causing his depression. He doesn’t need suicide. He needs attendants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the years, it has been a continuous uphill battle” to get that assistance, VanHook told NPR. “It’s a mental drain. It’s debilitating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit says VanHook, as a Black man with little income, is at an increased risk because of racial disparities in health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limits of health care systems became more clear early in the pandemic. When health care providers feared possible shortages of ventilators and other treatments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8957387/\">states issued guidelines\u003c/a> — called “crisis standards of care” — that sometimes gave doctors and hospitals permission to put disabled and elderly people at the back of the line if care got scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stepped in and stopped it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among several states that agreed to rewrite their triage guidelines: \u003ca href=\"https://public3.pagefreezer.com/content/HHS.gov/31-12-2020T08:51/https:/www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/26/ocr-resolves-complaint-tennessee-after-it-revises-its-triage-plans-protect-against-disability.html\">Tennessee\u003c/a> revised rules that let care be denied to people who already use a ventilator, those with advanced neuromuscular conditions like ALS, and some people with dementia and traumatic brain injuries. Officials in \u003ca href=\"https://public3.pagefreezer.com/content/HHS.gov/31-12-2020T08:51/https:/www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/04/16/ocr-resolves-civil-rights-complaint-against-pennsylvania-after-it-revises-its-pandemic-health-care.html\">Pennsylvania\u003c/a> changed standards that told hospitals it was OK to cut off care to some people with chronic lung disease or cancer. \u003ca href=\"https://public3.pagefreezer.com/content/HHS.gov/31-12-2020T08:51/https:/www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/04/08/ocr-reaches-early-case-resolution-alabama-after-it-removes-discriminatory-ventilator-triaging.html\">Alabama\u003c/a> rewrote rules that allowed the denial of ventilators to people with “moderate to severe dementia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who work with California’s assisted suicide law acknowledge that disabled people often struggle to get adequate medical care, but they say the state’s end-of-life law is set up to avoid precisely that kind of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a disability would not qualify someone for aid-in-dying,” says Nathan Fairman, a psychiatrist and palliative care doctor who oversees cases at UC Davis Health in Sacramento. “Someone who’s disabled and has end-stage cancer would potentially qualify. And they would have to step through all of the safeguards that are set out in the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two doctors, he notes, need to confirm that someone is terminally ill and mentally competent to choose to die. Health care systems like his, Fairman says, add psychological and other evaluations that go beyond the state law to further protect against abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oregon went first and other states followed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was filed by four disability rights groups — United Spinal Association, which advocates for veterans and others with spinal cord injuries; Not Dead Yet and the Institute for Patients’ Rights, two groups that oppose assisted suicide laws; and CALIF, a Los Angeles nonprofit run by people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health, the agency that keeps the statistics on who uses the assisted suicide law, said it “does not comment on litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon was the first state to implement a right-to-die law, in 1997. Washington state was next, in 2009. Since then, such laws have spread quickly. Now, 10 states and the District of Columbia allow assisted suicide for terminally ill people who are competent to make that choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, between 2016, when the law took effect, and the end of 2021, 3,766 people got prescriptions for the medications and 64.3% of them are known to have taken those pills, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/CDPH%20Document%20Library/CDPH_End_of_Life%20_Option_Act_Report_2021_FINAL.pdf\">annual report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, argues that the state’s assisted suicide law violates due process protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and violates the anti-discrimination provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some want to use the law to end their lives — but can’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the only challenge to the law under the ADA. Dr. Lonny Shavelson, a proponent of assisted suicide laws, recently sued California on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-17/death-with-dignity-right-to-die-laws-leave-patients-with-impossible-choice\">disabled people who want to use the law to end their lives but can’t\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The End of Life Option Act says that a person who gets lethal medications must be able to take those pills themselves. That’s a common safeguard in assisted suicide laws, to prevent coercion by family members or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shavelson, a co-founder of the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying, says it ends up discriminating against some of the people who most clearly want to use the law — but can’t take the pills themselves because of the progression of their disease, such as people with ALS and Parkinson’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are denied “the same access to the law that able-bodied people receive because they’re unable to self-administer the medications, ” he says. “We’ve denied them assistance to a legal medical procedure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavelson’s lawsuit was rejected by one U.S. District Court in California and is now on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ingrid Tischer is working again, helping nonprofits do fundraising. She looks back at the time two years ago when she was hospitalized, having difficulty breathing and ready to give up. She says she was driven then by fear — of dying or moving to a nursing home and of a “mass of misplaced guilt” that she’d become a burden to her husband. “I just wanted out,” she says. “I don’t think I was thinking very clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tischer had resources that turned her around — that supportive spouse, a solid family income, a house, reliable health insurance and her long personal experience navigating the medical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many people in this world who are a lot more vulnerable than I,” she says, and — as a result — more likely, she believes, to seek assisted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story includes quotations with racist and vulgar language as well as descriptions of violent attacks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathryn Wade marched up to the microphone in the City Council chambers before the meeting had even started with something to say. Wade is no stranger to the City Council in Antioch. She’s been coming here to talk and yell about the Antioch Police Department (APD) and their treatment of Black people for the past decade, since she was just one of a small handful of residents speaking up.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gigi Crowder, executive director of NAMI Contra Costa\"]‘I knew from the beginning that it was a racist city. But then I believed that there was a possibility for change.’[/pullquote]Now, on this early Tuesday evening in April, she was far from alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shut it all down,” Wade screamed across the packed room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch sits in the middle of a storm of scandal after the release of violent, racist, homophobic and sexist text messages by the city’s police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disturbing texts came to light during an investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office into \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">alleged misconduct\u003c/a> by police in Antioch and the neighboring city of Pittsburg. Some of the issues being investigated include violent and excessive use of police dogs and eliciting false confessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the DA’s office released two reports \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">detailing the contents\u003c/a> of multiple\u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/78905/Terryon-Pugh-Redacted-Investigative-Report\"> text message\u003c/a> exchanges written by 17 Antioch police officers from various time periods between 2019 and 2022. They include two texts from \u003ca href=\"https://www.antiochpoa.org/about/presidents-message\">Rick Hoffman\u003c/a>, the president of Antioch’s police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But far more officers were included on the text chains, according to a letter sent by Ellen McDonnell , the county’s chief public defender, to DA Diana Becton. According to McDonnell, 45 officers — almost half of the entire department — had received the texts and did nothing. At least 16 of those “are in leadership roles at APD as detectives, sergeants, and lieutenants,” McDonnell wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to have to listen,” Wade cried out in the council chambers. Her words were directed at the council members, Mayor Lamar Thorpe, and Police Chief Steven Ford, who joined the department last year, after most of the text messages were sent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to have to absorb a lot of people’s pain,” Wade told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including her pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade’s son, Malad Baldwin, was 22-years-old when he was\u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/cops-will-face-moms-distress-claim-in-sons-beating/\"> a victim of police violence\u003c/a>, she claims. In 2014, he was asleep in Wade’s car parked outside their house when police dragged him from the vehicle and beat him, according to a lawsuit filed against the city and the officers. In the complaint, Wade said she came out of the house to see them striking her son, and that they beat him until he lost consciousness. The suit claims that police slammed Baldwin into the sidewalk, spread his legs and repeatedly struck him there. “They hit him right in between his butt cheeks,” Wade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch police claim Baldwin was drunk and combative. He was charged with resisting arrest, but those charges were dropped. The lawsuit was settled out of court, with officers admitting no wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade says the beating changed her son. He was depressed, riddled with anxiety, unable to hold down a job. That was the first of several incidents between Baldwin and Antioch police. Wade says it was as if they were stalking him, harassing him every where he went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Baldwin died by suicide. Wade faults Antioch police for her son’s mental trauma, and ultimately for his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch police have not yet responded to requests for comment regarding subsequent interactions with Baldwin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Wade says, “It feels like my baby died all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Baldwin was mentioned in the text messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I knew from the beginning that it was a racist city”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officers joked about Baldwin’s claims that they beat him on his backside, and about the department using deadly force. “But we kill more Mexicans than anything else. So Blacks can feel safe,” one officer texted. “Sorry. Reverse that,” he followed up a minute later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the tamer texts released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll hear people talk about “old Antioch” — which refers to the place it used to be: White, working class, a sundown town, where people of color knew not to be after dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all that has changed. Antioch is now 36% white, 35% Latino, and 20% Black, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/antiochcitycalifornia/LND110210\"> 2020 census\u003c/a>. The shift happened both gradually and quickly. At first, Black people and other people of color moved here for the reasons everyone else did: bigger houses, better schools, a shot at the suburban American dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947886\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two Black men, and one woman hold signs at a rally. One sign says: 'Fire & Decertify.' The others says 'We demand accountability.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of community members and activists join a rally outside of the Antioch Police Department on April 18, 2023, to protest the racist and homophobic text messages shared among members of the department. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past decade or so, gentrification and exploding housing costs in cities such as San Francisco and Oakland drove displaced poor people here — especially people of color. As Oakland’s Black population shrank, Antioch’s grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new great migration is happening across America, changing the suburbs that have long been thought of as white space into the most diverse places in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this Tuesday night, the special meeting of the City Council was narrowly focused on addressing the ballooning scandal resulting from the racist texts, with the council voting to audit the department’s internal affairs division, its hiring and promotional practices, and to perform an equity audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those all passed easily, but the meeting, like the one the week before, was about more than just policy. People needed to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 100 people protested in front of the police station ahead of the council meeting, walking a stone’s throw from City Hall.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"antioch\"]“Antioch didn’t look like this, but it does now,” said Timothy Manly. “When everybody was fixing their issues in the ’60s, Antioch didn’t think that they’d have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’60s, Antioch was almost entirely white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re just reaping what you sowed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people told stories of their own encounters with Antioch police, others spoke of the experiences of children and loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These individuals that have spoken tonight are victims of police brutality, they are victims of crimes,” Public Defender Ellen McDonnell said when it was her turn at the dais. “The community and our clients have been sounding the alarm about your police department for years and years and years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shayla Bowers talked about how important it was to name the officers. “Our Black and brown people, as you see in this room, we got names, we got banners, we are public about our deaths in our community,” she said. “We need to be public about these police officers that are doing harm in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew from the beginning that it was a racist city,” said Gigi Crowder, the executive director of NAMI Contra Costa, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and an Antioch resident. “But then I believed that there was a possibility for change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believed that, she told the council, because it wasn’t just demographics that were shifting — the balance of power was too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’ll bury that N*&*er in my fields’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For a long time the Antioch’s leadership did not reflect its diversifying population. That changed in 2020, with a Black majority emerging on the five-person City Council, including Mayor Thorpe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2020, when all I asked for was a community to look at policies to do police reform,” Thorpe reminded the council chambers, “people lost their collective minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they could’ve hung me from the highest tree in Antioch they would have,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of pro-police, almost entirely white residents, many affiliated with a private Facebook group called “Back the Blue,” flooded the then-online-only council meetings, pushing back against the new majority, and any suggestions of police reform. They mounted a recall campaign against Thorpe, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/recall-of-antioch-mayor-dies-following-allegations-of-fraud\">which failed to gather enough signatures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887516/why-was-angelo-quintos-death-ruled-an-accident\">December 2020 death of Angelo Quinto\u003c/a> in the custody of Antioch police, the council voted for police to wear body cameras, a reform many police departments passed over a decade ago, but Antioch had long resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the released texts, body cameras are mentioned. Discussing an arrest made with the Pittsburg Police Department, whose officers did have cameras, an Antioch officer wrote: “If Pitt didn’t have all those body cams and that was us … we would have f&*ked him up more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another police officer, Devon Wenger, responded, “I agree. That’s why I don’t like body cameras.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947926\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64570_012_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64570_012_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A small group of Black women stand on the sidewalk holding signs and protesting racism among police in Antioch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64570_012_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64570_012_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64570_012_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64570_012_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64570_012_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiora Hansen and Della Currie join the protest in Antioch in front of the city’s police department. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/city-antioch-police-officers-face-lawsuit-alleged-civil/story?id=98728222\">ABC News\u003c/a>, Wenger denied he was being racist, pointing out that he only sent that one text. “Out of both released reports, the initial 21-page-report and the secondary 14-page report, I just simply said I do not like body cams,” he told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To put it bluntly, that’s not racist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger also suggested that the investigation into Antioch police may have been “corrupted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR’s requests to speak to the officers named in the DA’s report were either ignored or declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Thorpe shows up in the police text messages too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll buy someone a prime rib dinner at House of prime rib to 40 that mfr during the protest today,” one officer texted, referring to “the potential use of a .40mm less lethal launcher being utilized” on the mayor, the \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">DA’s report \u003c/a>explains. A .40mm weapon is a kind of gun that fires hard-foam projectiles. Their use \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-12/protesters-complain-about-excessive-force\">against protesters and for crowd control\u003c/a>, as well as their designation as less lethal, has been criticized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That text was sent in June 2020, during the heart of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/867060621/being-black-in-america-we-have-a-place-in-this-world-too\">national uprising\u003c/a> over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862956646/george-floyds-death-stokes-call-for-minneapolis-officers-to-be-charged-with-murd\">murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer\u003c/a>. Another text referred to Floyd as “the gorilla who died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages continuously refer to Black people as “gorillas” and “monkeys,” and officers repeatedly texted photos of gorillas to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young activist, Shagoofa Khan, prominent in organizing protests in Antioch, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837708/a-hunger-strike-in-antioch-and-what-it-says-about-the-changing-suburbs\">a hunger strike in front of the police station\u003c/a>, was also mentioned in the texts. She “looks like an Arabian nights cum dumpster,” a sergeant wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same sergeant, Josh Evans, texted in reference to the arrest of a Black suspect, “I’ll bury that N*&*er in my fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four minutes later he texted again. “And yes… it was a hard R on purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m only stopping them cuz they black’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The texts aren’t just filled with racist and sexist vitriol, they also seem to suggest possible civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a group chat, one officer asks the others what they are doing. The response from another, “violating civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racial profiling was a “modus operandi with respect to these officers,” civil rights lawyer John Burris claimed at a news conference on April 20, announcing a federal lawsuit against the city, the police department, and individual officers on behalf of a growing list of victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would stop people just because they were Black, they would harass them, they would search them, and ultimately arrest them if they thought they could get away with it,” he alleged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want any kind of oral, written, videotape of the confession,” he went on. “They wanted the confession to be such that they could make up the confession and convince their superiors that the person has confessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said he was also disturbed by text messages that suggested officers took pleasure in using violent force, especially on Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris’ clients include those who say they were repeatedly targeted and falsely accused by Antioch police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Carpenter, one of the plaintiffs, was arrested for possession of a firearm by four of the officers named in the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been harassed and targeted and railroaded by the Antioch police department for the last 10 years,” Carpenter told a scrum of reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with a bullhorn leads protesters on the street holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shagoofa Khan leads a rally of dozens of community members from the Antioch Police Department to City Hall on April 18, 2023, to protest the racist and homophobic text messages shared among the department. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, in the year before his arrest he was stopped by the same officers almost 10 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter spent 11 months in jail before all charges against him were dropped. The complaint alleges that one of the officers involved in Carpenter’s arrest texted, “I’m only stopping them cuz they black.” It alleges another wrote, “I sometimes just say people gave me a full confession when they didn’t. gets filed easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have basically ruined my life,” Carpenter said. “I’ve not been able to get a job, and I’m a journeyman by trade, a painter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been devastating, like living in hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others shared similar stories, claiming patterns of harassment, planted evidence, and manufactured confessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antioch city attorney as well as current and former police chiefs have not yet responded to requests for comment on the litigation.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe\"]‘In 2020, when all I asked for was a community to look at policies to do police reform, people lost their collective minds.’[/pullquote]Michael Rains, a former police officer and lawyer who represents some, but not all, of the officers, responded with a brief statement. “I understand this story is newsworthy on a number of fronts,” he wrote, “including, from my perspective, whether the due process and privacy rights of officers were abandoned by the Court and District Attorney.” But he added that he has advised his clients not to speak publicly, and is himself not granting interviews “at the present time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford, who is Black, came from San Francisco to lead the department a year ago. At the first council meeting after the scandal broke, he said that he is trying not to reform, but to reframe policing there. “We’re going to shift how things are done structurally, how they are done politically, how they are done administratively,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can tell yet just how many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">criminal cases might hang in the balance \u003c/a>after these revelations. Burris, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/congressmen-want-us-attorney-general-to-investigate-antioch-police\">alongside others\u003c/a> including two members of Congress, are calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter said that in a strange way, he was grateful to read all the texts. At least they confirmed for everyone else what he’d been experiencing for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been the same for Kathryn Wade. Reading the texts may have reopened the wound of her son’s death, but at least, she says, “Everything is out in the open, now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=These+California+police+officers+have+created+a+scandal.+They+sent+racist+texts&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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At least 16 of those “are in leadership roles at APD as detectives, sergeants, and lieutenants,” McDonnell wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to have to listen,” Wade cried out in the council chambers. Her words were directed at the council members, Mayor Lamar Thorpe, and Police Chief Steven Ford, who joined the department last year, after most of the text messages were sent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to have to absorb a lot of people’s pain,” Wade told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including her pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade’s son, Malad Baldwin, was 22-years-old when he was\u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/cops-will-face-moms-distress-claim-in-sons-beating/\"> a victim of police violence\u003c/a>, she claims. In 2014, he was asleep in Wade’s car parked outside their house when police dragged him from the vehicle and beat him, according to a lawsuit filed against the city and the officers. In the complaint, Wade said she came out of the house to see them striking her son, and that they beat him until he lost consciousness. The suit claims that police slammed Baldwin into the sidewalk, spread his legs and repeatedly struck him there. “They hit him right in between his butt cheeks,” Wade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch police claim Baldwin was drunk and combative. He was charged with resisting arrest, but those charges were dropped. The lawsuit was settled out of court, with officers admitting no wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade says the beating changed her son. He was depressed, riddled with anxiety, unable to hold down a job. That was the first of several incidents between Baldwin and Antioch police. Wade says it was as if they were stalking him, harassing him every where he went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Baldwin died by suicide. Wade faults Antioch police for her son’s mental trauma, and ultimately for his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch police have not yet responded to requests for comment regarding subsequent interactions with Baldwin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Wade says, “It feels like my baby died all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Baldwin was mentioned in the text messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I knew from the beginning that it was a racist city”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officers joked about Baldwin’s claims that they beat him on his backside, and about the department using deadly force. “But we kill more Mexicans than anything else. So Blacks can feel safe,” one officer texted. “Sorry. Reverse that,” he followed up a minute later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the tamer texts released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll hear people talk about “old Antioch” — which refers to the place it used to be: White, working class, a sundown town, where people of color knew not to be after dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all that has changed. Antioch is now 36% white, 35% Latino, and 20% Black, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/antiochcitycalifornia/LND110210\"> 2020 census\u003c/a>. The shift happened both gradually and quickly. At first, Black people and other people of color moved here for the reasons everyone else did: bigger houses, better schools, a shot at the suburban American dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947886\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two Black men, and one woman hold signs at a rally. One sign says: 'Fire & Decertify.' 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As Oakland’s Black population shrank, Antioch’s grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new great migration is happening across America, changing the suburbs that have long been thought of as white space into the most diverse places in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this Tuesday night, the special meeting of the City Council was narrowly focused on addressing the ballooning scandal resulting from the racist texts, with the council voting to audit the department’s internal affairs division, its hiring and promotional practices, and to perform an equity audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those all passed easily, but the meeting, like the one the week before, was about more than just policy. People needed to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 100 people protested in front of the police station ahead of the council meeting, walking a stone’s throw from City Hall.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That changed in 2020, with a Black majority emerging on the five-person City Council, including Mayor Thorpe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2020, when all I asked for was a community to look at policies to do police reform,” Thorpe reminded the council chambers, “people lost their collective minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they could’ve hung me from the highest tree in Antioch they would have,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of pro-police, almost entirely white residents, many affiliated with a private Facebook group called “Back the Blue,” flooded the then-online-only council meetings, pushing back against the new majority, and any suggestions of police reform. They mounted a recall campaign against Thorpe, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/recall-of-antioch-mayor-dies-following-allegations-of-fraud\">which failed to gather enough signatures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887516/why-was-angelo-quintos-death-ruled-an-accident\">December 2020 death of Angelo Quinto\u003c/a> in the custody of Antioch police, the council voted for police to wear body cameras, a reform many police departments passed over a decade ago, but Antioch had long resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the released texts, body cameras are mentioned. Discussing an arrest made with the Pittsburg Police Department, whose officers did have cameras, an Antioch officer wrote: “If Pitt didn’t have all those body cams and that was us … we would have f&*ked him up more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another police officer, Devon Wenger, responded, “I agree. 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A .40mm weapon is a kind of gun that fires hard-foam projectiles. Their use \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-12/protesters-complain-about-excessive-force\">against protesters and for crowd control\u003c/a>, as well as their designation as less lethal, has been criticized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That text was sent in June 2020, during the heart of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/867060621/being-black-in-america-we-have-a-place-in-this-world-too\">national uprising\u003c/a> over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862956646/george-floyds-death-stokes-call-for-minneapolis-officers-to-be-charged-with-murd\">murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer\u003c/a>. Another text referred to Floyd as “the gorilla who died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages continuously refer to Black people as “gorillas” and “monkeys,” and officers repeatedly texted photos of gorillas to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young activist, Shagoofa Khan, prominent in organizing protests in Antioch, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837708/a-hunger-strike-in-antioch-and-what-it-says-about-the-changing-suburbs\">a hunger strike in front of the police station\u003c/a>, was also mentioned in the texts. She “looks like an Arabian nights cum dumpster,” a sergeant wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same sergeant, Josh Evans, texted in reference to the arrest of a Black suspect, “I’ll bury that N*&*er in my fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four minutes later he texted again. “And yes… it was a hard R on purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m only stopping them cuz they black’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The texts aren’t just filled with racist and sexist vitriol, they also seem to suggest possible civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a group chat, one officer asks the others what they are doing. The response from another, “violating civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racial profiling was a “modus operandi with respect to these officers,” civil rights lawyer John Burris claimed at a news conference on April 20, announcing a federal lawsuit against the city, the police department, and individual officers on behalf of a growing list of victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would stop people just because they were Black, they would harass them, they would search them, and ultimately arrest them if they thought they could get away with it,” he alleged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t want any kind of oral, written, videotape of the confession,” he went on. “They wanted the confession to be such that they could make up the confession and convince their superiors that the person has confessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said he was also disturbed by text messages that suggested officers took pleasure in using violent force, especially on Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris’ clients include those who say they were repeatedly targeted and falsely accused by Antioch police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Carpenter, one of the plaintiffs, was arrested for possession of a firearm by four of the officers named in the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been harassed and targeted and railroaded by the Antioch police department for the last 10 years,” Carpenter told a scrum of reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with a bullhorn leads protesters on the street holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shagoofa Khan leads a rally of dozens of community members from the Antioch Police Department to City Hall on April 18, 2023, to protest the racist and homophobic text messages shared among the department. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, in the year before his arrest he was stopped by the same officers almost 10 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter spent 11 months in jail before all charges against him were dropped. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Michael Rains, a former police officer and lawyer who represents some, but not all, of the officers, responded with a brief statement. “I understand this story is newsworthy on a number of fronts,” he wrote, “including, from my perspective, whether the due process and privacy rights of officers were abandoned by the Court and District Attorney.” But he added that he has advised his clients not to speak publicly, and is himself not granting interviews “at the present time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford, who is Black, came from San Francisco to lead the department a year ago. At the first council meeting after the scandal broke, he said that he is trying not to reform, but to reframe policing there. “We’re going to shift how things are done structurally, how they are done politically, how they are done administratively,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can tell yet just how many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">criminal cases might hang in the balance \u003c/a>after these revelations. Burris, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/congressmen-want-us-attorney-general-to-investigate-antioch-police\">alongside others\u003c/a> including two members of Congress, are calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter said that in a strange way, he was grateful to read all the texts. At least they confirmed for everyone else what he’d been experiencing for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>News anchor Don Lemon is out at CNN, the cable network announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years,” the news outlet \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1650535190568026113\">said in a tweet\u003c/a>. “We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/1650533617636966400\">statement posted to his Twitter account\u003c/a>, Lemon confirmed his ouster, saying his agent told him Monday morning that he had been terminated by CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly,” Lemon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday, a federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1159220452/abortion-pill-drug-mifepristone-judge-texas-amarillo\">judge in Texas ruled\u003c/a> that the Food and Drug Administration didn’t properly approve a drug which has been on the market for more than 20 years in the U.S. for medical abortions. The drug in question, mifepristone, is used along with one other drug in most medication abortions in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fallout of the ruling could mean that mifepristone becomes unavailable in the U.S. in the near future, though the ruling is being challenged in court. Depending how legal battles play out and how the FDA responds, the effects of this ruling may apply only in certain states, or may indeed curtail mifepristone use around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this happens, doctors say they will continue to offer medication abortions without mifepristone, using only the other drug, misoprostol. Here’s what to know about how misoprostol-only abortions work, how safe they are and how patients would access them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How does the single-drug protocol differ from the current standard of care which uses two drugs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most medication abortions in the U.S. currently use both mifepristone and misoprostol because patients experience fewer side effects when the medications are combined. A regimen involving both medications is also used for miscarriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But misoprostol alone can be used effectively for abortions — and is commonly prescribed in some countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This regimen is still incredibly safe and effective,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.acog.org/about/leadership-and-governance/get-involved/darney-landy-fellows\">Dr. Kristyn Brandi\u003c/a>, a New Jersey family planning specialist and spokesperson for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. “Medication abortion and miscarriage management will not go away with the loss of mifepristone, but it may look a little different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the two-drug regimen, patients first take mifepristone — which blocks the hormone progesterone — to end the pregnancy. Patients then take misoprostol 24–48 hours later, which causes the uterus to expel the pregnancy tissue. Patients experience bleeding and cramping, and usually pass the pregnancy within four to six hours after taking the misoprostol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://societyfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Medication-abortion-with-misoprostol-only_A-sample-protocol_2023.pdf\">In a misoprostol-alone abortion (PDF)\u003c/a>, patients start the process with misoprostol, using the same amount as is used in the two-drug regimen. Three hours later, they take misoprostol again, causing the uterus to contract. They repeat this for three to four doses until the pregnancy passes, which usually takes between nine and 12 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases, patients typically see a doctor or nurse, either in person or online, and then take the drugs at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is the misoprostol-alone regime safe? 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That’s why it’s usually the second choice regimen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misoprostol-only protocol is actually faster than the two-medication protocol, which takes about 30 hours total since patients take the second drug at least 24-hours after the first. In the misoprostol-alone regimen, the process usually only takes 9-12 hours, but patients typically experience cramping and bleeding for longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When might a patient need to seek further medical help for a medication abortion?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With either regimen, the reasons to seek follow up care are the same.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Kristyn Brandi, spokesperson, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists\"]‘This regimen is still incredibly safe and effective … Medication abortion and miscarriage management will not go away with the loss of mifepristone, but it may look a little different.’[/pullquote]If patients experience heavy or prolonged bleeding – spotting that persists for over 2 weeks, for example, or bleeding so heavy they soak through more than two pads an hour for over two hours – they might need a procedure to complete the abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prolonged fever above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit is also a reason to seek medical care. While low-grade fevers and chills are an expected side effect of misoprostol and aren’t life threatening, if a fever persists for more than 24 hours after taking misoprostol, it could be a sign of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, if a patient does not experience \u003cem>any \u003c/em>bleeding or cramping, the medication may not have worked to end the pregnancy, and she might need more misoprostol or a procedure to have a complete abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How far along into the pregnancy does medication abortion work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration has approved the two-drug regimen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/information-about-mifepristone-medical-termination-pregnancy-through-ten-weeks-gestation\">end pregnancies up to 10 weeks\u003c/a> gestational age, but the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://srhr.org/abortioncare/chapter-3/abortion-3-4/medical-management-of-induced-abortion-recommendations-27-30-3-4-2/\">endorses it up to 12 weeks\u003c/a>. After that, they’re less likely to be effective and may cause more bleeding and cramping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For misoprostol-only abortion, it’s less clear cut. There’s some data showing that the regimen can be effective in ending pregnancies up to 22 weeks. That’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9359894/\">according to one study\u003c/a> that looked at patients having self-managed abortions, without the direct involvement of a doctor in countries that have had restrictive abortion laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in U.S. states where second trimester abortion is allowed, Brandi says, doctors will typically recommend a procedural abortion in a hospital rather than a medication-based abortion to end pregnancies after 12 weeks. That’s because second trimester misoprostol-only abortions can involve more bleeding and prolonged cramping. Doctors would probably only recommend misoprostol-alone in the second trimester in states where patients don’t have other legal options.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do patients get prescriptions for medication abortions? Would they be able to get them for the one-drug regimen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In states where abortion is legal in the first trimester, patients can speak to a health care provider and get a prescription for medication abortion via \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/20/1099179361/telehealth-abortions-are-simple-and-private-but-restricted-in-many-states\">telehealth abortion companies\u003c/a>, in-person at clinics that provide abortion like Planned Parenthood, and at many general OB/GYN and family medicine clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as mifepristone is still available, providers will usually give the two-drug regimen. If it becomes unavailable, many providers have indicated they’d start prescribing misoprostol alone.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11946193,news_11946073,news_11938516\"]Dr. Jamie Phifer, the medical director of \u003ca href=\"https://abortionondemand.org/\">Abortion on Demand\u003c/a>, says her team is waiting to see how the courts ultimately rule on mifepristone. They will continue to provide mifepristone and misoprostol combination abortions to their patients unless it becomes illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re ready,” she adds. “We can make the switch [to misoprostol-only protocols] within hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, misoprostol is easier to access than mifepristone. Even before the Texas judge’s ruling, mifepristone was subject to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/information-about-mifepristone-medical-termination-pregnancy-through-ten-weeks-gestation\">special FDA regulations\u003c/a> that meant that most commercial pharmacies did not carry it, and patients could only get it at clinics that provide abortions or via pharmacies that had specially registered with the FDA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misoprostol, however, isn’t subject to these regulations, so it’s stocked in almost all pharmacies and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are patients able to get the medication in states where abortion is banned?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Neither the two-drug regime, nor misoprostol-alone medication abortions are available legally in these states. Misoprostol itself remains legal when used for other purposes, like treating ulcers or inducing labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are a number of services that help patients in these states access abortion pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayday.health/\">Mayday.Health\u003c/a> offers step-by-step instructions for setting up a mail-forwarding address, so patients can list an address in a permissive state on their intake forms for a telehealth abortion, then get the pills sent along to an additional address somewhere else. \u003ca href=\"https://www.plancpills.org/\">Plan C\u003c/a> is a website that provides up-to-date information about how to get abortion pills at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mahotline.org/\">The Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline\u003c/a> offers free consultations with clinicians if a patient has questions about a medication abortion, even if she had the abortion in a state where it’s illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizations openly flout the law to provide abortion medications in all 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://aidaccess.org/en/\">Aid Access\u003c/a>, for example, is based in the Netherlands and will mail mifepristone and misoprostol to patients in states where abortion is banned. Pills sent from abroad are not subject to FDA approval and safety regulations. The organization also employs U.S.-based health care providers, who prescribe FDA-regulated abortion pills via telehealth in states where it’s allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Teresa Partain has a job few people know exists. She’s a content moderator for Google’s ads engine and many of her colleagues do the same work for Google Search. Their job is to make sure the results people see are accurate and not spam or scams. Google calls these workers “quality raters,” but Partain said they call themselves “ghost workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people — even at Google — have no idea that we exist,” Partain said. “They don’t know that there are human beings doing a lot of the work. They think that the software is magic and already perfect and doesn’t need maintenance. And that’s just not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now they want to be seen. They’ve written letters to Google executives, held a rally outside the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters and created a petition to demand benefits and better pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partain isn’t employed by Google directly, but by a subcontractor called Appen. And, she said, that employment setup is what has led to worker grievances — mainly low wages, no benefits and isolation from colleagues. Partain is one of at least 10,000 people worldwide doing this job, according to Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They work from home and even though they’re employed by subcontractors, they’re given assignments directly by Google. Partain evaluates the quality and placement of Google ads, while her colleagues rate the quality of Google Search results. Their tasks can range from confirming a search for “carrot cake recipe” brings up relevant results to making sure an airfare ad doesn’t appear next to a news story about a plane crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without them, Google Search wouldn’t function smoothly. Google says it gets \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/how-search-works/rigorous-testing/\">billions of queries\u003c/a> every day and it’s constantly making improvements to ensure its algorithms keep up. 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For comparison, that’s more than the entire gross domestic product of Greece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We support billions of dollars of revenue,” Google rater Ed Stackhouse told NPR. “And we get paid less than your average fast food worker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google raters who work for Appen make between $14 and $14.50 an hour and under company policy can’t work more than 29 hours a week. Raters who spoke with NPR said they have health conditions or family needs that require them to work from home and they appreciate they can do that. 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And we get paid less than your average fast food worker.’[/pullquote]Partain flew in from Kansas for the rally and said she’d been a rater for more than seven years and that she and her colleagues “want to be able to do our job well, earn a dignified wage and have access to basic benefits.” The raters were joined by worker advocates, local politicians and union representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t really understand just how prevalent the subcontracting and staffing agency usage is,” said Roberto Clack, executive director of Temp Worker Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for contract workers. “These models are really the driving force towards lower labor standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google’s Mencini declined to provide numbers on the company’s subcontractor workforce. 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Policymakers will be debating whether new laws, rules or attitudes are needed to keep other banks from going under.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five takeaways from Tuesday’s hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Silicon Valley Bank’s management messed up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regulators had some tough words about SVB’s management at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank more than tripled in size in the last three years, but its financial controls didn’t keep pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government bonds it was buying with depositors’ money tumbled in value as interest rates rose, but the bank seemed unconcerned by that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [bank’s] risk model was not at all aligned with reality,” said Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision. “This is a textbook case of bank mismanagement,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank recognized the problem only belatedly and tried to raise cash by selling some of its bonds at a loss earlier this month. That merely alarmed depositors, sparking an unusually rapid run on the bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Regulators issued warnings, but the problems were not fixed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How much blame should be laid at regulators feet? That was a question that cropped up repeatedly during the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barr stressed that federal regulators had repeatedly warned the bank’s managers about the risks it was facing, at least as far back as October 2021. The bank was served with formal notices documenting “matters requiring attention” and “matters requiring immediate attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the risks remained and the Fed stopped short of ordering changes, which frustrated some of the senators in the Senate Banking Committee from both sides of the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks to me like the regulators knew the problem, but nobody dropped the hammer,” said Sen. 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A recommended formula will be announced in early May.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bank executives could pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The role of SVB’s top executives came under scrutiny as well during the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers expressed frustration at reports that executives at Silicon Valley Bank sold stock and received bonuses shortly before the bank’s collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the government doesn’t have explicit authority to claw back compensation, it does have the power to levy fines, order restitution and prohibit those executives from working at other banks, if wrongdoing is found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost every American would agree it’s simply wrong for the CEO and top executives to profit from their own mismanagement and then leave FDIC holding the bag,” Van Hollen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden this month urged Congress to pass legislation to increase the penalties on bank executives when mismanagement leads to bank failures, though it’s unclear whether lawmakers will act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. 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If humans can limit warming to no more than 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius), some of the more catastrophic effects of climate change can be avoided. Sea levels would rise a lot less. Heat waves and storms would be less deadly. And many ecosystems on land and in the oceans would be more able to adapt or recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To achieve that goal, global emissions would need to be slashed in half by the end of the decade, something the report authors say is still possible if countries around the world quickly pivot away from fossil fuels. Right now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/\">total global emissions are not falling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/cop26-emissions-gap-20211019/?initialWidth=763&childId=responsive-embed-cop26-emissions-gap-20211019&parentTitle=Earth%20is%20on%20track%20for%20catastrophic%20warming%2C%20U.N.%20warns%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F03%2F20%2F1162711459%2Fcut-emissions-quickly-to-save-lives-scientists-warn-in-a-new-u-n-report\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A cheat sheet for world leaders to tackle climate change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, hundreds of scientists working for the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have published three sprawling reports that highlighted the disproportionate effects of climate change on poor people, the need to cut emissions rapidly and the policy options available for doing so. 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