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Multiple former employees, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007947/richmond-nursery-employees-allege-owners-bullying-abrupt-closure\">told KQED\u003c/a> that since Hundley took over the nursery from Hayes in 2021, she had berated and bullied managers as business went downhill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundley has denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the closure, Wheeler was tasked with keeping the plants alive while Hundley worked out a sale of the space and stock. She and the other staff members still employed realized that by combining their assets — with the help of Wheeler’s mother, Penny Orland — they could purchase the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that we needed was here, and it was within our reach,” Wheeler said. 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Together, they hope to get back to the Annie’s that Wheeler said she began making “pilgrimages up to” when she was first studying horticulture in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard about this wild and crazy nursery where they had to have these huge parties, and they would play these amazing games and people would dance,” Wheeler said. “There was like a ‘Supermarket Sweep’ where somebody would have 15 minutes with a little red wagon to fill up with as many plants as they could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler said people can expect more parties with gogo dancers, community events and rare plants in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curious Flora plans to open Nov. 2, less than a month after Hundley announced Annie’s would close immediately — shocking and saddening longtime fans, some of whom had traveled from as far as Colorado to peruse the curated selection of rare and native plants over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others questioned whether Hundley was closing the beloved business fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gift cards were voided, and returns weren’t allowed upon the store’s closing — the same day it was announced. Employees said they only found out the day before, many through managers or other co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10, including Melanie Williams, who started working at Annie’s in 2013, accused Hundley of bullying. Many said she did not run the business efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-1-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Hundley told KQED in an email that she “closed the business in a way that I could best take care of them one last time by providing them with severance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Thursday that she was thrilled the business would now be owned by people who have loved Annie’s for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a group of employees who love the nursery continue its legacy is very special, and I am excited to see Annie’s live on for them and the community,” Hundley said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said she was “elated” for the future of the business under Wheeler and the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curious Flora will not be able to bring back all employees let go by Hundley, Wheeler said, since the business is not going to be doing mail orders just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have to be a little lean and just wait for the public to find their way back to us,” Wheeler said. “But we have every intention of offering all of the great elements that have defined this space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hageman family, who owns one of the largest independent organic farm and garden suppliers, has acquired Annie’s name, logos, website and online ordering, Wheeler said. 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Charges against the other two officers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">dismissed this month\u003c/a> after a judge ruled that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> district attorney’s office failed to file necessary paperwork within the three-year statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family and supporters of Gonzalez rallied Friday outside the courthouse, demanding justice for Gonzalez’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of oppression to our own communities and the excuse after excuse of letting these cops free is no longer going to be the ordinary. This is not normal, this is not humane, this is not recognizing our humanity,” Ericson Amaya, a family supporter and organizer with Oakland youth activism group 67 Sueños, said during the rally after the plea hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates had earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009076/mario-gonzalez-supporters-call-das-error-a-shame-as-2-officers-avoid-charges\">criticized the district attorney’s office\u003c/a> for its filing error, saying it allowed officers who should have been held accountable to walk free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/MarioGonzalez1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/MarioGonzalez1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/MarioGonzalez1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/MarioGonzalez1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/MarioGonzalez1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/MarioGonzalez1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/MarioGonzalez1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edith Arenales, the mother of Mario Gonzalez, speaks on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, outside the Wiley W. 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He’s just scaring my wife,” a 911 caller said in dispatch audio recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">released by the city\u003c/a> shows the officers pin down Gonzalez, who is mumbling and appears not to be fully lucid after he resists being handcuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009076 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/012_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one officer pressed an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, the officers rolled Gonzalez onto his side, saying he was becoming unresponsive. About eight minutes after they began to arrest Gonzalez, he stopped breathing. 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She also sits on the California Air Resources Board. Both agencies regulate refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry’s spending on the race is not about policy in Belmont, Hurt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to silence a voice on the air district board,” she said in an interview. “Big Oil is leaning in and trying to change a local election where there are no refineries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 10 years, oil companies with refineries in the Bay Area have spent large amounts on local contests in the cities where they operate. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/05/361875792/chevron-spends-big-and-loses-big-in-a-city-council-race\">2014, Chevron spent $3 million\u003c/a> to support candidates in the Richmond City Council election. 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Chevron and PBF gave up their legal attack on the new rule earlier this year, leading to a settlement worth tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2024-news/021324-announcement\">air district announced\u003c/a> the deal, the first quote came from Hurt. “The historic penalties and successful defense of our life-saving Rule 6-6 are a win for air quality in the Bay, especially those living in the Richmond and Martinez-area communities,” she said in the agency’s press release in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron refinery in Richmond on Oct. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last month, the oil industry super PAC — officially labeled the Committee for Jobs and the Economy, Sponsored by Energy Companies and Building Trades Unions Representing Working Men and Women — began sending out flyers in support of McCune, describing him as experienced, pragmatic and collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew nothing about the mailers until they started arriving in mailboxes,” McCune said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not request them, did not approve them, and did not pay for them,” he said, emphasizing that he has not received any money, support or endorsements from the political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phone number on the committee’s most recent political filings is the main number for Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, a Sacramento-based law firm that has represented Republican and industry-based interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the firm nor the four oil companies funding the committee responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current election marks the first time the committee has filed campaign disclosures with the city of Belmont, according to City Clerk Jozi Plut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune does not champion oil industry interests on his campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.belmont.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/23503/638591407484370000\">statement\u003c/a> filed with the city or his \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/mccune4belmont\">campaign website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think clean air is extremely important and that clean air regulations are a very important part of making it happen,” he said in an email, emphasizing that he and Hurt have not compared policies on energy and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune sits on the board of directors for Peninsula Clean Energy, a so-called community choice aggregator that provides electricity from renewable sources to San Mateo County customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There simply isn’t enough new solar and wind generation capacity coming online fast enough to achieve 100% renewable and 100% carbon-free electrical generation as fast as we would like,” he said. “I believe we will get to that future state … but it is taking longer than desired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009333 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GavinNewsom2024AP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry, air quality and climate change have not been issues in the campaign so far. The \u003cem>San Mateo Daily Journal’\u003c/em>s report on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/incumbents-face-off-in-belmont-for-a-seat-in-district-4/article_6e3cacf6-7c80-11ef-ac08-7bb1915fd800.html\">debate \u003c/a>between Hurt and McCune focused mainly on housing, traffic congestion, youth sports and economic development. The forum touched on expanding electric vehicle and home electric appliance opportunities, but the candidates’ positions didn’t seem far apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurt said that while she and McCune had slight differences on climate policies, a lot of their priorities are similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Belmont City Council race is one of two contests on the Peninsula the oil industry group has poured money into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee, which is also funded by several unions that represent refinery workers, has spent close to $60,000 in support of East Palo Alto Councilmember Lisa Gauthier in her race against East Palo Alto Mayor Antonio Lopez for a seat on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, according to campaign reports filed with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the same committee spent $95,000 backing San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups are increasingly pouring money into local elections, according to Melissa Michelson, a political scientist at Menlo College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a smaller election, the amount of money being spent is much smaller, so your money goes farther,” Michelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the transition away from at-large elections to district contests amplifies that trend. 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An independent expenditure committee funded in large part by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843632/valero-funded-pac-pours-more-than-250000-into-benicia-mayors-race\">Valero spent hundreds of thousands of dollars\u003c/a> on City Council elections in Benicia in 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Belmont, a city of 26,000 people, has no oil refining infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the industry’s apparent interest in the race is Hurt, who was one of 19 air district board members who voted in 2021 in favor of one of the most stringent refinery pollution control rules in California history. Chevron and PBF gave up their legal attack on the new rule earlier this year, leading to a settlement worth tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/page-resources/2024-news/021324-announcement\">air district announced\u003c/a> the deal, the first quote came from Hurt. “The historic penalties and successful defense of our life-saving Rule 6-6 are a win for air quality in the Bay, especially those living in the Richmond and Martinez-area communities,” she said in the agency’s press release in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron refinery in Richmond on Oct. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last month, the oil industry super PAC — officially labeled the Committee for Jobs and the Economy, Sponsored by Energy Companies and Building Trades Unions Representing Working Men and Women — began sending out flyers in support of McCune, describing him as experienced, pragmatic and collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew nothing about the mailers until they started arriving in mailboxes,” McCune said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not request them, did not approve them, and did not pay for them,” he said, emphasizing that he has not received any money, support or endorsements from the political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phone number on the committee’s most recent political filings is the main number for Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, a Sacramento-based law firm that has represented Republican and industry-based interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the firm nor the four oil companies funding the committee responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current election marks the first time the committee has filed campaign disclosures with the city of Belmont, according to City Clerk Jozi Plut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune does not champion oil industry interests on his campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.belmont.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/23503/638591407484370000\">statement\u003c/a> filed with the city or his \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/mccune4belmont\">campaign website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think clean air is extremely important and that clean air regulations are a very important part of making it happen,” he said in an email, emphasizing that he and Hurt have not compared policies on energy and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCune sits on the board of directors for Peninsula Clean Energy, a so-called community choice aggregator that provides electricity from renewable sources to San Mateo County customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There simply isn’t enough new solar and wind generation capacity coming online fast enough to achieve 100% renewable and 100% carbon-free electrical generation as fast as we would like,” he said. “I believe we will get to that future state … but it is taking longer than desired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As many voters remain anxious about inflation, support for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> ballot measure that would gradually raise the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/minimum-wage\">minimum wage\u003c/a> statewide appears to be waning, according to new survey data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2024/\">statewide poll\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California found only about 44% of likely voters backed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006890/transcript-prop-32-raises-the-minimum-wage-to-18-an-hour\">Proposition 32\u003c/a>, compared to 50% in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the measure, which would require employers to pay a minimum of $18 an hour by 2026, could help an estimated 2 million working Californians better afford basic necessities. The lowest-paid jobs in the state include farmworkers, home health care aides and cashiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But arguments by business trade groups that employers would be forced to absorb a more expensive payroll by raising prices and cutting jobs — and exacerbate the state’s cost of living — seem to be sticking in the current election climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters are smart and inflation fatigued,” Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association, said in a statement. “The recent poll showing a majority of voters would vote no on Prop. 32 is encouraging given the devastating impacts it will have on family budgets and on small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some businesses may struggle temporarily to pay for higher wages, most economic studies show minimum wage raises have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007150/californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-sees-no-job-loss-slight-price-hikes\">little to no impact on employment overall\u003c/a>, though they can lead to small price increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California’s fast food industry, where a state law required most employers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001133/california-governor-touts-fast-food-job-growth-with-higher-minimum-wage\">pay at least $20 an hour\u003c/a>, researchers at UC Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/early-effects-of-californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-large-wage-increases-with-no-effects-on-hours-scheduling-or-benefits/\">Harvard\u003c/a> and other institutions found no job losses, as opponents in the restaurant industry had warned. Menu prices increased, but only by about 15 cents on a $4 hamburger, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://irle.berkeley.edu/publications/working-papers/sectoral-wage-setting-in-california/\">study\u003c/a> published last month by the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign opposed to Proposition 32 has scared some voters, said Saru Jayaraman, president of the nonprofit One Fair Wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the doom and gloom that they predicted turned out to be true,” Jayaraman, who is part of the Yes on 32 campaign, said, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985277/impact-of-california-fast-food-worker-wage-increase-still-too-early-to-gauge\">fast food minimum wage increase\u003c/a>. “At some point, we have to realize that this is big business willing to put money into lying to people rather than put money into paying workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 32 passes, large businesses with 26 or more employees must raise their minimum pay immediately to $17 an hour and to $18 by 2025. Smaller employers would have until Jan. 1, 2026, to make the adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006890 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS2826_cashregister20120522-e1430162029879.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters aimed to qualify the measure for the ballot in 2022 but missed a key deadline. In the current economic landscape, an $18 hourly wage is woefully insufficient but a step in the right direction, Jayaraman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still hope we can win,” she added. “There are lots of people in California struggling, living in their car, working multiple jobs, who need a raise to feed their family. And we have to keep fighting for more because 18 is not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. economy has largely rebounded from the pandemic, according to experts. Unemployment remains relatively low. Inflation, which is at a three-year low, is expected to continue decreasing, and consumer spending has been stronger than expected. Still, concerns about consumer prices remain top of mind, and a majority of Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-economic-well-being-november-2023/\">believe\u003c/a> the state’s economy could experience a downturn in the next year, according to the PPIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of Democrats said they would vote for Proposition 32 in the most recent PPIC poll, with the highest levels of support in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 9:10 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 200 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-superior-court\">San Francisco Superior Court\u003c/a> clerks held a one-day strike on Thursday, shutting down high-profile civil and criminal trials and hearings in the city’s justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in purple, dozens of clerks represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 rallied on the steps of the Hall of Justice to demand fair contracts, more staffing and an end to delays they say are caused by chronic mismanagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Thompson, a deputy clerk in the court’s criminal division, told KQED that management has refused to negotiate with the clerks’ union. The court has made it impossible for clerks to fulfill their “fundamental obligation to the public, which is to ensure equal and fair access to those seeking redress under the law,” Thompson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the clerks’ key demands is improved training. Due to staffing shortages, clerks are often shuffled between courtrooms and into departments that require unique specialization, Thompson said, which can translate into clerical errors with real consequences for people interacting with the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our jobs are important. These are people’s lives and futures we’re talking about,” Thompson said. “The court refuses, for whatever reason, to train us correctly, which, in my opinion, is criminally irresponsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12010986 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Attorney Brooke Jenkins listens to speakers during a strike by San Francisco Superior Court clerks in front of the 850 Bryant St. Courthouse in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court remained open Thursday for essential services, but all proceedings — including divorce settlements, jury selection and traffic court — were put on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike has called attention to an enormous backlog of cases caused by short staffing, faulty technology and a lack of courtrooms. This gridlock is said to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996165/sf-may-dismiss-over-100-cases-after-court-rules-covid-19-delays-unlawful\">stemmed from the pandemic\u003c/a> and has continued to slow down or derail criminal and civil cases. In August, over 70 criminal cases were dismissed due to delays that the California appeals court called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996165/sf-may-dismiss-over-100-cases-after-court-rules-covid-19-delays-unlawful\">a violation of defendants’ rights\u003c/a> to speedy trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court Executive Officer Brandon E. Riley said the court would shift resources to “prioritize those cases with statutory deadlines,” such as domestic violence cases and custody arraignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Riley called the clerks’ decision to disrupt services “unfortunate” and cited the challenges of reaching a fair contract in light of the state’s reduction in funding for the Judicial Branch, “which has resulted in a $2.5 million ongoing cut to the court’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010984\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010984\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Superior Court clerks, supported by their union SEIU Local 1021, strike in front of the 850 Bryant St. Courthouse in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>High-profile proceedings that were halted Thursday included the trial of Nima Momeni, a former tech consultant accused of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee in a case that drew national attention. The strike also paused the already-delayed preliminary hearings for the eight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010363/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-await-judicial-ruling-on-felony-charges\">antiwar activists charged with felonies\u003c/a> in connection with shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge on Tax Day to protest U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing, which will determine whether or not San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has enough evidence to bring felony charges against the protesters, was already behind schedule after the court was unable to assign the case a courtroom on Monday, citing the backlog and higher-priority criminal trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the defendants in the Golden Gate Bridge case felt about the delays, attorney Jeff Wozniak said his clients and the legal team “stand with the SEIU.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Myrna Melgar speaks during a strike by San Francisco Superior Court clerks in front of the 850 Bryant St. Courthouse in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A small group of the protesters’ supporters filled the echoing hallway outside of the courtroom, chanting for Jenkins to drop the charges. They also rallied in support of the 18 protesters charged with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004860/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-plead-not-guilty-to-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges\">misdemeanors\u003c/a>, whose initial start day was set for Thursday but was pushed to Dec. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, the rallying clerks were joined by their court reporter and court interpreter colleagues dressed in blue. The court reporter from the Momeni trial was seen standing at the picket line, according to reports on social media, and one of Momeni’s attorneys reportedly bought hundreds of dollars worth of sandwiches for the clerks from a nearby cafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009797 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-HEALTHCAREMINWAGERAISE-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jenkins did not win endorsement from the clerks union in the upcoming election, she joined the clerks’ ranks at the courthouse, saying that her appearance “wasn’t about politics.” In the past, Jenkins has \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/14/san-francisco-drops-criminal-cases-court-backlog/\">accused \u003c/a>the court’s backlog of robbing victims and defendants of their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in the trenches with them as a courtroom prosecutor,” Jenkins said. “I know what it means for them to be overworked, for them to be short-staffed, for them to be under pressure, to record each and everything that’s going on during a court hearing. And if they aren’t equipped to be able to do that, it’s unfair to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins’ progressive opponent — and former employee — Ryan Khojasteh, also appeared on the court steps to criticize what he called the district attorney’s “severe mismanagement of the system.” Khojasteh said Jenkins has contributed to the case backlog by making “unreasonable plea deals” instead of deferring to diversion programs and drug treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khojasteh was initially hired by former District Attorney Chesa Boudin and was fired during the early days of Jenkins’ administration after Boudin was recalled. While lesser known than the incumbent, Khojasteh’s emphasis on early interventions is one of the ways he’s setting himself apart from Jenkins, and he garnered the clerks union’s support in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> A previous version of this article incorrectly stated a deadline to complete the preliminary hearing for eight antiwar activists charged with felonies in connection with shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the clerks’ key demands is improved training. Due to staffing shortages, clerks are often shuffled between courtrooms and into departments that require unique specialization, Thompson said, which can translate into clerical errors with real consequences for people interacting with the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our jobs are important. 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This gridlock is said to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996165/sf-may-dismiss-over-100-cases-after-court-rules-covid-19-delays-unlawful\">stemmed from the pandemic\u003c/a> and has continued to slow down or derail criminal and civil cases. In August, over 70 criminal cases were dismissed due to delays that the California appeals court called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996165/sf-may-dismiss-over-100-cases-after-court-rules-covid-19-delays-unlawful\">a violation of defendants’ rights\u003c/a> to speedy trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court Executive Officer Brandon E. Riley said the court would shift resources to “prioritize those cases with statutory deadlines,” such as domestic violence cases and custody arraignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Riley called the clerks’ decision to disrupt services “unfortunate” and cited the challenges of reaching a fair contract in light of the state’s reduction in funding for the Judicial Branch, “which has resulted in a $2.5 million ongoing cut to the court’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010984\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010984\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Superior Court clerks, supported by their union SEIU Local 1021, strike in front of the 850 Bryant St. Courthouse in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>High-profile proceedings that were halted Thursday included the trial of Nima Momeni, a former tech consultant accused of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee in a case that drew national attention. The strike also paused the already-delayed preliminary hearings for the eight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010363/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-await-judicial-ruling-on-felony-charges\">antiwar activists charged with felonies\u003c/a> in connection with shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge on Tax Day to protest U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing, which will determine whether or not San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has enough evidence to bring felony charges against the protesters, was already behind schedule after the court was unable to assign the case a courtroom on Monday, citing the backlog and higher-priority criminal trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the defendants in the Golden Gate Bridge case felt about the delays, attorney Jeff Wozniak said his clients and the legal team “stand with the SEIU.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241024-SFCOURTCLERKSSTRIKE-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Myrna Melgar speaks during a strike by San Francisco Superior Court clerks in front of the 850 Bryant St. Courthouse in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A small group of the protesters’ supporters filled the echoing hallway outside of the courtroom, chanting for Jenkins to drop the charges. 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"content": "\u003cp>David Hummel, a Berkeley City College student, attended the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area#Campuslife\">pro-Palestinian demonstrations\u003c/a> that were part of a national protest movement on school campuses, and he was looking to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s just about being human, really,” Hummel, 20, said. “To be blind to the suffering of people just because they happen to be born in other places in the world. If you do know about it and decide to just do nothing, then I don’t think I could live with myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s military assault on Gaza began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed roughly 1,200 people and took about 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s retaliation has killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">42,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza health officials. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/\">U.N. human rights officials say\u003c/a> the number is likely an undercount. The bombardment of Gaza sparked protests demanding a cease-fire. In the Bay Area, residents have organized and joined a flurry of spirited protests and marches critical of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael\">the United States’ support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has impacted Bay Area life, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">from politics to Silicon Valley to campus culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel is just one of the Bay Area residents who moved by the protests, traveled to the West Bank to volunteer. Through other activists, Hummel heard about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">advocacy group Faz3a\u003c/a>, which trains people for organized trips to the West Bank to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">“a mass presence of internationals on the ground, providing direct protection for Palestinians, under local Palestinian guidance.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 843px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg 843w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo by Sydney Levy from a visit to the West Bank that he said shows four Israeli settlers harassing and threatening a Palestinian woman and her family in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sydney Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Once I heard about the opportunity to go to the West Bank, I really couldn’t take my eyes and mind off of it, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived in the Middle East in early July. He traveled with Faz3a to Qusra, a village north of Jerusalem, where he spent most of his time. On July 21, Hummel and eight other volunteers were walking with a Palestinian farmer to his olive groves in an area that was cut off to Palestinians. The farmer hadn’t seen the trees in eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were in the olive groves, Hummel said a group of Israeli settlers drove near the fields. More joined them, roaming the groves on foot. Hummel described the settlers, who wielded metal sticks and wooden bats, as “relatively young looking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel and the volunteers recorded the settlers while the Palestinian farmer slipped away. Then, Hummel said, one settler took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hit in the face by these wooden bats, and I had significant swelling, and as well on my arm,” he said. “The other volunteers were also badly beaten. One woman, she couldn’t walk for a few days after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hummel outside the student housing where he lives in Berkeley on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hummel said the Israeli army arrived soon after but did not pursue the attackers, instead firing shots in the direction of the Palestinian man who was with the volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faz3a confirmed the incident to KQED and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240721-israeli-settlers-beat-foreign-volunteers-in-occupied-west-bank\">news outlets\u003c/a>. CNN \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/middleeast/west-bank-attacks-qusra-intl/index.html\">reported that the Israeli military acknowledged\u003c/a> that “a number of masked Israeli civilians assaulted a group of foreign citizens while they were planting trees in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 24, Hummel filed a report, viewed by KQED, with Israeli law enforcement but said there was no response. During his weeks in the West Bank, Hummel heard story after story from Palestinians about life under Israeli surveillance. He said what he endured was “just a small fraction” of what Palestinians experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteering in the Middle East\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza has injured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">97,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> and displaced 1.9 million people, almost the entire population of Gaza. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israeli strikes killing aid workers\u003c/a> and destroying hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">a humanitarian crisis\u003c/a>, including sickness and starvation, has unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Israel launched a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon it described as targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese health ministry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93p3g1v1z4o\">most recent figures\u003c/a>, around 2,400 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 2023, many in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh poses for a portrait in San Francisco on April 3, 2024, after a medical mission in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strikes in Lebanon have also killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/lebanese-healthcare-workers-fearful-as-growing-numbers-killed-in-strikes\">paramedics and health care workers\u003c/a> and closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0J5HbBlPu4\">major hospitals\u003c/a>, driving South Bay resident Mohammad Subeh to get on a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not guaranteed,” Subeh, an emergency room physician, told reporters on Oct. 4 in front of San Francisco International Airport before he left for Lebanon. “I don’t let that kind of overwhelm me too much because, ultimately, we’re there to help the people on the ground. They have nothing, no other alternatives available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is Palestinian and has family in Gaza, said he would be leading a team of six doctors and surgeons assisting with treating the injuries — amputations, head wounds, burns and more — of survivors. He also was in Gaza earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh holds a photo of two children he met in Gaza during a medical mission in San Francisco on April 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, ‘Is this really 2024? Is this earth right now?’” he said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">KQED’s \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em> in April\u003c/a>. “You start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it just shakes the whole vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled operating on a young girl named Reema, who had been shot. She was screaming in pain after the surgery because they didn’t have pain medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me,” Subeh said. “Mothers, family members screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to. I wasn’t prepared to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protective presence in the West Bank\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all volunteers can enter Gaza. Some, like Hummel, joined groups that assist Palestinians in the West Bank through what is called protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Jewish Nonviolence organized protective presence volunteers. The center has partnered with Palestinian families living in the West Bank for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Bank is divided into three sections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/what-are-area-a-area-b-and-area-c-in-the-west-bank/\">A, B and C\u003c/a> — and center volunteers tend to go to Area C since it is fully controlled by Israel. In July, the International Court of Justice, the world court in The Hague that was first established in \u003ca href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/history\">San Francisco in 1945\u003c/a>, ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/19/israel-gaza-war-live-idf-explosion-tel-aviv-benjamin-netanyahu-visit-rafah\">Israel’s settlement policies in the Palestinian territories\u003c/a> violated international law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007970 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/RS49114_037_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protective presence work is when basically activists accompany Palestinians in the West Bank,” explained Chase Carter, a San Francisco resident who works with the center. “The reason this accompanying work is needed is because these communities are really vulnerable to attacks from Israeli settlers, as well as harassment, arrests and violence from soldiers that are also trying to prevent them from living their daily lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the UN, since Oct. 7, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties\">more than 700 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed\u003c/a> in the West Bank, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-27704/west-bank-palestinians-violence-israel-settlers\">increased instances\u003c/a> of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/651098/palestinian-life-west-bank-east-jerusalem-oct.aspx\">recent Gallup poll\u003c/a> shows that Palestinians living in the West Bank say their lives are worse than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers from places like the United States, Canada and Europe are often asked to do presence work because of certain privileges they have as international citizens, Chase said. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates noted the restrictions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt-QcPYMo\">his recent appearance on CBS\u003c/a>, where he described his time in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person that is guiding me is a Palestinian whose father — whose grandfather and grandmother — were born in this town, and I have more freedom to walk than he does,” Coates said. “He can’t ride on certain roads. He can’t get water in the same way that Israeli citizens who live less than a mile away from him can. Why is that OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said volunteers also aim to document any possible human rights abuses to submit to experts or lawyers “that can then lead, potentially, to repercussions for the individuals or the organizations that sponsor this kind of extremist violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Oct. 1, the U.S. sanctioned \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">Hilltop Youth\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GqSfrluRGAc\">far-right group\u003c/a> that, according to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">the federal government\u003c/a>, “repeatedly attacked Palestinians and destroyed Palestinian homes and property in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in Hummel’s case, there are immense risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Israeli troops in the West Bank shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/whats-being-said-about-israel-killing-aysenur-turkish-american-activist\">26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi\u003c/a> of Seattle. Eygi was working with the \u003ca href=\"https://palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/https:/palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/\">International Solidarity Movement\u003c/a>, which also does protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sydney Levy outside his home in Oakland on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sydney Levy was preparing to go to the West Bank when he heard about Hummel’s experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to discuss it with my husband just before going, saying, ‘Hey, you know, what do you think? What should I do?’” Levy, an Oakland resident, recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism for more than two decades and has lived in Jerusalem. He ultimately decided to go through the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and was there for over a week in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981941 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who is Jewish American and speaks Hebrew, said he felt a sense of futility when communicating with Israeli police or the Israeli army. He saw homes demolished and a lack of action from the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relentless,” he said. “It was almost every two to three hours, the same story repeated again and again. The police would never come. Or when they came, they would never side with the Palestinian villagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he has been “speaking with all of my friends, saying we need to go again and again because we cannot let these tactics of intimidation stop us from standing in solidarity with Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel was similarly emboldened, especially as he shared his experiences with his classmates this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of requests from people asking, ‘How do I get involved in this as well?’” he said. “And so, that’s been powerful to bring this type of work or this organization to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking to go back as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slim\">\u003cem>Samantha Lim\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s retaliation has killed more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">42,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza health officials. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/\">U.N. human rights officials say\u003c/a> the number is likely an undercount. The bombardment of Gaza sparked protests demanding a cease-fire. In the Bay Area, residents have organized and joined a flurry of spirited protests and marches critical of \u003ca href=\"https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael\">the United States’ support of Israel.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war has impacted Bay Area life, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">from politics to Silicon Valley to campus culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel is just one of the Bay Area residents who moved by the protests, traveled to the West Bank to volunteer. Through other activists, Hummel heard about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">advocacy group Faz3a\u003c/a>, which trains people for organized trips to the West Bank to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.defendpalestine.org/\">“a mass presence of internationals on the ground, providing direct protection for Palestinians, under local Palestinian guidance.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 843px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED.jpg 843w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241013-WEST-BANK-AID-SL-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo by Sydney Levy from a visit to the West Bank that he said shows four Israeli settlers harassing and threatening a Palestinian woman and her family in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sydney Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Once I heard about the opportunity to go to the West Bank, I really couldn’t take my eyes and mind off of it, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived in the Middle East in early July. He traveled with Faz3a to Qusra, a village north of Jerusalem, where he spent most of his time. On July 21, Hummel and eight other volunteers were walking with a Palestinian farmer to his olive groves in an area that was cut off to Palestinians. The farmer hadn’t seen the trees in eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were in the olive groves, Hummel said a group of Israeli settlers drove near the fields. More joined them, roaming the groves on foot. Hummel described the settlers, who wielded metal sticks and wooden bats, as “relatively young looking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel and the volunteers recorded the settlers while the Palestinian farmer slipped away. Then, Hummel said, one settler took charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hit in the face by these wooden bats, and I had significant swelling, and as well on my arm,” he said. “The other volunteers were also badly beaten. One woman, she couldn’t walk for a few days after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241012-WEST-BANK-AID-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hummel outside the student housing where he lives in Berkeley on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hummel said the Israeli army arrived soon after but did not pursue the attackers, instead firing shots in the direction of the Palestinian man who was with the volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faz3a confirmed the incident to KQED and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240721-israeli-settlers-beat-foreign-volunteers-in-occupied-west-bank\">news outlets\u003c/a>. CNN \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/middleeast/west-bank-attacks-qusra-intl/index.html\">reported that the Israeli military acknowledged\u003c/a> that “a number of masked Israeli civilians assaulted a group of foreign citizens while they were planting trees in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 24, Hummel filed a report, viewed by KQED, with Israeli law enforcement but said there was no response. During his weeks in the West Bank, Hummel heard story after story from Palestinians about life under Israeli surveillance. He said what he endured was “just a small fraction” of what Palestinians experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteering in the Middle East\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza has injured more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/\">97,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> and displaced 1.9 million people, almost the entire population of Gaza. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">Israeli strikes killing aid workers\u003c/a> and destroying hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csis.org/analysis/famine-gaza\">a humanitarian crisis\u003c/a>, including sickness and starvation, has unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Israel launched a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon it described as targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese health ministry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93p3g1v1z4o\">most recent figures\u003c/a>, around 2,400 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 2023, many in the past month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh poses for a portrait in San Francisco on April 3, 2024, after a medical mission in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strikes in Lebanon have also killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/lebanese-healthcare-workers-fearful-as-growing-numbers-killed-in-strikes\">paramedics and health care workers\u003c/a> and closed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0J5HbBlPu4\">major hospitals\u003c/a>, driving South Bay resident Mohammad Subeh to get on a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not guaranteed,” Subeh, an emergency room physician, told reporters on Oct. 4 in front of San Francisco International Airport before he left for Lebanon. “I don’t let that kind of overwhelm me too much because, ultimately, we’re there to help the people on the ground. They have nothing, no other alternatives available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh, who is Palestinian and has family in Gaza, said he would be leading a team of six doctors and surgeons assisting with treating the injuries — amputations, head wounds, burns and more — of survivors. He also was in Gaza earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981877\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-DRSUBEH-002-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh holds a photo of two children he met in Gaza during a medical mission in San Francisco on April 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, ‘Is this really 2024? Is this earth right now?’” he said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">KQED’s \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em> in April\u003c/a>. “You start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it just shakes the whole vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled operating on a young girl named Reema, who had been shot. She was screaming in pain after the surgery because they didn’t have pain medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me,” Subeh said. “Mothers, family members screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to. I wasn’t prepared to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protective presence in the West Bank\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all volunteers can enter Gaza. Some, like Hummel, joined groups that assist Palestinians in the West Bank through what is called protective presence work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Jewish Nonviolence organized protective presence volunteers. The center has partnered with Palestinian families living in the West Bank for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Bank is divided into three sections — \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/what-are-area-a-area-b-and-area-c-in-the-west-bank/\">A, B and C\u003c/a> — and center volunteers tend to go to Area C since it is fully controlled by Israel. In July, the International Court of Justice, the world court in The Hague that was first established in \u003ca href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/history\">San Francisco in 1945\u003c/a>, ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/19/israel-gaza-war-live-idf-explosion-tel-aviv-benjamin-netanyahu-visit-rafah\">Israel’s settlement policies in the Palestinian territories\u003c/a> violated international law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Protective presence work is when basically activists accompany Palestinians in the West Bank,” explained Chase Carter, a San Francisco resident who works with the center. “The reason this accompanying work is needed is because these communities are really vulnerable to attacks from Israeli settlers, as well as harassment, arrests and violence from soldiers that are also trying to prevent them from living their daily lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the UN, since Oct. 7, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties\">more than 700 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed\u003c/a> in the West Bank, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-27704/west-bank-palestinians-violence-israel-settlers\">increased instances\u003c/a> of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/651098/palestinian-life-west-bank-east-jerusalem-oct.aspx\">recent Gallup poll\u003c/a> shows that Palestinians living in the West Bank say their lives are worse than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers from places like the United States, Canada and Europe are often asked to do presence work because of certain privileges they have as international citizens, Chase said. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates noted the restrictions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt-QcPYMo\">his recent appearance on CBS\u003c/a>, where he described his time in the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person that is guiding me is a Palestinian whose father — whose grandfather and grandmother — were born in this town, and I have more freedom to walk than he does,” Coates said. “He can’t ride on certain roads. He can’t get water in the same way that Israeli citizens who live less than a mile away from him can. Why is that OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said volunteers also aim to document any possible human rights abuses to submit to experts or lawyers “that can then lead, potentially, to repercussions for the individuals or the organizations that sponsor this kind of extremist violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Oct. 1, the U.S. sanctioned \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">Hilltop Youth\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GqSfrluRGAc\">far-right group\u003c/a> that, according to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2622\">the federal government\u003c/a>, “repeatedly attacked Palestinians and destroyed Palestinian homes and property in the West Bank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in Hummel’s case, there are immense risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Israeli troops in the West Bank shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/whats-being-said-about-israel-killing-aysenur-turkish-american-activist\">26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi\u003c/a> of Seattle. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy, who is Jewish American and speaks Hebrew, said he felt a sense of futility when communicating with Israeli police or the Israeli army. He saw homes demolished and a lack of action from the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relentless,” he said. “It was almost every two to three hours, the same story repeated again and again. The police would never come. Or when they came, they would never side with the Palestinian villagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he has been “speaking with all of my friends, saying we need to go again and again because we cannot let these tactics of intimidation stop us from standing in solidarity with Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hummel was similarly emboldened, especially as he shared his experiences with his classmates this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of requests from people asking, ‘How do I get involved in this as well?’” he said. “And so, that’s been powerful to bring this type of work or this organization to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking to go back as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slim\">\u003cem>Samantha Lim\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:35 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley is endorsing the recall of her successor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a>, who faces a contentious election to remove her from office — now less than two weeks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is not qualified nor competent to hold that position,” O’Malley said of Price at a press conference on Wednesday. “She ignores the rights of victims. She’s used this office improperly. She uses it to intimidate. Of course, she takes any chance to criticize me erroneously for things that I didn’t do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The endorsement comes as little surprise from one of Price’s longtime political opponents. Price mounted an unsuccessful campaign to unseat O’Malley in 2018, and in 2022, after O’Malley announced her retirement, Price beat out O’Malley’s deputy, Terry Wiley, with 53% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail and in the nearly two years since her election, Price has hammered on O’Malley’s leadership of the district attorney’s office, accusing her of creating a “culture of fear” among employees, sweeping prosecutorial misconduct under the rug and chronically understaffing critical units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were backlogs all over that office. The office was in disarray,” Price said at an Oct. 10 event for her campaign against the recall effort. “The people who were in charge of that office did not care about public safety. They did not care about our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-33-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-33-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-33-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference in Oakland on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the face of these accusations, O’Malley, who served as Alameda County’s district attorney from 2009 to 2023, remained largely silent about the recall election until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She blames other people for everything,” O’Malley said, referring to Price. “I know firsthand that she lies constantly. These are not the attributes of an elected district attorney or anyone serving in the district attorney’s office because it is our responsibility to uphold justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Price said O’Malley’s statements were an effort to cover up prosecutorial misconduct that took place during O’Malley’s tenure. Price’s office began investigating allegations that Alameda County prosecutors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">systemically barred Black and Jewish jurors\u003c/a> from death penalty cases last April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office announced Wednesday that it has evidence that O’Malley was aware of complaints regarding this alleged misconduct while in office but did not investigate. Price said she thinks O’Malley’s endorsement was timed to counteract this news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the public should know is that this is a sign, apparently, that we must be getting close to uncovering the role that Ms. O’Malley played as the former leader of this office when this prosecutorial misconduct actually was taking place,” Price said. “As in connection with these cases, the prosecutorial misconduct by former Alameda County prosecutors in this office knew no bounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her endorsement, O’Malley accused Price of violating the state constitution by failing to notify crime victims before key junctures in the cases against those accused of harming them and said she fired experienced victims’ advocates, replacing them with unqualified applicants. O’Malley also said Price cut the number of deputy district attorneys responsible for charging criminal cases, leading to a backlog of uncharged criminal complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has taken this district attorney’s office to a place where it cannot function under her leadership,” O’Malley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley added that she’s been working “under the radar” to support the recall effort by door-knocking in the county, talking with community organizations and giving information to recall leaders. She’s donated $6,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009700/whos-paying-for-the-recall-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-these-charts-break-it-down\">to the recall effort\u003c/a>, according to campaign finance filings with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda,Alameda County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still very active in the areas that I was active in as a district attorney,” O’Malley said. “Victims rights, working with the governor’s office on other things. And so I make sure that I am speaking out to the people that matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley’s endorsement is the second by a former East Bay leader in support of ousting their successor from office, following former Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010065/exclusive-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-should-be-recalled-libby-schaaf-says\">Libby Schaaf’s endorsement of the recall of Sheng Thao\u003c/a> last week. Thao and Price each won their elections by beating out candidates supported by Schaaf and O’Malley, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement also follows similar pro-recall endorsements from O’Malley’s former deputy, Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007542/recall-targeting-alameda-county-da-is-endorsed-by-east-bay-congressman\">Eric Swalwell\u003c/a> and 13 Alameda County law enforcement unions. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008868/east-bay-politicians-speak-out-against-recall-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Barbara Lee and state Sen. Nancy Skinner support Price’s bid to stay in office\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008868/east-bay-politicians-speak-out-against-recall-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/pamela-price-alameda-case-19808804.php\">reported\u003c/a> Price had allowed more than 1,000 cases to pass the statute of limitations, barring them from criminal prosecution. That came after Price’s high-profile prosecution of Alameda police officers in the 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez — a case that O’Malley’s office declined to charge — was fractured by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009076/mario-gonzalez-supporters-call-das-error-a-shame-as-2-officers-avoid-charges\">a judge’s ruling on the statute of limitations\u003c/a>, leaving just one of the three officers to face charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference following the \u003cem>Chronicle’s \u003c/em>report, Price blamed O’Malley for causing the backlog and then failing to notify her about it during a rushed transition between administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nature of the transition between O’Malley and Price has been a hot topic of debate. Price claims O’Malley only agreed to meet with her transition team for one hour before she took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley disputed this and said her office did its best to prepare Price to take the helm, adding that any communication shortcomings were due to an alleged lack of enthusiasm from Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I also had every team leader write a write-up of their teams and what they were doing. She gave us one hour, “O’Malley said of Price. “She came with her boyfriend and two other people, and that was the extent of her time learning about Alameda County DA’s office. There’s no question in my mind that she never really intended to be the full DA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Oct. 10 rally, Price chalked up the opposition from the district attorney’s office’s old guard to discomfort with her work to reform Alameda County’s criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were racial disparities, not only in the prosecution but in the provision of services to our community. We are addressing those issues, and people who did not bother to address that are upset about it now,” Price said. “We took a huge step forward in November of 2022, and the people who were behind pushing to hold us back, now they want to pull us back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>With less than two weeks left until \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">Election Day\u003c/a>, California’s Sen. Alex Padilla is hitting the campaign trail in key swing states to make the Democrats’ case to Latino voters, who will be crucial in deciding the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president\">tight presidential race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent polling shows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a> with less support from Latinos, specifically men, than President Joe Biden received in 2020. But Padilla, who became \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852543/alex-padilla-will-be-californias-first-latino-senator\">California’s first Latino senator\u003c/a> after succeeding Harris when she became vice president, said the case for her presidency is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are plans for investing in the middle class, making it easier for people to achieve the American dream, better-paying jobs, access to health care, investments in education, everything that Latinos want for their families to be able to get ahead,” he told KQED. “The contrast — what we hear from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> and Republicans — continues to be vindictiveness, bitterness, attacks, anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla has visited Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania in the last two weeks and plans to hit more swing states in the home stretch. He said that Latino voters, 59% of whom cast their votes for Biden in 2020, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/\">Pew analysis\u003c/a> of validated voters, should not be taken for granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Harris and Trump campaigns have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161557/2024-election-updates-kamala-harris-donald-trump\">ramping up outreach to Latino voters\u003c/a>, and while Harris still leads in the demographic, some polls have shown her underperforming compared to recent Democratic presidential campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president,Learn about the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conversations with potential Trump voters in the swing states, Padilla said he’s been trying to challenge perceptions of the former president, whom he said many have described as a “strong personality” who will make a “firm, strong leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you stop and say, ‘Well, it may come across that way, but what is he actually saying?’ When you dissect what his positions are, his proposals are, that’s not going to benefit our community,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the Biden administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895630/infrastructure-bill-to-bring-jobs-fund-projects-in-california\">bipartisan infrastructure plan\u003c/a>, as well as Harris’ focus on inflation and the rising cost of housing. Padilla is also leaning into discussions about reproductive rights with Latino men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For men, having a conversation about how to respect our spouses and defend our daughters’ rights into the future — the contrast couldn’t be clearer,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration is also top of mind. Padilla said escalating rhetoric from Trump and Republican candidates down the ballot has had real consequences for Latinos in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766631/an-attack-on-all-of-us-el-paso-shooting-targeting-latinos-stirs-fear-in-california-communities\">mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas\u003c/a>, by a man who was targeting Latinos and wrote an anti-immigration manifesto echoing Trump’s rhetoric — “the type of language that he used, the type of anger he demonstrated when he was in office,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Latino father of three school-aged children, I can’t help but take that personally,” he said. “I know the consequences of the type of rhetoric Donald Trump is using.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10629987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10629987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris leads among likely Latino voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania, according to a GQR poll for Voto Latino, but is losing ground in Nevada. 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Alex Padilla stressed the importance of tailoring political strategies to each state’s local concerns. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The presidential race for president remains tight, and while Harris leads in polling of likely Latino voters in \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/latino/4944585-harris-leads-trump-battleground-latino-voters-poll/\">Arizona and Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, according to a poll conducted by GQR for the nonprofit Voto Latino, she is losing ground in \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/07/harris-trump-latino-voters-nevada-arizona/75530730007/\">Nevada\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said visiting these states is important because politics is local, and appealing to voters varies between the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latinos are open in large part due to the disinformation that is coming from Donald Trump and his Republican support base and allies,” Padilla told KQED. “It’s been even more imperative for Democrats to get out there and communicate with the voters, answer questions, lay out the plans, lay out the specifics, and make the contrast as clear as it is for anybody who’s paying attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">\u003cem>Natalia Navarro\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conversations with potential Trump voters in the swing states, Padilla said he’s been trying to challenge perceptions of the former president, whom he said many have described as a “strong personality” who will make a “firm, strong leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you stop and say, ‘Well, it may come across that way, but what is he actually saying?’ When you dissect what his positions are, his proposals are, that’s not going to benefit our community,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the Biden administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895630/infrastructure-bill-to-bring-jobs-fund-projects-in-california\">bipartisan infrastructure plan\u003c/a>, as well as Harris’ focus on inflation and the rising cost of housing. Padilla is also leaning into discussions about reproductive rights with Latino men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For men, having a conversation about how to respect our spouses and defend our daughters’ rights into the future — the contrast couldn’t be clearer,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration is also top of mind. Padilla said escalating rhetoric from Trump and Republican candidates down the ballot has had real consequences for Latinos in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766631/an-attack-on-all-of-us-el-paso-shooting-targeting-latinos-stirs-fear-in-california-communities\">mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas\u003c/a>, by a man who was targeting Latinos and wrote an anti-immigration manifesto echoing Trump’s rhetoric — “the type of language that he used, the type of anger he demonstrated when he was in office,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Latino father of three school-aged children, I can’t help but take that personally,” he said. “I know the consequences of the type of rhetoric Donald Trump is using.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10629987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10629987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3925_transform-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Harris leads among likely Latino voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania, according to a GQR poll for Voto Latino, but is losing ground in Nevada. Sen. Alex Padilla stressed the importance of tailoring political strategies to each state’s local concerns. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The presidential race for president remains tight, and while Harris leads in polling of likely Latino voters in \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/latino/4944585-harris-leads-trump-battleground-latino-voters-poll/\">Arizona and Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, according to a poll conducted by GQR for the nonprofit Voto Latino, she is losing ground in \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/07/harris-trump-latino-voters-nevada-arizona/75530730007/\">Nevada\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said visiting these states is important because politics is local, and appealing to voters varies between the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latinos are open in large part due to the disinformation that is coming from Donald Trump and his Republican support base and allies,” Padilla told KQED. “It’s been even more imperative for Democrats to get out there and communicate with the voters, answer questions, lay out the plans, lay out the specifics, and make the contrast as clear as it is for anybody who’s paying attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">\u003cem>Natalia Navarro\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Superior Court judge will decide whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/brooke-jenkins\">San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins\u003c/a> has enough evidence to try felony cases against eight antiwar protesters who allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">shut down the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> on Tax Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a preliminary hearing on Tuesday at the Hall of Justice, Assistant District Attorney Angela Roze presented evidence and witness testimony the prosecution plans to use to paint a picture of trespassing, felony conspiracy and false imprisonment of early morning commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999854/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-surrender-to-face-controversial-false-imprisonment-charges\">face the most significant charges of the 26 people arrested\u003c/a> for allegedly shutting down the bridge as part of a worldwide economic blockade. Around 7:30 a.m. on April 15, protesters shut down traffic across the Golden Gate Bridge, chaining themselves to stopped vehicles. Organizers said they were demanding that the U.S. stop funding Israel in the war in Gaza, which it launched after Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Brendan P. Conroy is expected to decide later this week whether the felony cases can proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal defense attorneys and legal experts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">questioned prosecuting the protesters\u003c/a>, especially the controversial false imprisonment charges, which defined delayed motorists as victims. In past mass prosecutions, protesters have typically faced misdemeanor charges for blocking a roadway and for disobeying the orders of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that there are lots of issues with their evidence from a legal standpoint and that a vast majority of the charges will be dismissed,” Jeff Wozniak, an attorney representing the defendants, told KQED after Tuesday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and friends of the protesters in the courtroom donned keffiyehs, the patterned scarves that have become symbolic of solidarity with Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution’s first witness was Officer Roger Elarua, the bridge’s captain and the first responder on the scene. Elarua described sitting in his office at the toll plaza and talking on the phone with local agencies about potential protests happening that day in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he looked up at the camera feed and saw traffic stopped in the southbound lanes heading toward San Francisco. The demonstration shut down traffic across the bridge in both directions for about four hours. Protesters also shut down traffic on I-880 in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000887\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators shut down the southbound lanes of I-880 on the morning of April 15, 2024, in West Oakland. The protesters, engaging in an economic blockade in solidarity with Palestine, marched from the West Oakland BART Station to the freeway. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elarua, who is not a sworn law enforcement officer, can’t make arrests. He handles administrative duties, like issuing bridge permits for “expressive actions.” He noted that there was no permit request for that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elarua’s jurisdiction includes the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, which has control over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.goldengate.org/bridge/bridge-operations/moveable-median-barrier/\">moveable barrier\u003c/a> that separates north and southbound traffic. During cross-examination, the defense repeatedly questioned why Elarua and California Highway Patrol Officer Erik Egide, who was not present, decided not to open another lane of traffic to help break the gridlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there was a fourth lane, the cars could have gone around the protest,” Elizabeth Camacho, the felony manager for the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, said to Elarua during questioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In theory, yes,” he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s becoming clear through the testimony of these officers is that they made a lot of decisions that led to the traffic jam; that there were options that they had; and that they could have taken other approaches that wouldn’t have resulted in such a long delay,” Wozniak told KQED after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11983413 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_0201.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony, Elarua said he called for support from other agencies. Capt. Taylor Carlton of the CHP testified that he had to fight intense traffic on the north side of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After informing the group that they were part of an unlawful assembly, Carlton said he spoke to a protester who was wearing a neon pink safety vest labeled “Police Liaison.” According to Carlton, protesters had formed a human chain and some had locked their hands inside metal tubes, a tactic known as the “sleeping dragon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police liaison allegedly told Carlton that the fire department would need to cut the demonstrators free and that none of them would speak to law enforcement apart from her. Carlton arrested her and the other protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was concerned about the health and safety of everyone being impeded [on the bridge],” Carlton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the eight who face felony charges, 18 people were charged with misdemeanors. The protesters, known as the Golden Gate 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004860/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-plead-not-guilty-to-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges\">pleaded not guilty in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has previously said that the protest compromised public safety and caused “extreme threats” to those trapped on the bridge during the morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preliminary hearing is expected to continue until Thursday. If found guilty at trial, the protesters could face years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and friends of the protesters in the courtroom donned keffiyehs, the patterned scarves that have become symbolic of solidarity with Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution’s first witness was Officer Roger Elarua, the bridge’s captain and the first responder on the scene. Elarua described sitting in his office at the toll plaza and talking on the phone with local agencies about potential protests happening that day in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he looked up at the camera feed and saw traffic stopped in the southbound lanes heading toward San Francisco. The demonstration shut down traffic across the bridge in both directions for about four hours. Protesters also shut down traffic on I-880 in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000887\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240415-880GazaProtest-020-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators shut down the southbound lanes of I-880 on the morning of April 15, 2024, in West Oakland. The protesters, engaging in an economic blockade in solidarity with Palestine, marched from the West Oakland BART Station to the freeway. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elarua, who is not a sworn law enforcement officer, can’t make arrests. He handles administrative duties, like issuing bridge permits for “expressive actions.” He noted that there was no permit request for that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elarua’s jurisdiction includes the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, which has control over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.goldengate.org/bridge/bridge-operations/moveable-median-barrier/\">moveable barrier\u003c/a> that separates north and southbound traffic. During cross-examination, the defense repeatedly questioned why Elarua and California Highway Patrol Officer Erik Egide, who was not present, decided not to open another lane of traffic to help break the gridlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there was a fourth lane, the cars could have gone around the protest,” Elizabeth Camacho, the felony manager for the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, said to Elarua during questioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In theory, yes,” he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s becoming clear through the testimony of these officers is that they made a lot of decisions that led to the traffic jam; that there were options that they had; and that they could have taken other approaches that wouldn’t have resulted in such a long delay,” Wozniak told KQED after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony, Elarua said he called for support from other agencies. Capt. Taylor Carlton of the CHP testified that he had to fight intense traffic on the north side of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After informing the group that they were part of an unlawful assembly, Carlton said he spoke to a protester who was wearing a neon pink safety vest labeled “Police Liaison.” According to Carlton, protesters had formed a human chain and some had locked their hands inside metal tubes, a tactic known as the “sleeping dragon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police liaison allegedly told Carlton that the fire department would need to cut the demonstrators free and that none of them would speak to law enforcement apart from her. Carlton arrested her and the other protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was concerned about the health and safety of everyone being impeded [on the bridge],” Carlton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the eight who face felony charges, 18 people were charged with misdemeanors. The protesters, known as the Golden Gate 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004860/golden-gate-bridge-protesters-plead-not-guilty-to-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges\">pleaded not guilty in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has previously said that the protest compromised public safety and caused “extreme threats” to those trapped on the bridge during the morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preliminary hearing is expected to continue until Thursday. If found guilty at trial, the protesters could face years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s fiscal crisis\u003c/a> appears to be reaching a tipping point after its contingency budget was triggered this month, and the city is on track to continue overspending, according to a City Council committee meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s precarious position is partly due to a revised agreement on selling its share of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">delayed payments\u003c/a> it relied on to patch over $60 million of a massive budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">passed that budget\u003c/a> in July, it included a contingency plan with cuts to public safety and a hiring freeze should the sale funds not begin to come through by September. During a finance and management committee meeting on Tuesday, the city attorney’s office said that since those parameters have been met, the contingency budget is going into effect, but it’s still uncertain when those cuts would go into place or whether some could be avoided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contingency budget that was referenced in the council’s midcycle budget resolution is in place, and there has not been any other legislation that has superseded that,” a representative for the city attorney’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the contingency measures is a travel and hiring freeze for non-public safety positions, which the city began to put in place in March ahead of the budget deadline, according to Mayor Sheng Thao’s office. Jobs are still being posted, though — five were put up by the city this week, and there are currently 31 listings on the city’s site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contingency plan also calls for brownouts, or rotating shutdowns, of five fire stations and cutting the number of sworn police officers from over 700 to 610 through attrition, but Thao told KQED that the council would decide whether to make those cuts after receiving the city’s first-quarter fiscal report in mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland's City Hall is seen in between other tall buildings.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s an opportunity for the City Council to actually make changes and make those decisions that they want to, which is browning out fire stations and lowering the number of officers,” she said on \u003cem>Forum.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao spokesperson Casey Pratt said that once the council gets the first-quarter fiscal report, it “can choose to responsibly recalibrate based on the full financial picture” with “a lot more clarity on the Coliseum deal funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the original $105 million Coliseum sale agreement with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group — the developers buying the property — Oakland received a $5 million payment upon signing and was scheduled for payments in September, November and January, totaling $58 million. The remaining $42 million was due by closing in June 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009486 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/OaklandColiseumEmptyGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s new agreement maintains that initial $5 million but shifts other payments later — and bumps up the total price to $110 million. A $10 million payment due in November is in escrow, and a remaining lump sum of $95 million is due in May 2025. The money will stay in escrow until the deal closes, but after Nov. 9, the city will keep it even if AASEG pulls out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agreement accelerates the closing date so that all of the funds would be received by the end of the current fiscal year, but it doesn’t change the budget resolution that the council passed in July, which said that if any of the original payment dates are missed, the contingency budget is triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Tuesday’s meeting, budget administrator Brad Johnson said discussions about cuts under the contingency budget will take place in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some major cuts will likely have to be made. Johnson said the city overspent in the final quarter of last fiscal year and is on track to overspend again this quarter. Council members will need to consider what Oakland can and cannot “live without” before that November discussion, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ran a real operating deficit last year. 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Following their court hearing on Tuesday, they could turn in their ankle monitors and begin a two-year period of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyree, who was in custody on a minor drug charge and awaiting the availability of a psychiatric treatment bed, was found dead in his cell by jail staff on Aug. 27, 2015, with his body bruised and covered with vomit and feces. 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He had a small child, and he had many friends,” Braker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also mentally ill, Braker said, noting that illness had “wreaked havoc” on Tyree’s life in the last year and a half, leading to him ending up in a jail cell awaiting treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And these three defendants were entrusted by our community with protecting him and ensuring that he arrived in court and justice was done for his case,” Braker said. “And they violated that trust in the most brutal and savage way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former deputies, given an opportunity by Williams to make comments in court on Tuesday on their own behalf, all declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lubrin, Farris and Rodriguez were each initially sentenced in 2017 to 15 years to life in prison for his death. After their convictions were overturned, the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office tried to appeal to the California Supreme Court but was rejected. Authorities were weighing whether to take the case to a new trial, but they ultimately came to a plea agreement proposed by attorneys for the deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11779149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is set to get long-awaited civilian oversight, one of many reforms spurred by the beating death of Michael Tyree, an inmate in the county's Main Jail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office is set to get long-awaited civilian oversight, one of many reforms spurred by the beating death of Michael Tyree, an inmate in the county’s Main Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each man pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter in August, admitting in open court that they personally assaulted or aided and abetted the assault of Tyree, causing his death, and that they did so with “conscious disregard for human life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the plea deal, each man would be sentenced to the maximum term for the crime: 11 years in prison, followed by two years of parole, including time they already served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s office claimed in August that although the deal offered the men a lesser felony conviction, it would not result in “substantially less time in prison” because the men were already set to have parole hearings in November — and had performed well in prison and completed self-improvement and educational classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if denied freedom in November, Rosen’s office said the men would have another parole hearing in 18 months and would be “virtually guaranteed a grant of parole at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12010529 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing comes after roughly nine years of legal proceedings connected to Tyree’s killing, which ultimately led to the formation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779144/santa-clara-sheriff-to-get-long-awaited-civilian-oversight\">civilian oversight for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office\u003c/a> and raised broader questions about the treatment of people with mental illnesses in the county’s jail system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lubrin, Farris and Rodriguez were initially convicted in part under the “natural and probable consequences” standard of California law that allows a person to be found guilty of murder if they participated in a dangerous crime during which an accomplice committed murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard required that the killing be a predictable outcome of the original crime, such as a violent robbery or, in this case, the alleged deadly beating of a prisoner. 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