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And it comes as Benicia Unified faces three lawsuits from students who allege the district failed to protect them by hiring Shelton, despite the abuse allegations in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shelton, then 25 years old, was a popular third-grade teacher at the Napa school when he was accused of inappropriately touching four students. He was criminally charged, and three students testified against him during a six-day trial in 2008. Jurors deliberated for just 20 minutes before finding him not guilty. Benicia Unified hired him six months later.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During opening statements at a Fairfield courthouse on Monday, prosecutor Barry Shapiro argued that Shelton’s pattern of abuse continued at his new school. He told the jury that Shelton went on to touch Benicia elementary students on the buttocks or vaginal area, and that he had a student touch his penis, just as the students in Napa alleged nearly two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Semple Elementary School in Benicia on Sept. 28, 2026. 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A teacher walked in and saw Shelton by his desk, holding hands with another student and “swaying back and forth.” The next day, several students complained to Principal Christina Moore that he made them uncomfortable by placing his hands on a classmate’s thigh, pinching a student’s arm, and moving his hand down to the pockets of a student’s pants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Moore contacted the school’s resource officer and Benicia Unified put Shelton on leave. Months later students disclosed more serious allegations to Benicia police.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Amanda Bevins denies any sexual motivation on Shelton’s part. She described him as a husband, father and dedicated educator who devoted his entire career to teaching, even after being wrongfully accused nearly two decades prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bevins said that in the 2007 case, a group of disgruntled friends made allegations against Shelton to their principal. Flash forward to 2022, she said another friend group at Robert Semple Elementary School — upset that Shelton singled out one of the girls and made her cry — complained to their principal about Shelton. Nearly two decades apart, the two friend groups both concocted claims against him, she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bevins asked the jury to pay attention to how the allegations changed over time and were influenced by schoolyard gossip, employee break room chatter, media coverage, repeated interviews by police and lawyers and civil lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The seriousness of the accusations does not tell us whether they are true,” Bevins said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said Shelton was acquitted in Napa and he did not abuse his students in Benicia. “Nothing plus nothing is nothing,” Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘I didn’t deserve that’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But details of Shelton’s short tenure teaching in Napa continue to reverberate in this trial. 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And it comes as Benicia Unified faces three lawsuits from students who allege the district failed to protect them by hiring Shelton, despite the abuse allegations in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shelton, then 25 years old, was a popular third-grade teacher at the Napa school when he was accused of inappropriately touching four students. He was criminally charged, and three students testified against him during a six-day trial in 2008. Jurors deliberated for just 20 minutes before finding him not guilty. Benicia Unified hired him six months later.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During opening statements at a Fairfield courthouse on Monday, prosecutor Barry Shapiro argued that Shelton’s pattern of abuse continued at his new school. He told the jury that Shelton went on to touch Benicia elementary students on the buttocks or vaginal area, and that he had a student touch his penis, just as the students in Napa alleged nearly two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Semple Elementary School in Benicia on Sept. 28, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shapiro said adults trust teachers to keep their children safe. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This case is about a teacher who violated that trust consistently over the span of 15 years at two schools in multiple grades,” Shapiro said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shapiro painted Shelton as a sophisticated actor who had both the “knowledge and opportunity” to isolate girls and get away with the abuse, even in a classroom with other students present. Shelton instructed his Benicia students to applaud when adults entered his classroom, Shapiro said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But one day in December 2022, Shapiro said the students were distracted and failed to clap. A teacher walked in and saw Shelton by his desk, holding hands with another student and “swaying back and forth.” The next day, several students complained to Principal Christina Moore that he made them uncomfortable by placing his hands on a classmate’s thigh, pinching a student’s arm, and moving his hand down to the pockets of a student’s pants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Moore contacted the school’s resource officer and Benicia Unified put Shelton on leave. Months later students disclosed more serious allegations to Benicia police.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Amanda Bevins denies any sexual motivation on Shelton’s part. She described him as a husband, father and dedicated educator who devoted his entire career to teaching, even after being wrongfully accused nearly two decades prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bevins said that in the 2007 case, a group of disgruntled friends made allegations against Shelton to their principal. Flash forward to 2022, she said another friend group at Robert Semple Elementary School — upset that Shelton singled out one of the girls and made her cry — complained to their principal about Shelton. Nearly two decades apart, the two friend groups both concocted claims against him, she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bevins asked the jury to pay attention to how the allegations changed over time and were influenced by schoolyard gossip, employee break room chatter, media coverage, repeated interviews by police and lawyers and civil lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The seriousness of the accusations does not tell us whether they are true,” Bevins said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said Shelton was acquitted in Napa and he did not abuse his students in Benicia. “Nothing plus nothing is nothing,” Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘I didn’t deserve that’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But details of Shelton’s short tenure teaching in Napa continue to reverberate in this trial. Former students who testified against Shelton in 2008, his former Napa teaching colleagues, and the detective who investigated the case were on a recent list of potential witnesses. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After opening statements, one of the students who testified against Shelton during the Napa trial, now in her late 20s, took the stand again to face her former social studies teacher. She told the jury that in 2007, she saw Shelton touch one of her classmates on the crotch and another on the butt during class. KQED does not generally name victims of alleged abuse without their consent. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>With her voice occasionally breaking, she testified that Shelton had also touched her butt after she went to his desk to ask a question. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Solano County Law and Justice Center in Fairfield on Sept. 28, 2026. 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I wasn’t sure whether or not it was OK,” the former student said. “I had never been touched like that before.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another alleged victim in the Napa case told KQED in a recent interview that Shelton was well-liked and touched students by playing games with them, picking girls up and pretending to be Superman.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When she was interviewed by police in 2007, the student alleged that Shelton moved her hands across her “private spot” or made her touch his groin.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But she said the same educators who comforted her, hugged her and told her she was safe later defended Shelton during the trial, testifying that the girls who accused him were lying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it was her turn to testify, she recalled sweating and shaking “not realizing the trauma that was coming up then.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said she was just a kid holding a teddy bear in a courtroom filled with adults, including Shelton. She became confused by the attorney’s deluge of questions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was all basically to prove that I was wrong,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said she can still remember the expression on Shelton’s face. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The smirk,” the former student said. “He was getting satisfaction from us getting confused.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After Shelton was acquitted in 2008, the state’s teacher licensing agency reviewed the allegations against him in Napa to determine whether he should be allowed to continue working in California public schools, according to records from Napa Valley Unified. In addition to the criminal case, the agency also reviewed allegations from other students who said Shelton touched them on the stomach, rubbed their fingers and patted girls’ heads “like a dog.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nine people provided “very favorable” letters on Shelton’s behalf, including his defense attorney, former assistant principal and other third grade teachers, according to the agency’s investigative report. A teacher said one of the alleged victims “does a lot of lying” and that Shelton is “very kind-hearted.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the time, Shelton cited as evidence an evaluation from a psychologist who said: “This young man very clearly does not exhibit those personality traits or demographic factors that empirical research has shown to be present in most child molesters.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shelton told the teacher licensing agency he was looking forward to continuing his career as an educator. His credential was reinstated in 2008, and months later Benicia Unified hired him. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A parent of one of the alleged victims in Benicia told KQED that it was “disgusting” that the state gave Shelton back his teaching credential. KQED is not naming the parent to protect the identity of her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Why are we hiring people that have those types of allegations?” the mother said. “He needs to be away from kids.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said her daughter, now a teenager, is still afraid of being taught by male teachers because of what happened to her. “There were plenty of times over the last three years where she has broken down, cried and said, ‘I didn’t deserve that.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-13_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101989\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-13_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-13_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-13_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Semple Elementary School in Benicia on Sept. 28, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Benicia Unified Superintendent Chris Calabrese declined to comment on Shelton’s hiring. Shelton resigned from Benicia Unified in 2023 after allegations surfaced that he touched students inappropriately. He was subsequently hired by the West Contra Costa Unified School District as an assistant principal. The district put him on leave when a parent of one of the victims informed the district he was under investigation by police.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>A spokesperson for West Contra Costa Unified said in a written statement that his credentials were valid when they hired him. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shelton sued Napa Valley Unified and Benicia Unified in 2024 to stop the districts from releasing records of complaints against him, arguing doing so would impede his right to an impartial jury. 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Soon, Faison fled, eventually into the estuary off Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZBWQd-P_buMa0meUSS2HlZeWfS-lMn_w/view\">Edited body camera footage\u003c/a> released by Faison’s attorneys shows Knea approaching Faison with a weapon pointed at him. Faison, who was with an undisclosed female companion, gave them an alias. When the officers couldn’t find him in their database, Faison fled on foot and began wading in the estuary at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2788\" height=\"1682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12010640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM.png 2788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-800x483.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-1020x615.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-1536x927.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-2048x1236.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-1920x1158.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2788px) 100vw, 2788px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Body cam footage of East Bay Regional Parks officer Jonathan Knea aiming a Taser at Deontae as Deontae wades into the estuary at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland, on April 5, 2024. (Courtesy of the Faison family, via the EBRPD Police Department)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s where Knea tased Faison five times as Faison called for help before losing consciousness. Neither officer administered any aid to Faison. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison’s lawsuit claims Knea used excessive force by tasing him while he was in the water and also alleges that the EBRP failed to properly train Knea.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who was set to preside over the trial, had already ruled that Knea’s first and second times tasing Faison were covered by qualified immunity — the legal protections afforded to government workers in the course of doing their jobs. She also previously dismissed punitive damages against the park district.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison’s family alleged that his female companion received better treatment from the officers because she is white. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The case would have tasked a jury of eight people with determining whether the subsequent third, fourth and fifth taser deployments while Faison was at or near the shore’s edge violated his civil rights. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury would also be asked to decide possible punitive damages against Knea, if it found that he acted with something beyond simple indifference. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison was left with barely any neurological function and is expected to live only a few more years, according to court filings. He has two sons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison’s attorney wanted the contents of the truck and Faison’s criminal record excluded from trial, arguing that it was irrelevant — on the grounds that it couldn’t have informed Knea’s conduct, because he wasn’t aware of those details before tasing Faison. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The day of the incident, police found, among other things, six laptops, several credit and debit cards, two pellet guns, a folding knife, and an unmarked bottle of anxiety medication. 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(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Corley ruled some of that information was relevant, because it further explained why Faison would run from the officers, not merely a fear of being tased. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorneys for EBRPD and Knea moved to limit Faison’s presence in the courtroom, which his attorneys argued would only be there for the beginning and ending of trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Before the settlement was reached, Corley had limited the trial to 12 hours for each side, excluding opening statements and closing arguments, with an end date of Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorneys in the case said they plan to issue a joint press release on the development.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Regional Parks District has agreed to settle a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010629/family-of-man-tased-by-east-bay-park-police-and-left-comatose-files-federal-lawsuit\">lawsuit brought by the family\u003c/a> of a man who remains on life support — two years after a parks police officer tased him five times. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorneys in the case confirmed the settlement had been reached just hours before opening statements and jury selection — which were scheduled to begin Tuesday in a Phillip Burton Federal Building courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On April 5, 2024, park district police officers Jonathan Knea and Roberto Filice approached Deontae Charles Faison while he was in the driver’s seat of a gold F-150 pickup truck, citing expired tags. Soon, Faison fled, eventually into the estuary off Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZBWQd-P_buMa0meUSS2HlZeWfS-lMn_w/view\">Edited body camera footage\u003c/a> released by Faison’s attorneys shows Knea approaching Faison with a weapon pointed at him. Faison, who was with an undisclosed female companion, gave them an alias. When the officers couldn’t find him in their database, Faison fled on foot and began wading in the estuary at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2788\" height=\"1682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12010640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM.png 2788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-800x483.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-1020x615.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-1536x927.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-2048x1236.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-22-at-5.35.48-PM-1920x1158.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2788px) 100vw, 2788px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Body cam footage of East Bay Regional Parks officer Jonathan Knea aiming a Taser at Deontae as Deontae wades into the estuary at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland, on April 5, 2024. (Courtesy of the Faison family, via the EBRPD Police Department)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s where Knea tased Faison five times as Faison called for help before losing consciousness. Neither officer administered any aid to Faison. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison’s lawsuit claims Knea used excessive force by tasing him while he was in the water and also alleges that the EBRP failed to properly train Knea.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who was set to preside over the trial, had already ruled that Knea’s first and second times tasing Faison were covered by qualified immunity — the legal protections afforded to government workers in the course of doing their jobs. She also previously dismissed punitive damages against the park district.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison’s family alleged that his female companion received better treatment from the officers because she is white. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The case would have tasked a jury of eight people with determining whether the subsequent third, fourth and fifth taser deployments while Faison was at or near the shore’s edge violated his civil rights. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury would also be asked to decide possible punitive damages against Knea, if it found that he acted with something beyond simple indifference. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison was left with barely any neurological function and is expected to live only a few more years, according to court filings. He has two sons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faison’s attorney wanted the contents of the truck and Faison’s criminal record excluded from trial, arguing that it was irrelevant — on the grounds that it couldn’t have informed Knea’s conduct, because he wasn’t aware of those details before tasing Faison. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The day of the incident, police found, among other things, six laptops, several credit and debit cards, two pellet guns, a folding knife, and an unmarked bottle of anxiety medication. There was also an active felony warrant out for Faison for missing a hearing on a prior felony conviction. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260929-phillipburtonfederalbuilding-00127_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101965\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260929-phillipburtonfederalbuilding-00127_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260929-phillipburtonfederalbuilding-00127_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260929-phillipburtonfederalbuilding-00127_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2026. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>A video recording filed in the federal corruption case of former Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Sheng Thao\u003c/a> shows a key FBI informant describing the owners of a major recycling contractor paying people after they won a lucrative contract with the city of Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The video is part of a batch of files released this month that also includes taped phone calls with current and former elected officials. The calls, which appear to have been recorded without the politicians’ knowledge, seem to reveal close working relationships, and at times coordination, between Oakland city officials and the recycling company. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argue the video shows a critical moment in the alleged corruption scheme between their star witness, a co-conspirator turned informant, and the Duong family, owners of California Waste Solutions, the city’s curbside recycling provider. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The company’s CEO, David Duong, and his son, Andy Duong, are facing bribery, conspiracy and mail and wire fraud charges alongside Thao and her longtime partner, Andre Jones. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The four are accused of engaging in a corrupt relationship in the lead-up to the 2022 Oakland mayoral election and in the months following. Prosecutors allege Thao promised she would use her authority as mayor to take actions to benefit the Duongs’ companies in exchange for financing negative political mailers and paying money to Jones through a no-show job. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://youtu.be/SQfb9Mw6Qsc\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/shorts/D3w672owIBs?si=t5qlWwMQGSXrJs7B\">In the video from October 2022\u003c/a>, Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to participating in the alleged bribery scheme, stands in front of a conference table and makes a toast, professing his loyalty to the Duongs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The day after you won the city of Oakland contract, you were there, paying everybody,” Juarez can be heard saying in the video while holding a bottle of what appears to be champagne. “Everybody was like fucking piranhas after you. I remember because I was there. I was in your office. And — $50,000, $100,000 — whatever it was. And you said, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘I just want to do business with you.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The toast appears to celebrate Evolutionary Homes, a housing company the Duongs and Juarez co-founded around that time that is at the center of the bribery prosecution. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the video, members of the Duong family do not correct Juarez when he mentions payments. At one point, when Juarez describes “piranhas,” Kristina Duong, California Waste Solutions’ chief financial officer, shakes her head yes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a July court filing, prosecutors described the video, saying that Juarez is expected to testify at trial that his comments were in reference to bribes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The government expects Juarez to testify that this statement refers to the Duongs giving cash to multiple public officials in exchange for their assistance in helping CWS [California Waste Solutions] secure the Oakland recycling contract in 2014,” the filing reads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Juarez’s toast to the partnership between the Duongs and Juarez took place when the alleged conspiracy was forming, prosecutors say. By professing his past and future loyalty, prosecutors say Juarez was indicating to the Duongs that he could be trusted to keep their secrets and conduct business in their interest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I defended your family, I defend CWS, I defend them physically,” Juarez can be heard saying in the video. “If anyone fucks with CWS, I step up to the plate, and I think I’ve proven that time and time again.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That very same day, prosecutors say Juarez reached out to Thao to set up a meeting to discuss the negative campaign mailers and the city’s commitment to purchase housing units from Evolutionary Homes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An attorney for David Duong declined to comment on the video and other allegations Juarez has made. Lawyers representing Andy Duong did not immediately respond. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys for months have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071314/fbi-informant-tested-corruption-case-against-oaklands-former-mayor\">raised questions about Juarez’s credibility as a witness\u003c/a>, pointing to what they’ve described as his “decades-long history of fraud,” and instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098344\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">US Postal Inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences of members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland, California, on June 20, 2024. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>A second video, taken shortly after the first, shows Juarez making another speech. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Minus the profanity,” someone off-camera can be heard saying, followed by another person saying, “Keep it PG, please.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The videos were retrieved from Andy Duong’s phone and are among multiple audio and video files FBI agents seized. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One such file, described as a video depicting Andy Duong, former San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo and others, remains under seal. The video was recorded in August 2023, during a trade delegation to Vietnam that Thao, the Duongs and other East Bay officials attended. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Azevedo, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073176/former-san-leandro-city-councilmember-pleads-guilty-in-federal-bribery-case\">pleaded guilty to accepting bribes\u003c/a> in a related case in February, is a cooperating government witness in the case involving Thao, Jones and the Duongs. Juarez is expected to testify that Andy Duong told him he often recorded politicians in case he needed to use it for leverage later on. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098354\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andy Duong exits the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, on Jan. 17, 2025. Sheng Thao, the former mayor of Oakland, was criminally indicted by a federal grand jury after an FBI corruption investigation that centered on City Hall and the powerful Duong family that operates the city’s curbside recycling program, a source familiar with the matter told the Chronicle. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Court records show prosecutors are now planning to use many of those recordings as evidence in the trial against the Duongs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Andy Duong, who previously worked for his family’s business, is no longer actively employed by California Waste Solutions, an attorney for the company confirmed via phone on Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The attorney said Andy Duong is “on a leave of absence” but would not say when the leave began or why. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t remember when it started. Quite some time ago,” said Doug Straus, an attorney with the Buchalter law firm. “It’s been, at least, many, many, many months.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘We got the contract, here is your money’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The video of Juarez talking about payments is not the only time allegations of wider public corruption have surfaced in the case. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a motion filed last month, attorneys for David Duong described allegations Juarez made to the FBI about the Duongs, including that the family has given millions of dollars in cash to elected officials. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Juarez knew the Duongs had paid bribes to public officials in the past. It was just how they did business,” the document reads. “Influence with politicians is part of the Duongs’ business plan. Influence came from the money they doled out and from the video evidence they kept.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098817\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The California Waste Solutions headquarters at 1211 Embarcadero, in Oakland, on Sept. 8, 2026. The company provides curbside recycling service in Oakland. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the motion, Juarez described seeing a line of people at California Waste Solutions’ headquarters waiting to be paid in cash by David Duong. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“[Individual 1] was paid $300,000 in cash in a black gym bag. Juarez knew the amount of cash because Juarez helped count the money,” the filing reads. “The cash to [Individual 1] was definitely for his help in obtaining the CWS contract; D. Duong told [Individual 1] something to the effect of ‘Congratulations, we got the contract, here is your money.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Juarez claimed he saw another individual — identified in the filing as Individual 2 — receive $50,000, also in a black gym bag. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“[Individual 2] was angry he only got $50,000; [Individual 2] wanted more money,” it reads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the document, Juarez told federal agents he was involved in bribing a political opponent of a city official. Juarez gave the individual $20,000 in front of a Starbucks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Duongs paid two individuals $100,000 each for being lobbyists for California Waste Solutions, but those payments were not reported, Juarez alleged. He also claimed to have seen the Duongs delete footage from a security system. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Duong had blackmail on a lot of people. A. 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They argued the allegations are unrelated to the charged conspiracy involving Thao, and could make the jury jump to the conclusion that the defendants have a propensity to commit bribery or have poor moral character. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Allowing Juarez to levy unsubstantiated accusations of obstruction, blackmail, and money laundering will only confuse the issues and encourage the jury to conclude that the Duongs are bad people and therefore likely guilty,” they wrote in the motion. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>U.S. Chief District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Sept. 21 denied it, ruling that Juarez’s statements about other alleged bribes can be admitted as evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The jury will ultimately decide whether Juarez’s statements reveal truth or not,” her order reads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘I’m not f—ing with those bitches’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In one of the recorded phone calls filed in federal court, dated April 2019, Thao appears to give Andy Duong information about a closed session discussion related to a legal dispute between the city of Oakland and California Waste Solutions. Oakland had sued the company in 2017, accusing it of overcharging ratepayers. California Waste Solutions then filed its own claims against the city, alleging breach of contract and seeking $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the recording, Thao can be heard appearing to reference then-Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan and advising Andy Duong on how to prepare for a meeting the following day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“So in the meeting, this is what you guys need to do, OK? You guys need to prepare and talk today amongst yourselves and how to figure out how to do this because … in the meeting tomorrow, that’s what Rebecca’s going to ask for, because she doesn’t know what the answer is for that part.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao holds a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Thao can also be heard requesting to meet somewhere more private. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We just need to be further away from people,” Thao can be heard saying. “We don’t want people hearing us talk about this stuff, you know? But if it’s a private room, I prefer a private room, because we don’t really want to be seen with you guys.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kaplan, who is no longer a councilmember but is still working for the city, did not respond to KQED’s questions about the recording. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Four years later, in 2023, Thao was mayor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a call that September, she vented to Andy Duong about Councilmembers Treva Reid and Janani Ramachandran. In the call, Thao appears to express frustration that they were invited to an event. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re going to have to fucking pick and choose. Because I’m not fucking with those bitches,” she says on the call. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thao had recently returned from the trade delegation to Vietnam when the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.vietnamplus.vn/pm-pham-minh-chinh-receives-politicians-of-san-francisco-post268198.vnp\">prime minister\u003c/a> visited the Bay Area and met with local elected officials. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is stupid. I’m not going to stand around with these two bitches who constantly talk shit about me and make a big issue to their constituents. They’ll be like, ‘Oh yeah, the mayor is gone, she’s in Vietnam.’ You know, it’s like fuck you. Then why are you coming to see the prime minister?” Thao can be heard saying on the call. “Treva’s not a friend of mine. She should never be invited by you guys to do anything that sounds even cool.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thao’s attorneys did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment on the calls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The files also include a recorded call between Andy Duong and Oakland City Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, and another with Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who was president of the Oakland City Council at the time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the January 2024 call with Jenkins, Andy Duong follows up on an invitation to party on a yacht. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Duong and Jenkins can be heard joking with each other at the start of the call, referring to women as bitches. They then discuss the campaigns to recall Thao and then Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, Jenkins told KQED that it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the recording given that he is a government witness in the trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the call with Bas, recorded in March that same year, she and Andy Duong can be heard discussing donations to her then-campaign for supervisor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Duong then tells Bas that he spoke to Thao and asks if she can put an item on an upcoming agenda to extend California Waste Solutions’ agreement with the city to acquire and develop property at the former Oakland Army Base for a new recycling facility. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Yup. OK. 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The calls, which appear to have been recorded without the politicians’ knowledge, seem to reveal close working relationships, and at times coordination, between Oakland city officials and the recycling company. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argue the video shows a critical moment in the alleged corruption scheme between their star witness, a co-conspirator turned informant, and the Duong family, owners of California Waste Solutions, the city’s curbside recycling provider. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The company’s CEO, David Duong, and his son, Andy Duong, are facing bribery, conspiracy and mail and wire fraud charges alongside Thao and her longtime partner, Andre Jones. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The four are accused of engaging in a corrupt relationship in the lead-up to the 2022 Oakland mayoral election and in the months following. Prosecutors allege Thao promised she would use her authority as mayor to take actions to benefit the Duongs’ companies in exchange for financing negative political mailers and paying money to Jones through a no-show job. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SQfb9Mw6Qsc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SQfb9Mw6Qsc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/shorts/D3w672owIBs?si=t5qlWwMQGSXrJs7B\">In the video from October 2022\u003c/a>, Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to participating in the alleged bribery scheme, stands in front of a conference table and makes a toast, professing his loyalty to the Duongs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The day after you won the city of Oakland contract, you were there, paying everybody,” Juarez can be heard saying in the video while holding a bottle of what appears to be champagne. “Everybody was like fucking piranhas after you. I remember because I was there. I was in your office. And — $50,000, $100,000 — whatever it was. And you said, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘I just want to do business with you.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The toast appears to celebrate Evolutionary Homes, a housing company the Duongs and Juarez co-founded around that time that is at the center of the bribery prosecution. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the video, members of the Duong family do not correct Juarez when he mentions payments. At one point, when Juarez describes “piranhas,” Kristina Duong, California Waste Solutions’ chief financial officer, shakes her head yes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a July court filing, prosecutors described the video, saying that Juarez is expected to testify at trial that his comments were in reference to bribes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The government expects Juarez to testify that this statement refers to the Duongs giving cash to multiple public officials in exchange for their assistance in helping CWS [California Waste Solutions] secure the Oakland recycling contract in 2014,” the filing reads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Juarez’s toast to the partnership between the Duongs and Juarez took place when the alleged conspiracy was forming, prosecutors say. By professing his past and future loyalty, prosecutors say Juarez was indicating to the Duongs that he could be trusted to keep their secrets and conduct business in their interest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I defended your family, I defend CWS, I defend them physically,” Juarez can be heard saying in the video. “If anyone fucks with CWS, I step up to the plate, and I think I’ve proven that time and time again.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That very same day, prosecutors say Juarez reached out to Thao to set up a meeting to discuss the negative campaign mailers and the city’s commitment to purchase housing units from Evolutionary Homes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An attorney for David Duong declined to comment on the video and other allegations Juarez has made. Lawyers representing Andy Duong did not immediately respond. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys for months have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071314/fbi-informant-tested-corruption-case-against-oaklands-former-mayor\">raised questions about Juarez’s credibility as a witness\u003c/a>, pointing to what they’ve described as his “decades-long history of fraud,” and instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098344\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-06-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">US Postal Inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences of members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland, California, on June 20, 2024. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>A second video, taken shortly after the first, shows Juarez making another speech. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Minus the profanity,” someone off-camera can be heard saying, followed by another person saying, “Keep it PG, please.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The videos were retrieved from Andy Duong’s phone and are among multiple audio and video files FBI agents seized. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One such file, described as a video depicting Andy Duong, former San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo and others, remains under seal. The video was recorded in August 2023, during a trade delegation to Vietnam that Thao, the Duongs and other East Bay officials attended. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Azevedo, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073176/former-san-leandro-city-councilmember-pleads-guilty-in-federal-bribery-case\">pleaded guilty to accepting bribes\u003c/a> in a related case in February, is a cooperating government witness in the case involving Thao, Jones and the Duongs. Juarez is expected to testify that Andy Duong told him he often recorded politicians in case he needed to use it for leverage later on. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098354\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andy Duong exits the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, on Jan. 17, 2025. Sheng Thao, the former mayor of Oakland, was criminally indicted by a federal grand jury after an FBI corruption investigation that centered on City Hall and the powerful Duong family that operates the city’s curbside recycling program, a source familiar with the matter told the Chronicle. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Court records show prosecutors are now planning to use many of those recordings as evidence in the trial against the Duongs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Andy Duong, who previously worked for his family’s business, is no longer actively employed by California Waste Solutions, an attorney for the company confirmed via phone on Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The attorney said Andy Duong is “on a leave of absence” but would not say when the leave began or why. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t remember when it started. Quite some time ago,” said Doug Straus, an attorney with the Buchalter law firm. “It’s been, at least, many, many, many months.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘We got the contract, here is your money’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The video of Juarez talking about payments is not the only time allegations of wider public corruption have surfaced in the case. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a motion filed last month, attorneys for David Duong described allegations Juarez made to the FBI about the Duongs, including that the family has given millions of dollars in cash to elected officials. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Juarez knew the Duongs had paid bribes to public officials in the past. It was just how they did business,” the document reads. “Influence with politicians is part of the Duongs’ business plan. Influence came from the money they doled out and from the video evidence they kept.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098817\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_ShengThao-Trial-File_GH_011_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The California Waste Solutions headquarters at 1211 Embarcadero, in Oakland, on Sept. 8, 2026. The company provides curbside recycling service in Oakland. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the motion, Juarez described seeing a line of people at California Waste Solutions’ headquarters waiting to be paid in cash by David Duong. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“[Individual 1] was paid $300,000 in cash in a black gym bag. Juarez knew the amount of cash because Juarez helped count the money,” the filing reads. “The cash to [Individual 1] was definitely for his help in obtaining the CWS contract; D. Duong told [Individual 1] something to the effect of ‘Congratulations, we got the contract, here is your money.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Juarez claimed he saw another individual — identified in the filing as Individual 2 — receive $50,000, also in a black gym bag. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“[Individual 2] was angry he only got $50,000; [Individual 2] wanted more money,” it reads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the document, Juarez told federal agents he was involved in bribing a political opponent of a city official. Juarez gave the individual $20,000 in front of a Starbucks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Duongs paid two individuals $100,000 each for being lobbyists for California Waste Solutions, but those payments were not reported, Juarez alleged. He also claimed to have seen the Duongs delete footage from a security system. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Duong had blackmail on a lot of people. A. Duong used blackmail often,” the filing says Juarez alleged. “The Duongs and CWS started using vague consultant contracts to launder money to various individuals. Juarez knew money had been paid to [Individual 1], [Individual 8], and Brian Azevedo.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a motion filed Aug. 27, defense attorneys for David Duong pushed to have the video of Juarez and other allegations he has made kept out of the trial. They argued the allegations are unrelated to the charged conspiracy involving Thao, and could make the jury jump to the conclusion that the defendants have a propensity to commit bribery or have poor moral character. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Allowing Juarez to levy unsubstantiated accusations of obstruction, blackmail, and money laundering will only confuse the issues and encourage the jury to conclude that the Duongs are bad people and therefore likely guilty,” they wrote in the motion. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>U.S. Chief District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Sept. 21 denied it, ruling that Juarez’s statements about other alleged bribes can be admitted as evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The jury will ultimately decide whether Juarez’s statements reveal truth or not,” her order reads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘I’m not f—ing with those bitches’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In one of the recorded phone calls filed in federal court, dated April 2019, Thao appears to give Andy Duong information about a closed session discussion related to a legal dispute between the city of Oakland and California Waste Solutions. Oakland had sued the company in 2017, accusing it of overcharging ratepayers. California Waste Solutions then filed its own claims against the city, alleging breach of contract and seeking $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the recording, Thao can be heard appearing to reference then-Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan and advising Andy Duong on how to prepare for a meeting the following day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“So in the meeting, this is what you guys need to do, OK? You guys need to prepare and talk today amongst yourselves and how to figure out how to do this because … in the meeting tomorrow, that’s what Rebecca’s going to ask for, because she doesn’t know what the answer is for that part.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao holds a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Thao can also be heard requesting to meet somewhere more private. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We just need to be further away from people,” Thao can be heard saying. “We don’t want people hearing us talk about this stuff, you know? But if it’s a private room, I prefer a private room, because we don’t really want to be seen with you guys.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kaplan, who is no longer a councilmember but is still working for the city, did not respond to KQED’s questions about the recording. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Four years later, in 2023, Thao was mayor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a call that September, she vented to Andy Duong about Councilmembers Treva Reid and Janani Ramachandran. In the call, Thao appears to express frustration that they were invited to an event. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re going to have to fucking pick and choose. Because I’m not fucking with those bitches,” she says on the call. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thao had recently returned from the trade delegation to Vietnam when the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.vietnamplus.vn/pm-pham-minh-chinh-receives-politicians-of-san-francisco-post268198.vnp\">prime minister\u003c/a> visited the Bay Area and met with local elected officials. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is stupid. I’m not going to stand around with these two bitches who constantly talk shit about me and make a big issue to their constituents. They’ll be like, ‘Oh yeah, the mayor is gone, she’s in Vietnam.’ You know, it’s like fuck you. Then why are you coming to see the prime minister?” Thao can be heard saying on the call. “Treva’s not a friend of mine. She should never be invited by you guys to do anything that sounds even cool.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thao’s attorneys did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment on the calls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The files also include a recorded call between Andy Duong and Oakland City Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, and another with Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who was president of the Oakland City Council at the time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the January 2024 call with Jenkins, Andy Duong follows up on an invitation to party on a yacht. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Duong and Jenkins can be heard joking with each other at the start of the call, referring to women as bitches. They then discuss the campaigns to recall Thao and then Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, Jenkins told KQED that it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the recording given that he is a government witness in the trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the call with Bas, recorded in March that same year, she and Andy Duong can be heard discussing donations to her then-campaign for supervisor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Duong then tells Bas that he spoke to Thao and asks if she can put an item on an upcoming agenda to extend California Waste Solutions’ agreement with the city to acquire and develop property at the former Oakland Army Base for a new recycling facility. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Yup. OK. 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The agency declined to say why De La Cruz was reassigned, saying the agency cannot comment on personnel matters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A wide-ranging investigation into allegations of sexual assault at the prison also appears to be underway, according to multiple sources who spoke to KQED, including two formerly incarcerated advocates, Elizabeth Nomura and Amika Mota, and former correctional Lt. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m really glad to hear that they have been removed, but [CDCR’s] narrative is still, ‘It was like a few bad apples,’” said Mota, who was formerly incarcerated at CCWF and is now the executive director of the Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition. “But these bad apples just keep popping up.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CDCR said it can’t comment on an ongoing investigation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These developments come one month after a scathing U.S. Department of Justice report found an “unbroken pattern” of sexual abuse and retaliation by staff at California’s two women’s prisons, including CCWF. Federal investigators said state prison officials had failed for years to adequately prevent abuse, investigate allegations or protect incarcerated people who reported misconduct. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The DOJ declined to comment on these more recent developments. CDCR did not say whether the officer investigations or De La Cruz’s reassignment are connected to the Justice Department’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s more like a Band-Aid on a gaping wound,” said Nomura, who works with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Warden De La Cruz being removed and demoted and going from institution to institution, that’s a common response to things like this, where action is expected [from CDCR].” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said moving De La Cruz to another institution does not address the broader problems identified at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Justice Department also examined an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079668/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-video-shows-mass-force-at-california-womens-prison\">August 2024 mass use-of-force incident\u003c/a> conducted at CCWF under De La Cruz’s leadership that led to the largest disciplinary action against staff in state prison history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During the operation, officers removed 159 women from their housing units and held them for hours in a dining hall without food, water or medication before using chemical agents when tensions escalated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Federal investigators concluded the operation was carried out in retaliation for rising reports of sexual abuse by prison staff. Two bills sitting on Gov. 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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says she will become a correctional administrator at nearby Valley State Prison next month.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The move comes one month after the U.S. Department of Justice found a “unbroken pattern” of sexual assault and retaliation at the facility. The Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-civil-rights-investigation-correctional-staff-sexual-abuse-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">began\u003c/a> investigating the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the California Institution for Women in Chino nearly two years ago after hundreds of incarcerated women \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003230/feds-investigate-california-prisons-where-women-say-culture-of-impunity-surrounded-abuse\">filed legal claims\u003c/a> alleging sexual exploitation by staff and an officer was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2022/12/28/cdcr-refers-internal-investigation-into-former-correctional-officer-to-district-attorney-for-charges-of-sexual-misconduct-of-incarcerated-women/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested\u003c/a> for sexually abusing at least 22 women.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Nomura is a formerly incarcerated advocate with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. 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But at the same time you get a little bit of anxiety because it kind of brings you back to thinking, geez, am I on shift?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elia has worked at Sharp Grossmont for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Some days we are like the pitt, you know, and it’s not every single day. It’s not every single hour. But we definitely have days where it’s that busy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elia says television can create very different expectations about what actually happens in an ER, and those TV versions of medicine can stick with patients.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s of course some Hollywood hype in these shows as some things that are exaggerated. People throughout the years would ask me, for example, are you going to pump the stomach? Which we don’t really do, but you see that on some of these shows.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then there are the moments that may show viewers a side of the ER they rarely see.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Amber Dinh is an ER nurse. Some scenes in particular hit close to home for her. \u003cbr>\u003cbr>“There’s a fight scene with a nurse, she gets in a fight with a patient because the patient is getting aggressive,” said Dinh. “I was recently in a fight with a patient, a patient on a hold, and she’s in a psychiatric moment. And she started, she ran out of her room and started swinging fists at people. I think it’s finally opening the public’s eyes and like, oh my gosh, like, people actually do this every day and have to help people in these conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But she says the show isn’t just capturing the dramatic moments. It also shows the constant juggling that happens behind the scenes, and things most patients don’t see when they’re waiting for care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Someone’s dying in room five and someone’s asking for a hot blanket in room two,” Dinh said. “Meanwhile, you have to have send someone to cath lab in room three. Everything’s going on at once, whether it’s minor or little. And I think it’s nice that people see like, oh, there’s something bigger going on than just sometimes what I’m going through.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And it turns out, the show may be teaching people more than she realizes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A study from USC’s Norman Lear Center surveyed more than 1,400 viewers of The Pitt.\u003cbr>Viewers who watched an end of life storyline said they were more likely to plan ahead, including making a living will or designating a power of attorney.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s an area where palliative care doctor Nicki Rao says the show is helping start important conversations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“So it is sadly very common that people have not ironed out their wishes for end of life. So I probably see this scenario on a weekly basis, if not more often,” said Rao. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And now, when she talks with patients about those difficult decisions…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m glad I can finally tell them that, hey, there are shows on TV, did you watch this and see if they reply? Or sometimes they tell me like, oh, it’s kind of like The Pitt. And so I’m glad that there’s finally a kind of third party space that I can refer to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And she says The Pitt is showing a version of medicine that looks different from the medical dramas many viewers grew up with.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Before you’d watch medical TV shows for the drama, the affairs, the crazy scenarios that you couldn’t figure out. And now they’re showing real medicine. 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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says she will become a correctional administrator at nearby Valley State Prison next month.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The move comes one month after the U.S. Department of Justice found a “unbroken pattern” of sexual assault and retaliation at the facility. The Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-civil-rights-investigation-correctional-staff-sexual-abuse-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">began\u003c/a> investigating the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the California Institution for Women in Chino nearly two years ago after hundreds of incarcerated women \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003230/feds-investigate-california-prisons-where-women-say-culture-of-impunity-surrounded-abuse\">filed legal claims\u003c/a> alleging sexual exploitation by staff and an officer was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2022/12/28/cdcr-refers-internal-investigation-into-former-correctional-officer-to-district-attorney-for-charges-of-sexual-misconduct-of-incarcerated-women/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested\u003c/a> for sexually abusing at least 22 women.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Nomura is a formerly incarcerated advocate with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. She says the issue of sexual assault in prisons is bigger than one person.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Just because you cut off the head of the snake doesn’t mean that the poison that is within that snake doesn’t continue to seep out,” said Nomura.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CDCR said they cannot comment on personnel decisions and did not say why De La Cruz had been moved from her position.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-curtis-merkley-sheehy-dexter-announce-bipartisan-legislation-to-protect-federal-wildland-firefighters/\">Senator Padilla Builds on Firefighter Legislation\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/RYA26A78.pdf\">legislation would create\u003c/a> a task force on firefighters’ long-term health issues… and a pilot program to develop better respiratory protections…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Padilla says it also aims to set health and safety standards and increase compensation for time spent showering and cleaning gear.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have municipal firefighters who for years now have been better protected through decontamination processes and protocols, equipment that helps protect them that our wildland firefighters do not benefit from,” Padilla said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4271/text\">builds on legislation\u003c/a> introduced by Padilla earlier this year that mandates paid rest periods for firefighters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2026/09/14/emmy-winning-the-pitt-hits-close-to-home-for-san-diego-healthcare-workers\">HBO’s “The Pitt” Hits Close to Home for Healthcare Workers\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you work in an emergency room, there’s a good chance you’ve watched The Pitt.\u003cbr>Emergency room doctor James Elia says he was hooked when he heard the show uses real cases.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I kind of try to figure out what’s going on with the patient. But at the same time you get a little bit of anxiety because it kind of brings you back to thinking, geez, am I on shift?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elia has worked at Sharp Grossmont for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Some days we are like the pitt, you know, and it’s not every single day. It’s not every single hour. But we definitely have days where it’s that busy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elia says television can create very different expectations about what actually happens in an ER, and those TV versions of medicine can stick with patients.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s of course some Hollywood hype in these shows as some things that are exaggerated. People throughout the years would ask me, for example, are you going to pump the stomach? Which we don’t really do, but you see that on some of these shows.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then there are the moments that may show viewers a side of the ER they rarely see.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Amber Dinh is an ER nurse. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hot day in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> in August 2025, a worker stood in the sun with a rag and a squeeze bottle in front of a Mazda SUV when he turned to see a Border Patrol agent running toward him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seconds later, the agent grabbed him by his shoulder, gripping him by his Handy J Car Wash collared shirt like he was a recalcitrant child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey sir, let’s go,” the agent said in Spanish. The man, seemingly confused, replied, “Go where?” He had papers, he said, pleading with the agent. Within 10 seconds, the man – known only by his initials A.T. in court documents – was in handcuffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was whisked away in the backseat of an unmarked Dodge Charger to an ICE facility for processing, the rag and squeeze bottle left behind on top of the Mazda. Later that day he was fingerprinted and released, once ICE realized he was a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a ruling unsealed Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that immigration agents likely violated federal statutes by arresting people such as A.T. without a warrant before assessing whether they were flight risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong finalized \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/08/los-angeles-warrantless-immigration-arrests-blocked/\">a tentative ruling issued last month\u003c/a> that immigration agents can’t just arrest someone, even if they’re in the country unlawfully, without determining if they’re likely to flee before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12098459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12098459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This Court finds ample evidence that Defendants have an ongoing policy and practice of conducting warrantless arrests in violation of the requirement to conduct a likelihood-of-escape analysis,” the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, immigration officers can arrest someone without a warrant only when they have probable cause both that the person is in the country unlawfully and that they are likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ruling is one of the most important decisions to date in the community’s effort to end the federal government’s cruel and illegal practice of abducting people and separating them from their families,” said Mayra Joachin, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said: “ICE has authority for lawful arrests where authorized under 8 USC 1357. Law enforcement officers use ‘reasonable suspicion’ to investigate immigration status and probable cause to make arrests consistent with the statute and the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on these practices.”[aside postID=news_12099590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260914-GilroyICEFolo-13-BL.jpg']The preliminary injunction stems from a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of advocacy groups filed last year against the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuxaVdv7po&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org\">aggressive raids across Los Angeles\u003c/a> led by former Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS attorneys have argued that those operations ceased in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the high-profile immigration raids have gotten quieter after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January, President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has only intensified. Arrests \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-immigration-customs-enforcement-data-statistics-f07f56a34bda225e5afa356781ac1740\">reached their highest level in the second Trump administration\u003c/a> in July, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide, according to data by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, agents arrested more than 15 percent more people than they did during the same time last year, when Bovino’s masked agents conducted aggressive street raids across Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups obtained body cam footage, depositions and text messages from agents in discovery. Using that evidence, they successfully argued that federal immigration agents’ actions likely violated protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of A.T., the Border Patrol agent’s arrest report reveals that he skipped steps that would have prevented a lawful permanent resident from being handcuffed and sent to processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, the arresting agent says he identified himself as a Border Patrol agent and that A.T. made a “couple of sudden moves” as if about to run. The body cam footage does not appear to show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent wrote that when he asked about citizenship, A.T. replied “U.S.” However, the agent says A.T. appeared “confused and unsure of his answer, similar to individuals who I have arrested before.” The agent reported he arrested him to verify his citizenship. At no point prior to the arrest does the agent try to check A.T. ‘s identification or ask questions about his background, the body cam footage shows. That’s the kind of flight risk assessment required before a warrantless arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When body cam footage contradicts agents’ narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that same Handy J Car Wash, a different Border Patrol agent detained another worker that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his arrest narrative, he wrote that the man followed his commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later in the report, the agent justified his decision to arrest the worker without a warrant because of “the fact that he ignored agent command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report highlights a key argument that advocates made in their court filings. In arrest reports, agents are supposed to explain why they determined someone was a flight risk and therefore couldn’t wait to get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies keep an eye on protesters blocking the entrance to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorneys argued that, in 80 percent of all the arrest reports they reviewed, agents either did not make any assessment of flight risk or simply used boilerplate language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the agent’s narrative used boilerplate language that contradicted other parts of his report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Frimpong cited this instance, noting the discrepancy between the official government narrative and the body cam footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one arrest, the Government’s escape narrative claims that an individual – E.G.G. – was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained based, in part, on ‘his flight from law enforcement,” Frimpong wrote. “… But a video of this arrest shows E.G.G. remained working and standing in the same place from the time that the agent entered the car wash to the time that the agent called him over….contrary to the Government’s written escape risk analysis, (he) did not flee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same body cam footage a supervisory agent tells the worker, “We’re going to give you a ride, and check if everything is OK. If everything is OK, we’ll let you go.” The agents’ own words reveal how the sweeps operated: arrest first and verify later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In agents’ own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the agents arrested people without a warrant even though a court had already determined they weren’t a flight risk, according to advocates’ attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In body cam footage from September, one Border Patrol agent asks another if they are still arresting people who have a notice to appear before an immigration judge. Such a notice signals someone is currently going through the immigration system, and likely has been deemed not a flight risk. They usually have been released awaiting a court date to determine whether they can stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent says, “I don’t care if you have a court date coming up, you’re a (expletive) custody redetermination.” The agent is saying that even if an immigration judge already determined a person isn’t a flight risk, agents are reversing that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12096570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12096570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Border Patrol produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even those already in removal proceedings, who are ordered released on bond presumably due to lack of flight risk and are complying with court dates, are not immune from Defendants’ policy,” wrote attorneys for the detained, arguing that the immigration agents aren’t just neglecting to do a flight risk assessment themselves, but willfully ignoring the determination of an actual immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol policy calls for agents to ask about flight-risk factors like identification or a home address before an arrest. But attorneys who brought the lawsuit say body camera footage shows agents often did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one video from August 2025, Border Patrol agents jumped out of a Penske truck and grabbed people in the Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6:50 a.m. a Border Patrol agent arrested a man identified as Tijerino-Garmendia in court documents. The agent’s arrest narrative says Tijerino-Garmendia “stated he had no identification stating his identity or home address.” Body cam footage shows the agent “showing no questioning on this topic,” attorneys for the detained said in court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested community members “with no inquiry into community ties or escape risk,” the lawsuit claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g-s1-108778/ice-agents-warrantless-arrests-oregon\">Oregon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/12/ice-materially-violated-order-on-warrantless-arrests-colorado-judge-says/\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/trump-dhs-arrests-warrants-dc.html\">Washington D.C.\u003c/a> have also ordered federal agents to stop making warrantless arrests. Courts in two of those cases later found agents kept on doing it anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal immigration agents arrest a man in Bell as residents clash with U.S. Border Patrol agents after a traffic collision involving one of the agency’s vehicles during immigration raids across the Los Angeles area on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles case, Frimpong ordered that agents must document “the specific, particularized facts that supported the agent’s or officer’s prearrest probable cause to believe that the person was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argued the analysis should include community ties, like whether a person has a job and a home and a family, but the judge declined to require those specifics if the escape risk can be shown through other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also declined to require agents to document cases where they talk to someone but don’t arrest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government asked for a two week delay to decide whether to appeal before the order takes effect. Frimpong denied that, saying the government “cannot reasonably assert that it is harmed in any legally cognizable sense” by being ordered to follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/09/la-immigration-raids-warrantless-arrests-ruling/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The preliminary injunction stems from a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of advocacy groups filed last year against the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuxaVdv7po&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org\">aggressive raids across Los Angeles\u003c/a> led by former Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS attorneys have argued that those operations ceased in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the high-profile immigration raids have gotten quieter after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January, President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has only intensified. Arrests \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-immigration-customs-enforcement-data-statistics-f07f56a34bda225e5afa356781ac1740\">reached their highest level in the second Trump administration\u003c/a> in July, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide, according to data by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, agents arrested more than 15 percent more people than they did during the same time last year, when Bovino’s masked agents conducted aggressive street raids across Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups obtained body cam footage, depositions and text messages from agents in discovery. Using that evidence, they successfully argued that federal immigration agents’ actions likely violated protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of A.T., the Border Patrol agent’s arrest report reveals that he skipped steps that would have prevented a lawful permanent resident from being handcuffed and sent to processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, the arresting agent says he identified himself as a Border Patrol agent and that A.T. made a “couple of sudden moves” as if about to run. The body cam footage does not appear to show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent wrote that when he asked about citizenship, A.T. replied “U.S.” However, the agent says A.T. appeared “confused and unsure of his answer, similar to individuals who I have arrested before.” The agent reported he arrested him to verify his citizenship. At no point prior to the arrest does the agent try to check A.T. ‘s identification or ask questions about his background, the body cam footage shows. That’s the kind of flight risk assessment required before a warrantless arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When body cam footage contradicts agents’ narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that same Handy J Car Wash, a different Border Patrol agent detained another worker that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his arrest narrative, he wrote that the man followed his commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later in the report, the agent justified his decision to arrest the worker without a warrant because of “the fact that he ignored agent command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report highlights a key argument that advocates made in their court filings. 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If everything is OK, we’ll let you go.” The agents’ own words reveal how the sweeps operated: arrest first and verify later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In agents’ own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the agents arrested people without a warrant even though a court had already determined they weren’t a flight risk, according to advocates’ attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In body cam footage from September, one Border Patrol agent asks another if they are still arresting people who have a notice to appear before an immigration judge. Such a notice signals someone is currently going through the immigration system, and likely has been deemed not a flight risk. They usually have been released awaiting a court date to determine whether they can stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent says, “I don’t care if you have a court date coming up, you’re a (expletive) custody redetermination.” The agent is saying that even if an immigration judge already determined a person isn’t a flight risk, agents are reversing that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12096570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12096570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Border Patrol produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even those already in removal proceedings, who are ordered released on bond presumably due to lack of flight risk and are complying with court dates, are not immune from Defendants’ policy,” wrote attorneys for the detained, arguing that the immigration agents aren’t just neglecting to do a flight risk assessment themselves, but willfully ignoring the determination of an actual immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol policy calls for agents to ask about flight-risk factors like identification or a home address before an arrest. But attorneys who brought the lawsuit say body camera footage shows agents often did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one video from August 2025, Border Patrol agents jumped out of a Penske truck and grabbed people in the Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6:50 a.m. a Border Patrol agent arrested a man identified as Tijerino-Garmendia in court documents. The agent’s arrest narrative says Tijerino-Garmendia “stated he had no identification stating his identity or home address.” Body cam footage shows the agent “showing no questioning on this topic,” attorneys for the detained said in court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested community members “with no inquiry into community ties or escape risk,” the lawsuit claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g-s1-108778/ice-agents-warrantless-arrests-oregon\">Oregon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/12/ice-materially-violated-order-on-warrantless-arrests-colorado-judge-says/\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/trump-dhs-arrests-warrants-dc.html\">Washington D.C.\u003c/a> have also ordered federal agents to stop making warrantless arrests. Courts in two of those cases later found agents kept on doing it anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal immigration agents arrest a man in Bell as residents clash with U.S. Border Patrol agents after a traffic collision involving one of the agency’s vehicles during immigration raids across the Los Angeles area on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles case, Frimpong ordered that agents must document “the specific, particularized facts that supported the agent’s or officer’s prearrest probable cause to believe that the person was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argued the analysis should include community ties, like whether a person has a job and a home and a family, but the judge declined to require those specifics if the escape risk can be shown through other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also declined to require agents to document cases where they talk to someone but don’t arrest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government asked for a two week delay to decide whether to appeal before the order takes effect. Frimpong denied that, saying the government “cannot reasonably assert that it is harmed in any legally cognizable sense” by being ordered to follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/09/la-immigration-raids-warrantless-arrests-ruling/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>The family of Tammy Annette Manzanilla, a woman who died after recently being held in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">Marin County\u003c/a> Jail, said they’re proceeding with a wrongful death lawsuit against the county. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit will be filed,” said Manzanilla’s sister Amy Barry of Oakhurst, addressing the county’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. “You’ll be hearing a lot from me.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry isn’t hopeful she’ll hear back from the county’s counsel, who she said has not addressed the tort claim — a precursor to a lawsuit — that an attorney filed on behalf of her family in July. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On April 8, the Central Marin Police Authority arrested Manzanilla and booked her into the Marin County Jail. Her family claimed she was held for 19 hours in a sobering cell while jail staff ignored her worsening health condition and only released her to a nearby hospital to avoid the public reporting and accountability that comes following an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Because they quickly released her, technically, she was not in their custody,” Barry said in an interview with KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098692\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tammy Manzanilla’s sister, Amy Barry, right, and son, Angel Miniaci, second from right, sit with family members who also lost a loved one after they were in police custody during the Sept. 8, 2026, meeting of the Marin County Board of Supervisors. Barry told supervisors her family plans to file a formal lawsuit regarding Manzanilla’s April 11, 2026, death. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Manzanilla was in her mid-50s when she died. Her family said she struggled with addiction and had been homeless in Marin County for the last 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry believes that the sheriff’s office chose to cite and release Manzanilla to a hospital only after they realized she was dying to avoid having to classify it as an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, law enforcement agencies have to disclose certain information about in-custody deaths, such as the time and place of the incident and the person’s age and race. (For example, Marin County did that for an in-custody death of a 66-year-old white man on June 12, but not in Manzanilla’s case.) \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry was joined at the meeting by family members whose loved ones died under similar circumstances in Bay Area jails and interactions with law enforcement agencies. They say they’re “part of the club that no one wants to be a part of” as they seek justice for their families. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What happened to Tammy is similar in so many ways because basic respect and basic policies were not followed,” said Robert Collins, the father of Angelo Quinto, who was killed by Antioch police in December 2020, during the news conference outside the jail on Tuesday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In Quinto’s case, officers responded to a mental health call and knelt on Quinto’s neck for nearly five minutes, according to a civil rights lawsuit his family filed after his death. Quinto died at a hospital three days later. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Antioch did not make a public statement following Quinto’s death, as required by state law for in-custody deaths. The city of Antioch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986351/family-of-man-suffocated-by-antioch-police-restraint-to-get-7-5-million-settlement\">settled the Quinto family’s lawsuit\u003c/a> for $7.5 million in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County has not publicly released any information regarding Manzanilla’s death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Responding to a request from KQED, Roger Fielding, chief deputy of Marin County’s coroner division, said the county’s counsel would review what could be shared publicly “due to the sensitive nature of this death investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to a redacted incident report obtained by KQED, Manzanilla was booked into the Marin County Jail at 1:30 p.m. on April 8 on suspicion of public intoxication and other misdemeanors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deputy Keira Oliver noted in her report that the inmate — whom the family said is Manzanilla — was “very intoxicated” and placed into a cell for observation where she “had been yelling and making nonsensical statements.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The next day at 8:15 a.m., Oliver and Deputy Taylor Del Santo got Manzanilla out of her cell. According to the report, she was able to walk out of the cell on her own, but soon had difficulty standing on her own during the fingerprinting and mugshot process. Deputies noted she “dropped her weight and fell to the floor” and needed a wheelchair. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098691\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Family members of Tammy Manzanilla held a press conference outside the Marin County Civic Center on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. They were joined by family members of other Bay Area residents who have died after being in police custody. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Within 15 minutes, a nurse checked Manzanilla’s eyes and indicated that she needed medical attention, according to the report. It goes on to show that deputies placed her on the ground on her side and gave her oxygen while waiting for the fire department to respond and address her medical issues. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“She was sitting in that jail cell, dying,” Barry said. “There was a cascade of events occurring inside of her body that there was no coming back from. It was that point of no return by the time she got to the hospital.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report states that Manzanilla was cited and released to MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae at 8:30 a.m. on April 9. Her family said that Manzanilla died on April 11 after her liver and her kidneys shut down.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Court records show that the Marin County District Attorney’s Office filed charges of disorderly conduct, possession of drug paraphernalia and probation violation against Manzanilla four days after she died. A judge dismissed her case on May 1. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Like most of California’s counties, Marin County’s elected sheriff is also its coroner. This system has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/608511061/in-california-critics-say-sheriff-coroner-gig-is-a-conflict-of-interest\">been under scrutiny for years\u003c/a>, especially with in-custody or officer-involved deaths, as the sheriff operates the jails and then oversees investigations into those deaths. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In this case, Marin County did the investigation, which is definitely a conflict of interest, because I don’t feel like they’re doing an honest job,” Barry said. “They can say whatever. They said her death was accidental.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>County leaders have previously offered condolences to the family but have said they won’t comment on anticipated litigation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just want them to say, ‘Hey, yeah, we screwed up. 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Her family claimed she was held for 19 hours in a sobering cell while jail staff ignored her worsening health condition and only released her to a nearby hospital to avoid the public reporting and accountability that comes following an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Because they quickly released her, technically, she was not in their custody,” Barry said in an interview with KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098692\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tammy Manzanilla’s sister, Amy Barry, right, and son, Angel Miniaci, second from right, sit with family members who also lost a loved one after they were in police custody during the Sept. 8, 2026, meeting of the Marin County Board of Supervisors. Barry told supervisors her family plans to file a formal lawsuit regarding Manzanilla’s April 11, 2026, death. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Manzanilla was in her mid-50s when she died. Her family said she struggled with addiction and had been homeless in Marin County for the last 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry believes that the sheriff’s office chose to cite and release Manzanilla to a hospital only after they realized she was dying to avoid having to classify it as an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, law enforcement agencies have to disclose certain information about in-custody deaths, such as the time and place of the incident and the person’s age and race. 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Quinto died at a hospital three days later. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Antioch did not make a public statement following Quinto’s death, as required by state law for in-custody deaths. The city of Antioch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986351/family-of-man-suffocated-by-antioch-police-restraint-to-get-7-5-million-settlement\">settled the Quinto family’s lawsuit\u003c/a> for $7.5 million in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County has not publicly released any information regarding Manzanilla’s death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Responding to a request from KQED, Roger Fielding, chief deputy of Marin County’s coroner division, said the county’s counsel would review what could be shared publicly “due to the sensitive nature of this death investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to a redacted incident report obtained by KQED, Manzanilla was booked into the Marin County Jail at 1:30 p.m. on April 8 on suspicion of public intoxication and other misdemeanors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deputy Keira Oliver noted in her report that the inmate — whom the family said is Manzanilla — was “very intoxicated” and placed into a cell for observation where she “had been yelling and making nonsensical statements.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The next day at 8:15 a.m., Oliver and Deputy Taylor Del Santo got Manzanilla out of her cell. According to the report, she was able to walk out of the cell on her own, but soon had difficulty standing on her own during the fingerprinting and mugshot process. Deputies noted she “dropped her weight and fell to the floor” and needed a wheelchair. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098691\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Family members of Tammy Manzanilla held a press conference outside the Marin County Civic Center on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. They were joined by family members of other Bay Area residents who have died after being in police custody. 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