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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a year and a half after a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pro-palestinian-protest\">pro-Palestinian protesters\u003c/a> were arrested for breaking into and vandalizing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> president’s office, a trial is set to get underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of five protesters is scheduled to go to trial on Nov. 24. They face felony vandalism and conspiracy charges stemming from a grand jury indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While hundreds of students have been arrested at college campuses across the country for protest-related activity since the war in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Gaza\u003c/a> began, few of the cases have progressed this far. Attorneys for the defendants and their supporters have accused the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office of seeking overly harsh punishment to quell further protests and speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday morning, three other protesters told the court they intend to take a deal offered to them by a judge, which would require them to plead guilty to misdemeanors, a plan opposed by prosecutors. Three other protesters recently enrolled in mental health diversion programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of the misdemeanor deal remain vague for now, but attorneys for those defendants said it would likely include a path for their clients to ultimately have the charges dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EmilyRose Johns, an attorney representing Cameron Pennington, said the deal would likely require her client to perform community service and avoid any criminal behavior for a certain amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064524\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunter Taylor-Black, center, one of five pro-Palestinian protesters going to trial for breaking into the Stanford University president’s office, speaks to a group of supporters outside the Hall of Justice in San José on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The court has indicated that if they’re successful, it may ultimately allow withdrawal of the plea and a diversion deal, which would mean that the clients have no conviction history,” Johns told KQED after a court hearing on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office oppose the deal, which attorneys said was offered late last week to all the defendants by Judge Deborah Ryan, following private discussions between attorneys and Ryan in court chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office didn’t respond to a request for comment on Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge is the current arbiter of justice. The judge is the person who decides what is just and appropriate and can dismiss cases over the district attorney’s objection and can make court offers to clients over the district attorney’s objection,” Johns said.[aside postID=news_12035346 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“The reason that misdemeanors are even on the table is that Judge Ryan has indicated that she didn’t believe this resembled felony conduct,” Johns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case stems from a June 5, 2024, action by a group of a dozen protesters, mostly made up of current or former Stanford students at the time, who broke into the president’s office in the early morning hours and barricaded themselves inside before being arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said on social media at the time they wanted Stanford leaders to “address their role in enabling and profiting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” It came amid a series of larger campus demonstrations aimed at pressuring the school to divest from companies that support Israel’s military bombardment in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in April, when he brought initial felony charges against the group, that they “crossed the clear and bright line between dissent and destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiden Wang, one of the defendants who intends to take the court deal, said the group’s actions fit into a legacy of protest in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that our action is part of the long history of activism in the Bay Area,” Wang said. “The Bay Area seems to be one of the earliest brewing grounds for these types of actions and these kinds of resistance towards systems of oppression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-e1744310968489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Building 10 at Stanford University, where pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the university president’s office and occupied it before being arrested on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The protesters who intend to take the deal, as well as those who are headed to trial, will all still have to contend with the issue of a $329,000 claim for restitution by Stanford for damages caused by the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Brass, an attorney representing Hunter Taylor-Black, who is proceeding to trial, said Stanford has refused to talk with attorneys about the figure, which could amount to “crippling debt” for some of the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said the number could increase or decrease after a restitution hearing, and Stanford’s lack of engagement on the topic makes it hard to know what consequences his client and others may face, and is part of the reason they are going to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they’re trying to avoid is unknown consequences, unfair consequences, extreme consequences. And this could all be clarified,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064526\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of supporters gathered for a rally outside the Hall of Justice in San José on Nov. 17, 2025, after a court hearing for a group of pro-Palestinian protesters indicted for breaking into the Stanford University president’s office. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One other protester, Jack Richardson, served as a witness for prosecutors in the grand jury and is now enrolled in a youth deferred judgment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass and other attorneys have also taken issue with the district attorney’s motions asking a judge to ban any mention of the word “genocide” from the trial. In those filings, the DA’s office said the word “genocide” is “inflammatory” and would prejudice the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen’s office also filed motions asking to exclude the motives behind the actions of the protesters, saying the defense will likely “attempt to use this trial as another form of protest,” instead of focusing on guilt or innocence.[aside postID=news_12063531 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240214-GOLDEN-GATE-BRIDGE-PROTEST-JCL-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“What matters is only that they agreed to occupy the building and that vandalism was necessary to accomplish the occupation. Their reasons for doing so have no relevance to the issues the jury will be asked to decide,” the filings say. “While such evidence might be relevant at sentencing, it serves no purpose at jury trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s filings said the defense will attempt to “make this proceeding an extension of the June 5, 2024, political protest by falsely accusing Stanford University of supporting genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said those motions show Rosen is trying to “present this trial completely sanitized,” without full context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These students were acting for a greater good. And their inaction was something they, out of a sense of conscience, couldn’t live with,” Brass said. “They had to draw more attention to it, had to amplify their voice, and this is what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted that the protesters went into the building when it was empty and did not harm anyone or threaten anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Burke, one of the protesters going to trial, said the motions trying to limit the scope of the defendant’s arguments are “alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke said they are seeking justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are war crimes on,” Burke said, “and I would hope to see that acknowledged in the court and acknowledged in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063886/at-least-1-person-shot-at-oaklands-skyline-high-school\">student was shot at an Oakland high school this week\u003c/a>, school district leaders are calling for more violence-prevention resources on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a key program aimed at reducing school-site violence could sunset this spring as city funding lapses and the Oakland Unified School District looks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062643/oakland-unified-wins-budget-approval-but-faces-dire-warning-on-financial-future\">cut $100 million from its budget\u003c/a> amid a major fiscal crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moments like this are when our school partners and our students expect us to show up,” said Joseph Griffin, the executive director of the nonprofit Youth ALIVE!, which has partnered with the Oakland Unified School District on its School Violence Intervention and Prevention program since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can show up is if we know we have the resources and the funding to keep these programs going,” he told KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When gunfire shook Skyline High School’s campus on Wednesday afternoon, a violence interruptor was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school-based staffers identify and proactively mediate conflicts between students and intervene when tensions escalate. They’ve been embedded at OUSD high schools since 2023 through a pilot program with the city’s Department of Violence Prevention, launched to reduce high rates of violence on the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063888\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/006_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A football practice at Skyline High School on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the 2021-2022 school year, \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.granicus.com/player/clip/6096?view_id=2&redirect=true\">more than 670 OUSD high school students\u003c/a> were suspended for physical violence. In recent years, there have been at least six shootings at Oakland schools, including three on Skyline’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, three minors were arrested on assault and firearm charges in connection with another \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/alameda-county-da-charges-oakland-skyline-high-school-shooting/3319431/\">shooting at the school\u003c/a> that resulted in no injuries. The following year, three people were injured in a shooting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987651/multiple-suspects-sought-after-shooting-injures-2-at-oakland-graduation\">just after the school’s graduation ceremony\u003c/a>. And on Wednesday, a student was shot in the bathroom of a building on campus, according to school board member Mike Hutchinson.[aside postID=news_12063886 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251112-SKYLINE-HIGH-SHOOTING-MD-01-KQED.jpg']The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and two minors were taken into custody, according to Oakland Police. Police said two firearms were recovered at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role that violence interrupters play is to focus on the time immediately before and after an incident of violence,” Griffin said. “We can understand when tensions are getting high and can get in front of that … and in the case when there is violence, we can be there in the immediate aftermath to try to bring down the tensions to make sure that retaliation doesn’t occur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Violence Intervention and Prevention program evolved out of a partnership between the district, the city and local nonprofits to bring intervention and gender-based violence workers and life coaches into schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, violence interrupters rotated across multiple campuses, but in fall of 2023, they were assigned at seven high schools and continuing schools throughout the district, and have expanded to more sites, including Skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the program’s first year, OUSD saw a \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.granicus.com/player/clip/6096?view_id=2&redirect=true\">10% reduction\u003c/a> in suspensions for physical violence across its high schools. In 2024, interrupters mediated more than 260 conflicts, according to Griffin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Offices in Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When violence occurs on campus, Griffin said, interrupters help ensure conflicts don’t lead to retaliation and identify whether it might spill off campus. He said in the hours after the shooting at Skyline on Wednesday, other Youth ALIVE! interruptors working throughout the city came to the school site to provide support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the moment where we could start to coordinate between our school-based programs and our community-based programs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said this week’s shooting underscores a need to expand the program — not let it expire when funding dries up this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allocated $5.4 million to the program in its 2023-2025 budget, and the district also received a nearly $1 million grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund three additional interrupters for three years.[aside postID=news_12059238 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250603-OUSD-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Additional funding has been allocated for 2025-2026, but there are no plans to continue funding the positions after this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Superintendent Denise Saddler \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communications-public-affairs/newsroom/news/~board/ousd-news/post/a-difficult-conversation-about-our-budgetand-our-future\">warned of a dire budget crisis\u003c/a>, and next week, OUSD staff is expected to present scenarios that strip $100 million from the district’s budget next year to avoid insolvency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried that we can even continue them, let alone have the resources to expand those programs at Skyline, where there’s an obvious need for some sort of work to be done,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland teacher’s union president Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said the union has been advocating for the continuation of violence-prevention resources such as interrupters, along with on-site psychologists and other staff who help students feel safe and connected to campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is just a systemic disinvestment in resources in Oakland schools in general, but specifically at Skyline High School,” she said. “When staffing is cut, when mental health supports are inadequate, campuses are left without the resources that they need to help students do their best. This creates an environment where more violence can happen, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders, rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Griffin said Youth ALIVE! was in conversation with OUSD principals and other senior staff and was “looking for the pathway to keep this work going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the teams to drive a lasting reduction in campus violence, he said, they need to have a sustained presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t parachute in and parachute out,” he told KQED. “Our young people need us to be consistent in order to really trust the type of support that we’re offering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>An Alameda County judge allowed a case against a former San Leandro police officer to proceed to trial on Friday after a dramatic hearing in which three former prosecutors invoked the Fifth Amendment and the current deputy district attorney acknowledged “outrageous prosecutorial misconduct” by his own office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Thomas Reardon denied a defense motion to dismiss charges against former San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher, 55, accused of killing Steven Taylor, 33, inside a Walmart in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher was the first officer to arrive at the store after a security guard reported that Taylor tried to leave without paying. Fletcher moved toward Taylor and tried to grab an aluminum baseball bat out of his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He first used his Taser, causing Taylor to stumble forward, and then shot him in the chest — all within 40 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-District Attorney Nancy O’Malley filed charges in 2020, one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849253/charges-have-been-filed-against-police-officers-in-the-bay-this-year-why-just-now\">first cases\u003c/a> charged under a change in California law that raised the legal threshold for justified police use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pamela Price succeeded O’Malley three years later, Fletcher’s lawyer, Mike Rains, filed a motion asking that the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036569/alameda-county-da-retakes-police-manslaughter-case-from-state-after-prices-recall\">be turned over to California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black woman in a suit jacket speaks at a podium, with a 'Alameda County District Attorney's Office banner behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks to reporters during a briefing in Oakland on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rains argued that Fletcher didn’t stand to have a fair trial under Price, who had worked as a progressive prosecutor before taking over the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motion was granted in March 2024, but the case returned to Alameda County this year when Reardon pointed out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">voters had recalled Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After current District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson inherited the case earlier this year, her office discovered that prosecutors under Price had sought opinions from several police use-of-force experts who concluded Fletcher’s actions were not criminal, according to court filings.[aside postID=news_12036569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-08-KQED.jpg']Those opinions were not disclosed to the defense — a violation of the district attorney’s discovery obligations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284294-sfm24vprts01-cpy-2sw-01-0457-001/\">both sides now agree\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher’s defense filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284293-ppl-v-fletcher-20-cr-011755-defense-motion-to-dismiss-250829/\">voluminous motion to dismiss\u003c/a> in August, which was heard on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three former employees under Price invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the start of the hearing: Zachary Linowitz, who previously oversaw the case, as well as James Conger and Kwixuan Maloof, each of whom were formerly in charge of the district attorney’s unit that handles cases against public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand before you in a position where I’ve never stood before,” Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates told the judge, “bringing forth what appears to be misconduct of others in my office. I’ve never been in a court where colleagues of mine asserted their right against self-incrimination. But that happened not just once, but three times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to one of the suppressed expert opinions, Bates said, “Your honor, I believe they received information they didn’t want to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know where you get that,” Reardon said, repeatedly indicating that he was unconvinced that former prosecutors had committed any so-called Brady violations for failing to disclose evidence to the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaks at a rally in front of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reardon grilled Bates on whether the district attorney’s office agreed with the defense on any of three reasons to dismiss the case: due process violations, gross governmental misconduct or “in the interests of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that there has been outrageous prosecutorial misconduct,” Bates said. “I don’t know if it rises to the level of dismissal. I think that’s for the court to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge became more terse when Bates declined to state a clearer position. “You won’t answer the court’s question, so I think I’m done with you,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s mother and grandmother said after the hearing that they were grateful for the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge did the DA’s job,” Taylor’s grandmother, Addie Kitchen, said. “The judge had to step up and do his damn job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reardon ultimately found there had been no Brady violation and ruled that any misconduct did not warrant dismissing the case. He also declined to use his discretion to end the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addie Kitchen, Grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks during a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Angelo Quinto at Antioch City Park on March 10, 2021. Quinto died last December after his family says Antioch Police kneeled on his neck. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want 12 citizens of the county to opine,” he said. “They may just have a difficult case, and they may just have to try it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s family and civil rights groups, including the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, accused the District Attorney’s Office of “not seeking justice for Steven Taylor but … instead protecting the officer who killed him” in the days leading up to the hearing. Kitchen also wrote a letter to the court, urging the judge to reject the motion to dismiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no confidence in Mr. Bates,” Kitchen said. “I’m glad that the judge felt the need to present the case to a jury. Let the jury make a decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include the names of all three attorneys who invoked their Fifth Amendment rights during the hearing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those opinions were not disclosed to the defense — a violation of the district attorney’s discovery obligations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284294-sfm24vprts01-cpy-2sw-01-0457-001/\">both sides now agree\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher’s defense filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284293-ppl-v-fletcher-20-cr-011755-defense-motion-to-dismiss-250829/\">voluminous motion to dismiss\u003c/a> in August, which was heard on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three former employees under Price invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the start of the hearing: Zachary Linowitz, who previously oversaw the case, as well as James Conger and Kwixuan Maloof, each of whom were formerly in charge of the district attorney’s unit that handles cases against public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand before you in a position where I’ve never stood before,” Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates told the judge, “bringing forth what appears to be misconduct of others in my office. I’ve never been in a court where colleagues of mine asserted their right against self-incrimination. But that happened not just once, but three times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to one of the suppressed expert opinions, Bates said, “Your honor, I believe they received information they didn’t want to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know where you get that,” Reardon said, repeatedly indicating that he was unconvinced that former prosecutors had committed any so-called Brady violations for failing to disclose evidence to the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaks at a rally in front of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reardon grilled Bates on whether the district attorney’s office agreed with the defense on any of three reasons to dismiss the case: due process violations, gross governmental misconduct or “in the interests of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that there has been outrageous prosecutorial misconduct,” Bates said. “I don’t know if it rises to the level of dismissal. I think that’s for the court to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge became more terse when Bates declined to state a clearer position. “You won’t answer the court’s question, so I think I’m done with you,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s mother and grandmother said after the hearing that they were grateful for the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge did the DA’s job,” Taylor’s grandmother, Addie Kitchen, said. “The judge had to step up and do his damn job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reardon ultimately found there had been no Brady violation and ruled that any misconduct did not warrant dismissing the case. He also declined to use his discretion to end the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addie Kitchen, Grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks during a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Angelo Quinto at Antioch City Park on March 10, 2021. Quinto died last December after his family says Antioch Police kneeled on his neck. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want 12 citizens of the county to opine,” he said. “They may just have a difficult case, and they may just have to try it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s family and civil rights groups, including the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, accused the District Attorney’s Office of “not seeking justice for Steven Taylor but … instead protecting the officer who killed him” in the days leading up to the hearing. Kitchen also wrote a letter to the court, urging the judge to reject the motion to dismiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no confidence in Mr. Bates,” Kitchen said. “I’m glad that the judge felt the need to present the case to a jury. Let the jury make a decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include the names of all three attorneys who invoked their Fifth Amendment rights during the hearing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>John Beam, the Laney College athletic director and legendary football coach with decades of experience in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, died Friday morning after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064033/oakland-laney-college-shooting-sends-athletic-staff-member-to-hospital\">being shot on campus\u003c/a>, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cedric Irving, 27, was arrested at a BART station early Friday on suspicion of carrying out the shooting, police said in a noon news conference. A weapon has been recovered, and police plan to present the case to the Alameda County district attorney’s office on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, Beam and Irving knew each other but did not have a close relationship. Irving played high school football in Oakland, but not for Beam or Laney College, said interim Police Chief James Beere, who was named OPD’s temporary leader Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities did not disclose a motive for the shooting because Irving has not been charged yet, but they said it was a targeted incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the press conference, Piedmont Police Chief Frederick Shavies called Beam, 66, an “incredible human being” and mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost my father when I was in high school, and Coach has — since I was 15, 16, 17 years old — always been there for me, has always reached out to me,” he said. “And it’s not just me … [it’s also] hundreds of individuals that were there last night” at a hospital vigil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crime scene tape at Laney College in Oakland, California, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. The school was placed on lockdown after an individual was shot on campus, according to police. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Beam guided the Laney Eagles to a state championship and a No. 1 ranking in the country. He gained national attention in season 5 of the Netflix docuseries \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXRJL52ZD8\">\u003cem>Last Chance U\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, released in 2020, which followed junior college football teams across the country for each season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Beam stepped down as football coach but remained at Laney College as athletic director. Before arriving at Laney in 2004, he coached at Skyline High School in the Oakland Hills for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coach Beam’s legacy isn’t measured in championships or statistics,” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLee_CA/status/1989446798818349277\">a statement\u003c/a> Friday. “It’s measured in the thousands of young people he believed in, mentored, and refused to abandon, including my nephew, while at Skyline High School. He gave Oakland’s youth their best chance, and he never stopped fighting for them.”[aside postID=news_11996268 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1470234174-672x372.png']Beam was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064033/oakland-laney-college-shooting-sends-athletic-staff-member-to-hospital\">shot in the Laney Field House\u003c/a> on Thursday afternoon, leaving the campus on lockdown as police secured the scene and investigated. As news of the shooting spread, many of his former players gathered at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he was admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many of you, I struggle to comprehend the tragic loss of someone with so much bravado, enthusiasm, and tenacity for life,” Chancellor Tammeil Gilkerson of the Peralta Community College District wrote in a message to the district community Friday afternoon. “John’s vibrancy could be felt in every space he entered, proudly wearing his passion for students, Laney College, and Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across his 45-year career at Skyline High and Laney College, Beam coached over 2,500 players, including more than 200 who reached NCAA Division I programs and more than 30 who went on to appear in the NFL, Gilkerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he was known just as much for developing players into successful young men off the field and in the classroom, providing mentorship and an “unwavering love for the City of Oakland,” Gilkerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/LaneyCollegeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laney College on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are no real words to express my profound sorrow, but it is only softened by the tremendous gratitude I feel for the opportunity I had to work alongside him,” she said. “John made me laugh, infuriated me on some days, elevated my thinking, and constantly challenged me to be better for Peralta and for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laney College’s campus was quiet the morning after the shooting, with security guards standing outside classrooms and in courtyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While classes are back in session, the parking lot to the athletics building where Beam was shot was cordoned off with police tape. A single vase of flowers and a candle marked the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Oakland faced two shootings on school property, placing the campuses on temporary lockdown. On Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063886/at-least-1-person-shot-at-oaklands-skyline-high-school\">a young person was shot at Skyline High School\u003c/a>, and two minors were taken into custody. Lee said during a Friday news conference that it has “been an incredibly difficult week for the city” and called it “the gun violence crisis playing out in real time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250814-OAKLANDPUSHBACK-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250814-OAKLANDPUSHBACK-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250814-OAKLANDPUSHBACK-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250814-OAKLANDPUSHBACK-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Barbara Lee speaks during a press conference at Oakland City Hall in Oakland on Aug. 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our work continues to get guns off of the streets of Oakland,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilkerson said that there will be drop-in employee and student counseling services available across the community college district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These acts of violence are incredibly painful and are individually experienced in many different ways,” Gilkerson wrote. “The notification may also bring up feelings from other incidents that I know, sadly, many of you have experienced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED in 2020, Beam spoke about his aspirations for his players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put the jerseys [of Laney alumni in the NFL] up there to inspire folks,” he said. “But then on Thursdays, I bring in other folks that come in that have played for me that are now doctors, or write books, or are police officers, or firemen. 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Before that, he had served part of a state prison sentence at San Quentin stemming from his attack on a pedestrian in July 2023 and other previous violent assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulauan’s family members, who spoke at the hearing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-the-dad-who-never-stopped-trying\">said\u003c/a> he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-the-dad-who-never-stopped-trying\">struggled\u003c/a> for decades with substance use and lived with bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia. Bulauan’s son, Anjru Jaezon de Leon, said he’d asked Atascadero officials not to release his father to the facility in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, arguing that his father wasn’t ready for the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I advocated, and my sister advocated that it would be in his best interest not to be in San Francisco,” Bulauan’s son said. “And those concerns were ultimately cast aside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bulauan’s son said he last spoke with his father on the phone on July 13, just a few days after Bulauan had been transferred to a halfway house at 111 Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250716_ComptonsCafeteriaBuilding_GH-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250716_ComptonsCafeteriaBuilding_GH-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250716_ComptonsCafeteriaBuilding_GH-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250716_ComptonsCafeteriaBuilding_GH-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">111 Taylor St., the former Compton’s Cafeteria site now operated as a GEO Group halfway house, stands in San Francisco’s Tenderloin on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“‘I’m anxious,’” Bulauan’s son remembers his father saying. “‘I’m scared. 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I called the facility three times, begging for a wellness check, and three times they hung up on me before I could even complete a sentence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, Bulauan was found dead on the sidewalk near the building, his son said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He died alone on the pavement, a block from where he said he was too afraid to sleep.”[aside postID=news_12049169 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716_ComptonsCafeteriaBuilding_GH_qed.jpg']Bulauan’s mother, Amelia Miguel, spoke to the Board of Supervisors’ committee through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was to be safe when he was there,” she said, sobbing. “But it’s not, it’s not, it’s not, it’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geo Group, which is also a contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, purchased the building at the corner of Turk and Taylor streets in 1989. 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