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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s office plans to meet with police officials to discuss “how to do it smarter” so future arrests are more likely to result in charges, Gonzalez told community members at the meeting. She attributed the lack of follow-through to growing pains as the city adopts a new approach to enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[City leaders] are trying, but they’re trying too fast,” she said of San Francisco’s aggressive new push, under Mayor Daniel Lurie, to break up the city’s most notorious open-air drug markets. “We do not have the tools that would make this easier … [and police] are doing something that they have never done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement arrested about 40 people in a large drug raid at Market and Van Ness in San Francisco last week, but prosecutors say there isn’t enough evidence to file charges. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=968098015470532\">Facebook video\u003c/a> posted by the San Francisco Police Department after Thursday’s early morning raid shows a legion of officers swarming the area, zip-tying people and making arrests — even setting up a folding table on the street to do the processing, as suspects sat waiting in clusters on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This activity will not be tolerated [and] and we will continue these operations for as long as it takes,” the post reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1902799634722087069\">separate post on X\u003c/a> featuring the video, Lurie echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day I see families waiting for Muni here, amidst open drug use and dealing,” he said. “This will not be tolerated, and we will be relentless in dismantling drug markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, a multi-agency task force, the raid follows another one in February \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1895549458571804821\">at Jefferson Square Park\u003c/a>, during which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">nearly 90 arrests or citations\u003c/a> were issued — the vast majority for non-drug-related offenses like loitering. Police have also recently increased surveillance operations on 6th Street and near the 16th Street–Mission BART station.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Gonzalez emphasized that her office can only file charges when a law has obviously been violated. Unlike the Jefferson Square Park raid, where people were charged for being in the park after it closed at 10 p.m., there was no such obvious violation during Thursday’s action on a public street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every single one of those people, I need to be able to articulate to the judge what crime that person committed,” Gonzalez said. “Who are you marking to be able to articulate that they committed a crime?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez emphasized it was crucial for the DA’s office to be deliberate in how it handles the uptick in arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you arrest enough people or cite enough people without being able to establish probable cause, the next thing you know, there’ll be complaints,” she said. “And then cops will get in trouble, and then there’ll be a chilling effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raids come \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">amid efforts\u003c/a> by the nascent Lurie administration to ramp up enforcement, fulfilling a key campaign promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Knoble, acting captain of the Tenderloin Station, told community members at Tuesday’s meeting that actions of this scale require a huge amount of planning and resources. He said that even though no charges were ultimately filed, raids like these still have real impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Lurie] is taking action. He’s looking for things to happen,” Knoble said. “And when you start to do anything new, what do you do? ‘OK, that’s not quite working, so let’s adjust.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is based on original reporting from Mission Local’s Eleni Balakrishnan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> had a reputation as a correctional officer at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women incarcerated at the East Bay federal prison said he patrolled housing units wearing a cowboy hat and boots, often leaving his shirts unbuttoned with nothing underneath. When he wasn’t making rounds, they said, he sat back in his chair at the officer’s desk, kicking his feet up and leering at women as they walked by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made passing sexual comments and locked women in cells when they broke the rules, ordering them to flash him to get out or to be awarded special privileges, women testified in federal court in Oakland this week. Whenever new women arrived at the prison, they said they were warned about Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were known for several things, but he was the officer that walked around with his shirt open, kind of cowboy style, not professional at all,” said one woman, who remembers learning his nickname, “Dirty Dick Smith,” soon after she arrived at Dublin in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He carried himself in a different way than other officers,” she said. “He was always talking to the girls in inappropriate ways or trying to get with all the girls. Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. One day, he called her over as he was locking up at the end of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith watching as a witness gives testimony against him in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking down at a clipboard in his hands, he asked her quietly what she might need when she was released, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said a job, I said a car,” the woman testified. “He said he’d get one for me if I’d be with him at night,” gesturing toward his groin as he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said she shook her head and walked away, upset, but Smith’s actions only escalated. He started to comment on her feet when she wore slides to the shower, tried to touch her, and came into her cell when she was alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2020, the woman said, she was beading on her bed when Smith showed up in her doorway. He ordered her to grab a stack of books on top of her white metal storage locker across the cell.[aside postID=news_12031584 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1181905632_qed-1020x680.jpg']“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. I never thought I was going to go through things like that, but he made me uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-800x489.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1920x1173.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listen as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson is questioning her, and District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sits on the bench. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started calling her over to the officer’s station, where he would tell her about his trips to Tijuana and ask about her family, she said. He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.[aside postID=news_12031908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“He would touch me, spank me, rub my back when I was sleeping,” she testified. “He told me to get up and look pretty for [him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her that if she didn’t cooperate, he would take away her mail or her telephone and commissary privileges. Once, he ripped up a letter of hers in front of her, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2020, he came by her cell in the evening. He told her that if she met him in the laundry room after curfew, he would give her a cellphone to call her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to walk in, and he started touching me,” she said. “I started pushing him away and saying I just wanted to see my kids. He said I needed to earn it. I wasn’t ready for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith assaulted her three times in the laundry room, sticking his fingers into her anus and vagina and exposing his penis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just closed my eyes and just lost it,” she said. “I felt so disgusted, I felt powerless. I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to do something, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything. Who was I going to ask for help, who was I going to tell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Smith assaulted her was in the winter of 2020, she said. This time, he told her to go to the janitor’s closet, which was down the dark, sterile hallway from the laundry room she had grown accustomed to meeting him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she knew “he wanted more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t want to finger me or play with me or just interact with me no more,” she said. “He wanted to hurt me by getting what he wanted, to use me, to have sex with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith waited for her at the entrance to the hallway that led to the closet and followed behind her, walking slowly in his jeans and cowboy boots, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just walked toward me and told me to turn around. I wanted to push him away, but I guess he was tired of me, my actions, my mouth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed into a wall of tall black lockers, she said, she turned around and bent over. He forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nothing,” she said quietly in court, pausing as she spoke. “I had no say. I couldn’t defend myself toward somebody who was there to do right for us. Instead of helping, he had done all the wrongs and really hurt me, really damaged me and showed me that I had no way of getting out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after that, Smith moved on to a new “girlfriend” but continued to harass her. She reported his abuse in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she remained in Dublin until it was abruptly shuttered last April, when she was transferred to a federal prison in Florida. She was also party to a civil suit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">settled in December\u003c/a> and has had her sentence shortened by seven years as part of a compassionate release deal. Smith’s defense pointed out that she was undocumented when she was arrested and will likely be granted a U-visa — which is set aside for victims of certain crimes — for aiding the government in Smith’s trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, Smith’s “abuse broke me, it finished me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money, there’s no visa that would change anything. Not even me looking at my kids would change the damage that he cost me,” she said. “It is more painful than anything, and I don’t think I can recover from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. One day, he called her over as he was locking up at the end of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith watching as a witness gives testimony against him in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking down at a clipboard in his hands, he asked her quietly what she might need when she was released, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said a job, I said a car,” the woman testified. “He said he’d get one for me if I’d be with him at night,” gesturing toward his groin as he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said she shook her head and walked away, upset, but Smith’s actions only escalated. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. I never thought I was going to go through things like that, but he made me uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-800x489.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1920x1173.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listen as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson is questioning her, and District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sits on the bench. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started calling her over to the officer’s station, where he would tell her about his trips to Tijuana and ask about her family, she said. He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He would touch me, spank me, rub my back when I was sleeping,” she testified. “He told me to get up and look pretty for [him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her that if she didn’t cooperate, he would take away her mail or her telephone and commissary privileges. Once, he ripped up a letter of hers in front of her, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2020, he came by her cell in the evening. He told her that if she met him in the laundry room after curfew, he would give her a cellphone to call her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to walk in, and he started touching me,” she said. “I started pushing him away and saying I just wanted to see my kids. He said I needed to earn it. I wasn’t ready for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith assaulted her three times in the laundry room, sticking his fingers into her anus and vagina and exposing his penis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just closed my eyes and just lost it,” she said. “I felt so disgusted, I felt powerless. I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to do something, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything. Who was I going to ask for help, who was I going to tell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Smith assaulted her was in the winter of 2020, she said. This time, he told her to go to the janitor’s closet, which was down the dark, sterile hallway from the laundry room she had grown accustomed to meeting him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she knew “he wanted more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t want to finger me or play with me or just interact with me no more,” she said. “He wanted to hurt me by getting what he wanted, to use me, to have sex with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith waited for her at the entrance to the hallway that led to the closet and followed behind her, walking slowly in his jeans and cowboy boots, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just walked toward me and told me to turn around. I wanted to push him away, but I guess he was tired of me, my actions, my mouth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed into a wall of tall black lockers, she said, she turned around and bent over. He forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nothing,” she said quietly in court, pausing as she spoke. “I had no say. I couldn’t defend myself toward somebody who was there to do right for us. Instead of helping, he had done all the wrongs and really hurt me, really damaged me and showed me that I had no way of getting out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after that, Smith moved on to a new “girlfriend” but continued to harass her. She reported his abuse in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she remained in Dublin until it was abruptly shuttered last April, when she was transferred to a federal prison in Florida. She was also party to a civil suit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">settled in December\u003c/a> and has had her sentence shortened by seven years as part of a compassionate release deal. Smith’s defense pointed out that she was undocumented when she was arrested and will likely be granted a U-visa — which is set aside for victims of certain crimes — for aiding the government in Smith’s trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, Smith’s “abuse broke me, it finished me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money, there’s no visa that would change anything. Not even me looking at my kids would change the damage that he cost me,” she said. “It is more painful than anything, and I don’t think I can recover from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:34 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you drive in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, now might be a good time to slow your roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the city’s 33 new speed cameras began operating at the stroke of midnight on Thursday amid efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">reduce traffic fatalities\u003c/a> following a particularly deadly year for the city’s pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Installed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028444/sf-struggling-reduce-traffic-deaths-slow-streets-could-be-answer\">high-injury corridors \u003c/a>where speeding is common, the cameras will automatically snap photos of the rear license plates of motorists traveling 11 mph or more over the posted speed limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next 60 days, speeding drivers in the camera zones will receive no-fee warning notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cameras will immediately begin issuing warnings to educate drivers on the importance of lower speeds,” Michael Roccaforte, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco speed camera locations\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Ri5ud\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Ri5ud/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"637\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to start issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/why-were-introducing-speed-safety-cameras-first-california\">real citations\u003c/a> in late May, with penalties ranging from $50 for drivers caught going 11 to 15 mph over the posted speed limit and going as high as $500 for the rare 100 mph instance. Tickets will be processed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/why-were-introducing-speed-safety-cameras-first-california\">Verra Mobility\u003c/a>, the contractor the city hired to install and maintain the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 21 cameras will be activated on a rolling basis over the coming weeks, according to the SFMTA, which is overseeing the program and intends to update \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/speed-safety-cameras\">its website\u003c/a> daily to show which camera locations are live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is the first city in California to install automated speed-enforcement cameras, long an aspiration of street safety advocates frustrated by the city’s lack of progress in reaching its long-term goal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010882/tragic-sf-pedestrian-death-raises-question-vision-zero-failure\">eliminating traffic deaths\u003c/a> and serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big moment for all of us who’ve been pushing for this technology to be allowed in San Francisco,” said Marta Lindsey, a spokesperson with Walk San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The activation of the cameras comes more than a year and a half after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">AB 645\u003c/a> authorizing the devices in San Francisco, Oakland, San José, Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since New York City implemented the country’s first red-light safety camera program in 1992, more than 300 cities across the U.S. have installed traffic safety cameras, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed/speed-camera-communities\">Insurance Institute for Highway Safety\u003c/a>, a nonprofit research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been so eager for this solution to come to San Francisco, especially when it’s proven so successful in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/nyc-dot-speed-cameras.shtml\">New York City\u003c/a>, where it’s just dramatically shifted behavior and, most importantly, reduced traffic crashes,” Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speeding is consistently the primary cause of severe and fatal traffic crashes, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to end these tragedies on our streets, you have to go after speed,” Lindsey said. “Drivers slow down, and then the crashes go down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020559 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-26-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, San Francisco experienced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">highest traffic death toll\u003c/a> in nearly two decades, with 41 people killed in vehicle collisions, 24 of them pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spike in fatalities has led to widespread calls for the city to intensify its traffic safety efforts, as activists, the public and some members of the Board of Supervisors increasingly criticize the SFMTA for falling behind on its ambitious program aimed at rapidly improving conditions for people walking and rolling at more than 900 locations across the city by the end of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three-fourths of those projects, including improving crosswalks and resetting traffic signals to give pedestrians more time to cross, have been finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Dec. 17 meeting of San Francisco County transportation officials, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman asked Shannon Hake, SFMTA’s Vision Zero program manager, why the cameras were being deployed in March, even though the agency had set a target of February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a problem when we articulate a public goal and are very clear about it and respond to people who are concerned about whether we can make that goal and over and over again to reassure them that we can — and then don’t,” Mandelman said. “That’s something that I think drives our public a little nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before the inauguration of Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hake attributed the extended deployment timeline to factors like identifying a contractor to run the system, completing electrical and structural engineering and working out an agreement with the city’s Public Works agency to mount the cameras on light poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speed cameras are a powerful solution. 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Yu’s mother suffered a ruptured spleen, multiple fractures and a traumatic brain injury and now requires round-the-clock care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still sometimes wonder where my mother was going when she was hit by a speeding driver,” said Yu, who co-founded San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” she continued, holding back tears. “But we’re going to need more solutions for the city to make Vision Zero the success story it can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey similarly acknowledged that more needs to be done. 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Amiri, seated at lower right, faces charges that he and former officer Devon Christopher Wenger conspired to severely injure suspects over a period of three years. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s “stated fear of treatment by inmates that he arrested” added to his status as a flight risk, White said, but the judge added that the court informed jailers of Amiri’s former job and will “inform them that they should take appropriate measures” to ensure his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s case stemmed from a larger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">police corruption scandal\u003c/a> within the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments that was made public in 2023. The federal investigation revealed a trove of racist and violent text messages sent between officers. Amiri was also convicted last year with five other officers who schemed to obtain fraudulent college degrees for a pay raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As evidence of his risk to the community, White cited texts that Amiri sent, which included “pride over inflicting pain and sending people to the hospital” and his “use of slurs, which indicates that he dehumanizes suspects.” He also mentioned the “savagery” of the K-9 attack on Adrian Arroyo, for which Amiri was convicted of the excessive force charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s K-9, Purcy, bit Arroyo after Amiri stopped him for riding his bicycle without any lights after dark. 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He abused his power when he pinned her against a wall and shoved his fingers into her anus. … He used his power for many years to sexually abuse many women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is one of eight former correctional officers and high-ranking officials who were criminally charged in the sprawling probe into FCI Dublin. The other seven, including the prison’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934639/ex-warden-of-dublin-womens-prison-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates\">former warden\u003c/a>, have all been sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as “Dirty Dick Smith” in court documents, he faces six counts of sexual abuse of a ward, seven counts of abusive sexual contact, one count of aggravated sexual abuse, and one count of deprivation of rights by bestowing cruel and unusual punishment. If convicted, he could face a lifetime sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women who were formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin plan to testify that Smith made sexual comments toward them, forced them to lift up their tops in front of him, penetrated them with his fingers as they slept, and even forced them to have sex with him, Paidipaty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of Smith’s abuse happened in the housing units on that property,” where he was often the only guard, she told the jury. “This is where the women lived, where they slept at night, where they showered, where they did their laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For these units, Smith had ultimate control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense said that the picture of Smith’s time as a correctional officer would be incomplete, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12031367 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240408-FCIDublin-016-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not see DNA evidence, you will not see any other forensic evidence, physical evidence of a sexual assault,” attorney Joanna Sheridan said in opening statements. “You will not see any surveillance video of Mr. Smith touching an inmate. You might want to pause and think about that, considering that this is a prison, a highly secured facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan foreshadowed a strategy of attempting to discredit witness testimony — “These are women who … were there because they committed felony offenses,” she said — and pushed back against the prosecution’s depiction of the power hierarchy of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inmates figure out how to get what they want,” she told jurors. “They learn how to manipulate the system. They learn how to manipulate staff and [Bureau of Prison] management to benefit their interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">more than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by officials at FCI Dublin. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Prisons acknowledged the damage done at the facility with a $116 million settlement split among 103 women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sixty-three civil suits have been filed against the prison and its officials since 2021, and FCI Dublin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">abruptly closed last April\u003c/a>, a month after an FBI raid and just weeks after a judge appointed the first-ever special master to the Bureau of Prisons to oversee changes at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special master Wendy Still’s report on the institution, unsealed in August, said that women could not easily obtain forms used to lodge complaints and that to “obtain any of the forms necessary to file a remedy at any level, the [woman] had to request the form from staff and justify the need for the form which had a chilling effect” and made women “fearful of retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reporting an officer in prison is risky,” Paidipaty said during her opening statement for the prosecution. “You can face retaliation, and in fact, you’ll hear from some women about the consequences that they’ve faced when they tried to speak up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that in the coming days of the trial, more than a dozen women will likely take the stand to testify about the abuse they faced from Smith or to corroborate the reports of those who were harmed around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the walls of that prison, those women felt powerless,” she said. “Smith did what he wanted, and when he wanted, for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not see DNA evidence, you will not see any other forensic evidence, physical evidence of a sexual assault,” attorney Joanna Sheridan said in opening statements. “You will not see any surveillance video of Mr. Smith touching an inmate. You might want to pause and think about that, considering that this is a prison, a highly secured facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan foreshadowed a strategy of attempting to discredit witness testimony — “These are women who … were there because they committed felony offenses,” she said — and pushed back against the prosecution’s depiction of the power hierarchy of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inmates figure out how to get what they want,” she told jurors. “They learn how to manipulate the system. They learn how to manipulate staff and [Bureau of Prison] management to benefit their interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">more than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by officials at FCI Dublin. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Prisons acknowledged the damage done at the facility with a $116 million settlement split among 103 women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sixty-three civil suits have been filed against the prison and its officials since 2021, and FCI Dublin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">abruptly closed last April\u003c/a>, a month after an FBI raid and just weeks after a judge appointed the first-ever special master to the Bureau of Prisons to oversee changes at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special master Wendy Still’s report on the institution, unsealed in August, said that women could not easily obtain forms used to lodge complaints and that to “obtain any of the forms necessary to file a remedy at any level, the [woman] had to request the form from staff and justify the need for the form which had a chilling effect” and made women “fearful of retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reporting an officer in prison is risky,” Paidipaty said during her opening statement for the prosecution. “You can face retaliation, and in fact, you’ll hear from some women about the consequences that they’ve faced when they tried to speak up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that in the coming days of the trial, more than a dozen women will likely take the stand to testify about the abuse they faced from Smith or to corroborate the reports of those who were harmed around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the walls of that prison, those women felt powerless,” she said. “Smith did what he wanted, and when he wanted, for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While she was incarcerated at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a>, one woman says in court documents, her father died. Her mail from her husband was withheld, her calls to him were cut off, and she fell into a depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a correctional officer at the East Bay federal prison seemed to offer her a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983422/another-former-fci-dublin-officer-facing-criminal-charges-is-scheduled-for-trial\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> told her that if she met him in the prison’s laundry room, he would give her a cellphone so she could have a video visit with her children, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she arrived, she said, he put his hands on her breasts and buttocks. According to court documents, she alleges that when she asked about calling her kids, Smith “told her she had to cooperate with him first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith had blocked her communication, she said, and would come to her cell, force her to walk around and spank her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between September 2020 and January 2021, the woman said, Smith got her alone and subjected her to unwanted sexual acts — first by promising contact with her family, and later by threatening trouble if she didn’t comply or by grabbing her physically. She alleges that he made her “model” lingerie, penetrated her with his fingers and ordered her to have sex with him.[aside postID=news_11983422 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240408-FCIDublin-002-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']After Smith had assaulted her multiple times, the woman told him that she wanted “what was going on between them” to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smith responded that she had no choice, and it would not stop until he wanted it to stop,” according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the eight former FCI Dublin officers charged in a sprawling investigation into the prison’s widespread culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups, Smith is the last whose fate is uncertain. His trial on 15 counts of abuse and deprivation of civil rights is set to begin Monday in federal court in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">More than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by correctional officers and high-ranking officials at the low-security women’s prison, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shuttered last April\u003c/a> after the yearslong investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This trial is something a lot of women have been looking forward to … and are going to be paying attention to and hoping for a just outcome in,” said Jae Oh, who represented three women who made claims against Smith in civil cases, including the one who said she was isolated and abused by him in 2020 and 2021. KQED does not identify victims of sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “will be sort of the last bookend step in this very long process where we’ve been repeatedly trying to get the truth and accountability for everything that these women have gone through,” Oh told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as “Dirty Dick Clark,” Smith, 55, faces six counts of sexual abuse of a ward, seven counts of abusive sexual contact, one count of aggravated sexual abuse, and one count of deprivation of rights by bestowing cruel and unusual punishment. If convicted, he could face a lifetime sentence.[aside postID=news_12018828 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The defendant’s alleged actions are some of the most disturbing charges we’ve seen for a former federal corrections officer,” Michael Nordwall, executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, said in a statement when Smith’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997595/former-east-bay-prison-officer-charged-with-more-sex-crimes-against-women-in-his-custody\">indictment was expanded to add new charges\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is accused of digitally penetrating five women as far back as 2016, some on multiple occasions, and forcing one to have intercourse with him while one of the other victims “stood outside to serve as a lookout.” He often bribed them to get them alone and threatened retaliation if they didn’t comply, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear of retaliation loomed over many women who were “very scared about participating in this process” by filing complaints against FCI Dublin officers, Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some who did were sent to the solitary housing unit, she said, where they lost contact with their families, recreation time and credit for good behavior that could have shortened their time in prison. Another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">told KQED she lost visitation privileges\u003c/a>, phone and commissary access, and was barred from speaking with lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some women who are still incarcerated after being transferred to other facilities have not come forward with their stories of abuse at FCI Dublin because of the power imbalance they face, Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers “know where the security cameras are; they know who the women will talk to; they get access to their emails, their phone calls, their mails,” she told KQED. “That great power differential and the fact that these women are reliant on the officers day in and day out for food, for recreation time, for mail, for phone calls to family — I think they just feel powerless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sentences against the seven other FCI Dublin officers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934639/ex-warden-of-dublin-womens-prison-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates\">former warden Ray Garcia\u003c/a>, have shown the power of women coming forward, Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Validating their stories and their concerns has been very meaningful because time and time again with the other criminal cases up until now, we’ve seen that there is power in the victims’ voices when they speak up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The years of staff violence at FCI Dublin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904298/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse\">dubbed the “rape club”\u003c/a> by workers and women incarcerated there, was first reported in a 2021 Associated Press investigation. The prison is facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978712/infamous-east-bay-womens-prison-hit-with-12-additional-sexual-assault-lawsuits\">more than 60 lawsuits\u003c/a> alleging sexual assault and retaliation by prison officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Bureau of Prisons also faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987292/trial-for-class-action-lawsuit-over-troubled-womens-prison-slated-for-june-2025\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> brought on behalf of women who were formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin, including some who were transferred to other federal facilities after its closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unconscionable that any correctional agency could allow incarcerated individuals under their control and responsibility to be subject to the conditions that existed at FCI-Dublin for such an extended period of time without correction,” read a report by court-appointed special master Wendy Still, who was tasked with overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">changes at the site\u003c/a> — the first time such an appointment was made in the history of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still’s report, unsealed by a judge in August, also says she worried about “the mistreatment, neglect and abuse” that women suffered at Dublin being repeated after they were transferred, “as many of the conditions that existed at this facility appear to be longstanding and systemic in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 4:08 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal jury returned a split verdict \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030621/police-corruption-trial-of-ex-antioch-officer-goes-to-jury-deliberations\">against former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri\u003c/a> on Friday afternoon, finding him guilty of violating one person’s rights and falsifying a police report but acquitting him of a broader charge that he and other officers engaged in a systemic conspiracy to use excessive force repeatedly over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Morteza Amiri violated the oath he swore to protect the people of Antioch,” said acting U.S. District Attorney Patrick D. Robbins in a statement. “As today’s jury verdict makes clear, officers who put themselves above the law will be held accountable.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Amiri stems from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">police corruption scandal\u003c/a> that became public in 2023 and implicated members of both the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments for exchanging violently racist text messages, falsifying college coursework to bump their pay and allegedly distributing steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and two other former Antioch officers initially faced what may have been the most serious criminal charges to emerge in the case. But one officer took a plea deal, another case ended in a mistrial, and Amiri’s conviction was far more limited than the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030325/dog-bites-foam-bullets-and-fear-victims-testify-to-ex-antioch-officers-excessive-force\">broad conspiracy prosecutors had set out to prove\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s sentencing on the two guilty counts is set for June, according to his attorney, Paul Goyette. He said the jury “got it right” when it found Amiri not guilty of conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had presented to the jury volumes of offensive text messages as evidence that Amiri and other officers were conspiring and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">encouraging one another to use excessive force\u003c/a>. Goyette called those texts “trash talking” among numerous colleagues in a dangerous profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Romo testifies on the first day of the federal trial against Morteza Amiri and Devon Christopher Wenger at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. Amiri and Wenger face charges that they conspired to severely injure suspects over a period of three years. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What the text messages weren’t — they weren’t evidence of an agreement between Mr. Amiri and anybody to go out and violate anybody’s rights,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Antioch officer Eric Rombough pleaded guilty shortly before the trial began, and he was a prominent witness in the prosecution’s case, as was another former Antioch and Pittsburg officer who pleaded guilty to charges in a separate federal case — Timothy Manly-Williams. The trial took a surprising turn two weeks ago when the judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">declared a mistrial\u003c/a> against Amiri’s co-defendant, Devon Christopher Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough testified for the prosecution that he and Amiri encouraged each other to violently punish suspects. He testified that he lost respect for the civil rights of the people he was policing and felt “a huge sense of shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single use of force for which Amiri was convicted Friday of deprivation of rights and falsifying records came on July 24, 2019, when Manly-Williams was on a ride-along with Amiri, his roommate at the time. Amiri started a conflict with a man on a bicycle, and Manly-Williams released the police dog to maul the bicyclist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029173 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Sacramento-Shove_Horiz.00_00_09_16.Still005-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri texted colleagues that it was a “stretch” of a resisting arrest case, that he’d left information out of his official report and joked while referencing a “piece of the suspect’s flesh” hanging from the jaws of his K9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The split verdict comes after about two days of jury deliberations, which started Wednesday. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030621/police-corruption-trial-of-ex-antioch-officer-goes-to-jury-deliberations\">closing arguments\u003c/a>, the prosecution and defense presented two very different pictures of Amiri’s time at the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Amiri showed a pattern of repeated excessive force, aided by his police K9, Purcy, and studded with celebrations of violent incidents in private text messages with other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette argued that the vulgar messages were cherry-picked to make his client look bad and depicted the “rough” way officers speak to each other in a stressful and desensitizing work environment. Goyette also attempted to discredit many of the prosecution’s witnesses, including people who were unhoused when they were arrested and had criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">convicted last year\u003c/a>, along with five other officers, in a scheme to obtain fraudulent college degrees for a raise in pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have not indicated whether they will bring Wenger to trial again on civil rights charges. He still faces separate charges of illegally distributing steroids. A jury trial on the steroid charges is set for late April.\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 report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>An unhoused man was seen alive on the morning he was crushed to death during a city-run trash cleanup in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vallejo\">Vallejo\u003c/a> on Christmas Eve, according to a death investigation report released to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County Coroner’s Office late last month identified the man as 58-year-old James Edward Oakley II, originally of American Canyon. Local advocates for unhoused residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028660/unhoused-man-killed-vallejo-trash-cleanup-christmas-eve-city-acknowledges\">said they knew him\u003c/a> as a longtime member of the homeless community who had for some time lived in the area bordering Vallejo and American Canyon, where he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New details revealed by the death investigation report shed light on what happened that day and raise questions about how city workers handled the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just shows more and more the ineptitude of the city, how they just botched the whole thing,” said Sean O’Malley, an unhoused Vallejo resident who was a friend of Oakley’s. “It’s just crazy. It’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Vallejo City Manager Andrew Murray said the city is “deeply saddened by this tragic accident” and is in the process of reviewing its policies and procedures. The mayor and council members did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment, but at a Tuesday meeting of the City Council, Mayor Andrea Sorce called for a special session on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends and supporters of James Oakley deliver speeches during a demonstration outside of Vallejo City Hall on March 11th, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-12-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A participant of a rally outside of Vallejo City Hall for James Oakley holds up a homemade sign on March 11, 2025. Right: Kathryn Salm delivers words of support to a small crowd gathered in front of Vallejo City Hall to protest the death of Oakley on March 11th, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the report prepared by Solano County Sheriff’s Deputy Jessica Dew, who responded to the scene, waste collection workers with the company Recology told police they had approached the site to pick up trash earlier that morning but opted against it when they saw a man among the items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials described the area as an “illegal dumping” site. People who knew Oakley said he was living there after being asked to leave a nearby shed.[aside postID=news_12028660 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241217_UnhousedDemonstration_GC-19_qed-1020x680.jpg']When a Vallejo public works crew arrived to clear the trash later that morning, they reported seeing a mattress covered with a “tarp,” along with several tote bags, a shopping cart and bags of trash. Workers reported kicking the mattress and calling out, asking if anyone was there, according to the death investigation. When they didn’t get a response, they started clearing the items without lifting the “tarp” covering the mattress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dew clarified in her report that she did not see a tarp but noted that blankets and clothing were piled on the mattress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backhoe operator then used the machine’s front bucket to crush the mattress before scooping it up. As the driver moved it toward a nearby dump truck, another worker spotted a human leg hanging from the bucket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dew got to the site, Oakley’s body had been taken out of the backhoe bucket and Dew noted blood inside. Oakley and the mattress were both in the roadway, next to a dump truck. Dew noted the trash pile “appeared to have a void where the mattress was previously sitting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muteado Silencio performs a traditional dance in honor of James Oakley on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dew wrote in her report that she found a wallet next to Oakley containing his California ID card. In his back pocket, he had $1.59.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy and death investigation by the coroner’s office determined that Oakley died from multiple blunt force injuries caused by the backhoe crushing the mattress he was lying on. The toxicology report showed Oakley had methamphetamine but no alcohol in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a high school student in the ’80s, Oakley had been a celebrated athlete. He later served prison sentences for manslaughter and drug charges and struggled with drug addiction, according to court records and articles in the Napa Valley Register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley first met Oakley a couple of years ago when his car broke down, and Oakley offered him a jump. “I thought it was really cool. I didn’t even know him,” he said, describing Oakley as “a gentle giant.” The two went on to play dice together regularly.[aside postID=news_12028502 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Evelyn-Alfred-3-1020x765.jpg']“He said my dice were loaded because he always lost,” O’Malley said, laughing at the recollection. “That’s what I say, too, when I lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the death investigation report, Oakley is survived by his father, sister and two adult children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department investigated the death and found no indication of “intent to cause harm, bodily injury or death,” city officials said, and the district attorney’s office found there wasn’t enough evidence to file criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the incident, Vallejo officials said only that a dead body had been discovered during a cleanup at an illegal dumping site. Two months later, the city acknowledged Oakley had been crushed by city workers, calling it a “tragic accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil for Oakley outside Vallejo City Hall on Tuesday, O’Malley and other activists called on the city to reconsider its approach to clearing homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re out here saying James should never have died,” said Tiny Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine. “We have to change [this] policy of hate because more of us are going to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of a rally outside of Vallejo City Hall for James Oakley hold homemade signs on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She suspects similar deaths often go unreported. “The case of James is just one that we saw, and they can’t deny it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley said he and other advocates are working on a slate of guidelines to give the city around handling encampment removals and debris cleanups. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When a Vallejo public works crew arrived to clear the trash later that morning, they reported seeing a mattress covered with a “tarp,” along with several tote bags, a shopping cart and bags of trash. Workers reported kicking the mattress and calling out, asking if anyone was there, according to the death investigation. When they didn’t get a response, they started clearing the items without lifting the “tarp” covering the mattress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dew clarified in her report that she did not see a tarp but noted that blankets and clothing were piled on the mattress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backhoe operator then used the machine’s front bucket to crush the mattress before scooping it up. As the driver moved it toward a nearby dump truck, another worker spotted a human leg hanging from the bucket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dew got to the site, Oakley’s body had been taken out of the backhoe bucket and Dew noted blood inside. Oakley and the mattress were both in the roadway, next to a dump truck. Dew noted the trash pile “appeared to have a void where the mattress was previously sitting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muteado Silencio performs a traditional dance in honor of James Oakley on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dew wrote in her report that she found a wallet next to Oakley containing his California ID card. In his back pocket, he had $1.59.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy and death investigation by the coroner’s office determined that Oakley died from multiple blunt force injuries caused by the backhoe crushing the mattress he was lying on. The toxicology report showed Oakley had methamphetamine but no alcohol in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a high school student in the ’80s, Oakley had been a celebrated athlete. He later served prison sentences for manslaughter and drug charges and struggled with drug addiction, according to court records and articles in the Napa Valley Register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley first met Oakley a couple of years ago when his car broke down, and Oakley offered him a jump. “I thought it was really cool. I didn’t even know him,” he said, describing Oakley as “a gentle giant.” The two went on to play dice together regularly.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He said my dice were loaded because he always lost,” O’Malley said, laughing at the recollection. “That’s what I say, too, when I lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the death investigation report, Oakley is survived by his father, sister and two adult children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department investigated the death and found no indication of “intent to cause harm, bodily injury or death,” city officials said, and the district attorney’s office found there wasn’t enough evidence to file criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the incident, Vallejo officials said only that a dead body had been discovered during a cleanup at an illegal dumping site. Two months later, the city acknowledged Oakley had been crushed by city workers, calling it a “tragic accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil for Oakley outside Vallejo City Hall on Tuesday, O’Malley and other activists called on the city to reconsider its approach to clearing homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re out here saying James should never have died,” said Tiny Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine. “We have to change [this] policy of hate because more of us are going to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250311-VALLEJO-HOMELESS-DEATH-VIGIL-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of a rally outside of Vallejo City Hall for James Oakley hold homemade signs on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She suspects similar deaths often go unreported. “The case of James is just one that we saw, and they can’t deny it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley said he and other advocates are working on a slate of guidelines to give the city around handling encampment removals and debris cleanups. The recommendations include providing dumpsters so garbage doesn’t pile up and offering services before clearing camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anything comes from this, it’ll be them changing their policies,” O’Malley said. “How many more people need to die?”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030325/dog-bites-foam-bullets-and-fear-victims-testify-to-ex-antioch-officers-excessive-force\">federal trial of a former Antioch police officer\u003c/a> wrapped up closing arguments on Wednesday, capping off six days of testimony that, along with hundreds of text messages, prosecutors say prove he conspired to deprive residents of their rights by using excessive force for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Morteza Amiri stems from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">sweeping corruption scandal\u003c/a> implicating members of the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments that shook the Bay Area — and brought questions of police culture and complacency into the limelight — in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After closing arguments, the jury will now decide whether the evidence is enough to find that Amiri conspired to violate civil rights, used unreasonable force on three specific occasions, and falsified records on one of those occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You saw proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Cheng said as he began the prosecution’s closing statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rested much of the case on the testimony of Amiri’s former colleague, Eric Rombough, who pleaded guilty to separate conspiracy charges earlier this year and became a key witness for the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough told jurors that as he and Amiri became “the best of friends” on the job, their “proactive” policing style also took a “dark turn,” leading them to encourage each other’s use of excessive force — often aided by Amiri’s police K9, Purcy, and Rombough’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">40-millimeter impact round launcher\u003c/a>, which fires a hard foam projectile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This turn was in violation of the oaths that they swore as police officers and in violation of the law,” Cheng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029300/former-antioch-officers-face-trial-for-alleged-conspiracy-civil-rights-violations\">from February 2019 to March 2022\u003c/a>, Rombough, Amiri and former officer Devon Christopher Wenger “encouraged each other to hurt people in the community,” even when it wasn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard Mr. Rombough’s testimony about this agreement,” Cheng continued. “When he was asked, ‘What was your agreement with Mr. Amiri and Mr. Wenger?’ His response was, ‘We were all on the same page that we didn’t feel the correct punishment was being issued, and we could dish out our own.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng also highlighted texts sent between former officers, including Amiri, Rombough and Wenger, the latter of whom faced charges in an associated case that ended in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">a mistrial last week\u003c/a>. While Amiri’s defense has written off the vulgar messages as the “rough” way officers speak to each other in a stressful work environment, Rombough testified otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were serious. They were not a joke. They wanted to actually use force and hurt people, even if it wasn’t necessary,” Cheng said, summarizing Rombough’s statements on the stand. “They planned on it, they talked about it, and they even set it up.”[aside postID=news_12030325 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The messages are part of a larger trove that the FBI uncovered in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974853/judge-finds-8-antioch-police-officers-tainted-by-racial-bias-reduces-criminal-charges\">a 2023 investigation\u003c/a> into the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments that included racist memes and notes shared among officers and directed at Antioch’s Black and Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some texts that prosecutors have read into the record throughout the trial discuss the incidents involving three men Amiri is accused of having deprived of their rights through excessive force, including Daniel Romo, who testified last week that Purcy bit him in a tent in a homeless encampment that he ran into after being chased by police in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walked out the tent and game planned how to f— him up,” a message from Amiri to Wenger said. “Went back and did justice. Wish you were there. Inside a tent with no cams [body-worn cameras], you would have loved it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri said the dog “was hungry for human lol,” to which Wenger responded, “f— yes, f— that nerd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what f—ing happens when you run, you acquire a tax. His tax was paid properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng also reviewed similar message exchanges related to the other two people on whom Amiri is accused of using unreasonable force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The celebration of injuries and pain show the motivation and purpose behind these uses of force, not legitimate police purposes, but f—ing people up for the sake of inflicting injury,” Cheng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecution rested, the defense spent the afternoon painting a starkly different picture of the hundreds of messages shared between Antioch officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Paul Goyette said that prosecutors were putting “cherry-picked messages” — pulled from many more sent in group chats with entire shift crews and others between two officers spanning 2019 to 2022 — under a microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the way the officers texted was a “coping mechanism” for dealing with seeing “the worst things humans can do to other humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette suggested that the high crime, enormous stress and desensitization officers faced contributed to an “us versus them” mentality among the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly in law enforcement, especially in the city of Antioch, but it’s also in the military,” he said. “It could be firefighters and paramedics, surgeons and ER staff, construction and industrial workers, any stressful, dangerous job. … What you’re going to get is bravado, exaggeration, dark humor, gallows humor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029523\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Castronovo, defense attorney for former Antioch police officer Devon Christopher Wenger, gives her opening statement in the federal trial against Wenger and another former Antioch officer at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goyette told the jury that the text messages sent were not accurate, factual or an admission of excessive force — they were personal communications sent “in the heat of the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also took aim at the witnesses the prosecution leaned on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you decide that a witness has deliberately testified untruthfully about something important, you may choose not to believe anything that witness said,” Goyette told the jurors, targeting the testimony of Adrian Arroyo, who was bitten by Purcy in 2019 — a case that Amiri is accused of falsifying the police report about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arroyo, who Goyette said has a “long history of criminal activity … of drug use,” testified that federal investigators had given him puppy urine pads at one point ahead of the trial but that he had not asked for them specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s one of the probably many things he asked for that the government provided to him,” Goyette said. “He lied to you about something like that, which you might look at and go … ‘It really doesn’t matter.’ Yes, it does because it’s a reward. It’s an incentive to come in here and testify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette also emphasized the three dog bite victims’ history of drug use. He alleged that Romo’s testimony was riddled with lies and accused the third witness, Mason Zeigler, of “role-playing with FBI this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s called telling the witness what to say,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the text messages, Goyette argued that while they were “not politically correct, [and] they certainly can be viewed as unprofessional,” they didn’t violate the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe officers need to be counseled, disciplined, maybe need to be fired … but whether you laugh or are offended by it, [they] are not a crime,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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I can’t think of anything that I could be charged with!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Micah, who now works at a charitable thrift shop in Contra Costa County, is among a relatively small group of people who were released thanks to a state-funded program that encourages district attorneys to resentence incarcerated people serving long prison terms that many now consider excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2021–23, the California County Resentencing Pilot Program provided nearly $13 million to counties to help encourage the reevaluation of long sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine counties in the state participated, including Contra Costa, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties in the Bay Area. KQED is withholding Micah’s full name because she fears being stigmatized after having served a long prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 50,000 people incarcerated in the participating counties, courts ultimately resentenced 227 people and released 174, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2116-3.html\">report published in February\u003c/a> by RAND, the California-based nonprofit selected by the state Legislature to independently evaluate the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lou Mariano, a senior statistician with RAND, said the figures are modest but indicate progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These nine counties did review well over 1,100 cases for eligibility, so there was a significant effort that was in place,” said Mariano, who noted that the counties also used their own funds, more than doubling the budget for time-intensive case review and processing over the pilot period. “The cases reviewed showed a clear alignment with that original motivation of responding to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/09/12/347736999/20-years-later-major-crime-bill-viewed-as-terrible-mistake\">‘get tough’ legislation\u003c/a> in the late ’90s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Violent Crime Control Act, passed during the Clinton administration, took a punitive approach that has been credited with fueling mass incarceration but had no major impact on crime rates. In California, the prison population exploded from about 50,000 prisoners in 1985 to a peak of 173,000 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, California legislators passed AB 2942 in an effort to pursue major criminal justice reform. The law redefined the purpose of sentencing for public safety to include punishment, rehabilitation and restorative justice. 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The results exceeded that number: About three-quarters of those considered for resentencing had served more than 10 years in prison, and the majority still had more than five years to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RAND’s report also recommends more clearly defined roles to improve cooperation between prosecutors and public defenders, better timelines and a dedicated court for resentencing hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to ever throw out someone and say they’re worthless, and we’re never going to look at their case again. This seemed to be a continuation of that value,” said Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney David Angel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel said his office had already embraced resentencing efforts for death penalty cases and was eager to expand the work to include others who had served long sentences they might not receive today. 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Tomorrow, could I wake up and receive an email that I’m being expelled or that I have three felonies being leveled against me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press freedom advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991389/press-freedom-groups-want-charges-dropped-against-stanford-student-journalist\">condemned Gohill’s arrest\u003c/a> since it happened, saying that he was doing his job as a reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, as pro-Palestinian student demonstrations roiled campuses across California and the U.S., Gohill followed protesters as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\">took over the university president’s office\u003c/a>. Although Gohill identified himself as a journalist, police arrested him on suspicion of felony burglary, vandalism and conspiracy. Stanford University also initiated a disciplinary investigation but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023600/stanford-wont-discipline-student-journalist-arrested-during-pro-palestinian-protest\">dropped the case\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991402\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GOHILL-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford Daily student journalist Dilan Gohill on Oct. 6, 2024. Gohill said he has been plagued by anxiety and fear in the nine months since he was arrested while covering a pro-Palestinian protest on campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dilan Gohill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time of Gohill’s arrest, Stanford officials said they “fully support having him be criminally prosecuted.” However, once the district attorney decided otherwise, the university said in a statement that it respected that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no evidence that this student did anything other than cover this event as a journalist,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gohill is back reporting at his student newspaper, \u003cem>The Stanford Daily\u003c/em>. Although he’s hesitant to pursue journalism on campus again, he said he will not let the arrest dissuade him. His lawyer, Nicholas Rowley, told him to treat the case as a “badge of honor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gohill’s colleagues at the \u003cem>Daily \u003c/em>are also grateful to have him back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pursuing charges against Dilan is not only unfair but also threatens the mission of student journalism,” the newspaper’s executive editing team \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2025/03/06/letter-from-the-editors-our-reporters-case-was-dropped/\">wrote in a letter\u003c/a> published Thursday. “While we are grateful that the DA came to the same conclusion, we remain frustrated with this entire process’s lack of clarity and timeliness, both from the DA’s office and from the University.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028230 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Panetta1-1020x765.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowley said he doesn’t blame the district attorney’s office for the drawn-out decision. Rather, he takes issue with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018109/stanford-student-reporters-fate-still-in-limbo-months-after-arrest-at-protest\">Stanford’s conduct throughout the case\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stanford could’ve called them off a long, long time ago, and Stanford failed to do that,” he said. “That’s a big stain on Stanford, which is supposed to be an institution that stands up for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Gohill will not face charges, press freedom advocates are worried that the case will have a chilling effect on other student journalists at Stanford and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Loy, a legal director with the First Amendment Coalition, said that it’s often the case that “the process is the punishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any time someone’s arrested, even if they’re not ultimately prosecuted, that is a chilling effect,” Loy said. “To have your own university calling for you to be prosecuted and potentially sent to jail is highly frightening and potentially intimidating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gohill himself expressed concern that the university could retaliate against him in other ways, like denying study abroad opportunities or housing offers. 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