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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:18 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/christina-corpus\">Christina Corpus\u003c/a> continued to refuse to resign Wednesday, even after voters overwhelmingly approved a charter amendment to give supervisors the power to remove her from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">election night results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A, the only item on Tuesday’s special election ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Corpus conceded that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029453/san-mateo-county-voters-to-decide-whether-troubled-sheriff-can-be-fired-by-supervisors\">Measure A has passed\u003c/a>, which she said now entitles her to “a public evidentiary hearing before a neutral and unbiased body.” She added that she and her lawyers “are confident” she will “be vindicated through a legitimate process,” calling her record in 23 years of public service “pristine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to working with the new Board of Supervisors to discuss a collaborative strategy moving forward,” Corpus’ statement said. “With the passage of Measure A, I now have the opportunity to appropriately challenge and disprove the allegations against me and my administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board ultimately votes to remove Corpus, it may be the first board to remove an elected sheriff in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters on Tuesday night that the results showed that voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Measure A is officially certified on April 3, supervisors would need a four-fifths vote to remove Corpus, following written notice and a chance to address the allegations against her, which is likely to happen given that four out of five current supervisors endorsed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo, the two supervisors who first called for Corpus to resign and pushed to get Measure A on the ballot, told reporters on Wednesday that the election still has to be certified and the board has to officially approve the election results — which may take up to 40 days — before Corpus is served with the necessary paperwork to begin the removal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1020x574.jpg']Instead of arresting Tapia, Philip resigned, making him one of the more than 100 sworn employees who quit the sheriff’s office under Corpus, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five supervisors who may ultimately vote to remove the sheriff aren’t the same five who approved putting Measure A on the ballot, as supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-supervisors-welcomes-two-new-members\">took office\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">supervisors voted in December\u003c/a> on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A was endorsed by Gauthier as well as Board President David Canepa, in addition to Mueller and Corzo, meaning Corpus’ ousting is likely on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move would be historic. Voters in San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 both approved charter amendments to give their supervisors the authority to remove their sheriffs, but neither board put the issue to a vote. San Francisco’s board did so in 2012, but it didn’t reach the threshold needed to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, calls for Corpus to resign or be removed came across the county and beyond, receiving support from political and civic leaders at the local, state and national levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other endorsements for Measure A included former and current members of the U.S. House, state representatives, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcdems.org/san_mateo_county_democratic_party_endorses_measure_a\">San Mateo County Democratic Party\u003c/a> and leaders of nearly every city in San Mateo County. The county deputies’ union also formed a political committee to back the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financially, the measure received little attention. According to \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/AllFilingsByMeasure.aspx?id=212872748&aid=MAT\">available financial disclosures\u003c/a>, the “Recall Sheriff Corpus” campaign raised $2,000, with half that coming from former state Sen. Jerry Hill and the other half from \u003ca href=\"https://www.chambersmc.org/jim-hartnett/\">former Redwood City Mayor James Hartnett\u003c/a>. The “Stop the Political Power Grab” campaign against Measure A reported raising nearly $2,500 in the form of a loan from Corpus herself, which went to campaign signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, who did not respond to a request for comment, had challenged the measure in a lawsuit alleging the board overstepped its power, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled last week\u003c/a> that the election would move forward because county officials followed proper protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch, the deputies union secretary, said the election was one way to allow citizens to respond to the accusations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deserve someone who is not going to be committing these abuses, who is not going to be corrupt and who’s not going to be causing all these problems, so much to the point that we had to have a special election just because of them,” Storch said, adding that he was worried Corpus “might take this as yet another opportunity to start retaliating, given what the results look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s last results update of Tuesday night showed that of the more than 92,000 votes counted, 85.2% were in favor of Measure A. That tally does not include mail-in ballots received by Monday or later. There are nearly 445,000 registered voters in San Mateo County, although voter turnout is likely to be low in a special election with only one measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next batch of results will be released Thursday afternoon, according to the county election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to working with the new Board of Supervisors to discuss a collaborative strategy moving forward,” Corpus’ statement said. “With the passage of Measure A, I now have the opportunity to appropriately challenge and disprove the allegations against me and my administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board ultimately votes to remove Corpus, it may be the first board to remove an elected sheriff in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters on Tuesday night that the results showed that voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Measure A is officially certified on April 3, supervisors would need a four-fifths vote to remove Corpus, following written notice and a chance to address the allegations against her, which is likely to happen given that four out of five current supervisors endorsed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo, the two supervisors who first called for Corpus to resign and pushed to get Measure A on the ballot, told reporters on Wednesday that the election still has to be certified and the board has to officially approve the election results — which may take up to 40 days — before Corpus is served with the necessary paperwork to begin the removal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Oakland declared a mistrial Wednesday against one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029300/former-antioch-officers-face-trial-for-alleged-conspiracy-civil-rights-violations\">two former Antioch police officers charged with conspiracy\u003c/a> as part of a major police corruption scandal that shook the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devon Christopher Wenger was in court this week alongside Morteza Amiri to face charges that they repeatedly used unlawful and excessive force as part of a three-year conspiracy to violate civil rights. On the third day of trial, however, Judge Jeffrey S. White announced that the case against Wenger would not continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling came after White took the courtroom into closed-door proceedings, ordering everyone but the attorneys and defendants out just minutes after the day began. The court’s order was sealed, providing little information about the reason for the mistrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the charges against Wenger — including a constitutional violation involving the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">unreasonable use of a 40-millimeter impact launcher\u003c/a> — have not been dismissed, U.S. attorneys presiding over the case will need to refile against Wenger if they want his case to be heard, said his attorney, Nicole Castronovo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s case will continue independently and is presumed to be unaffected by Wenger’s mistrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029717\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Antioch Police Department in Antioch on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was an unexpected outcome,” Castronovo told KQED. “The way the media ran with him and the optics and dynamics of how this whole Antioch story unfolded, it was a very difficult case to present because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the mistrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castronovo said she could not comment on why the judge ordered a mistrial. However, in a court filing Wednesday, White said that Wenger’s attorney had “made an oral motion for mistrial based upon her inability to provide effective representation.” Amiri’s attorney then asked to sever the trial so that the case against his client could still proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both motions were granted “for the reasons stated under seal” in a separate filing, White wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier order filed Tuesday to Bill Seki, a founding partner at the law firm representing Wenger, White wrote that Castronovo was unable to keep up with the pace of the trial and was falling behind in complying with court orders. Several times during the trial, Castronovo complained about not having access to certain materials presented by the prosecution and was admonished by White for “meandering” during her cross-examination of witnesses and for being otherwise ill prepared. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castronovo also accused prosecutors Monday of violating a previous court order when they moved to submit messages that Wenger sent Amiri into evidence, an objection that was repeatedly overruled by White. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the Court notes that thus far [Castronovo] has effectively represented her client, the Court is concerned that she has been unable to work with the Court and counsel to administer this trial effectively, which could potentially affect the completion of the trial and inconvenience the Court and jury,” White wrote in his filing to Seki. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White ordered Seki to provide Castronovo with more support in her defense of Wenger, which Seki said he was “unable to do” because of the firm’s recent reorganization. He and Castronovo are the only attorneys within the firm with criminal law experience, Seki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A response filed Tuesday by White declared Seki’s explanation insufficient, and the judge ordered that the firm provide Castronovo with additional help immediately. Seki responded that a paralegal would be sent into Oakland the next day to assist Castronovo. An investigator familiar with the case and another associate in the firm would also be made available as the trial progressed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wednesday, however, White officially declared the proceedings involving Wenger a mistrial. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castronovo said she could not comment on the filings between White and Seki, citing the court’s sealed order, and added that she could not confirm whether the concerns in the filings are related to White’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the evidence against them, Wenger and Amiri were accused of exchanging graphic and racist text messages about the use of force and suspects. They were among at least 14 Antioch officers and supervisors found to have sent such messages to one another, according to a report by the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office that was spurred by an FBI investigation into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">the racist text scandal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the trial, prosecutors read aloud from several of the text messages exchanged between Wenger and Amiri, many of which specifically pertained to Amiri’s use of his K9 to maul suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexandra Shepard said during her opening statements on Monday that the messages between Amiri and Wenger showed the two conspiring and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029444/ex-antioch-officers-corruption-trial-begins\">encouraging each other to hurt Antioch civilians\u003c/a> without cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get into something tonight bro!!!! Let’s go 3 nights in a row dog bite,” Wenger texted Amiri in one of the messages Shepard read to the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Castronovo, the messages that prosecutors showed the jury were “cherry-picked” and were not enough to demonstrate a conspiracy between Amiri and Wenger to hurt people. Being in law enforcement is a stressful job, and officers will speak “rough” as a way of coping, she said during her opening statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger were not present at each other’s alleged use-of-force incidents, Castronovo said, calling prosecutors’ decision to present their cases as if they were misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always difficult to represent a police client as a defendant, especially in areas where the police are especially unpopular,” Castronovo said. “I just hope that should this matter be refiled, that the truth, [Wenger’s] innocence and how good he is will come across.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Wenger and Amiri is part of a larger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">federal investigation into the Antioch Police Department\u003c/a>. Two other former police officers, Eric Rombough and Timothy Allen Manly Williams, were also charged amid the several allegations of misconduct facing the police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough took a plea deal earlier this year and was expected to be a key witness for prosecutors. Manley, who is charged with communicating with the target of a wiretap investigation and unlawfully tampering with a witness’ cellphone, is also on the list of witnesses the prosecutors may call as part of their remaining case against Amiri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a mistrial was declared in the conspiracy case against Wenger, he also faces charges of illegally distributing steroids in a separate case to be tried in April.\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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029072 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg']Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.[aside postID=news_12018543 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_1748-scaled.jpg']Charter amendments are also rare. Only 14 of California’s 58 counties are charter counties, meaning they have greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">2001 opinion (PDF)\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer affirmed that a county charter can give supervisors more options to remove a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus had previously alleged the board lacked the authority to put a charter amendment before voters, but last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled\u003c/a> that the board had acted within the law and that Corpus was not protected from removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, voters in two other California charter counties have granted their boards the authority to remove their sheriff — San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 — but neither went through with using that power. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva lost his reelection bid as the Board of Supervisors was seeking to remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s board attempted to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife, but the board fell two votes shy of the required 9–of–11 majority to have him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last Wednesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight mass drug arrest\u003c/a>, one San Francisco supervisor is demanding a hearing to reassess the city’s approach to tackling outdoor drug use and dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District Supervisor Jackie Fielder plans to announce the hearing at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Meeting, urging the city to consider a successful strategy in Zurich’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">Four Pillars Strategy\u003c/a>” that combines drug prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement. Her call follows San Francisco police’s recent crackdown on drug users and dealers, following Mayor Daniel Lurie’s promise to reduce drug-related activity in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been displaced because of enforcement actions around the city to the Mission. And [residents] want to see people get help and connected to treatment. They want to see the end of public drug use,” Fielder told KQED. “That’s why I’m calling for this hearing because we can’t take a neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach. That’s exactly how we got here. We need something comprehensive so that we’re not continuing this cat-and-mouse game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s push for the Four Pillars strategy comes after a November report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst, which found the city has already adopted some elements of Zurich’s approach. Like San Francisco today, Zurich faced a public drug use crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the report highlighted a key gap: San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Zurich_4_Pillars.111924.a.pdf\">lack of sufficient collaboration\u003c/a> between police, health officials and social service providers, which were essential to Zurich’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested nearly 90 people last Wednesday night at Jefferson Square Park, many for loitering or having outstanding warrants on drug-related charges, and seized about 550 grams of narcotics, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The operation took place after residents complained about increased drug use and dealing at the park, which is located directly across the street from the Department of Emergency Management’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, local law enforcement has increased pressure in areas like the Sixth Street corridor in South of Market and the Tenderloin, both of which have become widely known as visible hot spots for outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalated police approach has so far included increased arrests of drug users and dealers, alongside the establishment of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">new triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a> where people can walk in to get connected to various social and health services. The site is also intended to serve as a police command center, where officers can hand off people they arrest or detain for drugs over to sheriff’s deputies. However, police have not yet used the site for any arrest processing, according to SFPD officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029248 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-019-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the heightened pressure in certain neighborhoods, drug markets have shifted into new parts of the city, including near the 16th Street BART station and, until just before Wednesday’s raid, Jefferson Square Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of community concern about what was happening, and we believe a lot of it was because of the pressure that we put on the Mid-Market and Tenderloin and people looking for somewhere to go where they can hang out and do these types of activities,” Police Chief Bill Scott told KQED. “Operations like these will continue throughout the city for as long as necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s homelessness policy chief, Kunal Modi, acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the city’s approach to Sixth Street over the weekend. While the area has seen improved street cleanliness and more arrests, Modi noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kunalmodi/status/1895977354079715715\">post on social media platform X\u003c/a> that the city’s limited shelter and treatment bed capacity has stunted efforts to connect people with housing or medical services. He also admitted that the increased enforcement has displaced challenges to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Wednesday night’s raid at Jefferson Square Park, more than 50 people were quickly released. Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. SFPD did not respond to requests for further data or information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city right now is going all in on just enforcement and some attempts to connect people to treatment, but it’s unclear what exactly those offers are,” Fielder said. “We need to scale up our treatment system and invest in prevention as well. 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We heard the community, and this operation shows what’s possible when agencies work together to take real action,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders Jefferson Square Park, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scsherrill/status/1895178573927063598\">posted on X\u003c/a> the day after the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the block-by-block enforcement approach is also costly — something police will be forced to confront as the city stares down a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and departments are required to make deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very resource-heavy type of operation, but we do plan to do more because it’s a good way to at least intermittently deal with that displacement,” Scott told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing the Tenderloin and South of Market recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">put forward their own proposal\u003c/a> for how the city could tackle outdoor drug markets. Their approach, inspired by a model developed by law enforcement expert David Kennedy, focuses on clearing drug markets by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice of either mandatory social programs or jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood, who introduced the idea, told KQED that they see the idea working within the Four Pillars model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she’s still researching her colleagues’ proposal but likes elements of it, including efforts to increase job training programs to redirect youth and adults away from the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Shamann Walton, Matt Dorsey, Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen plan to co-sponsor the Four Pillars hearing, according to representatives from Fielder’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just focus on [law enforcement], we’re going to continue to see lopsided and geographically narrow and intermediate success, not long-term successes,” Fielder said. “That’s what the Four Pillars is all about, long-term solutions and not just headline-grabbing actions that we’ve had for many decades in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the heightened pressure in certain neighborhoods, drug markets have shifted into new parts of the city, including near the 16th Street BART station and, until just before Wednesday’s raid, Jefferson Square Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of community concern about what was happening, and we believe a lot of it was because of the pressure that we put on the Mid-Market and Tenderloin and people looking for somewhere to go where they can hang out and do these types of activities,” Police Chief Bill Scott told KQED. “Operations like these will continue throughout the city for as long as necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s homelessness policy chief, Kunal Modi, acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the city’s approach to Sixth Street over the weekend. While the area has seen improved street cleanliness and more arrests, Modi noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kunalmodi/status/1895977354079715715\">post on social media platform X\u003c/a> that the city’s limited shelter and treatment bed capacity has stunted efforts to connect people with housing or medical services. He also admitted that the increased enforcement has displaced challenges to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Wednesday night’s raid at Jefferson Square Park, more than 50 people were quickly released. Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. SFPD did not respond to requests for further data or information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city right now is going all in on just enforcement and some attempts to connect people to treatment, but it’s unclear what exactly those offers are,” Fielder said. “We need to scale up our treatment system and invest in prevention as well. If we don’t, we will continue to see displacement to all parts of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other neighborhoods have seen increased drug activity, Jefferson Square Park has remained relatively calm in the aftermath of last week’s police raid, according to nearby residents like Sebastian Luke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk around every day. The park has been quiet and clean; it’s been calm since the raid,” said Luke, who witnessed and documented the mass arrest operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Franciscans deserve safe neighborhoods, not open-air drug markets. We heard the community, and this operation shows what’s possible when agencies work together to take real action,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders Jefferson Square Park, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scsherrill/status/1895178573927063598\">posted on X\u003c/a> the day after the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the block-by-block enforcement approach is also costly — something police will be forced to confront as the city stares down a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and departments are required to make deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very resource-heavy type of operation, but we do plan to do more because it’s a good way to at least intermittently deal with that displacement,” Scott told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing the Tenderloin and South of Market recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">put forward their own proposal\u003c/a> for how the city could tackle outdoor drug markets. 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Shepard mentioned Rombough’s hobby of collecting spent impact round shells he’d fired at people on his fireplace mantel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They planned to use force even when it wasn’t necessary,” Shepard told the jury, adding that the officers celebrated it by exchanging photographs of the damage they caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She read out loud directly from texts the officers exchanged, according to evidence prosecutors intend to introduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AmiriOpening-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Goyette, defense attorney for former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri, gives his opening statement in the federal trial against Amiri and another former Antioch officer at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. 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I walked out of the tent and game planned how to f— him up,” Shepard read to the jury. “Went back and did justice.” The prosecution displayed a photo of about two dozen shred-like lacerations under Romo’s shoulder blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the federal corruption case built on officers’ text messages, Amiri, Wenger and Rombough were among at least 14 Antioch officers and supervisors found to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">swapped racist texts\u003c/a>, according to a report by the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office that was released independent of the FBI investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first defense opening statement, Amiri’s attorney, Paul Goyette, described a somewhat casual culture in the Antioch Police Department, where officers were encouraged to communicate with each other in group text messages on their personal phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029300 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/AntiochPoliceDepartmentAP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These texts are … a bunch of trash-talking that doesn’t connect up in any shape or form with arrests made,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette defended Amiri’s use of his K9, Purcy, noting that well over 90% of the time Purcy was deployed, no one was bitten. “The prosecution wants you to believe that Morteza Amiri and Purcy were on a feeding frenzy, feeding on the people of Antioch,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also told the jury no complaint was filed over the use of the K9 against Romo, which he said Amiri used as a safer alternative for officers after Romo fled and hid in a homeless encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger’s attorney, Nicole Castronovo, told the jury that prosecutors had “cherry-picked” officers’ text messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri, Wenger and Rombough were not there for each other’s uses of force highlighted in the case, she said. “Yet the government put them all together as if they planned these things and planned these events, based off texts with no context.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial, expected to last about three weeks, is related to several other federal prosecutions spawned from the same sprawling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">investigation into the Antioch Police Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former Antioch officer, Timothy Allen Manly Williams, is charged with communicating with the target of a wiretap investigation and unlawfully seizing and destroying a witness’ cellphone. 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Rombough recently pleaded guilty, and he may become a crucial witness for the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/robert-weisberg/\">Robert Weisberg\u003c/a>, a professor of criminal law at Stanford University, said it is “very unusual” for police to be prosecuted in something other than a single incident that resulted in someone’s death. When presented to jurors — who are often sympathetic to police — those cases are often framed in life-or-death, self-defense scenarios, he said. In contrast, the charges against Amiri and Wenger are about systemic abuse of people’s rights, and they stem back to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If racist police in the South attacked civil rights workers or attacked Black citizens just out of racist proclivities — where you could not expect the state criminal authorities to intervene — these were the laws,” Weisberg said. “These criminal laws here are not like some newfangled technicality. They are very much embedded in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">FBI was investigating\u003c/a> alleged criminal activity by Antioch police, they uncovered a trove of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/07/15/im-already-good-at-racial-profiling-new-batch-of-antioch-cops-texts-show-how-much-racism-and-policing-intertwined/\">racist and misogynistic text messages\u003c/a> shared among officers in the department and some in Pittsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 14 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">Antioch officers\u003c/a> — sergeants, detectives and supervisors, including Wenger, Amiri and Rombough — who sent those racist memes and texts directed at Black and Latino Antioch residents, including then-Police Chief Steven Ford and former Mayor Lamar Thorpe. About half of the department’s officers received the messages, yet none reported it to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictment was unsealed, about 20% of all Antioch officers were put on administrative leave. The scandal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">upended criminal cases\u003c/a>, resulted in several protests, and provided evidence for what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">many residents had alleged for years\u003c/a>: A culture that tolerated excessive force and racism was spread throughout the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case\">10 officers would face charges of corruption\u003c/a>, ranging from faking college degrees to distributing steroids, in addition to the alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lls.edu/faculty/facultylistl-r/lauriellevenson/\">Laurie Levenson\u003c/a>, a law professor at Loyola Law School, said “a major police corruption case” like this one is “relatively rare and they’re not easy to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this particular case, what might be the greatest help to the prosecutors are other officers who have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate,” Levenson said, “because in order to win these cases, you often need an insider who explains what kind of misconduct was going on with the police and that they were acting intentionally. That’s the type of evidence that jurors will pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/14/ex-antioch-officer-admits-conspiring-to-injure-oppress-threaten-and-intimidate-the-people-of-antioch/\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law, admitting that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports. Rombough’s plea deal includes a provision that he could receive leniency for cooperating with prosecutors, and a status conference in his case is scheduled for April 22, after Amiri and Wenger’s trial could be concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger are charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.” Wenger faces one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident, while Amiri faces four such counts, along with a single count of destructing, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the trial are the text messages between Amiri, Wenger, Rombough and several unnamed officers that suggest they celebrated using violence on the people of Antioch with racist language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he was hired by Antioch police in 2017, Amiri was partnered with a K9 service dog named Purcy, who prosecutors allege he commanded to bite at least 28 people in Antioch, sharing graphic photos of the injuries the dog inflicted with other officers and keeping an ongoing tally of them as they occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ill bite em,” Amiri texted Wenger and Rombough on April 21, 2019, after a suspect fled, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2019, while his roommate — an officer at another department — was with him for a ride-along, Amiri set Purcy on a person for not having a light on their bike at night. Amiri sent several officers a bloodied photo of the person on a gurney in an ambulance, and Rombough replied, “yeah buddy good boy purcy” and “fuck that turd,” the indictment states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one officer asked what cut the dog’s face, Amiri allegedly replied, “that’s a piece of the suspect’s flesh lol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes several instances where Wenger and Rombough thanked Amiri for “biting” a suspect, including instances where they sought out interactions with citizens so the dog could bite them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“imagine fat ass purcy on your fucking throat [smiling crying emoji]” Amiri texted Rombough on Nov. 26, 2021, after sharing a bloody picture from his body camera of a woman Purcy bit, according to the indictment.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11985781,news_11986351,news_11974853\"]“That’s perfect I love it,” Rombough allegedly responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“i shit myself when i saw that,” Amiri allegedly replied. “i thought he was gonna kill her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough’s reply included a racial epithet remarking on the woman being Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough was on APD’s SWAT team, gang unit and now-disbanded Problem-Oriented Policing, or POP, team and was charged with using a 40mm less-lethal launcher to shoot at least 11 people in a span of nine months ending in August 2021. Rombough allegedly collected the spent rounds and displayed them on the mantle of his home to create the stars and stripes of the American flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have to find a way to finish your flag!!!” an unnamed officer texted Rombough in March 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know challenge accepted,” Rombough allegedly replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Amiri, Wenger and Rombough didn’t report or attempted to cover up their unjustified uses of violence. Text messages suggest the three said in their reports that the suspects were resisting to justify their uses of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Antioch officer, Timothy Allen Manly Williams, was indicted on three charges in separate federal prosecution developed from the same broad investigation. The first two charges stem from allegedly calling the target of a wiretap investigation he was monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third charge stems from May 6, 2021, when Manly witnessed a bystander record an unnamed K9 officer biting a suspect under arrest. Manly “seized the witness’s telephone and destroyed it,” prosecutors say. Manly’s case is ongoing, and prosecutors listed him as a witness they expect to call against Amiri and Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri has already been convicted of a crime in relation to what federal investigators learned after seizing phones from Antioch and Pittsburg officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“can i hire you [ ] to do my … classes? ill pay you per class,” federal prosecutors alleged that Amiri texted another person. “don’t tell a soul about me hiring you for this. we can’t afford it getting leaked and me losing my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">last of six officers\u003c/a> to be found guilty of paying someone else to complete an online degree in his name so he could receive a pay raise. Samantha Peterson of the Antioch Police Department was also found guilty, as well as Patrick Berhan, Amanda Theodosy, Ernesto Mejia-Orozco, and Brauli Rodriguez Jalapa of the Pittsburg Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger was also one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-and-pittsburg-police-officers-and-employee-charged-various-crimes-ranging\">two Antioch officers\u003c/a> charged with illegally distributing anabolic steroids, as well as trying to delete evidence from his phone before handing it over to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His co-defendant, Daniel Harris, pleaded guilty to possession and conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids as part of a plea agreement in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury trial on those charges is set for April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They are very much embedded in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">FBI was investigating\u003c/a> alleged criminal activity by Antioch police, they uncovered a trove of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/07/15/im-already-good-at-racial-profiling-new-batch-of-antioch-cops-texts-show-how-much-racism-and-policing-intertwined/\">racist and misogynistic text messages\u003c/a> shared among officers in the department and some in Pittsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 14 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">Antioch officers\u003c/a> — sergeants, detectives and supervisors, including Wenger, Amiri and Rombough — who sent those racist memes and texts directed at Black and Latino Antioch residents, including then-Police Chief Steven Ford and former Mayor Lamar Thorpe. About half of the department’s officers received the messages, yet none reported it to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictment was unsealed, about 20% of all Antioch officers were put on administrative leave. The scandal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">upended criminal cases\u003c/a>, resulted in several protests, and provided evidence for what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">many residents had alleged for years\u003c/a>: A culture that tolerated excessive force and racism was spread throughout the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case\">10 officers would face charges of corruption\u003c/a>, ranging from faking college degrees to distributing steroids, in addition to the alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lls.edu/faculty/facultylistl-r/lauriellevenson/\">Laurie Levenson\u003c/a>, a law professor at Loyola Law School, said “a major police corruption case” like this one is “relatively rare and they’re not easy to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this particular case, what might be the greatest help to the prosecutors are other officers who have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate,” Levenson said, “because in order to win these cases, you often need an insider who explains what kind of misconduct was going on with the police and that they were acting intentionally. That’s the type of evidence that jurors will pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/14/ex-antioch-officer-admits-conspiring-to-injure-oppress-threaten-and-intimidate-the-people-of-antioch/\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law, admitting that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports. Rombough’s plea deal includes a provision that he could receive leniency for cooperating with prosecutors, and a status conference in his case is scheduled for April 22, after Amiri and Wenger’s trial could be concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger are charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.” Wenger faces one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident, while Amiri faces four such counts, along with a single count of destructing, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the trial are the text messages between Amiri, Wenger, Rombough and several unnamed officers that suggest they celebrated using violence on the people of Antioch with racist language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he was hired by Antioch police in 2017, Amiri was partnered with a K9 service dog named Purcy, who prosecutors allege he commanded to bite at least 28 people in Antioch, sharing graphic photos of the injuries the dog inflicted with other officers and keeping an ongoing tally of them as they occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ill bite em,” Amiri texted Wenger and Rombough on April 21, 2019, after a suspect fled, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2019, while his roommate — an officer at another department — was with him for a ride-along, Amiri set Purcy on a person for not having a light on their bike at night. Amiri sent several officers a bloodied photo of the person on a gurney in an ambulance, and Rombough replied, “yeah buddy good boy purcy” and “fuck that turd,” the indictment states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one officer asked what cut the dog’s face, Amiri allegedly replied, “that’s a piece of the suspect’s flesh lol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes several instances where Wenger and Rombough thanked Amiri for “biting” a suspect, including instances where they sought out interactions with citizens so the dog could bite them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“imagine fat ass purcy on your fucking throat [smiling crying emoji]” Amiri texted Rombough on Nov. 26, 2021, after sharing a bloody picture from his body camera of a woman Purcy bit, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Surveillance and body camera footage released on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sacramento\">Sacramento\u003c/a> County Sheriff Department’s website shows a deputy pushing a woman outside the Main Jail facility on Oct. 7, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five additional uniformed deputies can be seen watching as the woman cries out and falls heavily to the ground. She remains there for a minute and a half until the footage ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department did not respond to KQED’s multiple requests for comment. A department spokesperson told Sacramento-based \u003ca href=\"https://fox40.com/news/local-news/sacramento/video-shows-sacramento-county-deputy-shove-woman-out-of-main-jail/\">Fox 40\u003c/a> that the deputy had been placed on leave. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacsheriff.com/pages/released_cases.php\">video release\u003c/a> contains no written records, and it is unclear when they were posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Curtis, chair of Sacramento’s Sheriff Community Review Commission, said he has asked the county’s inspector general to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video is further evidence of troubling conditions at the Sacramento County Main Jail, where at least five people have died since May 2024, despite a \u003ca href=\"https://dce.saccounty.gov/Public-Safety-and-Justice/Documents/Reports_Resources/PSJAAC%20-%20MCD%20Overview%20and%20Milestones.pdf\">consent decree\u003c/a> that’s been in effect since 2020. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/system/files/file-attachments/25.01.27%20Doc%20197-1%20Sixth%20Monitoring%20Report%20of%20Court-Appointed%20Medical%20Experts.pdf\">January report\u003c/a> from court-appointed medical experts found “serious system and individual performance issues,” including “callous deliberate indifference” toward a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/california-jail-death-sacramento-county-neglect.html\">man who died of a drug overdose\u003c/a> while in custody on May 12, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/mTyM4Bpx6uI?si=HzcUa9xA8uN0GOc1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ When we watched the incident of the woman being thrown out of the jail, it had a similar feeling,” said attorney Patrick Booth of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office, which filed a class action lawsuit alleging poor treatment, neglect and inhumane conditions at the jail in 2018, leading to the consent decree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The circumstances surrounding the unnamed woman’s booking and release from the jail aren’t completely clear. In bodycam and surveillance footage posted to the agency’s transparency portal, the woman’s face is redacted, and KQED has not been able to identify her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I knew her name,” said activist Kari Hamilton from Decarcerate Sacramento, a coalition working to prevent jail expansions. “I wish I could lift her up and let her know that people care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamilton, who spent time in the Main Jail as a pre-trial detainee between 2014 and 2017, said the video indicates a persistent culture problem at the facility that goes beyond the deputy who shoved the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the officers there also should have some compassion for people, and they should have said something and did something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Audio from the body camera suggests that the woman was being released from custody and had an upcoming court date related to an incident at a grocery store. She speaks English with an accent, and it is sometimes difficult to follow her train of thought. She talks about people “trespassing in our backyards,” and as the deputy encourages her to sign documents related to her court appearance, she appears confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want the court,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t agree to go to court, you don’t go home,” another deputy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an officer tries to keep her focused on signing the remaining paperwork, the woman repeatedly asks deputies to listen to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to stop fucking talking and listen to us,” the officer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017652 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_0850-672x372.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Try to be civilized,” she responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About seven minutes into the video, the deputy finishes the paperwork and returns her personal items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Start walking this way,” the officer says, putting his hand on her upper arm to move her toward the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t push me,” she says and moves her elbow to get out of his grasp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shut the fuck up,” the officer responds, pinning her left hand behind her back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another deputy takes her right shoulder, and they forcibly march her through the facility toward the door. She repeatedly asks what they are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We’re escorting you outside because you can’t go without assaulting my partner,” the other deputy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you, have a good night,” the officer says as he shoves her out the main entrance of the building at 11:16 p.m. Surveillance footage from outside the jail shows the force of the push, sending her to the ground, knocking paperwork from her hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oof,” a deputy can be heard saying on a body cam as they walk back into the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This video was a little glimpse into the kind of callousness that we think is standard operating practice in many jails across the state,” said Margot Mendelson of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to remove the identity of an officer\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Curtis, chair of Sacramento’s Sheriff Community Review Commission, said he has asked the county’s inspector general to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video is further evidence of troubling conditions at the Sacramento County Main Jail, where at least five people have died since May 2024, despite a \u003ca href=\"https://dce.saccounty.gov/Public-Safety-and-Justice/Documents/Reports_Resources/PSJAAC%20-%20MCD%20Overview%20and%20Milestones.pdf\">consent decree\u003c/a> that’s been in effect since 2020. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/system/files/file-attachments/25.01.27%20Doc%20197-1%20Sixth%20Monitoring%20Report%20of%20Court-Appointed%20Medical%20Experts.pdf\">January report\u003c/a> from court-appointed medical experts found “serious system and individual performance issues,” including “callous deliberate indifference” toward a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/california-jail-death-sacramento-county-neglect.html\">man who died of a drug overdose\u003c/a> while in custody on May 12, 2024.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mTyM4Bpx6uI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mTyM4Bpx6uI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“ When we watched the incident of the woman being thrown out of the jail, it had a similar feeling,” said attorney Patrick Booth of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office, which filed a class action lawsuit alleging poor treatment, neglect and inhumane conditions at the jail in 2018, leading to the consent decree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The circumstances surrounding the unnamed woman’s booking and release from the jail aren’t completely clear. In bodycam and surveillance footage posted to the agency’s transparency portal, the woman’s face is redacted, and KQED has not been able to identify her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I knew her name,” said activist Kari Hamilton from Decarcerate Sacramento, a coalition working to prevent jail expansions. “I wish I could lift her up and let her know that people care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamilton, who spent time in the Main Jail as a pre-trial detainee between 2014 and 2017, said the video indicates a persistent culture problem at the facility that goes beyond the deputy who shoved the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the officers there also should have some compassion for people, and they should have said something and did something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Audio from the body camera suggests that the woman was being released from custody and had an upcoming court date related to an incident at a grocery store. She speaks English with an accent, and it is sometimes difficult to follow her train of thought. She talks about people “trespassing in our backyards,” and as the deputy encourages her to sign documents related to her court appearance, she appears confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want the court,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t agree to go to court, you don’t go home,” another deputy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an officer tries to keep her focused on signing the remaining paperwork, the woman repeatedly asks deputies to listen to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to stop fucking talking and listen to us,” the officer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Dozens of arrests were made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation took place roughly between 10:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. and involved the Police Department, Sheriff’s Department, Public Works and other agencies. Details on the arrests are expected to be released later Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people will be released, some of the crimes are misdemeanors, and some people will remain in custody,” Scott said during Thursday’s press conference. “The bottom line is, we’re going to take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029050\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-2-scaled-e1740693709582.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-2-scaled-e1740693709582.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident and journalist Sebastian Luke, who witnessed the raid in the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, said he had filed multiple complaints with the city, “sounding the alarm” about ramping drugdealing. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie said the raid is just the start of an intensified \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">police crackdown on outdoor drug markets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are going to see more of that in the weeks and months ahead,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More people began using and selling drugs in Jefferson Square Park as SFPD escalated drug enforcement — and increased its clearing of street encampments — in areas such as Sixth Street in the South of Market neighborhood and the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sebastian Luke, who lives near Jefferson Square Park, said he recently filed multiple complaints with the city about rampant drug use in the park, which is near two schools and an assisted living facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028959 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2199825801-scaled.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke, who is also a contributor to the local website Beyond Chron, witnessed and photographed the overnight raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got there, I saw police going through the park … they rounded everyone up on the Eddy [Street] side of the park and pushed people dealing and using drugs in front of the Sacred Heart practice field to the other side of the park,” Luke told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke said he saw deputies knock on parked cars and ask the people inside to step out; at least one of them was arrested, he said. He also saw about 20 people loaded onto a Sheriff’s Department bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since law enforcement began to focus more on specific neighborhoods like SoMa, some supervisors and residents have raised concerns that the enforcement has only displaced people living on the street and outdoor drug markets to other areas, including Jefferson Square Park and the 16th Street-Mission BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the Jefferson Square raid, Luke said he saw people back at the park using and dealing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they are aware that their targeted enforcement has dispersed drug-related street issues to new locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029054\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029054\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks through Jefferson Square Park in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ll go into a community because of the rampant drug use or sales. And we put pressure on those dealers. When that pressure becomes intense enough, we often see those groups will go to the next block or the next neighborhood,” Scott said. “A lot of the people [who] started to hang out in Jefferson Square Park, who were selling and doing drugs, were a result of pressure from other neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and SoMa, and it just became untenable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and SFPD recently opened up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">a new police command center\u003c/a> on Sixth Street for officers to drop off people they arrest or detain on the street, with the goal of making a more convenient, quicker handoff to Sheriff’s Department custody. Residents in the area told KQED that there’s been a noticeable difference in the neighborhood, including more street cleaning and increased arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center also provides a walk-in space where people can get coffee, use a toilet or sign up for a variety of government and social services. Police have not yet started to use the space for processing arrests, Scott told reporters on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">Elize Manoukian\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Proponents of police accountability are urging supervisors to reject the motion, saying it could jeopardize the critical role and independence of watchdog agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the board signs off on this removal, which is being made with no accusation of wrongdoing, no accusation of incompetence, it will set a terrible precedent for not only the independence of the Police Commission but for every independent charter commission in the city,” Carter-Oberstone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone, who currently serves as vice president of the commission, said he was notified three weeks ago by the mayor’s office that it would be pursuing his formal removal after he rejected Lurie’s request for his resignation. 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Carter-Oberstone’s relationship with former Mayor London Breed, who twice appointed him to the Police Commission, soured after he voted against her pick for the commission’s president and publicly exposed her office’s now-prohibited practice of having commission appointees preemptively sign undated resignation letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of San Francisco Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone attend a rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was also one of several city officials and commissioners who opposed Breed’s Proposition E, which greatly reduced the Police Commission’s oversight authority over SFPD and expanded the use of surveillance technology and police chases. Voters passed the measure last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone noted that he has no problems working with the mayor’s office to improve public safety as long as the independence of the commission is maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027784 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241119-SFHomelessArrests-17-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, an assistant chief at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, said during Monday’s rally that San Francisco needs more commissioners like Carter-Oberstone and urged supervisors to “vote [their] values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need commissioners … who are not afraid to speak truth to power, who are not afraid to whistle blow when he knows something is wrong and unjust,” Chan, who previously served on the Police Commission, said during the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several nonprofit organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also spoke up in support of Carter-Oberstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Carter-Oberstone has been a persistent, reliable advocate for police accountability and data-driven independent oversight,” said Musa Tariq, a policy coordinator at CAIR. “Under his leadership, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996060/san-francisco-police-are-now-restricted-from-certain-traffic-stops-heres-why\">limited abusive pretext traffic stops\u003c/a>, exposed corruption and more. 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Romero was \u003ca href=\"https://burlpros.org/somerset-man-charged-with-sexual-extortion-of-burlington-county-youth/\">charged last year\u003c/a> with multiple sexual abuse and extortion charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the boy had previously shared his home address with Romero, he and his family have since moved across the country out of fear for their safety. The situation has resulted in both financial and emotional ruin, the lawsuit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12010700 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1292740035-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encrypted messaging services and other available features on Roblox and Discord allow predators to easily identify, contact and groom children, Walsh said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jen Waicukauski’s phone blared just after 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning, warning of a break-in at their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> camera store. Waicukauski and their partner rushed out the door in pajamas, watching through Waicukauski’s phone as burglars hustled cameras, film and equipment out of the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, they arrived in front of Looking Glass Photo & Camera, a fixture of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-bay\">East Bay\u003c/a>’s photography community for more than 50 years. Waicukauski said it looked “like a bomb went off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see [that] the entire front of the building ultimately had been completely destroyed, I burst into tears,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking Glass’ dual glass doors, surrounded by a grid of windows, had been rammed in by a vehicle, which pounded into the storefront four times. Shards of glass showered the floor of the main showroom, and inventory left behind was rustled through and knocked off of shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wasn’t prepared for that level of damage and then to come in and then see just the sea of glass,” Waicukauski said. “There were just pieces of the building hanging. The glass was still falling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera owner Jen Waicukauski said the store’s main showroom was a sea of glass when they arrived Sunday morning, just an hour after the break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They said the moment was overwhelming — “I just didn’t quite know what to do,” Waicukauski recalled. But almost immediately, people started showing up to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, the store reopened for business — operating mostly from a temporary back counter — and long-time customers and enthusiasts have raised more than $50,000 to go toward Looking Glass’ recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waicukauski said the support the store has received in the days since has been humbling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I just never am sure if we deserve all the love that people have given us, so it just means so much to know that what we do actually matters,” Waicukauski said. “I like to think that it does, but when everybody shows up, it’s like, ‘OK, that’s cool, that’s amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging path ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a construction crew and employees sifted through the damage on Sunday, the financial reality of the burglary began to set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody [was] just starting to calculate in their minds the actual cost of what this is going to take to get up and running again and how much we have lost,” Waicukauski told KQED. “Many of them also know what we’ve been through as a business over the years and just how hard our industry is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027569 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Hundreds of people have raised more than $52,800 toward its extensive repairs. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking Glass is one of the only small camera stores still \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970148/pamplemousse-magazine-analog-film-photography-san-francisco\">operating in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, in part because of the slim profit margins on selling cameras. And during the pandemic, other services such as rentals, classes and demos weren’t possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store also just finished a move into a new Fifth Street location, which was expensive and interrupted business over the summer. On top of all that, it is in the midst of a transition in its operations, reviving rental services and moving away from demonstrations and displays — which Waicukauski said have gotten more dangerous because of smash-and-grabs like the one that happened Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when workers cleaning the store floated the idea of a GoFundMe page to jumpstart recovery, Waicukauski said they were hesitant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird to ask for help. We’ve always asked for the support of our community,” they said. “But to literally go out and do a GoFundMe where you’re asking people for their hard-earned dollars to help us make it through a really tough time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I had this conversation where it was, ‘Are we prepared for nobody to really contribute?’ We can’t expect people to do anything, but we can’t not ask for help right now either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The whole freaking planet is showing up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since a fundraiser was started for the store, though, hundreds of people have raised more than $52,800 toward its extensive repairs. A social media page managed by the trust of famed Bay Area photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928843/ansel-adams-in-our-time-de-young-review\">Ansel Adams\u003c/a> amplified the effort, and Waicukauski said people have been showing up in person to place orders and volunteer their time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole freaking planet is showing up right now,” they said. “I cannot believe the way that it has been shared, the people that are just coming in, [asking] ‘What do you have that I can buy?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of Looking Glass Photo & Camera following Sunday morning’s break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ginger Fierstein, who works at Looking Glass’ film developing partner next door, said the store is a major part of the local photography network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking Glass has done so much to foster community and be this core hub,” she said. “I would see some people come in and just yap to some of the employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo Lab, where she works, develops all of the film dropped off next door at Looking Glass. Even when the store was in its previous locations further away, Fierstein said people often took the extra step to take their film there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011111 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can come to the [Photo] Lab directly and get your film back a little faster or your digital scans developed by email instead of USB, but people still loved going to Looking Glass,” she said. “Despite the slight inconvenience, they would make it like a ritual to go there and really build that into a part of their art practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Stuart, who interned at the store in 2015, said the community made it worth getting caught in rush hour traffic from El Cerrito to go work at Looking Glass after long days in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved the vibe of the store, a lot of people who came in were characters,” said Stuart, who still makes photographs as part of her job with the city of Eugene, Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the ability to talk to other photographers, the other staff,” she continued. “They were all super kind and nice and all were really invested in my development, both for my career and as a photographer. And so, just getting to chat with them and talk photography with all these different people who were into different kinds of photography all over the place was super cool. And Jen was super pivotal in my growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the first few months in the Fifth Street space have been challenging, Waicukauski said the smash-and-grab hasn’t changed their path for revamping Looking Glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was starting to make sense and starting to look like a sustainable plan moving forward,” they said of the time just before the break-in. “This is feeling like we’ve made the right choice, people are responding to it well, and we’re developing something really kind of cool. A new version of a camera store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers installed a temporary wall at Looking Glass Photo & Camera after its dual front doors were smashed in during a smash-and-grab on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s going to include a new website reviving Looking Glass’ rentals program, which Waicukauski said will be a top priority as they begin recovery efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though [rental equipment] is something that will likely be covered by insurance, I don’t know when that check is coming,” Waicukauski said. “Any money that comes in now will be going towards rebuilding that, which will then get funneled into the other costs that are coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also hope to lean into the relationships a camera store can foster, introducing a community platform meant to help local photographers connect in person. Some of Looking Glass’ classes and workshops have given rise to groups who now photograph together, Waicukauski said, and they hope to host more events like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lookingglassphoto.com/womens-photo-walk-in-nature.html\">Women’s Photo Walk\u003c/a> in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working on a way to help people find friends to just go out and take pictures with because it is not safe to do it by yourself — that’s part of it — and it’s also nice to have company and connect around a shared interest,” Waicukauski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having people to go out and do stuff with and having a reliable source to find those people, that’s one of the things that we want to do in a bigger and more meaningful way as we move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But almost immediately, people started showing up to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, the store reopened for business — operating mostly from a temporary back counter — and long-time customers and enthusiasts have raised more than $50,000 to go toward Looking Glass’ recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waicukauski said the support the store has received in the days since has been humbling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I just never am sure if we deserve all the love that people have given us, so it just means so much to know that what we do actually matters,” Waicukauski said. “I like to think that it does, but when everybody shows up, it’s like, ‘OK, that’s cool, that’s amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging path ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a construction crew and employees sifted through the damage on Sunday, the financial reality of the burglary began to set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody [was] just starting to calculate in their minds the actual cost of what this is going to take to get up and running again and how much we have lost,” Waicukauski told KQED. “Many of them also know what we’ve been through as a business over the years and just how hard our industry is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027569 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. 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