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"content": "\u003cp>A Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy who police say performed a carotid hold on a Petaluma man shortly before he died last week used a similar neck hold on a woman in 2015 and then lied about it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Glen Ward, 52, died after a car chase and struggle with sheriff’s deputies and police on Nov. 27. Officers from Sebastopol and Sonoma County deputies incorrectly suspected that Ward was driving a stolen vehicle, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department, which is investigating the incident. 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The video, taken by a bystander, showed Blount wrapping his arm around Moon’s neck and throwing her to the ground. “That matter was dismissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Jamie Thistlethwaite directed prosecutor Scott Uemura to place Blount’s testimony in the DA’s files documenting officers with credibility issues. Prosecutors have a duty to disclose past dishonesty by law enforcement witnesses to defendants under a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brady v. Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Deputy District Attorney Brian Staebell wrote in an email that his office did review the case to determine if Blount should be placed on the DA’s “Brady list,” and asked the sheriff for any evidence of relevant misconduct in his file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were notified there was none,” Staebell wrote. 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"content": "\u003cp>Environmental groups say the oil and gas industry is behind the California Restaurant Association’s lawsuit challenging Berkeley’s ban on natural gas pipes in new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice and other groups contend that the gas industry has partnered with the restaurant association and other trade groups in a surreptitious campaign to block such bans and discourage other cities from pursuing similar electrification efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s clearly intended to thwart the movement’s momentum,” said Pierre Delforge, a scientist with the NRDC’s Climate and Clean Energy Program. “It’s very likely the lawsuit is intended to send a chill and scare city councils into not adopting or delaying these decisions. It’s part of their calculus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Matt Vespa, Earthjustice staff attorney\"]‘I’d be surprised if this [lawsuit] wasn’t funded by the gas industry.’[/pullquote]In July, the Berkeley City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761889/berkeley-becomes-first-city-in-california-to-ban-natural-gas-in-most-new-buildings\">unanimously approved\u003c/a> the first-in-the-nation legislation to ban natural gas pipes in most new residential and commercial construction, starting in 2020, as a means of achieving greenhouse gas reduction goals. The measure was hailed by environmentalists, who say scaling back use of the planet-warming fossil fuel is essential in the fight against climate change. Since then, more than a dozen other cities in California, including San Jose, have passed similar measures to scrap gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/781874235/california-restaurant-industry-group-sues-berkeley-over-natural-gas-ban\">The suit\u003c/a>, filed in late November by the restaurant trade group, “copy-and-pastes” misleading talking points from the oil and gas industry’s public relations playbook, Delforge argues, while resorting to scare tactics to bolster its claims, including warnings of power shutoffs and price spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The restaurant association is aligning itself with fossil fuel interests in a way that may not be in the interest of its members,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists also note that the gas industry has consistently, if modestly, contributed to the restaurant association (CRA): Since 2016, Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas and Electric, both subsidiaries of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sempra.com/about-us/energy-operations-map\">Sempra Energy\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based company with major gas holdings in the U.S. and Mexico, have collectively given the group more than $142,000 in charitable contributions and membership dues, according to California Public Utilities Commission records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d be surprised if this [lawsuit] wasn’t funded by the gas industry,” said Earthjustice staff attorney Matt Vespa. “It’s not cheap to file this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRA declined to say how the suit was being funded. “We do not provide information about our members or their financial commitments to our various advocacy efforts, including this lawsuit,” said CRA spokeswoman Sharokina Shams in an email. “The funding for the lawsuit is not part of the case or the issues involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRA President and CEO Jot Condie was quick to dismiss any allegations of his group being tethered to the gas industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=science_1945656,news_11761889]“Suggesting that the restaurant industry has ‘ties’ to the natural gas industry is like saying restaurants have ties to knife manufacturers. Both of these things are essential to restaurant operations today,” he said in a statement. “If a local government tried to ban cutting tools in restaurant kitchens, we would take issue with that, too. Critics of the legal action we took appear to be looking for monsters under the bed — perhaps because they’re unable to dispute the actual substance of the claim — the serious impact to restaurants from a ban on a critical energy source, not to mention, a flagrant violation of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vespa, though, argues that such claims are “disingenuous,” as the city’s ban will not impact any restaurants operating in existing buildings, and apply only to the tiny percentage of restaurants that move into future sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suit, filed last month in U.S. District Court for Northern California, CRA argues that Berkeley bypassed state and federal energy regulations when it approved the natural gas ban. The group, which represents some 22,000 restaurants throughout California, argues that forcing restaurants to switch to electric cooking sources will significantly increase costs and fundamentally alter the cooking process. Most chefs depend on natural gas “for cooking particular types of food, whether it be flame-seared meats, charred vegetables, or the use of intense heat from a flame under a wok,” according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Berkeley and other cities that have followed its lead clearly bypassed state energy code regulations, said Courtland Reichman, managing partner of Reichman Jorgensen LLP, which is representing CRA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think a lot of facts are in dispute,” Reichman said. “They know this doesn’t comply with state law. … It’s about the principle of the matter and how it affects other cities across California and perhaps the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claiming that CRA is acting on behalf of the gas industry, Reichman added, is “like saying the environmental groups are acting as a front for the electric companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reichman’s firm has also represented Sempra Energy but “they are not my major clients,” he said, and the firm is not currently involved in any pending litigation with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Berkeley City Attorney Farimah Faiz Brown said the city is confident the measure complies with the law, and is prepared to “vigorously” defend it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delforge from NRDC said this suit, like other fights waged against local gas restrictions, clearly indicates the threat that electrification efforts pose to the natural gas industry. He notes how industry groups like the Western States Petroleum Association have recently underscored the urgency of the issue, urging energy companies to find creative ways to engage with the public and form alliances with diverse groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/natural-gas/080719-berkeley-gas-hook-up-ban-appears-likely-to-spread-to-other-california-cities-wspa-head?fbclid=iwar32zlrsj-pgrep3y0wvsaq-j3hlygbu7wtcc-tkmyueumfxzjo34omgdra\">gas industry conference\u003c/a> in August, covered by S&P Global, Western States Petroleum Association President Catherine Reheis-Boyd said, “Wow. Can you imagine if every local municipality takes up this issue? It’s death by a 1,000 cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/54101722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another address\u003c/a> to gas industry leaders the following month, documented in the same publication, Reheis-Boyd stressed the importance of building coalitions across industries. She credited coordinated opposition from the Los Angeles restaurant industry and other allies in helping to defeat a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/cpucblog.aspx?id=6442455750&blogid=1551\">2017 CPUC proposal\u003c/a> ordering Southern California Gas Company to temporarily halt service to commercial and industrial connections in parts of Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the industry’s vigilance, Delforge said, the CRA suit against Berkeley is hardly surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s through CRA or through some other group, we do expect to have this kind of challenge,” he said. “It seems to be only way the fossil fuel industry thinks they can stop this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Berkeley’s gas ban won’t affect the vast majority of restaurants in the city, any suggestion of not being able to cook with natural gas raises concerns for many professional chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For home cooking, it doesn’t matter. For restaurants, it’s going to be a problem because you need to cook really fast,” said Olivier Said, who co-owns Kitchen on Fire, a cooking school in North Berkeley. “You’re going to have to retrain everybody. It’s going to be a very different concept for cooking. … Also, it’s way more expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something “very primal” about cooking with fire, Said added, joking that if he switched to electric, he’d have to rename his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’d be ‘Kitchen \u003cem>Without\u003c/em> Fire.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Duncan Hunter’s legal liabilities were the only thing that created a political vulnerability for Republicans in this district,” said UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser. “Remember, this is a district that Donald Trump carried by 15 percentage points.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter, already contending with at least two well-known Republican challengers, faced grim prospects for winning another term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative talk show host Carl DeMaio has $1.2 million in the bank for a campaign against Hunter, according to DeMaio’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/CA/50/2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign finance filings\u003c/a> with the Federal Election Commission. DeMaio, who previously ran for office in San Diego, will face former Republican congressman Darrell Issa, who decided not to run for reelection in a nearby congressional district two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today DeMaio seemed eager to use that fact against Issa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the voters in the 50th want a fighter, not a quitter,” DeMaio told KQED. “And Darrell Issa has shown that he’s someone who runs from fights. He let the president down by quitting his reelection bid in 2018, along with 39 other Republicans … who were cowardly and quit on the president. They cut and run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Campa-Najjar is also running again and has more than $850,000 on hand, according to FEC filings. Issa has a personal fortune in addition to a list of campaign donors from his previous runs for office. Hunter by comparison had just $289,000 in his campaign account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, Campa-Najjar professed regret at Hunter’s demise, adding that it’s time for the district to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bittersweet,” Campa-Najjar said. “No constituent wishes for their congressman to plead guilty and face jail time. “I respect his service as a Marine and the time he spent in Congress, especially before the swamp sunk its teeth into him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s Kousser said Campa-Najjar “ran a very strong campaign in 2018 and has really coalesced Democratic support around him. I think we’ll see him emerge from the top-two primary, but then face an uphill battle in November against whichever Republican candidate untarnished by the Duncan Hunter scandal emerges from the primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMaio dismissed Campa-Najjar as “a socialist” for his support of the Green New Deal plan for reducing carbon emissions to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a coastal elite or a millionaire,” Campa-Najjar countered. DeMaio “is just trying to use scare tactics to deflect from his own record. He calls himself a fighter, but I call him a loser,” a reference to DeMaio’s previous failed bids for elected office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on when Hunter resigns his seat, there will either be a special election to fill it before the March 3 primary, with a runoff likely in May, or the election would be consolidated with the March primary and November general election in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While many welcomed the wet weather this week, for some people the heavy rain brought back unpleasant memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I tend to be paranoid when it rains a lot,” says Teresa Pedrizco, whose home in San Jose flooded after Coyote Creek spilled over its banks in February 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the flooding, San Jose residents had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11612712/the-san-jose-flood-what-went-wrong-and-how-the-city-plans-to-fix-it\">little to no warning\u003c/a> of the rising waters. About 14,000 people were evacuated and some had to rescued from their homes by boat. Hundreds of public and private structures were damaged to the tune of $73 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for some, the recovery process has been slow. This September, as part of a deal with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, about 200 victims settled their claims and received up to $5,000 in partial compensation for damage done to their homes and property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lifelong San Jose resident Luis Rosas, who lives in a mobile home park along Oakland Road with his mother and brother, was one of those people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think this day would come,” says Rosas, whose home has flooded three times since 1997. “This is the only time they’ve ever actually given us money for repairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most who settled with the water agency are from low-income and immigrant communities, according to a community group that helped file the claims. All of them filed claims without a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those who settled, like Rojas and his family, are moving on, other flood victims chose not to settle for the amount offered. They now feel stuck in a never-ending legal battle trying to recoup their losses. Many of those victims argue the city should have done more in the first place to prevent the flooding and that $5,000 won’t begin to cover the damage done to their properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Amanda Hawes \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6562119-Coyote-Creek-Flood-Lawsuit.html\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> two years ago against the water district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.valleywater.org/\">Valley Water\u003c/a>, and the city of San Jose on behalf of about 150 victims. The lawsuit claims the city and Valley Water should have taken more preventative action to protect them from a flood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11612712,news_11617150\" label=\"Coyote Creek Flood\"]Hawes alleges that both the water district and the city knew flooding along Coyote Creek was imminent days before it occurred and yet they didn’t do enough to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of clients have lost some degree of confidence in their representatives, in the agencies whose job is to protect the welfare of the community, protect the health of the community,” says Hawes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedrizco, the San Jose homeowner, is part of the lawsuit. She remembers rushing to get sandbags that day, after her mother called her to say their neighborhood was flooding. But the sandbags were no match for the amount of water flowing out of the creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The basement was totally full of water, about a foot and a half of water,” says Pedrizco. “[It] was enough to ruin our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedrizco lives in San Jose’s Olinder neighborhood, near Coyote Creek. She shares her single-family, one-bedroom home with six other family members. The house suffered severe flood damage, but they still live there — even though the foundation and walls have cracked in places and there’s mold in the basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the only place we can afford to live,” says Pedrizco. “So whether it is safe or not, we’re there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedrizco estimates she’ll need at least $60,000 to fix the foundation and thousands more to fix the rest of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some flood victims, including some of those suing, received financial assistance from the city through Catholic Charities of Santa Clara or through individual donors. But Pedrizco says she hasn’t seen a penny of help from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get really upset,” says Pedrizco. “The city has presented themselves somehow to say ‘Oh yeah, we help flood victims,’ but they haven’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the lawyer, Hawes, says the settlement with the other flood victims, even for smaller amounts, is a step in the right direction. “It’s a good sign that the water district is willing to start making some reparations for harm done,” says Hawes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11612797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/CoyoteCreekFlood1Getty-e1503424526229.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11612797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/CoyoteCreekFlood1Getty-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Ford Bronco rests in floodwaters on Feb. 22, 2017, in the Rock Springs neighborhood of San Jose. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to compensation for flood damages, Pedrizco and the others in the lawsuit say they want accountability from the city and the water district, and they want to know a similar situation will not happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valley Water and San Jose declined to comment on the ongoing lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has publicly apologized for the city’s emergency response. Since 2017, the city adopted a joint emergency action plan with the water district to improve flood response. Valley Water has repaired levees and is in the planning stages of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.valleywater.org/coyote-creek\">Coyote Creek flood protection project\u003c/a>. The water district began holding regular public meetings to discuss the project this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pedrizco says she feels like the city and the water district are dragging their feet to compensate those suing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have to create more obstacles for us. We already live in the flooded home,” says Pedrizco. “We are continually suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mediator was brought in this summer to help resolve the lawsuit from Pedrizco and the 150 other households. Hawes says if nothing comes from the mediation sessions, the case could go to trial in early 2021.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Some have said they applaud the dedication of more police officers, but think the name of the task force draws unsubstantiated parallels between the shooting and organized crime, reviving unfair stereotypes about the city’s Southeast Asian residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That larger police presence was visible in the neighborhood of the shooting the next night. Sgt. Adrian Alvarez, with the Fresno Police Department’s Southeast Special Response Team, drove up and down the dark streets. Other officers stood across the street from the home, where a small vigil had been set up for the victims. The goal, Alvarez said, was to be seen — maintain a presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any other night, Alvarez would be doing much the same thing. But now, his focus wasn’t just any violent crime. 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