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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:40 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiona Hill, who served as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council before resigning last summer, criticized Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee for advancing theories that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered with the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testifying on the third and final day of impeachment hearings before the panel this week, Hill said, \"I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/781415139/read-impeachment-witness-fiona-hills-opening-statement-for-thursday-s-hearing\">opening statement\u003c/a>, which she read before the panel, Hill, an immigrant to the U.S. from the United Kingdom, said, \"I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine — not Russia — attacked us in 2016. These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5gmpdtbWB0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill's remarks were directed at GOP members of the panel, including the ranking member, Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who has repeatedly referred to the debunked theory that Ukrainian interests targeted President Trump in the 2016 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his security services \"operate like a Super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"When we are consumed by partisan rancor, we cannot combat these external forces as they seek to divide us against each another, degrade our institutions, and destroy the faith of the American people in our democracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill testified alongside foreign service officer David Holmes, the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Holmes-and-Hill-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"David Holmes, a State Department official stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, watches as Fiona Hill testifies during the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Nov. 21, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11788001\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Holmes-and-Hill-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Holmes-and-Hill-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Holmes-and-Hill-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Holmes-and-Hill-1200x761.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Holmes-and-Hill.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Holmes, a State Department official stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, watches as Fiona Hill testifies during the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Nov. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was Holmes who went to lunch in July in Kyiv with the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, and overheard a phone call involving the president. During that encounter, Sondland called Trump on his mobile phone to talk about the \"investigations\" that Trump wanted from his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes told the committee Thursday that he remembered the call because \"I've never seen anything like this in my foreign service career,\" describing hearing the president on the phone at a restaurant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Holmes testified, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1197521967777222656?s=20\">Trump tweeted\u003c/a> that \"I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great. Never have I been watching a person making a call, which was not on speakerphone, and been able to hear or understand a conversation. I've even tried, but to no avail. Try it live!\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1197521967777222656?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham blasted Democrats on Thursday and questioned the testimony from Hill and Holmes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's witnesses rely heavily on their own presumptions, assumptions and opinions\" she said in a statement. \"These two witnesses, just like the rest, have no personal or direct knowledge regarding why U.S. aid was temporarily withheld. The Democrats are clearly being motivated by a sick hatred for President Trump and their rabid desire to overturn the 2016 election. The American people deserve better.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Domestic political errand'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an absorbing exchange, Hill testified that she asked Sondland \"who put you in charge of Ukraine, which I admit was a bit rude and he told me 'the President,' which shut me up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said in a subsequent meeting she was angry with Sondland because he wasn't coordinating with the National Security Council on Ukraine policy. She said Sondland told her he had been briefing President Trump, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill testified that Sondland asked, \"who else do I have to deal with?\" She said she responded at the time that there is a robust coordination process across the U.S. government. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after hearing Sondland's testimony on Wednesday, Hill said she realized Sondland was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was being involved in a domestic political errand. And we were being involved in national security foreign policy, and those two things had just diverged,\" said Hill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"I did say to Ambassador Sondland, \"Gordon I think this is all going to blow up. And here we are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"Related “Coverage\"]Hill previously told impeachment investigators in her closed-door deposition that she resented the smear campaign run against the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill also is a key witness about the former national security adviser John Bolton, who has been described as an important player in the Ukraine saga but from whom Congress has not heard directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton, per Hill, warned about the \"drug deal\" being cooked up by Trump's deputies with Ukraine and about the role played by Giuliani, whom Hill said Bolton called a \"hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony Wednesday, Sondland didn't dispute much of what Holmes has told investigators about the episode, but there was one key discrepancy — over the specific words he used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes said that Sondland told him that Trump only cared about \"big stuff\" that affected him, like what Holmes called the \"Biden investigation\" Trump wanted from Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland says he didn't know in real time that the investigation connected with the word \"Burisma\" — a Ukrainian company that for a time paid the son of former Vice President Joe Biden — was, in effect, code for the Biden family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hill testified Thursday that it \"was very apparent to me that was what Rudy Giuliani intended.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his closing remarks, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., drew a parallel between this impeachment probe and Watergate, saying that Trump's alleged transgressions are \"beyond anything that Nixon did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference he said is between this Congress and that one, in which Republicans gradually stopped supporting President Nixon. \"Where is Howard Baker?\" Schiff asked, referring to Republican senator from that time who helped lead the Watergate investigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said that in his view, \"there is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes he is above the law. We are better than that,\" Schiff said, banging the gavel down to close the session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ik_k2Fm3RM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What comes next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One question raised by the Thursday session — and not yet answered definitively by Democrats — is whether it will be the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, who has been leading this phase of the impeachment inquiry, hasn't said definitively whether the hearing would end his portion of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That matters because it affects the timing of the balance of Democrats' putative impeachment program: Once Schiff's panel concludes its work, action could then shift to the House Judiciary Committee, which would need to initiate and advance articles of impeachment to the full House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her weekly news conference Thursday, Pelosi said there are no decisions yet on the timeline for impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She deferred to committees of jurisdiction about any additional open hearings or deposition, but said the facts are \"uncontested\" as to what happened. Pelosi repeatedly said if the president has something to offer that is exculpatory he should submit \"under oath.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pushed back at a question about the impeachment process not being bipartisan, as she initially said it needed to be, saying \"if Republicans are denial about the facts, if the Republicans do not want to honor their oath of office then I don't think we should be characterized in any way because we are patriotic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speaker said the president has responded to the inquiry in a way that \"is beneath the dignity\" of the office of the presidency and added he sets \"a very bad example for our children in the manner in which he behaves and speaks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about waiting for the legal battles to play out Pelosi said \"we cannot be at the mercy of the courts.\" She said the \"that's a technique on the part of the administration\" to delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are moving at the pace that truth takes us,\" Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump were impeached in the House, a trial would be held in the Senate — one that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said this week that he's convinced Trump would win. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 7:08 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, tied President Trump directly to conditioning a meeting with the Ukrainian president with “a public statement from President Zelenskiy committing to investigations of Burisma and the 2016 election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani “expressed those requests directly to the Ukrainians,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/20/780956554/read-ambassador-gordon-sondlands-opening-statement\">Sondland said in his opening statement\u003c/a> at the public impeachment hearings on Wednesday. “Mr. Giuliani also expressed those requests directly to us. We all understood that these prerequisites for the White House call and White House meeting reflected President Trump’s desires and requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Was there a ‘quid pro quo’?” Sondland said in his opening remarks.”With regard to the requested White House call and White House meeting, the answer is yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland testified for nearly seven hours Tuesday. The chairman of the House Intelligence panel, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called it “a seminal moment in our investigation, saying Sondland’s testimony was “deeply significant and troubling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were more revelations later in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Cooper, a deputy assistant secretary at the Defense Department, whose portfolio includes policy for Eastern Europe, told House lawmakers that the Ukrainian Embassy asked about the hold on security assistance on July 25, the day the Trump spoke to Zelenskiy. That’s an earlier date than past accounts — and undercuts a key Republican talking point defending the president: that there was no wrongdoing because the Ukrainians weren’t even aware that a hold was put on the aid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper said she was made aware by her staff of the Ukrainians asking about the aid only after the release Nov. 11 of the transcript of her deposition Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, David Hale, a senior State Department official, said he learned about the hold during a July 26 meeting in which an OMB official had said that the president objected to releasing the funds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘In the loop’ or ‘completely exonerates’?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland, who spent most of his career as a real estate and hotel developer, provided the most explicit link yet of the secretary of state’s role in the Ukraine affair. He said he kept Mike Pompeo and other senior State Department officials abreast of his contacts with Giuliani, who “specifically mentioned the 2016 election (including the DNC server) and Burisma as two topics of importance to the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew what we were doing and why,” Sondland said of Pompeo and the others. He added, “Everyone was in the loop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House disagreed, issuing a statement titled “Ambassador Sondland Completely Exonerates President Trump of Any Wrongdoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Sondland] testified to the fact that President Trump never told him that a White House meeting or the aid to Ukraine was tied to receiving a public statement from President Zelensky,” said White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department in a statement said “Sondland never told Secretary Pompeo that he believed the President was linking aid to investigations of political opponents. Any suggestion to the contrary is flat out false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland, a major donor to Trump’s inauguration, has emerged as a pivotal witness as the Democrats attempt to make the case that the president sought an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter from Ukraine’s newly elected president in exchange for the resumption of military aid and a White House visit. Hunter Biden was on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump denies any such linkage was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"impeachment\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]Schiff asked Sondland, who testified Wednesday under subpoena, whether the president conditioned a White House meeting with Zelenskiy on Ukraine conducting investigations into Burisma and a debunked theory alleging Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland responded that Zelenskiy “had to announce the investigations, he didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an exchange that Republicans would highlight, Sondland said, “President Trump never told me directly that aid was conditioned on the meetings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Four-letter and three-letter words\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a lighter moment, when asked whether he recalled telling Trump in a September phone call that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “loves your ass,” Sondland laughed and said, “It sounds like something I would say. That’s how President Trump and I communicate, a lot of four-letter words. In this case three-letter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland also said he merely “followed the president’s orders” in working with Giuliani, even though he, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Kurt Volker, the then special envoy to Ukraine, “did not want to work with” the president’s personal lawyer. “Simply put, we played the hand we were dealt,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Energy Department denies Perry knew that Trump was pushing Ukraine to conduct political investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If “I had known of all of Mr. Giuliani’s dealings or of his associations with individuals now under criminal indictment, I would not have acquiesced to his participation,” Sondland said. “Still, given what we knew at the time, what we were asked to do did not appear to be wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland testified that after a meeting in Warsaw, he discussed with Vice President Pence his worries that the White House was linking military aid to Ukraine opening investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pence’s office pushed back. “Ambassador Gordon Sondland was never alone with Vice President Pence on the September 1 trip to Poland. This alleged discussion recalled by Ambassador Sondland never happened,” they said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In brief remarks before departing the White House Wednesday, Trump re-enacted the conversation he had with Sondland in which he said there was no quid pro quo, adding that Sondland was “not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/politico/status/1197227674516758528?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans also reiterated their arguments that, despite Sondland’s assertion, there was no quid pro quo, since no investigation of the Bidens was initiated, the two presidents met at the UN in September, and the U.S. military assistance was eventually released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Sondland “they get the call, they get the meeting, they get the money. It’s not two plus two, it’s oh for three,” referring to Sondland’s previous testimony that he added up two plus two to conclude Trump was holding up the military aid in exchange for the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland previously told House investigators that he delivered a key message to a Ukrainian official this year: Trump would not unfreeze more than $390 million in assistance for Ukraine unless Ukraine made a public statement committing to investigations Trump believed might help him in the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That revelation was included in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/776170895/read-the-deposition-by-gordon-sondland-u-s-ambassador-to-the-european-union\">a three-page addendum\u003c/a> filed this month to the first deposition Sondland gave in the earlier, closed-door chapter in the Ukraine affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially the ambassador didn’t discuss that episode, which took place Sept. 1 in Warsaw, Poland. But the testimony of others, Sondland said, “refreshed” his recollection and, accordingly, he amended his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Gordon-Sondland-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Sondland returns from a break to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on Nov. 20, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Gordon-Sondland-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Gordon-Sondland-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Gordon-Sondland-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Gordon-Sondland-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Gordon-Sondland.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gordon Sondland returns from a break to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on Nov. 20, 2019. \u003ccite>(Samuel Corum-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Indispensable man\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encounter in Poland is one of a number of episodes in the Ukraine affair in which Sondland was a central figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another was a July 10 meeting at the White House at which a Ukrainian delegation pressed for a meeting between Zelenskiy and Trump. Then-national security adviser John Bolton was cool to the idea, witnesses have said. He declined to commit. But, according to others, Sondland said that he already had an agreement with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney for a meeting with Trump — if the Ukrainians agreed to investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton and the national security professionals within the White House staff objected not only to having been boxed out of the shadow channel to Ukraine but also to the merits of Trump’s strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland also is one of the actors in the drama who can speak directly about what he heard from Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses have said that Sondland talked frequently with Trump by phone — even though that went outside the normal policy process — and the ambassador even dialed up the president on his mobile phone from a restaurant table this summer in Kyiv.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland was following up after the previous day’s phone call between Trump and Zelenskiy. Another witness has told House investigators that he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779972367/state-department-aide-had-specific-quotes-from-trump-democratic-congressman-says\">overheard Trump ask Sondland about the investigations\u003c/a> he wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zelenskiy would conduct them, Sondland said, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/780621852/read-state-department-official-david-holmes-impeachment-inquiry-testimony\">foreign service officer David Holmes\u003c/a>, who was at the table across from Sondland. Holmes, who is posted to U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, is scheduled to appear at Thursday’s impeachment hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The afternoon panel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper, in her opening statement, said she became aware of the hold on the military assistance in July. She said she heard in a series of meetings that Trump had directed the OMB to hold the funds “because of his concerns about corruption in Ukraine.” She acknowledged, however, that she did not hear of this directly from the president. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper testified Wednesday evening along with Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs at the State Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hale said Wednesday he learned the funds were being held during a July 26 meeting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were told in that meeting by the OMB representative that they were objecting to proceeding with the assistance because the president had so directed through his acting chief of staff,” Hale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He previously said he had been beyond the periphery of many of the events in the story. For example, he said he was surprised to read the White House’s account of the July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Zelenskiy for a “favor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did surprise me,” Hale said. “I didn’t know any of that was happening.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=WATCH+LIVE%3A+Sondland+Says+Top+Trump+Officials+Aware+Of+Ukraine+Investigations+Push&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Schiff asked Sondland, who testified Wednesday under subpoena, whether the president conditioned a White House meeting with Zelenskiy on Ukraine conducting investigations into Burisma and a debunked theory alleging Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland responded that Zelenskiy “had to announce the investigations, he didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an exchange that Republicans would highlight, Sondland said, “President Trump never told me directly that aid was conditioned on the meetings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Four-letter and three-letter words\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a lighter moment, when asked whether he recalled telling Trump in a September phone call that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “loves your ass,” Sondland laughed and said, “It sounds like something I would say. That’s how President Trump and I communicate, a lot of four-letter words. In this case three-letter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland also said he merely “followed the president’s orders” in working with Giuliani, even though he, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Kurt Volker, the then special envoy to Ukraine, “did not want to work with” the president’s personal lawyer. “Simply put, we played the hand we were dealt,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Energy Department denies Perry knew that Trump was pushing Ukraine to conduct political investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If “I had known of all of Mr. Giuliani’s dealings or of his associations with individuals now under criminal indictment, I would not have acquiesced to his participation,” Sondland said. “Still, given what we knew at the time, what we were asked to do did not appear to be wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland testified that after a meeting in Warsaw, he discussed with Vice President Pence his worries that the White House was linking military aid to Ukraine opening investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pence’s office pushed back. “Ambassador Gordon Sondland was never alone with Vice President Pence on the September 1 trip to Poland. This alleged discussion recalled by Ambassador Sondland never happened,” they said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In brief remarks before departing the White House Wednesday, Trump re-enacted the conversation he had with Sondland in which he said there was no quid pro quo, adding that Sondland was “not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy though.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Republicans also reiterated their arguments that, despite Sondland’s assertion, there was no quid pro quo, since no investigation of the Bidens was initiated, the two presidents met at the UN in September, and the U.S. military assistance was eventually released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Sondland “they get the call, they get the meeting, they get the money. It’s not two plus two, it’s oh for three,” referring to Sondland’s previous testimony that he added up two plus two to conclude Trump was holding up the military aid in exchange for the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sondland previously told House investigators that he delivered a key message to a Ukrainian official this year: Trump would not unfreeze more than $390 million in assistance for Ukraine unless Ukraine made a public statement committing to investigations Trump believed might help him in the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That revelation was included in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/776170895/read-the-deposition-by-gordon-sondland-u-s-ambassador-to-the-european-union\">a three-page addendum\u003c/a> filed this month to the first deposition Sondland gave in the earlier, closed-door chapter in the Ukraine affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially the ambassador didn’t discuss that episode, which took place Sept. 1 in Warsaw, Poland. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith his left arm wrapped around the neck of Humberto Martinez, Pittsburg police Officer Ernesto Mejia began to squeeze. Mejia would later testify that to subdue the struggling Martinez, he was attempting a carotid — or “sleeper” — hold designed to briefly cut off blood flow to the brain and render a person unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the carotid arteries on either side of Martinez’s neck weren’t the only thing Mejia restricted with his execution of the difficult and controversial technique: An autopsy found he’d cut off Martinez’s breathing and fractured cartilage in his throat, causing “extensive hemorrhages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s 2016 death echoes the case of Eric Garner, the New York City man whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” as a police officer choked him in 2014, became a rallying cry for a national movement opposing police use of excessive force against people of color. The Garner incident also spurred widespread debate about the danger of neck restraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Pittsburg, police never investigated how Mejia’s carotid hold had turned deadly or analyzed what Mejia and the officers with him might have done differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">opened internal investigation documents\u003c/a> for the first time in decades, is providing a key insight into the long-hidden world of California policing: Not all agencies review how their officers acted — and whether they violated department policies — when they kill or badly injure someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some sort of review of those incidents is set to become standard practice in California beginning in 2021, thanks to another new state law, but that legislation sets no standards for thoroughness or documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED and the Bay Area News Group analyzed records on officers’ use of deadly force released by 122 agencies statewide, and found that 10% failed to internally investigate incidents that occurred between 2014 and 2018. The incidents included 16 fatal shootings, three deaths following fights with officers, and nine nonfatal events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For departments that did investigate uses of force, documents show a stark range of thoroughness, from a scant single-page checklist to an in-depth analysis of whether officers followed their training, used correct tactics and employed deadly force only as a last resort. Some of the most thorough departments ordered more training and held officers accountable if they failed to follow policy.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ronald Lawrence, \u003cbr>California Police Chiefs Association President\"]‘It would floor me if an agency didn’t do a robust investigation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comprehensive analysis of the more than 500 law enforcement agencies in the state is not yet possible; some departments did not have a deadly incident during that five-year period and others have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758000/delaying-the-inevitable-many-police-agencies-withhold-records-in-new-era-of-transparency\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">not provided\u003c/a> relevant records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg Police Chief Brian Addington wouldn’t say why an internal review was never done in the Martinez case, citing a federal civil rights \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11595056/family-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-pittsburg-police-department\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a> over his death. Mejia didn’t return messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents show Mejia was patrolling an area known for drug activity when he stopped Martinez, 36, for driving a car with expired tags on July 26, 2016. Police body-camera footage shows that Martinez bolted into a nearby home, unarmed. There, four other officers struggled to handcuff the 6’2” 285-pound man who was violently resisting them, tasing, stomping, kneeing and punching him as Mejia squeezed his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After they finally cuffed him, one officer called out, “Hey, he’s going purple.” Martinez’s heart had stopped. Efforts to revive him failed. He died less than two hours later at a Concord hospital. Besides the throat injuries, an autopsy would show that the officers had broken 16 of his ribs and bruised his head and liver. It also showed Martinez had both methamphetamine and amphetamine in his system and had been drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/esdYJJ-4vsA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Body-camera footage from multiple officers show Mejia struggling to subdue Martinez. This video was edited for brevity and language. Pittsburg police blurred Martinez’s face before releasing footage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That some agencies don’t document internal investigations of deadly incidents — or simply don’t do them at all — surprised some state law enforcement leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would floor me if an agency didn’t do a robust investigation” of a deadly incident involving its officers, said Ronald Lawrence, president of the California Police Chiefs Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department’s procedures on such investigations reveal much about its professional standards, said Dennis Kenney, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A careful, well-documented probe indicates a department is serious about using force correctly and only when absolutely necessary, but the absence of records shows that some departments have a culture of “we’re going to stick our heads in the sand and hope it goes away,” Kenney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of basic requirements for police internal investigations is reflected in reporters’ findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Twelve departments didn’t investigate incidents in which their officers used deadly force at all, including San Jose State University police, who didn’t examine the 2014 high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731896/san-jose-state-releases-previously-withheld-footage-of-fatal-police-shooting\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting\u003c/a> of a mentally ill man, Antonio Guzman Lopez, by two of its officers. A school spokeswoman said one wasn’t needed because prosecutors investigated the case and found no criminal wrongdoing. But video of the incident raised questions about whether Guzman Lopez was truly a threat to officers.[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Three departments — Orland, Dixon and Suisun City — said they lost records of their policy findings regarding a shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Avenal police in Kings County created internal review documents 11 days after receiving the news agencies’ request for the missing records related to two 2017 deadly shootings. The police chief declined to explain his department’s internal investigation protocols. Both incidents were found to be “in policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• One hundred and five departments did some kind of review, but many showed no documented analysis or recommendations. For example, Yreka police in Siskiyou County “did not follow the standard (internal affairs) procedure” when officers fatally shot a man because “no citizens complaint was ever filed” and no allegations of wrongdoing were brought, a captain wrote to the department’s chief. “No questions were ever asked by the Yreka Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11786976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-800x812.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-800x812.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-160x162.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-1020x1035.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-1183x1200.jpg 1183w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719.jpg 1636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training wrote in an email that police departments aren’t required by law to look at deadly incidents, but they’d “be exposed to tremendous liability” by failing to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the lack of a mandate, police trainer Gary Gregson, who spent seven of his 30 years as a Sacramento officer working in internal affairs, said every agency should examine what cops might have done wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole process is not only about managing risk and liability; it’s an opportunity for the organization to make itself better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if Pittsburg police had investigated Martinez’s death, they might have raised questions about whether Mejia understood the hold he tried to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put him in a chokehold,” Mejia said to his supervising sergeant as medical personnel tried to revive Martinez, body-camera video shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sgt. James Terry was quick to suggest a different term: “In the carotid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the carotid,” Mejia repeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those terms have very different meanings, said Jim Boydd, a former police officer who now trains cops on how to safely use what’s often called a “carotid hold” or “sleeper hold,” although Boydd’s preferred term is a “vascular neck restraint.” In that hold, an officer applies pressure to arteries on the sides of the neck, restricting blood flow to the brain, causing the person to pass out. It is not considered deadly force because it’s intended only to restrain a suspect, not kill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boydd wouldn’t comment on specific cases but said if done correctly, the carotid hold doesn’t block the airway. “The person has to maintain the ability to breathe, obviously,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-800x895.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-1073x1200.jpg 1073w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jeff Durham/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A chokehold does the opposite, applying direct pressure to the front of the throat, Boydd said, and cutting off breathing. That hold can be deadly and isn’t supposed to be used unless an officer’s life is in immediate danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor who performed Martinez’s autopsy testified in court that the man’s airway was obstructed for four to six minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Haddad, a lawyer for Martinez’s family, said in an interview he suspects Pittsburg didn’t investigate because police feared a finding that Mejia broke use-of-force rules could be used in a lawsuit. He said the department’s failure to properly train officers in the risky technique amounts to deliberate indifference. And, he said, the department can’t correct mistakes if it doesn’t look for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem to be making no effort to try to prevent something similar from happening to someone else,” Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg’s attorneys argued in court documents that Mejia properly applied the carotid hold and pointed to Martinez’s drug use and weight as contributing factors in his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s death wasn’t the only one attributed to suffocation by a cop, news organizations found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Wendell Celestine, 37, died during a violent struggle with Antioch police officers Mark Moraga and Michael Mortimer. The officers were trying to arrest Celestine, who had a history of grand theft, robbery and drug crimes dating to 1996, for a parole violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records of the incident released under SB 1421 state that Mortimer hit Celestine repeatedly with a flashlight. Moraga used a carotid hold until Celestine passed out. He regained consciousness and began struggling as the cops tried to place him in a restraint device. Then Celestine stopped breathing. The coroner found his death was caused by “mechanical obstruction of respiration (‘suffocation’)” due to “carotid restraint hold by police while resisting arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786979\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 275px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11786979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-160x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-160x187.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-800x933.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-1020x1190.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-1029x1200.jpg 1029w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendell Celestine, 37, died during a violent struggle with Antioch police officers Mark Moraga and Michael Mortimer in 2016. \u003ccite>(Via Antioch Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The records did not include evidence that the department ever conducted a use-of-force review. Antioch Police Chief Tammany Brooks said in an email that his department does “review” deadly incidents, but doesn’t document any findings unless it receives a formal complaint or investigators think a policy might have been violated. Celestine’s asphyxiation death didn’t prompt such an investigation, nor did eight shootings by Antioch cops from 2014 to 2018, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks at first agreed to an interview but then decided to postpone indefinitely. He wrote in an email that he “recalled a number of our policies are currently undergoing review and updates, including policies potentially involved with this topic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg police have since changed their policies; the department now reviews all deadly-force incidents and documents findings. Addington said in “the vast majority of the cases we identify something that we could maybe look at differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this policy change, Pittsburg, like most of the other agencies found to lack internal investigations, simply relied on criminal investigations done by the county district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, when police in the Monterey County town of Marina were asked for investigative records of a deadly 2015 shooting, they responded by email that internal investigations are “conducted by the District Attorney’s Office,” not the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors have a different focus: whether an officer committed a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Monterey County Assistant District Attorney Anne Michaels made that clear in the report she wrote on the 2015 Marina shooting: The DA’s scope “is not to advise best practices for law enforcement in the field, but rather to determine whether any officer committed a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” She found the Marina officer was legally justified when he shot and killed a man who’d just stabbed his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even a legally justified shooting can provide vital tactical lessons, said former internal affairs investigator Gregson. Sometimes it’s learning how deadly force might have been avoided, or identifying what went right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling officers fresh from a violent situation that they made good decisions can be “huge” for them, Gregson said, and is “an important thing for officers to be able to hear.”[aside postID=\"news_11786495,news_11762733,news_11755384\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Walker, an emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha, said California’s move toward transparency will help bring it into an era of more modern policing, one where “proactive departments will get answers and solve problems,” he said, such as: “Are there bad cops? Are there bad policies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents released so far under SB 1421 show departments that ask those questions sometimes find serious training issues and address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 incident, Daly City Officer Peter Nelson shot and wounded a domestic violence suspect who was stabbing himself with a pen. The officer was at first publicly commended for his actions, but documents show he was later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758809/from-commendation-to-reprimand-discipline-in-daly-city-police-shooting-revealed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">formally reprimanded\u003c/a> for violating department policy by trying to shoot the pen out of the man’s hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Officer Andrew Van Woerkom of the El Cajon Police Department in San Diego County was among a group of officers who responded to a suicidal man holding a knife. One of the other officers had a bean-bag gun, giving police a less-lethal option to subdue him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Van Woerkom shot and wounded the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were two sergeants on scene and clearly, neither expected Van Woerkom to use deadly force,” a captain later wrote of the officer’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its post-incident review, the department found the shooting complied with policy because Van Woerkom said he thought the man posed a deadly threat, according to records obtained by the Los Angeles Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an investigator also recommended Van Woerkom receive specific training in decision-making and de-escalation. All the department’s officers received additional training on less-lethal options, dealing with suicidal people, and clearer communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the future, California police departments will not have a choice of whether to investigate deadly force. A new law, Senate Bill 230, that law enforcement groups backed, requires agencies to review all instances when an officer discharges a firearm and have a policy outlining factors to examine anytime an officer uses force. The law goes into effect Jan. 1, but most of its requirements aren’t effective until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence, of the state Police Chiefs Association, said he’s hopeful the new law will help standardize police policies and documentation around use-of-force investigations. But without benchmarks that define what a thorough “review” must look like, it is unclear what will actually change. And Lawrence said he and other police leaders don’t even have a good idea of what most agencies are doing right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth of the matter is we don’t know,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nate Gartrell and Robert Salonga of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. The project was formed to request and report on previously secret records of police misconduct and use of force in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comprehensive analysis of the more than 500 law enforcement agencies in the state is not yet possible; some departments did not have a deadly incident during that five-year period and others have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758000/delaying-the-inevitable-many-police-agencies-withhold-records-in-new-era-of-transparency\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">not provided\u003c/a> relevant records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg Police Chief Brian Addington wouldn’t say why an internal review was never done in the Martinez case, citing a federal civil rights \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11595056/family-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-pittsburg-police-department\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a> over his death. Mejia didn’t return messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents show Mejia was patrolling an area known for drug activity when he stopped Martinez, 36, for driving a car with expired tags on July 26, 2016. Police body-camera footage shows that Martinez bolted into a nearby home, unarmed. There, four other officers struggled to handcuff the 6’2” 285-pound man who was violently resisting them, tasing, stomping, kneeing and punching him as Mejia squeezed his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After they finally cuffed him, one officer called out, “Hey, he’s going purple.” Martinez’s heart had stopped. Efforts to revive him failed. He died less than two hours later at a Concord hospital. Besides the throat injuries, an autopsy would show that the officers had broken 16 of his ribs and bruised his head and liver. It also showed Martinez had both methamphetamine and amphetamine in his system and had been drinking.\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/esdYJJ-4vsA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/esdYJJ-4vsA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Body-camera footage from multiple officers show Mejia struggling to subdue Martinez. This video was edited for brevity and language. Pittsburg police blurred Martinez’s face before releasing footage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That some agencies don’t document internal investigations of deadly incidents — or simply don’t do them at all — surprised some state law enforcement leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would floor me if an agency didn’t do a robust investigation” of a deadly incident involving its officers, said Ronald Lawrence, president of the California Police Chiefs Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department’s procedures on such investigations reveal much about its professional standards, said Dennis Kenney, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A careful, well-documented probe indicates a department is serious about using force correctly and only when absolutely necessary, but the absence of records shows that some departments have a culture of “we’re going to stick our heads in the sand and hope it goes away,” Kenney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of basic requirements for police internal investigations is reflected in reporters’ findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Twelve departments didn’t investigate incidents in which their officers used deadly force at all, including San Jose State University police, who didn’t examine the 2014 high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731896/san-jose-state-releases-previously-withheld-footage-of-fatal-police-shooting\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting\u003c/a> of a mentally ill man, Antonio Guzman Lopez, by two of its officers. A school spokeswoman said one wasn’t needed because prosecutors investigated the case and found no criminal wrongdoing. But video of the incident raised questions about whether Guzman Lopez was truly a threat to officers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Three departments — Orland, Dixon and Suisun City — said they lost records of their policy findings regarding a shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Avenal police in Kings County created internal review documents 11 days after receiving the news agencies’ request for the missing records related to two 2017 deadly shootings. The police chief declined to explain his department’s internal investigation protocols. Both incidents were found to be “in policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• One hundred and five departments did some kind of review, but many showed no documented analysis or recommendations. For example, Yreka police in Siskiyou County “did not follow the standard (internal affairs) procedure” when officers fatally shot a man because “no citizens complaint was ever filed” and no allegations of wrongdoing were brought, a captain wrote to the department’s chief. “No questions were ever asked by the Yreka Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11786976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-800x812.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-800x812.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-160x162.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-1020x1035.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719-1183x1200.jpg 1183w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/INVESTIGATE-list-111719.jpg 1636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training wrote in an email that police departments aren’t required by law to look at deadly incidents, but they’d “be exposed to tremendous liability” by failing to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the lack of a mandate, police trainer Gary Gregson, who spent seven of his 30 years as a Sacramento officer working in internal affairs, said every agency should examine what cops might have done wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole process is not only about managing risk and liability; it’s an opportunity for the organization to make itself better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, if Pittsburg police had investigated Martinez’s death, they might have raised questions about whether Mejia understood the hold he tried to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put him in a chokehold,” Mejia said to his supervising sergeant as medical personnel tried to revive Martinez, body-camera video shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sgt. James Terry was quick to suggest a different term: “In the carotid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the carotid,” Mejia repeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those terms have very different meanings, said Jim Boydd, a former police officer who now trains cops on how to safely use what’s often called a “carotid hold” or “sleeper hold,” although Boydd’s preferred term is a “vascular neck restraint.” In that hold, an officer applies pressure to arteries on the sides of the neck, restricting blood flow to the brain, causing the person to pass out. It is not considered deadly force because it’s intended only to restrain a suspect, not kill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boydd wouldn’t comment on specific cases but said if done correctly, the carotid hold doesn’t block the airway. “The person has to maintain the ability to breathe, obviously,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-800x895.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1-1073x1200.jpg 1073w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Carotid-Explainer-Graphic-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jeff Durham/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A chokehold does the opposite, applying direct pressure to the front of the throat, Boydd said, and cutting off breathing. That hold can be deadly and isn’t supposed to be used unless an officer’s life is in immediate danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor who performed Martinez’s autopsy testified in court that the man’s airway was obstructed for four to six minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Haddad, a lawyer for Martinez’s family, said in an interview he suspects Pittsburg didn’t investigate because police feared a finding that Mejia broke use-of-force rules could be used in a lawsuit. He said the department’s failure to properly train officers in the risky technique amounts to deliberate indifference. And, he said, the department can’t correct mistakes if it doesn’t look for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem to be making no effort to try to prevent something similar from happening to someone else,” Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg’s attorneys argued in court documents that Mejia properly applied the carotid hold and pointed to Martinez’s drug use and weight as contributing factors in his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s death wasn’t the only one attributed to suffocation by a cop, news organizations found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Wendell Celestine, 37, died during a violent struggle with Antioch police officers Mark Moraga and Michael Mortimer. The officers were trying to arrest Celestine, who had a history of grand theft, robbery and drug crimes dating to 1996, for a parole violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records of the incident released under SB 1421 state that Mortimer hit Celestine repeatedly with a flashlight. Moraga used a carotid hold until Celestine passed out. He regained consciousness and began struggling as the cops tried to place him in a restraint device. Then Celestine stopped breathing. The coroner found his death was caused by “mechanical obstruction of respiration (‘suffocation’)” due to “carotid restraint hold by police while resisting arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786979\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 275px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11786979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-160x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-160x187.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-800x933.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-1020x1190.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine-1029x1200.jpg 1029w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Wendell-Celestine.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendell Celestine, 37, died during a violent struggle with Antioch police officers Mark Moraga and Michael Mortimer in 2016. \u003ccite>(Via Antioch Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The records did not include evidence that the department ever conducted a use-of-force review. Antioch Police Chief Tammany Brooks said in an email that his department does “review” deadly incidents, but doesn’t document any findings unless it receives a formal complaint or investigators think a policy might have been violated. Celestine’s asphyxiation death didn’t prompt such an investigation, nor did eight shootings by Antioch cops from 2014 to 2018, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks at first agreed to an interview but then decided to postpone indefinitely. He wrote in an email that he “recalled a number of our policies are currently undergoing review and updates, including policies potentially involved with this topic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg police have since changed their policies; the department now reviews all deadly-force incidents and documents findings. Addington said in “the vast majority of the cases we identify something that we could maybe look at differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this policy change, Pittsburg, like most of the other agencies found to lack internal investigations, simply relied on criminal investigations done by the county district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, when police in the Monterey County town of Marina were asked for investigative records of a deadly 2015 shooting, they responded by email that internal investigations are “conducted by the District Attorney’s Office,” not the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors have a different focus: whether an officer committed a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Monterey County Assistant District Attorney Anne Michaels made that clear in the report she wrote on the 2015 Marina shooting: The DA’s scope “is not to advise best practices for law enforcement in the field, but rather to determine whether any officer committed a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” She found the Marina officer was legally justified when he shot and killed a man who’d just stabbed his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even a legally justified shooting can provide vital tactical lessons, said former internal affairs investigator Gregson. Sometimes it’s learning how deadly force might have been avoided, or identifying what went right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling officers fresh from a violent situation that they made good decisions can be “huge” for them, Gregson said, and is “an important thing for officers to be able to hear.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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How is it that foreign corrupt interests could manipulate our government?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch acknowledged that Trump has the power to appoint and remove diplomats as he pleases, but she argued that if an American representative can be “kneecapped” for political reasons, it dilutes U.S. power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to remove an American ambassador who does not give them what they want,” Yovanovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch already has talked with investigators; read her \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6538626-Marie-Yovanovitch-Testimony\">closed-door deposition here\u003c/a>. Her opening statement Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779674990/read-former-ukraine-ambassador-yovanovitchs-opening-statement-to-congress\">is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“I saw it as a threat”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some State Department officials have said they objected to what they saw happening, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed to end Yovanovitch’s tenure early and spurned requests to defend her in public, witnesses have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pompeo’s adviser, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776075712/read-ex-state-department-adviser-michael-mckinleys-testimony-to-congress\">Michael McKinley\u003c/a>, faulted what he called Pompeo’s willingness to sell out a career diplomat and resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yovanovitch said Friday that she lamented that Pompeo has declined to acknowledge that attacks on the foreign service are “dangerously wrong” and impair America’s ability to work its will overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also was asked what she made of the account released by the White House in which Trump is described as telling Ukraine’s president that “things were going to happen to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw it as a threat,” Yovanovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Case for the defense\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans emphasized Yovanovitch’s tangential involvement in the central narrative and repeated that Trump has broad powers to replace any ambassador — and many other officials — within the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. 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These impeachment proceedings are about pure political animus toward Trump, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes mocked Democrats’ desire to “fulfill their Watergate fantasies” and called the first hearing, on Wednesday, a “farce” based on hearsay and “rumors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulvaney earlier argued that the impeachment case boils down to complaints by the foreign policy establishment about Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the administration works for the president, foreign policy is necessarily political, and, Mulvaney said, critics need to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770979659/watch-white-house-holds-now-rare-press-briefing-amid-impeachment-syria-conflicts\">get over it\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican counsel Steve Castor also underscored with Yovanovitch, as he did with earlier witnesses, that corruption in Ukraine remains a real problem and that at least one big case involving the gas company Burisma hadn’t been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That company added to its board the son of then-Vice President Biden; Trump sought an investigation into the Biden family, and his defenders have sought to draw attention to that aspect of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bidens haven’t been accused of breaking the law, but Trump and others continue to raise questions about Hunter Biden’s payments by the Ukrainian company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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