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Freeman said he’d been obeying the traffic laws, and the cruise control on the car was set at the speed limit. He expected the traffic stop to end quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t expect to lose a year’s worth of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/07/CopsMjLewisRemix.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1200x800.jpg\" Title=\"LISTEN: Highway Robbery\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker approached the car, Freeman said he rolled down his window and asked why he’d been pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said Huffaker told him his vehicle had “touched the white line” on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not, so I looked at him, and I said, ‘No I didn’t,’ ” Freeman said. “And he grinned and smiled at me and did not respond. At that moment I knew I’d been had. 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He also carried a large battered black leather briefcase filled with documentation — what he calls his “compliance briefcase” — and he said he provided the officer with a grower’s permit issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, contact information for The Higher Path dispensary with which he had an agreement to both grow and transport marijuana, and his compliance lawyer’s information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, Freeman was trying to be as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legitimate\u003c/a> as he could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said that as he and Huffaker talked, another Rohnert Park officer, Sgt. Jacy Tatum, stood off to the side, barely speaking except to ask Freeman at one point about the strains of marijuana he was carrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers would go on to seize that marijuana, and Freeman hasn’t seen it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s account of his run-in with Rohnert Park police echoes those of eight other drivers who say a group of officers from the city conducted pretextual traffic stops — those that enable authorities to detain suspects for investigation of other matters — with the goal of unlawfully seizing marijuana and cash. Four people allowed us to share their stories publicly, while five others would tell us about their encounters only if we agreed not to name them, saying they feared police retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their stories suggest a pattern of questionable and potentially illegal stops and seizures over the past three years by officers from a small city along a major marijuana transportation corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>When I say highway robbery\u003c/strong>, I really mean it.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Izaak Schwaiger,\u003cbr>\nAttorney, former prosecutor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park said in a statement that its police officers “joined other law enforcement agencies in drug interdiction efforts” along Highway 101 seeking drugs including “methamphetamines, opioids, cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.” But the city says it ceased “most interdiction efforts” related to marijuana in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a financial benefit to the city for this work. Through a legal process called asset forfeiture, both the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety and the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office get to keep a cut of seized cash suspected to be the proceeds of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/asset_forf/2016-af/2016-af.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> issued by the California Attorney General shows that from 2015 to 2016, the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety received more than $1 million in seized cash. The Sonoma County District Attorney received $188,419 of the money from assets seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was responsible for much of that asset forfeiture windfall to his local department. In 2015, the mayor \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly recognized\u003c/a> him for his drug prevention work. Tatum \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thanked the City Council\u003c/a> for allowing him the opportunity to “fight the war on drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tatum has another reputation: A growing chorus of defense attorneys say he’s a rogue cop. He’s being sued for unlawfully taking a man’s cash, and he has a documented history of dishonesty on the witness stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I say highway robbery, I really mean it,” Sonoma County defense attorney Izaak Schwaiger said. “Officer Tatum has been involved in dozens of questionable traffic stops both above and below the Mendocino-Sonoma County line, where he has seized marijuana farmers’ product and/or their cash and given them no receipt and no criminal charges were ever brought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Tatum and his partner, Joseph Huffaker, are \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/04/26/rohnert-park-police-officers-being-investigated-following-two-incidents-where-humboldt-county-cannabis-was-seized-under-suspicious-circumstances/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under investigation\u003c/a> by the city of Rohnert Park. They are both on leave, according to their attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations of a Cover-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park began an administrative investigation around April of this year after independent reporter Kym Kemp \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/former-undercover-officer-involved-in-developing-cannabis-products-accuses-hopland-police-chief-of-theft-corruption-and-civil-rights-violations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/outraged-one-mans-two-month-quest-from-the-fbi-to-the-atf-to-expose-what-he-says-are-corrupt-police-officers-in-mendocino-county/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series\u003c/a> of articles about another suspect traffic stop and marijuana seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas resident Zeke \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499590-Statement-Flatten.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatten said\u003c/a> he was driving south on Highway 101 last December, when an unmarked black Ford Police Interceptor pulled him over just north of the Mendocino County line, about 50 miles north of Rohnert Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 410px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11673497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July, 2015.\" width=\"410\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1020x835.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1200x982.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1180x966.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-960x786.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-375x307.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July 2015. \u003ccite>(City of Rohnert Park Police & Fire Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flatten, like Freeman, was also in a rental car and said he, too, was not speeding or violating any traffic laws. He pulled over and showed the officer his driver’s license and the rental agreement for his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers did not identify what agency they were with, Flatten said, and he noticed they were not wearing departmental police badges or identifying name tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point I really felt something was wrong,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he had 3 pounds of marijuana in his car from a farm in Humboldt County and he was taking it to a laboratory in Santa Rosa for testing. He said he was working on developing a number of cannabis products he hoped to bring to market after California’s law allowing recreational use for adults kicked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten also offered to show the officers his doctor’s prescription for medical cannabis, but he said they weren’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers said they were working for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — according to Flatten. He said they took his marijuana and left him on the side of the road, all in just a few minutes. They did not issue him a citation or arrest him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten reported the Dec. 5 incident to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department, the Mendocino County district attorney, the Mendocino County grand jury and the FBI. Kemp spoke with an ATF spokesperson who said the agency wasn’t involved in Flatten’s traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673519\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 695px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11673519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg 695w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety press release issued on Feb. 13, 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Flatten did contact the FBI and the information he provided, we were not able to corroborate it as reported,” FBI spokesperson Prentice Danner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department said it wasn’t their case and pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4490352-180213-RPDPS-Traffic-Stop-Leads-to-Cannabis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> from Rohnert Park police written on Feb. 13, 2018, not long after Flatten’s stop. The statement, written by Tatum and Cmdr. Jeff Taylor, touted a large “black market” marijuana bust on Highway 101 during the month of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park produced an \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/17-5373-PUBLIC-REDACTION-3-26-18-W-EVIDENCE-SHEET.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report\u003c/a> of the Dec. 5 stop of Flatten, also written by Tatum, that diverges in many places from Flatten’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redacted report doesn’t include any names. It describes a traffic stop involving a white Mercedes-Benz with no license plates. Yet Flatten said he drove a Kia rental car with California license plates. The report says that 30 pounds of marijuana and several hundred containers of hash were seized from the person driving the Mercedes. Flatten maintains he had 3 pounds of marijuana with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that Officer Huffaker did book 30 pounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499600-FlattenIncidentReport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized marijuana into evidence\u003c/a>, but not until Dec. 18, 2017, nearly two weeks later. The several hundred containers of hash are not mentioned in the evidence log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten doesn’t believe Tatum was among the two officers who stopped him, although he does think Rohnert Park Officer Huffaker was one of the officers who pulled him over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673535\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673535\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-160x77.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1020x488.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1200x574.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1180x564.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-960x459.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-240x115.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-375x179.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-520x249.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot.png 1219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from the incident report written by Jacy Tatum\u003cbr>and referenced in response to Zeke Flatten’s allegations.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report says a CHP officer and trainee assisted on Flatten’s stop. But a CHP spokesman wrote in an email, “There is no dispatch record of us assisting with this incident and no one recalls it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he thinks Tatum crafted this report after the fact to cover up an illegal stop and seizure by police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very strongly that I was robbed by legitimate police officers,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the report said the case was referred to the Sonoma County district attorney for prosecution. The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office has no record that Rohnert Park ever referred a case against Flatten. There are no charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park would not respond to questions about this incident, but it is investigating. Attorney Justin Buffington, who is representing Tatum and Huffaker, confirmed the officers are on leave pending an administrative investigation related to Flatten. He stressed that the city’s probe is not a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker did not wish to comment for this story, according to Buffington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seizing Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time Rohnert Park police officers have faced allegations of unlawful seizure. A gambler from Las Vegas named Lucas Serafine alleges in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486452-Serafine260271Combined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the City of Rohnert Park that Tatum and Rohnert Park police Officer Nick Miller unlawfully seized more than $120,000 from him on March 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine was also in a rental car traveling on Highway 101 near Cloverdale with a friend when he said the two officers pulled him over for allegedly driving too fast in the rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine said he was headed to a high-stakes poker game at the Bear River Casino in Humboldt County and that the large amount of cash in the car was cash from a lawsuit he settled with the California Department of Corrections, and a workers’ compensation claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers suspected Serafine’s money was related to drug purchase or sales, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486453-Serafine1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court documents\u003c/a>, and seized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Tatum] looks me in the eyes, pointing his finger pushing on my chest as he does it,” Serafine remembered Tatum saying before he and Officer Miller drove away, “‘I took $1.2 million off the road this year. Nobody shows up for it and neither will you’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Highway 101 in Cloverdale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway 101 in Cloverdale. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A review of incident reports provided by Rohnert Park in response to a public records request back up the statement. KQED reviewed 23 incident reports on traffic stops involving Tatum. The city continues to provide more reports on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between late 2013 and the end of 2016, Tatum was involved in stops that resulted in the confiscation of well over $1 million in cash, according to the incident reports released so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department saw a 182 percent increase in funds from asset forfeitures between 2015 and 2016. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data reported\u003c/a> to the California Attorney General’s Office, Rohnert Park police netted $756,062 in 2016, an increase of nearly half a million dollars from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Serafine’s case, $121,920 was logged into evidence and turned over to the district attorney for asset forfeiture proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, 2016, Serafine’s lawyer sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499502-Notice-to-Rohnert-Park-Regarding-Accounting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Rohnert Park contesting the amount of money seized, but Serafine says he did not get a response. Serafine said he actually had $132,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney brought a civil action to seize Serafine’s cash — a process called asset forfeiture. Serafine provided the prosecutors with proof of income for most of the cash and eventually got $100,000 of his money returned to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on Serafine’s asset forfeiture case or to say whether they investigated Serafine’s dispute about the amount of cash seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499961-Serafine260271Combined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fighting\u003c/a> Serafine’s lawsuit alleging police officers inappropriately confiscated his cash. A trial in that case is scheduled for November of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine has a criminal history, including a conviction in 2001 when he was 18, for unlawful sex with a minor. Serafine was forthcoming about his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>That is a very strong indication\u003c/strong>, based on the law, that the complaints, assuming there were such, were deemed frivolous by the department.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Justin Buffington,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Sgt. Jacy Tatum and Officer Joseph Huffaker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And Zeke Flatten admits he didn’t have a legal license to transport marijuana, but he said that still doesn’t give law enforcement the right to essentially steal from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that what these officers were doing was so much of abuse of power and so just wrong for police officers to be doing that,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s attorney, Justin Buffington, said he is not under investigation for any additional matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To my knowledge, none of the other matters [aside from the Flatten stop] that you referenced are, or have been, the subject of internal investigations undertaken by the department,” Buffington wrote in an email. “That is a very strong indication, based on the law, that the complaints, assuming there were such, were deemed frivolous by the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Unreliable Witness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a year before Flatten went public with his allegations against Rohnert Park police, Tatum was known by prosecutors to have written false information in police reports and to have testified dishonestly in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Tatum] doesn’t have a problem lying, and he does so with some regularity,” said Izaak Schwaiger a civil rights and defense attorney who has had run-ins with Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger, who was a Sonoma County prosecutor from 2010 to 2012, said then-officer Tatum already had a reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His testimony was not of the highest quality,” Schwaiger said. “And sometimes gave rise to people disbelieving it, even on the side of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when Schwaiger became a defense attorney, the stories about Tatum mounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has spoken to five defense attorneys in Sonoma County who say their clients alleged that Sgt. Tatum and often his partners stopped them on a flimsy pretext, fabricated police reports, and unlawfully seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016 Sgt. Tatum entered false information into an incident report. He and Huffaker pulled over a New Jersey man named Konstantine Charalidis, who the DA charged with having a concealed weapon. Charalidis’ attorney, Evan Zelig, provided KQED with Huffaker’s body-camera footage from the stop. It contradicts the police report written by Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499497-CharalidisPoliceReport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report\u003c/a> says that a knife taken off Charalidis was “completely concealed” by his clothing. Huffaker’s body-camera footage shows Charalidis immediately pointed out both knives, neither of which were concealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a difference between incorrect police reports and police reports that are falsified,” Zelig said. “The one with Mr. Charalidis, this was not incorrect. It was just falsified. The facts in there were not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the body-camera footage, both Huffaker and Tatum ask repeatedly whether there is any cash in the car, which Charalidis and his friend deny. Then Tatum says on the body-camera video he found $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673820\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from his body camera footage captures Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker reaching to remove two knives from Konstantine Charalidis' clothing after Charalidis immediately told the officer he had them. Both knives were unconcealed throughout the encounter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1200x679.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-960x543.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-375x212.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-520x294.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from his body camera footage captures Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker reaching to remove two knives from Konstantine Charalidis’ clothing after Charalidis immediately told the officer he had them. Both knives were unconcealed throughout the encounter. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Evin Zelig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zelig said the officers became angry at Charalidis because he wouldn’t admit that $10,000 was related to illegal activity, which would have allowed them to seize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give us fucking bullshit ass fucking answers, that’s what happens,” one of the officers says on the body-camera footage as Charalidis stands handcuffed. “We’re going to see a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police report does not mention any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was absolutely an unlawful arrest,” said Zelig, “that they did solely because he would not give them the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors dismissed the charges against Charalidis because of the body-camera footage. Zelig says his client still had to pay attorneys fees, and deal with the hassle of a California court case while living in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate 2016 case, Schwaiger suspected Tatum was lying about his justification for a traffic stop. He collected \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486459-JurewiczCombined.html#document/p1/a425643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sworn statements\u003c/a> from three other defense attorneys who said Tatum was dishonest and detailed specific instances of him lying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s dishonest testimony in that case led him to be placed on a list of officers with credibility issues maintained by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, Schwaiger and other defense attorneys said. Tatum gave shifting explanations in an attempt to justify the traffic stop and was caught lying on the witness stand. A judge dismissed the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>If or when concerns are raised\u003c/strong> about police officer conduct, we take the concerns seriously.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Don Schwartz,\u003cbr>\nRohnert Park Assistant City Manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Being on what’s called “the Brady list” meant, after that case, prosecutors had a duty to disclose evidence of Tatum’s past dishonest testimony to defense attorneys, who can use it to attack his credibility if he’s called as a witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on Tatum’s credibility as a witness, but no perjury charges have been filed against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger and another defense attorney say they were both interviewed by an investigator for the DA’s office regarding Tatum, but prosecutors would not say what the nature or the outcome of this investigation was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want to believe police officers because we don’t want to live in a world where cops can’t be trusted,” Schwaiger said. “That’s a scary world. Those are the people that are here to protect us. They’re the people here to keep us safe. And if they can’t be trusted, who can be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Broken Trust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, unlawful seizures and asset forfeitures were often considered by people in the marijuana industry as the cost of doing business. But now, legalization is offering men like Huedell Freeman a path to legitimacy. He pays taxes and permit fees — \u003cem>those\u003c/em> are the costs of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman remembered the day in 2015 when a deputy from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office took his picture in front of his cannabis farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You don’t know how weird this is for me’,” Freeman recalled saying to the deputy. “And he laughed and he said, ‘I think I do,’ he said. ‘We used to call this evidence. Now we call it verification’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was scary to go legal, Freeman said, but it felt good, too: no more lying, no more hiding, no more risk of going to prison for doing what he loves. Now he grows more than a dozen varieties of cannabis that are tailored to specific medical ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care about the 22-year-olds that want to get stoned and park on the couch,” he said. “I have nothing against that, but that’s not why I do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huedell Freeman.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huedell Freeman. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he explained all this to Tatum and Huffaker. He had nothing to hide. He gave them the name and phone number of Colin Stewart, manager and partner at The Higher Path dispensary in Sherman Oaks. Huffaker spoke to Stewart and to Freeman’s attorney, Hannah Nelson, who both confirmed what Freeman said: His cannabis was for medicine, not the black market. He was legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the officers came back and told Freeman that they were seizing his property because he did not have a license issued by the state to transport marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Bureau of Cannabis Control declined to comment for this story and refused repeated requests to explain licensing and regulations for transporting marijuana legally in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers wrote Freeman a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499612-Citation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citation\u003c/a> for possessing more than an ounce of marijuana, but they did not give him any documentation for the property they seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office initially said no case against Freeman was ever referred to them. However, on July 2, the district attorney’s office provided an undated referral from Tatum requesting Freeman be charged with unlawfully possessing marijuana. Prosecutors did not file charges in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he called the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety the next day. Sgt. Eric Matzen assured him that his cannabis was safe and that if the department determined its legality, he would get it back, Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> to the city and asked for it to return her client’s property. But the city of Rohnert Park never returned Freeman’s cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2017, he filed a claim against the city of Rohnert Park for the value of his cannabis. The city has rejected his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz would not respond to a series of detailed questions about traffic stops by its officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rohnert Park is committed to compliance with the law and the constitution and its mission to serve and protect the public,” Schwartz wrote in an emailed response. “If or when concerns are raised about police officer conduct, we take the concerns seriously and investigate as each situation may warrant. Once all of the facts are known, we take any and all appropriate measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement continued: “Rohnert Park participated in these [interdiction] efforts to reduce the flow of illegal drugs to Sonoma County, including the City of Rohnert Park,” Schwartz wrote. “Recreational marijuana was illegal until January 1, 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he has still not recovered from the financial loss of his property. But he said even harder to recover is the faith he lost in a system that promised to protect him if he came out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They broke my trust,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:05 p.m. Saturday, June 23:\u003c/strong> Jacy Tatum no longer works for the city of Rohnert Park, according to Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz. He said Officer Joseph Huffaker is still employed by the city. Schwartz said an investigation into the officers is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: KQED learned after publication that Rohnert Park police requested prosecutors file charges against Huedell Freeman. This post has been edited to reflect the new information.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Small of KQED News and Kym Kemp contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated July 3, 2018 at 11:30 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/06/09/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Coast Journal\u003c/a> and independent reporter \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/06/09/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kym Kemp\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman was heading south on Highway 101 through Cloverdale and was just over the Sonoma County line when he said a police squad car flipped a U-Turn across a 25-foot grass median and pulled up behind him with lights flashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>He grinned and smiled\u003c/strong> at me and did not respond. At that moment I knew I’d been had. I knew that this was not a normal traffic stop.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Huedell Freeman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he was carrying 47 pounds of marijuana in his rental car that day, Dec. 29, 2016, but said he wasn’t too worried about the weed because he had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499521-FreemanPermitsMendocinco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permit to grow\u003c/a> medical cannabis in Mendocino County. He was driving it down to his client, a licensed dispensary called \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehigherpath.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Higher Path\u003c/a> in Sherman Oaks, near Los Angeles. And, he said, he had the paperwork to prove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It struck Freeman as odd, though, that the two police officers pulling him over weren’t from Cloverdale. They were from Rohnert Park, some 40 miles south on 101. Freeman said he’d been obeying the traffic laws, and the cruise control on the car was set at the speed limit. He expected the traffic stop to end quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t expect to lose a year’s worth of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker approached the car, Freeman said he rolled down his window and asked why he’d been pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said Huffaker told him his vehicle had “touched the white line” on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not, so I looked at him, and I said, ‘No I didn’t,’ ” Freeman said. “And he grinned and smiled at me and did not respond. At that moment I knew I’d been had. I knew that this was not a normal traffic stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Huffaker asked if he had any marijuana in his car, Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673488\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Rohnert Park police squad car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Rohnert Park police squad car. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I do,” Freeman remembered saying. He also carried a large battered black leather briefcase filled with documentation — what he calls his “compliance briefcase” — and he said he provided the officer with a grower’s permit issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, contact information for The Higher Path dispensary with which he had an agreement to both grow and transport marijuana, and his compliance lawyer’s information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, Freeman was trying to be as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legitimate\u003c/a> as he could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said that as he and Huffaker talked, another Rohnert Park officer, Sgt. Jacy Tatum, stood off to the side, barely speaking except to ask Freeman at one point about the strains of marijuana he was carrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers would go on to seize that marijuana, and Freeman hasn’t seen it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s account of his run-in with Rohnert Park police echoes those of eight other drivers who say a group of officers from the city conducted pretextual traffic stops — those that enable authorities to detain suspects for investigation of other matters — with the goal of unlawfully seizing marijuana and cash. Four people allowed us to share their stories publicly, while five others would tell us about their encounters only if we agreed not to name them, saying they feared police retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their stories suggest a pattern of questionable and potentially illegal stops and seizures over the past three years by officers from a small city along a major marijuana transportation corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>When I say highway robbery\u003c/strong>, I really mean it.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Izaak Schwaiger,\u003cbr>\nAttorney, former prosecutor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park said in a statement that its police officers “joined other law enforcement agencies in drug interdiction efforts” along Highway 101 seeking drugs including “methamphetamines, opioids, cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.” But the city says it ceased “most interdiction efforts” related to marijuana in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a financial benefit to the city for this work. Through a legal process called asset forfeiture, both the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety and the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office get to keep a cut of seized cash suspected to be the proceeds of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/asset_forf/2016-af/2016-af.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> issued by the California Attorney General shows that from 2015 to 2016, the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety received more than $1 million in seized cash. The Sonoma County District Attorney received $188,419 of the money from assets seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was responsible for much of that asset forfeiture windfall to his local department. In 2015, the mayor \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly recognized\u003c/a> him for his drug prevention work. Tatum \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thanked the City Council\u003c/a> for allowing him the opportunity to “fight the war on drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tatum has another reputation: A growing chorus of defense attorneys say he’s a rogue cop. He’s being sued for unlawfully taking a man’s cash, and he has a documented history of dishonesty on the witness stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I say highway robbery, I really mean it,” Sonoma County defense attorney Izaak Schwaiger said. “Officer Tatum has been involved in dozens of questionable traffic stops both above and below the Mendocino-Sonoma County line, where he has seized marijuana farmers’ product and/or their cash and given them no receipt and no criminal charges were ever brought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Tatum and his partner, Joseph Huffaker, are \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/04/26/rohnert-park-police-officers-being-investigated-following-two-incidents-where-humboldt-county-cannabis-was-seized-under-suspicious-circumstances/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under investigation\u003c/a> by the city of Rohnert Park. They are both on leave, according to their attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations of a Cover-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park began an administrative investigation around April of this year after independent reporter Kym Kemp \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/former-undercover-officer-involved-in-developing-cannabis-products-accuses-hopland-police-chief-of-theft-corruption-and-civil-rights-violations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/outraged-one-mans-two-month-quest-from-the-fbi-to-the-atf-to-expose-what-he-says-are-corrupt-police-officers-in-mendocino-county/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series\u003c/a> of articles about another suspect traffic stop and marijuana seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas resident Zeke \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499590-Statement-Flatten.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatten said\u003c/a> he was driving south on Highway 101 last December, when an unmarked black Ford Police Interceptor pulled him over just north of the Mendocino County line, about 50 miles north of Rohnert Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 410px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11673497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July, 2015.\" width=\"410\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1020x835.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1200x982.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1180x966.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-960x786.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-375x307.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July 2015. \u003ccite>(City of Rohnert Park Police & Fire Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flatten, like Freeman, was also in a rental car and said he, too, was not speeding or violating any traffic laws. He pulled over and showed the officer his driver’s license and the rental agreement for his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers did not identify what agency they were with, Flatten said, and he noticed they were not wearing departmental police badges or identifying name tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point I really felt something was wrong,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he had 3 pounds of marijuana in his car from a farm in Humboldt County and he was taking it to a laboratory in Santa Rosa for testing. He said he was working on developing a number of cannabis products he hoped to bring to market after California’s law allowing recreational use for adults kicked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten also offered to show the officers his doctor’s prescription for medical cannabis, but he said they weren’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers said they were working for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — according to Flatten. He said they took his marijuana and left him on the side of the road, all in just a few minutes. They did not issue him a citation or arrest him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten reported the Dec. 5 incident to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department, the Mendocino County district attorney, the Mendocino County grand jury and the FBI. Kemp spoke with an ATF spokesperson who said the agency wasn’t involved in Flatten’s traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673519\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 695px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11673519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg 695w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety press release issued on Feb. 13, 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Flatten did contact the FBI and the information he provided, we were not able to corroborate it as reported,” FBI spokesperson Prentice Danner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department said it wasn’t their case and pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4490352-180213-RPDPS-Traffic-Stop-Leads-to-Cannabis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> from Rohnert Park police written on Feb. 13, 2018, not long after Flatten’s stop. The statement, written by Tatum and Cmdr. Jeff Taylor, touted a large “black market” marijuana bust on Highway 101 during the month of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park produced an \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/17-5373-PUBLIC-REDACTION-3-26-18-W-EVIDENCE-SHEET.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report\u003c/a> of the Dec. 5 stop of Flatten, also written by Tatum, that diverges in many places from Flatten’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redacted report doesn’t include any names. It describes a traffic stop involving a white Mercedes-Benz with no license plates. Yet Flatten said he drove a Kia rental car with California license plates. The report says that 30 pounds of marijuana and several hundred containers of hash were seized from the person driving the Mercedes. Flatten maintains he had 3 pounds of marijuana with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that Officer Huffaker did book 30 pounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499600-FlattenIncidentReport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized marijuana into evidence\u003c/a>, but not until Dec. 18, 2017, nearly two weeks later. The several hundred containers of hash are not mentioned in the evidence log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten doesn’t believe Tatum was among the two officers who stopped him, although he does think Rohnert Park Officer Huffaker was one of the officers who pulled him over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673535\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673535\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-160x77.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1020x488.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1200x574.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1180x564.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-960x459.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-240x115.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-375x179.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-520x249.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot.png 1219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from the incident report written by Jacy Tatum\u003cbr>and referenced in response to Zeke Flatten’s allegations.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report says a CHP officer and trainee assisted on Flatten’s stop. But a CHP spokesman wrote in an email, “There is no dispatch record of us assisting with this incident and no one recalls it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he thinks Tatum crafted this report after the fact to cover up an illegal stop and seizure by police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very strongly that I was robbed by legitimate police officers,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the report said the case was referred to the Sonoma County district attorney for prosecution. The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office has no record that Rohnert Park ever referred a case against Flatten. There are no charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park would not respond to questions about this incident, but it is investigating. Attorney Justin Buffington, who is representing Tatum and Huffaker, confirmed the officers are on leave pending an administrative investigation related to Flatten. He stressed that the city’s probe is not a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker did not wish to comment for this story, according to Buffington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seizing Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time Rohnert Park police officers have faced allegations of unlawful seizure. A gambler from Las Vegas named Lucas Serafine alleges in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486452-Serafine260271Combined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the City of Rohnert Park that Tatum and Rohnert Park police Officer Nick Miller unlawfully seized more than $120,000 from him on March 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine was also in a rental car traveling on Highway 101 near Cloverdale with a friend when he said the two officers pulled him over for allegedly driving too fast in the rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine said he was headed to a high-stakes poker game at the Bear River Casino in Humboldt County and that the large amount of cash in the car was cash from a lawsuit he settled with the California Department of Corrections, and a workers’ compensation claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers suspected Serafine’s money was related to drug purchase or sales, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486453-Serafine1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court documents\u003c/a>, and seized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Tatum] looks me in the eyes, pointing his finger pushing on my chest as he does it,” Serafine remembered Tatum saying before he and Officer Miller drove away, “‘I took $1.2 million off the road this year. Nobody shows up for it and neither will you’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Highway 101 in Cloverdale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway 101 in Cloverdale. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A review of incident reports provided by Rohnert Park in response to a public records request back up the statement. KQED reviewed 23 incident reports on traffic stops involving Tatum. The city continues to provide more reports on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between late 2013 and the end of 2016, Tatum was involved in stops that resulted in the confiscation of well over $1 million in cash, according to the incident reports released so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department saw a 182 percent increase in funds from asset forfeitures between 2015 and 2016. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data reported\u003c/a> to the California Attorney General’s Office, Rohnert Park police netted $756,062 in 2016, an increase of nearly half a million dollars from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Serafine’s case, $121,920 was logged into evidence and turned over to the district attorney for asset forfeiture proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, 2016, Serafine’s lawyer sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499502-Notice-to-Rohnert-Park-Regarding-Accounting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Rohnert Park contesting the amount of money seized, but Serafine says he did not get a response. Serafine said he actually had $132,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney brought a civil action to seize Serafine’s cash — a process called asset forfeiture. Serafine provided the prosecutors with proof of income for most of the cash and eventually got $100,000 of his money returned to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on Serafine’s asset forfeiture case or to say whether they investigated Serafine’s dispute about the amount of cash seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499961-Serafine260271Combined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fighting\u003c/a> Serafine’s lawsuit alleging police officers inappropriately confiscated his cash. A trial in that case is scheduled for November of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine has a criminal history, including a conviction in 2001 when he was 18, for unlawful sex with a minor. Serafine was forthcoming about his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>That is a very strong indication\u003c/strong>, based on the law, that the complaints, assuming there were such, were deemed frivolous by the department.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Justin Buffington,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Sgt. Jacy Tatum and Officer Joseph Huffaker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And Zeke Flatten admits he didn’t have a legal license to transport marijuana, but he said that still doesn’t give law enforcement the right to essentially steal from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that what these officers were doing was so much of abuse of power and so just wrong for police officers to be doing that,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s attorney, Justin Buffington, said he is not under investigation for any additional matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To my knowledge, none of the other matters \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> that you referenced are, or have been, the subject of internal investigations undertaken by the department,” Buffington wrote in an email. “That is a very strong indication, based on the law, that the complaints, assuming there were such, were deemed frivolous by the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Unreliable Witness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a year before Flatten went public with his allegations against Rohnert Park police, Tatum was known by prosecutors to have written false information in police reports and to have testified dishonestly in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Tatum] doesn’t have a problem lying, and he does so with some regularity,” said Izaak Schwaiger a civil rights and defense attorney who has had run-ins with Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger, who was a Sonoma County prosecutor from 2010 to 2012, said then-officer Tatum already had a reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His testimony was not of the highest quality,” Schwaiger said. “And sometimes gave rise to people disbelieving it, even on the side of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when Schwaiger became a defense attorney, the stories about Tatum mounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has spoken to five defense attorneys in Sonoma County who say their clients alleged that Sgt. Tatum and often his partners stopped them on a flimsy pretext, fabricated police reports, and unlawfully seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016 Sgt. Tatum entered false information into an incident report. He and Huffaker pulled over a New Jersey man named Konstantine Charalidis, who the DA charged with having a concealed weapon. Charalidis’ attorney, Evan Zelig, provided KQED with Huffaker’s body-camera footage from the stop. It contradicts the police report written by Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499497-CharalidisPoliceReport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report\u003c/a> says that a knife taken off Charalidis was “completely concealed” by his clothing. Huffaker’s body-camera footage shows Charalidis immediately pointed out both knives, neither of which were concealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a difference between incorrect police reports and police reports that are falsified,” Zelig said. “The one with Mr. Charalidis, this was not incorrect. It was just falsified. The facts in there were not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the body-camera footage, both Huffaker and Tatum ask repeatedly whether there is any cash in the car, which Charalidis and his friend deny. Then Tatum says on the body-camera video he found $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673820\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from his body camera footage captures Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker reaching to remove two knives from Konstantine Charalidis' clothing after Charalidis immediately told the officer he had them. Both knives were unconcealed throughout the encounter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1200x679.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-960x543.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-375x212.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-520x294.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from his body camera footage captures Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker reaching to remove two knives from Konstantine Charalidis’ clothing after Charalidis immediately told the officer he had them. Both knives were unconcealed throughout the encounter. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Evin Zelig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zelig said the officers became angry at Charalidis because he wouldn’t admit that $10,000 was related to illegal activity, which would have allowed them to seize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give us fucking bullshit ass fucking answers, that’s what happens,” one of the officers says on the body-camera footage as Charalidis stands handcuffed. “We’re going to see a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police report does not mention any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was absolutely an unlawful arrest,” said Zelig, “that they did solely because he would not give them the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors dismissed the charges against Charalidis because of the body-camera footage. Zelig says his client still had to pay attorneys fees, and deal with the hassle of a California court case while living in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate 2016 case, Schwaiger suspected Tatum was lying about his justification for a traffic stop. He collected \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486459-JurewiczCombined.html#document/p1/a425643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sworn statements\u003c/a> from three other defense attorneys who said Tatum was dishonest and detailed specific instances of him lying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s dishonest testimony in that case led him to be placed on a list of officers with credibility issues maintained by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, Schwaiger and other defense attorneys said. Tatum gave shifting explanations in an attempt to justify the traffic stop and was caught lying on the witness stand. A judge dismissed the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>If or when concerns are raised\u003c/strong> about police officer conduct, we take the concerns seriously.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Don Schwartz,\u003cbr>\nRohnert Park Assistant City Manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Being on what’s called “the Brady list” meant, after that case, prosecutors had a duty to disclose evidence of Tatum’s past dishonest testimony to defense attorneys, who can use it to attack his credibility if he’s called as a witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on Tatum’s credibility as a witness, but no perjury charges have been filed against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger and another defense attorney say they were both interviewed by an investigator for the DA’s office regarding Tatum, but prosecutors would not say what the nature or the outcome of this investigation was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want to believe police officers because we don’t want to live in a world where cops can’t be trusted,” Schwaiger said. “That’s a scary world. Those are the people that are here to protect us. They’re the people here to keep us safe. And if they can’t be trusted, who can be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Broken Trust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, unlawful seizures and asset forfeitures were often considered by people in the marijuana industry as the cost of doing business. But now, legalization is offering men like Huedell Freeman a path to legitimacy. He pays taxes and permit fees — \u003cem>those\u003c/em> are the costs of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman remembered the day in 2015 when a deputy from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office took his picture in front of his cannabis farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You don’t know how weird this is for me’,” Freeman recalled saying to the deputy. “And he laughed and he said, ‘I think I do,’ he said. ‘We used to call this evidence. Now we call it verification’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was scary to go legal, Freeman said, but it felt good, too: no more lying, no more hiding, no more risk of going to prison for doing what he loves. Now he grows more than a dozen varieties of cannabis that are tailored to specific medical ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care about the 22-year-olds that want to get stoned and park on the couch,” he said. “I have nothing against that, but that’s not why I do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huedell Freeman.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huedell Freeman. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he explained all this to Tatum and Huffaker. He had nothing to hide. He gave them the name and phone number of Colin Stewart, manager and partner at The Higher Path dispensary in Sherman Oaks. Huffaker spoke to Stewart and to Freeman’s attorney, Hannah Nelson, who both confirmed what Freeman said: His cannabis was for medicine, not the black market. He was legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the officers came back and told Freeman that they were seizing his property because he did not have a license issued by the state to transport marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Bureau of Cannabis Control declined to comment for this story and refused repeated requests to explain licensing and regulations for transporting marijuana legally in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers wrote Freeman a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499612-Citation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citation\u003c/a> for possessing more than an ounce of marijuana, but they did not give him any documentation for the property they seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office initially said no case against Freeman was ever referred to them. However, on July 2, the district attorney’s office provided an undated referral from Tatum requesting Freeman be charged with unlawfully possessing marijuana. Prosecutors did not file charges in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he called the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety the next day. Sgt. Eric Matzen assured him that his cannabis was safe and that if the department determined its legality, he would get it back, Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> to the city and asked for it to return her client’s property. But the city of Rohnert Park never returned Freeman’s cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2017, he filed a claim against the city of Rohnert Park for the value of his cannabis. The city has rejected his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz would not respond to a series of detailed questions about traffic stops by its officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rohnert Park is committed to compliance with the law and the constitution and its mission to serve and protect the public,” Schwartz wrote in an emailed response. “If or when concerns are raised about police officer conduct, we take the concerns seriously and investigate as each situation may warrant. Once all of the facts are known, we take any and all appropriate measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement continued: “Rohnert Park participated in these [interdiction] efforts to reduce the flow of illegal drugs to Sonoma County, including the City of Rohnert Park,” Schwartz wrote. “Recreational marijuana was illegal until January 1, 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he has still not recovered from the financial loss of his property. But he said even harder to recover is the faith he lost in a system that promised to protect him if he came out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They broke my trust,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:05 p.m. Saturday, June 23:\u003c/strong> Jacy Tatum no longer works for the city of Rohnert Park, according to Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz. He said Officer Joseph Huffaker is still employed by the city. Schwartz said an investigation into the officers is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: KQED learned after publication that Rohnert Park police requested prosecutors file charges against Huedell Freeman. This post has been edited to reflect the new information.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Small of KQED News and Kym Kemp contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a serene, leafy street in north Pasadena, a 70-year-old man has lived a quiet life in a well-preserved Craftsman house since his family bought it in 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps the lawn mowed, he chats with the neighbors, and sometimes he smokes Parliament cigarettes with his tea on the front porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a June day 50 years ago, one of his older brothers left this same house with a loaded .22 pistol. He got into his pink and white ’56 DeSoto and drove to a gun range. Later that evening, he headed to the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had just won California’s Democratic primary election. He concluded his rousing victory speech with the words, “My thanks to all of you and now it’s on to Chicago and let’s win this!” and stepped from the ballroom into a small, crowded kitchen pantry surrounded by excited supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never made it to Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shots rang out and Kennedy was down, taking two bullets in the back and one in the head. Members of the crowd jumped on the shooter and slammed him onto a steam table. A hotel employee grabbed his wrist as the gun emptied, the shots firing at random, wounding five others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy was rushed to a hospital. Twenty-six hours later, he was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assassin was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Arab Palestinian. He was not a U.S. citizen, but had been living in Pasadena for 12 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation stood in shock at the second Kennedy killing in five years, the media became consumed with the question: Who was this person?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">The L.A. Busboy Who Cradled a Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/romeronpr1_custom-aae2056fb7c478c80e59ad38e4680c2581f3b3a4-1020x641.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He was just a fun-loving guy. He liked life, and he liked family,” says Munir Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s the brother of Kennedy’s convicted assassin. “If anybody was trying to do me any harm, he’d go up and confront the people and tell’em, ‘Listen, this is my little brother. I don’t want anybody hurting him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Sirhan was tried and sentenced to the gas chamber, a sentence that was commuted to life in 1972. Since then, he’s been denied parole 15 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what? I just want to hug him,” his brother Munir says. “Hug him and tell him, ‘Welcome home.’ I’d just like to see him reading a book on that chair like he used to when we were kids, and just walk around the block with him. I’d be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 50 years, Munir has waited for his brother to return to this house in Pasadena. And for the last 50 years, he’s lived in the wake of his brother’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir leads a solitary life. He never got married, never had a career. He worked odd jobs and was supported by his family, who always pooled their modest resources. He keeps the furniture in the house pretty much as it was the day Sirhan drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the family’s parents and six children, Munir and his older brother are the only ones left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, yeah, Sirhan and I. It’d be pretty rough without him, even if it’s just letter-writing,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, the Sirhan family — who were Arab Palestinian Christians — were living in Jerusalem, an area experiencing continued upheaval in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Munir says this was the violent backdrop for his early childhood memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[There was] a lot of hecticness,” he says. “A lot of air raid sirens going off every other day. I remember going to my best friend’s home, and they’re telling me he’s not coming to school today and wondering why, and then the next day you find out he got blown away from a bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a program initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the United Nations, a ship overcrowded with seasick refugees brought the family to America in 1956, leaving the Holy Land for the paradise of Pasadena where their sponsor lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya know, we got along, we made friends, it was OK, but you couldn’t be an Arab here, you couldn’t be an Arab at all,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His devout mother Mary got a job in the nursery at Westminster Presbyterian Church, walking distance from the house. His father returned to the old country, unable to adapt to life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother's lemon tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother’s lemon tree. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sirhan and Munir, their two youngest sons, attended local public schools and got paper routes for the Pasadena Star-News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan was a reader, and spent a lot of time holed up in his bedroom at the back of the house. At John Muir High School in Pasadena — the same school Jackie Robinson attended — he joined the ROTC and learned to shoot a .22 rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir had bad eyesight and quit school after 6th grade. He watched a lot of TV: “Felix the Cat,” “The Three Stooges” and “Yogi Bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was becoming an American. He loved music and he loved records, and he really loved song parodist Stan Freberg, the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I adored that guy,” says Munir. “I think that’s what I would have been, some sort of comedy songwriter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all. You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a job at F.C. Nash department store in Pasadena as a stock clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet this mundane position was not without dark significance. Through a co-worker, Munir got his brother a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me if I could get a gun. Sirhan used to belong to the ROTC at Muir, I said, ‘sure, I’ll ask,'” Munir recalls. “At work I asked a fellow employee and he said, ‘Yeah, I have a friend that has one he wants to sell.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to LAPD interview transcripts from 1968, Munir tried to talk his brother out of buying the .22, finally demanding that he swear on their dead sister’s memory that he would “go to the rifle range one time and then throw it away.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan did swear, but, as Munir told the cops, “he didn’t carry it through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one night in January, Munir’s work buddy drove over to the house in a Corvair, pulled up and honked. He had an eight-shot Iver Johnson revolver in a box. Sirhan came out on the porch and they made the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Munir was concerned, it was no big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all,” he says. “You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weekday morning in June 1968: Munir got on the bus and went to work at Nash’s. He stepped into the employees lounge before clocking in. For him, at this point it was still just another workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The TV was on loud and the room was full and usually it’s not that full unless it’s somebody’s birthday, and I’m thinking it’s too early to celebrate a birthday,” he recalls. “I walked over and put coins in the coffee machine and took a couple sips of my coffee and looked at the screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he saw stunned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It looked like Sirhan. I said, ‘Whoa!’ Picture came on again and I said, ‘That’s my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, within a matter of seconds, Munir’s day goes from another eight hours in housewares to the shock that his brother is being held for shooting Robert F. Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What went through his mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought when this thing happened, they got the wrong guy,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir borrowed his boss’s car, picked up his brother Adel from home and they headed for the Pasadena police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officer didn’t seem too interested, so we walked away, and Adel happened to gaze at a newsstand and there it was, Sirhan’s picture on the front page,” says Munir. “So he grabbed the paper and went back to the desk sergeant, told him, ‘This is my brother.’ I remember the guy’s look. He said, ‘Oh!’ Then all hell broke loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police quickly camped out on Munir’s street — and would remain for the next six months — to protect the family, though Munir says there were never any acts of vengeance. Nevertheless, it turned the neighborhood upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is from a televised interview in front of the family house a few days later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Redden said the Sirhan family has been most cooperative in the investigation. ‘We know very little. [Sirhan] has been noncommunicative and he hasn’t told the family about what he’s been up to at all. So we don’t know anything more than you do.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“When things somewhat cooled down, after we spoke with the FBI, after we spoke with the L.A. police and Pasadena police, mother and I went down to see him,” says Munir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir's Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan's copy of "Controlling the Human Mind." Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir’s Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan’s copy of “Controlling the Human Mind.” Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did his brother say anything about shooting Kennedy or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, no, no,” Munir says. “Mother asked him, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I don’t remember. I don’t know. All I know is my leg hurts,’ and I think it was one of his thumbs that were hurting. He specifically said, ‘I don’t remember what happened.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lack of memory of the actual shooting of Kennedy is something that Sirhan has continued to maintain, though in a 1989 TV interview with David Frost he said his motivation to target Kennedy was the senator’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frost asked, “Why did Robert Kennedy, the friend of the downtrodden, become the focus of this hatred?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because to me he was my hero,” Sirhan Sirhan responded. “He was my champion. He was the protector and the defender of the downtrodden and the disadvantaged and I felt that I was one. And to have him say that he was going to send 50 Phantom jets to Israel to deliver nothing but death and destruction on my countrymen, that seemed as though it was a betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir says his brother never shared those feelings with him and that he never heard him express any negative feelings toward Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no, no,” he emphasizes. “None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the “Manchurian Candidate” theory, that Sirhan was acting under hypnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This could explain his calm demeanor that witnesses remarked upon immediately after the shooting, and the notebook police later found in his bedroom with “RFK must die” scrawled repeatedly, something hypnotism advocates say was automatic writing done during a trance state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this sounds like a cliché,” says Munir, “but he had played around with hypnotism and somewhere along the line he learned how to self-hypnotize himself, or somebody got into his head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the living room of the family house, there are glass-doored shelves filled with books. Stuck between yellowing copies of “Word Power Made Easy” and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is an old hardback that belongs to Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a book here that deals with personality or something,” says Munir, leaning in to find the book. He plucks out a volume called “The Laws of Mental Domination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him about it one day but I never got any clear answers,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypnosis and brainwashing and conspiracies aside, forensic evidence states that the shot that killed Kennedy came from no more than three inches from the back of his head, where an armed, private security guard had drawn his weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitnesses place Sirhan as never closer than a few feet away and approaching Kennedy from the front. An audio tape recorded that night surfaced in 2004. Experts say it reveals up to 13 shots fired. Sirhan’s gun held eight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This knowledge and its implications — the possibility that a second gunman was responsible for Kennedy’s murder — are what Munir clings to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t there but the people that were, they all say that they heard more shots, Sirhan wasn’t close enough,” Munir says. “These are eyewitnesses, it was not us, the family, making these things up. When we heard those things it gave us a little bit of hope that maybe Sirhan didn’t do it, like we thought all along. It wasn’t Sirhan. Not my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At moments like this, sitting in the still and quiet dining room as his cigarette burns slowly in the ashtray, you can feel the helpless frustration that’s weighed upon Munir for decades over a situation he didn’t ask for, but one he has accepted as best he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the '60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It's no longer running.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the ’60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It’s no longer running. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eileen Sloman, her husband Peter and son Ernie have lived next door to Munir for almost 30 years. To her, he’s just “Manny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Manny. He’s a really nice guy,” she says. “He’s a great neighbor, and when we’re gone he watches the house, when he’s gone we’ll watch his house, and just a few years ago he gave me his phone number. He’s let me in, a little bit at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, she’s seen the odd tour bus cruise by, and Munir once cautioned her to move her trash bins away from his on pickup day. Souvenir hunters sometimes root through the garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assassination, Munir says his neighbors were very supportive, and even in public his last name has never brought him trouble. No altercations, no curses, no nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does get recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, I had jobs that my name would be printed on my shirt,” he says. “I’ve never had anybody that held any animosity toward us at all. In fact, I didn’t like it, but a lot of people would say, ‘You’re famous,’ or go out of their way to help because of the notoriety and I’d tell them, ‘Please, I have my own individuality.’ That’s been going on for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his individuality is a buried and private thing. Hang around with him for a while, and he seems like a regular guy. But a regular guy is a very hard thing to be when your brother was convicted of killing a Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the outside he’s friendly, he loves to talk,” offers Sloman, “I don’t understand really what he’s been going through, but to know that his last brother has been serving the last 50 years of his life in prison has got to be just horrible. Tearing him apart basically, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan is currently residing in his fifth California prison since 1968, the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving is hard for Munir these days given his failing vision, so it’s mostly phone calls and letters between him and Sirhan, and even those are random.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they do come, he’s still talking to his big brother. The guy who used to look out for him so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Stop smoking, it’s bad for you,’” Munir says his brother tells him. “’It’s the number one killer in the United States. Take care of yourself … I need you alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Munir marks time in the house, alone. Ask him what his days are like and he shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to the lawyers when they need something, and spends his dwindling eyesight reading and rereading boxes of briefs and transcripts, still trying to make sense of everything that’s consumed him for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to take it all in stride, but every now and again, just for a moment, something else comes to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a life of your own at all,” says Munir Sirhan. “I’m lost, still am. Did he do it? Didn’t he do it? People were there that say this and people were there that say that. I wasn’t there. I have to rely on my brother, and he says ‘I don’t remember.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been generations since that night in 1968. Who was Sirhan? Who was Robert Kennedy, even? What is unforgettable to older Americans has become vague or simply unknown to younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, California state prisoner B21014, will have his next parole hearing in 2021. His brother will be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never made it to Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shots rang out and Kennedy was down, taking two bullets in the back and one in the head. Members of the crowd jumped on the shooter and slammed him onto a steam table. A hotel employee grabbed his wrist as the gun emptied, the shots firing at random, wounding five others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy was rushed to a hospital. Twenty-six hours later, he was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assassin was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Arab Palestinian. He was not a U.S. citizen, but had been living in Pasadena for 12 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation stood in shock at the second Kennedy killing in five years, the media became consumed with the question: Who was this person?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">The L.A. Busboy Who Cradled a Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/romeronpr1_custom-aae2056fb7c478c80e59ad38e4680c2581f3b3a4-1020x641.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He was just a fun-loving guy. He liked life, and he liked family,” says Munir Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s the brother of Kennedy’s convicted assassin. “If anybody was trying to do me any harm, he’d go up and confront the people and tell’em, ‘Listen, this is my little brother. I don’t want anybody hurting him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Sirhan was tried and sentenced to the gas chamber, a sentence that was commuted to life in 1972. Since then, he’s been denied parole 15 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what? I just want to hug him,” his brother Munir says. “Hug him and tell him, ‘Welcome home.’ I’d just like to see him reading a book on that chair like he used to when we were kids, and just walk around the block with him. I’d be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 50 years, Munir has waited for his brother to return to this house in Pasadena. And for the last 50 years, he’s lived in the wake of his brother’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir leads a solitary life. He never got married, never had a career. He worked odd jobs and was supported by his family, who always pooled their modest resources. He keeps the furniture in the house pretty much as it was the day Sirhan drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the family’s parents and six children, Munir and his older brother are the only ones left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, yeah, Sirhan and I. It’d be pretty rough without him, even if it’s just letter-writing,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, the Sirhan family — who were Arab Palestinian Christians — were living in Jerusalem, an area experiencing continued upheaval in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Munir says this was the violent backdrop for his early childhood memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[There was] a lot of hecticness,” he says. “A lot of air raid sirens going off every other day. I remember going to my best friend’s home, and they’re telling me he’s not coming to school today and wondering why, and then the next day you find out he got blown away from a bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a program initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the United Nations, a ship overcrowded with seasick refugees brought the family to America in 1956, leaving the Holy Land for the paradise of Pasadena where their sponsor lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya know, we got along, we made friends, it was OK, but you couldn’t be an Arab here, you couldn’t be an Arab at all,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His devout mother Mary got a job in the nursery at Westminster Presbyterian Church, walking distance from the house. His father returned to the old country, unable to adapt to life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother's lemon tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother’s lemon tree. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sirhan and Munir, their two youngest sons, attended local public schools and got paper routes for the Pasadena Star-News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan was a reader, and spent a lot of time holed up in his bedroom at the back of the house. At John Muir High School in Pasadena — the same school Jackie Robinson attended — he joined the ROTC and learned to shoot a .22 rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir had bad eyesight and quit school after 6th grade. He watched a lot of TV: “Felix the Cat,” “The Three Stooges” and “Yogi Bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was becoming an American. He loved music and he loved records, and he really loved song parodist Stan Freberg, the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I adored that guy,” says Munir. “I think that’s what I would have been, some sort of comedy songwriter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all. You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a job at F.C. Nash department store in Pasadena as a stock clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet this mundane position was not without dark significance. Through a co-worker, Munir got his brother a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me if I could get a gun. Sirhan used to belong to the ROTC at Muir, I said, ‘sure, I’ll ask,'” Munir recalls. “At work I asked a fellow employee and he said, ‘Yeah, I have a friend that has one he wants to sell.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to LAPD interview transcripts from 1968, Munir tried to talk his brother out of buying the .22, finally demanding that he swear on their dead sister’s memory that he would “go to the rifle range one time and then throw it away.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan did swear, but, as Munir told the cops, “he didn’t carry it through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one night in January, Munir’s work buddy drove over to the house in a Corvair, pulled up and honked. He had an eight-shot Iver Johnson revolver in a box. Sirhan came out on the porch and they made the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Munir was concerned, it was no big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all,” he says. “You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weekday morning in June 1968: Munir got on the bus and went to work at Nash’s. He stepped into the employees lounge before clocking in. For him, at this point it was still just another workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The TV was on loud and the room was full and usually it’s not that full unless it’s somebody’s birthday, and I’m thinking it’s too early to celebrate a birthday,” he recalls. “I walked over and put coins in the coffee machine and took a couple sips of my coffee and looked at the screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he saw stunned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It looked like Sirhan. I said, ‘Whoa!’ Picture came on again and I said, ‘That’s my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, within a matter of seconds, Munir’s day goes from another eight hours in housewares to the shock that his brother is being held for shooting Robert F. Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What went through his mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought when this thing happened, they got the wrong guy,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir borrowed his boss’s car, picked up his brother Adel from home and they headed for the Pasadena police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officer didn’t seem too interested, so we walked away, and Adel happened to gaze at a newsstand and there it was, Sirhan’s picture on the front page,” says Munir. “So he grabbed the paper and went back to the desk sergeant, told him, ‘This is my brother.’ I remember the guy’s look. He said, ‘Oh!’ Then all hell broke loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police quickly camped out on Munir’s street — and would remain for the next six months — to protect the family, though Munir says there were never any acts of vengeance. Nevertheless, it turned the neighborhood upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is from a televised interview in front of the family house a few days later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Redden said the Sirhan family has been most cooperative in the investigation. ‘We know very little. [Sirhan] has been noncommunicative and he hasn’t told the family about what he’s been up to at all. So we don’t know anything more than you do.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“When things somewhat cooled down, after we spoke with the FBI, after we spoke with the L.A. police and Pasadena police, mother and I went down to see him,” says Munir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir's Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan's copy of "Controlling the Human Mind." Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir’s Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan’s copy of “Controlling the Human Mind.” Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did his brother say anything about shooting Kennedy or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, no, no,” Munir says. “Mother asked him, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I don’t remember. I don’t know. All I know is my leg hurts,’ and I think it was one of his thumbs that were hurting. He specifically said, ‘I don’t remember what happened.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lack of memory of the actual shooting of Kennedy is something that Sirhan has continued to maintain, though in a 1989 TV interview with David Frost he said his motivation to target Kennedy was the senator’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frost asked, “Why did Robert Kennedy, the friend of the downtrodden, become the focus of this hatred?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because to me he was my hero,” Sirhan Sirhan responded. “He was my champion. He was the protector and the defender of the downtrodden and the disadvantaged and I felt that I was one. And to have him say that he was going to send 50 Phantom jets to Israel to deliver nothing but death and destruction on my countrymen, that seemed as though it was a betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir says his brother never shared those feelings with him and that he never heard him express any negative feelings toward Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no, no,” he emphasizes. “None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the “Manchurian Candidate” theory, that Sirhan was acting under hypnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This could explain his calm demeanor that witnesses remarked upon immediately after the shooting, and the notebook police later found in his bedroom with “RFK must die” scrawled repeatedly, something hypnotism advocates say was automatic writing done during a trance state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this sounds like a cliché,” says Munir, “but he had played around with hypnotism and somewhere along the line he learned how to self-hypnotize himself, or somebody got into his head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the living room of the family house, there are glass-doored shelves filled with books. Stuck between yellowing copies of “Word Power Made Easy” and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is an old hardback that belongs to Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a book here that deals with personality or something,” says Munir, leaning in to find the book. He plucks out a volume called “The Laws of Mental Domination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him about it one day but I never got any clear answers,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypnosis and brainwashing and conspiracies aside, forensic evidence states that the shot that killed Kennedy came from no more than three inches from the back of his head, where an armed, private security guard had drawn his weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitnesses place Sirhan as never closer than a few feet away and approaching Kennedy from the front. An audio tape recorded that night surfaced in 2004. Experts say it reveals up to 13 shots fired. Sirhan’s gun held eight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This knowledge and its implications — the possibility that a second gunman was responsible for Kennedy’s murder — are what Munir clings to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t there but the people that were, they all say that they heard more shots, Sirhan wasn’t close enough,” Munir says. “These are eyewitnesses, it was not us, the family, making these things up. When we heard those things it gave us a little bit of hope that maybe Sirhan didn’t do it, like we thought all along. It wasn’t Sirhan. Not my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At moments like this, sitting in the still and quiet dining room as his cigarette burns slowly in the ashtray, you can feel the helpless frustration that’s weighed upon Munir for decades over a situation he didn’t ask for, but one he has accepted as best he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the '60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It's no longer running.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the ’60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It’s no longer running. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eileen Sloman, her husband Peter and son Ernie have lived next door to Munir for almost 30 years. To her, he’s just “Manny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Manny. He’s a really nice guy,” she says. “He’s a great neighbor, and when we’re gone he watches the house, when he’s gone we’ll watch his house, and just a few years ago he gave me his phone number. He’s let me in, a little bit at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, she’s seen the odd tour bus cruise by, and Munir once cautioned her to move her trash bins away from his on pickup day. Souvenir hunters sometimes root through the garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assassination, Munir says his neighbors were very supportive, and even in public his last name has never brought him trouble. No altercations, no curses, no nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does get recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, I had jobs that my name would be printed on my shirt,” he says. “I’ve never had anybody that held any animosity toward us at all. In fact, I didn’t like it, but a lot of people would say, ‘You’re famous,’ or go out of their way to help because of the notoriety and I’d tell them, ‘Please, I have my own individuality.’ That’s been going on for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his individuality is a buried and private thing. Hang around with him for a while, and he seems like a regular guy. But a regular guy is a very hard thing to be when your brother was convicted of killing a Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the outside he’s friendly, he loves to talk,” offers Sloman, “I don’t understand really what he’s been going through, but to know that his last brother has been serving the last 50 years of his life in prison has got to be just horrible. Tearing him apart basically, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan is currently residing in his fifth California prison since 1968, the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving is hard for Munir these days given his failing vision, so it’s mostly phone calls and letters between him and Sirhan, and even those are random.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they do come, he’s still talking to his big brother. The guy who used to look out for him so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Stop smoking, it’s bad for you,’” Munir says his brother tells him. “’It’s the number one killer in the United States. Take care of yourself … I need you alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Munir marks time in the house, alone. Ask him what his days are like and he shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to the lawyers when they need something, and spends his dwindling eyesight reading and rereading boxes of briefs and transcripts, still trying to make sense of everything that’s consumed him for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to take it all in stride, but every now and again, just for a moment, something else comes to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a life of your own at all,” says Munir Sirhan. “I’m lost, still am. Did he do it? Didn’t he do it? People were there that say this and people were there that say that. I wasn’t there. I have to rely on my brother, and he says ‘I don’t remember.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been generations since that night in 1968. Who was Sirhan? Who was Robert Kennedy, even? What is unforgettable to older Americans has become vague or simply unknown to younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E equipment was implicated in two of the biggest, deadliest fires that swept through Northern California last October, Cal Fire said Friday: The Redwood Fire in Mendocino County, which killed nine people, and the Atlas Fire in Napa County, which killed six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Atlas Fire, as well as seven others, the state fire agency said that PG&E may have violated state law and referred the case to local prosecutors for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Cal Fire released its findings Friday on 12 of the more than 170 fires starting last Oct. 8 as hot, dry winds roared through much of Northern California. The agency’s investigators found that all but one were connected to PG&E electrical lines, power poles or other equipment. In the lone case where PG&E was not cited, a power line was also the cause, but Cal Fire did not immediately say who owns that line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause has not yet been announced for the blaze that caused the greatest loss of life and the most extensive property damage — the Tubbs Fire, which ignited near Calistoga and raced across the hills into Santa Rosa. That blaze killed 22 people and destroyed more than 5,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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Cal Fire investigators determined the fire started in two locations. At one location, it was determined a large limb broke from a tree and came into contact with a PG&E power line. At the second location, investigators determined a tree fell into the same line.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Norrbom, Adobe, Partrick, Pythian\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Nuns\u003c/strong> fires were part of a series of fires that merged in Sonoma and Napa counties. These fires started in the late-night hours of Oct. 8 and burned a combined total of 56,556 acres, destroying 1,355 structures. There were three civilian fatalities. Cal Fire said four of five of those fires were connected to PG&E equipment. 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The CPUC will be charged with determining if PG&E was out of compliance with CPUC rules and regulations and should be subject to fines and other action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be criminal investigations into the company’s actions before the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Brockley, an assistant district attorney in Sonoma County, said the criminal investigations into the fires are sprawling, and Sonoma County prosecutors are coordinating with Napa and Lake counties and the state Attorney General’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first fire that I’ve ever had an experience with that’s this size,” Brockley said. “Some of the fires started and ended in different counties, so that’s why we’re all working together and coordinating our efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC said its investigations into PG&E’s role in the fires is ongoing and could result in extensive penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of future determinations by the CPUC and law enforcement, civil lawsuits, insurance claims and political fallout all also pose major financial threats to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility is facing more than 100 suits from fire survivors and government agencies blaming it for the blazes. Insurance claims for the fire are around $10 billion, more than 10 times the amount of liability insurance that PG&E carries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the attorneys litigating the cases against the utility says monetary penalties are just part of the remedy he seeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Pitre, co-counsel in 150 lawsuits, said Cal Fire’s report is “an indictment of the failure of PG&E’s risk management practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need a team of experts to go in and make recommendations on how to change the culture at PG&E so the same thing doesn’t happen again,” Pitre said. “That’s what I want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a battle going on in Sacramento over whether lawmakers should change a long-standing state law that allows a utility to be held financially responsible for damage it causes — even if it complied with state regulations. 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Based on the information we have so far, we continue to believe our overall programs met our state’s high standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Fiske, a lawyer for the counties of Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma in their litigation against PG&E, said Friday’s findings prove the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, Cal Fire confirmed what we’ve known, that PG&E has systemic management deficiencies that fail to recognize the serious nature of wildfire prevention,” he said in a statement. “So far, 16 of 16 North Bay fires have been found caused by PG&E, 11 of which have been referred to District Attorneys. 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Cal Fire investigators determined the fire started in two locations. At one location, it was determined a large limb broke from a tree and came into contact with a PG&E power line. At the second location, investigators determined a tree fell into the same line.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Norrbom, Adobe, Partrick, Pythian\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Nuns\u003c/strong> fires were part of a series of fires that merged in Sonoma and Napa counties. These fires started in the late-night hours of Oct. 8 and burned a combined total of 56,556 acres, destroying 1,355 structures. There were three civilian fatalities. Cal Fire said four of five of those fires were connected to PG&E equipment. 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Cal Fire investigators have determined the cause of the fire was a result of tree limbs coming into contact with PG&E power lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The 37 Fire,\u003c/strong> in Sonoma County, started the evening of Oct. 9 and burned a total of 1,660 acres, destroying three structures. There were no injuries. Cal Fire investigators have determined the cause of the fire was electrical and was associated with the PG&E distribution lines in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Blue Fire,\u003c/strong> in Humboldt County, started the afternoon of Oct. 8 and burned a total of 20 acres. There were no injuries. Cal Fire investigators have determined a PG&E power line conductor separated from a connector, causing the conductor to fall to the ground, starting the fire.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Pocket Fire,\u003c/strong> in Sonoma County, started the early morning hours of Oct. 9 and burned a total of 17,357 acres, destroying 6 structures. 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