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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast year, Irene Soto visited her son, Robert Perez, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CAL.html\">Calipatria State Prison\u003c/a> for the first time. She had never been to a prison before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was scary,” she says, sitting in the living room of her San Jose home, surrounded by pictures of her son. “It was a nine-hour drive down south — literally 10 minutes to the Mexican border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to go through these detectors and you gotta take off your earrings,” she says. “You can’t wear certain clothes. If it beeps you gotta come out and they gotta do a body inspection. It’s humiliating, it’s degrading. They treat you like we’re the criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 548px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16765_The-Leap-Portraits-2-of-11-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10695045 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16765_The-Leap-Portraits-2-of-11-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Robert Perez, 36, and his mother the first time she went to visit him at Calipatria State Prison. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"548\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16765_The-Leap-Portraits-2-of-11-sfi.jpg 548w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16765_The-Leap-Portraits-2-of-11-sfi-400x263.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Robert Perez, 36, and his mother the first time she went to visit him at Calipatria State Prison. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before he arrived at Calipatria, Soto’s son — who is now 36 — spent about five years in Santa Clara County’s main jail awaiting trial and a sentencing hearing. She could see him only through a wall of Plexiglas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like five years, I had not hugged him, squeezed him, and kissed him,” Soto says. Then, at Calipatria, she could see and even hold her son for the first time in years. “It was very, very special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soto sits in her living room with a box of letters that her son has written to her over the years. She says she gets about four letters a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always starts off with, ‘Mi querida madre,’ ” Soto says. It means “my beloved mother.” He always ends his letters with the title of a song that reminds him of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She holds up a letter from her box. At the bottom Soto has written out the title of a song: “Ni por Mil Puñados de Oro” by Antonio Aguilar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225051935″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>oto and her son weren’t always close. She stopped talking to him when he started getting in trouble with the law in his late teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she found out through one of her friends that Robert had been sentenced to prison for making criminal threats. He was 20 years old. That was his first strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 23, Perez received his second strike, this time for robbery. After he was paroled in 2007, Perez and his mother began to rebuild their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a little more than a year later, he was picked up on a 43-count indictment, a result of his past membership in the Nuestra Raza, a street gang affiliate of La Nuestra Familia prison gang. Perez received his third strike for participation in criminal street crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he got sentenced to 35 to life, I could not believe it in the courtroom,” Soto says. “I was like, he didn’t kill no one. He didn’t have nothing. He didn’t do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695168\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10695168 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-400x304.jpg\" alt=\"Soto receives about four letters a month from her son. (KQED/Adizah Eghan) \" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-400x304.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-1440x1096.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-1920x1461.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-1180x898.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/16766_transform-960x731.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My beloved mother, I love you with all that I am, and miss you with arms wide open. Forever I pray that you are doing well and know in my heart that mother & son will be reunited soon. Love you always, your son, Robert Perez. (KQED/Adizah Eghan)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perez got married to his girlfriend in jail, but she left him shortly after he was convicted. His mother has supported him ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the only one he has,” she says. “No one else visits him — nobody — just mom … It’s taking a toll. It’s a hardship financially, emotionally, physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irene Soto is not alone. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://whopaysreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> by the\u003ca href=\"http://ellabakercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://forwardtogether.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Forward Together\u003c/a> found that it is women who most often bear the financial and emotional burdens of a loved one’s incarceration — including the costs of staying in touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alicia Walters is movement-building director at Forward Together, where she, along with a group of researcher,s surveyed more than 1,000 former inmates and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already vulnerable families and the women who sustain them are being dragged into deeper poverty, stress and strain when their loved ones are incarcerated,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>o make a weekend visit, Soto — who is a preschool teacher — takes a week off so that she will get vacation pay. The extra money helps her pay for gas for the 500-mile trip, three days for a motel room in El Centro, and for any food she buys for her son at the prison. That adds up to more than $600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it takes her at least six months to save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I start saving from my taxes, and then a little here and there on my paychecks,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries about paying her bills, but she doesn’t want to stop seeing her son, talking to him on the phone or sending him care packages every three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls and packages go through pre-approved vendors who often add processing fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A package consisting of hygiene products and some of Perez’s favorite treats — Doritos corn chips and chocolate creamer, among others — cost her $110 this month. Her best friend lent her $80, to cover the cost of the treats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll do whatever I can to just give him that little bit of enjoyment,” Soto says, “to make his stay over there just a little bit better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, she says she was about $150 short and had to borrow money to pay for electricity and some credit card bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Khokhobashvili, a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman, says she understands the financial struggles faced by inmates’ families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to say it is what it is,” she says, “because it sounds like I don’t care. I do, but every regulation we have is in place for a reason and that’s to keep the institution safe — and the inmates, and the victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at home, Soto finds a CD full of the songs her son mentions in his letters. She likes to listen to music and read her son’s letters when she feels sad or lonely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she feels as if she’s doing time right along with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about, ‘OK, when is he gonna call me again, the beginning of the month?’ ” she says. “I write him letters, send him pictures. No one really understands what you’re doing until you actually go through it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soto hopes to see her son again soon, but her hours at work have been cut back. So for now, she can’t afford to visit.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos plans to introduce a package of legislation today that he says is meant to address policy flaws exposed in the aftermath of the Pier 14 shooting. The Mission District supervisor will also introduce a resolution calling on the sheriff to not cooperate with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Priority Enforcement Program (PEP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fatal shooting of Kate Steinle on San Francisco’s Pier 14 on July 1 touched off a national controversy over the city’s long-established policies of limiting local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who was deported from the U.S. five times prior to being transferred to San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/04/accused-pier-14-shooter-to-face-murder-charges-at-trial\">faces murder charges\u003c/a> in the shooting. Steinle’s family is pursuing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/01/family-of-kate-steinle-files-legal-claims-against-s-f-sheriff-feds\">legal claims\u003c/a> against local and federal agencies for negligence that contributed to her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think ... we need a well-thought-out policy that actually tries to address what happened, but also ensures that we remain safe and also that whatever we do is consistent with the values that San Francisco had,\" Campos said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sheriff Urged to Not Cooperate with ICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first piece of Campos' three-part proposal is a resolution asking the sheriff to not cooperate with PEP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PEP ... is essentially the so-called S-Comm, Secure Communities program, with a different branding,\" said Campos, who is working in tandem with a coalition of immigrant rights activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the federal government having basically put lipstick on a pig that is still a pig. PEP, like Secure Communities, is a dragnet program that essentially tries to entangle local law enforcement into immigration enforcement,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PEP was rolled out last year to replace the controversial, now-defunct Secure Communities program, which the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted not to adhere to. Under PEP, federal immigration authorities call upon local agencies to notify ICE prior to releasing certain individuals from custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos isn’t alone in calling for the city not to adhere to PEP -- the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee endorsed a resolution last week urging the city not to participate in the new federal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that if the Democratic Party can take that position in San Francisco, then the city and county of San Francisco should follow,\" Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stolen Guns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece of the three-part proposal would require off-duty public safety officers to secure their department-issued firearms in a trunk or lock box, as a theft-prevention measure. The gun allegedly used in the Pier 14 shooting had been taken from a federal agent's parked car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a lawsuit filed by Steinle’s family, a Bureau of Land Management agent left his a fully loaded Sig Sauer handgun in his vehicle “unattended in a backpack that was in plain sight” prior to the theft, in contradiction of “mandatory regulations and procedures” requiring the weapon to be secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos’ legislative aide, Hillary Ronen, explained in an interview that the city attorney’s office had confirmed that for San Francisco law enforcement agencies, “this policy does not already exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Center for Investigative Reporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/san-francisco-killing-highlights-issue-of-stolen-government-owned-guns/\">has noted\u003c/a>, a 2010 audit by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security highlighted a pervasive problem stemming from stolen government-owned firearms. A total of 289 guns were lost or stolen from the Department of Homeland Security over the course of two years, and auditors found the trend represented “serious risks to the public and law enforcement officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Policy on Inmate Transfers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate resolution proposed by Campos, created in tandem with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, would establish new criteria for the transfer of inmates to city custody from outside jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez-Sanchez, the Mexican national accused of killing Steinle, was transferred from a federal prison to city custody after a bench warrant surfaced on a 20-year marijuana charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went to court on March 27, and the court dismissed the charges,\" Freya Horne, chief legal counsel for the Sheriff's Department, told KQED in an email earlier this year. From there he was released from custody and essentially left to wander the streets, penniless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposed resolution, the district attorney would be required to communicate with local law enforcement agencies prior to an inmate transfer from an outside jurisdiction. Before agreeing to it, departments would have to determine that such a transfer “serves the interest of public safety and the efficient use of local resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to the district attorney's office were not returned by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the sheriff had called the DA,\" Campos said, \"the DA would have said to the sheriff, we’re not interested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary City Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Democrats-set-to-vote-on-endorsing-sanctuary-6509196.php\">visit to San Francisco on Wednesday\u003c/a>, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson criticized the city’s policies of not cooperating with ICE. During an appearance at the Commonwealth Club, he labeled the practice “counterproductive” and “not acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of politicians have criticized San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies following the Pier 14 shooting. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted that Steinle was “viciously killed because we can’t secure our border,” a statement that was retweeted almost 1,500 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein, meanwhile, pointed a finger at San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in the wake of the shooting, blaming him for releasing an undocumented immigrant with a record of felony convictions. Mirkarimi has defended his actions as being in accordance with the city’s Due Process For All Ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee also condemned Mirkarimi’s actions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507080900\">saying on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “I do happen to agree with Sen. Feinstein that you look at who had that last responsibility. It was our sheriff. … And when the feds released this person to us, there could have been a notification that we’re about to release a repeat serious felony offender, who is not legally here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requests for comment from Lee were not returned by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an internal memo circulated March 13, Mirkarimi stated that the department’s policy was to limit “contact and communication with ICE representatives absent a court issued warrant, a signed court order, or other legal requirement authorizing ICE access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Supervisor Mark Farrell proposed a resolution calling on the sheriff to rescind that memo, which he believes goes beyond the parameters of the Sanctuary City and Due Process for All ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have no issue with the idea that the memo would be rescinded,\" Campos said. Farrell's proposal may come up for a vote later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is also working with the city attorney on a policy that would “disallow city dollars from being expended by the sheriff's department to transfer an inmate from outside city borders\" when it's believed that the DA will not prosecute an outstanding warrant, according to Farrell’s legislative aide, Jess Montejano. As things stand, Montejano added, Farrell “remains opposed to the whole sell of PEP at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crime Victims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos argued that the city's existing immigration policies contribute to public safety. 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"content": "\u003cp>The wildfires ravaging Lake County this summer might have an impact unnoticed by most people: the increased looting of ancient Native American artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Pomo residents worry that the fires, which have cleared trees and structures off land, and the drought, which has lowered water levels at Clear Lake, are making it easier for looters to unearth relics that belonged to their ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225040171\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although theft at Native American sites is nothing new, local sheriff's deputies are being trained for the first time in how to identify and investigate these crimes. That led to the arrest last month of a man suspected of stealing obsidian arrowheads and other artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case may be the first arrest of its kind in Lake County, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. Lake County leads the state's 58 counties in terms of drug-induced deaths, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Documents/OHIRProfiles2015.pdf\">figures\u003c/a> from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that drought conditions and wildfires are exposing archaeological sites around Clear Lake that were not visible, making these potential troves more accessible than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires and drought increase access in Lake County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires raging in the area since July have burned vegetation and structures in 171,000 acres so far. At the same time, the state’s four-year drought is making Clear Lake’s shoreline recede as water levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Clear Lake’s water levels were about 2 feet higher than today, says Andrew Watson, field office chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Ukiah branch. During a wet year such as 1984, water levels were 10 feet higher than today, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tv6V4uHzKsYZriZwzLbfJiFDY0J1FgoL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dino Beltran, from the Koi Nation, says the theft of Native American relics has occurred for many decades, regardless of the weather. He first alerted authorities to these crimes after he spotted a pair of suspicious diggers on marshland near his ancestral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People trying to benefit from somebody else's belongings that should be left on the ground,” says Beltran, who pushed for the training with local law enforcement. “I mean they are sacred objects. You don’t see Native Americans going to a cemetery and digging up the cemetery, so why would anyone want to do anything sacrilegious to a Native American site?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the looting case in Lake County is still under investigation, the sheriff’s office and Beltran believe that the items recovered by Kreutzer are most likely from the Koi Nation. The suspect was released on bail a few days after the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. Lake County leads the state's 58 counties in terms of drug-induced deaths, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Documents/OHIRProfiles2015.pdf\">figures\u003c/a> from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that drought conditions and wildfires are exposing archaeological sites around Clear Lake that were not visible, making these potential troves more accessible than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires and drought increase access in Lake County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires raging in the area since July have burned vegetation and structures in 171,000 acres so far. At the same time, the state’s four-year drought is making Clear Lake’s shoreline recede as water levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Clear Lake’s water levels were about 2 feet higher than today, says Andrew Watson, field office chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Ukiah branch. During a wet year such as 1984, water levels were 10 feet higher than today, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dino Beltran, from the Koi Nation, says the theft of Native American relics has occurred for many decades, regardless of the weather. He first alerted authorities to these crimes after he spotted a pair of suspicious diggers on marshland near his ancestral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People trying to benefit from somebody else's belongings that should be left on the ground,” says Beltran, who pushed for the training with local law enforcement. “I mean they are sacred objects. You don’t see Native Americans going to a cemetery and digging up the cemetery, so why would anyone want to do anything sacrilegious to a Native American site?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A former United Food and Commercial Workers union official and Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner is facing federal criminal charges for allegedly using his positions to solicit bribes, among other charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Daniel Rush is accused of taking bribes in exchange for the UFCW's endorsement of prospective dispensary operators, taking kickbacks to steer clients to a co-conspiring attorney and using his position on the Berkeley Medical Cannabis Commission to extort a job from a potential dispensary operator. He's also charged with conspiracy and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two things jump out from Rush's indictment: California's medical marijuana industry involves tons of cash that can flow to unexpected places, and several people in the medical marijuana industry were willing to voluntarily cooperate with federal law enforcement despite a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry\" target=\"_blank\">rocky past\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The focus of this investigation hasn’t been so much on that industry,\" FBI San Francisco Division spokeswoman Michele Ernst told KQED on Friday. \"It’s been on the corrupt activities and protecting the people who were victims of attempted extortion ... people who had ended up in a position where they were seeking help from the FBI and from law enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush held two powerful positions in the marijuana industry. As the executive director of UFCW International's \u003ca href=\"http://cannabisworkers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">medical cannabis division\u003c/a>, he could steer which prospective dispensary operators competing for limited licenses would get an influential labor endorsement, and as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=31260\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley commissioner\u003c/a>, he helped steer which operators won licenses in that city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst declined to state how many dispensary operators approached federal law enforcement, but she said, \"This case would not have been possible if not for the courage of victims who came forward seeking the help of the FBI.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the criminal complaint that led to Rush's indictment, two medical marijuana operators in Oakland participated in the investigation: Carl Anderson and Martin Kaufman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Marc Terbeek has also been cooperating with the FBI since agents served a search warrant at his offices early this year. He's expected to plead guilty to conspiring with Rush to launder money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terbeek had been paying kickbacks to Rush for more than a decade, according to the complaint, in exchange for Rush diverting workers' compensation clients to his practice. Terbeek allegedly paid Rush an average of $2,000 per month in kickbacks since 2010, the complaint says, in violation of Rush's legal duties to the UFCW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush allegedly took similarly illegal payments from other medical marijuana dispensary operators, including Kaufman and Anderson, totaling well over half a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush is also accused of undermining union activities and instructing dispensary operators as to how they could secretly prevent workers from joining the UFCW, all while working for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extortion charge stems from Rush's attempt to secure himself a high-paying job from a hopeful dispensary operator in exchange for locking in the shop's approval with the Berkeley commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What Mr. Rush has been accused of is not only shocking to us, it is a betrayal for what we at the UFCW stand for,” a union spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-union-official-took-bribes-from-pot-6441534.php\" target=\"_blank\">told the Chronicle\u003c/a>. “Going forward, the UFCW will undertake a full review of Rush’s activities to determine if any worker or their family were adversely affected by his activities and, if so, take appropriate corrective action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rush is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of more than 60 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>So, what’s this all about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, let us backtrack, all the way to Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/radiumone-worked-to-save-ipo-amid-scandal-1441837667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal reported\u003c/a> a juicy tale of political wheeling and dealing that could only involve the locally based Leonardo da Vinci of the craft, mentioned in the headline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a complicated tale, but it basically comes down to this: Steve Westly, a former state controller and\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21162990.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> potential gubernatorial candidate\u003c/a>, tried to get Da former Mayor to intervene with San Francisco DA George Gascón, so that the district attorney would go easy on Gurbaksh Chahal, the then-CEO of ad tech company RadiumOne. Chahal was up on domestic violence charges, and RadiumOne’s attorneys were concerned, the Journal reported, about the effect of the CEO’s legal troubles on a planned IPO. Westly is a board member of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails reviewed by the Journal show Westly attempting to schedule meetings between Brown and Gascón, though the paper found no evidence any took place (Gascón’s office said they didn’t), or that the DA was influenced by any campaign on Chahal’s behalf. In fact, Brown refunded nearly $200,000 of a $250,000 retainer he’d received from Chahal, shortly after a judge ruled a key piece of video evidence inadmissible. (The CEO, who had once faced 45 felony counts, eventually pled guilty to just two misdemeanors. He was nonetheless fired after answering critics on Twitter. A hearing on his legal case, scheduled for today, has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/techflash/2015/09/court-hearing-ad-tech-exec-chahal-assault.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">postponed\u003c/a> till Nov. 13 )\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story stands out for the naked language used in the attempt at buying influence. From the Journal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Westly), who joined RadiumOne’s board in November 2013, suggested in a Dec. 3, 2013, email to Mr. Chahal that lawyer Willie Brown, former San Francisco mayor and State Assembly speaker, “believes that he can help you.” Mr. Westly, who is considering a second run for governor, wrote that Mr. Brown knows the district attorney and “may be able to ‘back him off,’” adding that Mr. Brown is a “very good deal broker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, in an email with the subject line “Willie Brown,” Mr. Chahal wrote to Mr. Westly: “Just met him. 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But you wonder what effect the incident will have on any plans he has to run for governor. Ironically, posted on his website is a San Francisco Chronicle editorial headlined, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.stevewestly.com/california_s_old_political_machine_losing_steam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s Old Political Machine Losing Steam\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Willie Brown, he declined to talk to the Journal, but he did respond to the story today on Chronicle columnist Phil Matier’s show on KCBS . (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/audio/phil-matier/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can listen here\u003c/a>.) The former mayor also writes a Chronicle column, which runs every Sunday on the front of the Bay Area news section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were asked to put together a legal team to defend this particular person who was accused, 47 counts of domestic violence,” Brown explained. “Very serious, as a matter of fact, you can probably go to jail for the rest of your life if you were so convicted. So it was more than just an IPO. It was whether or not a guy in his 30s might be spending the rest of his life in jail. We did put together a fabulous defense team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We followed all of the rules and regulations,” Brown went on to say, “and saved him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Westly’s email saying that Brown may be able to get Gascón to “back off,” Brown says, “That’s something you ought to discuss with Mr. Westly. I don’t do emails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, did Brown say he could make it all go away for a million bucks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that one would be out to lunch if they said they can make anything go away, period. You can walk through all of the facts and figures that you have and you could say what the conclusion can be, but you cannot say, with any degree of accuracy or honesty, you can make anything go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said the goal of the legal team he put together was to convince Gascón that a home-security recording of the alleged domestic violence incident would be inadmissible, presumably so that the DA would lessen the charges. But that attempt failed, Brown said. “Because, politically, you know, when you start dismissing things like domestic violence, you really are running the risk on your re-election of having people raise questions about your judgment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge dismissed the video on his own, Brown said. He refunded most of the retainer money, he said, because he “didn’t do the work for it. That’s the way you do it, by the hours.” He said he thought he was paid less than $20,000 for the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Matier asked Brown why he would get involved in such an ugly domestic violence case. (Prosecutors alleged Chahal struck his girlfriend more than 100 times over 30 minutes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, everything involving criminal cases are ugly, ” Brown said. “Not just domestic violence … and believe me, not unlike in the world of medicine, you take your cases based upon whether or not your client has a plausible way to avoid persecution, or prosecution, as people would call it, and further, whether or not he could afford you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether or not he could afford you,” Matier repeats. “Is that the ultimate thing, whether or not you can make a buck off it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown had already begun to cackle. 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That’s pricey, but probably worth it if he can make it happen. I suspect he will pull out all the stops to get this done.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, KQED’s Devin Katayama spoke to Jeff Elder, the Journal reporter who broke the story. Elder said that one email from a RadiumOne attorney evinced “great consternation” with Gascón. 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Ironically, posted on his website is a San Francisco Chronicle editorial headlined, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.stevewestly.com/california_s_old_political_machine_losing_steam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s Old Political Machine Losing Steam\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Willie Brown, he declined to talk to the Journal, but he did respond to the story today on Chronicle columnist Phil Matier’s show on KCBS . (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/audio/phil-matier/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can listen here\u003c/a>.) The former mayor also writes a Chronicle column, which runs every Sunday on the front of the Bay Area news section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were asked to put together a legal team to defend this particular person who was accused, 47 counts of domestic violence,” Brown explained. “Very serious, as a matter of fact, you can probably go to jail for the rest of your life if you were so convicted. So it was more than just an IPO. 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And it saw a major shift on two topics: A concession to the oil industry on the year's biggest climate change legislation, and a delay in finding a solution to long-term funding for California's transportation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay on transportation was a clear signal of how tough the issue had become as the end-of-session deadline approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, told reporters late Wednesday that transportation funding would be pushed over until the fall -- after lawmakers have concluded their regular work -- for a closer look by a to-be-announced special legislative committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(The state Senate leader) and I will be forming a conference committee to continue to work on transportation, so that we respond to the stakeholders up and down the state -- business, labor, local elected officials, to get that done,\" said Atkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort failed to find enough Republicans in the Legislature willing to endorse new taxes or fees to help fund what has been estimated to be a $6 billion annual shortfall in keeping up with road, highway and transit needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a number of other bills cleared key hurdles, or went to the governor's desk, on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End-of-Life Choices\u003c/strong>: The day's most intense debate ended with the Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/04/physician-assisted-suicide-bill-advances-with-new-sunset-clause/\" target=\"_blank\">approving the closely watched bill\u003c/a> to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication, and the proposal now headed to the state Senate. ABX2-15 by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, was the focus of a floor debate that lasted some two hours. There was no clean split along party lines, with some Democrats opposed and a few Republicans in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I certainly don't take this lightly,\" said Eggman in her closing remarks, offered while fighting back tears. Other legislators also grew emotional during the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it remains unclear whether the bill will next have one final policy committee hearing before the Legislature adjourns Friday night, or whether it heads directly to the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Toll For Walking On The Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/strong>: The body overseeing the Golden Gate Bridge may soon be barred from imposing a toll on walkers and bikers, after the Legislature sent the governor\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB40\" target=\"_blank\"> Assembly Bill 40\u003c/a> Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, if signed by Brown, would prohibit sidewalk tolls for pedestrians and cyclists crossing the Golden Gate and state-owned toll bridges. The cash-strapped bridge district has twice voted to study such a fee, but Ting sought to tie the ban to the subject du jour in Sacramento: Climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of foot and pedal power cannot be overlooked as we strive to combat climate change. We should not discourage these healthy transportation alternatives by nickel-and-diming people who are part of the solution,” he said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Funded Recounts In Close Elections\u003c/strong>: Lawmakers sent the governor a bill debated now for more than a year, sparked by 2014's close contest in the race for state controller. Assembly Bill 44 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, allows the governor to order a recount in any statewide race (either for a statewide office or a ballot measure) where the gap between second and third place for candidates, or passage and defeat for a ballot measure, is either less than 1,000 votes or 0.00015 of the votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Abortion Clinic Access\u003c/strong>: Legislation to allow independent primary care clinics -- including those that offer abortion services -- to secure a state license cleared the state Senate and headed back for a final vote in the Assembly ... but not before sparking some heated fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, said that \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1177_cfa_20150908_162020_sen_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1177\u003c/a> is an attempt to help clinics that can't get a license because no nearby hospital will sign an agreement for transferring patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's become politicized,\" said Pan, a physician. \"Because of that politicization, people have been denied reproductive services.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans accused Democrats of trying to expand these services at a risk to women. And one senator angrily suggested he was being criticized for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of my colleagues on this floor believe I have to have a uterus to have an opinion,\" said Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Racial Profiling Bill\u003c/strong>: The Senate passed a bill that would drastically expand the data collected and made public by police departments -- one aimed at improving relations between law enforcement and communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">would require all police agencies to report extensive data on each contact they make with a member of the public, including the perceived race and ethnicity of the person. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The information would be handed over to the State Attorney General’s Office, where a new body would be charged with improving racial sensitivity in law enforcement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican lawmakers said the bill would distract police officers from their job of policing, and insisted that racial bias problems among law enforcement officers have improved, Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort failed to find enough Republicans in the Legislature willing to endorse new taxes or fees to help fund what has been estimated to be a $6 billion annual shortfall in keeping up with road, highway and transit needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a number of other bills cleared key hurdles, or went to the governor's desk, on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End-of-Life Choices\u003c/strong>: The day's most intense debate ended with the Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/04/physician-assisted-suicide-bill-advances-with-new-sunset-clause/\" target=\"_blank\">approving the closely watched bill\u003c/a> to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication, and the proposal now headed to the state Senate. ABX2-15 by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, was the focus of a floor debate that lasted some two hours. There was no clean split along party lines, with some Democrats opposed and a few Republicans in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I certainly don't take this lightly,\" said Eggman in her closing remarks, offered while fighting back tears. Other legislators also grew emotional during the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it remains unclear whether the bill will next have one final policy committee hearing before the Legislature adjourns Friday night, or whether it heads directly to the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Toll For Walking On The Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/strong>: The body overseeing the Golden Gate Bridge may soon be barred from imposing a toll on walkers and bikers, after the Legislature sent the governor\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB40\" target=\"_blank\"> Assembly Bill 40\u003c/a> Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, if signed by Brown, would prohibit sidewalk tolls for pedestrians and cyclists crossing the Golden Gate and state-owned toll bridges. The cash-strapped bridge district has twice voted to study such a fee, but Ting sought to tie the ban to the subject du jour in Sacramento: Climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of foot and pedal power cannot be overlooked as we strive to combat climate change. We should not discourage these healthy transportation alternatives by nickel-and-diming people who are part of the solution,” he said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Funded Recounts In Close Elections\u003c/strong>: Lawmakers sent the governor a bill debated now for more than a year, sparked by 2014's close contest in the race for state controller. Assembly Bill 44 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, allows the governor to order a recount in any statewide race (either for a statewide office or a ballot measure) where the gap between second and third place for candidates, or passage and defeat for a ballot measure, is either less than 1,000 votes or 0.00015 of the votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Abortion Clinic Access\u003c/strong>: Legislation to allow independent primary care clinics -- including those that offer abortion services -- to secure a state license cleared the state Senate and headed back for a final vote in the Assembly ... but not before sparking some heated fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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Joel Anderson, R-Alpine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Racial Profiling Bill\u003c/strong>: The Senate passed a bill that would drastically expand the data collected and made public by police departments -- one aimed at improving relations between law enforcement and communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">would require all police agencies to report extensive data on each contact they make with a member of the public, including the perceived race and ethnicity of the person. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The information would be handed over to the State Attorney General’s Office, where a new body would be charged with improving racial sensitivity in law enforcement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican lawmakers said the bill would distract police officers from their job of policing, and insisted that racial bias problems among law enforcement officers have improved, Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Northern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is leading a charge in federal court against the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a federal civil rights \u003ca href=\"#lawsuit\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed Wednesday, 23-year-old plaintiff Travis Hall alleges he was the victim of unlawful search and seizure, excessive force and false arrest at the hands of Mission District plainclothes police officers as he was being dropped off at his house the evening of April 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I keep thinking, what if they had hit his head on the pavement one more time? What if the officer had pulled a gun? I might be one of those mothers protesting and demanding better policing but only with a photo of my son on a poster rather than him standing next to me.'\u003ccite>Leigh Stackpole,\u003cbr>\nPlaintiff's mother\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the legal action appears to be about more than a single incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing: \"Unfortunately, Mr. Hall's experience exemplifies that of all too many Black men here in San Francisco. Indeed, concerns about the gross racial disparities in arrests of Black people have plagued SFPD for years and have yet to be abated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges plainclothes police approached the car that Hall was preparing to exit at 95 McCoppin St. in the city's SoMa district. Sgt. Anthony Montoya and Officer Giselle Talkoff pulled Hall from the rear passenger seat of his friend's car when the 23-year-old attempted to call his mother during the detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Defendants’ reaction to Mr. Hall’s attempt to call his mother was unreasonable given the circumstances and likely driven by an implicit bias against Black men and stereotypes about their predilections for violent behavior,\" the lawsuit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall's attorney, Ajay Krishnan, said that police had no probable cause to approach the car or detain its occupants in the first place, but that the more serious constitutional violations occurred after the initial stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Travis was severely beaten,\" he said. \"These officers held his arms behind his back and kept him on the ground while they repeatedly kicked and punched him. Travis suffered from a concussion, and he had cuts and bruises all over his body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorneys said Hall received medical treatment while in custody. They are not releasing any photos or other documentation of his injuries at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan and ACLU Attorney Nayna Gupta said Hall was the only one of four people in the car to be assaulted or arrested that night. Two other passengers were black, according to the suit. The attorneys would not elaborate on the charges under which Hall was booked, calling them \"pretextual\" and \"trumped-up.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"88ZKtxbe49oPdiHLUlXmKGAaAGV4aDiw\"]\u003cbr>\nThe Police Department and city don't, by policy, comment on pending litigation. An SFPD spokesman confirmed, however, that Hall was arrested under suspicion of resisting arrest, public intoxication and possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was released from custody the following day, and the district attorney's office declined to file charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, those were the charges that SFPD reported,\" the ACLU's Rebecca Farmer wrote in response to a KQED inquiry, \"but the DA quickly dropped them, as often happens when there is a false arrest or an arrest under false pretenses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gupta said the ACLU hopes the lawsuit will help force policy changes around racial data collection, training and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">body-camera use in the SFPD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to seek justice for him,\" she said of Hall, \"but we're also here because, yes, we think there is a problem with racially biased policing in the San Francisco Police Department and the way the Police Department interacts with communities of color.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gupta cited a recent report commissioned by the city's Re-entry Council that found black San Franciscans are about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">seven times more likely\u003c/a> to be arrested than their white counterparts. She also mentioned a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">long-running scandal\u003c/a> over \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a> sent to and from a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">former SFPD sergeant\u003c/a> who supervised officers in the Mission District's plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I keep thinking, what if they had hit his head on the pavement one more time?\" said Hall's mother, Leigh Stackpole. \"What if the officer had pulled a gun? 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They are not releasing any photos or other documentation of his injuries at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan and ACLU Attorney Nayna Gupta said Hall was the only one of four people in the car to be assaulted or arrested that night. Two other passengers were black, according to the suit. The attorneys would not elaborate on the charges under which Hall was booked, calling them \"pretextual\" and \"trumped-up.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe Police Department and city don't, by policy, comment on pending litigation. An SFPD spokesman confirmed, however, that Hall was arrested under suspicion of resisting arrest, public intoxication and possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was released from custody the following day, and the district attorney's office declined to file charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, those were the charges that SFPD reported,\" the ACLU's Rebecca Farmer wrote in response to a KQED inquiry, \"but the DA quickly dropped them, as often happens when there is a false arrest or an arrest under false pretenses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gupta said the ACLU hopes the lawsuit will help force policy changes around racial data collection, training and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">body-camera use in the SFPD\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to seek justice for him,\" she said of Hall, \"but we're also here because, yes, we think there is a problem with racially biased policing in the San Francisco Police Department and the way the Police Department interacts with communities of color.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gupta cited a recent report commissioned by the city's Re-entry Council that found black San Franciscans are about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">seven times more likely\u003c/a> to be arrested than their white counterparts. She also mentioned a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">long-running scandal\u003c/a> over \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a> sent to and from a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">former SFPD sergeant\u003c/a> who supervised officers in the Mission District's plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I keep thinking, what if they had hit his head on the pavement one more time?\" said Hall's mother, Leigh Stackpole. \"What if the officer had pulled a gun? 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"content": "\u003cp>Bernadette Valadez wept Tuesday as she recalled her son's love of music. Emiliano \"Emilio” Nevarez started playing instruments at age 5, an enthusiasm that grew right up to the moment he was shot in April in front of a downtown Oakland bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevarez, 26, was killed early Easter morning while packing up his band's gear outside the Golden Bull, a popular bar and music venue on 14th Street just off Broadway. He's one of 64 homicide victims this year in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadez and officers from the Oakland Police Department held a press conference Tuesday to disclose \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/pressrelease/oak054803.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new evidence\u003c/a> in the case and \"re-energize\" the investigation into the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for your help today for you to come forward if you know these people,” Valadez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was our brother,” said Tyler Salinas, who played with Nevarez in a punk band called The Lucky Eejits. “We were on the road together. We love Oakland. We love the Bay Area punk scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevarez, who lived in Berkeley, was the unintended victim of a dispute between two people who had gotten into an argument after midnight on April 5. One man who had been involved in the dispute left the area, returned and opened fire. A bullet struck Nevarez in the neck, and he died at the scene, around 1 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of people out that morning,” said Officer Johanna Watson, Police Department spokeswoman. “We know that somebody or several persons have information regarding this homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_27883137/oakland-police-release-photos-car-two-people-linked?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">police released images\u003c/a> of a man and woman who were termed \"persons of interest\" in the shooting and of a Mercedes they used to flee the scene of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, police released images of a third person of interest, who also reportedly fled in the Mercedes. Investigators have posted images of the three people and the Mercedes here: \u003ca href=\"https://app.box.com/s/jghh6ojypiiog1vzx4udk92rb4x2reoo\" target=\"_blank\">https://app.box.com/s/jghh6ojypiiog1vzx4udk92rb4x2reoo\u003c/a>. Surveillance video that police say is of the newly designated person of interest is below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJOyk2lxsOI&w=800&h=450]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reward for information has grown to at least $35,000 -- a combination of money from Crime Stoppers of Oakland, Pet Food Express and money the family has been able to raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadez said she hopes the larger reward will help convince people to come forward with information. She still communicates about once a week with Oakland police and has visited and called her lawmakers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be able to say that I have done my very best,” said Valadez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department says it has \"closed\" -- made arrests in -- 30 homicide cases this year. Nineteen of those cases occurred in 2015, while the remaining 11 cases were cases from previous years, the department says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevarez is not the only unintended victim of stray bullets this year. In March, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/21/west-oakland-residents-voice-frustration-over-continued-violence\">Chyemil Pierce\u003c/a>, 30, died in West Oakland while trying to shield her children from a nearby gunbattle.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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