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His mother and grandmother were addicted to crack. He and his brother spent most of their time roaming the streets. Carroll didn't know how to read or write, so he paid other kids to do his homework. He hated school, and in his early teens, he fell into a gang and began committing crimes. At age 17, he entered the prison system. He's been in prison for 20 years, doing a sentence of 54 to life for his part in a robbery attempt that ended in a murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/431958714/432192433\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day Carroll stumbled on the financial section of the newspaper thinking it was the sports section, which his cellmate used to read to him. Another inmate asked him if he played the stocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had never heard the word before,\" says Carroll. \"He explained to me how it works and said, 'This is where white people keep their money.' When he said that I said, 'Whoa, I think I stumbled across something here.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll began with small investments known as penny stocks, which were high risk but successful enough to allow him to keep investing. He says he taught himself to read by looking at candy wrappers and clothing logos, and once he got the hang of it, he started to read financial stories. A former cellmate says he would study his stocks all night and into the early hours of the morning. And he often writes out stock predictions, taping them to the wall in an envelope, dating them and then checking back later to see how well he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Thursday night, Wall Street and a group of volunteers from outside the prison teach the men some of the principles of sound personal finance, stock investments, retirement and how to manage the money they do have — things most of the inmates have had no training in. Wall Street tells his theories to the assembled group. \"There's four steps,\" he says. \"Every person on this planet that has made money has mastered these four simple steps: savings, cost control, borrowing prudently and diversification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is called Freeman Capital, and he co-founded it with fellow inmate Troy Williams. Williams says about 70 people attend the class each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the prisoners serve decades-long sentences, and when they are released, they are given $200 and little to no knowledge of financial resources such as retirement funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like, 'Good luck. We're gonna pray for you. Stay out of prison,'\" says Williams, who is on parole from San Quentin State Prison after serving a life sentence. \"Who do you want coming home? Do you want the animal that's been caged away for years that's the same badass gang-banger that he was when he went to prison? Or do you want somebody that's coming home thinking differently?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll doesn't have access to a computer or the Internet, so he calls his family members to check the closing prices for the day, and he tells them what to buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm in prison, but I'm on just the same playing field as Warren Buffett,\" Carroll says. \"I can pick the exact same companies. 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All suspects killed in Oakland since June were black men; all were allegedly armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials are considering whether to release video captured from officer-worn and surveillance cameras that reportedly shows the man shot and killed Wednesday advancing toward police with a gun raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are meeting right now to discuss an appropriate policy,\" Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told KQED Thursday. \"Transparency is so important and as we have these new tools like chest camera footage, it is an opportunity for us to add more information, but we have to balance that with sensitivity to the families involved, as well as the due process and investigatory confidence that we have in this process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people took to the streets and freeway off-ramps in Oakland Wednesday night following the shooting. 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Brown's death sparked nationwide calls for accountability when law enforcement officers use deadly force and became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old man in Ferguson Aug. 9, the anniversary of Brown's death. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More demonstrations are planned in Oakland Friday following the third fatal officer-involved shooting in the city this summer. All suspects killed in Oakland since June were black men; all were allegedly armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials are considering whether to release video captured from officer-worn and surveillance cameras that reportedly shows the man shot and killed Wednesday advancing toward police with a gun raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are meeting right now to discuss an appropriate policy,\" Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told KQED Thursday. \"Transparency is so important and as we have these new tools like chest camera footage, it is an opportunity for us to add more information, but we have to balance that with sensitivity to the families involved, as well as the due process and investigatory confidence that we have in this process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people took to the streets and freeway off-ramps in Oakland Wednesday night following the shooting. Protesters briefly blocked Interstate 980, and there were scattered reports of vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, founder of the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project and a member of Black Lives Matter Bay Area and the Black Power Network, was at the scene shortly after the shooting, but neither she nor her organization took part in protests later in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no justification for OPD to have killed this man,\" Brooks told KQED Thursday. \"As usual, our Mayor Libby Schaaf is taking the side of law enforcement over the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaff said she respects that people want to bring up \"the issue in general,\" but that the individual circumstances of each shooting are also important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our current evidence does show that this man was approaching our officers with a gun which was found to be loaded,\" Schaaf said, adding that Oakland Police Department has been an \"active player\" in the national conversation on racial inequity in the criminal justice system and police use-of-force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We always encourage people to not just look at the national conversation, which is so important, but to look at the particular facts,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's most recent officer-involved shooting occurred on the heels of the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's death sparked nationwide calls for accountability when law enforcement officers use deadly force and became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old man in Ferguson Aug. 9, the anniversary of Brown's death. He was allegedly armed with a handgun and fired on plainclothes St. Louis County police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reuters \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/13/us-usa-ferguson-idUSKCN0QI2C920150813\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u003c/a> protests in the city, now renowned for fatal police use-of-force, have calmed since the county police department \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/us/ferguson-missouri-michael-brown-unrest.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> seeming to show Tyrone Harris Jr. pulling a handgun from his waist before charging across West Florissant Avenue -- a street now famous for heavy-handed crowd control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's officer-involved shooting in Oakland began when police pursued a vehicle reported to be involved in an armed robbery in late July, according to the department. The pursuit started at 69th Avenue and International Boulevard in the mid-afternoon and ended near the corner of 27th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, where the suspect crashed his car into another vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deceased man has yet to be officially identified, pending confirmation of his name and notification of relatives, police said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with a handgun, the man fled the vehicle on foot and attempted to carjack another vehicle, according to the department, then ran from approaching officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers shot him after confronting him again. The man was discovered with a loaded, stolen handgun that had not been fired, according to OPD. Accounts differ on whether the man was running from officers when he was shot, or whether he was raising the gun and pointing it at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While there were conflicting reports on whether or not the brother had a gun, what everyone was uniform on was that he was running away from police and was shot in the back,\" Brooks said. \"If someone is running away from you, they cannot then be a threat to you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFGate \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-body-cameras-and-store-security-caught-6443269.php\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u003c/a> an attorney for the Oakland Police Officers Association and another witness say video footage shows the man advancing toward officers with a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department said in a statement Thursday afternoon that a preliminary autopsy report found that \"the bullets entered the front of the man's body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of Wednesday's shooting and protests, department and city leaders have noted a steady decline in overall use-of-force and deadly incidents over the past several years -- while the OPD has been under the close watch of a federal judge and court-appointed monitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the department has seen a 70 percent reduction in overall use-of-force in the last four years, and a 60 percent reduction in citizen complaints since 2012, citing enhanced training and new policies that discourage high-speed vehicle pursuits and some foot pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly these reforms are having an impact, but we need to continue to do more to improve that relationship of trust between our police force and the community,\" she said. \"We recognize that there have been serious harms and damage in the past and that we have to do a lot to rebuild that trust and convince the community that these reforms are sustainable -- that they are sincere and authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks doesn't see a new-and-improved OPD, and she said people passing by Wednesday's crime scene don't see it either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn’t, 'What happened?'\" she said. \"It wasn’t, 'Is everyting all right?' The first thing that came out of almost every single car that stopped was, 'Did OPD kill somebody else?' These are not activists or organizers, these are just average folks who live in the town and are really clear about the egregious history of OPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anti Police-Terror Project \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/920295411350055/\" target=\"_blank\">plans a vigil\u003c/a> Friday at 6 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and 27th street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Helmick, Zaidee Stavely and Adizah Eghan of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald would not say how much money in damages his clients want, but he predicted it could be millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing two tenants in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/274443659/Complaint-Jorge-Flores-et-al-v-Hawk-Ling-Lou-et-al\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separate action\u003c/a> said the lawsuits will likely be combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants Jorge and Lucia Flores are also suing the building’s owner for injuries Jorge Flores received as he attempted to flee the burning building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After Plaintiff JORGE FLORES left his apartment and as he made his way down the hallway, he was hit with a blast of heat. … [He] raised his hands to protect his face and turned away. … As a result, Plaintiff suffered third degree burns to the back of his hands and to parts of his face, neck, ears, and/or head.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit says Flores made his way back along the hallway in complete darkness and “noticed that sheets of skin were falling off his hands” after entering a neighbor’s apartment. He then got to the fire escape and began lowering it “until it became caught on a commercial awning and would not descend to street level,” according to the filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters eventually brought a ladder to the fire escape and helped him down. Flores was hospitalized for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Gordon Kaupp, who represents Jorge and Lucia Flores, said his client was in a medically induced coma for weeks. His face and hands are likely permanently scarred, Kaupp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner, Hawk Lou, has yet to respond to questions about the legal actions against him, but in the days after the fire, he disputed allegations that the building was not up to code and expressed sorrow for the plight of his tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is that I did my part to maintain the building,” Lou wrote in an email to KQED. “I feel so terrible and sorry for [what] has happened to all the tenants, the injuries and death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire killed one resident, Mauricio Orellana, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/11/s-f-medical-examiners-report-reveals-new-details-of-rescue-in-fatal-mission-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">despite firefighters’ desperate attempt to rescue him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was among several apartment blazes that led to a push by two San Francisco supervisors for better enforcement of the city’s fire code and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/20/fires-prompt-sf-city-hall-to-consider-ways-to-increase-sprinklers-in-older-buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more sprinklers in older apartment buildings\u003c/a> like the one on 22nd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze also led the fire marshal at the time to acknowledge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/source-exits-blocked-in-fatal-mission-district-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weaknesses in the fire department’s recording of safety problems\u003c/a> in the city’s apartments, after it was revealed that several exits in the building were blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated with a response from Gordon Kaupp.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hugo Pinell, a notorious killer with ties to the 1960s and 1970s black revolutionary movement, spent the last 45 years in California's prison isolation units partly for his own protection. Just days after he was moved into the general prison population, fellow inmates stabbed him to death in an exercise yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10641828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Pinell-Hugo-A88401.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10641828 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Pinell-Hugo-A88401.jpg\" alt=\"Hugo Pinell, 71, was killed in an exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, Aug. 12. 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Pinell, 71, became infamous a generation ago for his role as one of the San Quentin 6, helping to slit the throat of San Quentin prison guards during a failed 1971 escape attempt that killed six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has been a target from just about every group in prison because of his notoriety and what he did years ago,\" Keith Wattley, his attorney, said a day after the killing on Wednesday. \"This was foreseeable, which is what makes it so much worse and why the family is looking for answers as to why prison officials let this happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell was the longest-serving inmate in California's prison isolation units until he became one of nearly 1,000 inmates moved out of those units and into the general population in recent months as the state responded to criticism that too many inmates were being held in solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell, nicknamed \"Yogi Bear,\" was killed Wednesday by two other inmates in an exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, prison officials said. His family may consider a wrongful death lawsuit, his attorney said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton said that because the investigation is ongoing she could not respond to the criticism of his transfer to the general prison population on July 29, nor say if officials feared for Pinell's safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't know why these two inmates attacked him yet,\" she said. \"That's what we hope to learn from the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slaying at the maximum security facility east of Sacramento triggered a melee by about 70 other inmates that sent 11 prisoners to outside hospitals with stab wounds, corrections officials said. Five remained hospitalized Thursday, one in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite spending nearly all of his adult life locked up, Pinell maintained a strong following outside the prison walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote long letters posted to a website by supporters, addressing the civil rights movement and the decades of solitary confinement that he likened to being \"buried alive,\" with no contact visits with relatives or friends since December 1970. He was allowed a 15-minute contact meeting to marry a woman, who has since died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell survived repeated assassination attempts over the years even while he was kept isolated from other prisoners, first in administrative segregation cells and later in Pelican Bay State Prison's security housing unit with other purported gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's had other prisoners throw bombs into his cell, shoot him with prison-manufactured guns, stab him and otherwise physically attack him,\" Wattley said. Most attacks were in the 1970s and 1980s, but Pinell had death threats as recently as this year, after he was moved to the prison dubbed \"New Folsom\" that houses about 2,300 inmates in the suburb 25 miles east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the assaults and threats were by members of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood, which wanted to kill Pinell for his purported involvement in the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang with San Quentin 6 ringleader George Jackson, who was killed in the escape attempt, Wattley said. Pinell long denied any gang connection, but decades ago he led other black inmates who refused to accept some prison policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being in this kind of confinement is terrible, yes, in many ways, but trying to make it in the streets is harder, more challenging, and we knew that, in the 60s, and that's why we were working hard to change and prepare for the streets reality,\" Pinell wrote in a letter posted on the website, which includes instructions on how to send him money and cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His supporters describe him as a political prisoner and \"a revolutionary hero.\" In his letters, he described learning at San Quentin of the Black Liberation Movement and efforts to improve the lives of black prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The story or the image about him and his leadership role morphed into an image of him as a leader of a prison gang, a violent prison gang,\" Wattley said. \"At this point it's hard to discern what is fact and how much is fiction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell was initially sentenced to life in prison in 1965 for a San Francisco-area rape. He received a second life sentence for killing Correctional Officer R.J. McCarthy in 1971 at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, and a third life sentence for the San Quentin escape attempt after he was convicted of assaulting two correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was denied parole 10 times, most recently in May 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell's daughter, Allegra Taylor of Sacramento, would not comment when reached by telephone Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua as a child, is also survived by his mother, now in her 90s, and siblings, Wattley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press Correspondent Juliet Williams contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post noon Thursday, Aug. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn inmate involved in a bloody 1971 San Quentin escape attempt that left six dead has been killed by a fellow prisoner, corrections officials said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slaying of Hugo Pinell, 71, triggered a riot Wednesday that grew to involve about 70 inmates at a maximum security prison east of Sacramento, said \u003ca href=\"http://cdcrtoday.blogspot.com/2015/08/california-state-prison-sacramento_12.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a> spokeswoman Dana Simas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was definitely the target,\" Simas said. She would not give more information about the alleged attacker for his own protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Pinell was attacked in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/SAC.html\" target=\"_blank\">California State Prison, Sacramento\u003c/a> exercise yard by his fellow inmate, \"everyone else joined in,\" Simas said, including members of multiple prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven other inmates were taken to an outside hospital to be treated for stab wounds, while other injured inmates were treated at the prison. No employees were harmed. Guards fired three shots and used pepper spray to break up the brawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials initially said about 100 inmates were involved and five hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-four years ago, Pinell helped slit the throats of San Quentin prison guards during an escape attempt that led to the deaths of three guards, two inmate trustees and escape ringleader \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/EXIT-THE-DRAGON-It-s-been-30-years-since-George-2888071.php\" target=\"_blank\">George Jackson\u003c/a>, who was fatally shot as he ran toward an outside prison wall, according to Associated Press stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson was a Black Panther leader, founder of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, and author of the 1970 book \"Soledad Brother,\" written after he and other inmates were accused in the slaying of a Soledad prison guard in January 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards testified that Jackson started the escape attempt when he pulled a smuggled 9-mm pistol from under his 6-inch-high Afro hairdo and fatally shot two correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional Officer Urbano Rubiaco Jr. survived to later testify that Pinell used a knife made of razor blades embedded in a toothbrush handle to slash Rubiaco's neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said 'I love you pigs' and then he cut my throat,\" Rubiaco said. He was one of two guards taken hostage by 25 inmates who were released from their cells during the escape attempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional Sgt. Frank McCray testified that he and other guards were blindfolded, bound and piled into a cell, where McCray said his throat also was cut while other guards were shot and strangled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury eventually acquitted Jackson's lawyer, Stephen Bingham, a grandson of former Connecticut Gov. Hiram Bingham, of smuggling in the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell and five other inmates became known as the San Quentin Six. Only one, 61-year-old William \"Willie\" Tate, remains in prison, at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The others were freed years ago: Fleeta Drumgo and Luis Talamantez in 1976, Johnny Larry Spain in 1991 and David Johnson in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell was initially sent to prison in 1965 to serve a life sentence for a San Francisco rape. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hugo Pinell, a notorious killer with ties to the 1960s and 1970s black revolutionary movement, spent the last 45 years in California's prison isolation units partly for his own protection. Just days after he was moved into the general prison population, fellow inmates stabbed him to death in an exercise yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10641828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Pinell-Hugo-A88401.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10641828 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Pinell-Hugo-A88401.jpg\" alt=\"Hugo Pinell, 71, was killed in an exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, Aug. 12. The slaying sparked a prison riot involving about 70 inmates.\" width=\"400\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Pinell-Hugo-A88401.jpg 509w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Pinell-Hugo-A88401-400x475.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugo Pinell, 71, was killed in an exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, Aug. 12. The slaying sparked a prison riot involving about 70 inmates. \u003ccite>(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitiation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now family members are demanding answers, arguing that authorities at the state prison east of Sacramento should have known he would be a marked man. Pinell, 71, became infamous a generation ago for his role as one of the San Quentin 6, helping to slit the throat of San Quentin prison guards during a failed 1971 escape attempt that killed six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has been a target from just about every group in prison because of his notoriety and what he did years ago,\" Keith Wattley, his attorney, said a day after the killing on Wednesday. \"This was foreseeable, which is what makes it so much worse and why the family is looking for answers as to why prison officials let this happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell was the longest-serving inmate in California's prison isolation units until he became one of nearly 1,000 inmates moved out of those units and into the general population in recent months as the state responded to criticism that too many inmates were being held in solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell, nicknamed \"Yogi Bear,\" was killed Wednesday by two other inmates in an exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, prison officials said. His family may consider a wrongful death lawsuit, his attorney said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton said that because the investigation is ongoing she could not respond to the criticism of his transfer to the general prison population on July 29, nor say if officials feared for Pinell's safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't know why these two inmates attacked him yet,\" she said. \"That's what we hope to learn from the investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slaying at the maximum security facility east of Sacramento triggered a melee by about 70 other inmates that sent 11 prisoners to outside hospitals with stab wounds, corrections officials said. Five remained hospitalized Thursday, one in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite spending nearly all of his adult life locked up, Pinell maintained a strong following outside the prison walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote long letters posted to a website by supporters, addressing the civil rights movement and the decades of solitary confinement that he likened to being \"buried alive,\" with no contact visits with relatives or friends since December 1970. He was allowed a 15-minute contact meeting to marry a woman, who has since died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell survived repeated assassination attempts over the years even while he was kept isolated from other prisoners, first in administrative segregation cells and later in Pelican Bay State Prison's security housing unit with other purported gang leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's had other prisoners throw bombs into his cell, shoot him with prison-manufactured guns, stab him and otherwise physically attack him,\" Wattley said. Most attacks were in the 1970s and 1980s, but Pinell had death threats as recently as this year, after he was moved to the prison dubbed \"New Folsom\" that houses about 2,300 inmates in the suburb 25 miles east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the assaults and threats were by members of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood, which wanted to kill Pinell for his purported involvement in the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang with San Quentin 6 ringleader George Jackson, who was killed in the escape attempt, Wattley said. Pinell long denied any gang connection, but decades ago he led other black inmates who refused to accept some prison policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being in this kind of confinement is terrible, yes, in many ways, but trying to make it in the streets is harder, more challenging, and we knew that, in the 60s, and that's why we were working hard to change and prepare for the streets reality,\" Pinell wrote in a letter posted on the website, which includes instructions on how to send him money and cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His supporters describe him as a political prisoner and \"a revolutionary hero.\" In his letters, he described learning at San Quentin of the Black Liberation Movement and efforts to improve the lives of black prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The story or the image about him and his leadership role morphed into an image of him as a leader of a prison gang, a violent prison gang,\" Wattley said. \"At this point it's hard to discern what is fact and how much is fiction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell was initially sentenced to life in prison in 1965 for a San Francisco-area rape. He received a second life sentence for killing Correctional Officer R.J. McCarthy in 1971 at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, and a third life sentence for the San Quentin escape attempt after he was convicted of assaulting two correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was denied parole 10 times, most recently in May 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell's daughter, Allegra Taylor of Sacramento, would not comment when reached by telephone Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell, who immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua as a child, is also survived by his mother, now in her 90s, and siblings, Wattley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press Correspondent Juliet Williams contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post noon Thursday, Aug. 13:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn inmate involved in a bloody 1971 San Quentin escape attempt that left six dead has been killed by a fellow prisoner, corrections officials said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slaying of Hugo Pinell, 71, triggered a riot Wednesday that grew to involve about 70 inmates at a maximum security prison east of Sacramento, said \u003ca href=\"http://cdcrtoday.blogspot.com/2015/08/california-state-prison-sacramento_12.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a> spokeswoman Dana Simas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was definitely the target,\" Simas said. She would not give more information about the alleged attacker for his own protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Pinell was attacked in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/SAC.html\" target=\"_blank\">California State Prison, Sacramento\u003c/a> exercise yard by his fellow inmate, \"everyone else joined in,\" Simas said, including members of multiple prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven other inmates were taken to an outside hospital to be treated for stab wounds, while other injured inmates were treated at the prison. No employees were harmed. Guards fired three shots and used pepper spray to break up the brawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials initially said about 100 inmates were involved and five hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-four years ago, Pinell helped slit the throats of San Quentin prison guards during an escape attempt that led to the deaths of three guards, two inmate trustees and escape ringleader \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/EXIT-THE-DRAGON-It-s-been-30-years-since-George-2888071.php\" target=\"_blank\">George Jackson\u003c/a>, who was fatally shot as he ran toward an outside prison wall, according to Associated Press stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson was a Black Panther leader, founder of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, and author of the 1970 book \"Soledad Brother,\" written after he and other inmates were accused in the slaying of a Soledad prison guard in January 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards testified that Jackson started the escape attempt when he pulled a smuggled 9-mm pistol from under his 6-inch-high Afro hairdo and fatally shot two correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional Officer Urbano Rubiaco Jr. survived to later testify that Pinell used a knife made of razor blades embedded in a toothbrush handle to slash Rubiaco's neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said 'I love you pigs' and then he cut my throat,\" Rubiaco said. He was one of two guards taken hostage by 25 inmates who were released from their cells during the escape attempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional Sgt. Frank McCray testified that he and other guards were blindfolded, bound and piled into a cell, where McCray said his throat also was cut while other guards were shot and strangled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury eventually acquitted Jackson's lawyer, Stephen Bingham, a grandson of former Connecticut Gov. Hiram Bingham, of smuggling in the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell and five other inmates became known as the San Quentin Six. Only one, 61-year-old William \"Willie\" Tate, remains in prison, at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The others were freed years ago: Fleeta Drumgo and Luis Talamantez in 1976, Johnny Larry Spain in 1991 and David Johnson in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinell was initially sent to prison in 1965 to serve a life sentence for a San Francisco rape. 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"content": "\u003cp>Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez rolls through downtown in her black and white cruiser when her radio crackles to life. The call is from dispatch -- a burglary in progress. Responding to the call, Cortez crosses into the city’s south side, parking well out of sight of the address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond police have been getting a lot of these calls lately. Armed robberies are up 26 percent this year. And a shooting death last week brings the number of 2015 homicides in the city to 11 -- the total for all of last year. While Richmond’s community policing strategy has been a bright spot in the national conversation about race and police, the current uptick in violent crime has residents and police on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Nicole Abetkov says she can't identify a single cause that explains the crime spike. She thinks new laws like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/18/prop-47-sentencing-reform-reaps-savings/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> and public safety \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\" target=\"_blank\">realignment\u003c/a> have put more low-level offenders on the streets. But there are very few statistics to rely on. One thing is known: Amid what it says is a shortage of police officers that's affecting many departments, Richmond is 11 officers short of being fully staffed, less 14 more who are injured, pregnant or otherwise not fit for active duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218999393\" 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>“On any given day you can have one team who is short four spots,” Abetkov says, “which has an effect on a whole bunch of things: response to calls, customer service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the department is in the process of hiring five officers and working with a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives task force to combat the robberies, Abetkov says there are still systemic problems in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re always going to have a drug problem,” she says. “You’re always going to have the problem where two factions of different areas aren’t going to get along, and that’s just history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devone Boggan, the director of Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest challenge in this city is history and time,” he says, sitting in the antechamber of his office, just above the City Council chambers. “You’ve got a lot of lost lives in this war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Neighborhood Safety is unique among city departments across the country in that it tries to break this cycle of violence and history. Boggan and his staff reach out to those who are most likely to commit gun violence and be killed by it. These young people are offered a stipend of $1,000 per month to put down their weapons and follow a \"life map\" created with the help of office staff. They're mentored and taken on trips far away from their struggles at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nccdglobal.org/publications/process-evaluation-for-the-office-of-neighborhood-safety\" target=\"_blank\">evaluation\u003c/a> by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency found that the program seems to be working for most of the people that buy into it: They aren’t ending up dead or in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Boggan says for every 50 people he sits down with, “You have five to 10 folks who will say, ‘Mr. Boggan, man I love what you’re trying to do. I love what your team is trying to do, but quite frankly, I ain’t ready to change. And I got some people I want to take out. And the police are going to have to earn their living.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the robbery in progress, a few neighbors wander out of their houses to see what’s happening. Five police cars are blocking the end of the street. A man drives by on his bike. He doesn’t want to be identified but does have something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they [the police] do is drive around and harass poor people,” he says. “They don’t never do nothing to the rich people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just then Cortez comes jogging back and jumps into the car parked nearby. She’s out of breath from a foot chase with one of the robbery suspects -- a race she won. The suspect is now in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another officer drives up alongside and rolls down his window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you catch the guy that outran me?” he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, one,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s my girl.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that’s because you cornered him out,” she says. “Flushed him out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10640979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10640979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cortez explains that most of the time her job isn’t this dramatic. She isn’t a beat cop; she’s on special projects like keeping drunks out of the park, towing RVs that leave sewage in people’s yards, and checking on illegal dumping spots. She says this is what community policing means -- taking care of residents in a lot of small ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She rolls past a popular dump site that’s right next to a row of very tidy apartments. Three stained mattresses lie askew on the ground alongside a broken mirror and a busted headboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is pretty minimal,” she says. “Usually there’s a pile up there. I just feel bad for the people that live here.” Later, she’ll notify public works and get the trash hauled away. While these issues might seem mundane, she says they have a big effect on people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can work together on low-level crime such as that,” she says, “which creates a stronger bond between the police and the community because they trust that you can take care of problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents still don’t trust police, Cortez says there are others who appreciate what she’s doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This woman came up to me. She said, ‘From the bottom of my heart, I really just wanted to tell you that I appreciate you coming out to work for the city when you don’t know if you’re going to go home that day,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God, don’t make me cry right now.’ I was like, ‘Get out of here lady!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really, really touched, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department says community policing isn’t going to solve all of Richmond’s problems. It hasn’t prevented the current crime spike. But Cortez says it’s still the best way to do her job.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez rolls through downtown in her black and white cruiser when her radio crackles to life. The call is from dispatch -- a burglary in progress. Responding to the call, Cortez crosses into the city’s south side, parking well out of sight of the address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond police have been getting a lot of these calls lately. Armed robberies are up 26 percent this year. And a shooting death last week brings the number of 2015 homicides in the city to 11 -- the total for all of last year. While Richmond’s community policing strategy has been a bright spot in the national conversation about race and police, the current uptick in violent crime has residents and police on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Nicole Abetkov says she can't identify a single cause that explains the crime spike. She thinks new laws like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/18/prop-47-sentencing-reform-reaps-savings/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> and public safety \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\" target=\"_blank\">realignment\u003c/a> have put more low-level offenders on the streets. But there are very few statistics to rely on. One thing is known: Amid what it says is a shortage of police officers that's affecting many departments, Richmond is 11 officers short of being fully staffed, less 14 more who are injured, pregnant or otherwise not fit for active duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218999393&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218999393'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On any given day you can have one team who is short four spots,” Abetkov says, “which has an effect on a whole bunch of things: response to calls, customer service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the department is in the process of hiring five officers and working with a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives task force to combat the robberies, Abetkov says there are still systemic problems in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re always going to have a drug problem,” she says. “You’re always going to have the problem where two factions of different areas aren’t going to get along, and that’s just history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devone Boggan, the director of Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest challenge in this city is history and time,” he says, sitting in the antechamber of his office, just above the City Council chambers. “You’ve got a lot of lost lives in this war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Neighborhood Safety is unique among city departments across the country in that it tries to break this cycle of violence and history. Boggan and his staff reach out to those who are most likely to commit gun violence and be killed by it. These young people are offered a stipend of $1,000 per month to put down their weapons and follow a \"life map\" created with the help of office staff. They're mentored and taken on trips far away from their struggles at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nccdglobal.org/publications/process-evaluation-for-the-office-of-neighborhood-safety\" target=\"_blank\">evaluation\u003c/a> by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency found that the program seems to be working for most of the people that buy into it: They aren’t ending up dead or in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Boggan says for every 50 people he sits down with, “You have five to 10 folks who will say, ‘Mr. Boggan, man I love what you’re trying to do. I love what your team is trying to do, but quite frankly, I ain’t ready to change. And I got some people I want to take out. And the police are going to have to earn their living.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the robbery in progress, a few neighbors wander out of their houses to see what’s happening. Five police cars are blocking the end of the street. A man drives by on his bike. He doesn’t want to be identified but does have something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they [the police] do is drive around and harass poor people,” he says. “They don’t never do nothing to the rich people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just then Cortez comes jogging back and jumps into the car parked nearby. She’s out of breath from a foot chase with one of the robbery suspects -- a race she won. The suspect is now in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another officer drives up alongside and rolls down his window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you catch the guy that outran me?” he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, one,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s my girl.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that’s because you cornered him out,” she says. “Flushed him out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10640979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10640979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cortez explains that most of the time her job isn’t this dramatic. She isn’t a beat cop; she’s on special projects like keeping drunks out of the park, towing RVs that leave sewage in people’s yards, and checking on illegal dumping spots. She says this is what community policing means -- taking care of residents in a lot of small ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She rolls past a popular dump site that’s right next to a row of very tidy apartments. Three stained mattresses lie askew on the ground alongside a broken mirror and a busted headboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is pretty minimal,” she says. “Usually there’s a pile up there. I just feel bad for the people that live here.” Later, she’ll notify public works and get the trash hauled away. While these issues might seem mundane, she says they have a big effect on people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can work together on low-level crime such as that,” she says, “which creates a stronger bond between the police and the community because they trust that you can take care of problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents still don’t trust police, Cortez says there are others who appreciate what she’s doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This woman came up to me. She said, ‘From the bottom of my heart, I really just wanted to tell you that I appreciate you coming out to work for the city when you don’t know if you’re going to go home that day,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God, don’t make me cry right now.’ I was like, ‘Get out of here lady!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really, really touched, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Attorneys representing 14 people who say they were struck and jabbed by police batons, clubbed, beaten, tear gassed, slammed to the ground, fired on with “less lethal” projectiles or arrested during December protests in Berkeley related to the Black Lives Matter movement are considering filing a lawsuit against the city on their clients’ behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Their whole approach to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong. ... They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.'\u003ccite>Rachel Lederman,\u003cbr>Protesters' Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the claimants were reporters or individuals documenting the protests. One UC Berkeley student said she was unable to complete her semester or graduate as a result of her injuries. One woman, a minister who said she was struck in the back of the head while trying to help up another demonstrator who had fallen, required three staples at the emergency room to close the gash she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, attorneys filed four tort claims outlining alleged injuries to their clients. Those documents are required to be submitted prior to the official filing of a lawsuit against a government entity, explained Berkeley attorney James B. Chanin. Chanin and attorney Rachel Lederman of San Francisco-based Lederman & Beach Attorneys At Law are representing the group on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a brief statement posted by Lederman, “Our clients include a Chronicle photographer and a minister who were clubbed on the heads for no apparent reason; a 55-year-old Berkeley Rent Board counselor who was clubbed in the back from behind while she was urging other demonstrators to give the police space; and a visitor from Los Angeles who happened on the demonstration and had been there for only minutes when he was shot with a ‘less lethal’ munition, fracturing his knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman told Berkeleyside in late July that it could be a month or two before the lawsuit is actually filed. She said she and Chanin had been “having some initial discussions” with the city of Berkeley “to see if we can avoid that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the claims is “in excess of $10,000,” according to court documents, and alleges constitutional rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents described in court papers took place from Dec. 6-8, 2014, when protesters demanding an end to police brutality flocked to Berkeley by the hundreds. The majority of the injuries are alleged to have taken place Dec. 6, when crowds demonstrated for hours in Berkeley. Police ultimately used tear gas to clear the streets and push the protesters down Telegraph Avenue into Oakland. Police said members of the crowd surrounded them and were hurling projectiles at them, which ultimately led to the decision to use tear gas on demonstrators in Berkeley for the first time in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community members and some city officials have criticized that decision, which is still \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">under review\u003c/a> by the city’s volunteer Police Review Commission. The Berkeley City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">voted in February\u003c/a> to enact a temporary moratorium on the use of tear gas during nonviolent demonstrations pending the completion of that review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks that followed those first nights in Berkeley, many community members testified repeatedly about what they believed had been inappropriate and repeated use of force by officers in Berkeley during the December protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Complete Berkeleyside Protest Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10640809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png\" alt=\"Berkeleyside\" width=\"715\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png 715w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister-400x266.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">A Sampling of Top Stories\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Report Mistakes, Challenges in Berkeley Protests\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Review Commission Gets First Chance for Answers After Protests \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Police Release Long-Awaited Protest Report\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley City Council Limits Police Tear Gas Use, For Now\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/05/exclusive-23-minute-delay-for-paramedics-during-berkeley-protests-patient-later-died/\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive: 23-minute Delay for Paramedics During Berkeley Protests, Patient Later Died\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/09/photo-gallery-third-night-of-berkeley-protests-trains-halted-a-freeway-at-a-standstill/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Gallery: Third Night of Protests, Trains Halted, a Freeway Brought to a Standstill\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson Demo in Berkeley: Injuries Reported, Tear Gas Used, Property Vandalized\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Police Department completed its own \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> in June, which concluded that mistakes had been made, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested changes\u003c/a> to how it handles protests in the future. The report cost approximately $221,000 -- staff time from January through June for four officers and another city staffer -- to complete. Earlier this year, the department estimated that the response to the protests in December would likely \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">cost several hundred thousand dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police officers used an estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">50 tear gas grenades and “blast rounds”\u003c/a> to clear Telegraph on Dec. 6 around 10:20 p.m. after \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">sustaining numerous injuries to officers\u003c/a> in the preceding several hours. The vast majority of the injuries reported by claimants represented by Chanin and Lederman also took place that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, minister \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Pincus\u003c/a> tried to help a woman who had fallen down after being jabbed by a police officer’s club when an officer from an unknown department \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">struck her in the head\u003c/a>. (Berkeley police had called for mutual aid that night from other Bay Area law enforcement officers. An estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">100-200 of those officers\u003c/a> bolstered Berkeley’s own forces, which included 80-100 police.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had “deployed chemical agents and dangerous ‘less lethal’ munitions into the retreating crowd” and Pincus tried to flee but was disoriented, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">attorneys wrote\u003c/a>, “unable to see and bleeding from the head.” She managed to find two friends who helped her get to the hospital, where she required staples to close the gash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another claimant, UC Berkeley student Allie Loux, said she was trying to get home after taking part in the demonstrations that evening. According to court documents, she was unable to leave due to “police formations.” (At various points in the night, officers set up skirmish lines to try to direct the crowd or limit its access to different areas; police said in June that this increased tension with the crowd, and that the department should consider alternate approaches when possible in the future.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As police were deploying tear gas, Loux collapsed and fell to the ground, which ultimately \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Loux.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">resulted in a concussion\u003c/a>, according to court papers. Loux says she had to withdraw from school as a result of her injuries, and was therefore unable to graduate on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the night, at 6:30 p.m., San Francisco Chronicle photographer Sam Wolson said he was taking pictures of the demonstration near the Public Safety Building in his professional capacity when an officer “pushed him, and then struck him on the back of the head and neck with a police ‘baton’ from behind, as he was kneeling on the ground taking a photograph with his professional camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, three other injuries were reported. Demonstrator Joseph Cuff was walking with his dog when an officer \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YhGTdPosaeU\" target=\"_blank\">shoved him\u003c/a> with his baton, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">slamming him to the ground\u003c/a>.” (Some have said it was the incident with Cuff that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">upset the crowd\u003c/a> and led to much of the tension and violence that followed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Moni Law said she was trying to encourage the crowd to keep a safe distance from police when an officer “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">clubbed her from behind\u003c/a>.” Nearby, UC Berkeley student Nisa Dang said she too was clubbed while “peacefully participating in the demonstration.” According to court documents, police then threw “flash grenades” and “chemical agents” at the crowd. (Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">say they used smoke\u003c/a> canisters at this time, but did not use tear gas until later in the night, on Telegraph. According to Berkeley Police, the department never threw flash grenades.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis Johnson was struck in the knee with what court papers describe as “‘sponge rounds’, a high velocity so-called ‘less lethal’ munition,” after being surrounded without warning by officers, according to the attorneys, near University Avenue around 10 p.m. The blast fractured his knee, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several others said they were injured by police on Telegraph Avenue around 9:40 p.m. Emily Power said she was jabbed by officers who “hit her repeatedly and took her to the ground” and arrested her. Local journalist Rasheed Shabazz “was visibly engaged in photojournalism,” according to the tort claim, when an officer struck his camera and chest multiple times, then clubbed him in the knee from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10 p.m., Joseph Watkins was on his way home when he reportedly saw police using force on demonstrators and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">questioned the tactics\u003c/a>, according to the tort claim. Officers “grabbed and arrested” him, then covered his face and mouth, not allowing him to tell a National Lawyers Guild representative his name, the attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Todd Zimmer and Claire Sandberg, were recording police officers “jabbing and clubbing people” at Telegraph and Channing Way when an officer, according to the documents, struck Sandberg in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers then hit Zimmer’s “hand, camera and shoulder multiple times,” wrote the attorneys. “As with Mr. SHABAZZ, they appeared to be targeting his camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dang, who had been hit earlier near the Public Safety Building, said she was again “pushed and jabbed multiple times by unidentified officers” while on Telegraph Avenue as police moved the crowd south toward Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Hudson Soules and Shannon Strazdas, said they were walking home after a protest in Berkeley the following night, Dec. 7, when they were blocked by a police line. When they asked if they could get through to their South Berkeley home, according to court papers, officers pulled Soules “through the line and beat him, hitting him in the head and face and causing his pants to be pulled down. The officers then left his pants down as he stood handcuffed, under arrest, and refused to pull them up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strazdas asked why Soules was being arrested, and police then arrested her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrote the attorneys, “None of the Claimants presented a threat or engaged in any conduct justifying any use of force by the police at any time. Most appear to have been targeted simply because they were toward the front of the crowd, in some cases because they were trying to act as peacekeepers. Others such as WOLSON, SHABAZZ and ZIMMER appear to have been targeted for taking photos or video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four arrests, the attorneys said none of their clients had been engaged in unlawful conduct, and that charges have not been filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said the National Lawyers Guild had legal observers at many of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the Bay Area in November and December, and provided 24-hour hotlines during those protests to help community members who had trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the Berkeley demonstrations that we actually got the most complaints about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said that led her to attempt to speak with as many people as she could who had been injured or affected “to try to see what we could do to improve Berkeley police practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said she believes the Berkeley Police Department has weaknesses in its approach to general accountability as well as racial profiling, and a “lack of effective oversight.” The department, she added, has a number of “piecemeal” policies related to crowd control that she thinks it has lost track of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">whole approach\u003c/a> to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong,” she said. “They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said officers had too much discretion to use force “against protesters who weren’t actually doing anything wrong,” and said it appeared that “a combination of poor policies, a lack of planning and a lack of sensible command decisions” had led to the issues that arose in December between police and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanin, a civil rights attorney who was a founding member of Berkeley’s Police Review Commission, said it had been disappointing to see the local police response to the December demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other cities had these demonstrations without a lot of dissatisfaction, people getting injured, etc. Even Oakland did,” he said. “It’s very disappointing, because Berkeley used to be much better at this than they were this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor Lederman was impressed by the department’s report about the protests, which they said inappropriately lumped all the demonstrators into one group of bad actors, and failed to account for some of the problems that arose: the missing radio traffic recordings from the first night, which weren’t created due to a technical glitch; the lack of detail regarding officer use of force; and the failure to include specifics about “less lethal” munitions deployed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think they spent too much time talking about all the violence of the demonstrators: They \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">meticulously photographed every rock\u003c/a>, discussed every bad act. But they couldn’t record their own bad acts, their own force,” said Chanin. “They very painstakingly reported everyone’s use of force except their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Review Commission is set to continue its discussion regarding the police response to the Berkeley protests Wednesday night. Meeting details and materials are \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/Commissions/Commissions__Police_Review_Commission_Homepage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">posted on the city website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Berkeleyside's complete \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">protest coverage here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you rely on Berkeleyside for local news? Support independent journalism by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-berkeleyside/\" target=\"_blank\">becoming a Berkeleyside member\u003c/a> for $10 a month or even less, or by making a one-time donation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Attorneys representing 14 people who say they were struck and jabbed by police batons, clubbed, beaten, tear gassed, slammed to the ground, fired on with “less lethal” projectiles or arrested during December protests in Berkeley related to the Black Lives Matter movement are considering filing a lawsuit against the city on their clients’ behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Their whole approach to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong. ... They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.'\u003ccite>Rachel Lederman,\u003cbr>Protesters' Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the claimants were reporters or individuals documenting the protests. One UC Berkeley student said she was unable to complete her semester or graduate as a result of her injuries. One woman, a minister who said she was struck in the back of the head while trying to help up another demonstrator who had fallen, required three staples at the emergency room to close the gash she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, attorneys filed four tort claims outlining alleged injuries to their clients. Those documents are required to be submitted prior to the official filing of a lawsuit against a government entity, explained Berkeley attorney James B. Chanin. Chanin and attorney Rachel Lederman of San Francisco-based Lederman & Beach Attorneys At Law are representing the group on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a brief statement posted by Lederman, “Our clients include a Chronicle photographer and a minister who were clubbed on the heads for no apparent reason; a 55-year-old Berkeley Rent Board counselor who was clubbed in the back from behind while she was urging other demonstrators to give the police space; and a visitor from Los Angeles who happened on the demonstration and had been there for only minutes when he was shot with a ‘less lethal’ munition, fracturing his knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman told Berkeleyside in late July that it could be a month or two before the lawsuit is actually filed. She said she and Chanin had been “having some initial discussions” with the city of Berkeley “to see if we can avoid that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the claims is “in excess of $10,000,” according to court documents, and alleges constitutional rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents described in court papers took place from Dec. 6-8, 2014, when protesters demanding an end to police brutality flocked to Berkeley by the hundreds. The majority of the injuries are alleged to have taken place Dec. 6, when crowds demonstrated for hours in Berkeley. Police ultimately used tear gas to clear the streets and push the protesters down Telegraph Avenue into Oakland. Police said members of the crowd surrounded them and were hurling projectiles at them, which ultimately led to the decision to use tear gas on demonstrators in Berkeley for the first time in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community members and some city officials have criticized that decision, which is still \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">under review\u003c/a> by the city’s volunteer Police Review Commission. The Berkeley City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">voted in February\u003c/a> to enact a temporary moratorium on the use of tear gas during nonviolent demonstrations pending the completion of that review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks that followed those first nights in Berkeley, many community members testified repeatedly about what they believed had been inappropriate and repeated use of force by officers in Berkeley during the December protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Complete Berkeleyside Protest Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10640809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png\" alt=\"Berkeleyside\" width=\"715\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png 715w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister-400x266.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">A Sampling of Top Stories\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Report Mistakes, Challenges in Berkeley Protests\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Review Commission Gets First Chance for Answers After Protests \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Police Release Long-Awaited Protest Report\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley City Council Limits Police Tear Gas Use, For Now\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/05/exclusive-23-minute-delay-for-paramedics-during-berkeley-protests-patient-later-died/\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive: 23-minute Delay for Paramedics During Berkeley Protests, Patient Later Died\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/09/photo-gallery-third-night-of-berkeley-protests-trains-halted-a-freeway-at-a-standstill/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Gallery: Third Night of Protests, Trains Halted, a Freeway Brought to a Standstill\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson Demo in Berkeley: Injuries Reported, Tear Gas Used, Property Vandalized\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Police Department completed its own \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> in June, which concluded that mistakes had been made, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested changes\u003c/a> to how it handles protests in the future. The report cost approximately $221,000 -- staff time from January through June for four officers and another city staffer -- to complete. Earlier this year, the department estimated that the response to the protests in December would likely \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">cost several hundred thousand dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police officers used an estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">50 tear gas grenades and “blast rounds”\u003c/a> to clear Telegraph on Dec. 6 around 10:20 p.m. after \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">sustaining numerous injuries to officers\u003c/a> in the preceding several hours. The vast majority of the injuries reported by claimants represented by Chanin and Lederman also took place that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, minister \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Pincus\u003c/a> tried to help a woman who had fallen down after being jabbed by a police officer’s club when an officer from an unknown department \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">struck her in the head\u003c/a>. (Berkeley police had called for mutual aid that night from other Bay Area law enforcement officers. An estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">100-200 of those officers\u003c/a> bolstered Berkeley’s own forces, which included 80-100 police.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had “deployed chemical agents and dangerous ‘less lethal’ munitions into the retreating crowd” and Pincus tried to flee but was disoriented, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">attorneys wrote\u003c/a>, “unable to see and bleeding from the head.” She managed to find two friends who helped her get to the hospital, where she required staples to close the gash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another claimant, UC Berkeley student Allie Loux, said she was trying to get home after taking part in the demonstrations that evening. According to court documents, she was unable to leave due to “police formations.” (At various points in the night, officers set up skirmish lines to try to direct the crowd or limit its access to different areas; police said in June that this increased tension with the crowd, and that the department should consider alternate approaches when possible in the future.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As police were deploying tear gas, Loux collapsed and fell to the ground, which ultimately \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Loux.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">resulted in a concussion\u003c/a>, according to court papers. Loux says she had to withdraw from school as a result of her injuries, and was therefore unable to graduate on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the night, at 6:30 p.m., San Francisco Chronicle photographer Sam Wolson said he was taking pictures of the demonstration near the Public Safety Building in his professional capacity when an officer “pushed him, and then struck him on the back of the head and neck with a police ‘baton’ from behind, as he was kneeling on the ground taking a photograph with his professional camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, three other injuries were reported. Demonstrator Joseph Cuff was walking with his dog when an officer \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YhGTdPosaeU\" target=\"_blank\">shoved him\u003c/a> with his baton, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">slamming him to the ground\u003c/a>.” (Some have said it was the incident with Cuff that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">upset the crowd\u003c/a> and led to much of the tension and violence that followed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Moni Law said she was trying to encourage the crowd to keep a safe distance from police when an officer “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">clubbed her from behind\u003c/a>.” Nearby, UC Berkeley student Nisa Dang said she too was clubbed while “peacefully participating in the demonstration.” According to court documents, police then threw “flash grenades” and “chemical agents” at the crowd. (Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">say they used smoke\u003c/a> canisters at this time, but did not use tear gas until later in the night, on Telegraph. According to Berkeley Police, the department never threw flash grenades.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis Johnson was struck in the knee with what court papers describe as “‘sponge rounds’, a high velocity so-called ‘less lethal’ munition,” after being surrounded without warning by officers, according to the attorneys, near University Avenue around 10 p.m. The blast fractured his knee, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several others said they were injured by police on Telegraph Avenue around 9:40 p.m. Emily Power said she was jabbed by officers who “hit her repeatedly and took her to the ground” and arrested her. Local journalist Rasheed Shabazz “was visibly engaged in photojournalism,” according to the tort claim, when an officer struck his camera and chest multiple times, then clubbed him in the knee from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10 p.m., Joseph Watkins was on his way home when he reportedly saw police using force on demonstrators and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">questioned the tactics\u003c/a>, according to the tort claim. Officers “grabbed and arrested” him, then covered his face and mouth, not allowing him to tell a National Lawyers Guild representative his name, the attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Todd Zimmer and Claire Sandberg, were recording police officers “jabbing and clubbing people” at Telegraph and Channing Way when an officer, according to the documents, struck Sandberg in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers then hit Zimmer’s “hand, camera and shoulder multiple times,” wrote the attorneys. “As with Mr. SHABAZZ, they appeared to be targeting his camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dang, who had been hit earlier near the Public Safety Building, said she was again “pushed and jabbed multiple times by unidentified officers” while on Telegraph Avenue as police moved the crowd south toward Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Hudson Soules and Shannon Strazdas, said they were walking home after a protest in Berkeley the following night, Dec. 7, when they were blocked by a police line. When they asked if they could get through to their South Berkeley home, according to court papers, officers pulled Soules “through the line and beat him, hitting him in the head and face and causing his pants to be pulled down. The officers then left his pants down as he stood handcuffed, under arrest, and refused to pull them up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strazdas asked why Soules was being arrested, and police then arrested her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrote the attorneys, “None of the Claimants presented a threat or engaged in any conduct justifying any use of force by the police at any time. Most appear to have been targeted simply because they were toward the front of the crowd, in some cases because they were trying to act as peacekeepers. Others such as WOLSON, SHABAZZ and ZIMMER appear to have been targeted for taking photos or video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four arrests, the attorneys said none of their clients had been engaged in unlawful conduct, and that charges have not been filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said the National Lawyers Guild had legal observers at many of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the Bay Area in November and December, and provided 24-hour hotlines during those protests to help community members who had trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the Berkeley demonstrations that we actually got the most complaints about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said that led her to attempt to speak with as many people as she could who had been injured or affected “to try to see what we could do to improve Berkeley police practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said she believes the Berkeley Police Department has weaknesses in its approach to general accountability as well as racial profiling, and a “lack of effective oversight.” The department, she added, has a number of “piecemeal” policies related to crowd control that she thinks it has lost track of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">whole approach\u003c/a> to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong,” she said. “They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said officers had too much discretion to use force “against protesters who weren’t actually doing anything wrong,” and said it appeared that “a combination of poor policies, a lack of planning and a lack of sensible command decisions” had led to the issues that arose in December between police and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanin, a civil rights attorney who was a founding member of Berkeley’s Police Review Commission, said it had been disappointing to see the local police response to the December demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other cities had these demonstrations without a lot of dissatisfaction, people getting injured, etc. Even Oakland did,” he said. “It’s very disappointing, because Berkeley used to be much better at this than they were this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor Lederman was impressed by the department’s report about the protests, which they said inappropriately lumped all the demonstrators into one group of bad actors, and failed to account for some of the problems that arose: the missing radio traffic recordings from the first night, which weren’t created due to a technical glitch; the lack of detail regarding officer use of force; and the failure to include specifics about “less lethal” munitions deployed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think they spent too much time talking about all the violence of the demonstrators: They \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">meticulously photographed every rock\u003c/a>, discussed every bad act. 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"content": "\u003cp>On August 11, 1965, in South Los Angeles, the neighborhood of Watts exploded into \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JqhfZV-cms\" target=\"_blank\">six days of rioting\u003c/a> fueled by years of police misconduct, diminishing economic opportunity and flat-out racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end, 34 people were dead and dozens of blocks of the community burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's 50th anniversary of the revolt, as many locals prefer to call it, was marked with a solemn remembrance and a joyful celebration at the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WattsSummerFestival\" target=\"_blank\">Watts Summer Festival\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218765683&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event arose from the destruction of 1965 and kicked off the following year with the hope of channeling the community's anger into music, the arts and activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Watkins Memorial Park had its own role during those tumultuous days in the summer of ’65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was here, I was 5-years-old when it happened,” says Dee Dee Pitcher Henderson. She grew up and still lives across from the park on 103rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This park you’re standing in right now was the base for the National Guard, and we couldn’t come out after a certain time because we had a curfew,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the riots, 103rd Street was a vibrant commercial hub. Henderson’s mother had a shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So her store was the only one that didn’t get burned,\" she recalls. \"My dad got shot in the riots. There used to be a grocery store that sits on the corner. And I remember that store exploding while we were standing in the front yard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a struggle to keep the annual festival going, Henderson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park could easily accommodate several thousand people, only a few hundred mill around on a picture postcard sunny Southern California afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also an older crowd, filled with people who share vivid memories of '65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638058\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1440x920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-960x614.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hell, I got arrested,” Amen Rahh tells the crowd from the festival stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You understand, I was a political prisoner in juvenile hall for 45 days,” says Rahh, a retired black studies professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh also grew up in Watts and as a young man took part in what he prefers to call the rebellion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Rahh how he would he advise his much younger self if he could go back in time. Would he try to persuade that kid to stay inside, to pull his friends away from the violence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d do the same thing,\" he answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had to be done to develop a better-respecting relationship with law enforcement. It just didn’t go far enough to the total criminal justice system,” says Rahh, referring to both past and very recent high-profile police-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh says while the destruction and loss of life 50 years ago was regrettable, it also inspired activism that led to the creation of a community hospital, youth centers, health clinics and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there was a love and respect for each other after the rebellion,” says Rahh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he adds, “But you got to understand, the Watts that used to be has changed and it’s mostly an immigrant city now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black residents moved out after the riots. Thousands more left in the following decades as gang violence surged and crack cocaine flooded neighborhoods. Affordable housing was built north of L.A. in the Antelope Valley and east in the blue-collar suburbs of the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, there has been some change for the better in Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 10 years ago, in 2005, there were 20 murders in Watts. There have been none so far this year. Police foot patrols have increased in troubled parts of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for public projects continues to be plowed into the community, including a new children’s center designed by famed architect Frank Gehry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dee Dee Pitcher Henderson says the economy has never fully rebounded. There are few retail businesses and just one independently owned non fast-food restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to go shopping you got to go outside the area,” says Henderson. “Everywhere around Watts has been built up, Huntington Park, Lynwood, Compton, everywhere has built up around us and we’re still kind of like stagnated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other problems also persist: gang violence, high unemployment and a quiet tension between many black and newer Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedangerman.com/\">Dangerman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A real-life urban superhero,” says the man who calls himself Dangerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed head to toe in a sky blue superhero outfit and matching face mask, actor-comedian Roger Tinsley created Dangerman about 20 years ago to promote literacy, safety and good nutrition among youth in low-income minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m much busier than ever because now we have kids every day dying,” says Tinsley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about Black Lives Matter. Well, not only do black lives matter when police are involved but black lives matter in our cities every day,” says Tinsley. “It’s a struggle every day for our young people in this country”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near a playground at the edge of the festival a group of kids gather around a charismatic young poet named \u003ca href=\"http://www.yngrobb.webs.com/\">Robert Williams\u003c/a>. He was born a good 25 years after the Watts riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he understands the circumstances that sparked the unrest 50 years ago, he has a tough time making sense of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-400x280.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1440x1007.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1180x825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-960x672.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Don’t burn down your own community. If you love your community then clean it up, stand up for it,” says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully the generation has changed where a lot of people can understand to take care instead of destroy. Let’s stick together and create something, let’s not just get together and destroy,” says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the festival stage, \u003ca href=\"http://www.expressyourself.net/\">Charles Wright\u003c/a> and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band tear through songs that made them local legends back in the mid-1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright jumps into the crowd for a sing-along on one of his biggest hits (later sampled by South L.A. rappers N.W.A) “Express Yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638067\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles R&B legend Charles Wright performing at the annual Watts Summer Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-Wright-2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles R&B legend Charles Wright performing at the annual Watts Summer Festival \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a celebratory moment on an otherwise grim anniversary. One that 50 years on reminds people how much has been accomplished -- and how much more remains to be done.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And I remember that store exploding while we were standing in the front yard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a struggle to keep the annual festival going, Henderson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park could easily accommodate several thousand people, only a few hundred mill around on a picture postcard sunny Southern California afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also an older crowd, filled with people who share vivid memories of '65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638058\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1440x920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/WATTS-FEST-WATERS-DANCE-960x614.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Maxine Waters was among the celebrants at Saturday's 49th Watts Summer Festival. Waters represents the Watts area. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hell, I got arrested,” Amen Rahh tells the crowd from the festival stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You understand, I was a political prisoner in juvenile hall for 45 days,” says Rahh, a retired black studies professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh also grew up in Watts and as a young man took part in what he prefers to call the rebellion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Rahh how he would he advise his much younger self if he could go back in time. Would he try to persuade that kid to stay inside, to pull his friends away from the violence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d do the same thing,\" he answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had to be done to develop a better-respecting relationship with law enforcement. It just didn’t go far enough to the total criminal justice system,” says Rahh, referring to both past and very recent high-profile police-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahh says while the destruction and loss of life 50 years ago was regrettable, it also inspired activism that led to the creation of a community hospital, youth centers, health clinics and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there was a love and respect for each other after the rebellion,” says Rahh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he adds, “But you got to understand, the Watts that used to be has changed and it’s mostly an immigrant city now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black residents moved out after the riots. Thousands more left in the following decades as gang violence surged and crack cocaine flooded neighborhoods. Affordable housing was built north of L.A. in the Antelope Valley and east in the blue-collar suburbs of the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, there has been some change for the better in Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 10 years ago, in 2005, there were 20 murders in Watts. There have been none so far this year. Police foot patrols have increased in troubled parts of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for public projects continues to be plowed into the community, including a new children’s center designed by famed architect Frank Gehry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dee Dee Pitcher Henderson says the economy has never fully rebounded. There are few retail businesses and just one independently owned non fast-food restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to go shopping you got to go outside the area,” says Henderson. “Everywhere around Watts has been built up, Huntington Park, Lynwood, Compton, everywhere has built up around us and we’re still kind of like stagnated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other problems also persist: gang violence, high unemployment and a quiet tension between many black and newer Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedangerman.com/\">Dangerman\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A real-life urban superhero,” says the man who calls himself Dangerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed head to toe in a sky blue superhero outfit and matching face mask, actor-comedian Roger Tinsley created Dangerman about 20 years ago to promote literacy, safety and good nutrition among youth in low-income minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m much busier than ever because now we have kids every day dying,” says Tinsley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about Black Lives Matter. Well, not only do black lives matter when police are involved but black lives matter in our cities every day,” says Tinsley. “It’s a struggle every day for our young people in this country”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near a playground at the edge of the festival a group of kids gather around a charismatic young poet named \u003ca href=\"http://www.yngrobb.webs.com/\">Robert Williams\u003c/a>. He was born a good 25 years after the Watts riots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he understands the circumstances that sparked the unrest 50 years ago, he has a tough time making sense of the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10638063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10638063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-400x280.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1440x1007.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-1180x825.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watts-fest-young-robb-2-960x672.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Compton poet Robert Williams aka Young Robb unleashes some of his socially conscious rhymes for some kids at the Watts Summer Festival \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Don’t burn down your own community. If you love your community then clean it up, stand up for it,” says Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully the generation has changed where a lot of people can understand to take care instead of destroy. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of criminal defendants declared incompetent to stand trial are sitting in county jails around the state awaiting transfer to state facilities for mental health treatment. By law, these defendants must receive treatment within 35 days. But an ACLU lawsuit filed against the state says many vulnerable inmates languish in jail, sometimes for as long as a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jail is simply too dangerous a place for these most vulnerable defendants,\" says Micaela Davis, one of the ACLU’s lead attorneys in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/20150729-complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes these incompetent defendants don't have the ability to follow rules, they get confused,” Davis says. “This can result in them being subject to disciplinary sanctions, or result in them being confined to solitary confinement, which only exacerbates their mental health condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218932430\" 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>And, Davis says inmates with developmental disabilities can become targets. That's what happened to the son of one plaintiff, Nancy Leiva. Mentally disabled, he was held in Los Angeles County jail for eight months, waiting for a court-ordered transfer to a state facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that time he was raped multiple times by another inmate,” Davis says. “Of course he suffered severe mental health consequences from that and still suffers today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another inmate, Rodney Bock, committed suicide at Sutter County Jail before he could be transferred to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dsh.ca.gov/napa/\" target=\"_blank\">Napa State Hospital\u003c/a>. Sutter County paid his family $800,000 to settle a separate lawsuit. But his children joined the new suit in hopes of preventing other families from experiencing what they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden of these delays falls to local sheriffs, who run county jails. Cory Salzillo, legislative director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Sheriffs' Association\u003c/a>, says his group is working closely with the state to speed up the process so prisoners aren't stuck in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74314\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/CfakepathLAJailCellblock2085.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-74314\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/CfakepathLAJailCellblock2085.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know they take up bed space when they could be moving through the system,” Salzillo says. “It slows down proceedings, so it exacerbates court backups. While they're waiting for a bed they decompensate oftentimes, so their mental condition gets worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two state agencies sued by the ACLU declined KQED’s interview requests. But in written statements, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dsh.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of State Hospitals\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dds.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Developmental Services\u003c/a> wrote that hundreds of beds are being added for patients needing restoration of mental competency so they can stand trial. They also note the state budget included funding for mental health programs in county jails and in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Mistak of a \u003ca href=\"http://cochs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">nonprofit in Oakland\u003c/a> that works with jails to develop community-based health service says the lack of treatment beds dates back decades, to when California began deinstitutionalizing mentally ill people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There hasn't been a social safety net for these folks and what's happened is the jail has actually stepped in in order to make up for essentially what's been a lack of these services everywhere else,” Mistak noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU hopes this lawsuit will lead to quicker assessments and treatment so justice can be served in a more timely way.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’s what I inherited … all of us!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10633182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" class=\"wp-image-10633182 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-800x591.jpg\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-400x296.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-1440x1064.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-1180x872.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-BUSH-MAMA-CELL-960x710.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Weathers in a scene from from Haile Gerima’s film “Bush Mama” \u003ccite>(Haile Germia / Youtube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Bush Mama” is one of the landmark films to come out of the first wave of black student filmmakers at UCLA, a tightly knit band of experimental, ideological and fiercely independent artists known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/story-la-rebellion\">L.A. Rebellion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’d turn the riot-torn streets of Watts and other south L.A. communities into the real-life soundstage for work that bucked the Hollywood system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218278055″ 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>In “Bush Mama,” a disillusioned Vietnam War veteran, T.C., is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. And life at home is starting to unravel for his pregnant wife Dorothy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the film is told through their correspondence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was largely improvisational. Scenes filmed on the streets of Watts were shot without permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was guerilla style, from getting the equipment out of UCLA to shooting without permits,” says UCLA Film & Television Archive Director Christopher Horak. “’Bush Mama’ opens with the police arresting the crew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima said he and other young black filmmakers at UCLA wanted to make movies depicting African-American life as it really was — a deliberate counterattack to the outlandish jive-talking hyper-violence of ’70s blaxploitation films like “Super Fly” and its countless imitators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We revolted so much. We didn’t want to see, respect any Euro-American cinema, even the good ones,” Gerima told an audience at New York’s New School of Media Studies during a retrospective of his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima says the aim was to elevate, not denigrate African-American life and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10633180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Burnett's film "Killer of Sheep" is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early '70s.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10633180\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Burnett’s film “Killer of Sheep” is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early ’70s. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the (UCLA) film school, we say if black people did jazz, what do they do in film? And so we were responding in a very critical way, saying these narrative devices that were racist for us,” Gerima says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The integration of UCLA’s film school began in earnest during the Civil Rights and anti-war movements of the late 1960s, spurred on in the violent wake of the 1965 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zV9X-E6gc0\">Watts riots\u003c/a>, or “rebellion” as many people prefer to call the week of civil unrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama…And I wanted to see something else.’\u003ccite>Filmmaker Julie Dash\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And so it’s really the first generation of minority students at UCLA, and they were not necessarily welcomed,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what distinguished these filmmakers were a mix of radical politics and gritty street style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students as well as professors at UCLA just were not used to seeing that type of content presented in that kind of way,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not seen as normal,” laughs director \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/julie-dash\">Julie Dash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dash, a New York native, arrived in California in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate studies at UCLA. She would go on to make a number of acclaimed films including 1991’s “Daughters of the Dust.” Dash says the filmmakers who made up L.A. Rebellion stood out for other reasons, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we spent our lives on campus all the time, in sleeping bags, we just worked around the clock,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634116\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10634116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles stands in for Uganda in Julie Dash’s 1977 short film “The Diary of an African Nun,” based on a short story by Alice Walker. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Either working on our personal films or someone else’s film, and we just found ourselves living pretty much on campus all the time,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the way more senior student directors like Haile Gerima depicted black Los Angeles was a revelation to Dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was not the place that played in my mind when I thought of California, I thought of palm trees and everything you see on television, that narrative of life,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most celebrated films to emerge from the L.A. Rebellion is Charles Burnett’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXw-8MXhVE\">“Killer of Sheep.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, influenced in part by post-War War II Italian neo-realist films that used war-torn cities as their backdrop, took a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shot in black and white, the story revolves around a slaughterhouse worker named Stan and his family. Their daily struggles unfold in the blue-collar homes, dusty vacant lots and the crooked alleyways of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, who went on to make a number of more commercial films like “The Glass Shield” and “To Sleep with Anger,” was unavailable for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the commentary from the long-awaited DVD release of “Killer of Sheep,” he talks about his time at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were going to make a difference and introduce new narratives about the black experience and we were reacting against all the negative stereotypes that Hollywood continued to produce,” Burnett says. “You know, turn back to our own stories and try to tell them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634102\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Charles Burnett’s 1973 short film “The Horse.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from the occasional screening at a library or local theater, the films of L.A. Rebellion would go largely unseen off campus. A lot of the original prints would disappear into attics, garages and in one case, a backyard chicken coop in Compton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we found it in the dirt at the very back of the shed after cleaning out for like a whole day,” laughs UCLA’s Christopher Horak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, UCLA launched in initiative to track down and restore the film of the era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Julie Dash’s first student feature “Illusions,” shot on the UCLA campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the tone for the kind of films Dash would go on to make. Most famously, the critically acclaimed “Daughters of the Dust” — the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to get a major theatrical release and a story Dash was developing while still at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted to explore the culture of African-American women that I was not really seeing,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama,” Dash laughs. “And I wanted to see something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634103\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634103\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lonette McKee in Julie Dash’s 1982 student film “Illusions.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite their limited exposure, films and filmmakers from L.A. Rebellion left an indelible mark on future black filmmakers like \u003ca href=\"http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/spike-lees-list-of-95-essential-movies.html\">Spike Lee\u003c/a> and John Singleton, both of whom acknowledge the influence of films like “Killer of Sheep” and “Daughters of the Dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best work holds up really well and there were amazing discoveries we made in this whole process,” says Horak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the films from the L.A. Rebellion era will be included in a 25-DVD box set that will be distributed to schools, libraries and other institutions later this year along with a book published by University of California Press chronicling the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were very meaningful and they continue to be meaningful,” Dash says. “They document a time period and they document very specific voices we had not seen or heard before. That’s why they’re like treasures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasures that continue to be unearthed, literally dusted off and placed alongside some of the finest films of the era.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And life at home is starting to unravel for his pregnant wife Dorothy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the film is told through their correspondence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was largely improvisational. Scenes filmed on the streets of Watts were shot without permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was guerilla style, from getting the equipment out of UCLA to shooting without permits,” says UCLA Film & Television Archive Director Christopher Horak. “’Bush Mama’ opens with the police arresting the crew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima said he and other young black filmmakers at UCLA wanted to make movies depicting African-American life as it really was — a deliberate counterattack to the outlandish jive-talking hyper-violence of ’70s blaxploitation films like “Super Fly” and its countless imitators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We revolted so much. We didn’t want to see, respect any Euro-American cinema, even the good ones,” Gerima told an audience at New York’s New School of Media Studies during a retrospective of his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerima says the aim was to elevate, not denigrate African-American life and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10633180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Burnett's film "Killer of Sheep" is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early '70s.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10633180\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-killer-of-sheep_still-002lg_0-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Burnett’s film “Killer of Sheep” is a landmark of the L.A. Rebellion shot in and around Watts in the early ’70s. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the (UCLA) film school, we say if black people did jazz, what do they do in film? And so we were responding in a very critical way, saying these narrative devices that were racist for us,” Gerima says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The integration of UCLA’s film school began in earnest during the Civil Rights and anti-war movements of the late 1960s, spurred on in the violent wake of the 1965 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zV9X-E6gc0\">Watts riots\u003c/a>, or “rebellion” as many people prefer to call the week of civil unrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama…And I wanted to see something else.’\u003ccite>Filmmaker Julie Dash\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And so it’s really the first generation of minority students at UCLA, and they were not necessarily welcomed,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what distinguished these filmmakers were a mix of radical politics and gritty street style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students as well as professors at UCLA just were not used to seeing that type of content presented in that kind of way,” Horak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not seen as normal,” laughs director \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/julie-dash\">Julie Dash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dash, a New York native, arrived in California in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate studies at UCLA. She would go on to make a number of acclaimed films including 1991’s “Daughters of the Dust.” Dash says the filmmakers who made up L.A. Rebellion stood out for other reasons, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we spent our lives on campus all the time, in sleeping bags, we just worked around the clock,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634116\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10634116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-Dash-DiaryAfricanNun-1977-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles stands in for Uganda in Julie Dash’s 1977 short film “The Diary of an African Nun,” based on a short story by Alice Walker. \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Either working on our personal films or someone else’s film, and we just found ourselves living pretty much on campus all the time,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the way more senior student directors like Haile Gerima depicted black Los Angeles was a revelation to Dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was not the place that played in my mind when I thought of California, I thought of palm trees and everything you see on television, that narrative of life,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most celebrated films to emerge from the L.A. Rebellion is Charles Burnett’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXw-8MXhVE\">“Killer of Sheep.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, influenced in part by post-War War II Italian neo-realist films that used war-torn cities as their backdrop, took a similar approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shot in black and white, the story revolves around a slaughterhouse worker named Stan and his family. Their daily struggles unfold in the blue-collar homes, dusty vacant lots and the crooked alleyways of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett, who went on to make a number of more commercial films like “The Glass Shield” and “To Sleep with Anger,” was unavailable for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the commentary from the long-awaited DVD release of “Killer of Sheep,” he talks about his time at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were going to make a difference and introduce new narratives about the black experience and we were reacting against all the negative stereotypes that Hollywood continued to produce,” Burnett says. “You know, turn back to our own stories and try to tell them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634102\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/LA-REBEL-TheHorse-1973-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Charles Burnett’s 1973 short film “The Horse.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from the occasional screening at a library or local theater, the films of L.A. Rebellion would go largely unseen off campus. A lot of the original prints would disappear into attics, garages and in one case, a backyard chicken coop in Compton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we found it in the dirt at the very back of the shed after cleaning out for like a whole day,” laughs UCLA’s Christopher Horak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, UCLA launched in initiative to track down and restore the film of the era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Julie Dash’s first student feature “Illusions,” shot on the UCLA campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the tone for the kind of films Dash would go on to make. Most famously, the critically acclaimed “Daughters of the Dust” — the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to get a major theatrical release and a story Dash was developing while still at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted to explore the culture of African-American women that I was not really seeing,” Dash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone had to be some cool, slick jive mama,” Dash laughs. “And I wanted to see something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10634103\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10634103\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/la-rebel-Lonette-McKEE-Illusions-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lonette McKee in Julie Dash’s 1982 student film “Illusions.” \u003ccite>(UCLA Film & Television Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite their limited exposure, films and filmmakers from L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:00 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The Santa Clara Police Department says former 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith crashed into a parked vehicle while attempting to park himself, then caused further damage with his car door as he exited his vehicle, according to a statement the department released Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were dispatched to the scene of the collision at 8:46 p.m., but Smith had left the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/49ers-Aldon-Smith-booked-into-jail-6430920.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate reports\u003c/a> these details of the arrest from Santa Clara police spokesman Lt. Kurt Clarke:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Smith was parking his GMC truck when he backed into the other car, Clarke said. As he was exiting his truck, his door slammed the already damaged car, leading to the vandalism charge, Clarke said. After exchanging heated words with the car owner, Smith walked away from the scene, Clarke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith was not at the scene when officers arrived, but walked back roughly 90 minutes later and was identified as the individual responsible for the damage, Clarke said. Smith also exhibited signs of being under the influence of alcohol, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarke said Smith lives in the apartment complex where the incident occurred.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The 49ers had 12 arrests or charges filed involving seven players since January 2012, prompting owner Jed York to promise the team would \"win with class.\" The Niners released defensive tackle \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/ray-mcdonald\" target=\"_blank\">Ray McDonald\u003c/a> late last season for his off-field problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If one person out there reads this and you're struggling, get help,\" an emotional head coach Jim Tomsula said Friday as he announced the team's release of Smith. \"Go get it. You're worth it. There's value in every human being. Get the help. You don't have to walk alone. Find it, it's there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, who when at his best is one of the game's top pass rushers, was entering a contract year after he missed the first nine games of 2014 serving an NFL suspension for violations of the league's substance-abuse and personal-conduct policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring 2014, the 49ers exercised their 2015 option for Smith. In March, Smith restructured his contract into a more incentive-laden, team-friendly deal that gives the 49ers room if he were to get in legal trouble again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 25-year-old Smith missed time during the 2013 season to undergo treatment at an inpatient facility following his DUI arrest on Sept. 20, 2013. That November, he pleaded not guilty to three felony counts of illegal possession of an assault weapon, stemming from a June 2012 party at his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith was arrested on April 13, 2014 at Los Angeles International Airport. Police said Smith was randomly selected for a secondary screening and became uncooperative with the process, telling a Transportation Security Administration agent that he had a bomb. No charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith emerged as one of the NFL's top pass rushers in 2012. He had a franchise-record 19 1/2 sacks that year, but failed to record a sack in his final six games, including the team's postseason Super Bowl run. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith finished with 8 1/2 sacks and 34 tackles in 11 games in 2013, making eight starts. In his shortened 2014 season, he had two sacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomsula hopes Smith will play football again one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has been turning his life around. He is in the process of turning his life around. People stumble,\" Tomsula said. \"In terms of him playing football again, I sure hope so. I think he can. I want him to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:40 a.m.:\u003c/strong> The 49ers have confirmed that they have released Aldon Smith following his latest arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This organization has tried very hard to help Aldon fight his issues. Although he is no longer a member of this team, our support and concern for him will continue,” the team said \u003ca href=\"http://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/49ers-Release-LB-Aldon-Smith/af72249a-e90d-4da5-a3b5-b9bfe733c6c9?cid=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via the team's Twitter account:\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/49ers/status/629725006621114369\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/49ers/status/629724939889709056\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police in Northern California have arrested San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith for hit-and-run, drunken driving and vandalism. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara police report Friday that he was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of his arrest Thursday were not immediately available. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SantaClaraPD/status/629662339743088640\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was arrested two years ago on drunken driving charges. Smith missed five games in 2013 after that arrest and went into a substance abuse rehabilitation clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_28601169/49ers-star-aldon-smith-arrested-again\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News reports\u003c/a> Smith posted $26,000 bail and walked out of jail Friday morning, speaking briefly with reporters there:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Simple as this: Justice will be served and the truth will come out. There's no DUI,\" Smith told reporters who were waiting for him. \"And I'm sorry for anybody I let down, and I'm sorry the way this whole thing ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I need to speak. I want everybody to understand this wasn't a DUI. The situation that happened could have been handled differently. And I apologize to everybody I did let down and I apologize for how it all played out. As far as everything is concerned, it will work out how it's supposed to work out\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what actually happened, Smith replied: \"That's all. Alright? Thank you. Leave me alone.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>NBC Bay Area just posted raw video of Smith's interview:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/nbcbayarea/status/629695738541408256\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Smith received a nine-game suspension for what the league called violations of its substance-abuse and personal-conduct policies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles-based Relativity Sports claims Smith as a client on its website. A representative was not immediately available for comment Friday morning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Bentley, a lawyer who represented Smith previously, also wasn't immediately available for comment Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new motion by Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow’s defense team in an ongoing federal racketeering and corruption case alleges the FBI’s four-year investigation into the San Francisco Chinatown leader implicated several sitting city politicians and other power players who were never indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/mayor-city-officials-others-accused-of-wrongdoing-according-to-new-details-from-fbi-probe-into-shrimp-boy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Examiner first reported\u003c/a> on the sensational motion to dismiss federal charges against Chow for selective prosecution. In essence, the motion argues that federal prosecutors, including Northern California U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, chose to prosecute some officials netted in the FBI probe, while looking the other way concerning others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing, brimming with colorful language, alleges the government’s investigation snagged “at least a dozen bottom feeding political types.” Read the \u003ca href=\"#filing\">entire motion and exhibits below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each of these ‘public servants’ were allowed to progress through the November 2014 election process unscathed because of a protective order issued in this case,” the motion says. “Instead the public was allowed to stew in the indicted parties alleged culpability after a blast of media headlines, while people who actually were in a position to do damage while betraying the public trust remained nameless — all in the context of what was sold as a public corruption and organized crime investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent local name accused in the motion: Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Specifically, the FBI alleged in discovery that Ed Lee took substantial bribes in exchange for favors and that Human Rights Commissioners, Nazly Mohajer and Zula Jones, hustled in these bribes for the Mayor,” the filing says. “The United States Attorney asked for a RICO charge on Keith Jackson and Leland Yee for similar conduct. Lee, Mohajer, and Jones remain unindicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation cites exhibits turned over to Chow’s defense team by federal prosecutors during the pretrial discovery process, but the exhibits fall short of catching Lee negotiating any bribes, and instead appear to implicate Mohajer and Jones in campaign finance swindling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, one of the exhibits notes a recorded phone call between \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted\u003c/a> former political consultant Keith Jackson and Mohajer: “I believe this conversation related to Mohajer’s and Jackson’s previous fundraising for mayor Ed lee during the Mayoral campaign wherein they expected official action in return, but did not receive it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>P.J. Johnston, Lee’s re-election campaign communications director, responded by email to a KQED inquiry to the mayor’s office: “While it appears others may have tried to engage or ensnare Mayor Lee and any number of other people in their own wrongdoing, there’s absolutely nothing in today’s filing by Raymond Chow’s attorneys that suggests that Mayor Lee himself or his 2011 campaign did anything wrong or inappropriate. As we have stated previously, Mayor Lee’s campaign is committed to following the letter and spirit of all campaign finance laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence also includes a description of meetings between Lee and an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman interested in developing senior assisted-living facilities in the city. The agent was introduced to Lee as someone who raised $10,000 to retire the mayor’s campaign debt, and then they discussed “bringing private business interest and development into San Francisco.” However, the defense did not produce evidence that any deal was ever struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Examiner lays out some of what others allegedly said about Lee’s politics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Jones was reported by the FBI to have said that former mayor Willie Brown taught Ed Lee to do business, according to the filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got to pay to play here. We got it. We know this. We are the best at this game, uh, better than New York. We do it a little more sophisticated that New Yorkers. We do it without the mafia,” the filing reports Jones to have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohajer allegedly “explained the process by which she launders Ed Lee’s campaign money,” said the filing, which went on to say that Lee took $20,000 in campaign contributions, gifts and trips in his first four months in office. The filing alleges that Jones and Mohajer said Lee “knew he was taking the money illegally.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The motion includes another allegation that San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency employee Sululagi Palega sold a gun to an undercover FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During a meeting at Waterbar Restaurant on the Embarcadero, Palega agreed to provide numerous weapons to the undercover agent so that the agent could protected his illegal narcotics business. Palega sold at least one firearm to the man who the FBI claims was allegedly an Italian Mafioso. Prior to the sale taking place, Palega used a City of San Francisco car to come and go from a meeting at Town Hall with UCE [undercover employee] 4599 at which Palega provided an update on his ability to procure assault rifles, hand grenades, and ammunition. He handed the UCE a Sees Candy box with a gun in it and said “Enjoy the candy.” He remains unindicted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Chow’s defense attorneys also note several prominent San Francisco African-American leaders, including the head of the San Francisco NAACP and the organization’s second in command, and two sitting supervisors, all allegedly “implicated in dramatic pay to play schemes,” the motion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re dealing with hearsay,” the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, told KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler. “I have nothing to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen’s office did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment. Board of Supervisors President London Breed said in a statement that the accusations against her and others named in the motion are baseless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I’ve learned from this sad episode is that you should be very skeptical of what you read in the news, especially when it comes from an accused felon looking for anyone but himself to blame,” Breed said. “I’m not angry. It’s just very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=273554556 key=key-lKyc41jOZCZlN8UTQSHg mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peter Jon Shuler and Tara Siler of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Lee, Mohajer, and Jones remain unindicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation cites exhibits turned over to Chow’s defense team by federal prosecutors during the pretrial discovery process, but the exhibits fall short of catching Lee negotiating any bribes, and instead appear to implicate Mohajer and Jones in campaign finance swindling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, one of the exhibits notes a recorded phone call between \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted\u003c/a> former political consultant Keith Jackson and Mohajer: “I believe this conversation related to Mohajer’s and Jackson’s previous fundraising for mayor Ed lee during the Mayoral campaign wherein they expected official action in return, but did not receive it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>P.J. Johnston, Lee’s re-election campaign communications director, responded by email to a KQED inquiry to the mayor’s office: “While it appears others may have tried to engage or ensnare Mayor Lee and any number of other people in their own wrongdoing, there’s absolutely nothing in today’s filing by Raymond Chow’s attorneys that suggests that Mayor Lee himself or his 2011 campaign did anything wrong or inappropriate. As we have stated previously, Mayor Lee’s campaign is committed to following the letter and spirit of all campaign finance laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence also includes a description of meetings between Lee and an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman interested in developing senior assisted-living facilities in the city. 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