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"content": "\u003cp>Photojournalist Paul Kitagaki Jr. is trying to keep history alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been harder than he ever imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His exhibition at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiamuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\">California Museum\u003c/a> in Sacramento reflects a decade of work. It explores the World War II \u003ca href=\"http://www.densho.org\" target=\"_blank\">internment\u003c/a> of 120,000 people of Japanese descent -- two-thirds of them U.S. citizens -- months after Japan bombed \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl Harbor\u003c/a> on Dec. 7, 1941. But it doesn't just look at the past: Historic photos by \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/dorothea-lange/dorothea-lange-biography-with-photo-gallery/3097/\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothea Lange, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.anseladams.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ansel Adams\u003c/a> and others are juxtaposed with contemporary images of the same people, taken by Kitagaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of them right now are in their 80s and 90s,\" he says. \"And soon they’ll be gone, and the stories will be lost forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482641\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Kitagaki Jr and his daughter, Naomi Kitagaki, at his exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Kitagaki Jr. and his daughter, Naomi Kitagaki, at his exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are 30 sets of then-and-now photographs in the exhibition. At a reception in the museum, several of Kitagaki's subjects are taking it all in, looking at their past and present selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'It Was Just Bare Nothing'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitsuo \"Mits\" Mori gazes at a photograph shot by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/arts/carl-mydans-life-photographer-who-chronicled-wars-and-the-depression-dies-at-97.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Mydans\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.janm.org/projects/clasc/tule.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tule Lake Segregation Center\u003c/a>. It ran in the February 1944 issue of Life Magazine. It's next to one taken by Kitagaki in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There I'm in the barbershop getting a haircut,\" Mori says. \"But here I am with no hair anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was 9 -- a San Francisco kid whose parents were forced to sell their South of Market dry-cleaning business for $450 when they were hauled off to an internment camp. He's 80 now, a retired architect who lives near San Francisco State. He still remembers when he and his family arrived at Tule Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482635\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mitsuo 'Mits' Mori stands next to a 2012 portrait of him by Paul Kitagaki Jr. and one by Carl Mydans in 1944 in the Tule Lake barbershop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitsuo 'Mits' Mori stands next to a 2012 portrait of him by Paul Kitagaki Jr. and one by Carl Mydans in 1944 in the Tule Lake barbershop. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When they walked into that room, it was just bare nothing,\" Mori says. \"A mattress and a cot bed and a potbelly stove. And that was it -- that's all they had. My father, my mom, myself, my sister and my uncle lived in that space for two years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people in the photographs are the personification of \u003cem>gambatte,\u003c/em> a Japanese word that means \"don't give up, do your best.\" It inspired the name of the exhibition: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiamuseum.org/gambatte\" target=\"_blank\">\"Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the spirit of (those) who were incarcerated during World War II,\" says Kitagaki, who is a photographer with the Sacramento Bee. \"And it’s how, from their inner spirit, they did not let anything hold them back, and they persevered and moved beyond the internment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'So Many Nameless People'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kitagaki has persevered, too. Remarkably, he had never heard of the internment until he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My family didn’t talk about their experience being interned,\" says Kitagaki, a Bay Area native who is almost 61. \"I really didn’t find out until I learned in a high school class in 1970 when I was 16. And then I went home and basically asked my parents: What was going on? What happened? Why didn’t you talk about this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a decade later, he got another big surprise: His uncle mentioned that Lange -- a famed documentary photographer -- had taken a picture of Kitagaki's grandparents, father and aunt in Oakland, waiting for a bus that would bring them to an assembly center at \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Tanforan_(detention_facility)/\" target=\"_blank\">Tanforan Racetrack\u003c/a>, where the San Bruno BART Station now stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, Kitagaki visited the \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html\" target=\"_blank\">National Archives\u003c/a> in Washington and went through boxes and boxes of photographs taken by Lange for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html\" target=\"_blank\">War Relocation Authority.\u003c/a> Finally, he found the one she'd shot of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There (were) so many faces ... looking up at me when I was flipping through the pictures,\" he says. \"And there were so many nameless people. And I really wanted to find out what happened to their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, his quest began. He was determined to locate the people in the historic photos and photograph them again, often where the original image had been taken. He went to Japanese churches, summer bazaars and other gatherings where someone might recognize their pictures. His first subjects were his father and aunt, at the same building in Oakland where Lange had encountered them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of the most challenging projects of my career,\" Kitagaki says. \"I'm working with pictures that are more than 70 years old. There's barely any caption information, and almost no names. It's quite challenging to put a name with the person, and then try to track them down and see if they're alive. The other challenge is that they're Japanese, and they like to hold their emotions inside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't easy to get people to agree to be photographed -- and also to be interviewed at length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They thought I was going to come in and snap a picture and be out of their hair in a second,\" Kitagaki says. \"Instead, I was using a 4x5 camera and black-and-white film, and my setups were taking longer than they thought. It might be an hour to figure out a location and have them stand for a picture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says some of his subjects became very emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It did bring back memories,\" says Gladys Matsumoto Katsuki, 88, of Sacramento. \"I still wonder why all of this happened to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course it happened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.gaic.info\" target=\"_blank\">German-Americans\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/A-SECRET-HISTORY-The-harassment-of-Italians-2866287.php\" target=\"_blank\">Italian-Americans,\u003c/a> too, to a much lesser extent. And it could happen again to other groups, say some internees, who are acutely mindful of how civil rights \u003ca href=\"http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/ARAB_MUSLIM_9-30-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">have been violated\u003c/a> in the years since 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Leaving Everything Behind\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1943, Ansel Adams ran across the 15-year-old Katsuki in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/historyculture/japanese-americans-at-manzanar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Manzanar\u003c/a> as she was walking home from school with two other girls. Her parents were farmers in Elk Grove on Feb. 19, 1942, when President \u003ca href=\"http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/bio_fdr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Franklin D. Roosevelt\u003c/a> issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/manzanar/history2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Executive Order 9066,\u003c/a> which led to the internment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we left, the strawberries were red, ripe,\" she says. \"And we had to leave everything behind. ... It was devastating because they worked so hard to get this property – and then to have it taken away from you. When we came back, it was all gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looks again at Adams' Manzanar photo. It was lunchtime, she says, and she was the one in the middle. There were often sudden winds and lots of sand, which would gust around and matte her hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have two kids,\" she says. \"I've told them about what we went through, but they can't seem to visualize it. They just say, 'Why?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482637\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Matsumoto Katsuki stands in front of a 1943 Manzanar photo by Ansel Adams, top left, where she's in the middle. To its right is her portrait by Paul Kitagaki Jr. in 2012.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Matsumoto Katsuki stands in front of a 1943 Manzanar photo by Ansel Adams, top left, where she's in the middle. To its right is her portrait by Paul Kitagaki Jr. in 2012. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Willie Hayashida’s wartime portrait was also shot at Manzanar by Ansel Adams. He’s 3 years old in the picture, eating a meal in a mess hall with another young boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the museum, he laughs at the sight of the full plates of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been propped up,\" he says. \"Normally, we won't get this much food for little kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'A Loss of Innocence'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashida grew up to be an engineer at Intel. Now he's 74. Like Kitagaki, he recalls how reluctant his family was to talk about what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he bought his mother a computer to write her autobiography, her account of the internment took up just a few sentences. \"I said, 'Mom, there's more than that. We were there for 3½ years. There's more than that.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, he tried to find Takashi Uchida, the other boy in the mess-hall photograph. It turned out that Uchida had suffered a stroke and was in a nursing home in Las Vegas. Hayashida paid a visit and presented him with a gift: a custom-made T-shirt with the Ansel Adams photo of the two of them at Manzanar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another retired engineer, 81-year-old Andrew Nozaka of Saratoga, was almost 9 when he and his family were incarcerated. He still remembers the route the bus took, going past his house on Ashby Avenue in Berkeley on its way to San Bruno. That's where Lange saw them, standing in front of the grandstand. His mother, in Lange's photograph, is asking for help finding their barracks. He's holding her purse and a metal mess kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That day was a loss of innocence,\" Nozaka says, as he stares at the photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482639\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Nozaka visits the California Museum in Sacramento. He's next to a photo of him and his mother taken by Dorothea Lange at Tanforan in 1942.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Nozaka visits the California Museum in Sacramento. He's next to a photo of him and his mother taken by Dorothea Lange at Tanforan in 1942. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He remembers canned string beans, boiled potatoes, canned Vienna sausages and outbreaks of diarrhea at camp. Postwar life was also a struggle. He especially dreaded going to school on Dec. 7, the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Man, that was hard, especially during the '50s,\" says Nozaka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His eyes scan other photographs on the wall. Topaz, Poston, Heart Mountain, Tule Lake -- some of the camp names that live in infamy for the people incarcerated during the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were kind of the silent generation,\" Nozaka says. \"We were told to study hard and achieve. Looking back on it, maybe we should have protested a hell of a lot more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kitagaki's exhibition eventually will include audio and video, and he wants to produce a book. Meanwhile, he's looking for more people. He has interviewed and photographed 31 so far, with seven more lined up. He's hoping for 50 total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pictures of people he's searching for can be found on his \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitagakiphoto.com/#!/p/japanese-american-in\" target=\"_blank\">website, \u003c/a>along with some sets of then-and-now photos. If you know who they are, just email him at paul@kitagakiphoto.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Museum exhibition runs through May 3. Twenty-one of the photos will then be on display at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.viewpointgallery.org/exhibit/paul-kitagaki-jr.%E2%80%94japanese-american-internees-today\" target=\"_blank\">Viewpoint Photographic Art Center\u003c/a> in Sacramento from May 7 to June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lange's \u003ca href=\"http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/128393/dorothea-lange-pledge-of-allegiance-raphael-weill-elementary-school-san-francisco-american-negative-april-20-1942-print-about-1960s/\" target=\"_blank\">best-known photographs\u003c/a> shows two little girls saying the Pledge of Allegiance at Raphael Weill School in San Francisco in 1942. One of those girls, Mary Ann Yahiro, is 80 now and lives in Illinois. Three years ago, I interviewed her by phone for a story I was doing on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Photos-illustrate-effects-of-WWII-internment-camps-3552117.php\" target=\"_blank\">Kitagaki's earlier exhibition\u003c/a>, now permanent, at the San Bruno BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahiro was interned at \u003ca href=\"http://www.topazmuseum.org/topaz-camp\" target=\"_blank\">Topaz,\u003c/a> where she was separated from her mother and didn't see her again until she was lying in a casket, after dying in camp at age 51. In 2007, Yahiro and her classmate returned to their old school, now Rosa Parks Elementary, to be photographed by Kitagaki. Even then, he had a sense of urgency in finding more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's got to hurry,\" said Yahiro. \"Everybody's getting old.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482643\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk-800x1038.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Ann Yahiro, right, and Helene Nakamoto return in 2007 to what used to be Raphael Weill School in San Francisco, 65 years after Dorothea Lange took their picture. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk-800x1038.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk-400x519.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk-1180x1532.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk-768x997.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk-320x415.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/yahiro-by-pk.jpg 1389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ann Yahiro, right, and Helene Nakamoto return in 2007 to what used to be Raphael Weill School in San Francisco, 65 years after Dorothea Lange took their picture. \u003ccite>(Photo by Paul Kitagaki Jr.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Photojournalist Paul Kitagaki Jr. is trying to keep history alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been harder than he ever imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His exhibition at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiamuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\">California Museum\u003c/a> in Sacramento reflects a decade of work. It explores the World War II \u003ca href=\"http://www.densho.org\" target=\"_blank\">internment\u003c/a> of 120,000 people of Japanese descent -- two-thirds of them U.S. citizens -- months after Japan bombed \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl Harbor\u003c/a> on Dec. 7, 1941. But it doesn't just look at the past: Historic photos by \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/dorothea-lange/dorothea-lange-biography-with-photo-gallery/3097/\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothea Lange, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.anseladams.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ansel Adams\u003c/a> and others are juxtaposed with contemporary images of the same people, taken by Kitagaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of them right now are in their 80s and 90s,\" he says. \"And soon they’ll be gone, and the stories will be lost forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482641\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Kitagaki Jr and his daughter, Naomi Kitagaki, at his exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/pk-and-daughter-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Kitagaki Jr. and his daughter, Naomi Kitagaki, at his exhibition at the California Museum in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are 30 sets of then-and-now photographs in the exhibition. At a reception in the museum, several of Kitagaki's subjects are taking it all in, looking at their past and present selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'It Was Just Bare Nothing'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitsuo \"Mits\" Mori gazes at a photograph shot by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/arts/carl-mydans-life-photographer-who-chronicled-wars-and-the-depression-dies-at-97.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Mydans\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.janm.org/projects/clasc/tule.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tule Lake Segregation Center\u003c/a>. It ran in the February 1944 issue of Life Magazine. It's next to one taken by Kitagaki in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There I'm in the barbershop getting a haircut,\" Mori says. \"But here I am with no hair anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was 9 -- a San Francisco kid whose parents were forced to sell their South of Market dry-cleaning business for $450 when they were hauled off to an internment camp. He's 80 now, a retired architect who lives near San Francisco State. He still remembers when he and his family arrived at Tule Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482635\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mitsuo 'Mits' Mori stands next to a 2012 portrait of him by Paul Kitagaki Jr. and one by Carl Mydans in 1944 in the Tule Lake barbershop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mits-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitsuo 'Mits' Mori stands next to a 2012 portrait of him by Paul Kitagaki Jr. and one by Carl Mydans in 1944 in the Tule Lake barbershop. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When they walked into that room, it was just bare nothing,\" Mori says. \"A mattress and a cot bed and a potbelly stove. And that was it -- that's all they had. My father, my mom, myself, my sister and my uncle lived in that space for two years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people in the photographs are the personification of \u003cem>gambatte,\u003c/em> a Japanese word that means \"don't give up, do your best.\" It inspired the name of the exhibition: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiamuseum.org/gambatte\" target=\"_blank\">\"Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the spirit of (those) who were incarcerated during World War II,\" says Kitagaki, who is a photographer with the Sacramento Bee. \"And it’s how, from their inner spirit, they did not let anything hold them back, and they persevered and moved beyond the internment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'So Many Nameless People'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kitagaki has persevered, too. Remarkably, he had never heard of the internment until he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My family didn’t talk about their experience being interned,\" says Kitagaki, a Bay Area native who is almost 61. \"I really didn’t find out until I learned in a high school class in 1970 when I was 16. And then I went home and basically asked my parents: What was going on? What happened? Why didn’t you talk about this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost a decade later, he got another big surprise: His uncle mentioned that Lange -- a famed documentary photographer -- had taken a picture of Kitagaki's grandparents, father and aunt in Oakland, waiting for a bus that would bring them to an assembly center at \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Tanforan_(detention_facility)/\" target=\"_blank\">Tanforan Racetrack\u003c/a>, where the San Bruno BART Station now stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, Kitagaki visited the \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html\" target=\"_blank\">National Archives\u003c/a> in Washington and went through boxes and boxes of photographs taken by Lange for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html\" target=\"_blank\">War Relocation Authority.\u003c/a> Finally, he found the one she'd shot of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There (were) so many faces ... looking up at me when I was flipping through the pictures,\" he says. \"And there were so many nameless people. And I really wanted to find out what happened to their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, his quest began. He was determined to locate the people in the historic photos and photograph them again, often where the original image had been taken. He went to Japanese churches, summer bazaars and other gatherings where someone might recognize their pictures. His first subjects were his father and aunt, at the same building in Oakland where Lange had encountered them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of the most challenging projects of my career,\" Kitagaki says. \"I'm working with pictures that are more than 70 years old. There's barely any caption information, and almost no names. It's quite challenging to put a name with the person, and then try to track them down and see if they're alive. The other challenge is that they're Japanese, and they like to hold their emotions inside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't easy to get people to agree to be photographed -- and also to be interviewed at length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They thought I was going to come in and snap a picture and be out of their hair in a second,\" Kitagaki says. \"Instead, I was using a 4x5 camera and black-and-white film, and my setups were taking longer than they thought. It might be an hour to figure out a location and have them stand for a picture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says some of his subjects became very emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It did bring back memories,\" says Gladys Matsumoto Katsuki, 88, of Sacramento. \"I still wonder why all of this happened to us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course it happened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.gaic.info\" target=\"_blank\">German-Americans\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/A-SECRET-HISTORY-The-harassment-of-Italians-2866287.php\" target=\"_blank\">Italian-Americans,\u003c/a> too, to a much lesser extent. And it could happen again to other groups, say some internees, who are acutely mindful of how civil rights \u003ca href=\"http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/ARAB_MUSLIM_9-30-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">have been violated\u003c/a> in the years since 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Leaving Everything Behind\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1943, Ansel Adams ran across the 15-year-old Katsuki in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/historyculture/japanese-americans-at-manzanar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Manzanar\u003c/a> as she was walking home from school with two other girls. Her parents were farmers in Elk Grove on Feb. 19, 1942, when President \u003ca href=\"http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/bio_fdr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Franklin D. Roosevelt\u003c/a> issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/manzanar/history2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Executive Order 9066,\u003c/a> which led to the internment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we left, the strawberries were red, ripe,\" she says. \"And we had to leave everything behind. ... It was devastating because they worked so hard to get this property – and then to have it taken away from you. When we came back, it was all gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looks again at Adams' Manzanar photo. It was lunchtime, she says, and she was the one in the middle. There were often sudden winds and lots of sand, which would gust around and matte her hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have two kids,\" she says. \"I've told them about what we went through, but they can't seem to visualize it. They just say, 'Why?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482637\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Matsumoto Katsuki stands in front of a 1943 Manzanar photo by Ansel Adams, top left, where she's in the middle. To its right is her portrait by Paul Kitagaki Jr. in 2012.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/gladys-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Matsumoto Katsuki stands in front of a 1943 Manzanar photo by Ansel Adams, top left, where she's in the middle. To its right is her portrait by Paul Kitagaki Jr. in 2012. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Willie Hayashida’s wartime portrait was also shot at Manzanar by Ansel Adams. He’s 3 years old in the picture, eating a meal in a mess hall with another young boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the museum, he laughs at the sight of the full plates of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been propped up,\" he says. \"Normally, we won't get this much food for little kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>'A Loss of Innocence'\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashida grew up to be an engineer at Intel. Now he's 74. Like Kitagaki, he recalls how reluctant his family was to talk about what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he bought his mother a computer to write her autobiography, her account of the internment took up just a few sentences. \"I said, 'Mom, there's more than that. We were there for 3½ years. There's more than that.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, he tried to find Takashi Uchida, the other boy in the mess-hall photograph. It turned out that Uchida had suffered a stroke and was in a nursing home in Las Vegas. Hayashida paid a visit and presented him with a gift: a custom-made T-shirt with the Ansel Adams photo of the two of them at Manzanar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another retired engineer, 81-year-old Andrew Nozaka of Saratoga, was almost 9 when he and his family were incarcerated. He still remembers the route the bus took, going past his house on Ashby Avenue in Berkeley on its way to San Bruno. That's where Lange saw them, standing in front of the grandstand. His mother, in Lange's photograph, is asking for help finding their barracks. He's holding her purse and a metal mess kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That day was a loss of innocence,\" Nozaka says, as he stares at the photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10482639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10482639\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Nozaka visits the California Museum in Sacramento. He's next to a photo of him and his mother taken by Dorothea Lange at Tanforan in 1942.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nozaka-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Nozaka visits the California Museum in Sacramento. He's next to a photo of him and his mother taken by Dorothea Lange at Tanforan in 1942. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He remembers canned string beans, boiled potatoes, canned Vienna sausages and outbreaks of diarrhea at camp. Postwar life was also a struggle. He especially dreaded going to school on Dec. 7, the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Man, that was hard, especially during the '50s,\" says Nozaka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His eyes scan other photographs on the wall. Topaz, Poston, Heart Mountain, Tule Lake -- some of the camp names that live in infamy for the people incarcerated during the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were kind of the silent generation,\" Nozaka says. \"We were told to study hard and achieve. Looking back on it, maybe we should have protested a hell of a lot more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kitagaki's exhibition eventually will include audio and video, and he wants to produce a book. Meanwhile, he's looking for more people. He has interviewed and photographed 31 so far, with seven more lined up. He's hoping for 50 total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pictures of people he's searching for can be found on his \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitagakiphoto.com/#!/p/japanese-american-in\" target=\"_blank\">website, \u003c/a>along with some sets of then-and-now photos. If you know who they are, just email him at paul@kitagakiphoto.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Museum exhibition runs through May 3. Twenty-one of the photos will then be on display at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.viewpointgallery.org/exhibit/paul-kitagaki-jr.%E2%80%94japanese-american-internees-today\" target=\"_blank\">Viewpoint Photographic Art Center\u003c/a> in Sacramento from May 7 to June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lange's \u003ca href=\"http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/128393/dorothea-lange-pledge-of-allegiance-raphael-weill-elementary-school-san-francisco-american-negative-april-20-1942-print-about-1960s/\" target=\"_blank\">best-known photographs\u003c/a> shows two little girls saying the Pledge of Allegiance at Raphael Weill School in San Francisco in 1942. One of those girls, Mary Ann Yahiro, is 80 now and lives in Illinois. Three years ago, I interviewed her by phone for a story I was doing on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Photos-illustrate-effects-of-WWII-internment-camps-3552117.php\" target=\"_blank\">Kitagaki's earlier exhibition\u003c/a>, now permanent, at the San Bruno BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahiro was interned at \u003ca href=\"http://www.topazmuseum.org/topaz-camp\" target=\"_blank\">Topaz,\u003c/a> where she was separated from her mother and didn't see her again until she was lying in a casket, after dying in camp at age 51. In 2007, Yahiro and her classmate returned to their old school, now Rosa Parks Elementary, to be photographed by Kitagaki. Even then, he had a sense of urgency in finding more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland's deadliest fire in nearly three years continues to have an impact on the friends of the two artists who died in the blaze, dozens of displaced residents, and several businesses that have been forced to shut down for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe the March 21 three-alarm blaze at 669 24th St. in West Oakland was probably caused accidentally, after one of the men found dead in the unit where the fire started fell asleep while smoking, said Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Darin White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials want to know if one of the men was intoxicated. \"We do believe it's possible that alcohol or other drugs could have played a part in the individuals' inability to find themselves able to remove themselves from the situation,\" White said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire department got word of the blaze at around 3 a.m. but did not see smoke or fire when they arrived minutes later. However, as crews searched the two-story brick building, a smoke alarm began to sound and smoke started coming out the top of the door leading to Apartment D on the second floor, White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters broke into the unit and \"encountered an apartment charged with black smoke all the way to the floor,\" White said. \"Heavy flame was coming from the back of the apartment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is connected to an adjacent structure at 674 23rd St. that houses two publishing firms and a printing company. They share a common wall, and the fire spread rapidly to the building next door. The two structures started out as one space -- a National Guard armory built in 1930 -- but they were eventually divided into live/work units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighters' aggressive fire attack helped save the second building, White said. But the blaze killed 27-year-old Davis Letona and 36-year-old Daniel \"Moe\" Thomas, roommates in Apartment D. It destroyed a large part of 669 24th St. and gutted several units on the second floor of 674 23rd St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marks the first time since June 2012 that Oakland experienced at least two fatalities in a fire, according to Cynthia Perkins, the Oakland Fire Department's chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the blaze -- smoking -- is fairly common, and federal officials say it's the leading cause of fatal residential fires. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/res_bldg_fire_estimates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Fire Administration's latest report\u003c/a>, 330 people throughout the country died in residential blazes caused by smoking in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, one out of every four people who dies in smoking-related fires is not the smoker who started the fire, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fire-causes/smoking-materials\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit fire prevention advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have not said which man in the unit where the blaze began was smoking before it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona, who perished in the fire, had moved into the apartment in the weeks before the blaze, according to Jonah Strauss, a tenant and recording engineer who lived and worked below the two men, as well as Alex Ramos, one of Letona's close friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona was a digital videographer. \"His main passion was cinema,\" said Ramos, who organized an \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/pjk2p0\" target=\"_blank\">online fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to pay for a recent memorial. Some of his work can be seen on his website, \u003ca href=\"https://davisletona.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">davislatona.wordpress.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, the second victim, had \u003ca href=\"http://wesplittheatom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">artwork \u003c/a>featured in a number of exhibitions and collections in Oakland and San Francisco over the last six years, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mgart.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">McLoughlin Gallery\u003c/a> in Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Alameda County Coroner's Office, Letona's cause of death was asphyxia and smoke inhalation. The cause of death for Thomas is under investigation pending toxicology tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the fire displaced 34 residents. They are having a tough time finding housing, said Chuck Smuckler, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Alameda County, which has been coordinating aid for the displaced residents with officials at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's office and the Salvation Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the Bay Area we have such a problem with affordable housing,\" Smuckler said in an interview. \"When people suddenly get displaced, finding replacement housing that is affordable and accessible ... that's the key issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross provided the residents who were turned out by the blaze with three nights free at local motels, but it is difficult for them to find long-term transitional housing or permanent places to live, Smuckler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has also worsened what were already poor relations between the owner of the building and about a dozen of its residents, said Strauss in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss said the landlord has done nothing to help him and the other tenants and has effectively asked the residents to give up returning to the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner/landlord is Kim Marienthal, a realtor at a Coldwell Banker residential brokerage firm in Berkeley. Marienthal said that he feels very sorry for the plight of his tenants. \"But the process to rebuild after a disaster like this is slow and arduous,\" he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not respond to complaints brought up by tenants. \"I am advised by legal counsel not to discuss these matters,\" Marienthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss also said there were no sprinklers in the building, something fire and building officials as well as the landlord have yet to corroborate. There were reports that some of the smoke detectors were not working at the time of the fire, but several fire officials have said they have no evidence to suggest that an alarm was not operating properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss' independent music recording business has been hit hard by the fire, and he has begun an online fundraising campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\" target=\"_blank\">www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke and water used to battle the blaze damaged a well-known radical book publishing firm, AK Press, and two other businesses, 1984 Printing and Omnidawn, all in the adjacent structure on 23rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of AK Press's books are waterlogged, said Charles Weigl, one of the publisher's members, in a phone interview from the collective's office, which has been red-tagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The road ahead is unclear except that I'm sure that we will persevere,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AK Press has insurance, but it's not certain how much the policy will cover damages from the fire. The publisher will probably not make back the money it needs to have the books it had in stock before the blaze, Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective is one of the oldest continuously running anarchist presses in the country. \"A lot of people first come to understand about anarchism and anti-state, communist literature through AK Press,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years the worker-owned publisher has sent funds and free books to young radical bookstores to help them get started. Some of the people AK Press has helped over the years have been sending money to the collective. In the weeks after the fire, it has raised around $50,000 through an online campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/akpressfire\" target=\"_blank\">gofundme.com/akpressfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of that karma is coming back to us,\" Weigl said. The money AK Press has received is going to replenish its books, but also to help the building's residents as well as 1984 Printing and Omnidawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Weigl at AK Press and Amy Watson, who runs 1984, expressed frustration that the city red-tagged their businesses, forcing them to shut down until building officials deem their space safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also emphasized that their building had above the normal level of fire safety systems in place. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is connected to an adjacent structure at 674 23rd St. that houses two publishing firms and a printing company. They share a common wall, and the fire spread rapidly to the building next door. The two structures started out as one space -- a National Guard armory built in 1930 -- but they were eventually divided into live/work units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firefighters' aggressive fire attack helped save the second building, White said. But the blaze killed 27-year-old Davis Letona and 36-year-old Daniel \"Moe\" Thomas, roommates in Apartment D. It destroyed a large part of 669 24th St. and gutted several units on the second floor of 674 23rd St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire marks the first time since June 2012 that Oakland experienced at least two fatalities in a fire, according to Cynthia Perkins, the Oakland Fire Department's chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the blaze -- smoking -- is fairly common, and federal officials say it's the leading cause of fatal residential fires. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/res_bldg_fire_estimates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Fire Administration's latest report\u003c/a>, 330 people throughout the country died in residential blazes caused by smoking in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, one out of every four people who dies in smoking-related fires is not the smoker who started the fire, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fire-causes/smoking-materials\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>by the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit fire prevention advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have not said which man in the unit where the blaze began was smoking before it started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona, who perished in the fire, had moved into the apartment in the weeks before the blaze, according to Jonah Strauss, a tenant and recording engineer who lived and worked below the two men, as well as Alex Ramos, one of Letona's close friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letona was a digital videographer. \"His main passion was cinema,\" said Ramos, who organized an \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/pjk2p0\" target=\"_blank\">online fundraising campaign\u003c/a> to pay for a recent memorial. Some of his work can be seen on his website, \u003ca href=\"https://davisletona.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">davislatona.wordpress.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, the second victim, had \u003ca href=\"http://wesplittheatom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">artwork \u003c/a>featured in a number of exhibitions and collections in Oakland and San Francisco over the last six years, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mgart.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">McLoughlin Gallery\u003c/a> in Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Alameda County Coroner's Office, Letona's cause of death was asphyxia and smoke inhalation. The cause of death for Thomas is under investigation pending toxicology tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the fire displaced 34 residents. They are having a tough time finding housing, said Chuck Smuckler, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Alameda County, which has been coordinating aid for the displaced residents with officials at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's office and the Salvation Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the Bay Area we have such a problem with affordable housing,\" Smuckler said in an interview. \"When people suddenly get displaced, finding replacement housing that is affordable and accessible ... that's the key issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross provided the residents who were turned out by the blaze with three nights free at local motels, but it is difficult for them to find long-term transitional housing or permanent places to live, Smuckler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has also worsened what were already poor relations between the owner of the building and about a dozen of its residents, said Strauss in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss said the landlord has done nothing to help him and the other tenants and has effectively asked the residents to give up returning to the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner/landlord is Kim Marienthal, a realtor at a Coldwell Banker residential brokerage firm in Berkeley. Marienthal said that he feels very sorry for the plight of his tenants. \"But the process to rebuild after a disaster like this is slow and arduous,\" he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not respond to complaints brought up by tenants. \"I am advised by legal counsel not to discuss these matters,\" Marienthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss also said there were no sprinklers in the building, something fire and building officials as well as the landlord have yet to corroborate. There were reports that some of the smoke detectors were not working at the time of the fire, but several fire officials have said they have no evidence to suggest that an alarm was not operating properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strauss' independent music recording business has been hit hard by the fire, and he has begun an online fundraising campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\" target=\"_blank\">www.gofundme.com/shipwreckoakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke and water used to battle the blaze damaged a well-known radical book publishing firm, AK Press, and two other businesses, 1984 Printing and Omnidawn, all in the adjacent structure on 23rd Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of AK Press's books are waterlogged, said Charles Weigl, one of the publisher's members, in a phone interview from the collective's office, which has been red-tagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The road ahead is unclear except that I'm sure that we will persevere,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AK Press has insurance, but it's not certain how much the policy will cover damages from the fire. The publisher will probably not make back the money it needs to have the books it had in stock before the blaze, Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collective is one of the oldest continuously running anarchist presses in the country. \"A lot of people first come to understand about anarchism and anti-state, communist literature through AK Press,\" Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years the worker-owned publisher has sent funds and free books to young radical bookstores to help them get started. Some of the people AK Press has helped over the years have been sending money to the collective. In the weeks after the fire, it has raised around $50,000 through an online campaign at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/akpressfire\" target=\"_blank\">gofundme.com/akpressfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of that karma is coming back to us,\" Weigl said. The money AK Press has received is going to replenish its books, but also to help the building's residents as well as 1984 Printing and Omnidawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Weigl at AK Press and Amy Watson, who runs 1984, expressed frustration that the city red-tagged their businesses, forcing them to shut down until building officials deem their space safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also emphasized that their building had above the normal level of fire safety systems in place. In fact, it had 180 smoke detectors, Watson and Weigl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1984 resumed printing just days ago, according to the online fundraising campaign for the independent shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofundme.com/1984printing\" target=\"_blank\">gofundme.com/1984printing\u003c/a>, which has raised some $11,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're certainly not business as usual,\" Watson said of 1984. \"But, we're moving forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Given the national Black Lives Matter movement and recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\">text-messaging scandal\u003c/a> involving the San Francisco Police Department, strained police-community relations have been at the forefront of public dialogue recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s lost on anybody that in the president’s report on twenty-first century policing, it speaks over and over again to the trust that’s so critical to be able to do our job,” Police Chief Greg Suhr noted at an April 3 press conference in regard to recent department-related scandals, “and that trust in our police department, it’s not lost on me that it’s taken a major hit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April 1 incident at the San Francisco intersection of 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and Capp streets illustrated how deeply that trust has been eroded. Bystanders reacted to police use of force by voicing fears that police would severely injure the person who was being detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 6 p.m., a small crowd had gathered to observe a group of officers clustered around an African American man who had been detained and was lying face down on the sidewalk. Smartphones were out as observers filmed, bystanders yelled out in frustration, and all eyes were on the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man’s body appeared limp when officers lifted him up off the sidewalk to transport him to a police vehicle, but an officer on the scene dismissed bystanders’ accusations that he’d been beaten unconscious, saying, “He was never unconscious. He just didn’t want to walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An observer filmed a portion of the police encounter. Here’s the footage, digitally edited with zoom and brightness adjustments to provide a clearer picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/123908079\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man targeted by police is San Francisco resident Daryl Porter, 39, according to SFPD spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan, who provided information based on a police incident report. Porter was transported to San Francisco General Hospital after being struck “at least twice” with a police baton, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitness accounts of what transpired in the moments before the video was filmed differ from the official police narrative. Gray Hinojosa, a longtime San Francisco resident who said he’d been across the street at an empanada shop, Chile Lindo, when the whole thing started, said he saw Porter headed east on 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street on his bicycle when “his jacket got caught. He got off the bike, and he was pissed.” When he stopped suddenly, he was nearly hit by oncoming traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinojosa said he watched Porter cross the street via the crosswalk, then lean his bike against a building on 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street to untangle his jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was swearing in frustration. As he’s making all this ruckus, there’s a cop car driving down … they decided to pull him over. One of them jumped out of the car on the passenger’s side … and went by him. … There was a scuffle, and all of a sudden I heard the cop say, ‘get down on the ground’ … he wasn’t getting down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when “one of the cops took the baton and hit him in the leg,” Hinojosa said. “And then, at that point, he got free and started running, and came around the corner and they caught him … They hit him again, twice, with the baton. And then they finally got him down on the ground. And then another [police] car came, and two more came, and they just jumped right on top of him. It wasn’t like, ‘what’s going on? Let’s check out the situation.’ They just started pounding him. ... It was excessive. There were police coming from every direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After becoming accustomed to seeing stories of police violence on his Facebook feed, Hinojosa said it was hard to watch something similar occur before his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Tejeda, owner of Chile Lindo, crossed the street when she saw more officers arriving and started yelling out at them to ease up. \"The pile was getting higher and higher and higher, and that's when I started screaming ... to the police that they could kill somebody,\" she explained later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That they really don't know yet what this man has done, but when you pile, you know, one person on top of another ... he can have a heart attack, or you can suffocate a person like this. It's such a brutal way of behaving, let alone that once again we're talking about a big black guy. So I was like, what are you doing? I am not against the police, I understand their job is not easy,\" she added. \"I think the problem is that somewhere there in the training, there is no room for analyzing the situation a little bit better before they treat someone with so much violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the narrative in the police report, two officers on regular patrol “saw the suspect on a bicycle, weaving in and out of pedestrian foot traffic,” Gatpandan said. “Then he … walked against a red light, causing vehicular traffic to stop for him. That’s a violation. … The officers approached him to stop him and detain him for that vehicle code violation. At that point, the suspect tried to get away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Porter also “struck the officer in the chest more than once,” with his bicycle, causing an injury in the officer’s abdomen. Since the encounter started with a simple vehicle code violation, “he could have been released at the scene after he had been identified, but it went the other way, because he decided to swing the bike towards the officer,” Gatpandan said. “At that point, you’re committing a felony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accordingly, Porter faces a felony charge for assaulting an officer, Gatpandan said, and four additional misdemeanor charges relating to substances found in his possession suspected to be narcotics, plus charges for obstructing an officer of their duties and a probation violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinojosa stated emphatically that he did not see Porter strike an officer with his bike. “He was trying to untangle his jacket,” Hinojosa said. “I didn’t see him strike an officer or anyone.” Once he’d set his bike against the building, “he didn’t grab it or pick it up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Crenshaw, another bystander who said she witnessed the encounter, said “he dropped the bike and ran. … And then he was coming around the corner, and there were four on him. And then there were six on him. He didn’t do nothing. But, he’s a black man, with white cops after him. I’m a white person, but I know how these cops are. I’m part of this Black Lives Matter stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an officer's statement made around that time over police radio, accessed via an online police-scanner archive, “He was hobbled then he was carried to the car. People started making accusations that he was unconscious, because everyone became a voyeur today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Video editing by Peter Menchini\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And then another [police] car came, and two more came, and they just jumped right on top of him. It wasn’t like, ‘what’s going on? Let’s check out the situation.’ They just started pounding him. ... It was excessive. There were police coming from every direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After becoming accustomed to seeing stories of police violence on his Facebook feed, Hinojosa said it was hard to watch something similar occur before his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Tejeda, owner of Chile Lindo, crossed the street when she saw more officers arriving and started yelling out at them to ease up. \"The pile was getting higher and higher and higher, and that's when I started screaming ... to the police that they could kill somebody,\" she explained later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That they really don't know yet what this man has done, but when you pile, you know, one person on top of another ... he can have a heart attack, or you can suffocate a person like this. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:50 p.m. Friday\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said a captain is among seven officers who have been suspended and face being fired for trading bigoted text messages with a convicted former police sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their conduct is incompatible with that of a police officer and I believe causes them to fall below the minimum qualifications required,\" Suhr told reporters today.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct that happens here in San Francisco.'\u003ccite>Christine DeBerry,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney Chief of Staff\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All of the text messages implicating a total of 14 officers were recovered from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">ex-SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger\u003c/a>'s cellphone during a federal criminal investigation. Furminger was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges in December, and federal prosecutors included a sampling of the texts in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">March 13 filing\u003c/a> opposing the former sergeant's release on bail while he appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=2572\" target=\"_blank\">Police Commission\u003c/a> makes the final determination on all officer discipline greater than a 10-day suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additional officer, Michael Robison, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">resigned last month\u003c/a>, or the chief would have recommended he be fired as well, according to the department. Suhr said another officer may resign today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would imagine more of them, if not all of them, are considering the same thing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more officers have been reassigned to duties that do not include contact with the public while they await a hearing before the Police Commission, according to the department. Suhr said he recommended discipline up to and including termination for the pair, but he said their one-off texts with Furminger did not rise to the level of bias displayed by the suspended officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you read the text messages, it's not even close,\" Suhr said. \"The racial sentiment expressed in the others is not as clear, although it appears to be present in the other two, and I think it's something the commission needs to hear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"v3jT5pOBk88ekUlPIyOQ7UVExUdOAfVO\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're counting, that leaves four officers whose discipline Suhr said he will handle in-house. The chief said one officer texted Furminger that he was somewhere other than where he was assigned to be at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining three officers responded to texts from Furminger in a way they say was meant to be dismissive, Suhr said, \"but they were not the kind of language that a police officer should be using, and all three ... didn't tell anybody of Mr. Furminger's tone and character. And they were supposed to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi said he expects the greater number of police officers' involvement to \"significantly widen\" his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">initial estimate\u003c/a> that as many as 1,000 cases could be affected by proof that arresting or testifying officers harbor racial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced Friday that eight SFPD officers have been suspended because of their roles in a racist and/or homophobic text messaging scandal that has rocked the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the suspended officers, however, has already \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eight of the members engaged in text messages of such extreme bias, and Chief Suhr believes their conduct is incompatible with the duties of a police officer,\" said an SFPD press release. \"These officers' text messages are of such despicable thinking that those responsible clearly fall below the minimum standards required to be a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their cases have been forwarded to the Police Commission, with the recommendation of termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We need to be a police department that the community trusts and goes to and doesn’t see this small, half-a-percent of officers, or less, as indicative of San Francisco police officers.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fourteen officers were the focus of an internal SFPD probe that is now complete. In addition to the eight who will be suspended, six other officers face lesser consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two officers who took part in \"single texting events that included inflammatory texts\" have been reassigned to non-public contact positions. Their cases have also been forwarded to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four remaining officers also engaged in \"single texting events\" that violated department policy but didn't involve hate speech. They'll be disciplined by Suhr, who can suspend an officer without pay for up to 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, San Francisco criminal justice and community leaders traded criticism at a Board of Supervisors committee hearing addressing the scandal that has beset the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreshadowing today's news, Suhr told the city's Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee that the department's internal investigation into 14 officers was on the verge of wrapping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There will be suspensions,\" Suhr said. \"There will be more than a few officers referred to the Police Commission with a singular recommendation for termination. I cannot unring the bell on these texts. I am as disgusted by them as everyone should be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD is also reviewing the officer's personal history questionnaires \"to see if there's any common denominator among them all that should have been a red flag, that should have been caught, that should have prevented them from being hired,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine DeBerry, chief of staff in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, said a 10-year review of cases involving four officers so far identified turned up more than 3,000 arrests, about 1,600 of which resulted in prosecutors filing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that we do not want is to conduct a look-back, go through 3,000 cases, and then in another year or two years find ourselves with another scandal on our desks and another situation we have to try and unravel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney is asking the city for more money to fund a new task force on law enforcement misconduct, DeBerry said, and would like to see more transparency around police misconduct investigations, and swifter discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct that happens here in San Francisco,” she said. “It’s a very rare situation where somebody is fired for the kinds of misconduct. There are very few cases that are reported to us for misconduct and the discipline that’s meted out is rare, relatively weak and uncertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners have said they’ve fired seven police officers over the last several years, but California law requires details of individual officer discipline to be confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi played two recordings of statements he said were from former clients recounting their experiences with convicted ex-SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger and another officer identified in the texting scandal, Noel Schwab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Gebreyesus told Adachi in one of the recorded conversations that Schwab arrested him for a misdemeanor in 2007, then repeatedly referred to African-Americans as \"monkeys\" and a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m getting mad right now just thinking about it,\" Gebreyesus said on the recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi also played a recording of a statement from Nora Wheeler, who he said is currently in a Ph.D. program in England. Wheeler said she was arrested and injured by Ian Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did follow through and file a complaint,\" she said, but she was later told that photographs of her injuries no longer existed. \"The evidence went missing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing SFPD traffic stop data from 2013, Adachi said African-Americans are three times likelier to be pulled over in San Francisco than white people are. In general, Adachi said African-Americans were seven times more likely to be arrested than white people, according to state Department of Justice data. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/news/6233\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> found African-Americans are arrested for felony drug possession in San Francisco at a rate 19 times higher than other races in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said narcotics arrest statistics are changing, down more than 85 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who normally used to traffic in narcotics have now gone on to traffic in electronic goods,\" Suhr said, noting an uptick in property crime across the state in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Eric Mar pressed Suhr on whether the text messages are a \"symptom of a much larger problem that needs to be addressed institutionally within the police department, and part of a culture within the police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said law enforcement, like any profession, has a culture associated with it. He said the best way to change attitudes is by filling more than 300 new officer positions with \"young people that are right-minded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to be a police department that the community trusts and goes to and doesn’t see this small, half-a-percent of officers, or less, as indicative of San Francisco police officers,\" Suhr said. He said the department is ramping up racial profiling and implicit, or subconscious, bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers for Justice Peace Officers Association President Sgt. Yulanda Williams said the texts had left a \"gaping wound\" in the department. The association represents minority San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have officers who are suffering from post-traumatic stress, which is related to the ways they have been treated within the San Francisco Police Department,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams called on the city to call a meeting at which OFJ members could be debriefed, \"So that our members can tell you how we felt, how we have been hurt by being a member of the San Francisco Police Department,\" she said. \"We risk our lives on a daily basis because we love to do this. We are here as your servants. 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The chief said one officer texted Furminger that he was somewhere other than where he was assigned to be at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining three officers responded to texts from Furminger in a way they say was meant to be dismissive, Suhr said, \"but they were not the kind of language that a police officer should be using, and all three ... didn't tell anybody of Mr. Furminger's tone and character. And they were supposed to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi said he expects the greater number of police officers' involvement to \"significantly widen\" his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">initial estimate\u003c/a> that as many as 1,000 cases could be affected by proof that arresting or testifying officers harbor racial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced Friday that eight SFPD officers have been suspended because of their roles in a racist and/or homophobic text messaging scandal that has rocked the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the suspended officers, however, has already \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eight of the members engaged in text messages of such extreme bias, and Chief Suhr believes their conduct is incompatible with the duties of a police officer,\" said an SFPD press release. \"These officers' text messages are of such despicable thinking that those responsible clearly fall below the minimum standards required to be a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their cases have been forwarded to the Police Commission, with the recommendation of termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We need to be a police department that the community trusts and goes to and doesn’t see this small, half-a-percent of officers, or less, as indicative of San Francisco police officers.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fourteen officers were the focus of an internal SFPD probe that is now complete. In addition to the eight who will be suspended, six other officers face lesser consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two officers who took part in \"single texting events that included inflammatory texts\" have been reassigned to non-public contact positions. Their cases have also been forwarded to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four remaining officers also engaged in \"single texting events\" that violated department policy but didn't involve hate speech. They'll be disciplined by Suhr, who can suspend an officer without pay for up to 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, San Francisco criminal justice and community leaders traded criticism at a Board of Supervisors committee hearing addressing the scandal that has beset the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreshadowing today's news, Suhr told the city's Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee that the department's internal investigation into 14 officers was on the verge of wrapping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There will be suspensions,\" Suhr said. \"There will be more than a few officers referred to the Police Commission with a singular recommendation for termination. I cannot unring the bell on these texts. I am as disgusted by them as everyone should be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD is also reviewing the officer's personal history questionnaires \"to see if there's any common denominator among them all that should have been a red flag, that should have been caught, that should have prevented them from being hired,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine DeBerry, chief of staff in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, said a 10-year review of cases involving four officers so far identified turned up more than 3,000 arrests, about 1,600 of which resulted in prosecutors filing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that we do not want is to conduct a look-back, go through 3,000 cases, and then in another year or two years find ourselves with another scandal on our desks and another situation we have to try and unravel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney is asking the city for more money to fund a new task force on law enforcement misconduct, DeBerry said, and would like to see more transparency around police misconduct investigations, and swifter discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct that happens here in San Francisco,” she said. “It’s a very rare situation where somebody is fired for the kinds of misconduct. There are very few cases that are reported to us for misconduct and the discipline that’s meted out is rare, relatively weak and uncertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners have said they’ve fired seven police officers over the last several years, but California law requires details of individual officer discipline to be confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi played two recordings of statements he said were from former clients recounting their experiences with convicted ex-SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger and another officer identified in the texting scandal, Noel Schwab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Gebreyesus told Adachi in one of the recorded conversations that Schwab arrested him for a misdemeanor in 2007, then repeatedly referred to African-Americans as \"monkeys\" and a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m getting mad right now just thinking about it,\" Gebreyesus said on the recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi also played a recording of a statement from Nora Wheeler, who he said is currently in a Ph.D. program in England. Wheeler said she was arrested and injured by Ian Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did follow through and file a complaint,\" she said, but she was later told that photographs of her injuries no longer existed. \"The evidence went missing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing SFPD traffic stop data from 2013, Adachi said African-Americans are three times likelier to be pulled over in San Francisco than white people are. In general, Adachi said African-Americans were seven times more likely to be arrested than white people, according to state Department of Justice data. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/news/6233\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> found African-Americans are arrested for felony drug possession in San Francisco at a rate 19 times higher than other races in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said narcotics arrest statistics are changing, down more than 85 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who normally used to traffic in narcotics have now gone on to traffic in electronic goods,\" Suhr said, noting an uptick in property crime across the state in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Eric Mar pressed Suhr on whether the text messages are a \"symptom of a much larger problem that needs to be addressed institutionally within the police department, and part of a culture within the police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said law enforcement, like any profession, has a culture associated with it. He said the best way to change attitudes is by filling more than 300 new officer positions with \"young people that are right-minded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to be a police department that the community trusts and goes to and doesn’t see this small, half-a-percent of officers, or less, as indicative of San Francisco police officers,\" Suhr said. He said the department is ramping up racial profiling and implicit, or subconscious, bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers for Justice Peace Officers Association President Sgt. Yulanda Williams said the texts had left a \"gaping wound\" in the department. The association represents minority San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have officers who are suffering from post-traumatic stress, which is related to the ways they have been treated within the San Francisco Police Department,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams called on the city to call a meeting at which OFJ members could be debriefed, \"So that our members can tell you how we felt, how we have been hurt by being a member of the San Francisco Police Department,\" she said. \"We risk our lives on a daily basis because we love to do this. We are here as your servants. However, for us to have been disrespected at this level is inexcusable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed closed the meeting with a suggestion for San Francisco criminal justice department heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to all grow up and act like adults and figure out a way to work together so we can solve this problem,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A staggering bit of information contained in the U.S. Department of Justice's \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf\">investigation into the Ferguson Police Department\u003c/a> has generated quite a stir in recent weeks. The report found that in Ferguson, Missouri, a small city with a population of just 21,000, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/the-shocking-finding-from-the-doj-ferguson_b_6858388.html\">more than 16,000 people had outstanding arrest warrants\u003c/a> issued by the court as of December 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of those warrants had nothing to do with criminal behavior. Instead, \"the primary role of warrants is not to protect public safety but rather to facilitate fine collection … The warrants issued by the court are overwhelmingly issued in non-criminal traffic cases that would not themselves result in a penalty of imprisonment,\" the DOJ report found. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2010 to 2014, municipal warrants in Ferguson could most often be traced to offenses such as driving with a suspended license, failure to register a vehicle or other violations directly linked to unavoidable motorist expenses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the targeted drivers missed a payment or failed to appear in court after getting a ticket, those offenses snowballed into warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The information was presented in the context of demonstrating a pattern of racial bias in policing in the city where unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown was killed in a police encounter last August. But there's a key point here that extends well beyond the boundaries of Ferguson: Court fees relating to traffic violations can make a serious mess of an individual's life if they simply don't have the money to pay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last Week Tonight\" host John Oliver picked up on the issue of warrants being issued over traffic tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewrap.com/john-oliver-explains-out-how-traffic-tickets-can-ruin-peoples-lives-video/\">and ran with it\u003c/a> in a segment that aired a couple weeks ago. It also came up during the March 31 San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting, when Supervisor John Avalos called for a hearing to examine how driver's license suspensions can disproportionately impact low-income residents in San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are the systems that we have in place in our different departments and in the justice system that actually lead to licenses being suspended?\" Avalos asked. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, he's called on city departments to provide data relating to driver's license suspensions as a first step toward finding ways to lessen unnecessary financial burdens at the local level. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A person has to pay a lot of money to get that driver's license back,\" Avalos pointed out. \"If you're low-income and don't have a job, that presents a real barrier to making positive changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, civil rights advocates in California have been working on changing state law around driver's license suspensions for years, characterizing it as a racial and economic justice issue that effectively bars low-income drivers from escaping poverty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith Desautels, a racial-justice staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, said her organization has partnered with the East Bay Community Law Center and the Western Center on Law and Poverty in recent years to push for state-level reform on this issue, but their efforts have been unsuccessful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue was really apparent in 2011 and has only increased in severity,\" Desautels said. Despite widespread support in policy committees, Desautels said, \"The holdup is in the fiscal committees.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, in coordination with the Lawyers Committee and several other organizations, Sen. Robert M. 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In fact, she cannot even go before a judge to request any kind of common-sense solution to this vicious cycle; unless she posts bail for the full amount she owes, the court will not even schedule her matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, warrants are in fact issued for uncollected fines and failure to appear stemming from traffic infractions, Desautels said, but most often don't trigger arrests unless the fines are above $7,500. However, the larger issue of driver's license suspensions can send low-income motorists into a vicious cycle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the Lawyers Committee and partnering organizations will release a full report on California traffic courts and license suspensions. At the same time, according to Hertzberg's communications director, Ray Sotero, the senator will announce a renewed push for reform and hopes for a different outcome now that there is greater awareness of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the English version of this story \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/27/lawsuit-challenges-detention-of-central-american-families-seeking-asylum/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie puso pie en el Río Grande con su hijo de seis años en brazos, sin tener idea de lo que les esperaba en la otra orilla. El contrabandista que los había traído desde El Salvador los dejó abruptamente a la orilla del río.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo iba con mucho miedo porque no conocía”, explica. “No llevaba agua, no llevaba nada de comer. Y en aquello, que no conoce uno, yo sentía que mi corazón latía bien acelerado”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En la orilla opuesta del río, agentes de la patrulla fronteriza en Texas los detuvieron. Stephanie cuenta que la temperatura de la celda inicial era frígida – cuanto más por lo que la ropa que llevaban seguía mojada por haber cruzado el río.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Es que estaba helada!” expresa con lágrimas. “Mi hijo lloraba y decía, ‘Mamá, no aguanto’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los agentes se negaron a devolverle un suéter que le habían obligado a tirar a la basura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día siguiente, enviaron a la madre y su hijo a un \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/karnes-county-residential-center\" target=\"_blank\">centro de detención de familias\u003c/a> en Karnes, Texas, donde el Servicio de Inmigración y Aduanas de los Estados Unidos (ICE por sus siglas en inglés) mantenía detenidos a cientos de niños y madres más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10472874\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10472874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Meses después de estar detenidos por ICE, Stephanie y José dicen que su hijo de 6 años habla aun de haber estado ‘encerrado’. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meses después de estar detenidos por ICE, Stephanie y José dicen que su hijo de 6 años habla aun de haber estado ‘encerrado’. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE comenzó a detener a familias centroamericanas el verano pasado, cuando un \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/BP%20Southwest%20Border%20Family%20Units%20and%20UAC%20Apps%20FY13%20-%20FY14_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">número sin precedentes\u003c/a> comenzó a aparecer en la frontera entre los EE.UU. y México.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie y José llegaron al centro de detención en Karnes a comienzos de septiembre. Se les asignó a una sala con tres familias más – y allí quedaron confinados cada noche a partir de las 6 de la tarde hasta la mañana. Desde la ventana del segundo piso, José podía ver que pasaban autos por la carretera. Stephanie cuenta que él pensaba que una puerta en la cafetería daba paso a aquella carretera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todos los días mi hijo me preguntaba, ‘¿Cuándo vamos a salir por esa puerta?””\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muchos de los niños y madres que Stephanie conoció habían pasado tres meses en el centro, pero le parecía muy distante tres meses, entonces le decía a José, “Luego, papá, luego, luego”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie narra su historia desde la recámara de un pequeño apartamento de segundo piso, junto a una carretera llena de autos, al sur de San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un juez de inmigración le dio libertad del centro de detención en Karnes en noviembre, y se vino hacía aquí a reunirse con su esposo, José, quien había buscado asilo en los Estados Unidos el año pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En lo que vamos conversando, José está sentado en el piso ayudándole a su hijo a poner en fila unos carritos Matchbox, para rodarlos por una rampa roja de plástico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie y José no querían divulgar sus apellidos por lo que temen represalias de las personas de quienes huyen en El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José fue activista político en su país. Un día, unos hombres del partido de oposición le atacaron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amenazaron con matarme si no me iba del país”, explica. “Llevo todavía aquí en el labio una cicatriz de aquel ataque”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie cuenta que se vio obligada a seguirle meses más tarde cuando los mismos hombres se aparecieron, exigiendo que les diera cinco mil dólares. Después de semanas de hostigamiento, Stephanie cuenta le llamaron por teléfono una noche para decir, “que me darían un día más para conseguirles el dinero. Si no les daba el dinero, que preparara mi cajón, y otro para mi hijo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch2>Para oír la primera parte:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197809958\" 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\u003ch2>Para oír la segunda parte:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197949035\" 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\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Stephanie explica que huía de la violencia criminal en El Salvador, pero que cuando llegó a los EE.UU. con su hijo, siente que los trataron como delincuentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades de gobierno querían enviar un \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/news/2014/07/10/written-testimony-dhs-secretary-jeh-johnson-senate-committee-appropriations-hearing\" target=\"_blank\">mensaje\u003c/a> para disuadir a las madres de venir aquí con sus hijos, afirma \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/authors/marc-r-rosenblum\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Rosenblum\u003c/a>, del \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/deportation-dilemma-reconciling-tough-humane-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\">Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>, en Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El interés en enviar un mensaje a Centroamérica es completamente válido de parte del gobierno”, explica Rosenblum. “El que las personas que no tengan un reclamo humanitario válido no van a poder quedarse. Y es mejor que la gente reciba ese mensaje sin darse el viaje de miles de millas a través de México, para después ser deportada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hace unos seis años, ICE \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearinghouse.net/detail.php?id=9492\" target=\"_blank\">cerró un centro de detención\u003c/a> después que una demanda denunciara las condiciones de cárcel, que no son apropiadas para los niños. Desde entonces, los oficiales de ICE no han querido detener a familias. Pero el verano pasado, ICE \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ices-new-family-detention-center-dilley-texas-open-december\" target=\"_blank\">amplió\u003c/a> la política de detener a familias. Los oficiales reportan que detuvieron a casi 4 mil mujeres y sus hijos hasta finales del mes de enero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El privarles de la libertad no es aceptable”, indica la profesora Denise Gilman, directora de la \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/27/lawsuit-challenges-detention-of-central-american-families-seeking-asylum/www.utexas.edu/law/clinics/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">clínica de inmigración\u003c/a> de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Explica que la política generalizada de detenciones no toma en consideración las circunstancias de cada individuo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jnAYt5RuTD0MAxjeuMvKD6cxV6RwIpxa\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Francamente, es una crueldad contra los niños y sus madres que vienen huyendo de una violencia terrible, en busca de ayuda aquí”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilman y la American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU por sus siglas en inglés) han entablado un juicio contra ICE para que cese la detención de personas en busca de asilo con niños con el sólo fin de disuadir a otros. Un juez federal ha \u003ca href=\"http://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2015cv0011-33\" target=\"_blank\">prohibido temporalmente\u003c/a> esta política.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El gobierno tiene hasta el primero de abril para apelar la demanda. De lo contrario, el caso procederá.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una declaración por escrito, los oficiales de ICE han indicado que están “cumpliendo con la orden judicial, que prohíbe a ICE de considerar usar políticas para disuadir la inmigración futura al hacer determinaciones de detención con respecto a adultos y niños”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores de los inmigrantes también quieren poner fin a la detención de familias con invocar una conciliación lograda hace décadas (\u003ca href=\"http://www.clearinghouse.net/detail.php?id=9493\" target=\"_blank\">Flores v. Reno\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hace casi 20 años, las autoridades federales de inmigración concordaron en minimizar la detención de migrantes menores de edad para transferirlos al ámbito menos restrictivo tan pronto como fuera posible, como por ejemplo el hogar de un pariente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Holguín, del \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhumanrights.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law \u003c/a>explica que los centros de detención para familias de ICE ofrecen completamente lo contrario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cualquier persona que haya ido a la instalación en Karnes en particular, notará que es como una institución”, comenta Holguín. “Es como una cárcel. Se pasa por una poterna después de pasar por detectores de metales – altos muros de bloques de cemento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holguín afirma que no se debe encarcelar a los niños en lugares como Karnes – así estén con sus madres. El ha presentado una moción para obligar a ICE a liberarlos. Una audiencia sobre el tema está programada para el mes entrante [17/04/15] en el Tribunal Distrital Central de los EE.UU. en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10472878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10472878 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls.jpg\" alt=\"Los muros al exterior del centro de detención de familias en Artesia, Nuevo México, descritos en “<em>Families Behind Barbed Wire</em>”, un informe escrito por abogado voluntario Steven Sady con ilustraciones de Clio Reese Sady.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-800x443.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-1440x797.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-1180x653.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-768x425.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-320x177.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los muros al exterior del centro de detención de familias en Artesia, Nuevo México, descritos en “\u003cem>Families Behind Barbed Wire\u003c/em>”, un informe escrito por abogado voluntario Steven Sady con ilustraciones de Clio Reese Sady.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los abogados del gobierno, mientras tanto, argumentarán a favor de una expansión de su autoridad para detener a niños. Dicen que esto lo necesitan para afrontar el influjo de centroamericanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE recientemente ha expandido su capacidad física para la detención de familias. Ahora hay tres centros que pueden detener a 3.400 personas a la vez, un aumento de menos de 100 lechos en la primavera del 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales de la agencia sólo ofrecen una declaración por escrito sobre el tema de la detención de familias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En ella, aseveran que el recluir a los niños con sus padres es “una alternativa eficaz y humanitaria para mantener la unidad familiar en lo que proceden las familias por el sistema migratorio o esperan ser devueltas a sus países de origen”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No obstante, Joanne Kelsey, del \u003ca href=\"http://blog.lirs.org/lirs-staff-member-shares-her-heartbreaking-trip-to-dilley-family-detention-center/\" target=\"_blank\">Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service\u003c/a>, afirma que no existe manera humanitaria de recluir a los niños, ya que la reclusión puede desmantelar la estructura de la familia y causar daños psicológicos duraderos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando un niño ve que su madre no toma decisiones por él, y que un celador dice, ‘En este momento pueden comer, esto es lo que pueden comer, aquí es donde pueden ir, esto es lo que pueden hacer,’ el niño pierde ese sentido de protección”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para finales de enero, ICE reportó tener detenidos aun a mil madres e hijos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin contar con servicios legales, tienen poca esperanza de liberación ni asilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En más de siete mil casos de familias migratorias estudiados recientemente por el \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a> en la Syracuse University, el 99 por ciento de aquellos que no cuentan con abogado recibió orden de deportación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10475420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10475420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-800x1188.jpg\" alt=\"Transactional Records Access Clearninghouse, Syracuse University, con expedientes obtenidos de la Executive Office of Immigration Review, Departamento de Justicia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-800x1188.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-400x594.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-1180x1753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-768x1141.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-320x475.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transactional Records Access Clearninghouse, Syracuse University, con expedientes obtenidos de la Executive Office of Immigration Review, Departamento de Justicia. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pero es un reto encontrar a abogados dispuestos a tomar los casos de las familias detenidas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estas mujeres no sólo quedan detenidas – sino que también están detenidas en un lugar aislado sin fácil acceso”, explica Lauren Connell, una abogada con la firma Akin Gump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell coordinó los abogados voluntarios dispuestos a ayudar a las familias reclusas en Karnes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell recuerda haber pensado la primera vez que hizo el viaje de una hora en auto entre San Antonio y Karnes, “¡Esto queda lejos de donde están las personas que pueden verdaderamente ayudar!”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell es abogada de Stephanie y ayudó a convencer a un juez de inmigración que la dejara en libertad mientras se decide su caso de asilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie dice que cuando oyó que le iban a dejar libre, “lo primero que hice fue caerme de rodillas y darle gracias a Dios por todo lo que había hecho por mí”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie ahora está empleada limpiando casas y su esposo logró un trabajo ayudando con la realización de eventos especiales. Comenta que su hijo flaquito ha podido subir un poco el peso que había perdido en el centro de detención, pero que no puede deshacerse de la memoria de las seis semanas que pasó allí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La mamá dice que José “no se ha olvidado. … Dice cosas como, ‘sí, es como cuando estábamos encerrados’. Esta frase la usa repetidamente para hacer comparaciones o referencias al tiempo ‘cuando estábamos encerrados’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El caso de Stephanie se oirá en el tribunal migratorio en mayo.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los agentes se negaron a devolverle un suéter que le habían obligado a tirar a la basura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día siguiente, enviaron a la madre y su hijo a un \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/karnes-county-residential-center\" target=\"_blank\">centro de detención de familias\u003c/a> en Karnes, Texas, donde el Servicio de Inmigración y Aduanas de los Estados Unidos (ICE por sus siglas en inglés) mantenía detenidos a cientos de niños y madres más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10472874\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10472874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Meses después de estar detenidos por ICE, Stephanie y José dicen que su hijo de 6 años habla aun de haber estado ‘encerrado’. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/lockedup.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meses después de estar detenidos por ICE, Stephanie y José dicen que su hijo de 6 años habla aun de haber estado ‘encerrado’. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE comenzó a detener a familias centroamericanas el verano pasado, cuando un \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/BP%20Southwest%20Border%20Family%20Units%20and%20UAC%20Apps%20FY13%20-%20FY14_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">número sin precedentes\u003c/a> comenzó a aparecer en la frontera entre los EE.UU. y México.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie y José llegaron al centro de detención en Karnes a comienzos de septiembre. Se les asignó a una sala con tres familias más – y allí quedaron confinados cada noche a partir de las 6 de la tarde hasta la mañana. Desde la ventana del segundo piso, José podía ver que pasaban autos por la carretera. Stephanie cuenta que él pensaba que una puerta en la cafetería daba paso a aquella carretera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todos los días mi hijo me preguntaba, ‘¿Cuándo vamos a salir por esa puerta?””\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muchos de los niños y madres que Stephanie conoció habían pasado tres meses en el centro, pero le parecía muy distante tres meses, entonces le decía a José, “Luego, papá, luego, luego”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie narra su historia desde la recámara de un pequeño apartamento de segundo piso, junto a una carretera llena de autos, al sur de San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un juez de inmigración le dio libertad del centro de detención en Karnes en noviembre, y se vino hacía aquí a reunirse con su esposo, José, quien había buscado asilo en los Estados Unidos el año pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En lo que vamos conversando, José está sentado en el piso ayudándole a su hijo a poner en fila unos carritos Matchbox, para rodarlos por una rampa roja de plástico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie y José no querían divulgar sus apellidos por lo que temen represalias de las personas de quienes huyen en El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José fue activista político en su país. Un día, unos hombres del partido de oposición le atacaron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amenazaron con matarme si no me iba del país”, explica. “Llevo todavía aquí en el labio una cicatriz de aquel ataque”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie cuenta que se vio obligada a seguirle meses más tarde cuando los mismos hombres se aparecieron, exigiendo que les diera cinco mil dólares. Después de semanas de hostigamiento, Stephanie cuenta le llamaron por teléfono una noche para decir, “que me darían un día más para conseguirles el dinero. Si no les daba el dinero, que preparara mi cajón, y otro para mi hijo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch2>Para oír la primera parte:\u003c/h2>\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/197809958&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/197809958'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Para oír la segunda parte:\u003c/h2>\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/197949035&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/197949035'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Stephanie explica que huía de la violencia criminal en El Salvador, pero que cuando llegó a los EE.UU. con su hijo, siente que los trataron como delincuentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades de gobierno querían enviar un \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/news/2014/07/10/written-testimony-dhs-secretary-jeh-johnson-senate-committee-appropriations-hearing\" target=\"_blank\">mensaje\u003c/a> para disuadir a las madres de venir aquí con sus hijos, afirma \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/authors/marc-r-rosenblum\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Rosenblum\u003c/a>, del \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/deportation-dilemma-reconciling-tough-humane-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\">Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>, en Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El interés en enviar un mensaje a Centroamérica es completamente válido de parte del gobierno”, explica Rosenblum. “El que las personas que no tengan un reclamo humanitario válido no van a poder quedarse. Y es mejor que la gente reciba ese mensaje sin darse el viaje de miles de millas a través de México, para después ser deportada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hace unos seis años, ICE \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearinghouse.net/detail.php?id=9492\" target=\"_blank\">cerró un centro de detención\u003c/a> después que una demanda denunciara las condiciones de cárcel, que no son apropiadas para los niños. Desde entonces, los oficiales de ICE no han querido detener a familias. Pero el verano pasado, ICE \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ices-new-family-detention-center-dilley-texas-open-december\" target=\"_blank\">amplió\u003c/a> la política de detener a familias. Los oficiales reportan que detuvieron a casi 4 mil mujeres y sus hijos hasta finales del mes de enero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El privarles de la libertad no es aceptable”, indica la profesora Denise Gilman, directora de la \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/27/lawsuit-challenges-detention-of-central-american-families-seeking-asylum/www.utexas.edu/law/clinics/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">clínica de inmigración\u003c/a> de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Explica que la política generalizada de detenciones no toma en consideración las circunstancias de cada individuo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Francamente, es una crueldad contra los niños y sus madres que vienen huyendo de una violencia terrible, en busca de ayuda aquí”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilman y la American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU por sus siglas en inglés) han entablado un juicio contra ICE para que cese la detención de personas en busca de asilo con niños con el sólo fin de disuadir a otros. Un juez federal ha \u003ca href=\"http://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2015cv0011-33\" target=\"_blank\">prohibido temporalmente\u003c/a> esta política.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El gobierno tiene hasta el primero de abril para apelar la demanda. De lo contrario, el caso procederá.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una declaración por escrito, los oficiales de ICE han indicado que están “cumpliendo con la orden judicial, que prohíbe a ICE de considerar usar políticas para disuadir la inmigración futura al hacer determinaciones de detención con respecto a adultos y niños”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores de los inmigrantes también quieren poner fin a la detención de familias con invocar una conciliación lograda hace décadas (\u003ca href=\"http://www.clearinghouse.net/detail.php?id=9493\" target=\"_blank\">Flores v. Reno\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hace casi 20 años, las autoridades federales de inmigración concordaron en minimizar la detención de migrantes menores de edad para transferirlos al ámbito menos restrictivo tan pronto como fuera posible, como por ejemplo el hogar de un pariente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Holguín, del \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhumanrights.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law \u003c/a>explica que los centros de detención para familias de ICE ofrecen completamente lo contrario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cualquier persona que haya ido a la instalación en Karnes en particular, notará que es como una institución”, comenta Holguín. “Es como una cárcel. Se pasa por una poterna después de pasar por detectores de metales – altos muros de bloques de cemento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holguín afirma que no se debe encarcelar a los niños en lugares como Karnes – así estén con sus madres. El ha presentado una moción para obligar a ICE a liberarlos. Una audiencia sobre el tema está programada para el mes entrante [17/04/15] en el Tribunal Distrital Central de los EE.UU. en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10472878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10472878 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls.jpg\" alt=\"Los muros al exterior del centro de detención de familias en Artesia, Nuevo México, descritos en “<em>Families Behind Barbed Wire</em>”, un informe escrito por abogado voluntario Steven Sady con ilustraciones de Clio Reese Sady.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-800x443.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-1440x797.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-1180x653.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-768x425.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-320x177.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/outsidewalls-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los muros al exterior del centro de detención de familias en Artesia, Nuevo México, descritos en “\u003cem>Families Behind Barbed Wire\u003c/em>”, un informe escrito por abogado voluntario Steven Sady con ilustraciones de Clio Reese Sady.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los abogados del gobierno, mientras tanto, argumentarán a favor de una expansión de su autoridad para detener a niños. Dicen que esto lo necesitan para afrontar el influjo de centroamericanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE recientemente ha expandido su capacidad física para la detención de familias. Ahora hay tres centros que pueden detener a 3.400 personas a la vez, un aumento de menos de 100 lechos en la primavera del 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales de la agencia sólo ofrecen una declaración por escrito sobre el tema de la detención de familias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En ella, aseveran que el recluir a los niños con sus padres es “una alternativa eficaz y humanitaria para mantener la unidad familiar en lo que proceden las familias por el sistema migratorio o esperan ser devueltas a sus países de origen”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No obstante, Joanne Kelsey, del \u003ca href=\"http://blog.lirs.org/lirs-staff-member-shares-her-heartbreaking-trip-to-dilley-family-detention-center/\" target=\"_blank\">Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service\u003c/a>, afirma que no existe manera humanitaria de recluir a los niños, ya que la reclusión puede desmantelar la estructura de la familia y causar daños psicológicos duraderos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando un niño ve que su madre no toma decisiones por él, y que un celador dice, ‘En este momento pueden comer, esto es lo que pueden comer, aquí es donde pueden ir, esto es lo que pueden hacer,’ el niño pierde ese sentido de protección”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para finales de enero, ICE reportó tener detenidos aun a mil madres e hijos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin contar con servicios legales, tienen poca esperanza de liberación ni asilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En más de siete mil casos de familias migratorias estudiados recientemente por el \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a> en la Syracuse University, el 99 por ciento de aquellos que no cuentan con abogado recibió orden de deportación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10475420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10475420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-800x1188.jpg\" alt=\"Transactional Records Access Clearninghouse, Syracuse University, con expedientes obtenidos de la Executive Office of Immigration Review, Departamento de Justicia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-800x1188.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-400x594.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-1180x1753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-768x1141.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol-320x475.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/family-immigration-court-en-espanol.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transactional Records Access Clearninghouse, Syracuse University, con expedientes obtenidos de la Executive Office of Immigration Review, Departamento de Justicia. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pero es un reto encontrar a abogados dispuestos a tomar los casos de las familias detenidas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Estas mujeres no sólo quedan detenidas – sino que también están detenidas en un lugar aislado sin fácil acceso”, explica Lauren Connell, una abogada con la firma Akin Gump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell coordinó los abogados voluntarios dispuestos a ayudar a las familias reclusas en Karnes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell recuerda haber pensado la primera vez que hizo el viaje de una hora en auto entre San Antonio y Karnes, “¡Esto queda lejos de donde están las personas que pueden verdaderamente ayudar!”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell es abogada de Stephanie y ayudó a convencer a un juez de inmigración que la dejara en libertad mientras se decide su caso de asilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie dice que cuando oyó que le iban a dejar libre, “lo primero que hice fue caerme de rodillas y darle gracias a Dios por todo lo que había hecho por mí”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie ahora está empleada limpiando casas y su esposo logró un trabajo ayudando con la realización de eventos especiales. Comenta que su hijo flaquito ha podido subir un poco el peso que había perdido en el centro de detención, pero que no puede deshacerse de la memoria de las seis semanas que pasó allí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La mamá dice que José “no se ha olvidado. … Dice cosas como, ‘sí, es como cuando estábamos encerrados’. Esta frase la usa repetidamente para hacer comparaciones o referencias al tiempo ‘cuando estábamos encerrados’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says he is reassigning staff and looking for more funding to investigate three separate scandals involving city law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find it repulsive,\" Gascón told a gathering of reporters at his office today. \"In my entire 30-year-plus career in law enforcement, these are some of the worst allegations that I have seen. And I find them extremely troubling, not only because of the incidents, but because of the potential repercussions for involving so many prosecutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he's forming a task force in the district attorney's office composed of three teams -- a team for each of three scandals that broke since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The first involved a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">series of bigoted text messages\u003c/a> allegedly swapped between several San Francisco police officers. The text conversations were recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone, according to federal court documents filed March 13, but implicated at least four current SFPD officers, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">possibly more\u003c/a>. Furminger was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to three years and five months\u003c/a> in prison last month. He is appealing his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week and a half later, Public Defender Jeff Adachi released a private investigator's preliminary findings that San Francisco sheriffs' deputies at one of the city's jails were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">threatening and humiliating inmates and forcing two of them to fight\u003c/a> for entertainment. Inmates told Adachi and the independent investigator that deputies were betting on the fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four deputies were placed on administrative leave the same day the allegations were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unlikely that this case was limited to only four people,\" Gascón said. \"We want to know who else knew, when did they know, have there been other similar cases, are there any other issues going on over there that we should know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then over the weekend, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that an analyst and supervisor in the city's crime lab had come under suspicion for submitting potentially shoddy DNA matches in criminal cases. Both the crime lab and SFPD texting scandals could impact hundreds, or thousands, of past and pending criminal prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q7kWHlkQjEQxY2NzEeU7XvOH9cvtVsVh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how long this task force is going to last,\" Gascón said. \"It may be months, it may be years. We’re talking about very complex issues, and frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said it appears the crime analyst, at least in one case, submitted findings that were helpful to the prosecution, and did not submit findings that would have helped the defense. He said either the state or federal department of justice, and not the district attorney, should investigate the crime lab and police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t like it,\" he said. \"I don’t think law enforcement should be investigating law enforcement. I have less of a problem investigating the problems in the sheriff’s department, but with the DNA crime lab, and the police, these witnesses are relied upon by the district attorney in seeking their convictions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón gave scant details about his newly created task force, declining to state even the number of people assigned. He said he would seek funding from the city's Board of Supervisors to pay for the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite members of the public and members of law enforcement to provide information to this office concerning any of these cases or any other allegations of misconduct involving law enforcement personnel in our county,\" Gascón said. \"San Francisco will have no tolerance for bad behavior or criminal behavior within our law enforcement community, and part of that begins with all of us standing tall and ensuring that these cases and any other cases that may be found are handled appropriately. The public deserves this and I will make sure that we do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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On the fourth question, two women and one man on the jury voted to support Pao’s claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao, who was hired as a junior partner and chief of staff to Kleiner Perkins managing partner John Doerr in 2005, had sought $16 million in compensation for Kleiner’s alleged discrimination, plus punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury’s verdict form is below, followed by earlier Associated Press accounts of closing arguments in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"juryform\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/259810687/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_41123\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sudhint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudhin Thanawala\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:15 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Jury deliberations began Wednesday in a high-profile sex discrimination lawsuit that has shined a light on the gross underrepresentation of women in the technology and venture capital sectors of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury of six men and six women began discussing Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers after an attorney for the prestigious venture capital firm said it did not retaliate against Pao by deciding not to promote her after she filed a gender bias complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision about a possible promotion was made before Pao filed her complaint, defense lawyer Lynne Hermle told jurors during her closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao’s attorneys have portrayed her as the victim of a male-dominated culture at Kleiner Perkins, where she was allegedly subjected to retaliation by a male colleague with whom she had an affair and to a discussion about pornography aboard a private plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao also testified about receiving a book of erotic poetry from a male partner at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:40 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Lawyers in a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against a Silicon Valley firm argued Tuesday that the woman behind the case was either an accomplished junior partner who was passed over for a promotion because of discrimination or a failure who sued to get a big payout as she was being shown the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys presented the contrasting portraits of Ellen Pao in their closing arguments to a San Francisco Superior Court jury in the case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[The tech blog re/code is \u003ca href=\"http://recode.net/2015/03/25/live-day-two-of-the-ellen-pao-v-kleiner-perkins-case-summations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live-blogging the final arguments\u003c/a>. 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Pao also testified about receiving a book of erotic poetry from a male partner at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her lawsuit says she was fired in 2012 after complaining about gender discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod called the firm a “boys club” and referenced trial testimony and emails from prominent venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, to show that Pao had been successful at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case should be about what Ms. Pao did for Kleiner Perkins,” Exelrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The evidence in this case compels the conclusion that men were judged by one standard and women by another.’\u003ccite>Alan Exelrod,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Ellen Pao\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among her accomplishments were convincing the firm to invest in a company that later enjoyed great success and helping two companies merge, Exelrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod said two male colleagues of Pao had been promoted, even though one was called confrontational and another was accused of having “sharp elbows,” an apparent reference to his treatment of other workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod mentioned the affair, discussion about pornography on the plane and the book of poetry in his closing argument. He accused Kleiner Perkins of trying to smear Pao as a woman who had a sexual relationship at work by characterizing her relationship with the male colleague as a consensual affair gone wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao has said the colleague hounded her into the relationship and lied about his wife having left him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kleiner Perkins has said Pao was a chronic complainer who twisted facts and circumstances in her lawsuit and had a history of conflicts with colleagues that contributed to the decision to let her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hermle showed jurors a slide with comments from Pao’s work reviews that called her “territorial,” and “not a good teammate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer said the men promoted over Pao had prior venture capital experience and had founded companies, unlike Pao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support her claim that Pao was interested only in a payout, Hermle showed jurors an email Pao sent in December 2011 — a month before she filed her complaint — in which Pao said a friend at another venture capital firm was helping her get a lawyer to negotiate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge ruled over the weekend that Pao can seek punitive damages that could add millions of dollars to a possible verdict in her favor. She is seeking $16 million in lost wages and bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say Pao’s case has increased awareness about seemingly small indignities faced by women in the technology and venture capital sectors. Consultant Freada Kapor Klein said she has recently been contacted by more than a dozen venture capital and technology companies asking her how they can improve the environment for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her testimony, Pao told jurors that her lawsuit was intended in part to create equal opportunities for women in the venture capital sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study released last year by Babson College in Massachusetts found that women filled just 6 percent of partner-level positions at 139 venture capital firms in 2013, down from 10 percent in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kleiner Perkins says more than 20 percent of its partners are women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> An attorney for a woman suing a prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm for gender discrimination said Tuesday the firm judged men and women by different standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyer Alan Exelrod made the claim during his closing argument in the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/24/trial-begins-in-silicon-valley-gender-discrimination-suit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit filed by Ellen Pao\u003c/a> against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that has shined a light on gender imbalance in the technology and venture capital sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has caused some technology and venture capital companies to re-examine their cultures and practices even before a jury reaches its verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence in this case compels the conclusion that men were judged by one standard and women by another,” Exelrod said. “The leaders of Kleiner Perkins are the ones responsible for this double standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne Hermle, an attorney for the firm, was expected to make her closing argument later in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao’s attorneys have portrayed her as the victim of a male-dominated culture at Kleiner Perkins, saying she was subjected to retaliation by a male colleague with whom she had an affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say she was fired in 2012 after complaining about gender discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kleiner Perkins has countered that Pao was a chronic complainer who twisted facts and circumstances in her lawsuit and had a history of conflicts with colleagues that contributed to the decision to let her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge ruled over the weekend that Pao can seek punitive damages that could add millions of dollars to a possible verdict in her favor. She is seeking $16 million in lost wages and bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consultant Freada Kapor Klein said she has recently been contacted by more than a dozen venture capital and technology companies asking her how they can improve the environment for women. Klein, whose firm specializes in addressing bias in the workplace, declined to name the firms but said they approached her as a result of the Pao case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People understand that the issues raised in this trial are about company culture in general,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say Pao’s case has increased awareness about seemingly small indignities faced by women in the technology and venture capital sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These subtle incidents individually seem trivial, but cumulatively create a climate that is unwelcoming,” said Deborah Rhode, a law professor at Stanford University who teaches gender equity law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During testimony, Pao told jurors that her lawsuit was intended in part to create equal opportunities for women in the venture capital sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Gompers, a Harvard business school professor, was hired by Kleiner Perkins to conduct research about the venture capital industry. He testified that Kleiner Perkins placed more women on the boards of companies in which it invested than any of the 3,000 venture capital firms that he reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a study released last year by Babson College in Massachusetts found that women filled just 6 percent of partner-level positions at 139 venture capital firms in 2013, down from 10 percent in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Pao’s case began, more venture capital firms have called seeking female candidates for partner-level positions, said Joe Riggione, co-founder of True, an executive search firm for venture capital and technology companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology and venture capital firms have become more open over the past two years about discussing gender and racial inequities, said Nicole Sanchez, founder of Vaya Consulting, which tries to help Silicon Valley companies increase diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said that’s due in part to a decision by Google and other technology giants to release data about the demographic makeup of their workforces. The numbers weren’t good — women hold just 15 to 20 percent of tech jobs at Google, Apple, Facebook and Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The final verdict came only after Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn sent the jury back to deliberate further on Pao’s claim that she was fired in retaliation for a critical memo she wrote and/or filing suit against Kleiner Perkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike criminal trials, the jury in this civil case did not need to be unanimous in its verdict; instead, only three-fourths of the 12-member panel — nine members — needed to agree to reach a verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury reported when it first returned at 2 p.m. Friday that it had resolved all four of the questions it was charged to decide. But when Judge Kahn polled the jury, one member apparently changed his vote on the retaliation question, which had reportedly been decided 9-3 in favor of Kleiner. That switch meant four jurors agreed Pao’s firing was retaliatory, with eight members disagreeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury returned with a decision on that last question at 4:30 p.m.: 9-3 in favor of Kleiner Perkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions the jury decided against Pao (and the vote, per the count \u003ca href=\"http://recode.net/2015/03/27/live-the-pao-v-kleiner-perkins-verdict/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published by re/code\u003c/a>) were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Was Ms. Pao’s gender a substantial motivating reason for Kleiner Perkins not promoting Ms. Pao to senior partner? \u003cstrong>The vote: 10 no, 2 yes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Were Ms. Pao’s conversations in December 2011 and/or her January 4, 2012, memorandum a substantial motivating reason for Kleiner Perkins’ not promoting her to senior partner? \u003cstrong>The vote: 10 no, 2 yes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Did Kleiner Perkins fail to take all reasonable steps to prevent gender discrimination against Ms. Pao? \u003cstrong>The vote: None reported, as this question was rendered moot by “no” votes on first two questions.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Were Ms. Pao’s conversations in 2011 and/or her Jan. 4, 2012, memorandum and/or her filing this lawsuit a substantial motivating reason for Kleiner Perkins’ decision to terminate Ms. Pao’s employment? \u003cstrong>The vote: 9 no, 3 yes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The December 2011 conversations and January 2012 memorandum mentioned in the second question refer to Pao’s complaints to Kleiner Perkins management about ongoing sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to accounts from the courtroom, five men and five women voted against Pao on the first questions above; one man and one woman voted to support her claim. On the fourth question, two women and one man on the jury voted to support Pao’s claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao, who was hired as a junior partner and chief of staff to Kleiner Perkins managing partner John Doerr in 2005, had sought $16 million in compensation for Kleiner’s alleged discrimination, plus punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury’s verdict form is below, followed by earlier Associated Press accounts of closing arguments in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"juryform\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/259810687/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_41123\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sudhint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudhin Thanawala\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:15 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Jury deliberations began Wednesday in a high-profile sex discrimination lawsuit that has shined a light on the gross underrepresentation of women in the technology and venture capital sectors of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury of six men and six women began discussing Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers after an attorney for the prestigious venture capital firm said it did not retaliate against Pao by deciding not to promote her after she filed a gender bias complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision about a possible promotion was made before Pao filed her complaint, defense lawyer Lynne Hermle told jurors during her closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao’s attorneys have portrayed her as the victim of a male-dominated culture at Kleiner Perkins, where she was allegedly subjected to retaliation by a male colleague with whom she had an affair and to a discussion about pornography aboard a private plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao also testified about receiving a book of erotic poetry from a male partner at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:40 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Lawyers in a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against a Silicon Valley firm argued Tuesday that the woman behind the case was either an accomplished junior partner who was passed over for a promotion because of discrimination or a failure who sued to get a big payout as she was being shown the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys presented the contrasting portraits of Ellen Pao in their closing arguments to a San Francisco Superior Court jury in the case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[The tech blog re/code is \u003ca href=\"http://recode.net/2015/03/25/live-day-two-of-the-ellen-pao-v-kleiner-perkins-case-summations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live-blogging the final arguments\u003c/a>. And the lengthy jury verdict form, released by the court today, is \u003ca href=\"#juryform\">embedded below\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company lawyer Lynne Hermle challenged Pao’s claim that she sued to help women facing gender discrimination at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The complaints of Ellen Pao were made for only one purpose — a huge payout for Team Ellen,” Hermle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao’s lawyer made his closing argument earlier, telling jurors the company had different standards for men and women that led to the denial of a promotion to Pao despite her accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The complaints of Ellen Pao were made for only one purpose — a huge payout for Team Ellen.’\u003ccite>Lynne Hermle,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for defendant Kleiner Perkins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The evidence in this case compels the conclusion that men were judged by one standard and women by another,” lawyer Alan Exelrod said. “The leaders of Kleiner Perkins are the ones responsible for this double standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit has shined a light on the gross underrepresentation of women in the technology and venture capital sectors and has led some companies to re-examine their cultures and practices — even before the jury reaches a verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing arguments are set to continue on Wednesday.\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/197619411″&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/197619411″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao’s attorneys have portrayed her as the victim of a male-dominated culture at Kleiner Perkins, where she was allegedly subjected to retaliation by a male colleague with whom she had an affair and a discussion about pornography aboard a private plane. Pao also testified about receiving a book of erotic poetry from a male partner at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her lawsuit says she was fired in 2012 after complaining about gender discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod called the firm a “boys club” and referenced trial testimony and emails from prominent venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, to show that Pao had been successful at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case should be about what Ms. Pao did for Kleiner Perkins,” Exelrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The evidence in this case compels the conclusion that men were judged by one standard and women by another.’\u003ccite>Alan Exelrod,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Ellen Pao\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among her accomplishments were convincing the firm to invest in a company that later enjoyed great success and helping two companies merge, Exelrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod said two male colleagues of Pao had been promoted, even though one was called confrontational and another was accused of having “sharp elbows,” an apparent reference to his treatment of other workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod mentioned the affair, discussion about pornography on the plane and the book of poetry in his closing argument. 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