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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Monday, Dec. 22, 4:55 p.m.\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details are out today in the investigation into an alleged sexual assault that resulted in the abrupt dismissal of former 49ers lineman Ray McDonald last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald has not been arrested or charged with a crime, but a San Jose Police Department search of his home last Tuesday broke the story that the 49ers veteran was accused of having sexually assaulted a yet-unnamed woman at his home in south San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Superior Court released a search warrant and supporting affidavit documents today (\u003ca href=\"#warrant\">read below\u003c/a>). The search warrant lists items police were seeking, including McDonald's cellphone, bedding, a V-neck shirt, a silver watch and surveillance camera footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affidavit of San Jose police Officer Sean Pierce recounts that the alleged victim told investigating officers she had been out drinking with four friends on Saturday, Dec. 13, and was joined by McDonald and three others. She began to feel dizzy and ill and started to call a cab, but was convinced by her friends that they would take her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of going home, however, \"she ended up at Ray McDonald's house,\" according to the affidavit. While outside by McDonald's pool, the alleged victim fell and hit her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She stated she next woke up the next morning naked in bed with S-1 [McDonald],\" the affidavit says. \"She asked S-1 what happened and he told her that she was just tired so he let her sleep in his bed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that Sunday, a friend called and told her she was \"making out with S-1 on his couch, which she has no memory of,\" according to the document. It also alleges that she stayed with McDonald alone at his house until Aldon Smith showed up and the three of them picked up some vodka and cranberry juice and started drinking (which could lead to some \u003ca href=\"http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/aldon-smith-was-reportedly-drinking-with-ray-mcdonald/ar-BBh7qhT?srcref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">trouble for Smith\u003c/a>, if true).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged victim remained at McDonald's house until later Sunday night when he began talking about his domestic violence case, and she asked him again what happened when she was asleep in his bed. This time, according to the search warrant supporting document, McDonald told her they had sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assault was reported the following Monday from a local hospital, according to the San Jose Police Department. Officers served the search warrant on Tuesday, Dec. 16., after conducting a \"pre-text text.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affidavit describes the investigative tactic as a text conversation that begins between an alleged victim and suspect, but then is taken over by an investigating officer. The alleged victim asked McDonald via text message if he wore a condom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm at the store. I need to know if I should be buying the morning after pill,\" she texted, according to the affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then an SJPD sergeant took over the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, get the morning after pill,\" McDonald texted back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the conversation is transcribed in the search warrant documents \u003ca href=\"#warrant\">below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, Dec. 17\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nThe San Francisco 49ers announced they've terminated defensive tackle Ray McDonald in a swift response to a new assault allegation against the veteran player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is about a pattern of poor decision-making,\" 49ers General Manager Trent Baalke said Wednesday, hours after San Jose police announced officers served a search warrant at McDonald's home on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ray and I had multiple conversations since the latest allegations and put together some criteria that we felt he needed to do in order to stay in good standing,\" Baalke said. \"With these latest allegations, that was just one more situation that we just weren’t willing to deal with anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assault reportedly occurred Monday at McDonald's home in south San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27154639/san-jose-police-investigating-49er-ray-mcdonald-after\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News summary\u003c/a> of how the new case surfaced:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A search warrant was served Tuesday at McDonald's Silver Creek valley residence, the same day police got a call from a local hospital to report a possible sexual-assault victim. Police say the woman told investigators that she had been assaulted \"a day prior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary investigation revealed the alleged suspect was Ray McDonald,\" San Jose police spokeswoman Sgt. Heather Randol said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald has not been arrested, and the investigation is ongoing, Randol said, adding that once it's complete, it will be forwarded to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office for review. A law-enforcement source said the person who made the allegation is not McDonald's fiancée, who was the reporting party in an earlier domestic-violence investigation involving the player.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The team's response to the latest allegation is in contrast to its approach when McDonald was arrested in late August on suspicion of domestic violence. The 49ers allowed the lineman to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/05/domestic-violence-49er-ray-mcdonald-to-play-sunday\" target=\"_blank\">continue playing\u003c/a>. The 49ers insisted that McDonald was entitled to due process as authorities investigated the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County prosecutors \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/10/report-49ers-ray-mcdonald-wont-be-charged-in-domestic-violence-case\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> in early November that they would not charge McDonald for that incident because of \"conflicting accounts, the lack of a verifiable eyewitness, and the lack of cooperation by [McDonald's fiancée, the alleged victim], we cannot prove that a crime occurred.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief statement to reporters Wednesday, 49ers General Manager Trent Baalke signaled the team's patience has run out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After the recent allegations concerning Ray McDonald we as an organization have informed him and his agent that he will be terminated, released, effective immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this organization has a strong belief in due process and has demonstrated that over time, Ray's demonstrated a pattern of poor decision-making that has led to multiple distractions for this organization and this football team that really can no longer be tolerated, and that's the reason for the decision that we made today.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>More from the AP on the 49ers' response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said he informed McDonald and his agent by phone at 11:30 a.m. PST that the defender is \"terminated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a situation that we can all learn from,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baalke said CEO Jed York and coach Jim Harbaugh also were involved in the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We expect a lot from our players, hold them accountable for their actions,\" Baalke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baalke said the 49ers notified the NFL office of the allegations against McDonald, saying, \"This is a team decision.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"warrant\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nRead one of the search warrant documents, including SJPD Officer Sean Pierce's affidavit, below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/250799157/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_90777\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Beth Willon contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It also alleges that she stayed with McDonald alone at his house until Aldon Smith showed up and the three of them picked up some vodka and cranberry juice and started drinking (which could lead to some \u003ca href=\"http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/aldon-smith-was-reportedly-drinking-with-ray-mcdonald/ar-BBh7qhT?srcref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">trouble for Smith\u003c/a>, if true).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged victim remained at McDonald's house until later Sunday night when he began talking about his domestic violence case, and she asked him again what happened when she was asleep in his bed. This time, according to the search warrant supporting document, McDonald told her they had sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assault was reported the following Monday from a local hospital, according to the San Jose Police Department. Officers served the search warrant on Tuesday, Dec. 16., after conducting a \"pre-text text.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affidavit describes the investigative tactic as a text conversation that begins between an alleged victim and suspect, but then is taken over by an investigating officer. The alleged victim asked McDonald via text message if he wore a condom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm at the store. I need to know if I should be buying the morning after pill,\" she texted, according to the affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then an SJPD sergeant took over the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, get the morning after pill,\" McDonald texted back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the conversation is transcribed in the search warrant documents \u003ca href=\"#warrant\">below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, Dec. 17\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nThe San Francisco 49ers announced they've terminated defensive tackle Ray McDonald in a swift response to a new assault allegation against the veteran player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is about a pattern of poor decision-making,\" 49ers General Manager Trent Baalke said Wednesday, hours after San Jose police announced officers served a search warrant at McDonald's home on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ray and I had multiple conversations since the latest allegations and put together some criteria that we felt he needed to do in order to stay in good standing,\" Baalke said. \"With these latest allegations, that was just one more situation that we just weren’t willing to deal with anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assault reportedly occurred Monday at McDonald's home in south San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27154639/san-jose-police-investigating-49er-ray-mcdonald-after\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News summary\u003c/a> of how the new case surfaced:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A search warrant was served Tuesday at McDonald's Silver Creek valley residence, the same day police got a call from a local hospital to report a possible sexual-assault victim. Police say the woman told investigators that she had been assaulted \"a day prior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary investigation revealed the alleged suspect was Ray McDonald,\" San Jose police spokeswoman Sgt. Heather Randol said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald has not been arrested, and the investigation is ongoing, Randol said, adding that once it's complete, it will be forwarded to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office for review. A law-enforcement source said the person who made the allegation is not McDonald's fiancée, who was the reporting party in an earlier domestic-violence investigation involving the player.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The team's response to the latest allegation is in contrast to its approach when McDonald was arrested in late August on suspicion of domestic violence. The 49ers allowed the lineman to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/05/domestic-violence-49er-ray-mcdonald-to-play-sunday\" target=\"_blank\">continue playing\u003c/a>. The 49ers insisted that McDonald was entitled to due process as authorities investigated the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County prosecutors \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/10/report-49ers-ray-mcdonald-wont-be-charged-in-domestic-violence-case\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> in early November that they would not charge McDonald for that incident because of \"conflicting accounts, the lack of a verifiable eyewitness, and the lack of cooperation by [McDonald's fiancée, the alleged victim], we cannot prove that a crime occurred.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief statement to reporters Wednesday, 49ers General Manager Trent Baalke signaled the team's patience has run out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After the recent allegations concerning Ray McDonald we as an organization have informed him and his agent that he will be terminated, released, effective immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this organization has a strong belief in due process and has demonstrated that over time, Ray's demonstrated a pattern of poor decision-making that has led to multiple distractions for this organization and this football team that really can no longer be tolerated, and that's the reason for the decision that we made today.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>More from the AP on the 49ers' response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said he informed McDonald and his agent by phone at 11:30 a.m. PST that the defender is \"terminated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a situation that we can all learn from,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baalke said CEO Jed York and coach Jim Harbaugh also were involved in the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We expect a lot from our players, hold them accountable for their actions,\" Baalke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baalke said the 49ers notified the NFL office of the allegations against McDonald, saying, \"This is a team decision.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"warrant\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nRead one of the search warrant documents, including SJPD Officer Sean Pierce's affidavit, below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/250799157/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_90777\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the first night of \u003ca href=\"http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/102911/jewish/What-Is-Hanukkah.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hanukkah\u003c/a>, 20 men filed into a spare room with cinder-block walls, linoleum floors and harsh fluorescent light. They took their seats on metal folding chairs. Dressed in blue pants and blue tops, most of the men wear yarmulkes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Hanukkah at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/SQ.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Quentin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only woman in the room presides over this celebration. Carole Hyman, the Jewish chaplain here, leads the inmates in readings from the Torah in Hebrew and English. Some rock back and forth gently as they read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the menorah candles are lit. There are more prayers, and then the men sing “Rock of Ages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182336163″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they head back to their cells, Hyman gives each of them a fist bump and an enthusiastic “Happy Hanukkah!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyman says that there are 80 to 90 men who attend her classes and services. Some were raised Jewish; others came to the faith later in life, often while in prison. But, she says, however they came to Judaism, most are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They want to know “if there is a God. If there is a God, what does that God want me to do? How should I live? Why am I here? How can I change? Those kinds of things,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384451\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg\" alt=\"The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-800x429.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED) \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hyman has been the Jewish chaplain at San Quentin for 10 years. Her spiritual work in prisons began 14 years ago after a long career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the inmates at this Hanukkah service are serving life sentences — many for first- or second-degree murder. Hyman says she decided early on that she would read the court transcripts on these men, but only after she got to know them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can read something on paper and be utterly appalled and shocked by it,” she says. “But when the person is in front of me, that’s not how I’m relating to them. That’s not who I see them as. Thank God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate Raymond Aldridge had a Jewish mother, but he was not raised with any religion. In 1977 Aldridge was convicted of eight armed robberies and a murder. He rediscovered his Jewish roots in prison. His mother told him it would help center him. He says she was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldridge tells me that Hanukkah is a story about fighting to have your own faith and practice your own beliefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of friction in prison,” he explains. “There’s a lot of bias in prison, and this is one way of asserting my personal identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jewish community at San Quentin is diverse. Many are African-American, including Ahmed Polley. Thirty-two years ago, he killed his wife after an argument in San Diego. He’s been in prison ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384452\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Hyman, the Jewish Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, is retiring after ten years of working with the Jewish congregation at the prison. 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What draws him to the services is “an emotional connection being with people who love and worship God,” adding that “it’s made me a better person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the men Hyman ministers to, about 35 are on death row. She meets with those inmates individually. And while she has read their files and knows they have all done upsetting things, she believes that “it isn’t true that the men on the row are some kind of monsters. It’s just not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says, in fact, that most of these men are not that different from her. But after a decade at San Quentin, Hyman seems a bit worn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These men are in exile,” she says, “being separated from community, from friends, from family. There’s a tremendous amount of pain here. And that takes a toll. It takes a toll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be Hyman’s last Hanukkah at San Quentin. At age 67, she’s hanging up her prayer shawl at the end of this month. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyman says that there are 80 to 90 men who attend her classes and services. Some were raised Jewish; others came to the faith later in life, often while in prison. But, she says, however they came to Judaism, most are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They want to know “if there is a God. If there is a God, what does that God want me to do? How should I live? Why am I here? How can I change? Those kinds of things,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384451\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg\" alt=\"The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10384451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-400x214.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut-800x429.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13786_sq-hanukkah3-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jewish congregation at San Quentin State Prison has around 80 to 90 members, according to Jewish Chaplain Carole Hyman. (Adam Grossberg/KQED) \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hyman has been the Jewish chaplain at San Quentin for 10 years. Her spiritual work in prisons began 14 years ago after a long career in the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the inmates at this Hanukkah service are serving life sentences — many for first- or second-degree murder. Hyman says she decided early on that she would read the court transcripts on these men, but only after she got to know them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can read something on paper and be utterly appalled and shocked by it,” she says. “But when the person is in front of me, that’s not how I’m relating to them. That’s not who I see them as. Thank God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate Raymond Aldridge had a Jewish mother, but he was not raised with any religion. In 1977 Aldridge was convicted of eight armed robberies and a murder. He rediscovered his Jewish roots in prison. His mother told him it would help center him. He says she was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldridge tells me that Hanukkah is a story about fighting to have your own faith and practice your own beliefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of friction in prison,” he explains. “There’s a lot of bias in prison, and this is one way of asserting my personal identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jewish community at San Quentin is diverse. Many are African-American, including Ahmed Polley. Thirty-two years ago, he killed his wife after an argument in San Diego. He’s been in prison ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10384452\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13789_sq-hanukkah9-scr-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Hyman, the Jewish Chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, is retiring after ten years of working with the Jewish congregation at the prison. 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"content": "\u003cp>For most of her three decades in prison, Joyce Largo told herself she didn’t commit murder. She was only the driver, while other teenagers she was with kidnapped and killed a paraplegic man whose van they stole. But now she’s graduating from a program that made her spend months really mapping out all the people affected by her crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to write an impact letter, an impact statement, and it really opened my eyes to my crime. Before, I only saw it in a shallow way,” says Largo. “After I wrote it all out, I was shocked that I had more involvement than I thought I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been incarcerated since she was 16. Now she’s 48. But she says that, until now, there were no in-depth rehabilitation programs for “lifers” in prison like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182251213″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largo is one of about 150 women graduating from a new program at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CCWF.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a> in Chowchilla, the largest women’s prison in the nation. It’s a months-long course designed to help prisoners tackle drug and alcohol addiction, anger management and family relationships. They also have to take an intensive class to help them understand the impact of their crimes on victims and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denial is real. It’s very difficult to look at yourself, especially if you’ve done horrible things,” says inmate Candace MacDonald, who is serving a life sentence for breaking into a 73-year-old man’s home in Eureka and beating and smothering him to death in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was high on methamphetamine when she committed the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SKDHqrplcZO9yxLK9ViDjDU8EktaT4HN”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my addiction, I did things that I would never do. Then I hated the things I was doing, so I would do more drugs because I hated the things I was doing,” she adds. “It’s just a horrible cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald is now 64 years old, and one of a number of senior citizen inmates who’ve spent most of their adult lives in prison. Some now use walkers or wheelchairs. She says in all her years here, this is the first program that’s truly pushed her to work deeply on herself. It held a mirror to her, made her dig into painful truths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to peel that away, and look deep down inside, and gain an understanding of what you have done, and how it affected all of the people around you,” she says. “The ripple effect is incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald has unsuccessfully presented her case before the parole board a number of times over the years, repeating the same testimony she gave at her trial. But after doing this program, she says, she was able to speak from her heart and truly admit her regret. Last week, the board recommended that she be released on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10383400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. 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I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although prisons like the Central California Women’s Facility have offered some substance abuse support groups in the past, the state has never really invested in this kind of rehab for lifers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s\u003c/em> Scott Shafer has \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the impact of some of those changes for male prisoners\u003c/a>, including this powerful \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">video \u003c/a>about lifer James Houston, released on parole in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program at Chowchilla is the first rehab program for women lifers that’s officially recognized by the Board of Parole Hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really signals something very powerful happening inside of California’s prisons,” says Dana Simas. a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says nearly 800 California inmates serving life sentences have been released on parole this year, compared with just 25 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift comes as California is under a U.S. Supreme Court order to relieve prison overcrowding. But Simas says that’s not why lifers are getting paroled. It has more to do with a 2008 state Supreme Court hearing that made it harder to deny parole to inmates no longer considered dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been given an opportunity for redemption. And we hope they take advantage of that, because it’s something that didn’t happen before,” adds Simas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduating from the rehab program at Chowchilla by no means guarantees parole. Inmates still have to go before the parole board and make their case, and the governor can block their release with a veto. Gov. Jerry Brown, though, is allowing around 80 percent of parole recommendations to move forward, far more than previous governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Simas underscores that the women have to follow through with changing their lives and behavior if they’re paroled. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amelie Le Moullac was riding her bike to Caltrain \"following all the rules of the road\" on the morning of Aug. 14, 2013, in San Francisco's South of Market district, when she was fatally struck by a 26,000-pound delivery truck whose driver made an unsafe right turn, the attorneys for the young woman's family argued in court Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilberto Alcantar \"failed to follow all the rules of the road and crushed and killed Amelie Le Moullac,\" attorney William Veen told jurors at the start of a civil jury trial in the wrongful death lawsuit against the 47-year-old truck driver and the company he works for, Daylight Foods of Milpitas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, police blamed Le Moullac, 24, for her death, but later faulted Alcantar after a San Francisco Bicycle Coalition staffer did some simple detective work and uncovered surveillance video of the crash, something the police had failed to check for. 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He accused Alcantar of giving conflicting stories, and said he failed to change lanes safely -- as the law requires -- and, based on a witness account -- did not have a turn signal on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veen said Alcantar saw Le Moullac pedaling eastbound and passed her on Folsom Street, but later lost sight of her -- and without slowing down, turned right across the bike lane, southbound onto Sixth Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She didn't have a chance. It was unavoidable for her but very avoidable for Mr. Alcantar,\" said Veen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than dial 911, Veen said Alcantar stopped the truck and called his employer after running over Le Moullac while other people came to her side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his opening statements, Alcantar's attorney, Brent Anderson, alleged Le Moullac was wearing earbuds and was distracted. 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He alleged Le Moullac was riding \"two times as fast\" and \"caught the truck and was passing it on the right while the truck was making a right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those were the choices that she made,\" Anderson told jurors. \"We think it is unfair to blame Mr. Alcantar for this accident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said bicyclists have an \"obligation\" to pass on the left of a right-turning vehicle, which is good safety advice but not actually the law, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/vctop/vc/d11/c3/a3/21755\">the California Vehicle Code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same passing advice was \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/21/at-safe-streets-rally-sfpd-blocks-bike-lane-to-make-point-of-victim-blaming/\">told to bike advocates by an SFPD sergeant \u003c/a>who blocked the bike lane at a memorial for Le Moullac. 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"content": "\u003cp>After hearing the testimony of about 10 people who said they were treated unnecessarily roughly during \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">a Dec. 6 protest\u003c/a>, the Police Review Commission voted last week to ask Berkeley city officials to restrict the use of tear gas, over-the-shoulder baton hits and firing projectiles as a form of crowd control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission, which put the issue on last Wednesday's agenda as an emergency measure, is hoping the Berkeley City Council will do the same at its meeting Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our proposal was for a cooling-off period,” said Alison Bernstein, vice chair of the PRC. “[Using tear gas] is a crowd-control technique. We’re not saying it’s right. We’re not saying it’s wrong. But we are hearing serious concerns from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10379684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/rosos2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10379684\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/rosos2.png\" alt=\"Berkeley police used tear gas to break up protests on Dec. 6. (Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/rosos2.png 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/rosos2-400x266.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police used tear gas to break up protests on Dec. 6. (Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the Saturday night of Dec. 6, Berkeley police and officers from other agencies \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">fired tear gas and non-lethal projectiles\u003c/a> into crowds of people who had gathered on Telegraph Avenue to protest the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police in Missouri and on Staten Island. The demonstration started off peacefully earlier that night as a group had marched from the UC Berkeley campus toward downtown, where some conducted a “die-in” by lying in the middle of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, the protesters moved toward the Berkeley police station on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. According to Police Chief Michael Meehan, some protesters started to throw rocks and bricks at officers stationed there. The protesters pushed through a police line to make their way to University Avenue, where a few protesters smashed the windows of Trader Joe’s, Wells Fargo Bank and other businesses, starting around 6:40 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ejslNyI4ec0lNPlOyZpyjhBKTYCIy7Ym\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the protesters made their way back to Telegraph Avenue between Bancroft and Dwight after 9 p.m., Berkeley police issued numerous verbal orders to disperse. When the crowd would not leave, police officers lined up and pushed the crowd south on Telegraph. Officers used their batons to rake and jab people — a common crowd-control technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the situation deteriorated. Police fired tear gas into the crowd around 10:20 p.m. to force it to move south. Some police officers used their batons to hit protesters on the head, legs and arms, according to a number of people who were hit. Officers trapped part of the crowd at Telegraph and Dwight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moni Law, a housing counselor for the Rent Stabilization Board, said Friday her back was still hurting after she was hit from behind by a police baton. She said two Berkeley police officers swung at her even though she was standing peacefully in the street. She got their badge numbers and has filed an incident report with the PRC. So far, her complaint is the only one filed with the PRC about the protests, according to Byron Norris, an investigator for the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10379685\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/pincus.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10379685\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/pincus.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Pincus said an officer hit her on the head, drawing blood, during the Dec. 6 protests. (Cindy Pincus/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Pincus said an officer hit her on the head, drawing blood, during the Dec. 6 protests. (Cindy Pincus/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Chris Stines, president of the Berkeley Police Association, said he has worked at hundreds of protests during his 16 years as a Berkeley police officer and has never seen one as violent as the Dec. 6 event in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched an officer get hit in the head with a crowbar,” said Stines. “I watched an officer next to me get hit with an ice pick. I had a bottle come flying at my head. I ducked, and it hit the officer behind me. There were multiple attacks against us that could have been deadly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stines was injured when he arrested a man who had thrown a sandbag at an officer and dislocated his shoulder, he said. Stines cut up his knee badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stines said police resorted to tear gas because the crowd was so violent. He does not think the PRC or City Council should take away the ability to use tear gas until there is a thorough and complete review of what happened Dec. 6. Stines said there is a lot of video that was produced by news agencies and protesters that can be reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be due process before anyone rushes to judgment and takes away a tool that we don’t use frequently,” said Stines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meehan has said he cannot let his officers get injured, and that is why he approved the use of tear gas Dec. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear what kind of review, if any, the city plans to do of the demonstration. Meehan said at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/09/breaking-city-of-berkeley-calls-invite-only-press-conference-for-tv-news-only/\" target=\"_blank\">a press conference Tuesday\u003c/a> that his department will review complaints, including those of police officers covering their badges with tape so they cannot be identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Council members Kriss Worthington and Jesse Arreguín have called for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/10/2-officials-demand-investigation-into-police-tear-gas-use-in-berkeley-protest/\" target=\"_blank\">independent investigation of police actions\u003c/a>. City Councilwoman Linda Maio has also said the city should look into all of the allegations of force used by police, but she did not mention wanting a complete review of that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police are already guided by a set of rules and procedures that outlines how they should act during protests, and how they should use both lethal and non-lethal force. Berkeley police are prohibited, for example, from using pepper spray as a form of crowd control. They are also barred from using chokeholds, like the one that contributed to Garner’s death in Staten Island. Berkeley police cannot use rubber bullets or Tasers either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing rules allow the use of chemical agents, but there is nothing specific about tear gas. Bernstein said the entire PRC feels those circumstances need to be spelled out specifically, along with conditions when it may be appropriate to use over-the-shoulder baton hits and projectiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the City Council does not take up the question as an emergency agenda item at its next meeting — scheduled for Tuesday — it will most likely look at the issue in January, said Bernstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Bates said he, alone, does not have the authority to create an emergency agenda item. That would be up to the entire council to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She said two Berkeley police officers swung at her even though she was standing peacefully in the street. She got their badge numbers and has filed an incident report with the PRC. So far, her complaint is the only one filed with the PRC about the protests, according to Byron Norris, an investigator for the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10379685\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/pincus.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10379685\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/pincus.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Pincus said an officer hit her on the head, drawing blood, during the Dec. 6 protests. (Cindy Pincus/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Pincus said an officer hit her on the head, drawing blood, during the Dec. 6 protests. (Cindy Pincus/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Chris Stines, president of the Berkeley Police Association, said he has worked at hundreds of protests during his 16 years as a Berkeley police officer and has never seen one as violent as the Dec. 6 event in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched an officer get hit in the head with a crowbar,” said Stines. “I watched an officer next to me get hit with an ice pick. I had a bottle come flying at my head. I ducked, and it hit the officer behind me. There were multiple attacks against us that could have been deadly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stines was injured when he arrested a man who had thrown a sandbag at an officer and dislocated his shoulder, he said. Stines cut up his knee badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stines said police resorted to tear gas because the crowd was so violent. 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City Councilwoman Linda Maio has also said the city should look into all of the allegations of force used by police, but she did not mention wanting a complete review of that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police are already guided by a set of rules and procedures that outlines how they should act during protests, and how they should use both lethal and non-lethal force. Berkeley police are prohibited, for example, from using pepper spray as a form of crowd control. They are also barred from using chokeholds, like the one that contributed to Garner’s death in Staten Island. Berkeley police cannot use rubber bullets or Tasers either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing rules allow the use of chemical agents, but there is nothing specific about tear gas. 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"disqusTitle": "Artist Group Claims Responsibility for Noose Effigies at Cal ",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong> An anonymous artists’ collective has taken responsibility for the effigies strung up in nooses at UC Berkeley on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement from the collective:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We are a collective of queer and POC artists responsible for the images of historical lynchings posted to several locations in Berkeley and Oakland,” reads a notice the group found posted on campus Sunday. “These images connect past events to present ones – referencing endemic faultlines of hatred and persecution that are and should be deeply unsettling to the American consciousness. We choose to remain anonymous because this is not about us as artists, but about the growing movement to address these pervasive wrongs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who think these images are no longer relevant to the social framework in which black Americans exist everyday – we respectfully disagree. Garner, Brown, and others are victims of systemic racism. For those who think these images depict crimes and attitudes too distasteful to be seen .. we respectfully disagree. Our society must never forget. For those under the mistaken assumption that the images themselves were intended as an act of racism – we vehemently disagree and intended only the confrontation of historical context.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We apologize solely and profusely to Black Americans who felt further attacked by this work. We are sorry – your pain is ours, our families’, our history’s. To all, each image represents a true life ended by an unimaginable act of ignorance and human cruelty: Laura Nelson, George Meadows, Michael Donald, Charlie Hale, Garfield Burley, Curtis Brown. We urge you to further research the lives and deaths of these individuals. History must be confronted.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/autonomyroad/status/544293400095121408\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo Gonzalez, a Cal professor of Chicano studies, said the notice above was posted on a bulletin board on the UC Berkeley campus and passed on to him. He, in turn, posted it on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside has reached out to multiple individuals affiliated with the collective to try to talk directly with them, but has not to this point received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent the following message to the campus community shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday. It appears below in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll down for details of the noose incident, information from police about what took place on campus Saturday and an interview with a UC Berkeley professor who is an expert on the psychology of race relations. The statement from Nicholas Dirks follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dear campus community,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday morning, two hanging effigies were left on Sather Gate with reports of a third elsewhere on campus. We are not sure about the intent of these effigies as one contained the words “Can’t Breathe,” but nonetheless, the imagery was deeply disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African American community has historically faced the terrorism of lynchings used in an attempt to suppress and control. While we do not know the intent of the effigies, the impact that it has had on our campus community is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No individual or group has claimed responsibility. If you were responsible for this, we invite you to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We must all be vigilant to ensure that we are creating a campus environment that allows for the free exchange of ideas and doesn’t frighten or intimidate people. Our campus climate reminds us that we still have great deal of work to do to make this campus a welcoming place for all members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been and will continue to work with the student leadership, the Black Student Union and others on campus staff and groups to create opportunities to address the concerns and develop a plan for improving our campus climate, not only related to these effigies but also the events of the past several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recognize the stress and anxiety that current events are generating for the members of our extended community, and have faith that we will emerge stronger and more unified, precisely through our commitment to realizing the inclusion and justice that have long been the promise of this institution and this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Claude Steele\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Police are examining the incident. Investigators believe the effigies were connected to a smaller protest in Berkeley at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley protest organizers said they didn’t know where they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope that it’s someone who wanted to bring attention to the issue,” said one of the organizers, Spencer Pritchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:15 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>The Rev.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Michael McBride, who received tweeted photos of the effigies Saturday morning, said “the anonymity connected to that expression, whether it was by antagonists or allies, contributes to the racial terror that black people have to face in the country. We find it radically insensitive at best and a re-inscription of racial terror … and we need everybody to join with us to say #BlackLivesMatter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:40 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> It appears as if one of the effigies hung from Sather Gate is a replica of a famous photo of a young man who was lynched in 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Saturday:\u003c/strong> One of the effigies is a cardboard cutout of a woman with “#I Can’t Breathe,” and “Laura Nelson 1911” written on it. Nelson and her son, L.D. Nelson, were lynched on May 25, 1911, in Oklahoma, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Laura_and_L.D._Nelson\">according to Wikipedia.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pastormykmac/status/543874329587372033/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lynchings happened after the deputy sheriff and three others arrived at the Nelson home on May 2 to investigate the theft of a cow. L.D. Nelson shot and killed the deputy sheriff, and he and Laura Nelson, who had also touched the gun, were charged with murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-179073 size-medium\" src=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-13-at-1.38.49-PM-251x360.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-13 at 1.38.49 PM\" width=\"251\" height=\"360\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At around midnight on May 24, Laura and L.D. Nelson were both kidnapped from their cells by a group of between a dozen and 40 men,” according to Wikipedia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sightseers gathered on the bridge the following morning and photographs of the hanging bodies were sold as postcards; the one of Laura is the only known surviving photograph of a female lynching victim. No one was ever charged with the murders; the district judge convened a grand jury, but the killers were never identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:10 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://mendoza-denton.socialpsychology.org/\">Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton\u003c/a>, a UC Berkeley professor and national expert on intergroup relations — particularly related to race — said Saturday afternoon that he had been upset to learn about the effigies on campus earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s commentary or provocation, it’s atrocious,” he said. “It’s just mean, period. And heartless. And whoever did that simply needs to grow up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said it’s difficult to know exactly how to interpret the effigies, whether as a “thoughtless joke” or “straight-up inflammatory racist behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It falls somewhere along the line between prank and consciously racist messaging,” he said. “But it doesn’t matter. It’s absolutely thoughtless and wrong. Given the volatility of the situation, it’s just damaging to everybody. It’s a very public and clear example that racism exists at all levels of society, and it’s precisely the kind of symbol that protesters are protesting against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said he has been keeping a close eye on this past week’s protests in Berkeley, and had been sad to see all the broken windows in businesses downtown as he drove through the area Saturday. He said he does not support the violence but, “at the same time, there’s a lot of pent-up frustration and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said, beyond the protests, the community needs a forum to come together for healing and communication. A week and a half ago, the UC Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/04/breaking-cal-students-hold-black-lives-matter-rally/\">Black Student Union held one such event on campus\u003c/a>, and Berkeley High students along with REALM Charter School students staged a \u003ca title=\"Black Lives Matter protest by hundreds of Berkeley High students ‘shows how it’s done’\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/11/black-lives-matter-protest-by-hundreds-of-berkeley-high-students-shows-how-its-done/\">walkout and rally\u003c/a>, which culminated with a “die-in” on the UC Berkeley campus several days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said there have been a number of informal forums, but that nothing large-scale has been planned by the university to his knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to come together to heal,” he said. “There are a lot of different factions, a lot of different voices, and not a lot of control over the messaging one way or another. We need a forum to help us process these very emotionally laden, very relevant events. But that has to be a two-way street. It has to be a dialogue. And there’s got to be goodwill. And effigies are the very antithesis of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:26 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Saturday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley spokeswoman Claire Holmes called Berkeleyside back to clarify some information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said University of California Police Department officers found two effigies hanging from Sather Gate on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also saw a photo of a third effigy in an area they think was the Campanile. When police went to remove it, they could not find it, said Holmes. Police believe that someone else took it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the effigies hanging from Sather Gate had “Can’t Breathe,” written on it. Eric Garner kept saying that when Staten Island police held him in a chokehold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effigies were life-size, she said They were cardboard cutouts, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Police received its first call about the matter at 9:10 a.m., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:07 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>UC police found three effigies hanging from a noose on the UC Berkeley campus this morning, according to Claire Holmes, a university spokeswoman. There was some writing on the effigies, including “Put Your Hands Up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effigies were found at Sather Gate and around the Campanile, she said. No suspects have been detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unclear what the intent was,,” said Holmes. “It could be that these are related to police violence and the protests that are going on in Ferguson. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent the following message to the campus community shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday. It appears below in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll down for details of the noose incident, information from police about what took place on campus Saturday and an interview with a UC Berkeley professor who is an expert on the psychology of race relations. The statement from Nicholas Dirks follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dear campus community,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday morning, two hanging effigies were left on Sather Gate with reports of a third elsewhere on campus. We are not sure about the intent of these effigies as one contained the words “Can’t Breathe,” but nonetheless, the imagery was deeply disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African American community has historically faced the terrorism of lynchings used in an attempt to suppress and control. While we do not know the intent of the effigies, the impact that it has had on our campus community is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No individual or group has claimed responsibility. If you were responsible for this, we invite you to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We must all be vigilant to ensure that we are creating a campus environment that allows for the free exchange of ideas and doesn’t frighten or intimidate people. Our campus climate reminds us that we still have great deal of work to do to make this campus a welcoming place for all members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been and will continue to work with the student leadership, the Black Student Union and others on campus staff and groups to create opportunities to address the concerns and develop a plan for improving our campus climate, not only related to these effigies but also the events of the past several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recognize the stress and anxiety that current events are generating for the members of our extended community, and have faith that we will emerge stronger and more unified, precisely through our commitment to realizing the inclusion and justice that have long been the promise of this institution and this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Claude Steele\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Police are examining the incident. Investigators believe the effigies were connected to a smaller protest in Berkeley at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley protest organizers said they didn’t know where they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope that it’s someone who wanted to bring attention to the issue,” said one of the organizers, Spencer Pritchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:15 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>The Rev.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Michael McBride, who received tweeted photos of the effigies Saturday morning, said “the anonymity connected to that expression, whether it was by antagonists or allies, contributes to the racial terror that black people have to face in the country. We find it radically insensitive at best and a re-inscription of racial terror … and we need everybody to join with us to say #BlackLivesMatter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:40 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> It appears as if one of the effigies hung from Sather Gate is a replica of a famous photo of a young man who was lynched in 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Saturday:\u003c/strong> One of the effigies is a cardboard cutout of a woman with “#I Can’t Breathe,” and “Laura Nelson 1911” written on it. Nelson and her son, L.D. Nelson, were lynched on May 25, 1911, in Oklahoma, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Laura_and_L.D._Nelson\">according to Wikipedia.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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No one was ever charged with the murders; the district judge convened a grand jury, but the killers were never identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:10 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://mendoza-denton.socialpsychology.org/\">Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton\u003c/a>, a UC Berkeley professor and national expert on intergroup relations — particularly related to race — said Saturday afternoon that he had been upset to learn about the effigies on campus earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s commentary or provocation, it’s atrocious,” he said. “It’s just mean, period. And heartless. And whoever did that simply needs to grow up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said it’s difficult to know exactly how to interpret the effigies, whether as a “thoughtless joke” or “straight-up inflammatory racist behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It falls somewhere along the line between prank and consciously racist messaging,” he said. “But it doesn’t matter. It’s absolutely thoughtless and wrong. Given the volatility of the situation, it’s just damaging to everybody. It’s a very public and clear example that racism exists at all levels of society, and it’s precisely the kind of symbol that protesters are protesting against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said he has been keeping a close eye on this past week’s protests in Berkeley, and had been sad to see all the broken windows in businesses downtown as he drove through the area Saturday. He said he does not support the violence but, “at the same time, there’s a lot of pent-up frustration and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton said, beyond the protests, the community needs a forum to come together for healing and communication. 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We need a forum to help us process these very emotionally laden, very relevant events. But that has to be a two-way street. It has to be a dialogue. And there’s got to be goodwill. And effigies are the very antithesis of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:26 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Saturday:\u003c/strong> UC Berkeley spokeswoman Claire Holmes called Berkeleyside back to clarify some information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said University of California Police Department officers found two effigies hanging from Sather Gate on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also saw a photo of a third effigy in an area they think was the Campanile. When police went to remove it, they could not find it, said Holmes. Police believe that someone else took it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the effigies hanging from Sather Gate had “Can’t Breathe,” written on it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area protesters joined tens of thousands of others marching nationwide Saturday against police brutality in a demonstration dubbed the \"Millions March.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests began peacefully all over the Bay Area in the afternoon. In Oakland, more than 3,000 people peacefully marched from Frank Ogawa Plaza to the Alameda County Courthouse waving \"Black Lives Matter\" signs and chanting \"I can't breathe!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or: \"'Hands up, don't shoot!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, an Oakland-based organizer who helped coordinate the march, set the tone of the afternoon early at Broadway and 14th Street, calling black people to the front of the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We appreciate our white allies, and we appreciate you not using a megaphone today,\" Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378163\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of people marched in Oakland on Saturday afternoon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people marched in Oakland on Saturday afternoon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks says that the current nationwide protests against police brutality have roots in the Oakland protests over the killing of Oscar Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The civil rights movement didn’t just happen in 1960, 1970. It started in the '20s and the '30s in New York, and that’s how organizing goes,\" she said. \"What people are clamoring for is developing long-term solutions so that excitement doesn’t just happen when we catch the cops killing someone on camera.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers called for the federal government to intervene in what they call biased investigations of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinasa Ozonsi also helped organize the march and is a member of the Black Student Union at Cal State East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a collective effort by a coalition of various community-based groups,” she said. “We’re gathered here today to mourn the loss of Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others who have essentially been killed by terrorism, police terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, Ifeany Ozonsi, is a student at City College of San Francisco, studying biology. He said he and his sister were born and raised in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly it makes me feel sad,” he said. “I’m a black American male, and I have to have a certain fear. Even if I’m doing good, if I’m walking down the street I could get shot just for being black. It’s scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “Peace, that’s all we want. I want to be able to live a peaceful and fear-free life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred black people led the march of thousands from Oakland's city center to the René C. Davidson Courthouse at 12th and Fallon streets. The crowd filled city blocks for at least half the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, spoke in front of the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want officers to be held accountable for their actions,\" she said. \"[To] feel that pain just as we have to feel it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people dispersed after several speeches at the courthouse. But after dark, a much smaller group of people continued marching on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several hundred people marched up Harrison Street, a group of people vandalized the Whole Foods store and attacked a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police gave an order to disperse and the crowd turned away from Lake Merritt. A group of cyclists cleared the way as demonstrators on foot marched back toward Interstate 880. That began an ongoing evening of cat-and-mouse with police, who would shut down on-ramps and streets as protesters neared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protests in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10378110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands protesting police brutality marched down Market street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands protesting police brutality marched up Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, hundreds of people staged a \"die-in\" at the Ferry Building. Several Muni bus lines and the Embarcadero Center were briefly shut down as thousands of people marched up Market Street to the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front of City Hall, Refugio Nieto, the father of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto,\u003c/a> and Cadine Williams, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/08/san-francisco-cops-kills-suspected-car-thief\" target=\"_blank\">O'Shaine Evans,\u003c/a> spoke about what it was like to have their family members fatally shot by San Francisco police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life you're taking. You took someone's loved one from them. So every time I get a chance, I'm marching to let you know who O'Shaine Evans is. And that we want justice, and hopefully by the time they get to O'Shaine Evans' case, we will get some justice. Because I see Eric Garner, and I see Michael Brown, and there was no justice,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expressed empathy with those protesters who become violent, saying that they see breaking things as the only way to express their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are angry. This is a calmer group of people, but people are angry. I'm angry, my brother is gone, I'm never going to see my brother again,\" Williams said. \"I see my mother every day crying; that's enough to make me angry. And when I get angry I get out there, I get out there in the street and I protest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub-crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco protesters briefly mixed into \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacon.info/San_Francisco-CA/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Con\u003c/a> revelers downtown. One demonstrator, James Jennison, used the annual holiday event as a disguise. Jennison, dressed as Santa, says that he had a flash bang explode on his foot at a peaceful protest in Berkeley where \"cops started instigating stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to see some more accountability with law enforcement and the way that they are trained and the way that they handle situations,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennison was one of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/3-men-charged-in-Oakland-protest-looting-5928604.php\" target=\"_blank\">79 people arrested \u003c/a>in San Francisco on Black Friday, and was charged with obstructing an officer, a felony, as well as a misdemeanor battery on a police officer. He said he hoped that Saturday's protest would stay peaceful because violence takes away from the message he wants to send.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown, high-end shops like Dior and Prada closed an hour early Saturday night, at 6 p.m. Gump's boarded its windows and had additional security guards. Protesters continued up from the Civic Center, demonstrating at the Mission Police Station and briefly blocking 24th and Mission streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, police \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/effigies-of-lynched-people-hung-on-uc-berkeley-campus\" target=\"_blank\">removed life-size photographs of lynching victims\u003c/a> that had been hung on the Cal campus. Investigators believe they were connected to a smaller protest in Berkeley at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley protest organizers said they didn't know where they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hope that it's someone who wanted to bring attention to the issue,\" said one of the organizers, Spencer Pritchard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Day of Protest in Pictures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://storify.com/kqednews/thousands-protest-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-fran\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nickolai Morris contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area protesters joined tens of thousands of others marching nationwide Saturday against police brutality in a demonstration dubbed the \"Millions March.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests began peacefully all over the Bay Area in the afternoon. In Oakland, more than 3,000 people peacefully marched from Frank Ogawa Plaza to the Alameda County Courthouse waving \"Black Lives Matter\" signs and chanting \"I can't breathe!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or: \"'Hands up, don't shoot!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, an Oakland-based organizer who helped coordinate the march, set the tone of the afternoon early at Broadway and 14th Street, calling black people to the front of the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We appreciate our white allies, and we appreciate you not using a megaphone today,\" Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378163\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of people marched in Oakland on Saturday afternoon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13668_IMG_8229-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people marched in Oakland on Saturday afternoon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks says that the current nationwide protests against police brutality have roots in the Oakland protests over the killing of Oscar Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The civil rights movement didn’t just happen in 1960, 1970. It started in the '20s and the '30s in New York, and that’s how organizing goes,\" she said. \"What people are clamoring for is developing long-term solutions so that excitement doesn’t just happen when we catch the cops killing someone on camera.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers called for the federal government to intervene in what they call biased investigations of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinasa Ozonsi also helped organize the march and is a member of the Black Student Union at Cal State East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a collective effort by a coalition of various community-based groups,” she said. “We’re gathered here today to mourn the loss of Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others who have essentially been killed by terrorism, police terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, Ifeany Ozonsi, is a student at City College of San Francisco, studying biology. He said he and his sister were born and raised in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly it makes me feel sad,” he said. “I’m a black American male, and I have to have a certain fear. Even if I’m doing good, if I’m walking down the street I could get shot just for being black. It’s scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “Peace, that’s all we want. I want to be able to live a peaceful and fear-free life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred black people led the march of thousands from Oakland's city center to the René C. Davidson Courthouse at 12th and Fallon streets. The crowd filled city blocks for at least half the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_8916.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One photographer protects another photographer who declined to be identified. He was attacked for taking photos moments after a window at Whole Foods was smashed. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, spoke in front of the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want officers to be held accountable for their actions,\" she said. \"[To] feel that pain just as we have to feel it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people dispersed after several speeches at the courthouse. But after dark, a much smaller group of people continued marching on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several hundred people marched up Harrison Street, a group of people vandalized the Whole Foods store and attacked a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police gave an order to disperse and the crowd turned away from Lake Merritt. A group of cyclists cleared the way as demonstrators on foot marched back toward Interstate 880. That began an ongoing evening of cat-and-mouse with police, who would shut down on-ramps and streets as protesters neared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protests in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10378110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands protesting police brutality marched down Market street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands protesting police brutality marched up Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday December 13, 2014. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, hundreds of people staged a \"die-in\" at the Ferry Building. Several Muni bus lines and the Embarcadero Center were briefly shut down as thousands of people marched up Market Street to the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front of City Hall, Refugio Nieto, the father of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto,\u003c/a> and Cadine Williams, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/08/san-francisco-cops-kills-suspected-car-thief\" target=\"_blank\">O'Shaine Evans,\u003c/a> spoke about what it was like to have their family members fatally shot by San Francisco police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life you're taking. You took someone's loved one from them. So every time I get a chance, I'm marching to let you know who O'Shaine Evans is. And that we want justice, and hopefully by the time they get to O'Shaine Evans' case, we will get some justice. Because I see Eric Garner, and I see Michael Brown, and there was no justice,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expressed empathy with those protesters who become violent, saying that they see breaking things as the only way to express their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are angry. This is a calmer group of people, but people are angry. I'm angry, my brother is gone, I'm never going to see my brother again,\" Williams said. \"I see my mother every day crying; that's enough to make me angry. And when I get angry I get out there, I get out there in the street and I protest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10378112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10378112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub-crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13680_JV0A0618-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SantaCon, an annual Santa-clad pub crawl, coincided with the march protesting police brutality. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco protesters briefly mixed into \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacon.info/San_Francisco-CA/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Con\u003c/a> revelers downtown. One demonstrator, James Jennison, used the annual holiday event as a disguise. Jennison, dressed as Santa, says that he had a flash bang explode on his foot at a peaceful protest in Berkeley where \"cops started instigating stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to see some more accountability with law enforcement and the way that they are trained and the way that they handle situations,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennison was one of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/3-men-charged-in-Oakland-protest-looting-5928604.php\" target=\"_blank\">79 people arrested \u003c/a>in San Francisco on Black Friday, and was charged with obstructing an officer, a felony, as well as a misdemeanor battery on a police officer. He said he hoped that Saturday's protest would stay peaceful because violence takes away from the message he wants to send.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown, high-end shops like Dior and Prada closed an hour early Saturday night, at 6 p.m. Gump's boarded its windows and had additional security guards. 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As the officer and his attacker wrestled to the ground, the second officer brandished his baton and then his weapon, the photographer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We started shooting photos,\" said Short. \"It wasn't that he was targeting me -- he was trying to keep everyone in the crowd back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'd be pretty scared for my life and I think I would pull out my gun if I had one.'\u003ccite>Freelance Photographer Michael Short\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Avery Browne, chief of the Golden Gate Division of the Highway Patrol, confirmed that there were two plainclothes officers at the protest and that one of them brandished a gun. The officers had previously followed demonstrators in a car, listening to their conversations and then sending information back to the Highway Patrol and the Oakland Police Department. 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