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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some people living in campsites on the Albany Bulb will get $3,000 each to leave as part of a settlement between the East Bay City of Albany and 28 residents of the persistent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who signed the settlement must leave the Bulb by Friday, April 25, and they have agreed to stay away from public open spaces in Albany, including the Bulb and Albany Hill, for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the plaintiffs announced the settlement of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/122424/albany-homnelessness-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> today. 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More than half the people living on the Bulb said the city had failed to accommodate their disabilities and was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and threatening a violation of Fourth and 14th Amendment protections. But as the court battles dragged on, police issued more and more tickets for violating the waterfront park’s curfew, and the Bulb’s population dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about a year of outreach, Almaguer said 14 people from the Bulb, including one infant, had moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the housing outreach effectiveness is disputed by some of the Bulb residents, especially those with little or no documented income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almaguer said no one had relocated within Albany, which has no transitional housing or permanent emergency homeless shelter. 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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristopher Sullivan signed the settlement and is currently carting his belongings to a friend’s house in Berkeley. He said he hopes to fix his bike with the money, and then head north to Portland or Seattle. He said he’s been living at the Bulb for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge said we have a 99 percent chance of losing, and the cops are going to come and force people out, and they’re going to start ticketing and start arresting,” Sullivan said. “Once you’re in jail they take all your stuff anyway. So it was either going to be that or nothing at all, and possibly some days in jail, and court costs, and community service, and it would end up costing me money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he doesn’t sound like someone who had just won a fist-full of money. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversaton at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversation at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 8, 1971, Richard Nixon was in the White House, the United States was in Vietnam and J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali were in New York's Madison Square Garden, fighting for boxing's heavyweight title — an event that eight Pennsylvania residents hoped would deflect attention from their plans for the evening: burglarizing the FBI office in Media, a Philadelphia suburb with the highest concentration of Republicans in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burglars were motivated by persistent rumors that the peace and civil rights movements had been infiltrated by spies, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.theburglary.com/biography\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Medsger,\u003c/a> former chair of the journalism department at San Francisco State University. \"But there was no evidence,\" she said. \"So this was a way to determine whether or not it was true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1971 Medsger was a reporter for the Washington Post, and the burglars were mostly academics and graduate students opposed to the war in Vietnam. They anonymously sent her and four other people copies of the documents they had found, which revealed the FBI's extraordinary efforts to suppress dissent, including its blanket surveillance of black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger's story about the burglary, which ran in the Post and many other papers around the country, generated outrage and a national discussion about the role of intelligence agencies in a democratic society. Her 608-page book about the heist — and how and why it occurred — came out in January: \"The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was interviewed recently at the San Francisco City Club by freelance journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sethrosenfeld.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/a>, who wrote \"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power,\" published in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a conversation that could have gone on for weeks. Medsger and Rosenfeld know way more about the FBI than most people on the planet — and probably vice versa. The FBI spent about $1 million to prevent Rosenfeld from getting files he'd requested on Hoover and Ronald Reagan. Medsger, meanwhile, obtained the 34,000-page FBI investigation of the Media burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seth and I should probably have our heads examined,\" Medsger said. \"Both of us have read thousands of pages of FBI documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed as \"Celebrating Dissent,\" the City Club event was sponsored by S.F. State's \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.sfsu.edu/pages/center-integration-and-improvement-journalism\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism\u003c/a>, which Medsger founded in 1990. Although the journalists' conversation went back 43 years, it could not have been timelier, given Edward Snowden's revelations on National Security Agency surveillance — a subject that led to Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post and The Guardian just two days before the City Club event.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover.'\u003ccite>Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medsger told the crowd she was not nearly as well known as the other two journalists who received the stolen documents — Tom Wicker of the New York Times and Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times. She figured her coverage of the peace movement in the late '60s had played a role, and it turned out she was right: Many years later, she found out that two of her activist acquaintances in Philadelphia were among the burglars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she learned the identities of seven of the eight, and told their stories for the first time in the book, which is full of intriguing details. For instance, the aspiring burglars cased the outside of the FBI office for about two months but eventually needed to get inside to see if there was an alarm system. So, Bonnie Raines made an appointment to talk about work opportunities at the FBI, and she wore gloves to the interview to avoid leaving fingerprints. Another burglar took a correspondence course to teach himself lock-picking skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts paid off. They cleaned out the office and were never caught, despite a five-year manhunt that involved more than 200 agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They left the frame,\" Medsger noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoover Was a Towering Figure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nixon administration asked the Post not to publish Medsger's story. The newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, ignored the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in our history, the FBI was used to getting 100 percent cooperation from the media,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early '70s, Medsger didn't have to worry about competition over who would break the story first: Nelson and Wicker turned the documents over to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Intelligence was different than anything else, and intelligence was something journalists had not touched at that time,\" Medsger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journalists' wariness reflected the times. In the 1950s and '60s, Rosenfeld said, Hoover was a revered folk hero who'd been a towering figure for almost half a century. He was more popular than President Harry Truman and had developed close relationships with all the major studios in Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. George McGovern, one of two public officials who had received the stolen files, condemned the burglary, saying it would make it impossible to investigate the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To digress to now, maybe that's why Snowden didn't take documents to Congress,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger noted that Daniel Ellsberg brought the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specialreports/pentagon-papers/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Papers,\u003c/a> tracing the history of the Vietnam War, to four different senators. When none were willing to make the documents public, he turned to journalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the very unique and crucial role of the press to get information out,\" said Rosenfeld, who was an investigative reporter at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1971, Medsger continued to receive stolen files. One set had a routing slip labeled \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\" target=\"_blank\">COINTELPRO\u003c/a>, a series of covert operations designed to disrupt and discredit domestic political dissidents. The notorious program included Hoover's meanest and dirtiest tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was stunned at how much the FBI put in writing in its documents, such as telling agents that they should enhance people's paranoia and make them think there was an FBI agent behind every mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this particular time, the FBI committed almost everything to paper in a very unguarded way, even though the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) had passed five years before,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Story Set the Stage for Many More Revelations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Medsger's work, some members of Congress and editorial boards around the country called for a probe of Hoover and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though there was a strong reaction initially, things slowed down,\" Rosenfeld said. \"But a fuse had been lit by these stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after the burglary, the Pentagon Papers came out. The Watergate break-in and coverup happened the following year. In 1973, NBC News reporter Carl Stern filed the first Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in the U.S. and broke the first story about COINTELPRO, which he'd learned of after reading about the burglary. And the watershed Church Committee hearings in 1975 and 1976 were the first and most extensive investigations of FBI and CIA involvement in American lives. Many reforms followed. But in the years since 9/11, intelligence agencies have acquired much greater power to engage in domestic surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fast forward to where we are now with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/190293264/edward-snowden\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Snowden\u003c/a>,\" said Rosenfeld, who asked Medsger about similarities and differences between then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Media burglars and Snowden had the same motivation: to provide information to members of the public, who could then make decisions about whether they wanted intelligence agencies to behave in this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crucial difference is that Snowden knew exactly what he was doing and that there was valuable information,\" Medsger said. \"The FBI burglars were risking their futures without having any idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems we know an awful lot about what the NSA collected but almost nothing about how that information was used,\" Rosenfeld said. \"And Congress so far has not shown much interest in asking those questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the event began, Medsger told me, \"It seems as though I've been talking continuously ever since I arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder. She read at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com\" target=\"_blank\">Book Passage\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Ferry Building on Tuesday night, addressed a class of Knight Fellows at Stanford on Wednesday hours before the City Club talk, and went to a party Thursday evening in San Francisco that included a book discussion. She flew back later that night to New York, where she lives, so that she could attend the screening of \"1971,\" a parallel documentary on the burglary, at the Tribeca Film Festival Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the City Club event was wrapping up, Medsger mentioned that she was very happy about something that had happened in New York the day before. The city's mayor and police commissioner had disbanded a controversial special spy unit of the NYPD, shaped with the help of the CIA, that had been in place since 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger could not help but point out that The Associated Press won a Pulitzer in 2012 for its series on the unit's intelligence operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/BM-book.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133184\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/BM-book-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"This book by Betty Medsger examines a 1971 burglary of the FBI office in Media, Pa. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This book by Betty Medsger examines the 1971 burglary of the FBI office in Media, Pa. 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She figured her coverage of the peace movement in the late '60s had played a role, and it turned out she was right: Many years later, she found out that two of her activist acquaintances in Philadelphia were among the burglars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she learned the identities of seven of the eight, and told their stories for the first time in the book, which is full of intriguing details. For instance, the aspiring burglars cased the outside of the FBI office for about two months but eventually needed to get inside to see if there was an alarm system. So, Bonnie Raines made an appointment to talk about work opportunities at the FBI, and she wore gloves to the interview to avoid leaving fingerprints. Another burglar took a correspondence course to teach himself lock-picking skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts paid off. They cleaned out the office and were never caught, despite a five-year manhunt that involved more than 200 agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They left the frame,\" Medsger noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoover Was a Towering Figure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nixon administration asked the Post not to publish Medsger's story. The newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, ignored the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in our history, the FBI was used to getting 100 percent cooperation from the media,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early '70s, Medsger didn't have to worry about competition over who would break the story first: Nelson and Wicker turned the documents over to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Intelligence was different than anything else, and intelligence was something journalists had not touched at that time,\" Medsger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journalists' wariness reflected the times. In the 1950s and '60s, Rosenfeld said, Hoover was a revered folk hero who'd been a towering figure for almost half a century. He was more popular than President Harry Truman and had developed close relationships with all the major studios in Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. George McGovern, one of two public officials who had received the stolen files, condemned the burglary, saying it would make it impossible to investigate the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To digress to now, maybe that's why Snowden didn't take documents to Congress,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger noted that Daniel Ellsberg brought the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specialreports/pentagon-papers/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Papers,\u003c/a> tracing the history of the Vietnam War, to four different senators. When none were willing to make the documents public, he turned to journalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the very unique and crucial role of the press to get information out,\" said Rosenfeld, who was an investigative reporter at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1971, Medsger continued to receive stolen files. 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Actress Garcia had a five-second appearance in the video, and said she agreed to act in it under the premise that it was a \"desert adventure\" movie trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1662&context=historical\">brief\u003c/a> filed by her lawyer, Garcia said that the producer, Mark Basseley Youssef, had dubbed over her words to make it seem like she called the prophet a pedophile. 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Assuming Ms. Garcia's contribution was limited to her acting performance, we cannot register her performance apart from the motion picture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sued Google, claiming a copyright to her brief appearance, and hoping to win on the grounds that said copyright was violated when her performance was used in a way she didn't intend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Internet and copyright law experts nationwide have responded very critically to the decision, voicing the hope that it will be reversed.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Contrary to a district court’s earlier ruling and\u003cem> \u003c/em>the Copyright Office’s decision, two of the three judges on the appellate panel ruled on Garcia’s side, granting her claim on the basis that the producer, Youssef, had violated any license he had with Garcia’s performance when he lied about the nature of the video, leading to real threats against her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Content of Video 'Beside the Point'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University, and a co-author of one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/15/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Internet%20Law%20Professors.pdf\">amicus briefs\u003c/a> filed this week, the content of the video is actually beside the point. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/04/2014-04-18c-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he orders lunch at Sam Cafe in Merced, Paul Lo seems like just a regular guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll just get a lath nah combo. I’ll get a Thai lemonade, too. Thanks”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except that he’s a trailblazer in his community, the nation’s first Hmong judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells the owner, Sam Malaythong, he expects a large crowd this Friday at his swearing-in to the Merced County Superior Court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have a big party,” Lo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music, entertainment, food?” asks Malaythong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can sing if you want,” Lo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to chase everybody away in the courtroom!” replies Malaythong to Lo’s laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo says his appointment is an affirmation of those who sacrificed so much to see their children succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Hmong community, the expression is loosely translated into English to say that we have face,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or a sense of pride and equality. It’s been hard won. Like other Hmong refugees, Lo’s father fought for the United States in the secret war in Laos. When the country fell under Communist rule, the family fled on foot to Thailand, where they spent four years in a crowded refugee camp. They came to the U.S. in 1979, first to Denver, where Lo’s fifth-grade teacher stuck him in a corner with a coloring book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still remember the shame and the perception, the self-perception that you’re not adequate, not smart enough and you don’t belong,” Lo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shame drove Lo to excel in ESL classes when the family moved to Stockton two years later. By high school, he was taking advanced placement English. He went to UC Davis and then to law school at UCLA. A law firm in Merced offered him a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I passed the California bar, I was the first attorney of Hmong descent to practice in California,” Lo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was in 1994. Eventually, Lo established his own practice. His clientele consisted primarily of Hmong in the Central Valley. He became, in effect, a cultural broker. For example, families got in trouble for their religious practices, which involved the slaughter of pigs or chickens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would bring those to their homes in the city limits. They would slaughter or kill them in their front yard or the entrance to their door because that’s part of the ritual, and they were cited for those things,” says Lo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a tremendous insult to many of these families because they had a sincere religious belief and they felt they couldn’t practice their religion.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were other traditional practices to reconcile with the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents would marry off the daughters who are under 18, minor daughters. And it’s a cultural practice, early marriages,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groom would be cited for statutory rape. Most of the time, Lo says, they were able to plead out, but on a couple of occasions the groom was convicted and registered as a sex offender. One young man had a short stint in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo says he sometimes felt frustrated because he couldn’t always help the Hmong with their issues. But when he was able to solve a problem, it was tremendously gratifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their problems are magnified because of the language issue and the lack of understanding of the legal system,” Lo says\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palee Moua understands the cultural divide. She has been a medical interpreter at Mercy Hospital in Merced for 39 years. Mercy is the setting for the prize-winning book, \"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,\" by Anne Fadiman. The collision of cultures described in the book, says Moua, is one reason why interpretation, not just translation, is paramount. One word in English might lend itself to several sentences in Hmong. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the big misconception. A person like Paul who is bilingual, they do understand much better than a person who is monolingual,” says Moua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pahoua Lor, a private attorney in Fresno, says the Hmong typically distrust the judicial route and try to solve issues through a clan system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clan will go back and forth and act as a mediator,” she says. “And so, often, if that doesn’t work out, and there are children involved and there are custody issues, that’s when two parties look to the judicial system. But it usually always starts with the clan system first.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Hmong are starting to see the importance of paperwork, and that means lawyers and sometimes judges, Lor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nice wonderful thing about having Judge Lo on the bench is that he understands that, he understands that the Hmong community lives together in extended families. He understands the blended dynamics of how we do things in the community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also exciting for the community at large, Lor says. When she thinks of equality and justice for all, she thinks of Paul Lo, and for that reason, she says, his judgeship will serve everyone, not just the Hmong.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED has obtained San Francisco Police Department dispatch audio that details officers' response to a call about a man with a holstered weapon at Bernal Heights Park and the aftermath of the fatal officer-involved shooting of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March 21 shooting has stirred \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">heated controversy\u003c/a> between residents of central San Francisco's Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods and the police department. Police Chief Greg Suhr said Nieto, who carried a Taser for his job as a security guard, pointed the weapon at responding officers and \"tracked\" them with a laser sight. He said officers, who were 75 feet from Nieto when they fired, thought the pistol-shaped, brightly colored Taser was a handgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mission and Bernal Heights residents \u003ca href=\"http://justice4alexnieto.org/alex-story/\" target=\"_blank\">who knew Nieto\u003c/a> say it's unbelievable for him to have pointed the weapon at officers. Nieto often volunteered with neighborhood youth. He was a City College of San Francisco criminal justice student and aspiring juvenile probation officer who had interned with the city's probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Audio of Police Officers Responding to the Incident\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/30902557\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio surrounding the March 21 incident was obtained from \u003ca href=\"http://www.broadcastify.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Broadcastify.com\u003c/a>, which maintains an archive of San Francisco Police Department radio dispatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio mostly matches up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr's March 25\u003c/a> description of the calls and response. But it also confirms the assertions of Nieto's family and friends that he wasn't acting erratically before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radio chatter started about 7:11 p.m. on March 21. Dispatch relays a call to Ingleside Station police, describing a man \"in bright red jacket, 6'1, 200 pounds, black pants, has a gun on his hip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said after the incident that Nieto never had a gun, but that the caller might have mistaken his hip-holstered Taser for a handgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one minute, 15 seconds later, more information comes over the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's got a gun at his hip and is pacing back and forth on the north side of the park near a chain-link fence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another minute passes and a police officer asks for an update on the call about a person with a gun in Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's eating chips or sunflower seeds,\" dispatch responds, apparently relaying information from the person who called police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 7:17 p.m., an officer spots someone:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey there's a guy in a red shirt way up the hill walking toward you guys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Common police codes\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Code 33\u003c/strong> Emergency, clear this channel\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>221\u003c/strong> Person with a gun\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>217\u003c/strong> Shooting\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Code 3\u003c/strong> Police needed, use lights, sirens\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>408\u003c/strong> Ambulance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>909\u003c/strong> Citizen requesting interview\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then another officer responds, \"I got a guy right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 25 seconds later, an officer shouts, \"Shots fired! Shots fired!\" Another two officers also tell dispatch that shots have been fired, and one announces an emergency \"code 33.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More police officers radio that they are responding to an incident that quickly changed from a code 221 (person with gun) to 217 (shooting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police closed off the north side of Bernal Heights Park and cleared the way for an ambulance. They also transport two witnesses, one who they refer to as the \"original 909\" (code for a citizen requesting interview) to Ingleside Station and begin canvassing the park for other people who may have seen the shooting. Police are repeatedly requested to switch to a different radio channel to discuss the shooting, so this audio may not include all of the chatter about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispatch audio did not capture the sounds of the shooting, but Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra, said he obtained audio of what sounds like multiple gunshots from a nearby private security camera. Nieto was pronounced dead that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, whose office is representing Nieto's parents in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/14/family-of-man-slain-by-san-francisco-police-file-claim-against-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\">claim against the city\u003c/a>, said an independent viewing of Nieto's body showed at least 10 gunshot wounds, including one to Nieto's forehead. He said they had not yet obtained the dispatch tapes.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio mostly matches up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr's March 25\u003c/a> description of the calls and response. But it also confirms the assertions of Nieto's family and friends that he wasn't acting erratically before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radio chatter started about 7:11 p.m. on March 21. Dispatch relays a call to Ingleside Station police, describing a man \"in bright red jacket, 6'1, 200 pounds, black pants, has a gun on his hip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said after the incident that Nieto never had a gun, but that the caller might have mistaken his hip-holstered Taser for a handgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one minute, 15 seconds later, more information comes over the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's got a gun at his hip and is pacing back and forth on the north side of the park near a chain-link fence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another minute passes and a police officer asks for an update on the call about a person with a gun in Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's eating chips or sunflower seeds,\" dispatch responds, apparently relaying information from the person who called police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 7:17 p.m., an officer spots someone:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey there's a guy in a red shirt way up the hill walking toward you guys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Common police codes\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Code 33\u003c/strong> Emergency, clear this channel\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>221\u003c/strong> Person with a gun\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>217\u003c/strong> Shooting\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Code 3\u003c/strong> Police needed, use lights, sirens\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>408\u003c/strong> Ambulance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>909\u003c/strong> Citizen requesting interview\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then another officer responds, \"I got a guy right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 25 seconds later, an officer shouts, \"Shots fired! Shots fired!\" Another two officers also tell dispatch that shots have been fired, and one announces an emergency \"code 33.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More police officers radio that they are responding to an incident that quickly changed from a code 221 (person with gun) to 217 (shooting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police closed off the north side of Bernal Heights Park and cleared the way for an ambulance. They also transport two witnesses, one who they refer to as the \"original 909\" (code for a citizen requesting interview) to Ingleside Station and begin canvassing the park for other people who may have seen the shooting. Police are repeatedly requested to switch to a different radio channel to discuss the shooting, so this audio may not include all of the chatter about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispatch audio did not capture the sounds of the shooting, but Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra, said he obtained audio of what sounds like multiple gunshots from a nearby private security camera. Nieto was pronounced dead that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, whose office is representing Nieto's parents in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/14/family-of-man-slain-by-san-francisco-police-file-claim-against-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\">claim against the city\u003c/a>, said an independent viewing of Nieto's body showed at least 10 gunshot wounds, including one to Nieto's forehead. He said they had not yet obtained the dispatch tapes.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Born in Hong Kong in 1960, Chow came to the United States at 16 and was reportedly nicknamed "Shrimp Boy" by his grandmother, in part due to his small stature. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\" width=\"249\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the \"Dragon Head\" of the Ghee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the leader of the Chinatown-based Chee Kung Tong organization, and four other defendants pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to charges in a wide-ranging grand jury indictment filed earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and the others arraigned today were among 29 people named in the April 3 indictment, which also accuses suspended state Sen. Leland Yee of public corruption and conspiring in an alleged international arms deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges against Chow and the three other men and one woman who pleaded not guilty before U.S. Magistrate Nandor Vadas today are not directly related to the charges against Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, 54, of San Francisco, who was previously convicted of gun charges and racketeering, is accused of money laundering, conspiring to traffic in contraband cigarettes, and conspiring to transport the stolen cigarettes across state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was arrested March 27 on an earlier criminal complaint and has been held in custody since then. He previously appeared in court several times but delayed entering a plea until today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow is the leader or \"dragonhead\" of the Chee Kung Tong, described by prosecutors as a civic organization that allegedly has a criminal faction. An FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaint alleged that Chow was in charge of the criminal faction and approved its members' activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's lawyers, led by veteran defense attorney Tony Serra, contend the group is not a criminal organization but rather \"a beautiful group of people who bonded together to do beautiful things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They maintain Chow has reformed since being released from prison a decade ago and is now \"an exemplary human being\" who worked on charitable causes for black and Chinese youth in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and most of the other defendants are due to return to the court of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday for a hearing on a protective order that will set guidelines for prosecutors' release of evidence, including recordings made by undercover FBI agents, to defense attorneys. A trial date has not been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pleading not guilty today were Brandon Jackson, 28, of San Francisco, and sports agent Marlon Sullivan, 29, of Oakland, who were arrested on March 27 in Connecticut and New Jersey and made their first appearance in federal court in San Francisco today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Sullivan are accused of joining Jackson's father, former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a fictitious victim for $25,000. The murder was allegedly requested by an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a Mafia member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Jacksons and Sullivan are also accused of selling guns and ballistic vests to the undercover agent, who said he needed them to protect a Mendocino County marijuana-growing operation, according to the criminal complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Jacksons and Sullivan are also charged with conspiring to sell cocaine, which they allegedly requested from the undercover agent, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The others arraigned today are Leslie Yun, 42, and her husband, James Pau, 55, of Oakland, both described in the complaint as officers of the Chee Kung Tong. They were arrested in New York state on March 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yun and Pau pleaded not guilty to charges of laundering money from purportedly illegal activities for the undercover agent and conspiring to transport stolen cigarettes across state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Jackson, Sullivan, Yun and Pau are all being held in custody for the time being, but will have hearings before a magistrate Friday and Monday to determine whether they can be freed on bail while awaiting trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors have told Breyer that they expect to obtain a revised indictment within three months that might include charges of racketeering for running a continuing criminal enterprise. They have not said which defendants might be accused of the potential new charge.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132681\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 323px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_0499.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132681\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_0499-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0499\" width=\"323\" height=\"215\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Nieto's father, Refugio Nieto, (left) and friend Ben Bac Sierra talk to reporters outside San Francisco City Hall after filing a wrongful death claim against the city on Monday, April 14. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parents of Alejandro Nieto, the 28-year-old man shot and killed by San Francisco police officers in Bernal Heights Park March 21, filed a wrongful death claim against the city on Monday. The family, which is seeking unlimited damages, hopes the legal threat will pressure the police department and medical examiner into releasing more information about the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Zitrin, spokesman for the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, said the city has 45 days to respond to the claim, which can either be denied by the city attorney, or recommended to the Board of Supervisors for settlement. Filing a claim with the city is typically a precursor to a wrongful death lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family's attorney, civil rights litigator John Burris, is also calling for a federal investigation into the shooting of Nieto, a civic-minded man \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">loved by many\u003c/a> in his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re requesting that the U.S. attorneys here, the Department of Justice, conduct an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding (Nieto's) death, and if necessary, file criminal charges against these officers,\" Burris said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing a March 25 neighborhood meeting about the shooting, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Nieto had aimed a Taser at officers and \"tracked\" them with the stun gun's laser sight. He said officers were responding to calls about a man with a gun, and they believed Nieto was about to shoot them with a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends and family say it's impossible to believe the City College criminal justice student, a former intern with the city's probation department, would point a weapon at officers. They think that after people saw Nieto with the Taser he carried on his hip for his job as a security guard, police arrived and shot him without warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a bit of a cowboy element to this,\" Burris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim alleges Nieto was shot at least 10 times, including once in the forehead. Burris said that information came from his office's independent viewing of Nieto's body, because the San Francisco medical examiner has not released a report. 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