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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/redskins.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pro-Football Inc., \u003ca href=\"http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24082365\" target=\"_blank\">aka\u003c/a> the Washington Redskins to many NFL fans and \"that football team from Washington\" to others, today lost what could end up being an important battle in the fight over the controversial nickname. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is \"disparaging of Native Americans\" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-1 \u003ca href=\"http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92046185&pty=CAN&eno=199\" target=\"_blank\">ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board\u003c/a> came in a case that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades. It doesn't force the team to abandon the name, but it comes at a time of increasing criticism of team owner Dan Snyder from political, religious and sports figures who say it's time for a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins quickly announced that they will appeal, and the cancellation for trademark protections will be on hold while the matter makes its way through the courts. That process could take years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uspto.gov/news/USPTO_Official_Fact_Sheet_on_TTAB_decision_in_Blackhorse_v_Pro_Football_Inc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">fact sheet\u003c/a> on the case from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A \u003ca href=\"http://files.redskins.com/pdf/Statement-by-Bob-Raskopf-Trademark-Attorney-for-the-Washington-Redskins.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> from the team's trademark attorney said the team was confident it would win on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the decision is upheld, the team won't be legally required to change its name, but it will lose the protections afforded by registration of the contested trademarks. That could \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/05/10/1994961/why-never-abandoning-redskins-as-his-teams-name-might-soon-cost-dan-snyder-a-lot-of-money/\" target=\"_blank\">end up costing it a lot of money in merchandise sales\u003c/a>. As AP puts it, Washington would \"lose a significant portion of its ability to protect the financial interests connected to it. If others printed the name on sweatshirts or other apparel without permission, it would become more cumbersome to go after such groups.\" (\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2014/06/18/washington-redskins-business-unlikely-to-suffer-from-trademark-loss/\" target=\"_blank\">Not everyone agrees\u003c/a> with this analysis, however.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I don’t think there are very many people that can debate effectively that it’s not a patently racist term.'\u003ccite>— Audrey Cooper,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Chronicle managing editor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And if you're wondering, trademark law \u003ca href=\"http://www.bitlaw.com/source/15usc/1052.html#(a)\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits\u003c/a> registration of terms that \"\u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">may disparage... persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.\" Related to that standard,\u003c/span> ThinkProgress has a post called \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/06/18/3450434/7-things-that-convinced-the-us-patent-office-to-cancel-the-redskins-trademark/\" target=\"_blank\">7 Things That Convinced The U.S. Patent Office To Cancel The Redskins Trademark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the mounting pressure on the team is that some reporters and media outlets \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/09/washington-redskins-us-press-publishing\" target=\"_blank\">refuse to use the name Redskins\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/30/san-francisco-chronicle-washington-redskins/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle joined that group\u003c/a> last fall, and after the announcement, KQED's Mina Kim spoke about the decision with Chronicle Managing Editor Audrey Cooper. She said one of the paper's sports columnists first suggested considering whether use of the word was appropriate. The issue was taken up by the paper's style council, which then recommended avoiding the term whenever possible, short of obscuring clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\"If the story is about the controversy, obviously we’ll have to print the word so that people will know what we’re talking about,\" Cooper said. \"Absent that, we think it’s very easy to use the word 'Washington' to describe who, for example, won a football game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Cooper said she considered the word offensive. \"I don’t think there are very many people that can debate effectively that it’s not a patently racist term. Not everyone has to be personally offended by a word to make it a racial slur.\" She said the newsroom staff was almost unanimously in support of the decision. \"When the announcement went out to our staff, I think in the first five minutes I received about 30 emails that said it's about time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">When asked whether the paper considered survey results last year that showed 90 percent of Native Americans did not find the terms offensive, Cooper said, \"We don’t make word decisions based on popularity contests. We have decided we believe that it is a racial term.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/30/san-francisco-chronicle-washington-redskins/\" target=\"_blank\">listen to the entire interview\u003c/a> here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117860731&color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"AP\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full AP report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is \"disparaging of Native Americans\" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-1 ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board came in a case that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades. It doesn't force the team to abandon the name, but it comes at a time of increasing criticism of team owner Dan Snyder from political, religious and sports figures who say it's time for a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins quickly announced that they will appeal, and the cancellation for trademark protections will be on hold while the matter makes its way through the courts. That process could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second time the board had issued an opinion on the case. A similar ruling from 1999 was overturned on a technicality in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen this story before,\" Redskins attorney Bob Raskopf said. \"And just like last time, today's ruling will have no effect at all on the team's ownership of and right to use the Redskins name and logo. We are confident we will prevail once again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling involves six uses of the \"Redskins\" name trademarked by the team from 1967 to 1990. If it stands, it would mean the team can continue to use the name, but it would lose a significant portion of its ability to protect the financial interests connected to it. If others printed the name on sweatshirts or other apparel without permission, it would become more cumbersome to go after such groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts overturned the board's previous ruling in part because the plaintiffs waited too long to voice their opposition after the original trademarks were issued. The case was relaunched in 2006 by a younger group of Native Americans who had recently become adults and therefore would not have able to file a case earlier. The hearing was held in March of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chorus of critics against the use of the name has grown over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, a major sector of the United Church of Christ voted to urge its 40,000 members to boycott the Redskins. Half of the U.S. Senate recently wrote letters to the NFL urging a change, one of the letters stating that \"racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports.\" D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray suggested Wednesday the name will almost certainly have to change if the team ever wants to build a new stadium in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder, who has vowed repeatedly never to change the name, declined comment as he walked off the field after a minicamp practice Wednesday. Redskins players have mostly avoided the topic, aware of a potential conflict because they are employed by the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our job as players is to focus on what we can on this field day-in and day-out and let the legal people take care of that stuff,\" quarterback Robert Griffin III said after practice. \"And when it's the right time, then we can voice whatever it is we know about the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins have responded to critics by creating an Original Americans Foundation to give financial support to Native American tribes. 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That process could take years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uspto.gov/news/USPTO_Official_Fact_Sheet_on_TTAB_decision_in_Blackhorse_v_Pro_Football_Inc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">fact sheet\u003c/a> on the case from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A \u003ca href=\"http://files.redskins.com/pdf/Statement-by-Bob-Raskopf-Trademark-Attorney-for-the-Washington-Redskins.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> from the team's trademark attorney said the team was confident it would win on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the decision is upheld, the team won't be legally required to change its name, but it will lose the protections afforded by registration of the contested trademarks. That could \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/05/10/1994961/why-never-abandoning-redskins-as-his-teams-name-might-soon-cost-dan-snyder-a-lot-of-money/\" target=\"_blank\">end up costing it a lot of money in merchandise sales\u003c/a>. As AP puts it, Washington would \"lose a significant portion of its ability to protect the financial interests connected to it. If others printed the name on sweatshirts or other apparel without permission, it would become more cumbersome to go after such groups.\" (\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2014/06/18/washington-redskins-business-unlikely-to-suffer-from-trademark-loss/\" target=\"_blank\">Not everyone agrees\u003c/a> with this analysis, however.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I don’t think there are very many people that can debate effectively that it’s not a patently racist term.'\u003ccite>— Audrey Cooper,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Chronicle managing editor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And if you're wondering, trademark law \u003ca href=\"http://www.bitlaw.com/source/15usc/1052.html#(a)\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits\u003c/a> registration of terms that \"\u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">may disparage... persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.\" Related to that standard,\u003c/span> ThinkProgress has a post called \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/06/18/3450434/7-things-that-convinced-the-us-patent-office-to-cancel-the-redskins-trademark/\" target=\"_blank\">7 Things That Convinced The U.S. Patent Office To Cancel The Redskins Trademark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the mounting pressure on the team is that some reporters and media outlets \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/09/washington-redskins-us-press-publishing\" target=\"_blank\">refuse to use the name Redskins\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full AP report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is \"disparaging of Native Americans\" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-1 ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board came in a case that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades. It doesn't force the team to abandon the name, but it comes at a time of increasing criticism of team owner Dan Snyder from political, religious and sports figures who say it's time for a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins quickly announced that they will appeal, and the cancellation for trademark protections will be on hold while the matter makes its way through the courts. That process could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second time the board had issued an opinion on the case. A similar ruling from 1999 was overturned on a technicality in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen this story before,\" Redskins attorney Bob Raskopf said. \"And just like last time, today's ruling will have no effect at all on the team's ownership of and right to use the Redskins name and logo. We are confident we will prevail once again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling involves six uses of the \"Redskins\" name trademarked by the team from 1967 to 1990. If it stands, it would mean the team can continue to use the name, but it would lose a significant portion of its ability to protect the financial interests connected to it. If others printed the name on sweatshirts or other apparel without permission, it would become more cumbersome to go after such groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts overturned the board's previous ruling in part because the plaintiffs waited too long to voice their opposition after the original trademarks were issued. The case was relaunched in 2006 by a younger group of Native Americans who had recently become adults and therefore would not have able to file a case earlier. The hearing was held in March of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chorus of critics against the use of the name has grown over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, a major sector of the United Church of Christ voted to urge its 40,000 members to boycott the Redskins. Half of the U.S. Senate recently wrote letters to the NFL urging a change, one of the letters stating that \"racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports.\" D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray suggested Wednesday the name will almost certainly have to change if the team ever wants to build a new stadium in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder, who has vowed repeatedly never to change the name, declined comment as he walked off the field after a minicamp practice Wednesday. Redskins players have mostly avoided the topic, aware of a potential conflict because they are employed by the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our job as players is to focus on what we can on this field day-in and day-out and let the legal people take care of that stuff,\" quarterback Robert Griffin III said after practice. \"And when it's the right time, then we can voice whatever it is we know about the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins have responded to critics by creating an Original Americans Foundation to give financial support to Native American tribes. Suzan Shown Harjo, a lead figure in the trademark case, called the foundation \"somewhere between a PR assault and bribery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of a name change quickly hailed the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Daniel Snyder may be the last person in the world to realize this,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor, \"but it is just a matter of time until he is forced to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">\u003cstrong> The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments in the Bay Area and across the United States have adopted automated license-plate readers as a crime-fighting tool — technology capable of spotting vehicles that have been reported as stolen. But with few controls on how the license-plate data are used or handled, the devices have emerged as a major concern for privacy advocates, who say the technology can be used to track people whether or not they’re suspected of any wrongdoing. Now, the types of data collected and analyzed with the help of license-plate readers are expanding into other realms of personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents obtained by The Center for Investigative Reporting show that a leading maker of license-plate readers wants to merge the vehicle identification technology with other sources of identifying information, alarming privacy advocates. Vigilant Solutions is pushing a system that eventually could help fuse public records, license plates and facial recognition databases for police in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Livermore company released its own facial recognition software last year for use in stationary and mobile devices. The technology uses algorithms to determine whether a person’s face matches that of somebody already in a law enforcement database. Like license-plate readers, facial recognition technology has been criticized for incorrectly identifying people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘When you’re combining data from multiple sources, it becomes incredibly revealing.’\u003ccite>— Jennifer Lynch,\u003cbr>\nElectronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Vigilant also is the market leader in license-plate data collection. The company runs the Law Enforcement Archive and Reporting Network database, which stores more than 2.5 billion records and adds roughly 70 million new license-plate scans monthly. The company offers law enforcement free access to its license-plate data through another database, the National Vehicle Location Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigilant sells license-plate readers to over a dozen California agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and the Sacramento Police and County Sheriff’s departments. For its business with law enforcement in the city of Alameda, Anaheim, Marin County, San Rafael and Sacramento, Vigilant won the contracts without going through a competitive bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Vigilant PowerPoint presentation about its products, obtained by CIR, contains a section on the “near future” for the company. That includes a fusion of public records, license-plate data and facial recognition, according to the slide. Another technology, dubbed MOAB, would help law enforcement find vehicles using a “probabilistic assessment” of a vehicle’s location based on historical data and public records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another slide prepared for Texas law enforcement shows how a combined data program could work. It would pull mug shots from the local Department of Motor Vehicles database and notify law enforcement with an alert if “a vehicle is associated with someone with a known criminal history.” The slide also describes “facial images embedded into” the license-plate record. Another describes how Vigilant’s FaceSearch application works on mobile devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Widdowson, a Vigilant spokeswoman, said the slides reviewed by CIR were of a prototype program that did not actually include facial recognition technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for specific references to merging license-plate data with facial recognition and public records, Widdowson said the slide “is merely showing that law enforcement can combine data from public records with LPR (license-plate reader) data to reduce their search area for a suspect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates said combining historical plate-reader data with public records and facial recognition technology runs contrary to law enforcement’s argument that license plates are not considered personally-identifying information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles Police Department for information about their collection and use of license-plate data, said Vigilant’s plans could represent a sea change in the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that Vigilant already offers analytical software that traces the movements of a vehicle through the public and private plate-reader data it retains, Lynch said the company’s plans could pose a threat to individual privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>License-plate readers could move into uncharted territory by combining into one search tool the location data from license-plate readers with public records such as court files and property records — as well as photographs of individuals from criminal or DMV databases. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/mehserle1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/06/mehserle1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"A 2009 police booking photo of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. \" width=\"240\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2009 police booking photo of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\\\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:20 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer convicted of killing passenger Oscar Grant III, was on the witness stand again Friday testifying about the circumstances surrounding the fatal Jan. 1, 2009, shooting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle and BART are defendants in a federal civil rights suit brought by Grant's father. On Friday, lawyers questioned Mehserle about his claim that he meant to draw a Taser, not his semi-automatic pistol, while he and other officers tried to subdue grant on the platform at the Fruitvale station in East Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle's attorney, Michael Rains, argued that BART is culpable in the shooting because its Taser training was inadequate. But Mehserle testified that he had no problems with the training and had practiced drawing his Taser, positioned on his left side, with his right hand. When asked how he came to draw his service weapon instead of the stun gun, he said, \"I'm not sure how it happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as he did in his 2010 murder trial, Mehserle wept when he recounted details of the shooting. He broke into tears Friday as he recalled seeing a bullet hole in Grant's back and realizing he had shot the suspect. Mehserle was acquitted of the murder charges in the earlier trial, held in Los Angeles, but convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He said during testimony on Wednesday that he disagreed with the jury's verdict in that case. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post update includes reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:40 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle made an abbreviated appearance on the stand this afternoon — his testimony interrupted when the judge in the case recessed the trial until Friday. Here's the Associated Press on Mehserle's Wednesday testimony:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police who shot and killed a man on a train platform said Wednesday he disagreed with a jury's verdict convicting him of involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johannes Mehserle was called to the witness stand to testify in a civil trial stemming from a lawsuit filed by the father of Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant's father is suing BART, Mehserle and others over the shooting.Mehserle said he accidentally used his gun when he meant to use his Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle paused for several seconds when he was asked whether he agreed with the jury's verdict, which led to his serving about a year in a jail. After answering no, Mehserle wasn't asked any follow-up questions about the verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father's lawyer, Waukeen McCoy was just beginning to question Mehserle about the shooting of Grant on the Fruitvale station platform in Oakland when the judge halted testimony for the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle's testimony continues Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day 2009, is appearing in court today to testify in a lawsuit filed by Grant's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elder Grant, who's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oscar-Grant-s-imprisoned-dad-sues-BART-3288160.php\" target=\"_blank\">serving a life sentence for murder\u003c/a>, is seeking unspecified damages for violating his civil right to a familial relationship with his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the first lawsuit in the case. BART has settled suits filed on behalf of Grant III's mother and daughter for a total of $2.8 million. Last month, the agency \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-settles-suit-filed-by-Oscar-Grant-s-friends-5493273.php\" target=\"_blank\">settled a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> brought by several of the men detained with Grant at the Fruitvale BART station in 2009. The reported payment in that case was $175,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today is not the first time Mehserle has testified. He also appeared in his 2010 murder trial in Los Angeles, which resulted in a guilty verdict on the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. The San Francisco Chronicle's Demian Bulwa covered Mehserle's testimony. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mehserle-on-stand-Emotion-integrity-in-focus-3183764.php\" target=\"_blank\">Some of his impressions\u003c/a> of that 2010 testimony:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After Mehserle's seven-hour appearance ended Friday, there were two questions: Did Mehserle murder Grant? And now that he was a human being with a voice, was he the type who could murder Grant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, the 28-year-old was calm, comfortable and careful, and he came across as the young and inexperienced officer that he is - or was. He often paused after questions, formulating his answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cried almost every time he talked about the first moments after he shot Grant - a 22-year-old Hayward resident - in the back. Every time he did, a protest of faint muttering would emerge from Grant's relatives and supporters in the gallery. They, too, were a factor in his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Robert Perry was wary of letting emotion or stagecraft overwhelm Mehserle's explanation for killing Grant - that he thought he had his Taser in his hand when he shot him while trying to handcuff him on Jan. 1, 2009, that \"the thought of my gun never came into the equation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry told defense attorney Michael Rains to speed things up as he asked Mehserle for childhood memories, and he later cut him off - \"That's too much, Mr. Rains\" - when he tried to drill deeper into his client's grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor David Stein at one point started to crank up an attack, but Perry admonished him: \"Lower your voice.\" He later stopped Stein from asking Mehserle if he ever felt compelled to apologize to Grant's family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry was most stern with the gallery, where a Grant supporter was arrested after telling Mehserle to \"save those f-ing tears.\" The judge bellowed: \"I'll clear the courtroom.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally: Here's the lawsuit, filed in 2009:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_85167\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/229232428/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Here's the Associated Press on Mehserle's Wednesday testimony:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police who shot and killed a man on a train platform said Wednesday he disagreed with a jury's verdict convicting him of involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johannes Mehserle was called to the witness stand to testify in a civil trial stemming from a lawsuit filed by the father of Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant's father is suing BART, Mehserle and others over the shooting.Mehserle said he accidentally used his gun when he meant to use his Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle paused for several seconds when he was asked whether he agreed with the jury's verdict, which led to his serving about a year in a jail. After answering no, Mehserle wasn't asked any follow-up questions about the verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father's lawyer, Waukeen McCoy was just beginning to question Mehserle about the shooting of Grant on the Fruitvale station platform in Oakland when the judge halted testimony for the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle's testimony continues Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day 2009, is appearing in court today to testify in a lawsuit filed by Grant's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elder Grant, who's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oscar-Grant-s-imprisoned-dad-sues-BART-3288160.php\" target=\"_blank\">serving a life sentence for murder\u003c/a>, is seeking unspecified damages for violating his civil right to a familial relationship with his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the first lawsuit in the case. BART has settled suits filed on behalf of Grant III's mother and daughter for a total of $2.8 million. Last month, the agency \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-settles-suit-filed-by-Oscar-Grant-s-friends-5493273.php\" target=\"_blank\">settled a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> brought by several of the men detained with Grant at the Fruitvale BART station in 2009. The reported payment in that case was $175,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today is not the first time Mehserle has testified. He also appeared in his 2010 murder trial in Los Angeles, which resulted in a guilty verdict on the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. The San Francisco Chronicle's Demian Bulwa covered Mehserle's testimony. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mehserle-on-stand-Emotion-integrity-in-focus-3183764.php\" target=\"_blank\">Some of his impressions\u003c/a> of that 2010 testimony:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After Mehserle's seven-hour appearance ended Friday, there were two questions: Did Mehserle murder Grant? And now that he was a human being with a voice, was he the type who could murder Grant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, the 28-year-old was calm, comfortable and careful, and he came across as the young and inexperienced officer that he is - or was. He often paused after questions, formulating his answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cried almost every time he talked about the first moments after he shot Grant - a 22-year-old Hayward resident - in the back. Every time he did, a protest of faint muttering would emerge from Grant's relatives and supporters in the gallery. They, too, were a factor in his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Robert Perry was wary of letting emotion or stagecraft overwhelm Mehserle's explanation for killing Grant - that he thought he had his Taser in his hand when he shot him while trying to handcuff him on Jan. 1, 2009, that \"the thought of my gun never came into the equation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry told defense attorney Michael Rains to speed things up as he asked Mehserle for childhood memories, and he later cut him off - \"That's too much, Mr. Rains\" - when he tried to drill deeper into his client's grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor David Stein at one point started to crank up an attack, but Perry admonished him: \"Lower your voice.\" He later stopped Stein from asking Mehserle if he ever felt compelled to apologize to Grant's family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry was most stern with the gallery, where a Grant supporter was arrested after telling Mehserle to \"save those f-ing tears.\" The judge bellowed: \"I'll clear the courtroom.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally: Here's the lawsuit, filed in 2009:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_85167\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/229232428/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco announced the charges against 42-year-old Ryan Chamberlain. The San Francisco political and media consultant was arrested last week after a three-day manhunt that authorities say was prompted by the discovery of bomb-making materials at his apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges possession of a destructive device, and replaces a criminal complaint that accused Chamberlain of trying to build a remote-controlled bomb. The indictment also charges Chamberlain with possessing a handgun without serial numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain’s public defender didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. He is expected to return to court Monday and Tuesday for a detention hearing and arraignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain faces up to 10 years in prison if he’s convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>– The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s the indictment:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_57190\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/229586267/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m. Tuesday June 3:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://abc7news.com/video/embed/?pid=90457\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint against Chamberlain has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/pages/1058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made public\u003c/a> after Judge Nathanael Cousins unsealed it Tuesday morning. Chamberlain is being charged with possession of an illegal destructive device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a press conference at 8:30 a.m., where few questions were answered about potential charges or evidence, federal agents said off the record to a group of reporters that an explosive device had been found in Chamberlain’s Russian Hill apartment, according to KQED’s Bryan Goebel, who was on the scene. When Chamberlain made his first court appearance later this morning, Cousins criticized federal prosecutor Philip Kearney for arguing that the complaint documents should remain sealed at the same time details were being leaked to the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, FBI Special Agent Michael Eldridge met with Chamberlain in a coffee shop on May 31, where Chamberlain admitted “that he was aware of the Tor network, and that he sometimes played poker on ‘black market’ websites.” Chamberlain was then allowed to leave the coffee shop and returned to his apartment, but agents following him called off the pursuit when he drove recklessly through stoplights and at a high speed. Acting on a search warrant, agents then entered Chamberlain’s apartment. The complaint outlines what was found there, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– a screw-top glass jar containing batteries and a powdery green substance\u003cbr>\n– a model rocket motor lodged within the green powdery substance\u003cbr>\n– an “electric match,” a common igniter for improvised explosive devices (IEDs)\u003cbr>\n– an assortment of ball bearings and screws believed to be intended projectiles\u003cbr>\n– a wire extending from the glass jar attached to the metal lid of the jar\u003cbr>\n– a circuit board, configured as a remote-controlled receiver\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, all the components necessary to comprise an IED were found in his apartment and it was believed that a destructive device was designed to “maim or kill a human being or human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/pages/1058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full complaint against Chamberlain online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:20 a.m. Tuesday June 3:\u003c/strong> The FBI and San Francisco police will hold a joint press conference at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to discuss the arrest of Ryan Chamberlain. He’s the former San Francisco political consultant wanted on explosives charges after a raid on his apartment over the weekend. He was taken into custody (see the video above) Monday night near Crissy Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends have started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/ryan-chamberlain-legal-defense-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Chamberlain Legal Defense Fund\u003c/a> on crowdfunding site Crowdtilt. The campaign administrator is \u003ca href=\"http://nationbuilder.com/adriel_hampton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adriel Hampton\u003c/a>, business development director for NationBuilder, which offers software for political organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hampton’s fundraising pitch: “Ryan Chamberlain is part of the San Francisco political family and he’s got a great community of friends. He’s a great guy who broke a little bad. Let’s help him out.” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/adrielhampton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Twitter, Hampton invites contributions\u003c/a> “if you’re against an out of control police state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Tuesday morning, the fund had raised \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-06-03T14:31:20+00:00\">$4,570\u003c/del> \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-06-03T14:37:32+00:00\">$5,620\u003c/del> $5,870.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:25 p.m. Monday June 2:\u003c/strong> The FBI has confirmed that Ryan Chamberlain, the subject of a manhunt since explosives were allegedly found in his San Francisco apartment on Saturday, has been arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137761\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/ryanchamberlain-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-137761\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/ryanchamberlain-1-of-1-469x640.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan K. Chamberlain II, wanted in connection in photo released by FBI. \" width=\"240\" height=\"328\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan K. Chamberlain II, wanted in connection with explosives probe, shown in photo released by FBI. \u003ccite>(FBI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morgan Manos, identified in media reports as an Uber driver who was parked near the scene of the arrest at Crissy Field, shot a video of the end of the arrest (embedded in KGO-TV report above). Manos is quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Fimrite as saying that Chamberlain was panicked as police and federal agents closed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>“They took him down hard,” said Morgan Manos about Chamberlain’s arrest. “He seemed pretty panicked. He was asking for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Peter Fimrite (@pfimrite) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pfimrite/statuses/473647138597912578\">June 3, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Following the account of Twitter user \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ScannerSays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ScannerSays\u003c/a>, San Francisco police made the arrest after spotting Chamberlain at Crissy Field shortly after 6 p.m. Police requested backup, reported “the subject is resisting arrest,” and followed that report with requests for the police explosive disposal detail, Fire Department units and medical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:25 p.m. Monday June 2: \u003c/strong>Several news outlets are reporting that the FBI is investigating the possibility Ryan Chamberlain, the fugitive political consultant/PR pro wanted on explosives charges, visited a bar on Haight Street on Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CBS San Francisco reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The bartender at The Mad Dog in the Fog bar at 530 Haight Street told KPIX 5 that FBI agents were in the bar earlier Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents questioned bar staff and informed them Chamberlain was inside the bar around 2 p.m. and got cash out of the ATM. The bartender said that the agents told her that they believed Chamberlain might be at an establishment nearby drinking. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…FBI Agency spokesperson Peter Lee said, “We take every lead very seriously. When there is a sighting, we will deploy agents and police officers to that area. We’re running down every lead.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post on June 2: \u003c/strong>The FBI is withholding comment on a message purportedly posted by a San Francisco political consultant and PR professional who is a fugitive in an explosives investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, federal agents raided the San Francisco apartment of Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II, where they reportedly found illegal explosives. The FBI says Chamberlain fled and was last seen driving somewhere south of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As noted \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-man-wanted-by-FBI-posts-apparent-suicide-note-5522548.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and elsewhere, Chamberlain was active as a consultant to several political campaigns in the city between 2002 and 2009, including Gavin Newsom’s first campaign for mayor in 2003. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/06/ryan_chamberlain_longtime_san.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Weekly’s Joe Eskinazi notes that Chamberlain was accused\u003c/a> of being behind at least one campaign low blow aimed at former Supervisor Chris Daly. Chamberlain’s friends and acquaintances have taken to social media to express shock at the FBI’s allegations against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Monday, a long missive purportedly posted to an iCloud account by Chamberlain speaks at length of his personal and professional disappointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve isolated two things I need,” the letter says. “A person and a purpose.” It continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>All I’ve ever wanted was someone to be madly in love with, to go through life with in that great, dedicated relationship. Then, all I needed was a great reason to get up everyday. Some great work to do. That’s pretty easy. Everyone wants that. Lots of people get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it always eluded me. I’d give my all to a girl and she’d take it and run. I’d bust my ass at a job, but the company would fail, the economy would drop out, the campaign would lose … or it would win and leave me behind. As I hustled year in and year out, fought through another failed relationship with someone who cheated and/or left, and scrambled for another half-ass job that didn’t work out, my mental state got more stressed and panicked. I don’t know if my depression caused the outcome, or if the outcome built on the depression, but the result is the same.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The message also says that the writer was close to running out of money and only recently had a job prospect after more than a year of searching. As a result, the letter says, “I got dark. I got real dark. I explored myriad ways I could put an end to what I was going through. I binge-watched dark TV, sometimes didn’t get off the couch for days, and scoured the Internet absorbing fuel for morbid fantasies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in what appears to be a direct allusion to the Saturday FBI raid of Chamberlain’s apartment at Polk and Jackson streets, the note says, “Some of that activity seemed to attract the attention of some visitors today … who made it rather evident that this is the end of the line for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Lee, the FBI’s spokesman in San Francisco, said Monday the FBI has no comment on the purported Chamberlain message posted Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said agents joined by San Francisco police and fire personnel executed a search warrant at Chamberlain’s apartment, which he said officials believed has “a criminal nexus to a federal crime.” Lee said Chamberlain is alleged to possess explosive materials. The bureau’s alert for Chamberlain describes him as armed and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A follow-up message posted on Chamberlain’s Twitter account, @poliholic, denied the FBI’s account:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>A panicked update to my letter that should have posted by now. Nothing they’re reporting is true. No “stashes.” Not “armed and…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ryan Chamberlain (@poliholic) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/poliholic/statuses/473514454748250112\">June 2, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco announced the charges against 42-year-old Ryan Chamberlain. The San Francisco political and media consultant was arrested last week after a three-day manhunt that authorities say was prompted by the discovery of bomb-making materials at his apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges possession of a destructive device, and replaces a criminal complaint that accused Chamberlain of trying to build a remote-controlled bomb. The indictment also charges Chamberlain with possessing a handgun without serial numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain’s public defender didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. He is expected to return to court Monday and Tuesday for a detention hearing and arraignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain faces up to 10 years in prison if he’s convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>– The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s the indictment:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_57190\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/229586267/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m. Tuesday June 3:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://abc7news.com/video/embed/?pid=90457\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint against Chamberlain has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/pages/1058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made public\u003c/a> after Judge Nathanael Cousins unsealed it Tuesday morning. Chamberlain is being charged with possession of an illegal destructive device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a press conference at 8:30 a.m., where few questions were answered about potential charges or evidence, federal agents said off the record to a group of reporters that an explosive device had been found in Chamberlain’s Russian Hill apartment, according to KQED’s Bryan Goebel, who was on the scene. When Chamberlain made his first court appearance later this morning, Cousins criticized federal prosecutor Philip Kearney for arguing that the complaint documents should remain sealed at the same time details were being leaked to the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, FBI Special Agent Michael Eldridge met with Chamberlain in a coffee shop on May 31, where Chamberlain admitted “that he was aware of the Tor network, and that he sometimes played poker on ‘black market’ websites.” Chamberlain was then allowed to leave the coffee shop and returned to his apartment, but agents following him called off the pursuit when he drove recklessly through stoplights and at a high speed. Acting on a search warrant, agents then entered Chamberlain’s apartment. The complaint outlines what was found there, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– a screw-top glass jar containing batteries and a powdery green substance\u003cbr>\n– a model rocket motor lodged within the green powdery substance\u003cbr>\n– an “electric match,” a common igniter for improvised explosive devices (IEDs)\u003cbr>\n– an assortment of ball bearings and screws believed to be intended projectiles\u003cbr>\n– a wire extending from the glass jar attached to the metal lid of the jar\u003cbr>\n– a circuit board, configured as a remote-controlled receiver\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, all the components necessary to comprise an IED were found in his apartment and it was believed that a destructive device was designed to “maim or kill a human being or human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/pages/1058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full complaint against Chamberlain online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:20 a.m. Tuesday June 3:\u003c/strong> The FBI and San Francisco police will hold a joint press conference at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to discuss the arrest of Ryan Chamberlain. He’s the former San Francisco political consultant wanted on explosives charges after a raid on his apartment over the weekend. He was taken into custody (see the video above) Monday night near Crissy Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends have started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/ryan-chamberlain-legal-defense-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Chamberlain Legal Defense Fund\u003c/a> on crowdfunding site Crowdtilt. The campaign administrator is \u003ca href=\"http://nationbuilder.com/adriel_hampton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adriel Hampton\u003c/a>, business development director for NationBuilder, which offers software for political organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hampton’s fundraising pitch: “Ryan Chamberlain is part of the San Francisco political family and he’s got a great community of friends. He’s a great guy who broke a little bad. Let’s help him out.” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/adrielhampton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Twitter, Hampton invites contributions\u003c/a> “if you’re against an out of control police state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Tuesday morning, the fund had raised \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-06-03T14:31:20+00:00\">$4,570\u003c/del> \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-06-03T14:37:32+00:00\">$5,620\u003c/del> $5,870.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:25 p.m. Monday June 2:\u003c/strong> The FBI has confirmed that Ryan Chamberlain, the subject of a manhunt since explosives were allegedly found in his San Francisco apartment on Saturday, has been arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137761\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/ryanchamberlain-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-137761\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/ryanchamberlain-1-of-1-469x640.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan K. Chamberlain II, wanted in connection in photo released by FBI. \" width=\"240\" height=\"328\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan K. Chamberlain II, wanted in connection with explosives probe, shown in photo released by FBI. \u003ccite>(FBI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morgan Manos, identified in media reports as an Uber driver who was parked near the scene of the arrest at Crissy Field, shot a video of the end of the arrest (embedded in KGO-TV report above). Manos is quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Fimrite as saying that Chamberlain was panicked as police and federal agents closed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>“They took him down hard,” said Morgan Manos about Chamberlain’s arrest. “He seemed pretty panicked. He was asking for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Peter Fimrite (@pfimrite) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pfimrite/statuses/473647138597912578\">June 3, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Following the account of Twitter user \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ScannerSays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ScannerSays\u003c/a>, San Francisco police made the arrest after spotting Chamberlain at Crissy Field shortly after 6 p.m. Police requested backup, reported “the subject is resisting arrest,” and followed that report with requests for the police explosive disposal detail, Fire Department units and medical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:25 p.m. Monday June 2: \u003c/strong>Several news outlets are reporting that the FBI is investigating the possibility Ryan Chamberlain, the fugitive political consultant/PR pro wanted on explosives charges, visited a bar on Haight Street on Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CBS San Francisco reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The bartender at The Mad Dog in the Fog bar at 530 Haight Street told KPIX 5 that FBI agents were in the bar earlier Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents questioned bar staff and informed them Chamberlain was inside the bar around 2 p.m. and got cash out of the ATM. The bartender said that the agents told her that they believed Chamberlain might be at an establishment nearby drinking. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…FBI Agency spokesperson Peter Lee said, “We take every lead very seriously. When there is a sighting, we will deploy agents and police officers to that area. We’re running down every lead.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post on June 2: \u003c/strong>The FBI is withholding comment on a message purportedly posted by a San Francisco political consultant and PR professional who is a fugitive in an explosives investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, federal agents raided the San Francisco apartment of Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II, where they reportedly found illegal explosives. The FBI says Chamberlain fled and was last seen driving somewhere south of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As noted \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-man-wanted-by-FBI-posts-apparent-suicide-note-5522548.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and elsewhere, Chamberlain was active as a consultant to several political campaigns in the city between 2002 and 2009, including Gavin Newsom’s first campaign for mayor in 2003. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/06/ryan_chamberlain_longtime_san.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Weekly’s Joe Eskinazi notes that Chamberlain was accused\u003c/a> of being behind at least one campaign low blow aimed at former Supervisor Chris Daly. Chamberlain’s friends and acquaintances have taken to social media to express shock at the FBI’s allegations against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Monday, a long missive purportedly posted to an iCloud account by Chamberlain speaks at length of his personal and professional disappointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve isolated two things I need,” the letter says. “A person and a purpose.” It continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>All I’ve ever wanted was someone to be madly in love with, to go through life with in that great, dedicated relationship. Then, all I needed was a great reason to get up everyday. Some great work to do. That’s pretty easy. Everyone wants that. Lots of people get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it always eluded me. I’d give my all to a girl and she’d take it and run. I’d bust my ass at a job, but the company would fail, the economy would drop out, the campaign would lose … or it would win and leave me behind. As I hustled year in and year out, fought through another failed relationship with someone who cheated and/or left, and scrambled for another half-ass job that didn’t work out, my mental state got more stressed and panicked. I don’t know if my depression caused the outcome, or if the outcome built on the depression, but the result is the same.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The message also says that the writer was close to running out of money and only recently had a job prospect after more than a year of searching. As a result, the letter says, “I got dark. I got real dark. I explored myriad ways I could put an end to what I was going through. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/photo-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139037\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Leah Francis at rally.\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leah Francis leads a chant at a June 12th protest against Stanford’s policies on sexual assault. (Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A crowd gathered this afternoon on the Stanford University campus during a Faculty Senate meeting, as students passed out fliers that said, “#StandWithLeah” and demanding the school change its policy on how it handles sexual assault cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally happened one day after Stanford announced that it will not expel a student it found responsible for sexual assault, rejecting an appeal from the victim, Leah Francis, who thinks the university treated her alleged assailant too leniently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration dangerously mishandled my case,” says Francis, who organized today’s rally. “We need punishment that rises to the magnitude of the assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 25, a five-person panel unanimously found the student responsible for sexual misconduct through a disciplinary process called the Alternative Review Process. The panel was set up in 2010 to deal with allegations of misconduct relating to sexual assault, sexual harassment, relationship violence and stalking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alhough Francis filed a police report in Juneau, Alaska, where she said the attack occurred on Jan. 1, 2014, the case is still being reviewed and charges have not been filed. The action of the university does not reflect one way or another on any potential criminal charges in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This disciplinary process does not seek to determine whether a crime was committed, but whether the university’s student conduct policies were violated and, if so, what discipline is appropriate,” said Lisa Lapin, associate vice president of university communications at Stanford University, in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 6, the panel handed down its discipline, suspending the student for five quarters and requiring him to complete 40 hours of community service, as well as a sexual assault education program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This discipline came too late and was too lenient, according to Francis, who reported the incident to Stanford on Jan. 7. Michele Dauber, a Stanford law professor who helped create the Alternative Review Process in 2010, helped draft Francis’s appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He (the alleged assailant) is responsible for sexual assault through force, but (the panel) determined paradoxically that he is not a threat to the Stanford community,” Dauber says. They came to their decision based on the alleged assailant and victim’s relationship two years prior, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are acting on the erroneous belief that he is only a danger to me,” Francis says. “That belief is outdated. This is a giant step back for Stanford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis and those at the rally would like to see mandatory expulsion for those found responsible for sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are listening,” Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, wrote in a\u003ca href=\"https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/news/safe-campus-2014\"> June 6 letter\u003c/a> to the community. “Expulsion is currently one of a range of potential outcomes of Stanford’s disciplinary process for cases of forcible sexual assault. A different approach would be to make it the ‘presumptive’ outcome — not meaning that it would be applied to every case automatically, but that it would be the starting point for the consideration of sanctions. 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Gaming operators are now being required to either turn away gamblers they know work in state-sanctioned marijuana businesses or implement highly invasive and expensive procedures to monitor these gamblers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These same costly procedures have resulted in the banking industry closing thousands of financial accounts in the last few years. 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Thursday's disclosure on federal policy comes only months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared to publicly support the right of state-authorized marijuana businesses to have access to the U.S. financial system and deposit their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in these places. They want to be able to use the banking system,\" Holder said during an appearance at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. \"There’s a public safety component to this. Huge amounts of cash — substantial amounts of cash just kind of lying around with no place for it to be appropriately deposited — is something that would worry me, just from a law enforcement perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Coast has notoriously high amounts of cash transactions, with one Mendocino County banker saying more than half the deposits there are in cash, making it one of the highest ratios in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Holder’s statement in February, the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Treasury Department both issued updated guidelines on how U.S. financial institutions need to handle customers with ties to the marijuana industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">One dispensary owner in San Francisco said he has gone through nine banks in 10 years.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But banking executives said the new guidelines did nothing to assuage their fears, leaving them open to both criminal and civil prosecution if they worked with businesses in the marijuana trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bankers are all just saying, 'We don’t want those problems,' ” said Dowling, who also consults on these issues for major U.S. banks. “One banker called them toxic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowling expects casinos will react the same way, turning away from people who work in the state-sanctioned marijuana industries that now operate in 22 states and D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is again saying people involved in the marijuana business don’t have rights,” said Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, a marijuana advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dispensary owner in San Francisco, who asked not to be named because of previous regulatory problems with the federal government, said he has gone through nine banks in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the core, it’s just the hypocrisy of the federal government and its financial regulations,” he said. “They say one thing but they are really acting a whole other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another dispensary owner in Mendocino County, who likewise asked not to be named because of previous problems with federal regulators, said the U.S. government is ignoring the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government doesn’t care about our state laws,” the owner said. “It’s dead wrong. 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A call to the Station Casinos media representative was not returned by the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Graton Casino operates in a region the federal government deems a “High Intensity Financial Crime Area” because of the large amount of marijuana grown on California’s North Coast. As a result, the Rohnert Park casino is required to implement additional monitoring to identify people who might be gambling with illicit funds, which according to the federal government includes money from medical marijuana businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ongoing Conflict Between the Feds and States\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casinos are the latest institutions to get caught up in the ongoing conflict between federal and state laws on marijuana. Thursday's disclosure on federal policy comes only months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared to publicly support the right of state-authorized marijuana businesses to have access to the U.S. financial system and deposit their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in these places. They want to be able to use the banking system,\" Holder said during an appearance at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. \"There’s a public safety component to this. Huge amounts of cash — substantial amounts of cash just kind of lying around with no place for it to be appropriately deposited — is something that would worry me, just from a law enforcement perspective.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Coast has notoriously high amounts of cash transactions, with one Mendocino County banker saying more than half the deposits there are in cash, making it one of the highest ratios in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Holder’s statement in February, the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Treasury Department both issued updated guidelines on how U.S. financial institutions need to handle customers with ties to the marijuana industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">One dispensary owner in San Francisco said he has gone through nine banks in 10 years.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But banking executives said the new guidelines did nothing to assuage their fears, leaving them open to both criminal and civil prosecution if they worked with businesses in the marijuana trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bankers are all just saying, 'We don’t want those problems,' ” said Dowling, who also consults on these issues for major U.S. banks. “One banker called them toxic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowling expects casinos will react the same way, turning away from people who work in the state-sanctioned marijuana industries that now operate in 22 states and D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is again saying people involved in the marijuana business don’t have rights,” said Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, a marijuana advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dispensary owner in San Francisco, who asked not to be named because of previous regulatory problems with the federal government, said he has gone through nine banks in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the core, it’s just the hypocrisy of the federal government and its financial regulations,” he said. “They say one thing but they are really acting a whole other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another dispensary owner in Mendocino County, who likewise asked not to be named because of previous problems with federal regulators, said the U.S. government is ignoring the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government doesn’t care about our state laws,” the owner said. “It’s dead wrong. It’s one more right they are taking away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowling said he decided to raise the issue at Thursday’s conference because the federal government could prosecute casinos that are not complying with the new guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very controversial. I’ll probably get a lot of hate mail for bringing it up,” Dowling said. “But if you put yourself in a banker's situation, would you want to have to do all that and put yourself at criminal risk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, this all comes less than two weeks after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/30/house-votes-to-block-medical-pot-prosecution\" target=\"_blank\">surprising bipartisan vote\u003c/a> in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which passed a measure that seeks to end Department of Justice interference with state marijuana laws. Medical marijuana advocates praised the vote as a game-changer and one that reflected a huge shift in public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/4903_transform-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/4903_transform-1.jpg\" alt=\"A bud tender pours pot from a jar in the Perennial Holistic Wellness Center medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles in 2012. (David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bud tender pours pot from a jar in the Perennial Holistic Wellness Center medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles in 2012. (David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Medical marijuana advocates are celebrating what is a surprising bipartisan result in the highly polarized House of Representatives: Early Friday morning, 49 Republicans and 170 Democrats joined forces to pass a measure that would stop federal interference with state medical marijuana laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 219-189 vote came as the House completed work on \u003ca href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:H.R.4660:\" target=\"_blank\">an appropriations bill\u003c/a> for the Justice and Commerce departments and several other agencies. Among more than two dozen amendments was one introduced by \u003ca href=\"http://rohrabacher.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Dana Rohrabacher\u003c/a>, an Orange County Republican:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rohrabacher and 11 co-sponsors, including Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) and Rep. Sam Farr (D-Monterey), argued that \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2010/04/01/public-support-for-legalizing-medical-marijuana/\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion has shifted strongly to support for medical marijuana\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/\" target=\"_blank\">against the federal government's prohibition of pot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who's been critical of Justice Department prosecutions of medical cannabis providers in Oakland and Berkeley, said before the vote that it's time to stop \"unwarranted persecution\" of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We should allow for the implementation of the will of the voters to comply with state law rather than undermining our democracy,\" Lee said before the vote.'\u003ccite>— Rep. Barbara Lee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We should allow for the implementation of the will of the voters to comply with state law rather than undermining our democracy,\" Lee said before the vote. \"In states with medical marijuana laws, patients face uncertainty regarding their treatment, as small business owners who have invested millions, creating jobs and revenue, have no assurances for the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents countered that medical cannabis advocates are merely trying to open the way for full legalization of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During debate on the amendment, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) read from a Drug Enforcement Administration report that called medical cannabis a mere \"means to an end, which is the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes. They did not deal with the problem of ensuring that the product meets the standards of modern medicine — quality, safety and efficacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrabacher's amendment must pass the Senate and be signed by President Obama before it becomes law. Still, Friday's 219-189 House vote marks a sharp reversal on the issue. Six times before, the House had rejected virtually identical versions of the amendment, originally introduced in 2003 by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-New York. The last time the proposal came to a vote, in May 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/may/09/house_representatives_votes_down\" target=\"_blank\">it was defeated by a vote of 262-163\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical pot advocates celebrated the amendment's passage Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This vote is a huge victory for patients,\" said Steph Sherer, executive director of Americans for Safe Access, in a statement. \"This is a game-changer that paves the way for much more policy change to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379018/let-states-decide-pot-dana-rohrabacher\" target=\"_blank\">a National Review op-ed published Thursday\u003c/a>, Rohrabacher strikes a tone that suggests he'd like to go further than the amendment on medical marijuana. He argues that the price of continuing the war on marijuana has become too high and is especially wrongheaded in states, like California, where voters have chosen to legalize cannabis. And like other supporters of Friday's amendment, he says support for the amendment is a matter of staying true to conservative values. Summing up the cost of the war on marijuana, he writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The explosion of gun violence across our urban landscape, now spreading to suburbs and the countryside; our unconscionable incarceration rates; the out-of-control and unconstitutional seizure of private property on drug enforcers’ whims; the corruption and militarization of our police; the chronic despair forced on minority Americans; a monumentally dysfunctional and alienating policy toward our Latin American neighbors; and even, yes, the subtle, psychological robbery of the self-worth and self-responsibility necessary to addressing drug-related problems realistically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a proper vision of government’s role, as the late William F. Buckley Jr. and Milton Friedman, among many others, taught my generation. We constitutionalists respected the Tenth Amendment’s preference for state laws, and we trusted the moral autonomy of the individual.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Senate is scheduled to take up the appropriations bill during the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Michael Montgomery addressed some of the issues the legislation might raise in California, particularly in light of enforcement actions here three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It raises question about groups like Harborside in Oakland that are under a civil enforcement action,” Montgomery said. “Will they be able to target them in this way if they’re not grossly out of line with state laws? It also raises the issue – California can avoid some of these enforcement actions if it gets its act together in terms of regulations like Colorado. I think this amendment in Washington should probably compel lawmakers in Sacramento to passing some kind of a law that would set up a statewide regulatory system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Montgomery’s discussion with KQED’s Rachel Dornhelm:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/152080993&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the Associated Press report on the House vote:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Andrew Taylor\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON — The GOP-controlled House voted early Friday in favor of blocking the federal government from interfering with states that permit the use of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The somewhat surprising 219-189 vote came as the House debated a bill funding the Justice Department's budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment by conservative GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California — the first state to legalize medical marijuana — came as almost half the states have legalized marijuana for medical uses, such as improving the appetites of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public opinion is shifting,\" Rohrabacher said, noting a recent Pew Research Center that found 61 percent of Republicans support medical marijuana. The numbers are higher for independents and Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite this overwhelming shift of public opinion, the federal government continues its hard line of oppression against medical marijuana,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer told opponents that \"this train has already left the station.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said that marijuana is regulated too loosely by the states and harms the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents countered that medical cannabis advocates are merely trying to open the way for full legalization of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During debate on the amendment, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) read from a Drug Enforcement Administration report that called medical cannabis a mere \"means to an end, which is the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes. They did not deal with the problem of ensuring that the product meets the standards of modern medicine — quality, safety and efficacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohrabacher's amendment must pass the Senate and be signed by President Obama before it becomes law. Still, Friday's 219-189 House vote marks a sharp reversal on the issue. Six times before, the House had rejected virtually identical versions of the amendment, originally introduced in 2003 by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-New York. The last time the proposal came to a vote, in May 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/may/09/house_representatives_votes_down\" target=\"_blank\">it was defeated by a vote of 262-163\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical pot advocates celebrated the amendment's passage Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This vote is a huge victory for patients,\" said Steph Sherer, executive director of Americans for Safe Access, in a statement. \"This is a game-changer that paves the way for much more policy change to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379018/let-states-decide-pot-dana-rohrabacher\" target=\"_blank\">a National Review op-ed published Thursday\u003c/a>, Rohrabacher strikes a tone that suggests he'd like to go further than the amendment on medical marijuana. He argues that the price of continuing the war on marijuana has become too high and is especially wrongheaded in states, like California, where voters have chosen to legalize cannabis. And like other supporters of Friday's amendment, he says support for the amendment is a matter of staying true to conservative values. Summing up the cost of the war on marijuana, he writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The explosion of gun violence across our urban landscape, now spreading to suburbs and the countryside; our unconscionable incarceration rates; the out-of-control and unconstitutional seizure of private property on drug enforcers’ whims; the corruption and militarization of our police; the chronic despair forced on minority Americans; a monumentally dysfunctional and alienating policy toward our Latin American neighbors; and even, yes, the subtle, psychological robbery of the self-worth and self-responsibility necessary to addressing drug-related problems realistically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a proper vision of government’s role, as the late William F. Buckley Jr. and Milton Friedman, among many others, taught my generation. 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I think this amendment in Washington should probably compel lawmakers in Sacramento to passing some kind of a law that would set up a statewide regulatory system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Montgomery’s discussion with KQED’s Rachel Dornhelm:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/152080993&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the Associated Press report on the House vote:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Andrew Taylor\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON — The GOP-controlled House voted early Friday in favor of blocking the federal government from interfering with states that permit the use of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The somewhat surprising 219-189 vote came as the House debated a bill funding the Justice Department's budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment by conservative GOP Rep. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS8293_IMG_8675-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS8293_IMG_8675-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Three of the top five U.S. cities in police shootings per capita are in the Golden State. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of the top five U.S. cities in police shootings per capita are in the Golden State. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state Supreme Court ruled today that the public's interest in knowing the names of police officers involved in shootings should generally outweigh privacy concerns for the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, Long Beach Police Officers Association v. 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But on the other hand, for equal and fair play, when you’re given a gun and you’re given the ability to arrest people and take people’s civil rights away from them, and if you have a long history of continued problems within the department, I think the public has a right to know the history of the officer, if in fact it is a bad history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn't know how the press would know what information to request because complaints of excessive force and other information about officers' records remain sealed, but he cautioned against releasing an officer's name without good reason. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/81018775.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/81018775-640x441.jpg\" alt=\"File photo of the Vallejo Police Department. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pattern of officer-involved shootings in Vallejo raises eyebrows. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>hortly after midnight on an evening nearly two years ago, Vallejo police officers on the lookout for drunken drivers spotted a white 1999 Lexus speeding, without its lights on. When the officers turned on their lights and siren to pull the car over, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=30966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police said later\u003c/a>, the driver led them on a short chase that ended in back of an apartment building on a dead-end street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver, Anton Barrett, and his teen-age son got out of the car and ran. Within minutes, the unarmed Barrett had been fatally shot, then shocked with a Taser. He was one of six people killed in 2012 by Vallejo police in officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those half-dozen deadly incidents, occurring in one year in a city of fewer than 120,000 people, gave Vallejo a rate of fatal police-involved shootings dozens of times greater than the national average. The killings have prompted a stream of civil rights and wrongful death lawsuits against the city and its police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of those six deadly incidents shows that one member of the 91-person police force — Officer Sean Kenney — appears to have been involved in three of the fatal shootings. Even in the context of an understaffed force contending with a \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_24831783/crimes-increased-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high rate of violent crime\u003c/a>, some Vallejo residents and an independent criminal justice expert say the number of fatal shootings and the apparent repeated involvement of one officer raises questions about the department’s management and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/VAllejo-murder-rate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1379\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11826901\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/VAllejo-murder-rate.jpg 1379w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/VAllejo-murder-rate-800x433.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/VAllejo-murder-rate-1020x553.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/VAllejo-murder-rate-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1379px) 100vw, 1379px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding the police shootings to Vallejo’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/225176308/Violent-Crime-in-Vallejo-Calif-1985-to-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 other homicides in 2012\u003c/a>, the police department accounted for nearly one-third of the city’s 20 homicides for the year, a statistic that shocks Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor and director of the law school’s criminal justice research program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were to ask me, have I ever heard in an American city of a situation in which the police force is responsible for 25 or 30 percent of total homicides in the community,” Zimring said, “the answer is I haven’t heard of that before, ever, and I would hope not to hear of it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the rate of fatal officer-involved shootings in Vallejo — which had about 118,000 residents — was about 38 times the national rate. The deaths have resulted in calls from Vallejo residents for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate Vallejo officers’ use of force, just as it \u003ca href=\"http://www.abqjournal.com/apd-under-fire#intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has done with the Albuquerque Police Department\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/apd_findings_4-10-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent Justice Department report found\u003c/a> that Albuquerque police, who have \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-albuquerque-meeting-silence-20140509-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot and killed 25 people since 2010\u003c/a>, have engaged in a “pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimring said 2012 doesn’t appear to be just a statistical anomaly. Vallejo police shot and killed three people in 2013 and another one last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not merely lightning striking in 2012 — lightning keeps on striking in Vallejo,” Zimring said. “Use of lethal force, whether justified or not in individual cases, is systemically problematic in Vallejo in a way that compels a heck of a lot more attention than it’s been getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/19/vallejo-city-manager-responds-to-questions-about-police-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email response to questions\u003c/a> about fatal police shootings in Vallejo, City Manager Dan Keen said more than 75 percent of Vallejo’s homicides last year were gang-related, and police routinely encounter dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2012 and 2013, through direct contact with citizens and Vallejo Police Officers, each year, more than 200 illegal firearms were seized from individuals in Vallejo,” \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/19/vallejo-city-manager-responds-to-questions-about-police-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keen wrote\u003c/a>. “In 2013, Vallejo Police Officers responded to hundreds of ‘shots-fired’ calls, including more than 200 shootings where individuals were victims of firearms violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the rate of fatal police shootings in Vallejo is far higher than in bigger Bay Area cities also dealing with high crime rates. In 2012, the rate of fatal officer-involved shootings per 100,000 residents by Vallejo police was 20 times the rate in both Oakland and San Francisco. In the same year, Oakland had one fatal officer-involved shooting, and San Francisco had two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1449\" height=\"749\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11826903\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate.jpg 1449w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate-800x414.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate-1020x527.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate-160x83.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1449px) 100vw, 1449px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In lawsuits resulting from the Vallejo Police Department’s fatal shootings and excessive force complaints in 2012, Officer Sean Kenney’s name appears several times. He is confirmed to have been involved in the controversial killing of a suspect in a parked car and has been named as a shooter in lawsuits involving two other fatal incidents. He is also defendant in two suits alleging he used excessive force in nonfatal confrontations with suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Lt. Sid De Jesus said Kenney would not comment on any of the fatal officer-involved shooting incidents that allegedly involve him. Information about police officers’ personnel records are sealed by California law, so Kenney’s career is difficult to trace. A Napa City Police Department spokesman confirmed Kenney worked there prior to transferring to Vallejo, sometime around 2005. Kenney left that department in good standing, the spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenney left Vallejo for the Hayward Police Department in early 2010 amid layoffs, \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_14416120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Vallejo Times Herald\u003c/a>. He returned in August of 2011, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=34032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vallejo city documents\u003c/a>, to be part of the department’s crime suppression unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has since made Kenney a detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">With the six fatal shootings in 2012, the Vallejo Police Department accounted for nearly 30 percent of the city’s homicides for the year.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney John Burris, who has represented clients in numerous complaints against Bay Area police departments, including fatal shootings, says Kenney’s reassignment isn’t surprising. He says he’s seen it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unseemly, though,” he says. “A detective may be involved in officer-involved shooting investigations, and there’s a person who does that who has cases outstanding and pending? Their credibility is called into question, but I’m not convinced the police care about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris’s office is representing the family of Anton Barrett, the 41-year-old driver of the white Lexus speeding without headlights, and the first person allegedly shot and killed by Kenney in 2012\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>May 28, 2012: The Anton Barrett Case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136540\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 112px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136540 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anton-Barrett-480x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Anton Barrett. (Courtesy of Law Offices of John L. Burris)\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton Barrett. (Courtesy of Law Offices of John L. Burris)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Lexus turned into a dead-end street, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=30966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police say\u003c/a>, Barrett and his son, Anton Frank Barrett, 18, jumped from their vehicle and fled on foot in different directions near Farragut and Wilson avenues in west Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger Barrett heard gunshots coming from the direction his father had run, according to the lawsuit, and scrambled into some bushes to hide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the elder Barrett had encountered an officer — named in \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/223936483/Estate-of-Anton-Pat-Barrett-et-al-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-First-Amended-Complaint-13-08-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a subsequent civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> as Sean Kenney — who told him to stop and put his hands up. Here’s what happened next, according to the department account:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The suspect did not comply and continued running towards the officer. The officer began backing up and telling the suspect several times to show him his hands. The suspect had his hands in his waistband area of his hooded sweat jacket. The suspect reached into his pocket and pull out a dark colored metal object. The officer believed the suspect was now armed, was in fear the suspect was going to kill him or shoot other officers. The officer fired his service weapon and struck the suspect several times. The suspect fell to the sidewalk but tried to get up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer began telling the additional officers that the suspect had a gun. The suspect was immobilized by another officer who used his taser.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The dark-colored object that police say Barrett reached for turned out to be a metal wallet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all that was happening, Officers Boyce, Thompson and a police canine named Yago caught up to the younger Barrett. The lawsuit alleges Thompson ordered the dog to attack Barrett, who was unarmed. After dragging him from the bushes, Boyce threw Barrett to the ground and handcuffed him, then leaned his knee on Barrett’s head as he questioned him. Then, the suit alleges, Thompson ordered the dog to again attack the handcuffed Barrett while threatening to kill the 18-year-old and calling him a “nigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adante Pointer, an Oakland-based civil rights attorney with the law offices of John Burris, is representing Anton Barrett and other members of his father’s family in their lawsuit against Vallejo. He said the repeated attack on the younger Barrett points to “the culture in terms of the way police are approaching how they deal with suspects and just the manner of how they’re dealing with the people of Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two years after Barrett died, the Police Department and Solano County District Attorney’s Office have yet to conclude their review of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sept. 2, 2012: The Mario Romero Case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the early morning hours of Sept. 2, 2012, Vallejo police officers Kenney and Dustin Joseph were on their way to a reported burglary when they spotted two black men in a parked Ford Thunderbird about a block and a half from the reported crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/223937993/Mario-Romero-Joseph-Johnson-Solano-County-District-Attorney-Letter-to-Vallejo-s-Police-Chief-13-06-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A later review of the shooting\u003c/a> by the Solano County District Attorney’s Office lays out the probable cause for Kenney and Joseph to approach Mario Romero, 23, in the driver’s seat of the Thunderbird, and its passenger, Joseph Johnson, 21 at the time: There had been a recent spike in gang-related gun violence in the area, the review says, and Kenney recalled a similar car described in one shooting incident about a month before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were also the only two people out on the street just after 4:30 a.m., and the vehicle’s occupants “appeared shocked to see the marked Vallejo Police unit coming down the street,” according to the district attorney’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review says both Joseph and Kenney exited their cruiser and Romero stepped out of the Thunderbird while reaching into his waistband. Joseph saw a gun in Romero’s hand, and Kenney saw what he thought was a movement of reaching for a gun. Both fired at Romero multiple times, and he fell back into the Thunderbird. Kenney and Joseph continued to shout for Romero to “show his hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Romero re-emerged into view with both hands still clenched toward the center of his body like he was holding a firearm, [Officer] Kenney fired several more shots,” the district attorney’s review says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers fired a third volley of gunshots at Romero as he “started to come up looking directly at [Officer] Kenney. … These shots appeared to have an effect, as both officers saw Mr. Romero settle back and stop moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County coroner said Romero was shot 30 times, including three to the head, five to the neck, six to the torso, six to his upper right extremity, nine to his upper left extremity and one to the left thigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passenger Joseph Johnson was also shot, surviving a single bullet wound to his pelvic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/223938746/Johnson-et-al-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-13-10-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a federal lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the police department, Romero’s three sisters say they were were in their home waiting for Johnson and Romero to come in. The women say they heard a commotion outside, went to a window and saw Officer Dustin Joseph open fire on the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero’s sisters dispute several details of the police account. While the district attorney’s review states Kenney jumped on the hood of the Thunderbird only to check the car after the shooting had stopped, the witnesses inside the house say they saw Joseph fire several rounds while standing on the hood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s review reports that after the shooting, Kenney went into the Thunderbird looking for the weapon he and Joseph had seen in Romero’s hands:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He found it wedged between the center console and the rear portion of the driver’s seat, near the floorboard of the passenger area immediately behind the driver’s seat. He briefly lifted the firearm with the intent to clear it of any live ammunition, but put it back in place when he realized he was not wearing gloves and that there was blood on it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun. Police also recovered baggies of pills later determined to be methamphetamine. Romero’s toxicology report, according the DA’s review, found he had a significant amount of methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney Catherine Haley, who is representing Romero’s family and Joseph Johnson, called the shooting “absolutely execution-style.” She said it’s difficult to believe Romero would continue to reach for a fake gun while police fired at least 30 .40-caliber bullets into the car. And Kenney’s handling of evidence without gloves, in a shooting he had just participated in, raises significant questions about the integrity of the investigation on which both the district attorney and the U.S. attorney’s office based their reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Kenney’s handling of evidence without gloves, in a shooting he had just participated in, raises significant questions.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s review gives far more weight to statements from the involved officers, compared with those made by civilian witnesses inside the house. Romero’s sisters tried to accompany their brother’s body and the wounded Joseph to the hospital, but were told to get back inside their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though police knew they were there, no one interviewed them for more than two months after the shooting. That’s despite the fact both a Solano County district attorney’s investigator and Vallejo Police Lt. Sid De Jesus have said all witness statements should be taken as soon as possible after this kind of incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s review explains the credence given to the officers’ account this way :\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The statements of Mr. Romero’s sisters were all made almost ten weeks after this incident occurred. During that time, it would have been natural for them to reflect and discuss this incident. In contrast, the statements made by [Officer] Joseph and [Officer] Kenney were taken merely hours after the incident, when neither of them had a chance to speak to the other nor to any other involved person, as they were removed from the scene and sequestered almost immediately after the incident.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>De Jesus says that under orders from Vallejo Police Chief Joseph Kreins, the department will no longer comment on officer-involved shootings. Kreins issued the order after stories about fatal October 2012 shooting of Jeremiah Moore — also allegedly involving Officer Kenney. De Jesus did confirm that Kenney had been reassigned to the detective’s division, which he characterized as a “lateral movement,” not a promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oct. 21, 2012: The Jeremiah Moore Case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136545\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 112px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136545 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/9644_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Moore (Courtesy of Lisa Moore.)\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore (Courtesy of Lisa Moore.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/131648/vallejo-police-killing-mystery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED reported\u003c/a> in early April that the Solano County district attorney’s review of Jeremiah Moore’s killing on Oct. 21, 2012, by Vallejo police had been ongoing for a year and a half. Neither investigators with the office nor police detectives had interviewed a witness who lived across the street from the incident and whose account contradicted key points of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_claim\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the police department’s statement on the shooting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors called 911 after a chaotic evening in which Moore and his roommate smashed windows in their cars and were overheard saying they were about to set their home on fire. Police responded and said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a press release\u003c/a> that officers fatally wounded Moore after he threatened an officer with a rifle, placing it “directly against an officer’s stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But witness Jaime Alvarado said he saw Moore naked with nothing in his hands when he was shot by a Vallejo police officer standing about 8 to 10 feet away. Alvarado said he tried to go outside after the scene had calmed down to give a statement to police, but was told to go back inside. He was finally interviewed by district attorney’s investigators last month — a year and a half after the shooting and only after KQED had published his account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 29, Oakland civil rights attorney Michael Haddad filed a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-in-vallejo-police-killing-of-jeremiah-moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against Vallejo, the police department, Chief Kreins and Kenney, whom the lawsuit names as one of perhaps several police officers who may have opened fire. Haddad also said that Alvarado’s account suggests police invented their details of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Moore shooting also suggests police escalated a situation that could have been defused if officers had approached it as a mental health call, Haddad said. He added they should have known what they were approaching because people calling 911 described naked men, running, shouting and breaking windows outside their home in a generally quiet neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need much more information than that to know that somebody has some sort of mental disturbance,” Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad is also critical of California law and law-enforcement policies that make it difficult to get basic information about officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t imagine the government can just take someone’s life and not even explain why, and that’s the situation we’re living in in California,” Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “For them to be able to hide behind the law that protects police officers’ personnel information, to hide behind that law and not justify their taking of life is really abhorrent, and it’s a situation that must be changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Excessive Force Claims\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kenney is also named in two other federal lawsuits alleging brutality in non-fatal interactions with suspects in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Hicks alleged that a traffic stop on March 30 of that year quickly escalated when Kenney began choking Hicks’ passenger, Teresa Scott, just after he had been ordered out of his vehicle and handcuffed by another Vallejo officer. Hicks says he told Kenney he had no right to choke Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/225180033/Tyrone-Edward-Hicks-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-Amended-Complaint-14-04-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the lawsuit\u003c/a>: “Defendant Kenney approached Plaintiff [Hicks], placed his hands around Plaintiff’s throat and began choking Plaintiff where Plaintiff could not breathe. … The choking occurred approximately for 15-20 seconds and Plaintiff was placed in a patrol car.” The second officer involved in the incident is accused of failing to intercede to stop the alleged choking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”97698f477385328fd9cc9f400df4fcd0″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says Hicks was booked for possession of cocaine for sale, but the charges were dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spawned from a separate incident, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/225181166/IDC-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-First-Amended-Complaint-14-01-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivan Carter’s lawsuit\u003c/a> against Vallejo says he had been working with his son on Aug. 17, 2012, at a property on Indiana Street. The suit alleges that Vallejo police officers Kenney and Thompson were chasing a separate group of youths suspected of trespassing, and the officers apparently mistook Carter’s son for one in the group they had been chasing, confronting him at a cousin’s home at 640 Indiana St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers allegedly shot the unnamed minor with a Taser, then “began beating, choking, and pepper spraying” him, the suit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks and others claiming to be injured by Vallejo police say they are part of a group of residents in the city who have been subjected to a “long-standing practice, policy or custom of allowing Vallejo police officers to use excessive force.” The group is organized by Frederick Cooley, who recently settled \u003ca href=\"http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020131030785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> originating from a confrontation with Officers Kenney and Eric Jensen in late 2011. A Vallejo police department union newsletter says Cooley was arrested for driving a stolen car.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“This is not no new thing. They’ve been doing this for a long time, but it’s come to a head, where they’re killing unarmed individuals.”\u003ccite>Frederick Cooley, Vallejo resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Once Cooley was in handcuffs, “Sean Kenney lifted me up to my feet and Jensen took his flashlight and hit me on top of my head,” Cooley said. “Then he (Jensen) got on top of me and started beating me with the flashlight and ended up breaking my hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Cooley said, Kenney picked him up and slammed his face into the patrol car, lacerating his chin, and closed the patrol car door on his ankles after throwing him in the back seat. When the officers got to the emergency room, Jensen told medical workers that Cooley had been injured in a car crash, according to Cooley. Cooley did crash into two parked cars, according to the police union blotter, but Cooley said that’s not how he was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he was released from the hospital, Cooley ended up in the medical facilities of Solano County Jail. “There I met almost 40 different individuals who had been housed there because of injuries they received from Vallejo PD,” he said. “So that’s what started it all. Most of us knew each other, but if we didn’t, we had something in common. Most everybody in the medical area was beat up by the police, dog bites, Tasers, beat with a baton, broken legs, ankles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooley won a legal fight compelling the Vallejo Police Department to disclose 10 years of internal affairs investigations, including any instances in which Kenney or Jensen were accused of excessive force, dishonesty or falsification of evidence. Rather than disclose the information, Vallejo settled Cooley’s case in December 2013 for $35,000, Cooley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a bad person — I have made mistakes in the past, but right now, I think we can make this a better place to live,” said Cooley, who says he’s lived Vallejo for 30 years. “This is not no new thing. They’ve been doing this for a long time, but it’s come to a head, where they’re killing unarmed individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney for California’s Eastern District confirmed the office had reviewed the Mario Romero shooting, and said “the facts did not present a prosecutable criminal offense for violation of federal civil rights laws.” She said the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice reached a similar conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She directed further questions to the U.S. Department of Justice about when the federal government would get involved in a police department’s use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department did not respond to phone calls and emails requesting an explanation of how it decides to investigate cities like Albuquerque, where they found a “pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding the police shootings to Vallejo’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/225176308/Violent-Crime-in-Vallejo-Calif-1985-to-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 other homicides in 2012\u003c/a>, the police department accounted for nearly one-third of the city’s 20 homicides for the year, a statistic that shocks Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor and director of the law school’s criminal justice research program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were to ask me, have I ever heard in an American city of a situation in which the police force is responsible for 25 or 30 percent of total homicides in the community,” Zimring said, “the answer is I haven’t heard of that before, ever, and I would hope not to hear of it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the rate of fatal officer-involved shootings in Vallejo — which had about 118,000 residents — was about 38 times the national rate. The deaths have resulted in calls from Vallejo residents for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate Vallejo officers’ use of force, just as it \u003ca href=\"http://www.abqjournal.com/apd-under-fire#intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has done with the Albuquerque Police Department\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/apd_findings_4-10-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent Justice Department report found\u003c/a> that Albuquerque police, who have \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-albuquerque-meeting-silence-20140509-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot and killed 25 people since 2010\u003c/a>, have engaged in a “pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimring said 2012 doesn’t appear to be just a statistical anomaly. Vallejo police shot and killed three people in 2013 and another one last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not merely lightning striking in 2012 — lightning keeps on striking in Vallejo,” Zimring said. “Use of lethal force, whether justified or not in individual cases, is systemically problematic in Vallejo in a way that compels a heck of a lot more attention than it’s been getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/19/vallejo-city-manager-responds-to-questions-about-police-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email response to questions\u003c/a> about fatal police shootings in Vallejo, City Manager Dan Keen said more than 75 percent of Vallejo’s homicides last year were gang-related, and police routinely encounter dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2012 and 2013, through direct contact with citizens and Vallejo Police Officers, each year, more than 200 illegal firearms were seized from individuals in Vallejo,” \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/19/vallejo-city-manager-responds-to-questions-about-police-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keen wrote\u003c/a>. “In 2013, Vallejo Police Officers responded to hundreds of ‘shots-fired’ calls, including more than 200 shootings where individuals were victims of firearms violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the rate of fatal police shootings in Vallejo is far higher than in bigger Bay Area cities also dealing with high crime rates. In 2012, the rate of fatal officer-involved shootings per 100,000 residents by Vallejo police was 20 times the rate in both Oakland and San Francisco. In the same year, Oakland had one fatal officer-involved shooting, and San Francisco had two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1449\" height=\"749\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11826903\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate.jpg 1449w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate-800x414.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate-1020x527.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/Staffing-rate-160x83.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1449px) 100vw, 1449px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In lawsuits resulting from the Vallejo Police Department’s fatal shootings and excessive force complaints in 2012, Officer Sean Kenney’s name appears several times. He is confirmed to have been involved in the controversial killing of a suspect in a parked car and has been named as a shooter in lawsuits involving two other fatal incidents. He is also defendant in two suits alleging he used excessive force in nonfatal confrontations with suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Lt. Sid De Jesus said Kenney would not comment on any of the fatal officer-involved shooting incidents that allegedly involve him. Information about police officers’ personnel records are sealed by California law, so Kenney’s career is difficult to trace. A Napa City Police Department spokesman confirmed Kenney worked there prior to transferring to Vallejo, sometime around 2005. Kenney left that department in good standing, the spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenney left Vallejo for the Hayward Police Department in early 2010 amid layoffs, \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_14416120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Vallejo Times Herald\u003c/a>. He returned in August of 2011, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=34032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vallejo city documents\u003c/a>, to be part of the department’s crime suppression unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has since made Kenney a detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">With the six fatal shootings in 2012, the Vallejo Police Department accounted for nearly 30 percent of the city’s homicides for the year.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney John Burris, who has represented clients in numerous complaints against Bay Area police departments, including fatal shootings, says Kenney’s reassignment isn’t surprising. He says he’s seen it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unseemly, though,” he says. “A detective may be involved in officer-involved shooting investigations, and there’s a person who does that who has cases outstanding and pending? Their credibility is called into question, but I’m not convinced the police care about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris’s office is representing the family of Anton Barrett, the 41-year-old driver of the white Lexus speeding without headlights, and the first person allegedly shot and killed by Kenney in 2012\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>May 28, 2012: The Anton Barrett Case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136540\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 112px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136540 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anton-Barrett-480x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Anton Barrett. (Courtesy of Law Offices of John L. Burris)\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anton Barrett. (Courtesy of Law Offices of John L. Burris)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Lexus turned into a dead-end street, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=30966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police say\u003c/a>, Barrett and his son, Anton Frank Barrett, 18, jumped from their vehicle and fled on foot in different directions near Farragut and Wilson avenues in west Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger Barrett heard gunshots coming from the direction his father had run, according to the lawsuit, and scrambled into some bushes to hide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the elder Barrett had encountered an officer — named in \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/223936483/Estate-of-Anton-Pat-Barrett-et-al-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-First-Amended-Complaint-13-08-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a subsequent civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> as Sean Kenney — who told him to stop and put his hands up. Here’s what happened next, according to the department account:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The suspect did not comply and continued running towards the officer. The officer began backing up and telling the suspect several times to show him his hands. The suspect had his hands in his waistband area of his hooded sweat jacket. The suspect reached into his pocket and pull out a dark colored metal object. The officer believed the suspect was now armed, was in fear the suspect was going to kill him or shoot other officers. The officer fired his service weapon and struck the suspect several times. The suspect fell to the sidewalk but tried to get up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer began telling the additional officers that the suspect had a gun. The suspect was immobilized by another officer who used his taser.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The dark-colored object that police say Barrett reached for turned out to be a metal wallet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all that was happening, Officers Boyce, Thompson and a police canine named Yago caught up to the younger Barrett. The lawsuit alleges Thompson ordered the dog to attack Barrett, who was unarmed. After dragging him from the bushes, Boyce threw Barrett to the ground and handcuffed him, then leaned his knee on Barrett’s head as he questioned him. Then, the suit alleges, Thompson ordered the dog to again attack the handcuffed Barrett while threatening to kill the 18-year-old and calling him a “nigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adante Pointer, an Oakland-based civil rights attorney with the law offices of John Burris, is representing Anton Barrett and other members of his father’s family in their lawsuit against Vallejo. He said the repeated attack on the younger Barrett points to “the culture in terms of the way police are approaching how they deal with suspects and just the manner of how they’re dealing with the people of Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two years after Barrett died, the Police Department and Solano County District Attorney’s Office have yet to conclude their review of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sept. 2, 2012: The Mario Romero Case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the early morning hours of Sept. 2, 2012, Vallejo police officers Kenney and Dustin Joseph were on their way to a reported burglary when they spotted two black men in a parked Ford Thunderbird about a block and a half from the reported crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/223937993/Mario-Romero-Joseph-Johnson-Solano-County-District-Attorney-Letter-to-Vallejo-s-Police-Chief-13-06-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A later review of the shooting\u003c/a> by the Solano County District Attorney’s Office lays out the probable cause for Kenney and Joseph to approach Mario Romero, 23, in the driver’s seat of the Thunderbird, and its passenger, Joseph Johnson, 21 at the time: There had been a recent spike in gang-related gun violence in the area, the review says, and Kenney recalled a similar car described in one shooting incident about a month before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were also the only two people out on the street just after 4:30 a.m., and the vehicle’s occupants “appeared shocked to see the marked Vallejo Police unit coming down the street,” according to the district attorney’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review says both Joseph and Kenney exited their cruiser and Romero stepped out of the Thunderbird while reaching into his waistband. Joseph saw a gun in Romero’s hand, and Kenney saw what he thought was a movement of reaching for a gun. Both fired at Romero multiple times, and he fell back into the Thunderbird. Kenney and Joseph continued to shout for Romero to “show his hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Romero re-emerged into view with both hands still clenched toward the center of his body like he was holding a firearm, [Officer] Kenney fired several more shots,” the district attorney’s review says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers fired a third volley of gunshots at Romero as he “started to come up looking directly at [Officer] Kenney. … These shots appeared to have an effect, as both officers saw Mr. Romero settle back and stop moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County coroner said Romero was shot 30 times, including three to the head, five to the neck, six to the torso, six to his upper right extremity, nine to his upper left extremity and one to the left thigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passenger Joseph Johnson was also shot, surviving a single bullet wound to his pelvic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/223938746/Johnson-et-al-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-13-10-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a federal lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the police department, Romero’s three sisters say they were were in their home waiting for Johnson and Romero to come in. The women say they heard a commotion outside, went to a window and saw Officer Dustin Joseph open fire on the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero’s sisters dispute several details of the police account. While the district attorney’s review states Kenney jumped on the hood of the Thunderbird only to check the car after the shooting had stopped, the witnesses inside the house say they saw Joseph fire several rounds while standing on the hood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s review reports that after the shooting, Kenney went into the Thunderbird looking for the weapon he and Joseph had seen in Romero’s hands:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He found it wedged between the center console and the rear portion of the driver’s seat, near the floorboard of the passenger area immediately behind the driver’s seat. He briefly lifted the firearm with the intent to clear it of any live ammunition, but put it back in place when he realized he was not wearing gloves and that there was blood on it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun. Police also recovered baggies of pills later determined to be methamphetamine. Romero’s toxicology report, according the DA’s review, found he had a significant amount of methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney Catherine Haley, who is representing Romero’s family and Joseph Johnson, called the shooting “absolutely execution-style.” She said it’s difficult to believe Romero would continue to reach for a fake gun while police fired at least 30 .40-caliber bullets into the car. And Kenney’s handling of evidence without gloves, in a shooting he had just participated in, raises significant questions about the integrity of the investigation on which both the district attorney and the U.S. attorney’s office based their reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Kenney’s handling of evidence without gloves, in a shooting he had just participated in, raises significant questions.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s review gives far more weight to statements from the involved officers, compared with those made by civilian witnesses inside the house. Romero’s sisters tried to accompany their brother’s body and the wounded Joseph to the hospital, but were told to get back inside their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though police knew they were there, no one interviewed them for more than two months after the shooting. That’s despite the fact both a Solano County district attorney’s investigator and Vallejo Police Lt. Sid De Jesus have said all witness statements should be taken as soon as possible after this kind of incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s review explains the credence given to the officers’ account this way :\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The statements of Mr. Romero’s sisters were all made almost ten weeks after this incident occurred. During that time, it would have been natural for them to reflect and discuss this incident. In contrast, the statements made by [Officer] Joseph and [Officer] Kenney were taken merely hours after the incident, when neither of them had a chance to speak to the other nor to any other involved person, as they were removed from the scene and sequestered almost immediately after the incident.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>De Jesus says that under orders from Vallejo Police Chief Joseph Kreins, the department will no longer comment on officer-involved shootings. Kreins issued the order after stories about fatal October 2012 shooting of Jeremiah Moore — also allegedly involving Officer Kenney. De Jesus did confirm that Kenney had been reassigned to the detective’s division, which he characterized as a “lateral movement,” not a promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oct. 21, 2012: The Jeremiah Moore Case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136545\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 112px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136545 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/9644_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Moore (Courtesy of Lisa Moore.)\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore (Courtesy of Lisa Moore.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/131648/vallejo-police-killing-mystery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED reported\u003c/a> in early April that the Solano County district attorney’s review of Jeremiah Moore’s killing on Oct. 21, 2012, by Vallejo police had been ongoing for a year and a half. Neither investigators with the office nor police detectives had interviewed a witness who lived across the street from the incident and whose account contradicted key points of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_claim\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the police department’s statement on the shooting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors called 911 after a chaotic evening in which Moore and his roommate smashed windows in their cars and were overheard saying they were about to set their home on fire. Police responded and said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a press release\u003c/a> that officers fatally wounded Moore after he threatened an officer with a rifle, placing it “directly against an officer’s stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But witness Jaime Alvarado said he saw Moore naked with nothing in his hands when he was shot by a Vallejo police officer standing about 8 to 10 feet away. Alvarado said he tried to go outside after the scene had calmed down to give a statement to police, but was told to go back inside. He was finally interviewed by district attorney’s investigators last month — a year and a half after the shooting and only after KQED had published his account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 29, Oakland civil rights attorney Michael Haddad filed a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-in-vallejo-police-killing-of-jeremiah-moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against Vallejo, the police department, Chief Kreins and Kenney, whom the lawsuit names as one of perhaps several police officers who may have opened fire. Haddad also said that Alvarado’s account suggests police invented their details of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Moore shooting also suggests police escalated a situation that could have been defused if officers had approached it as a mental health call, Haddad said. He added they should have known what they were approaching because people calling 911 described naked men, running, shouting and breaking windows outside their home in a generally quiet neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need much more information than that to know that somebody has some sort of mental disturbance,” Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad is also critical of California law and law-enforcement policies that make it difficult to get basic information about officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t imagine the government can just take someone’s life and not even explain why, and that’s the situation we’re living in in California,” Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “For them to be able to hide behind the law that protects police officers’ personnel information, to hide behind that law and not justify their taking of life is really abhorrent, and it’s a situation that must be changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Excessive Force Claims\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kenney is also named in two other federal lawsuits alleging brutality in non-fatal interactions with suspects in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Hicks alleged that a traffic stop on March 30 of that year quickly escalated when Kenney began choking Hicks’ passenger, Teresa Scott, just after he had been ordered out of his vehicle and handcuffed by another Vallejo officer. Hicks says he told Kenney he had no right to choke Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/225180033/Tyrone-Edward-Hicks-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-Amended-Complaint-14-04-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the lawsuit\u003c/a>: “Defendant Kenney approached Plaintiff [Hicks], placed his hands around Plaintiff’s throat and began choking Plaintiff where Plaintiff could not breathe. … The choking occurred approximately for 15-20 seconds and Plaintiff was placed in a patrol car.” The second officer involved in the incident is accused of failing to intercede to stop the alleged choking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says Hicks was booked for possession of cocaine for sale, but the charges were dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spawned from a separate incident, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/225181166/IDC-v-City-of-Vallejo-et-al-First-Amended-Complaint-14-01-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivan Carter’s lawsuit\u003c/a> against Vallejo says he had been working with his son on Aug. 17, 2012, at a property on Indiana Street. The suit alleges that Vallejo police officers Kenney and Thompson were chasing a separate group of youths suspected of trespassing, and the officers apparently mistook Carter’s son for one in the group they had been chasing, confronting him at a cousin’s home at 640 Indiana St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers allegedly shot the unnamed minor with a Taser, then “began beating, choking, and pepper spraying” him, the suit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks and others claiming to be injured by Vallejo police say they are part of a group of residents in the city who have been subjected to a “long-standing practice, policy or custom of allowing Vallejo police officers to use excessive force.” The group is organized by Frederick Cooley, who recently settled \u003ca href=\"http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020131030785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> originating from a confrontation with Officers Kenney and Eric Jensen in late 2011. A Vallejo police department union newsletter says Cooley was arrested for driving a stolen car.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“This is not no new thing. They’ve been doing this for a long time, but it’s come to a head, where they’re killing unarmed individuals.”\u003ccite>Frederick Cooley, Vallejo resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Once Cooley was in handcuffs, “Sean Kenney lifted me up to my feet and Jensen took his flashlight and hit me on top of my head,” Cooley said. “Then he (Jensen) got on top of me and started beating me with the flashlight and ended up breaking my hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Cooley said, Kenney picked him up and slammed his face into the patrol car, lacerating his chin, and closed the patrol car door on his ankles after throwing him in the back seat. When the officers got to the emergency room, Jensen told medical workers that Cooley had been injured in a car crash, according to Cooley. Cooley did crash into two parked cars, according to the police union blotter, but Cooley said that’s not how he was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he was released from the hospital, Cooley ended up in the medical facilities of Solano County Jail. “There I met almost 40 different individuals who had been housed there because of injuries they received from Vallejo PD,” he said. “So that’s what started it all. Most of us knew each other, but if we didn’t, we had something in common. Most everybody in the medical area was beat up by the police, dog bites, Tasers, beat with a baton, broken legs, ankles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooley won a legal fight compelling the Vallejo Police Department to disclose 10 years of internal affairs investigations, including any instances in which Kenney or Jensen were accused of excessive force, dishonesty or falsification of evidence. Rather than disclose the information, Vallejo settled Cooley’s case in December 2013 for $35,000, Cooley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a bad person — I have made mistakes in the past, but right now, I think we can make this a better place to live,” said Cooley, who says he’s lived Vallejo for 30 years. “This is not no new thing. They’ve been doing this for a long time, but it’s come to a head, where they’re killing unarmed individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney for California’s Eastern District confirmed the office had reviewed the Mario Romero shooting, and said “the facts did not present a prosecutable criminal offense for violation of federal civil rights laws.” She said the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice reached a similar conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She directed further questions to the U.S. Department of Justice about when the federal government would get involved in a police department’s use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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