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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/J-Moore-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131828\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/J-Moore-2-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Moore. (Courtesy, Eugene and Lisa Moore)\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore. 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Police said they received multiple calls about the disturbance, and at least one neighbor told KQED he called 911 after hearing Moore and Jessie talk about setting their house on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police reported afterward that they shot Moore after he threatened an officer with a rifle. Today's amended federal complaint says police confronted a naked and unarmed Moore outside his home and shot him when he failed to comply promptly with commands to get on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Oakland attorney Michael Haddad, who filed Tuesday's amended complaint, said that witness accounts suggest police invented their account of the Moore shooting.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Moore \"suffered from an autism spectrum disorder which caused him to move his hands and arms when he was nervous,\" the suit says. \"Moore had not made any movement or gesture under the circumstances that a reasonable officer would perceive as posing an immediate threat to justify the use of deadly force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended filing names a Vallejo Police Department officer, Sean Kenney, as one of those who fatally shot Moore. If true, it would have been the second fatal shooting involving Kenney in less than two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenney and Dustin Joseph, a fellow Vallejo officer, fired 27 rounds into a parked car about seven weeks before the Moore shooting, killing Mario Romero and injuring Joseph Johnson. A Solano County District Attorney's investigation found that shooting was justified, as did the U.S. Attorney's Office for California's Eastern District. The investigation found Romero had a \"replica firearm\" and pills later determined to be methamphetamine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a KQED investigation published earlier this month — \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/131648/vallejo-police-killing-mystery\" target=\"_blank\">The Killing of Jeremiah Moore\u003c/a>\" — a neighbor who says he witnessed the shooting said Moore was standing naked in his doorway, waiving his hands nervously when he was shot. Neither police nor Solano County District Attorney's investigators had interviewed the neighbor, Jaime Alvarado, until Monday — more than a year and a half after he says he first tried to tell his story to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland attorney Michael Haddad, who filed Tuesday's amended complaint on behalf of Eugene and Lisa Moore, said that witness accounts suggest police invented their account of the Moore shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were able to confirm that in fact, the version of the shooting given by the police was not true, according to eyewitnesses that we talked to,\" Haddad said. \"Not only does that mean that the use of deadly force was unjustified and illegal, but it raises the question that the Vallejo police may be deliberately making a false alibi for this shooting. That's something that we're definitely going to explore in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo City Attorney's Office, which had moved to dismiss the parents' original complaint, did not immediately respond to requests for comments on the amended complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full complaint below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Jeremiah Moore First Amended Complaint Filed 04.29.14 on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221036885/Jeremiah-Moore-First-Amended-Complaint-Filed-04-29-14\">Jeremiah Moore First Amended Complaint Filed 04.29.14\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_46948\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/221036885/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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Flynn says considering private security for her own community is not just about personal safety. She says she's also concerned about property values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really expensive to live here,\" she says, \"and you don't want to your investment to get messed with by people who want to just steal loose change from your car. It just seems ridiculous. But you know it could start there and then it can escalate into people tying you up in your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns like those expressed by Flynn — about safety, home values and the impact of a growing number of private security firms monitoring Oakland's more affluent neighborhoods — could play a prominent role as Oakland city official ask voters to renew Measure Y, a property assessment that funds more than 60 police officers and a wide array of community crime-prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariel Bierbaum lives in the Lower Rockridge area, one of the neighborhoods that has contracted for security patrols. She says she supports Measure Y and fears that residents who have started paying for their own security won't support it any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I worry that people are going to not be interested in funding Measure Y because they feel like they’re already paying out of pocket for something that they feel like is providing a better service.'\u003ccite>Ariel Bierbaum,\u003cbr>\nLower Rockridge resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I worry that people are going to not be interested in funding Measure Y because they feel like they’re already paying out of pocket for something that they feel like is providing a better service,\" Bierbaum says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Oakland police Capt. Anthony Toribio says no one should mistake private security as a replacement for city police. He says they have distinctly different roles. \"It's important to remember that the job of security is to observe and report,\" Toribio says. \"The job of police is to investigate and arrest. And those are two different things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Price, a retired Piedmont police officer, is president of Premiere Protective Services, one of the many private firms monitoring Oakland streets. While I accompanied him on a tour of the Rockridge neighborhood, we encountered a situation he said highlights the difference between how his staffers and police officers might respond to an incident on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a busy thoroughfare, a man passed by shouting profanities. He was so erratic that people crossed the street to avoid him. I asked Price: What would your security patrol officer do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's a perfect question,\" Price said, adding that the officer would probably just keep an eye on the man. \"Kind of follow him in the car,\" Price said. \"He's not gonna get out on foot, we don't do that. But if he does something aggressive, he's going to call OPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the working relationship between the private security operatives and the police is becoming more formal. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/2252156343_899b31c7a2_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-134024 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/2252156343_899b31c7a2_b-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"2252156343_899b31c7a2_b\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/people/thomashawk/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Hawk/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Nora Elmeligy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massage parlors acting as a fronts for prostitution and human trafficking have long been an issue in California. But a law passed in 2008 has seemingly allowed the problem to worsen exponentially. On Wednesday, to counter this trend, three California lawmakers unveiled \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1147\" target=\"_blank\">the Massage Therapy Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=54d9eefc95ec85b05f088ee2fc6e?bill_id=201320140AB1147\" target=\"_blank\">AB1147\u003c/a> aims to prevent illicit massage parlors from opening, make them easier to shut down and hold business owners accountable — rather than the prostitutes. The bill would replace the 6-year-old Massage Therapy Law, which inadvertently made it too easy for illegal massage parlors to proliferate over the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities that were particularly affected, such as San Francisco, San Mateo and Fresno, have worked hard to squelch the problem. Meanwhile, Huntington Beach saw a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcet.org/shows/socal_connected/content/crime/massage-parlor-boom-raises-concerns-of-illicit-activity.html\">600 percent increase\u003c/a> in the number of illicit parlors in the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to major concerns voiced by constituents, Assemblymembers Susan Bonilla, Jimmy Gomez and Chris Holden authored the Massage Therapy Act to fix some of the loopholes that the 2008 law created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this week, a massage spa in Fresno was shut down following several community tips and a months-long investigation. The spa’s 16 masseuses were women brought to Fresno from China who were all housed by the business owner. In a move that protected the women from suffering consequences, Fresno police did not make any prostitution charges and slapped the spa with fines that might keep it out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno has seen such a rise in massage parlors that in 2010 it created a special task force devoted to busting the illegal ones. The Massage Therapy Act would make it easier for a city to crack down on illegal activity without needing to work so hard to prove its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla said that families and children should not be faced with such illicit activity in their neighborhoods. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s extremely troubling to hear of communities where, in a few-block radius, you may have 20 massage establishments. And knowing full well that … for the normal, legitimate massage practice, that that’s far too many,” Bonilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/148273517&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the crux of the legislation are provisions that would grant local governments the power to regulate how many massage parlors can be in their jurisdiction and where they can be. But it also would make key changes to the California Massage Therapy Council, a nonprofit entity created by the 2008 law that is responsible for approving massage therapy licenses. Up until now, the council consisted of 20 massage industry professionals. Seeking to give more say to others with a stake in the problem, this bill would downsize the council to 11 members and include more members from various public entities, such as the League of California Cities and the California Police Chiefs Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to changing who gets to approve massage therapy certifications, the bill would change \u003cem>how \u003c/em>these businesses get certified. Under current law, only individual massage therapists must be certified rather than the business as a whole. As a result, Bonilla (D-Concord) noted that even when cities managed to prove prostitution, “the owner of the business was usually never caught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if therapists were caught engaging in prostitution, not only did they lose their jobs when their licenses were revoked but they would simply be replaced with another worker — doing nothing to solve the larger problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, if a business had to go through certification, its owners would be on record should they ever violate the law. Gomez (D-Los Angeles), co-author of the bill, said “some of the community leaders told me that once they raided one massage parlor, another person would just take their place and they could never be shut down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By making it easier to track the owners, the Massage Therapy Council can prevent repeat offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One provision in the bill would even deem “sexually suggestive advertising related to massage services” a violation worthy of revoking a massage therapy license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the bill would help cities curb criminal activity, it also would seek to raise the professional standard of the massage industry. In addition to massage businesses needing certification, individual massage practitioners would need to go through more rigorous training to obtain their massage therapy licenses. Requirements such as background checks and at least 500 hours of training from approved institutions would filter out those less serious about becoming masseuses. The authors of the bill say they hope this will help distinguish professional massage parlors from “bad actors,” so that legitimate businesses can practice with dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some in the massage industry are not so sure how the new rules will play out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Gordon owns a massage therapy clinic in San Francisco. He worries that legislation like this might give cities too much power to deny permits to legitimate businesses. If massage parlors are pushed into less savory areas and red-light districts, Gordon said this could perpetuate the stigma that massage therapy practitioners are constantly fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he is wary of the Massage Therapy Act, he strongly supports the idea of requiring businesses to obtain certification and thinks that provision would help set professional parlors apart. Citing injured people, including athletes, that he has helped recover, Gordon said, “What I do is important to people and it’s valuable. There are people who could benefit from our services who might not come because they worry about prostitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez stated that the most troubling aspect of these parlors is “really the exploitation of women from all over the globe that are brought here as sex slaves and are trafficked. … It’s rampant in some of these parlors, and we need to make sure that we can shut those down and help the women who are being exploited because not all of them are there willingly, and we need to make sure they are protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Gordon agrees but wants to see that true practitioners are protected, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To ensure the rules are enforced, the Massage Therapy Act includes language that would require the council to report back in two years on how the rules are being implemented and what progress has been made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez acknowledged the difficulty of solving the problem, but is still committed to the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it going to get rid of all the illegal activity in massage parlors? No. But it’s a big, big step forward and a big improvement on what we’re currently dealing with,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some people living in campsites on the Albany Bulb will get $3,000 each to leave as part of a settlement between the East Bay City of Albany and 28 residents of the persistent encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who signed the settlement must leave the Bulb by Friday, April 25, and they have agreed to stay away from public open spaces in Albany, including the Bulb and Albany Hill, for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the plaintiffs announced the settlement of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/122424/albany-homnelessness-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> today. East Bay Community Law Center attorney Osha Neumann told KQED’s Sara Hossaini that he has mixed feelings about the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those that are getting the money, that’s going to help, and they are so unused to getting anything when they’re kicked from one place to another,” Neumann said. “I am sad that what we were not able to get is, for all the people who are out here, an alternative place where they could stay. I’m really worried that a lot of the people who were out here are going to end up back on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neumann said the lawsuit was in large part an attempt to force Albany to provide homeless transition services for all of the people at the Bulb as the city inched closer in its decades-long effort to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/18/albany-bulb-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convert the land into a state park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133678\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6699_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0180_web.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-133678 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS6699_AlbanyBulb_15sept2013_0180_web-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Osha Neumann works with another volunteer to help collect statements from the residents of the Albany Bulb in their legal battle to fight eviction.\" width=\"338\" height=\"226\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osha Neumann works with another volunteer to help collect statements from the residents of the Albany Bulb in their legal battle to fight eviction. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s happened, and for many of them, that’s very, very sad,” Neumann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany spokeswoman Nicole Almaguer said the settlement is a positive step and shows the city and the people living on the Bulb are working collaboratively. In addition to the $84,000 settlement announced today, Albany contracted the nonprofit Berkeley Food and Housing Project for more than $60,000 to help the city’s homeless population find permanent housing — not an easy task in the Bay Area. The city then expanded its park transition plan to $500,000, which included funding for temporary shelter buildings near the Bulb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That transition plan spurred the lawsuit. More than half the people living on the Bulb said the city had failed to accommodate their disabilities and was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and threatening a violation of Fourth and 14th Amendment protections. But as the court battles dragged on, police issued more and more tickets for violating the waterfront park’s curfew, and the Bulb’s population dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about a year of outreach, Almaguer said 14 people from the Bulb, including one infant, had moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the housing outreach effectiveness is disputed by some of the Bulb residents, especially those with little or no documented income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almaguer said no one had relocated within Albany, which has no transitional housing or permanent emergency homeless shelter. 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Just a few cases in the news include the probe into \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/16/sports/errors-in-inquiry-on-rape-allegations-against-fsu-jameis-winston.html\" target=\"_blank\">Florida State\u003c/a>'s lack of investigation in the sexual assault of a freshman, while \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/14/amherst-vanderbilt-sexual-assault_n_4271138.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vanderbilt and Amherst are also being sued\u003c/a> for mishandling student complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'You shouldn't have to walk on a college campus in fear of being sexually assaulted.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One in every five women will be sexually assaulted while in college, but less than 5 percent will report the assault to law enforcement, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Several national efforts are in the works to address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/21/transparency-sexual-assault-investigations-college_n_5186197.html\" target=\"_blank\">Recommendations from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault\u003c/a> are expected to go public next week, and Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA-14) plans to introduce federal legislation to strengthen laws to combat sexual assault on students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of the problems that exist, exist because (academic institutions) are closed systems, they have their own internal law enforcement, and for the most part, these cases historically have been swept under the rug,\" Speier said. \"Some of these institutions don't have rape kits on campus. If you're raped on a college campus, you might have to travel 10 or 15 miles to get to a facility that has a rape kit. That's unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-berkeley-assault-20140420,0,5686653.story#axzz2zfMzvfWC\" target=\"_blank\">an appearance at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> last week, Speier said universities have to be accountable for interviewing any student who files a complaint of sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speier told KQED that she wants to increase funding for federal investigations, campus surveys and to create more comprehensive data on the outcomes of cases. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/betty-and-seth-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversaton at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Rosenfeld and Betty Medsger in conversation at the San Francisco City Club. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On March 8, 1971, Richard Nixon was in the White House, the United States was in Vietnam and J. 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They anonymously sent her and four other people copies of the documents they had found, which revealed the FBI's extraordinary efforts to suppress dissent, including its blanket surveillance of black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger's story about the burglary, which ran in the Post and many other papers around the country, generated outrage and a national discussion about the role of intelligence agencies in a democratic society. Her 608-page book about the heist — and how and why it occurred — came out in January: \"The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was interviewed recently at the San Francisco City Club by freelance journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sethrosenfeld.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/a>, who wrote \"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power,\" published in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a conversation that could have gone on for weeks. Medsger and Rosenfeld know way more about the FBI than most people on the planet — and probably vice versa. The FBI spent about $1 million to prevent Rosenfeld from getting files he'd requested on Hoover and Ronald Reagan. Medsger, meanwhile, obtained the 34,000-page FBI investigation of the Media burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seth and I should probably have our heads examined,\" Medsger said. \"Both of us have read thousands of pages of FBI documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed as \"Celebrating Dissent,\" the City Club event was sponsored by S.F. State's \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.sfsu.edu/pages/center-integration-and-improvement-journalism\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism\u003c/a>, which Medsger founded in 1990. Although the journalists' conversation went back 43 years, it could not have been timelier, given Edward Snowden's revelations on National Security Agency surveillance — a subject that led to Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post and The Guardian just two days before the City Club event.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover.'\u003ccite>Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medsger told the crowd she was not nearly as well known as the other two journalists who received the stolen documents — Tom Wicker of the New York Times and Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times. She figured her coverage of the peace movement in the late '60s had played a role, and it turned out she was right: Many years later, she found out that two of her activist acquaintances in Philadelphia were among the burglars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she learned the identities of seven of the eight, and told their stories for the first time in the book, which is full of intriguing details. For instance, the aspiring burglars cased the outside of the FBI office for about two months but eventually needed to get inside to see if there was an alarm system. So, Bonnie Raines made an appointment to talk about work opportunities at the FBI, and she wore gloves to the interview to avoid leaving fingerprints. Another burglar took a correspondence course to teach himself lock-picking skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts paid off. They cleaned out the office and were never caught, despite a five-year manhunt that involved more than 200 agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They left the frame,\" Medsger noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoover Was a Towering Figure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nixon administration asked the Post not to publish Medsger's story. The newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, ignored the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in our history, the FBI was used to getting 100 percent cooperation from the media,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early '70s, Medsger didn't have to worry about competition over who would break the story first: Nelson and Wicker turned the documents over to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Intelligence was different than anything else, and intelligence was something journalists had not touched at that time,\" Medsger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journalists' wariness reflected the times. In the 1950s and '60s, Rosenfeld said, Hoover was a revered folk hero who'd been a towering figure for almost half a century. He was more popular than President Harry Truman and had developed close relationships with all the major studios in Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. George McGovern, one of two public officials who had received the stolen files, condemned the burglary, saying it would make it impossible to investigate the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To digress to now, maybe that's why Snowden didn't take documents to Congress,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger noted that Daniel Ellsberg brought the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specialreports/pentagon-papers/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Papers,\u003c/a> tracing the history of the Vietnam War, to four different senators. When none were willing to make the documents public, he turned to journalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the very unique and crucial role of the press to get information out,\" said Rosenfeld, who was an investigative reporter at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1971, Medsger continued to receive stolen files. One set had a routing slip labeled \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\" target=\"_blank\">COINTELPRO\u003c/a>, a series of covert operations designed to disrupt and discredit domestic political dissidents. The notorious program included Hoover's meanest and dirtiest tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was stunned at how much the FBI put in writing in its documents, such as telling agents that they should enhance people's paranoia and make them think there was an FBI agent behind every mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this particular time, the FBI committed almost everything to paper in a very unguarded way, even though the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) had passed five years before,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Story Set the Stage for Many More Revelations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Medsger's work, some members of Congress and editorial boards around the country called for a probe of Hoover and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though there was a strong reaction initially, things slowed down,\" Rosenfeld said. \"But a fuse had been lit by these stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after the burglary, the Pentagon Papers came out. The Watergate break-in and coverup happened the following year. In 1973, NBC News reporter Carl Stern filed the first Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in the U.S. and broke the first story about COINTELPRO, which he'd learned of after reading about the burglary. And the watershed Church Committee hearings in 1975 and 1976 were the first and most extensive investigations of FBI and CIA involvement in American lives. Many reforms followed. But in the years since 9/11, intelligence agencies have acquired much greater power to engage in domestic surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fast forward to where we are now with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/190293264/edward-snowden\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Snowden\u003c/a>,\" said Rosenfeld, who asked Medsger about similarities and differences between then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Media burglars and Snowden had the same motivation: to provide information to members of the public, who could then make decisions about whether they wanted intelligence agencies to behave in this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crucial difference is that Snowden knew exactly what he was doing and that there was valuable information,\" Medsger said. \"The FBI burglars were risking their futures without having any idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems we know an awful lot about what the NSA collected but almost nothing about how that information was used,\" Rosenfeld said. \"And Congress so far has not shown much interest in asking those questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the event began, Medsger told me, \"It seems as though I've been talking continuously ever since I arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder. She read at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com\" target=\"_blank\">Book Passage\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Ferry Building on Tuesday night, addressed a class of Knight Fellows at Stanford on Wednesday hours before the City Club talk, and went to a party Thursday evening in San Francisco that included a book discussion. She flew back later that night to New York, where she lives, so that she could attend the screening of \"1971,\" a parallel documentary on the burglary, at the Tribeca Film Festival Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the City Club event was wrapping up, Medsger mentioned that she was very happy about something that had happened in New York the day before. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was interviewed recently at the San Francisco City Club by freelance journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.sethrosenfeld.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/a>, who wrote \"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power,\" published in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a conversation that could have gone on for weeks. Medsger and Rosenfeld know way more about the FBI than most people on the planet — and probably vice versa. The FBI spent about $1 million to prevent Rosenfeld from getting files he'd requested on Hoover and Ronald Reagan. Medsger, meanwhile, obtained the 34,000-page FBI investigation of the Media burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seth and I should probably have our heads examined,\" Medsger said. \"Both of us have read thousands of pages of FBI documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed as \"Celebrating Dissent,\" the City Club event was sponsored by S.F. State's \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.sfsu.edu/pages/center-integration-and-improvement-journalism\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism\u003c/a>, which Medsger founded in 1990. Although the journalists' conversation went back 43 years, it could not have been timelier, given Edward Snowden's revelations on National Security Agency surveillance — a subject that led to Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post and The Guardian just two days before the City Club event.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover.'\u003ccite>Seth Rosenfeld\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medsger told the crowd she was not nearly as well known as the other two journalists who received the stolen documents — Tom Wicker of the New York Times and Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times. She figured her coverage of the peace movement in the late '60s had played a role, and it turned out she was right: Many years later, she found out that two of her activist acquaintances in Philadelphia were among the burglars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she learned the identities of seven of the eight, and told their stories for the first time in the book, which is full of intriguing details. For instance, the aspiring burglars cased the outside of the FBI office for about two months but eventually needed to get inside to see if there was an alarm system. So, Bonnie Raines made an appointment to talk about work opportunities at the FBI, and she wore gloves to the interview to avoid leaving fingerprints. Another burglar took a correspondence course to teach himself lock-picking skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts paid off. They cleaned out the office and were never caught, despite a five-year manhunt that involved more than 200 agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took every document in the place, and they even took a photo of J. Edgar Hoover,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They left the frame,\" Medsger noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoover Was a Towering Figure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nixon administration asked the Post not to publish Medsger's story. The newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, ignored the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in our history, the FBI was used to getting 100 percent cooperation from the media,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early '70s, Medsger didn't have to worry about competition over who would break the story first: Nelson and Wicker turned the documents over to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Intelligence was different than anything else, and intelligence was something journalists had not touched at that time,\" Medsger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journalists' wariness reflected the times. In the 1950s and '60s, Rosenfeld said, Hoover was a revered folk hero who'd been a towering figure for almost half a century. He was more popular than President Harry Truman and had developed close relationships with all the major studios in Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. George McGovern, one of two public officials who had received the stolen files, condemned the burglary, saying it would make it impossible to investigate the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To digress to now, maybe that's why Snowden didn't take documents to Congress,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medsger noted that Daniel Ellsberg brought the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specialreports/pentagon-papers/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Papers,\u003c/a> tracing the history of the Vietnam War, to four different senators. When none were willing to make the documents public, he turned to journalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It speaks to the very unique and crucial role of the press to get information out,\" said Rosenfeld, who was an investigative reporter at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1971, Medsger continued to receive stolen files. One set had a routing slip labeled \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\" target=\"_blank\">COINTELPRO\u003c/a>, a series of covert operations designed to disrupt and discredit domestic political dissidents. The notorious program included Hoover's meanest and dirtiest tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was stunned at how much the FBI put in writing in its documents, such as telling agents that they should enhance people's paranoia and make them think there was an FBI agent behind every mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this particular time, the FBI committed almost everything to paper in a very unguarded way, even though the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) had passed five years before,\" Rosenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Story Set the Stage for Many More Revelations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Medsger's work, some members of Congress and editorial boards around the country called for a probe of Hoover and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though there was a strong reaction initially, things slowed down,\" Rosenfeld said. \"But a fuse had been lit by these stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after the burglary, the Pentagon Papers came out. The Watergate break-in and coverup happened the following year. In 1973, NBC News reporter Carl Stern filed the first Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in the U.S. and broke the first story about COINTELPRO, which he'd learned of after reading about the burglary. And the watershed Church Committee hearings in 1975 and 1976 were the first and most extensive investigations of FBI and CIA involvement in American lives. Many reforms followed. But in the years since 9/11, intelligence agencies have acquired much greater power to engage in domestic surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fast forward to where we are now with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/190293264/edward-snowden\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Snowden\u003c/a>,\" said Rosenfeld, who asked Medsger about similarities and differences between then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Media burglars and Snowden had the same motivation: to provide information to members of the public, who could then make decisions about whether they wanted intelligence agencies to behave in this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crucial difference is that Snowden knew exactly what he was doing and that there was valuable information,\" Medsger said. \"The FBI burglars were risking their futures without having any idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems we know an awful lot about what the NSA collected but almost nothing about how that information was used,\" Rosenfeld said. \"And Congress so far has not shown much interest in asking those questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the event began, Medsger told me, \"It seems as though I've been talking continuously ever since I arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Nora Elmeligy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129848\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/18/129840/152882416-640x425/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-129848\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129848\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/152882416-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino Muslims in September 2012, part of worldwide protest against an anti-Muslim film produced in the United States. (Noel Celis/AFP-Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino Muslims in September 2012, part of worldwide protest against an anti-Muslim film produced in the United States. (Noel Celis/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, a large number of interested parties submitted nine\u003ca href=\"http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000725\"> amicus briefs\u003c/a> in support of Google’s petition for a rehearing of a ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, which ordered the company to take down the controversial video, “Innocence of Muslims,” from YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those submitting the briefs included 34 Internet and copyright law professors, 17 tech companies -- including Facebook and Twitter -- and 18 media companies, including NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The briefs all argued that the ruling ordering Google to take down the video violates the fundamental right of online sites to host content that they did not create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the briefs, a large group of legal experts \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/15/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Internet%20Law%20Professors.pdf\">argued\u003c/a> that the ruling violates a section of copyright law that “provides the legal foundation for many of the most popular websites that enable users to communicate with each other or the world at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In essence, they argued that if this decision is not reversed, those who are featured in any video would have far too much power over both the content creators and the content hosts going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media companies, including Facebook, \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/15/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Adobe%20et%20al.pdf\">stated \u003c/a>that even though they compete with each other and with Google, they unanimously urged the court to rehear the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to its own interests, \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/14/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Netflix.pdf\">Netflix \u003c/a>stated that despite the “odious” nature of the video, “the panel majority risks wreaking havoc with established copyright and business rules on which all third party distributors, including Netflix, depend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floor64, the company that puts out Techdirt, acknowledged the harm that this video might have done to an American actress, Cindy Lee Garcia, whose image appeared in the video in a way she did not permit, but wrote in its \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/14/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Floor64.pdf\">brief \u003c/a>that honoring Garcia’s copyright “won't make (the video) cease to exist or the matter any less important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Background\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which was posted to YouTube in July 2012, was produced by a convicted felon who has gone by at least six pseudonyms, and depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad in a highly negative light. Actress Garcia had a five-second appearance in the video, and said she agreed to act in it under the premise that it was a \"desert adventure\" movie trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1662&context=historical\">brief\u003c/a> filed by her lawyer, Garcia said that the producer, Mark Basseley Youssef, had dubbed over her words to make it seem like she called the prophet a pedophile. She was not aware of the changes made to her performance until she received calls from reporters about the controversy ignited by the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said she lost her job and has received death threats due to her role in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As word of the video spread around the world in the summer and fall of 2012, demonstrations and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_Innocence_of_Muslims\">violent protests\u003c/a> broke out in Egypt and spread to other Arab and Muslim nations and to some Western countries. The protests led to hundreds of injuries and more than 50 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 11 that year, a group of local Islamist militants launched a brutal attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Christopher_Stevens\">J. 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Assuming Ms. Garcia's contribution was limited to her acting performance, we cannot register her performance apart from the motion picture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sued Google, claiming a copyright to her brief appearance, and hoping to win on the grounds that said copyright was violated when her performance was used in a way she didn't intend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Internet and copyright law experts nationwide have responded very critically to the decision, voicing the hope that it will be reversed.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Contrary to a district court’s earlier ruling and\u003cem> \u003c/em>the Copyright Office’s decision, two of the three judges on the appellate panel ruled on Garcia’s side, granting her claim on the basis that the producer, Youssef, had violated any license he had with Garcia’s performance when he lied about the nature of the video, leading to real threats against her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Content of Video 'Beside the Point'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University, and a co-author of one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/15/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Internet%20Law%20Professors.pdf\">amicus briefs\u003c/a> filed this week, the content of the video is actually beside the point. He said the crux of the ruling is copyright law, and the February ruling establishes a troubling precedent affecting almost all filmmakers and video content creators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman outlines the following scenario: An actor agrees to appear in a film, but later decides he doesn't like how his performance turned out, or that his vision differs from the producer's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this ruling, an actor could theoretically override the production (i.e., a film) by requiring his performance (no matter how brief) be removed, potentially rendering the production entirely impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This same power could theoretically lie in the hands of anyone depicted in a user-generated video on YouTube. And the extra work required by producers to eliminate these types of conflicts could ultimately result in higher costs for media consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet and copyright law experts nationwide, including Goldman, have responded very critically to the decision, voicing the hope that it will be reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman said that copyright law should never have been brought into this case at all. Garcia’s concerns would typically have been taken up with the video’s producer, Youssef. Since Youssef was an absentee in the case, Google was forced to step in on his behalf -- another flaw with the case, as Google was not affiliated with production of the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the 11 judges of the 9th Circuit are reviewing Google’s request and have until May 7 to announce whether they will hear the case again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132932\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9546_IMG_9990.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132932 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9546_IMG_9990-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"About 500 people marched Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. Nieto's supporters don't believe the Buddhist and hopeful probation officer pointed a Taser stun gun at police, who mistook the weapon for a hand gun, according to SFPD Chief Greg Suhr. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"322\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 500 people marched from the Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED has obtained San Francisco Police Department dispatch audio that details officers' response to a call about a man with a holstered weapon at Bernal Heights Park and the aftermath of the fatal officer-involved shooting of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March 21 shooting has stirred \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">heated controversy\u003c/a> between residents of central San Francisco's Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods and the police department. Police Chief Greg Suhr said Nieto, who carried a Taser for his job as a security guard, pointed the weapon at responding officers and \"tracked\" them with a laser sight. He said officers, who were 75 feet from Nieto when they fired, thought the pistol-shaped, brightly colored Taser was a handgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mission and Bernal Heights residents \u003ca href=\"http://justice4alexnieto.org/alex-story/\" target=\"_blank\">who knew Nieto\u003c/a> say it's unbelievable for him to have pointed the weapon at officers. Nieto often volunteered with neighborhood youth. He was a City College of San Francisco criminal justice student and aspiring juvenile probation officer who had interned with the city's probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Audio of Police Officers Responding to the Incident\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/30902557\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio surrounding the March 21 incident was obtained from \u003ca href=\"http://www.broadcastify.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Broadcastify.com\u003c/a>, which maintains an archive of San Francisco Police Department radio dispatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio mostly matches up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr's March 25\u003c/a> description of the calls and response. But it also confirms the assertions of Nieto's family and friends that he wasn't acting erratically before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radio chatter started about 7:11 p.m. on March 21. Dispatch relays a call to Ingleside Station police, describing a man \"in bright red jacket, 6'1, 200 pounds, black pants, has a gun on his hip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said after the incident that Nieto never had a gun, but that the caller might have mistaken his hip-holstered Taser for a handgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one minute, 15 seconds later, more information comes over the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's got a gun at his hip and is pacing back and forth on the north side of the park near a chain-link fence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another minute passes and a police officer asks for an update on the call about a person with a gun in Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's eating chips or sunflower seeds,\" dispatch responds, apparently relaying information from the person who called police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 7:17 p.m., an officer spots someone:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey there's a guy in a red shirt way up the hill walking toward you guys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Common police codes\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Code 33\u003c/strong> Emergency, clear this channel\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>221\u003c/strong> Person with a gun\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>217\u003c/strong> Shooting\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Code 3\u003c/strong> Police needed, use lights, sirens\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>408\u003c/strong> Ambulance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>909\u003c/strong> Citizen requesting interview\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then another officer responds, \"I got a guy right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 25 seconds later, an officer shouts, \"Shots fired! Shots fired!\" Another two officers also tell dispatch that shots have been fired, and one announces an emergency \"code 33.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More police officers radio that they are responding to an incident that quickly changed from a code 221 (person with gun) to 217 (shooting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police closed off the north side of Bernal Heights Park and cleared the way for an ambulance. They also transport two witnesses, one who they refer to as the \"original 909\" (code for a citizen requesting interview) to Ingleside Station and begin canvassing the park for other people who may have seen the shooting. Police are repeatedly requested to switch to a different radio channel to discuss the shooting, so this audio may not include all of the chatter about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispatch audio did not capture the sounds of the shooting, but Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra, said he obtained audio of what sounds like multiple gunshots from a nearby private security camera. Nieto was pronounced dead that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, whose office is representing Nieto's parents in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/14/family-of-man-slain-by-san-francisco-police-file-claim-against-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\">claim against the city\u003c/a>, said an independent viewing of Nieto's body showed at least 10 gunshot wounds, including one to Nieto's forehead. He said they had not yet obtained the dispatch tapes.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 249px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/RaymondChowPleads/rs9587_san-francisco-chinato_san-13-2-sfi/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132779\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-132779 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9587_San-Francisco-Chinato_San-13-2-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"In this photo taken Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the "Dragon Head" of the Ghee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. Investigators say Chow is the leader and the dragonhead of one of the most powerful Asian gangs in North America. Chow's gang is said to have lured state Sen. Leland Yee into its clutches through money and campaign contributions in exchange for legislative help, as Yee sought to build his campaign coffers to run for California secretary of state. 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An FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaint alleged that Chow was in charge of the criminal faction and approved its members' activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's lawyers, led by veteran defense attorney Tony Serra, contend the group is not a criminal organization but rather \"a beautiful group of people who bonded together to do beautiful things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They maintain Chow has reformed since being released from prison a decade ago and is now \"an exemplary human being\" who worked on charitable causes for black and Chinese youth in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and most of the other defendants are due to return to the court of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday for a hearing on a protective order that will set guidelines for prosecutors' release of evidence, including recordings made by undercover FBI agents, to defense attorneys. A trial date has not been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pleading not guilty today were Brandon Jackson, 28, of San Francisco, and sports agent Marlon Sullivan, 29, of Oakland, who were arrested on March 27 in Connecticut and New Jersey and made their first appearance in federal court in San Francisco today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Sullivan are accused of joining Jackson's father, former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a fictitious victim for $25,000. 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