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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Tuesday, Feb. 25:\u003c/strong> A New York man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971, including one in San Francisco, has been denied parole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-member New York state parole panel rejected the application from Herman Bell, 66, who was convicted of murder in the killing of New York Police Department Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of San Francisco Police Sgt. John Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'You chose ... a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families.'\u003ccite>Parole panel ruling\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bell was making his sixth attempt at parole, and cited a wide variety of factors to persuade the board he was ready for release. Bell has earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in prison, has counseled homeless children by mail, and has enjoyed support from some public officials and even from Jones's family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel decided in a ruling released today that despite Bell's attempts at rehabilitation, there is a reasonable probability he would again violate that law and his release \"is incompatible with the welfare of society.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's decision was critical of Bell's statements at a parole hearing last week: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Your four-page statement, as well as a significant part of your presentation, focuses on a self-serving explanation of the tumultuous era in which you grew up; it was devoid of any true acceptance of responsibility for your extremely violent and repeated criminal actions, which included acting in concert in armed robbery and the killing of a San Francisco police sergeant [redacted]. Despite having educational opportunities and a supportive family, you chose instead a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families. And while the assassination of Martin Luther King continues to be a national tragedy, you exploited it as an excuse to choose a life of extreme violence and murder. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bell will be eligible for parole again in two years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (published Sunday, Feb. 23):\u003c/strong> A 66-year-old man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971 — two in New York City, one in San Francisco — has another chance at freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman Bell went before a New York parole board last week, the sixth time the former Black Panther Party member has done so, seeking an end to a 25-year-to-life sentence after four decades behind bars. A board spokeswoman said a decision will come on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Herman Bell is stirring debate about a recent history of race and violence in the Bay Area, and how society should heal those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cop killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Anthony Bottom were both convicted of murder in 1975 for shooting New York police Patrolmen \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/7273-patrolman-waverly-m-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Waverly Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/10661-patrolman-joseph-a-piagentini\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Piagentini\u003c/a> to death. In addition, Bell took a plea deal of manslaughter in 2009 for the 1971 killing of San Francisco police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/14631-sergeant-john-victor-young\" target=\"_blank\">John Young\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’d be an insult to every police officer in the country.'\u003ccite>SFPD officer Gary Delagnes\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bottom pleaded no contest to a conspiracy charge in the Young case that named both men part of the “San Francisco Eight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their parole hearings – Bottom’s is coming this summer – are \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">raising questions\u003c/a> about the power of parole boards to effectively lengthen prison sentences. Bell has an exemplary record in prison. He earned a master’s degree behind bars and started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.freehermanbell.org/VictoryGardens.html\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> to teach urban and rural communities to grow their own organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s articulate, he’s intelligent, he’s compassionate,” said Stuart Hanlon, Bell’s San Francisco attorney. “He’s clearly not the person who in the 1970s was a member of the black underground and the Black Panther Party. He’s changed. And so how do you judge him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The murders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Bottom recently admitted to ambushing the New York patrolmen, Jones and Piagentini, as they responded to a fake 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot in the back of the head and died instantly. Piagentini was shot more than a dozen times and died on his way to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say Bell and Bottom moved to the Bay Area after the New York ambush. Police suspected the men and six others of setting off a bomb at Stonestown Mall to create a distraction, then fatally shooting Young with a shotgun inside Ingleside Station. A civilian employee was also seriously wounded. Thus, the \"San Francisco Eight\" moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Manslaughter in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127360\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 100px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-127360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\" alt=\"From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\" width=\"100\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that the men are even eligible for parole is a bitter pill for San Francisco police. They know Bell for his association with a different group, the Black Liberation Army, which carried out militant attacks on police officers, bombings and armed robberies throughout the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bell is paroled, “it’d be an insult to every police officer in the country,” retired SFPD officer and former San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes said. “These are people that put their butt out there for you, and when one of them is murdered, it better be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco charges against the eight suspects were dropped in the '70s after the confessions that built the case were found to be the result of torture. Prosecutors brought Bell and Bottom back to San Francisco in 2007 with newly discovered forensic evidence, but ended up giving the two their plea deals, with no additional jail time beyond what they'd already served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said Young’s murder was a “pointless, outrageous act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean anybody charged with it, with the Panthers, is guilty, and that was the problem we were facing,” he said. “I was not convinced by the evidence, not even close to it. The other lawyers certainly weren’t, and I don’t think the government was because the prosecutors dumped six of the eight people and got voluntary manslaughters for probation on the two who were already doing life sentences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said the plea deal was a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the manslaughter plea, they’re now openly seeking parole in New York, which is a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parole board's authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said he doesn’t necessarily expect Bell to get paroled, but he has some hope because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">recent criticism\u003c/a> that the New York Parole Board too often denies release based solely on the seriousness of the crime. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Tuesday, Feb. 25:\u003c/strong> A New York man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971, including one in San Francisco, has been denied parole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-member New York state parole panel rejected the application from Herman Bell, 66, who was convicted of murder in the killing of New York Police Department Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of San Francisco Police Sgt. John Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'You chose ... a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families.'\u003ccite>Parole panel ruling\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bell was making his sixth attempt at parole, and cited a wide variety of factors to persuade the board he was ready for release. Bell has earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in prison, has counseled homeless children by mail, and has enjoyed support from some public officials and even from Jones's family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel decided in a ruling released today that despite Bell's attempts at rehabilitation, there is a reasonable probability he would again violate that law and his release \"is incompatible with the welfare of society.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's decision was critical of Bell's statements at a parole hearing last week: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Your four-page statement, as well as a significant part of your presentation, focuses on a self-serving explanation of the tumultuous era in which you grew up; it was devoid of any true acceptance of responsibility for your extremely violent and repeated criminal actions, which included acting in concert in armed robbery and the killing of a San Francisco police sergeant [redacted]. Despite having educational opportunities and a supportive family, you chose instead a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families. And while the assassination of Martin Luther King continues to be a national tragedy, you exploited it as an excuse to choose a life of extreme violence and murder. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bell will be eligible for parole again in two years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (published Sunday, Feb. 23):\u003c/strong> A 66-year-old man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971 — two in New York City, one in San Francisco — has another chance at freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman Bell went before a New York parole board last week, the sixth time the former Black Panther Party member has done so, seeking an end to a 25-year-to-life sentence after four decades behind bars. A board spokeswoman said a decision will come on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Herman Bell is stirring debate about a recent history of race and violence in the Bay Area, and how society should heal those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cop killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Anthony Bottom were both convicted of murder in 1975 for shooting New York police Patrolmen \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/7273-patrolman-waverly-m-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Waverly Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/10661-patrolman-joseph-a-piagentini\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Piagentini\u003c/a> to death. In addition, Bell took a plea deal of manslaughter in 2009 for the 1971 killing of San Francisco police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/14631-sergeant-john-victor-young\" target=\"_blank\">John Young\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’d be an insult to every police officer in the country.'\u003ccite>SFPD officer Gary Delagnes\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bottom pleaded no contest to a conspiracy charge in the Young case that named both men part of the “San Francisco Eight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their parole hearings – Bottom’s is coming this summer – are \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">raising questions\u003c/a> about the power of parole boards to effectively lengthen prison sentences. Bell has an exemplary record in prison. He earned a master’s degree behind bars and started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.freehermanbell.org/VictoryGardens.html\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> to teach urban and rural communities to grow their own organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s articulate, he’s intelligent, he’s compassionate,” said Stuart Hanlon, Bell’s San Francisco attorney. “He’s clearly not the person who in the 1970s was a member of the black underground and the Black Panther Party. He’s changed. And so how do you judge him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The murders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Bottom recently admitted to ambushing the New York patrolmen, Jones and Piagentini, as they responded to a fake 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot in the back of the head and died instantly. Piagentini was shot more than a dozen times and died on his way to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say Bell and Bottom moved to the Bay Area after the New York ambush. Police suspected the men and six others of setting off a bomb at Stonestown Mall to create a distraction, then fatally shooting Young with a shotgun inside Ingleside Station. A civilian employee was also seriously wounded. Thus, the \"San Francisco Eight\" moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Manslaughter in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127360\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 100px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-127360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\" alt=\"From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\" width=\"100\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that the men are even eligible for parole is a bitter pill for San Francisco police. They know Bell for his association with a different group, the Black Liberation Army, which carried out militant attacks on police officers, bombings and armed robberies throughout the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bell is paroled, “it’d be an insult to every police officer in the country,” retired SFPD officer and former San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes said. “These are people that put their butt out there for you, and when one of them is murdered, it better be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco charges against the eight suspects were dropped in the '70s after the confessions that built the case were found to be the result of torture. Prosecutors brought Bell and Bottom back to San Francisco in 2007 with newly discovered forensic evidence, but ended up giving the two their plea deals, with no additional jail time beyond what they'd already served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said Young’s murder was a “pointless, outrageous act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean anybody charged with it, with the Panthers, is guilty, and that was the problem we were facing,” he said. “I was not convinced by the evidence, not even close to it. The other lawyers certainly weren’t, and I don’t think the government was because the prosecutors dumped six of the eight people and got voluntary manslaughters for probation on the two who were already doing life sentences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said the plea deal was a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the manslaughter plea, they’re now openly seeking parole in New York, which is a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parole board's authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said he doesn’t necessarily expect Bell to get paroled, but he has some hope because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">recent criticism\u003c/a> that the New York Parole Board too often denies release based solely on the seriousness of the crime. He said Bell’s sentence of 25 years to life contemplates parole after the 2½-decade prison term, and Bell has served 15 more years than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parole board, acting at the request of the police, is turning it into a life sentence without parole, and that’s not right,” he said. “The law is on his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092802&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092802'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco police suspect Bell and Bottom of many other crimes in the city, including the 1970 Park Police Station bombing that killed SFPD Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/8924-sergeant-brian-v-mcdonnell\" target=\"_blank\">Brian McDonnell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn't matter whether this happened 30, 40 or 50 years ago,” Delagnes said. “These were vicious killers and they should never be on the streets again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victims' families disagree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widow of Piagentini testified against Bell’s release at his parole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have denied our two daughters a loving father, our two grandchildren have been denied the love and warmth of their granddad, and I have been denied a husband for our entire lives,” Diane Piagentini said, according to the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. “There is no parole for the wonderful man they killed, and there should be no parole for these cold-blooded murderers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, including Jones' son, believe letting Bell out of prison could help society heal from the violence and racism in the '60s and '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waverly Jones Jr. wrote a letter to the New York Parole Board, saying that keeping Bell in prison would not ease the pain of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Los Angeles County Democrat stuck to that line last fall \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\">after an explosive leaked FBI affidavit\u003c/a> accused him of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed Friday when federal prosecutors charged Calderon with 24 counts of corruption, including fraud, wire fraud, bribery, money laundering and aiding in the filing of false tax returns. The lawmaker, who will turn himself into authorities on Monday, now faces up to 400 years in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon’s brother, former Assemblyman Tom Calderon, has been charged as well with multiple crimes, including money laundering. And a Southern California medical executive is pleading guilty to what prosecutors describe as “a long-running health care fraud scheme that involved tens of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks in exchange for referrals of thousands of patients who received spinal surgeries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say Ron Calderon accepted about $100,000 in bribes from Pacific Hospital’s Michael Drobot, as well as undercover FBI agents posing as independent movie producers. In both cases Calderon allegedly took payments in exchange for legislative favors that benefited the alleged bribers’ business interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bribes were primarily paid out in the form of phony jobs for Calderon’s children. His daughter earned nearly $40,000 for her work at the fictional movie studio set up by FBI agents. Calderon’s son actually did report to work for Drobot. He was paid about $10,000 per summer for “approximately 15 days of work. “Anything you can do, any help you could do for my kids is – you know that’s diamonds for me,” Calderon told an undercover FBI agent, according to the leaked affidavit. “That’s diamonds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment formalizes the allegations that have been dogging Calderon since October, \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\">when Al Jazeera America first published\u003c/a> a 124-page FBI affidavit detailing the bribery schemes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The fake movie producers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI agents pretended to be independent film producers. They wanted Calderon to help pass a bill lowering California’s film tax credit threshold from $1 million to $750,000. In addition to the money they allegedly funneled to Calderon through his daughter’s fake job, the agents lavished Calderon with trips to Las Vegas and meals far exceeding legislative gift limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the leaked affidavit, one of those Vegas trips led to Calderon partying with rappers Nelly and T.I. on the federal government’s dime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film tax credit was never lowered, but Calderon wrote letters, introduced legislation and pushed other lawmakers to create a lower threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The insurance scam\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to top undercover FBI agents bribing politicians – especially with \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/\">American Hustle\u003c/a>\" contending for best picture this year – but state officials are calling the second aspect of this case “one of the largest workers’ compensation fraud cases in the history of the Department of Insurance.” Michael Drobot, who owned Pacific Hospital in Long Beach, has admitted to funneling more than $30,000 to Calderon in exchange for the lawmakers’ help in blocking an insurance reform bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136091904&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot needed to stop the legislation because it would have put an end to a $500 million scam. For years, Drobot’s hospital had performed spinal fusion surgeries, jacked up the prices of the devices it was implanting, and then charged health insurance providers for the inflated costs. And to generate more business, Drobot paid $10,000 to $15,000 kickbacks to doctors who referred spinal surgery patients to Pacific Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital was able to charge insurance companies for the spinal implants because of a loophole in California law. Medical hardware was billed separately from other fees. Lawmakers ultimately removed this “pass-through” language in 2013, but before that, Drobot bribed Calderon, the Insurance Committee chair, to try and block the efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Confrontation at the Bellagio\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate court filing, federal prosecutors responded to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/calderon-claims-feds-asked-him-to-wear-wire/\">Calderon’s earlier claims that they were targeting him due to his refusal to wear a wire\u003c/a> and take part in a “sting operation” targeting Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing says Calderon’s claims had “no merit,” and revealed that FBI agents first confronted Calderon during a May encounter at one of Las Vegas’s most famous casinos. When Calderon arrived at the Bellagio, ostensibly for another lobbyist-funded romp, “The FBI agents explained to Calderon that they worked for the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad and had been investigating Calderon for quite some time.” Calderon talked to them for three hours that day, and met with the FBI five more times that month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal document reveals Calderon volunteered to wear a wire, and subsequently recorded several conversations with “another individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Calderon’s recorded conversations with the individual were brief and did not result in any criminal charges against the individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Call To Resign\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon will turn himself into authorities on Monday. He has previously denied any wrongdoing. Earlier this month he told KQED he had been \"unfairly targeted and retaliated against.\" Calderon has has yet to comment on today's charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Calderon’s fellow Senate Democrats now want him out. In a statement released Friday afternoon, Steinberg called on Calderon to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging that as a criminal defendant, Calderon is innocent until proven guilty, Steinberg said, “given the seriousness of charges that strike at the very heart of what it means to be a public official, Senator Calderon’s continued service is a cloud over all the important work that we must get done this year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment formalizes the allegations that have been dogging Calderon since October, \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\">when Al Jazeera America first published\u003c/a> a 124-page FBI affidavit detailing the bribery schemes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The fake movie producers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI agents pretended to be independent film producers. They wanted Calderon to help pass a bill lowering California’s film tax credit threshold from $1 million to $750,000. In addition to the money they allegedly funneled to Calderon through his daughter’s fake job, the agents lavished Calderon with trips to Las Vegas and meals far exceeding legislative gift limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the leaked affidavit, one of those Vegas trips led to Calderon partying with rappers Nelly and T.I. on the federal government’s dime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film tax credit was never lowered, but Calderon wrote letters, introduced legislation and pushed other lawmakers to create a lower threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The insurance scam\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to top undercover FBI agents bribing politicians – especially with \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/\">American Hustle\u003c/a>\" contending for best picture this year – but state officials are calling the second aspect of this case “one of the largest workers’ compensation fraud cases in the history of the Department of Insurance.” Michael Drobot, who owned Pacific Hospital in Long Beach, has admitted to funneling more than $30,000 to Calderon in exchange for the lawmakers’ help in blocking an insurance reform bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136091904&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot needed to stop the legislation because it would have put an end to a $500 million scam. For years, Drobot’s hospital had performed spinal fusion surgeries, jacked up the prices of the devices it was implanting, and then charged health insurance providers for the inflated costs. And to generate more business, Drobot paid $10,000 to $15,000 kickbacks to doctors who referred spinal surgery patients to Pacific Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital was able to charge insurance companies for the spinal implants because of a loophole in California law. Medical hardware was billed separately from other fees. Lawmakers ultimately removed this “pass-through” language in 2013, but before that, Drobot bribed Calderon, the Insurance Committee chair, to try and block the efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Confrontation at the Bellagio\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate court filing, federal prosecutors responded to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/calderon-claims-feds-asked-him-to-wear-wire/\">Calderon’s earlier claims that they were targeting him due to his refusal to wear a wire\u003c/a> and take part in a “sting operation” targeting Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing says Calderon’s claims had “no merit,” and revealed that FBI agents first confronted Calderon during a May encounter at one of Las Vegas’s most famous casinos. When Calderon arrived at the Bellagio, ostensibly for another lobbyist-funded romp, “The FBI agents explained to Calderon that they worked for the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad and had been investigating Calderon for quite some time.” Calderon talked to them for three hours that day, and met with the FBI five more times that month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal document reveals Calderon volunteered to wear a wire, and subsequently recorded several conversations with “another individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Calderon’s recorded conversations with the individual were brief and did not result in any criminal charges against the individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Call To Resign\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon will turn himself into authorities on Monday. He has previously denied any wrongdoing. Earlier this month he told KQED he had been \"unfairly targeted and retaliated against.\" Calderon has has yet to comment on today's charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Calderon’s fellow Senate Democrats now want him out. In a statement released Friday afternoon, Steinberg called on Calderon to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging that as a criminal defendant, Calderon is innocent until proven guilty, Steinberg said, “given the seriousness of charges that strike at the very heart of what it means to be a public official, Senator Calderon’s continued service is a cloud over all the important work that we must get done this year. 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(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an old expression in politics that when governors or presidents fill high-profile vacancies with appointments, they make one friend and two dozen enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That old adage was brought to mind with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/12/california-supreme-court-justice-joyce-kennard-to-retire\">surprise retirement\u003c/a> of state Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard last week. It leaves Gov. Jerry Brown with a tremendous opportunity to cement his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s also sure to anger at least one key constituency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court currently has no Latino or African-American justices. Six of the seven justices were appointed by Republican governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Carlos Moreno suddenly retired three years ago, Brown replaced him with a surprise pick – UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu. He had been tapped by President Barack Obama to serve on the federal bench, but his nomination languished in the U.S. Senate. Brown used the appointment to tweak Republicans who didn’t think he was good enough to serve on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been well vetted,” Brown said of Liu at the time. “He’s been attacked by the best and sharpest politicians in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That appointment increased the number of justices with Asian heritage to four (Kennard is Eurasian). While the pick was widely praised publicly, it left leaders in Latino and African-American legal circles disappointed, to say the least. Now, with a second vacancy on the court, those groups are updating their appointment lists and planning their strategy to get “one of their own” on the state’s highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Arriola with\u003ca href=\"http://larazalawyers.net/\"> La Raza Lawyers\u003c/a>, a Latino legal group, thinks the governor will have plenty of good options. “Thanks to recent appointments to lower courts by Brown and President Obama, the bench of state and federal Latino judges in California to choose from is a lot deeper now than when Brown filled his first vacancy in 2011,” Arriola said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Luis Alejo, vice chair of the Latino Caucus in the Legislature, says his group is still vetting possible nominees. He expects to give Brown a list of six possible Latino nominees, three men and three women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Options for diversity on the court\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of leading candidates likely includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Miguel Marquez. The former Santa Clara County counsel was appointed by Brown to the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose, making him the first Latino justice there. The governor also appointed his oldest sister, Raquel, to the trial court in Riverside County. Marquez, who’s in his mid-40s, earned degrees from Stanford and Harvard before graduating from UC Berkeley Law School.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Although she is a Democrat, Rogers was named to the Alameda County Superior Court by former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2011 Obama later nominated her to replace retiring Prop. 8 trial Judge Vaughn Walker on the federal District Court for the Northern District of California. She is in her late 40s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Three Latino academics could also be in the mix: UCLA Law School Dean Rachel Moran, Stanford Law professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, and UC Davis Law School Dean Kevin Johnson.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Of course, Latinos aren’t the only group hoping the next Supreme Court justice will come from their community. Kimberlei Evans, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calblacklawyers.org/\">California Association of Black Lawyers\u003c/a>, notes there hasn’t been an African-American on the state Supreme Court since 2005, when President George W. Bush elevated controversial justice Janice Rogers Brown to the federal Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Next month is a milestone for California, when Latinos are expected to officially surpass Caucasians as the largest race or ethnic group in the state. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Evans said her group will put forward a relatively short list, perhaps two people, for the governor to consider. Evans believes one leading contender the last time around has taken his name out of contention. Evans said she’s heard “through the grapevine” that Martin Jenkins, an associate justice of the First District Court of Appeal, does not wish to be considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she hopes the governor will choose an African-American to replace Kennard, she also understands the realities of demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think yes,” Evans noted, “given the current statistics and diversity we would be happy to see a Latino as well, if that’s who is chosen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/R1h-_tMgZhg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:10 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Isabell Angell reports: BART Police policy states Tasers should be used only when there is \"immediate threat to bodily harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, who teaches criminal justice at Stanford Law School, reviewed the video. He says it's unclear if the man, identified as Robert Asberry, fits that description:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The man was resisting persistently but not in any way that you would describe as aggressive, maybe not even in any way that you would describe as active. And no obvious reason you can tell from the tape, and again this is limited, that he was threatening any harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Tuttle of \u003ca href=\"http://store.taser.com/self-defense-products-c84.aspx\">Taser International\u003c/a> reviewed the video for KQED News. He confirmed via email that the weapon that had struck Robert Asberry was manufactured by his company and is called an X26: \"The first X26 deployment at 33 seconds appears quite effective and of note you will notice it’s 'quiet.' At the 3 minute mark the X26 is actuated but the unit is 'loud' appearing to have no effect. This is usually indicative of a probe being pulled away from the body or a wire was broken. (The probes have to be attached to skin or if attached to clothing they must be no less than an inch away from the skin.) When you hear loud electrical pulses the energy is arcing in the air and the current is not received by the suspect. A TASER weapon delivers these 19 pulses per second for a 5-second cycle but when it’s loud like this it has zero effect. It’s all or nothing with a TASER device and is actually very quiet when the circuit is completed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Isabel Angell reports that Robert Asberry has been released from jail in Redwood City after serving 15 days of a 30-day sentence after not contesting charges of being drunk and disorderly on the night of Jan. 29, when BART police shot him with a stun gun during his arrest on a train in the San Bruno station. Authorities told KQED that all additional charges against Asberry -- resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and a felony parole violation -- were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Isabel Angell has obtained the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017843-bart-police-event-record-for-robert-james-ashberry.html\">official \"event record\u003c/a>\" from BART of the Jan. 29 incident. At 10:05 that night, an anonymous caller reported that an African-American man was drunk and harassing customers on the platform at the 24th Street BART station. According to the report, the train was stopped at San Bruno Station, where a BART police officer boarded the train and confronted the suspect. The report identifies the man, who was subsequently arrested after being shot by an officer with a taser gun, as Pittsburg resident Robert James Asberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126355\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/13/126281/asberry-robert/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126355\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-126355 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/asberry-robert-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is investigating an incident from the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, in which a transit police officer was videotaped using a taser to take an African-American man into custody. KQED's Isabel Angell reports that BART authorities expect their investigation to take six months, and that the officer involved in the incident has not been reprimanded or placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which is credited to Rahul Gondalia, runs just over 13 minutes, and shows a passenger who appears to be docile at first but grows increasingly agitated after BART officers use a stun gun on him. Six police officers can be seen in the video. The passenger, lying on the floor of the BART train close to a door, curses repeatedly and tells the officers that they wouldn't have done anything if he had been white. He mentions Rodney King at least three times and says, \"I didn't do nothing … Everybody, put your cameras on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>According to the police log of the incident:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1/29/14 2205 hours\u003cbr>\nAn officer responded to a report of a man who was drunk and harassing patrons on a Millbrae bound train. Upon detention, the suspect (became) resistive and a TASER had to be used to take him into custody. A warrant check on the suspect revealed an outstanding no-bail arrest warrant out of the California Department of Corrections for parole violation. The train was held for 18 minutes. A sergeant arrived at the scene to approve the arrest and conduct the use of force investigation. The suspect was taken to Peninsula Hospital for clearance prior to being booked for resisting arrest, the warrant, and public intoxication.1401-4266 L12\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, per policy and protocol BART Police has initiated the proper investigation into this incident. The link to the video on the internet was also forwarded to BART's independent police auditor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Angell reports that the person who called police to complain about the man they arrested was not on the train but rather standing on a platform in a BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bart-officer-repeatedly-tases-black-man-bart-without-clear-and-present-danger-life\">post published by AlterNet\u003c/a>, Vidya Kaipa, a woman passenger on the train who was sitting next to the man arrested by police, says he was not harassing her. She says that police initiated the arrest even though she told them, \"It’s fine. He’s not bothering me. It’s OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa adds: “It went from being about me to being about the police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa's \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/race-class/385564bd9e8b\">full account\u003c/a> of the incident appears on \"Medium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest incident between BART police and an African-American man is certain to reignite the controversy surrounding the Oscar Grant case, which is currently being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/oscar-grant-mehserle-lawsuit/\">litigated\u003c/a> in the courts. That case, in which Grant was killed by a BART officer, formed the basis for the film \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/12/fruitvale-station-oscar-grant\">Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are excerpts from Kaipa’s written account of her 20-minute BART ride with Robert Asberry:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tonight, I caught the 9:56 pm Millbrae-bound BART from Civic Center. I usually work late, but I rarely feel threatened — there are always plenty of riders at that time, plus I’m good at putting up defenses. I’m small, but (or maybe because of that) I’m street-smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it didn’t bother me when a few stops later, an extremely drunk black man — whose name I later overheard by the police cuffing him to be Robert — crashed onto the seat next to me. I was near the entrance, in a seating area where four seats faced one another, and the train was relatively packed, so I didn’t feel particularly isolated or targeted. He smelled of booze and his words were slurred, but he asked me about the book I was reading and I could tell that he was harmless. This is an opinion I have maintained and have repeated countless times to several police throughout the whole ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I asked him where he was headed, and he told me he was from East Oakland but that he was going to Richmond, where his sister would pick him up. I suggested he get onto the opposite platform, since this train was headed to Millbrae. He politely asked if he was bothering me and said that he would leave me alone, but that he wanted to keep sitting next to me because I was a beautiful and good person. I assured him that he wasn’t a problem—I have a bizarrely high tolerance for friendly drunk/drugged out randos …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I was \u003cem>never\u003c/em> concerned about my safety. If I really felt worried, I would have moved, or I could have indicated my discomfort by at the very least moving my backpack and phone away from him. Not only did I do neither of these things, I continued to engage, smile, laugh, and generally go along with the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I was just as surprised as Robert was when a BART policeman boarded the train at San Bruno and (in his defense) politely asked him to disembark so that he could ask a few questions. I didn’t realize until a few minutes later that someone had specifically called the police, reporting Robert for some unknown reason. Robert didn’t want to go, understandably, and asked why he should get up. I vouched for Robert — I told the cop that he wasn’t bothering me, and that it was totally okay with me if he wanted to continue on. The cop repeated (again, in his defense, in a friendly tone) that he just wanted to ask a few questions, that it wouldn’t take too long, and that Robert would be free to get onto the next train. Robert said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few relatively civil back-and-forths, the cop lightly touched his shoulder, saying “come on, let’s just talk on the platform.” Robert shook him off. This continued for a bit. Eventually, it escalated to the point where the cop was physically pulling him up from the seat with two hands, and Robert was pushing the cop off him. When both men were standing, Robert cornered by the door to the next carriage and the cop standing in the path to the main entrance, Robert asked again and again why the cop wanted him to get off the train, and that he hadn’t done anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…At one point, Robert got very aggravated and tried to sit down again, or maybe it was that he was just shouting and the cop got tired of trying to peacefully usher Robert out of the train. So he pulled out his taser and told Robert that if he didn’t disembark the train, he would tase him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… He \u003cem>literally didn’t do anything\u003c/em>, and on top of that, he was a genuinely nice guy. We were having an admittedly uncomfortable conversation, but only because I was tired and didn’t want to talk to anyone, not because I didn’t want to talk to \u003cem>him. \u003c/em>So he was completely in the right to ask for what reason the cop wanted him off the train, and to not get off until that question was answered. Unfortunately for him, he ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the cop’s credit, he didn’t pull the trigger right away. He gave ample warning, enough so that the man on the diagonal seating (next to where Robert was standing, backed against the doors to the next carriage) had bodily covered the woman next to him in anticipation of the scene that was seconds from occuring. Robert moved around the carriage, at one point sitting next to me again. At this point, I genuinely feared being accidentally tased myself; the taser points a red laser beam at its target, and I saw that target slip to me for a split-second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Robert didn’t “cooperate,” and the cop shot him. Watching someone get tased is one of the worst things I have ever seen—I can’t imagine actually \u003cem>being \u003c/em>tased. Robert limply fell over onto the seats in front of me, crying and twitching, and the cop leaned over to lift him outside. Robert tried to get up again, and the cop threatened to tase him a second time. Finding that he was too heavy, the cop ended up dragging him to the entrance. (The soundtrack of this memory will always be the man diagonal incredulously breathing, “oh my god… oh my god.”) The cop called for backup, and a few others came in time for Robert to regain some control and start resisting again. As the cops cuffed him and held him down, Robert tearfully shouted that he hadn’t done anything wrong, that everyone on the train saw, that we take videos and pictures and prevent another Rodney King incident. Despite the two other officers physically restraining Robert, the initial officer tased him a second time, with a sickening five-second shock that was both excessive and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… To their credit, the cops that came afterwards were as compassionate as they could be in the situation. He was kicking around (understandably), but they were gentle and nicely told him they wanted him to stop kicking them so that he could sit up on a bench and drink some water. He wouldn’t, eventually breaking down crying uncontrollably and repeating that he hadn’t done anything. Watching him get strapped into a body-binding contraption so that they could move him, while he plaintively cried his innocence, might have broken the last intact piece of my heart. … An officer asked if I would give a statement, and I immediately stepped off the train in compliance\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m hesitant to jump to the “police brutality” conclusion, because the aggression wasn’t totally unprovoked. Yes, the cop definitely shouldn’t have used the taser, but at the same time, Robert shouldn’t have resisted the cop for so long. That being said, Robert should have never been stopped in the first place, because he wasn’t posing a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So really — what’s the best-case scenario? There is none, and that’s what makes this so awful and heartbreaking and outrageous. A man sits next to a woman on public transit, is asked to leave the train, doesn’t, then gets tased, dragged, cuffed, forcibly bound, and carried out. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Tuttle of \u003ca href=\"http://store.taser.com/self-defense-products-c84.aspx\">Taser International\u003c/a> reviewed the video for KQED News. He confirmed via email that the weapon that had struck Robert Asberry was manufactured by his company and is called an X26: \"The first X26 deployment at 33 seconds appears quite effective and of note you will notice it’s 'quiet.' At the 3 minute mark the X26 is actuated but the unit is 'loud' appearing to have no effect. This is usually indicative of a probe being pulled away from the body or a wire was broken. (The probes have to be attached to skin or if attached to clothing they must be no less than an inch away from the skin.) When you hear loud electrical pulses the energy is arcing in the air and the current is not received by the suspect. A TASER weapon delivers these 19 pulses per second for a 5-second cycle but when it’s loud like this it has zero effect. It’s all or nothing with a TASER device and is actually very quiet when the circuit is completed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Isabel Angell reports that Robert Asberry has been released from jail in Redwood City after serving 15 days of a 30-day sentence after not contesting charges of being drunk and disorderly on the night of Jan. 29, when BART police shot him with a stun gun during his arrest on a train in the San Bruno station. Authorities told KQED that all additional charges against Asberry -- resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and a felony parole violation -- were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Isabel Angell has obtained the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017843-bart-police-event-record-for-robert-james-ashberry.html\">official \"event record\u003c/a>\" from BART of the Jan. 29 incident. At 10:05 that night, an anonymous caller reported that an African-American man was drunk and harassing customers on the platform at the 24th Street BART station. According to the report, the train was stopped at San Bruno Station, where a BART police officer boarded the train and confronted the suspect. The report identifies the man, who was subsequently arrested after being shot by an officer with a taser gun, as Pittsburg resident Robert James Asberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126355\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/13/126281/asberry-robert/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126355\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-126355 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/asberry-robert-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is investigating an incident from the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, in which a transit police officer was videotaped using a taser to take an African-American man into custody. KQED's Isabel Angell reports that BART authorities expect their investigation to take six months, and that the officer involved in the incident has not been reprimanded or placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which is credited to Rahul Gondalia, runs just over 13 minutes, and shows a passenger who appears to be docile at first but grows increasingly agitated after BART officers use a stun gun on him. Six police officers can be seen in the video. The passenger, lying on the floor of the BART train close to a door, curses repeatedly and tells the officers that they wouldn't have done anything if he had been white. He mentions Rodney King at least three times and says, \"I didn't do nothing … Everybody, put your cameras on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>According to the police log of the incident:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1/29/14 2205 hours\u003cbr>\nAn officer responded to a report of a man who was drunk and harassing patrons on a Millbrae bound train. Upon detention, the suspect (became) resistive and a TASER had to be used to take him into custody. A warrant check on the suspect revealed an outstanding no-bail arrest warrant out of the California Department of Corrections for parole violation. The train was held for 18 minutes. A sergeant arrived at the scene to approve the arrest and conduct the use of force investigation. The suspect was taken to Peninsula Hospital for clearance prior to being booked for resisting arrest, the warrant, and public intoxication.1401-4266 L12\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, per policy and protocol BART Police has initiated the proper investigation into this incident. The link to the video on the internet was also forwarded to BART's independent police auditor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Angell reports that the person who called police to complain about the man they arrested was not on the train but rather standing on a platform in a BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bart-officer-repeatedly-tases-black-man-bart-without-clear-and-present-danger-life\">post published by AlterNet\u003c/a>, Vidya Kaipa, a woman passenger on the train who was sitting next to the man arrested by police, says he was not harassing her. She says that police initiated the arrest even though she told them, \"It’s fine. He’s not bothering me. It’s OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa adds: “It went from being about me to being about the police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa's \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/race-class/385564bd9e8b\">full account\u003c/a> of the incident appears on \"Medium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest incident between BART police and an African-American man is certain to reignite the controversy surrounding the Oscar Grant case, which is currently being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/oscar-grant-mehserle-lawsuit/\">litigated\u003c/a> in the courts. That case, in which Grant was killed by a BART officer, formed the basis for the film \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/12/fruitvale-station-oscar-grant\">Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are excerpts from Kaipa’s written account of her 20-minute BART ride with Robert Asberry:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tonight, I caught the 9:56 pm Millbrae-bound BART from Civic Center. I usually work late, but I rarely feel threatened — there are always plenty of riders at that time, plus I’m good at putting up defenses. I’m small, but (or maybe because of that) I’m street-smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it didn’t bother me when a few stops later, an extremely drunk black man — whose name I later overheard by the police cuffing him to be Robert — crashed onto the seat next to me. I was near the entrance, in a seating area where four seats faced one another, and the train was relatively packed, so I didn’t feel particularly isolated or targeted. He smelled of booze and his words were slurred, but he asked me about the book I was reading and I could tell that he was harmless. This is an opinion I have maintained and have repeated countless times to several police throughout the whole ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I asked him where he was headed, and he told me he was from East Oakland but that he was going to Richmond, where his sister would pick him up. I suggested he get onto the opposite platform, since this train was headed to Millbrae. He politely asked if he was bothering me and said that he would leave me alone, but that he wanted to keep sitting next to me because I was a beautiful and good person. I assured him that he wasn’t a problem—I have a bizarrely high tolerance for friendly drunk/drugged out randos …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I was \u003cem>never\u003c/em> concerned about my safety. If I really felt worried, I would have moved, or I could have indicated my discomfort by at the very least moving my backpack and phone away from him. Not only did I do neither of these things, I continued to engage, smile, laugh, and generally go along with the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I was just as surprised as Robert was when a BART policeman boarded the train at San Bruno and (in his defense) politely asked him to disembark so that he could ask a few questions. I didn’t realize until a few minutes later that someone had specifically called the police, reporting Robert for some unknown reason. Robert didn’t want to go, understandably, and asked why he should get up. I vouched for Robert — I told the cop that he wasn’t bothering me, and that it was totally okay with me if he wanted to continue on. The cop repeated (again, in his defense, in a friendly tone) that he just wanted to ask a few questions, that it wouldn’t take too long, and that Robert would be free to get onto the next train. Robert said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few relatively civil back-and-forths, the cop lightly touched his shoulder, saying “come on, let’s just talk on the platform.” Robert shook him off. This continued for a bit. Eventually, it escalated to the point where the cop was physically pulling him up from the seat with two hands, and Robert was pushing the cop off him. 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