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There is no such connection on the Sacketts’ property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California water officials say they are disappointed with the decision, but that the ruling doesn’t block California’s stronger environmental rules.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"President Joe Biden\"]‘The Supreme Court’s disappointing decision in Sackett v. EPA will take our country backwards.’[/pullquote]The Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act only applies to wetlands with aboveground flow to main-stem rivers and other big bodies of water. 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Today’s ruling is a profound win for property rights and the constitutional separation of powers,” Schiff said in a statement issued by the property rights-focused Pacific Legal Foundation.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Manish Bapna, chief executive, Natural Resources Defense Council\"]‘The Supreme Court ripped the heart out of the law we depend on to protect American waters and wetlands.’[/pullquote]In Thursday’s ruling, all nine justices agreed that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ property are not covered by the act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only five justices joined in the opinion that imposed a new test for evaluating when wetlands are covered by the Clean Water Act. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas and Alito would have adopted the narrower standard in 2006, in the last big wetlands case at the Supreme Court. They were joined Thursday by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberal justices charged that their colleagues had rewritten that law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh wrote that the court’s “new and overly narrow test may leave long-regulated and long-accepted-to-be regulable wetlands suddenly beyond the scope of the agencies’ regulatory authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the majority’s rewriting of the act was “an effort to cabin the anti-pollution actions Congress thought appropriate.” Kagan referenced last year’s decision limiting the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases, she noted, the court had appointed “itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy.” Kagan was joined in what she wrote by her liberal colleagues Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacketts paid $23,000 for a 0.63-acre lot near Priest Lake in 2005 and started building a three-bedroom home two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had filled part of the property, described in an appellate ruling as a “soggy residential lot,” with rocks and soil in preparation for construction, when officials with the EPA showed up and ordered a halt in the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also won an earlier round in their legal fight at the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the EPA’s determination in 2021, finding that part of the property, 300 feet from the lake and 30 feet from an unnamed waterway that flows into the lake, was wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacketts’ own consultant had similarly advised them years ago that their property contained wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by KQED’s Kevin Stark.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Amos C. Brown stands next to family and friends of Banko Brown inside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP and pastor of Third Baptist Church, who is not related to Banko Brown, consoled the mourners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a sad day. The loss of Banko gives us pain, it gives us anguish,” he said. “We’ve always been focused on the good coming, the people who need good in their lives. This is a house of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interrupted as guests began shouting at each other. After a scripture reading, some of the people who identified as Brown’s parents had been acknowledged; apparently, others who had played a role in his life were upset about being omitted. Some guests had to be restrained from charging at others, and several were escorted outside as police officers walked down the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s stepmother, Barbara Brown, pleaded with the group to calm down. “You need to be respectful. We are in a church,” she said. “We are here for Banko Brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1661800210639753216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about 10 minutes, Rev. Brown resumed his speech, evoking the classic novel \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em>, saying it reflected the fighting that had just broken out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those boys were on this airplane,” Brown said, referring to the book. “Unfortunately, the airplane crashed in the Pacific. And when the airplane crashed, only the boys survived. These otherwise dignified white boys become savages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banko Brown’s stepmother, Barbara Brown, tries to keep people calm after arguments erupted. People spoke out angrily after a scripture reading acknowledged only some of those who identified as Brown’s parents. ‘This is not showing any respect,’ Brown said. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is what America has done to you,” he continued, turning to the people in the pews. “You are somebody. You are made in the image of God, but America has defined you. … Banko’s death will not be in vain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 27, Walgreens security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony shot and killed Brown after Brown allegedly attempted to shoplift from the store’s Market Street location.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"banko-brown\"]Brown, a 24-year-old transgender Black man, was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 1, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced she would not file charges against Anthony. City leaders and members of the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">called for Jenkins\u003c/a> to release the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">store’s surveillance footage\u003c/a>, which she did on May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-minute video shows Anthony confronting Brown as he attempts to exit the store. The two scuffle before Anthony wrestles Brown to the ground. After Anthony lets Brown stand up, Brown grabs his bag and turns to leave. As Brown is on the store’s threshold, he turns around and gestures toward Anthony. Brown is moving backward when he’s shot by Anthony, who fires only once. A passerby attempts to revive Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Brown embraces another attendee outside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anthony told investigators that Brown “repeatedly threatened to stab him,” according to the 25-page report released by Jenkins, who said she didn’t believe she could prove a case against Anthony beyond a reasonable doubt. Police did not recover a knife from Brown’s bag or the scene. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/banko-brown-protesters-rage-outside-walgreens-after-da-jenkins-decision/\">Hundreds marched on Market Street\u003c/a> to protest Jenkins’ decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the footage was released, San Francisco supervisors unanimously called on state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950595/banko-browns-supporters-applaud-attorney-generals-decision-to-review-killing-after-sf-da-passes-on-prosecution\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the U.S. Department of Justice to step in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949763/group-of-sf-lawmakers-seek-state-federal-intervention-in-banko-brown-killing-after-da-declines-to-prosecute\">review the fatal shooting\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Bonta agreed to review the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove (in black jacket), cousin of Banko Brown, and other pallbearers carry Brown’s coffin out of Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Burris, a civil rights attorney representing Brown’s family, plans to file lawsuits against Walgreens and Kingdom Group Protective Services, the security company that employed Anthony. Walgreens has since cut ties with KGPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who attended the funeral, welcomed Bonta’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many questions in the community, and it’s important there is a process and as many eyes on this investigation so that it moves forward in the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of Banko Brown’s funeral embrace outside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kim also questioned the training of armed security guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw with the Walgreens incident is that [security guards] usually get less than a day of training before they are given guns,” she said. “That’s a big responsibility to carry. That, to me, feels like the question that needs to be answered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members continued crying after the service. Some shared memories of Brown, who had a distinct style and loved shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother raised a lot of us. We used to cook together,” said De’von Hamilton, Brown’s cousin. “Thanksgiving dinners, [Banko] would help with the greens. I would help with the turkey and we would season together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove leans over to kiss the window of the hearse bearing Brown’s coffin as it pulls away from Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another cousin, Harrishiana Lee, believes the family will get justice for Brown’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cousin didn’t deserve to go out like this. His mom is going to get justice for her baby,” Lee said. “It’s not fair, he’s been through a lot as it is. For him to overcome everything he’s been through only to be gunned down — he don’t deserve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm Smeed, Brown’s brother and one of the pallbearers at the funeral, remembered how creative and artistic Brown was, pointing to some of the airbrushed artwork on the jackets of mourners that was in honor of Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Louis, Brown’s sister, simply said, “The world did not deserve Banko.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Brown, a 24-year-old transgender Black man, was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 1, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced she would not file charges against Anthony. City leaders and members of the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">called for Jenkins\u003c/a> to release the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">store’s surveillance footage\u003c/a>, which she did on May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-minute video shows Anthony confronting Brown as he attempts to exit the store. The two scuffle before Anthony wrestles Brown to the ground. After Anthony lets Brown stand up, Brown grabs his bag and turns to leave. As Brown is on the store’s threshold, he turns around and gestures toward Anthony. Brown is moving backward when he’s shot by Anthony, who fires only once. A passerby attempts to revive Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Brown embraces another attendee outside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anthony told investigators that Brown “repeatedly threatened to stab him,” according to the 25-page report released by Jenkins, who said she didn’t believe she could prove a case against Anthony beyond a reasonable doubt. Police did not recover a knife from Brown’s bag or the scene. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/banko-brown-protesters-rage-outside-walgreens-after-da-jenkins-decision/\">Hundreds marched on Market Street\u003c/a> to protest Jenkins’ decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the footage was released, San Francisco supervisors unanimously called on state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950595/banko-browns-supporters-applaud-attorney-generals-decision-to-review-killing-after-sf-da-passes-on-prosecution\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the U.S. Department of Justice to step in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949763/group-of-sf-lawmakers-seek-state-federal-intervention-in-banko-brown-killing-after-da-declines-to-prosecute\">review the fatal shooting\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Bonta agreed to review the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove (in black jacket), cousin of Banko Brown, and other pallbearers carry Brown’s coffin out of Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Burris, a civil rights attorney representing Brown’s family, plans to file lawsuits against Walgreens and Kingdom Group Protective Services, the security company that employed Anthony. Walgreens has since cut ties with KGPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who attended the funeral, welcomed Bonta’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many questions in the community, and it’s important there is a process and as many eyes on this investigation so that it moves forward in the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of Banko Brown’s funeral embrace outside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kim also questioned the training of armed security guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw with the Walgreens incident is that [security guards] usually get less than a day of training before they are given guns,” she said. “That’s a big responsibility to carry. That, to me, feels like the question that needs to be answered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members continued crying after the service. Some shared memories of Brown, who had a distinct style and loved shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother raised a lot of us. We used to cook together,” said De’von Hamilton, Brown’s cousin. “Thanksgiving dinners, [Banko] would help with the greens. I would help with the turkey and we would season together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove leans over to kiss the window of the hearse bearing Brown’s coffin as it pulls away from Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another cousin, Harrishiana Lee, believes the family will get justice for Brown’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cousin didn’t deserve to go out like this. His mom is going to get justice for her baby,” Lee said. “It’s not fair, he’s been through a lot as it is. For him to overcome everything he’s been through only to be gunned down — he don’t deserve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm Smeed, Brown’s brother and one of the pallbearers at the funeral, remembered how creative and artistic Brown was, pointing to some of the airbrushed artwork on the jackets of mourners that was in honor of Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Louis, Brown’s sister, simply said, “The world did not deserve Banko.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta will review whether San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins abused her discretion when she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">decided not to prosecute a security guard who shot and killed an alleged shoplifter at a San Francisco Walgreens last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s decision to reexamine the case was celebrated by family and supporters of 24-year-old Banko Brown, a Black trans man who was unarmed at the time of his killing by Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our protests and requests for the AG and federal authorities to get in were a Hail Mary,” Geoffrea Morris, attorney and co-founder of Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence, told KQED. “It is a breath of fresh air to know that justice can possibly be served on the criminal level for Banko Brown, and we are so thankful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Burris, a civil rights attorney representing Brown’s family, has said he plans to file lawsuits against Walgreens and Kingdom Group Protective Services, the security company contracted by Walgreens that employed Anthony. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/walgreens-banko-brown-security-company-18110231.php\">Walgreens has since cut ties with Kingdom Group Protective Services.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. And if you don’t want anyone insulting and assaulting your humanity, then you don’t do it to others. That’s it,” said Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP and pastor of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banko Brown’s family was involved with the church, and his funeral is set to take place there Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 27, Anthony shot and killed Brown, who was said to be living unhoused in San Francisco at the time, after Brown allegedly attempted to shoplift from the store’s 825 Market Street location. Brown had no weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the fatal incident, Jenkins announced she would not file charges against Anthony, saying he acted in self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/banko-brown-protesters-rage-outside-walgreens-after-da-jenkins-decision/\">Protests erupted over the DA’s decision.\u003c/a> City leaders then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">called for Jenkins to release the store’s surveillance footage of the event\u003c/a>, which Jenkins agreed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">video\u003c/a> shows Anthony confronting Brown as he attempts to exit the store. The moment quickly escalates, and Anthony beats Brown to the ground. As Brown gets up and walks outside, Anthony draws his weapon and shoots Brown, who falls to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11949558 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/1-crop-1020x765.jpg']Anthony later told investigators that Brown had threatened to stab him. Witnesses could not corroborate the claim. Police did not recover a knife from Brown’s bag or the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footage prompted calls for state and federal prosecutors to review the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve repeatedly watched the video and reviewed the other released evidence, and I honestly cannot see a justification for this shooting,” state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said in a public statement after the video’s release. “While shoplifting is a problem in San Francisco that needs to be addressed, shooting someone for shoplifting is truly horrific and must never be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, shortly after Bonta announced he would review Brown’s case, the Board of Supervisors went through with a planned vote, unanimously urging Bonta to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it makes sense in this situation for sure [to review the DA’s decision],” said Supervisor Ahsha Safaí. “There’s nothing wrong with an additional set of eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s office did not provide a timeline on when a decision will be made regarding his review of the case. The review does not guarantee that charges will be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banko Brown’s death was a tragedy, and I join his friends and family in wishing he was still here today,” Jenkins said in a press release. “We provided the highest degree of transparency possible that we could with this case. We welcome the Attorney General’s review and will assist and cooperate as needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Banko Brown Coverage' tag='banko-brown']This is the second time one of Jenkins’ decisions in a police killing has come under review by the state’s justice department since she took office in July 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950226/judge-dismisses-case-for-san-francisco-police-officer-who-shot-and-killed-keita-oneil\">Bonta announced he would not file charges against former San Francisco police officer Christopher Samayoa\u003c/a>, who in 2017 shot and killed carjacking suspect Keita O’Neil in the Bayview neighborhood during a chase. O’Neil was on foot when Samayoa shot him through the window of his police car, video footage of the incident shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins’ predecessor, Chesa Boudin, pursued homicide charges against Samayoa, who was on his fourth day on the job when he killed O’Neil. Jenkins dropped the case when she assumed office following a successful recall effort against Boudin, claiming the initial charges were politically motivated. Bonta agreed to review the case, but ultimately sided with Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neil’s aunt, April Green, was dismayed by Bonta’s decision to drop the case and expressed sympathies with and concerns for Brown’s family, whom she sees as undergoing a similar situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re excited that AG Bonta has decided to review the case. We hope we have better outcomes than the recent Keita O’Neil case, which he refused to charge,” said Morris, the attorney with Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence. “We are all cautious too that the review could just be smoke and mirrors to settle the community down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>An attempt by San Francisco leaders to hold an outdoor question-and-answer session about the city’s drug crisis was thwarted Tuesday afternoon after protesters at United Nations Plaza shouted over Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After retreating to City Hall, Breed and Peskin — who had requested the special off-site location for the full Board of Supervisors meeting to put a spotlight on problems in the area — continued to discuss how the city is addressing ongoing problems with open-air drug dealing, drug use and dangerous street conditions, all of which UN Plaza has come to symbolize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed touted many of the mental health services and programs the city has under her leadership and praised efforts to prioritize treatment over punitive approaches. But she also said accountability has been lacking, and suggested that the city’s public health-based approaches have reached their limits of efficacy in tackling the current crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Force is going to have to be a part of it, whether people like it or not. We’re going to have to do more,” Breed told the Board of Supervisors inside City Hall, in response to a question from Peskin about whether she intended to clear outdoor drug dealing and potentially reignite emergency orders, such as the one she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">declared in 2021 for the Tenderloin neighborhood\u003c/a>; for 90 days, the order galvanized multiple city departments to address challenges in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we can’t just keep throwing up our hands and think all of a sudden what we are doing is working,” she said. “Compassion is killing people. And we have to push forth some tough love to change what’s happening on the streets of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Breed did not specifically comment on a potential new emergency order, she highlighted the San Francisco Police Department’s new partnership with the California Highway Patrol and the California Army National Guard, or CalGuard — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom at the end of April\u003c/a> — targeting drug trafficking and dealing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t force the state and the feds to come to the table, but finally they are coming to the table in a way that’s not necessarily traditional,” Breed said. “They are invited to work with us even to the point where if they want to oversee the operation … we will follow direction. Whatever it takes. I am willing to humble the city to do whatever is necessary to get to a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also asked the board to pass her upcoming budget without any reductions and to “support the arrests for those who are struggling with addiction, especially when they break the law, to get them into drug treatment court and the support they so desperately need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes the Tenderloin, compared the approach to tough-on-crime drug policies known collectively as the war on drugs, which began in the ’70s under President Richard Nixon and was greatly expanded in the ’80s under President Ronald Reagan. Black men in particular were vastly overrepresented in the increased arrests during the crack and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What she’s proposing is arresting people for drug use. And that is a key part of the war on drugs, and it does nothing other than get people off the streets temporarily — and then in the end, increased drug use and increased overdoses,” Preston told KQED. “The only thing that this accomplishes is getting people out of sight for a few hours at a very high price to the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release, Preston later added: “If the Mayor, Supervisors, and other City leaders care about the Tenderloin, they should make sure the Tenderloin gets the investments the community needs in the budget process, support our $10 million emergency Tenderloin public safety supplemental, deliver the long promised Tenderloin wellness hub without further delay, house people who are unhoused, and make treatment on demand a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black man stands behind a camera, in a crowd, shouting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester shouts during an unusual public Q&A session with San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is currently developing a pilot program to address when someone on the street is “so far under the influence of drugs that they may pose a danger to themselves or others,” according to a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which could involve enforcing public intoxication laws, will be included in the mayor’s upcoming budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The uncomfortable conversations have to happen. I get that people have an issue that we are getting more aggressive to people with addiction,” Breed told the board. “I’m one of those people. I lost a sister to drug overdose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Breed’s sister struggled to access treatment services years ago, Breed said, many more facilities and beds have become available under her leadership, and the wait time for treatment has since dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health and addiction advocates, however, stress that there are still not enough resources to meet the need San Francisco is facing due to fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more potent than heroin that has led to a spike in overdose deaths in the city in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they point to research that has shown that more incarceration could lead to higher overdose rates among offenders shortly after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"fentanyl\"]Located in the heart of San Francisco a short walk from City Hall, the historic UN Plaza is flanked by the Orpheum Theater to the west and Market Street to the south. On Wednesdays, it hosts one of the city’s largest farmers markets. But the plaza has also become ground zero for debates over policing the drug use and sales that frequently occur there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 100 people gathered in the plaza Tuesday for the unusual, short-lived Board of Supervisors meeting, which \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/political-theater-mayor-london-breed-drug-crisis-united-nations-plaza-aaron-peskin/\">cost more than $4,000 to stage, according to The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester allegedly threw a brick toward the speaking area after Supervisor Peskin recessed the outdoor hearing and moved it back to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other demonstrators held signs and demanded justice for Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black trans man who was shot and killed by a Walgreens security guard last month. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">District Attorney Brooke Jenkins recently declined to prosecute the guard.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor London Breed needs to step down. 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"content": "\u003cp>A group of students of color at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC College of the Law, San Francisco,\u003c/span> allege the school downplayed multiple complaints of discriminatory behavior and racist marginalization on campus and claim administrators have done little to develop a more inclusive environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue became abundantly clear to Megan Wilhelm during her first year at the law school formerly known as UC Hastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would cry every day,” said Wilhelm, who just finished her second year at the school. “It got to the point where I didn’t know if I was going to come back that year. ‘Draining’ is the word I would use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a legal research and writing class, Wilhelm was assigned an oral argument around workplace discrimination. The case involved an employee who called another employee the N-word, and Wilhelm was tasked with defending the perpetrator’s employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilhelm recalls being the only Black student in the room asked to participate, and said she felt alienated when a teacher’s assistant told other students they could use the N-word because it was a fact of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949830 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students seated in a circle while in discussion, outside in a courtyard with buildings behind them and a little lawn underneath them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student organizers debrief outside UC Law SF after demonstrating against an alleged pattern of inaction from school staff regarding student concerns, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After discovering that the case involved a majority-Black workplace, Wilhelm said she recalled telling the class, “You have no idea what this conversation is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was marked down on her grade for the assignment, and later broke down crying in the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she complained to her professor about the experience, the professor brought the issue to Dean of Students Grace Hum, who was also responsible for advising on issues of diversity and inclusion, as well as providing guidance on student and personal life, according to the university’s website. But the professor later informed Wilhelm that the dean did not consider it a pressing issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hum resigned last month to take a job in the executive office of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The university provided a written statement but declined requests to interview Hum or other officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We need more Black attorneys’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There was no source, no outlet to talk about it and make sure that it could change,” Wilhelm said. “Why was this even an option of cases that we should be discussing without any background or any cultural education about it?”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dominique Armstrong, student, UC Law SF\"]‘For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment.’[/pullquote]Wilhelm is among a group of students of color at the school who say they are struggling from a lack of support, and have accused some professors and key administrators of largely dismissing their grievances. That, they argue, is an issue of particular concern, as they prepare to enter a field vastly overrepresented by white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also not about individual students. It’s a pattern,” Wilhem said. “I just know that if I don’t say something, more people are going to be hurt, and we need more Black attorneys, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, like much of the rest of the country, Wilhelm notes, there is a striking dearth of lawyers of color, with numbers that fail to reflect the diversity of the larger population. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://publications.calbar.ca.gov/2022-diversity-report-card/diversity-2022-california-licensed-attorneys\">just 3% of all licensed attorneys in California were Black, and just 6% were Latino\u003c/a>, according to data from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they’re going to sit here and advertise that they’re a social justice-focused school, they need to have a system that supports us and protects us from the harms that they are continuing to put us through,” Wilhem added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A quiet pattern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago, students at UC Law SF shut down a speaking engagement featuring Ilya Shapiro, a conservative legal scholar. Shapiro, who was invited by the campus’ chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, had recently posted racist tweets denigrating the Black female judges President Biden was considering for the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/When-Black-people-refuse-to-quietly-endure-17029870.php\">The protesters successfully halted the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment,” said Dominique Armstrong, then co-president of the school’s Black Law Student Association, who helped organize the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t much acknowledgement of race, and our administration has done little to address the racism and misogyny in our coursework,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after the demonstration, the administration sent students an updated policy introducing new rules for campus protests and counterprotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young African American woman wearing a denim jacket leans against a building while looking away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Armstrong, a third-year law student at UC Law SF, has been working to organize other law students at the university to enact change in the way the administration responds to student accounts of racism and ableism on campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Impermissible forms of protest are those that substantially disrupt an in-person or virtual event in a way that has the effect of silencing a speaker,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23817782-10122-event-policy-adopted-1\">the document reads\u003c/a>. “This includes but is not limited to forcing a change to the planned event format; disregarding time limits or other event guidelines to prevent speakers or other attendees from participating; preventing a person from speaking or being heard via such means as heckling, making noise, standing in the area of a room reserved for the speaker, blocking the speaker or event organizers from accessing AV equipment, blocking the views of attendees attempting to view the speaker; using or implementing technology features, such as the mute button and the camera button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated policies were adopted Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students involved in that organizing effort say the protest was merely a flashpoint in a much broader campus discussion about freedom of speech and how administrators should respond when students bring up their experiences of racism and sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until meeting other organizers at that protest, Sonja Chen, who just completed her second year as a student, didn’t realize that a traumatizing experience she had had soon after starting the school was hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During orientation, a fellow classmate taunted Chen over her race, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without prompting, this person immediately was like, ‘You should thank Lyndon B. Johnson and the New Deal for you being a student at this law school, because without him, Chinese people wouldn’t be allowed in this space,’” Chen, who is Chinese and white, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very much taken aback by that framing of history,” she added. “But also I wasn’t wearing a name tag or anything that was identifying me specifically as Chinese, and I thought that that was just very confronting to be called out immediately on one specific race, especially after COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman of half-white, half-Asian descent leans against a wall and looks at the camera. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Chen raised concerns about racism on the UC Law SF campus, but feels her voice went unheard when it came to taking action. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen came to Hum, the dean of students, to report the interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first brought this to [the dean’s] attention, she focused on the individual man’s rights around free speech and basically said there’s nothing that she can do,” Chen said. “There was no option generating. There was no plan of action. And I left feeling really disheartened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the dean later offered to change Chen’s schedule so she and the other student wouldn’t have any classes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second meeting, I told her this is still on my mind,” she said. “And she offered me to switch sections, which means you have to switch your section for every single class. So that’s just a very disruptive offering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incremental changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the university declined to comment on specific incidents, but said the administration is actively working to address its systems and culture to be more inclusive of students from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a student would like to express a concern about racist or other bias-related issues, they have a variety of resources upon which to rely, including reporting the issue to the Provost and Academic Dean, the Dean of Students, or a variety of other administrators ready to support,” UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman said in an email response to KQED. “Administrators and staff members often engage in informal mechanisms to help resolve differences and provide opportunities for learning and reflections for all community members, including faculty, staff, and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949840 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three students walk down a brightly lit indoor hallway with florescent lighting and white walls.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miquela Kallenberger leads students to the office of Academic Dean Morris Ratner to demonstrate against an alleged lack of accountability from school officials, on April 18, 2023, on the UC Law SF campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school is also actively recruiting its first ombudsperson to facilitate conflict resolution, Faigman said. He pointed to a list of initiatives on campus that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, such as a program specifically for students who are the first in their families to go to law school; merit-based scholarships for students from historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs); and about 20 affinity groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Law SF is committed to ensuring that all our law students feel a sense of belonging, so we intentionally and thoughtfully created programs and initiatives to inculcate that feeling within our community,” Faigman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the school decided to change its name, following years of pressure by advocates who underscored that Serranus Hastings, the school’s founder and a prominent politician and rancher, participated in the genocide of thousands of the Indigenous people in California. The new name went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many student advocates of color say the school’s recent efforts fall short and student voices are not driving the conversations about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear those discussions coming from the faculty of the name change and how it would affect all these student organizations, it was totally missing the mark,” said Chen. “Y’all are out searching for Pluto and we’re looking for water on Earth right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New tactics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As classes were wrapping up for the most recent school year, students from the protest and others who had come forward to report issues with racism made one final push to elevate some of the roadblocks they’d run into when reporting discrimination on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They posted flyers asking peers to share their experiences with Hum. Within days, they received dozens of examples in which the dean and other administrators had responded dismissively to student concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two students, one male, the other female, stand on either side of a door with their backs to the camera, through the door we see a white man in a brown suit sitting behind a desk explaining something.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Academic Dean Morris Ratner talks with students about an alleged pattern of inaction from Dean Grace Hum and other school staff regarding reports of racism and ableism on campus, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the last week of classes in April, a group of about 15 students attempted to hand-deliver a hard copy of the examples to Hum, only to find she was not on campus that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They instead met with Morris Ratner, the school’s academic dean, who spoke with them for nearly 30 minutes about their concerns and advised them to refer to formal complaint processes in the student handbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, students hugged with teary eyes. For some, it would be the last time they would see each other before graduating. Others said they planned to continue pushing their demands next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Various students seated and standing in an office listening to somebody speak (who is not in the photo), with a sign that says 'Dean of Students, Listen to Students.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at UC Law SF stage a protest against the school’s administration, in San Francisco on April 18, 2023, alleging that concerns of racism and ableism on campus are often ignored or brushed off. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school has since started its search for a new dean of students, and several student organizers told KQED they would like to see students from different corners of campus represented in the hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know why I applied to law school. It was to change a systemic issue of oppression. It was to address racism in our country. It was to call people out for hurting others and making spaces feel like they aren’t meant for people like me,” Wilhelm said. “That was in my admissions essay. But they’re surprised now that I’m saying something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of students of color at \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC College of the Law, San Francisco,\u003c/span> allege the school downplayed multiple complaints of discriminatory behavior and racist marginalization on campus and claim administrators have done little to develop a more inclusive environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue became abundantly clear to Megan Wilhelm during her first year at the law school formerly known as UC Hastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would cry every day,” said Wilhelm, who just finished her second year at the school. “It got to the point where I didn’t know if I was going to come back that year. ‘Draining’ is the word I would use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a legal research and writing class, Wilhelm was assigned an oral argument around workplace discrimination. The case involved an employee who called another employee the N-word, and Wilhelm was tasked with defending the perpetrator’s employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilhelm recalls being the only Black student in the room asked to participate, and said she felt alienated when a teacher’s assistant told other students they could use the N-word because it was a fact of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949830 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Students seated in a circle while in discussion, outside in a courtyard with buildings behind them and a little lawn underneath them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64621__DSC5581-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student organizers debrief outside UC Law SF after demonstrating against an alleged pattern of inaction from school staff regarding student concerns, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After discovering that the case involved a majority-Black workplace, Wilhelm said she recalled telling the class, “You have no idea what this conversation is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was marked down on her grade for the assignment, and later broke down crying in the library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she complained to her professor about the experience, the professor brought the issue to Dean of Students Grace Hum, who was also responsible for advising on issues of diversity and inclusion, as well as providing guidance on student and personal life, according to the university’s website. But the professor later informed Wilhelm that the dean did not consider it a pressing issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hum resigned last month to take a job in the executive office of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The university provided a written statement but declined requests to interview Hum or other officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We need more Black attorneys’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There was no source, no outlet to talk about it and make sure that it could change,” Wilhelm said. “Why was this even an option of cases that we should be discussing without any background or any cultural education about it?”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wilhelm is among a group of students of color at the school who say they are struggling from a lack of support, and have accused some professors and key administrators of largely dismissing their grievances. That, they argue, is an issue of particular concern, as they prepare to enter a field vastly overrepresented by white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also not about individual students. It’s a pattern,” Wilhem said. “I just know that if I don’t say something, more people are going to be hurt, and we need more Black attorneys, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, like much of the rest of the country, Wilhelm notes, there is a striking dearth of lawyers of color, with numbers that fail to reflect the diversity of the larger population. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://publications.calbar.ca.gov/2022-diversity-report-card/diversity-2022-california-licensed-attorneys\">just 3% of all licensed attorneys in California were Black, and just 6% were Latino\u003c/a>, according to data from the State Bar of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they’re going to sit here and advertise that they’re a social justice-focused school, they need to have a system that supports us and protects us from the harms that they are continuing to put us through,” Wilhem added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A quiet pattern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago, students at UC Law SF shut down a speaking engagement featuring Ilya Shapiro, a conservative legal scholar. Shapiro, who was invited by the campus’ chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, had recently posted racist tweets denigrating the Black female judges President Biden was considering for the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/When-Black-people-refuse-to-quietly-endure-17029870.php\">The protesters successfully halted the event.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it was trying to convey a message that we are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. We are paying the same tuition as white students and we aren’t getting the same treatment,” said Dominique Armstrong, then co-president of the school’s Black Law Student Association, who helped organize the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t much acknowledgement of race, and our administration has done little to address the racism and misogyny in our coursework,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after the demonstration, the administration sent students an updated policy introducing new rules for campus protests and counterprotests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young African American woman wearing a denim jacket leans against a building while looking away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64627_DSC05494-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Armstrong, a third-year law student at UC Law SF, has been working to organize other law students at the university to enact change in the way the administration responds to student accounts of racism and ableism on campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Impermissible forms of protest are those that substantially disrupt an in-person or virtual event in a way that has the effect of silencing a speaker,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23817782-10122-event-policy-adopted-1\">the document reads\u003c/a>. “This includes but is not limited to forcing a change to the planned event format; disregarding time limits or other event guidelines to prevent speakers or other attendees from participating; preventing a person from speaking or being heard via such means as heckling, making noise, standing in the area of a room reserved for the speaker, blocking the speaker or event organizers from accessing AV equipment, blocking the views of attendees attempting to view the speaker; using or implementing technology features, such as the mute button and the camera button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated policies were adopted Oct. 1, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, students involved in that organizing effort say the protest was merely a flashpoint in a much broader campus discussion about freedom of speech and how administrators should respond when students bring up their experiences of racism and sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until meeting other organizers at that protest, Sonja Chen, who just completed her second year as a student, didn’t realize that a traumatizing experience she had had soon after starting the school was hardly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During orientation, a fellow classmate taunted Chen over her race, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without prompting, this person immediately was like, ‘You should thank Lyndon B. Johnson and the New Deal for you being a student at this law school, because without him, Chinese people wouldn’t be allowed in this space,’” Chen, who is Chinese and white, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very much taken aback by that framing of history,” she added. “But also I wasn’t wearing a name tag or anything that was identifying me specifically as Chinese, and I thought that that was just very confronting to be called out immediately on one specific race, especially after COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman of half-white, half-Asian descent leans against a wall and looks at the camera. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64645_DSC05709-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Chen raised concerns about racism on the UC Law SF campus, but feels her voice went unheard when it came to taking action. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chen came to Hum, the dean of students, to report the interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first brought this to [the dean’s] attention, she focused on the individual man’s rights around free speech and basically said there’s nothing that she can do,” Chen said. “There was no option generating. There was no plan of action. And I left feeling really disheartened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the dean later offered to change Chen’s schedule so she and the other student wouldn’t have any classes together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second meeting, I told her this is still on my mind,” she said. “And she offered me to switch sections, which means you have to switch your section for every single class. So that’s just a very disruptive offering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Incremental changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at the university declined to comment on specific incidents, but said the administration is actively working to address its systems and culture to be more inclusive of students from all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a student would like to express a concern about racist or other bias-related issues, they have a variety of resources upon which to rely, including reporting the issue to the Provost and Academic Dean, the Dean of Students, or a variety of other administrators ready to support,” UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman said in an email response to KQED. “Administrators and staff members often engage in informal mechanisms to help resolve differences and provide opportunities for learning and reflections for all community members, including faculty, staff, and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11949840 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three students walk down a brightly lit indoor hallway with florescent lighting and white walls.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64625_DSC05457-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miquela Kallenberger leads students to the office of Academic Dean Morris Ratner to demonstrate against an alleged lack of accountability from school officials, on April 18, 2023, on the UC Law SF campus. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school is also actively recruiting its first ombudsperson to facilitate conflict resolution, Faigman said. He pointed to a list of initiatives on campus that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, such as a program specifically for students who are the first in their families to go to law school; merit-based scholarships for students from historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs); and about 20 affinity groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Law SF is committed to ensuring that all our law students feel a sense of belonging, so we intentionally and thoughtfully created programs and initiatives to inculcate that feeling within our community,” Faigman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the school decided to change its name, following years of pressure by advocates who underscored that Serranus Hastings, the school’s founder and a prominent politician and rancher, participated in the genocide of thousands of the Indigenous people in California. The new name went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many student advocates of color say the school’s recent efforts fall short and student voices are not driving the conversations about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To hear those discussions coming from the faculty of the name change and how it would affect all these student organizations, it was totally missing the mark,” said Chen. “Y’all are out searching for Pluto and we’re looking for water on Earth right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New tactics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As classes were wrapping up for the most recent school year, students from the protest and others who had come forward to report issues with racism made one final push to elevate some of the roadblocks they’d run into when reporting discrimination on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They posted flyers asking peers to share their experiences with Hum. Within days, they received dozens of examples in which the dean and other administrators had responded dismissively to student concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two students, one male, the other female, stand on either side of a door with their backs to the camera, through the door we see a white man in a brown suit sitting behind a desk explaining something.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64623_DSC05483-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Academic Dean Morris Ratner talks with students about an alleged pattern of inaction from Dean Grace Hum and other school staff regarding reports of racism and ableism on campus, on April 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the last week of classes in April, a group of about 15 students attempted to hand-deliver a hard copy of the examples to Hum, only to find she was not on campus that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They instead met with Morris Ratner, the school’s academic dean, who spoke with them for nearly 30 minutes about their concerns and advised them to refer to formal complaint processes in the student handbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, students hugged with teary eyes. For some, it would be the last time they would see each other before graduating. Others said they planned to continue pushing their demands next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Various students seated and standing in an office listening to somebody speak (who is not in the photo), with a sign that says 'Dean of Students, Listen to Students.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/RS64622__DSC5562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at UC Law SF stage a protest against the school’s administration, in San Francisco on April 18, 2023, alleging that concerns of racism and ableism on campus are often ignored or brushed off. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school has since started its search for a new dean of students, and several student organizers told KQED they would like to see students from different corners of campus represented in the hiring process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know why I applied to law school. It was to change a systemic issue of oppression. It was to address racism in our country. It was to call people out for hurting others and making spaces feel like they aren’t meant for people like me,” Wilhelm said. “That was in my admissions essay. But they’re surprised now that I’m saying something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi officially dismissed charges against San Francisco police officer Christopher Samayoa, who shot and killed carjacking suspect Keita O’Neil during a chase in the city’s Bayview neighborhood in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, initially brought on by former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, was the first homicide prosecution of a police officer for an on-duty killing in San Francisco history. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins earlier this year moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940624/blaming-boudin-sf-d-a-brooke-jenkins-wants-to-dismiss-historic-case-against-sfpd-officer-who-killed-keita-oneil\">dismiss the case brought on by her predecessor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge’s decision came after California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday that he will not prosecute the former officer. In \u003ca href=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/23817262-5-18-23-ca-doj-letter-to-sfda-people-v-christopher-samayoa/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\">a letter to District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on May 18\u003c/a>, Bonta asserted the charges against Samayoa “cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family, friends and community members expressed outrage over the decision on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel powerless. I am really worried about the rest of our Black and brown men who live in the Bayview area because this is a license to kill,” said April Green, O’Neil’s aunt, on Friday outside the courtroom where her nephew’s case was dismissed. “He’s given an okay now for officers to have excuses and justify murdering our Black and brown men.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11942654,news_11949359,news_11940624\"]Green and her attorney, Brian Ford, said they are next seeking to have evidence from the case released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer, was locking arms with fellow advocates for police accountability on Friday at the Hall of Justice. She compared her nephew’s killing and subsequent case dismissal to other recent cases in which security or law enforcement have killed unarmed Black men in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has said she will not prosecute the officer who shot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950110/the-family-of-sean-moore-waits-for-justice-sean-moores-family-waits-for-justice\">Sean Moore\u003c/a>, who died of his injuries three years after an officer shot him in 2017, or the Walgreens security guard who shot and killed 24-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">Banko Brown\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for the Banko [Brown] family, I feel for the Sean Moore family. Because [Bonta] is not going to do anything for them,” Green said. “He’s not going to give them a chance. He’s going to allow Brooke Jenkins to dismiss these cases without a justification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa was in his fourth day of a field training program when he fired his weapon through the window of his patrol car and hit O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man, as he tried to escape on foot, police camera footage shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa was subsequently fired. Separate from the now-dismissed criminal case, the city of San Francisco in 2021 paid O’Neil’s family $2.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"April Green\"]‘I feel for the Banko [Brown] family, I feel for the Sean Moore family. Because [Bonta] is not going to do anything for them. He’s not going to give them a chance.’[/pullquote]Nearly three years after the incident, Chesa Boudin, Jenkins’ predecessor who was recalled from office last summer, charged Samayoa with multiple counts of manslaughter and assault, marking the first homicide prosecution in San Francisco history against a police officer for an on-duty killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 8 letter to Bonta, Jenkins argued that Boudin wrongly pursued manslaughter charges against Samayoa for “political reasons and not in the interest of justice.” She said her office had also “discovered an internal conflict in the case that impacts our ability to handle the matter,” referring to opposing statements from the attorney in Boudin’s office who initially handled the case and the DA investigator who signed the arrest warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green and Ford then requested that the state’s top prosecutor pick up the case. When stepping into his current position back in 2021, shortly after nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd, Bonta proclaimed he would do more than his predecessors to hold law enforcement accountable for officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta “manipulated the Californian people to vote for him on the plate form of holding police accountable for these unjustly murders that plagues our folks,” said April Green. “We need a California Attorney General who stands by their legislation, which Bonta does not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to Jenkins, Bonta outlined testimony from SF District Attorney Investigator Jack Lundberg, who was the lead investigator in the O’Neil shooting. The letter claims Lundberg saw a simulation training video in which Samayoa, driving a patrol car, pulled over a van with expired plates. The occupants of the van then got out and charged at the patrol car as the driver pulled out a non-lethal gun and shot paintballs at Samayoa’s head. The training happened 21 days before Samayoa shot and killed O’Neil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An officer’s training is legally relevant to assessing his reactions in the actual case. In this case, Officer Samayoa’s very recent training demonstrated that a failure to act when a suspect jumps from a van and runs towards the officer can result in deadly consequences for the officer,” Bonta’s letter reads. “This supports the reasonableness of the officer’s belief that it was necessary to shoot Mr. O’Neil in self-defense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford continues to dispute the assertion that the move was an act of self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It amounts to a concocted defense, a misstatement of the standards of self-defense and cherry picks the facts,” Ford told reporters on Friday. “The fact is that our justice system, jury trials, preliminary hearings, are a fact-finding process. And the victims’ families are entitled to their day in court. They’re entitled to see the evidence, see the light to a jury of their peers, to look at the evidence and to assess the law and hold the facts up against the law to see what is there. And Rob Bonta has refused to do that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Green and her attorney, Brian Ford, said they are next seeking to have evidence from the case released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer, was locking arms with fellow advocates for police accountability on Friday at the Hall of Justice. She compared her nephew’s killing and subsequent case dismissal to other recent cases in which security or law enforcement have killed unarmed Black men in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has said she will not prosecute the officer who shot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950110/the-family-of-sean-moore-waits-for-justice-sean-moores-family-waits-for-justice\">Sean Moore\u003c/a>, who died of his injuries three years after an officer shot him in 2017, or the Walgreens security guard who shot and killed 24-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">Banko Brown\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for the Banko [Brown] family, I feel for the Sean Moore family. Because [Bonta] is not going to do anything for them,” Green said. “He’s not going to give them a chance. He’s going to allow Brooke Jenkins to dismiss these cases without a justification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa was in his fourth day of a field training program when he fired his weapon through the window of his patrol car and hit O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man, as he tried to escape on foot, police camera footage shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa was subsequently fired. Separate from the now-dismissed criminal case, the city of San Francisco in 2021 paid O’Neil’s family $2.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nearly three years after the incident, Chesa Boudin, Jenkins’ predecessor who was recalled from office last summer, charged Samayoa with multiple counts of manslaughter and assault, marking the first homicide prosecution in San Francisco history against a police officer for an on-duty killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 8 letter to Bonta, Jenkins argued that Boudin wrongly pursued manslaughter charges against Samayoa for “political reasons and not in the interest of justice.” She said her office had also “discovered an internal conflict in the case that impacts our ability to handle the matter,” referring to opposing statements from the attorney in Boudin’s office who initially handled the case and the DA investigator who signed the arrest warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green and Ford then requested that the state’s top prosecutor pick up the case. When stepping into his current position back in 2021, shortly after nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd, Bonta proclaimed he would do more than his predecessors to hold law enforcement accountable for officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta “manipulated the Californian people to vote for him on the plate form of holding police accountable for these unjustly murders that plagues our folks,” said April Green. “We need a California Attorney General who stands by their legislation, which Bonta does not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to Jenkins, Bonta outlined testimony from SF District Attorney Investigator Jack Lundberg, who was the lead investigator in the O’Neil shooting. The letter claims Lundberg saw a simulation training video in which Samayoa, driving a patrol car, pulled over a van with expired plates. The occupants of the van then got out and charged at the patrol car as the driver pulled out a non-lethal gun and shot paintballs at Samayoa’s head. The training happened 21 days before Samayoa shot and killed O’Neil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An officer’s training is legally relevant to assessing his reactions in the actual case. In this case, Officer Samayoa’s very recent training demonstrated that a failure to act when a suspect jumps from a van and runs towards the officer can result in deadly consequences for the officer,” Bonta’s letter reads. “This supports the reasonableness of the officer’s belief that it was necessary to shoot Mr. O’Neil in self-defense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford continues to dispute the assertion that the move was an act of self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It amounts to a concocted defense, a misstatement of the standards of self-defense and cherry picks the facts,” Ford told reporters on Friday. “The fact is that our justice system, jury trials, preliminary hearings, are a fact-finding process. And the victims’ families are entitled to their day in court. They’re entitled to see the evidence, see the light to a jury of their peers, to look at the evidence and to assess the law and hold the facts up against the law to see what is there. And Rob Bonta has refused to do that. He instead takes the same cowardly approach that Brooke Jenkins did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cleo Moore is tired of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s 84, and instead of celebrating the joy of her new great-grandchild, she spends much of her time waiting to hear back from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins about the status of a case involving the police officer who shot her son, Sean, in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore, a Black man who was unarmed when he was shot, died three years later from complications related to the injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the officer who shot him was charged with manslaughter, the case has dragged on for two years without a preliminary hearing — usually considered an early step in a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay has taken a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My days are spent going from one graveyard to the other,” said Moore, who is mourning both her son and her late husband. “I need to get over this. I need to be able to go on with my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore believes her son was given less opportunity than many other people to turn his life around because he was Black. And since his death, she too has felt marginalized in her now years-long effort to advance the case against the officer who pulled the trigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged African American man and an older African American woman at home, woman is seated, the man is standing as they look at the camera with sullen expressions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Moore’s brother, Kenneth Blackmon, and mother, Cleo Moore, sit at the kitchen table at her home in Daly City on March 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, then-DA Chesa Boudin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">charged SFPD officer Kenneth Cha\u003c/a> with involuntary manslaughter and assault for Moore’s death, marking only the second time the city has ever filed homicide charges against an officer for an on-duty incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly a year since Boudin’s recall, the decision to pursue a case against Cha lies in the hands of Jenkins. And the chances of her moving forward with it, many observers say, do not look promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Moore’s trust in Jenkins was shaken when the district attorney canceled a meeting Moore scheduled with her to discuss the case. Even before that, Moore had little confidence in Jenkins’ commitment to prosecute police, after the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940624/blaming-boudin-sf-d-a-brooke-jenkins-wants-to-dismiss-historic-case-against-sfpd-officer-who-killed-keita-oneil\">dismissed charges earlier this year against former SFPD officer Christopher Samayoa\u003c/a>, who in 2017 shot and killed Keita O’Neil, also an unarmed Black man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins’ office did not respond to requests for an interview and declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the years of waiting, Moore was offered a glimmer of hope in late April when she told San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta M. Giorgi that too much time had passed since Cha had been charged.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cleo Moore, mother of Sean Moore\"]‘My days are spent going from one graveyard to the other. I need to get over this. I need to be able to go on with my life.’[/pullquote]“Please, I need some justice. I hear the defense attorney needs more time. He needs more evidence. What more time does he need to have?” she told the judge in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giorgi agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I let [the attorneys] know when we come back in four weeks we will set a preliminary hearing,” Giorgi said. “I’m going to push them. I promise you, I’m going to push them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Giorgi told the defense and prosecution to be ready for that now-scheduled May 26 court date, Assistant District Attorney Darby Williams asked the judge if she could approach the bench and conferred with her and the defense in a hushed tone, inaudible to others in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s those kinds of secretive exchanges that worry Moore, she says, leaving her with little left to cling to except faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even grieve for my son being gone because I have to listen to all this garbage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A mental health struggle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The few images the public has seen of Sean Moore are mostly taken from body camera footage from the night officers showed up at his doorstep and later shot him. The 46-year-old, who claimed he was being unduly harassed, appears enraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Cleo Moore’s Daly City home, photos of her son during happier times are laid out across her piano like a shrine. In one, Sean embraces family members. In another he wraps his arms around his prom date. A third captures him smiling broadly, as he poses in a bright red-and-white uniform, holding a baseball bat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean was born and raised in San Francisco, and later moved to Daly City. He played basketball and varsity baseball at Archbishop Riordan High School, and continued playing baseball at Skyline College in nearby San Bruno, where he received a “most improved player” award. He and his family were decades-long 49ers ticket holders at Candlestick Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Color photo of a smiling young African American boy on a piano with flowers next to it.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school photo of Sean Moore sits on a piano at the home of his mother, Cleo Moore, in Daly City on March 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cleo bonded with her son over sports. They bowled together as partners, earning a first-place trophy at Westlake Bowl in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as an adult, Sean’s mental health began to deteriorate, his mother says. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which prevented him from holding down a job, and he moved back into his family’s home in San Francisco’s Ingleside neighborhood. Cleo says she helped him by picking up his medications, to avoid potential conflicts with pharmacy staff at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1697453539&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I supported my children in whatever they did,” Cleo said. “I tried to do the best that I can do. I can’t control what happened in later life, when someone becomes ill. If I could push a button and correct it, I would.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also made calls to San Francisco city services seeking mental health interventions for her son, but because Sean had private health insurance, through Kaiser Permanente, she was directed back to them. Cleo, though, says Kaiser was not up to the task of meeting her son’s mental health needs, especially when they reached crisis level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city of San Francisco, like most of the country, does not have the appropriate responses to mental illness,” said Yoel Haile, director of the ACLU Northern California’s criminal justice program, who is helping Moore’s family decipher the legal process and negotiate with the DA’s office. “Sean had as much resources as someone can, right? At least by way of what his family was able to provide for him. And most people are nowhere near that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949399\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023.jpg\" alt=\"A tombstone with flowers on the grave.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grave site of Sean Moore in Colma on April 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A deadly encounter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At about 4 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2017, SFPD officers Cha and Colin Patino \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">knocked on the front-door gate of Sean Moore’s Ingleside apartment\u003c/a>, responding to a neighbor’s noise complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Moore opened the door, he looked agitated as he stood behind the still-closed safety gate, and repeatedly yelled at the officers to leave, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBb3_WvFtXk\">the body camera video shows\u003c/a>. Roughly eight minutes later, after the officers continued to demand that Moore open the gate, he finally did so and stood near the top of the steps. The officers then yelled at him to get on the ground. When Moore refused, Patino struck him with a baton and Cha fired his gun twice, hitting Moore in the stomach and groin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">Moore died in San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a>, where he had been serving time for an unrelated conviction. A Marin County coroner investigation found the cause of death to be an obstruction in his stomach caused by scar tissue from the gunshot wound inflicted three years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA may use those facts to push for the case to be dismissed, argues Rebecca Young, the prosecutor Boudin had initially assigned to the case, but who was later fired by Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Young, Williams, who took over the prosecution, asked for a research memo to determine whether the DA’s office could establish a connection between Moore’s 2017 shooting and his subsequent death in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young suspects Williams is trying “to find a way to break the chain of causation” between the shooting and the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older African American woman speaks into a microphone at a rally.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleo Moore, whose son Sean Moore was shot by San Francisco police in 2017, attends a rally in support of both the family of Keita O’Neil and her son outside the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Court records obtained by KQED show repeated delays in setting a preliminary hearing date, after the judge granted repeated requests from attorneys on both sides for additional time to seek and review what they called “voluminous” medical documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haile, from the ACLU, agrees that most signs point to Jenkins dismissing the case against Cha, noting that she has not only delayed court proceedings, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php#:~:text=San%20Francisco%20District%20Attorney%20Brooke,public%20commitment%20to%20police%20accountability.\">reportedly downsized the division in her office\u003c/a> devoted to investigating police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A lonely fight for justice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In late April, Williams finally met with Cleo Moore, telling her that the lack of communication over the case shouldn’t continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I apologize, and I bear responsibility for that,” Williams told Moore, as the two stood in a hallway in San Francisco Superior Court, with a scrum of reporters watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first time she, Darby Williams, has said anything to me,” Moore later told KQED, explaining she had been worried about being placated in front of the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore says her ongoing fight for justice for her son has been a lonely one, and worries about a dearth of local political pressure from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to many other communities across the country with larger Black populations, not as many San Franciscans typically turn out to protest after police kill an unarmed Black man, noted Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman looks at a photo of a young African American man while seated at a table at home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleo Moore, the mother of Sean Moore, pulls a school wallet photo of Sean from a bag of her late husband’s belongings at her home in Daly City on March 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It goes without saying that the displacement and outmigration of San Francisco, Black San Francisco, has impacted us politically,” said Hollins, who grew up in San Francisco’s historically Black Bayview neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART board member Lateefah Simon, who is now running for Congress in the East Bay but grew up in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, echoed that sentiment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Cleo Moore is tired of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s 84, and instead of celebrating the joy of her new great-grandchild, she spends much of her time waiting to hear back from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins about the status of a case involving the police officer who shot her son, Sean, in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore, a Black man who was unarmed when he was shot, died three years later from complications related to the injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the officer who shot him was charged with manslaughter, the case has dragged on for two years without a preliminary hearing — usually considered an early step in a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay has taken a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My days are spent going from one graveyard to the other,” said Moore, who is mourning both her son and her late husband. “I need to get over this. I need to be able to go on with my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore believes her son was given less opportunity than many other people to turn his life around because he was Black. And since his death, she too has felt marginalized in her now years-long effort to advance the case against the officer who pulled the trigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged African American man and an older African American woman at home, woman is seated, the man is standing as they look at the camera with sullen expressions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64213_001_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Moore’s brother, Kenneth Blackmon, and mother, Cleo Moore, sit at the kitchen table at her home in Daly City on March 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, then-DA Chesa Boudin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">charged SFPD officer Kenneth Cha\u003c/a> with involuntary manslaughter and assault for Moore’s death, marking only the second time the city has ever filed homicide charges against an officer for an on-duty incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly a year since Boudin’s recall, the decision to pursue a case against Cha lies in the hands of Jenkins. And the chances of her moving forward with it, many observers say, do not look promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Moore’s trust in Jenkins was shaken when the district attorney canceled a meeting Moore scheduled with her to discuss the case. Even before that, Moore had little confidence in Jenkins’ commitment to prosecute police, after the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940624/blaming-boudin-sf-d-a-brooke-jenkins-wants-to-dismiss-historic-case-against-sfpd-officer-who-killed-keita-oneil\">dismissed charges earlier this year against former SFPD officer Christopher Samayoa\u003c/a>, who in 2017 shot and killed Keita O’Neil, also an unarmed Black man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins’ office did not respond to requests for an interview and declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the years of waiting, Moore was offered a glimmer of hope in late April when she told San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta M. Giorgi that too much time had passed since Cha had been charged.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Please, I need some justice. I hear the defense attorney needs more time. He needs more evidence. What more time does he need to have?” she told the judge in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giorgi agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I let [the attorneys] know when we come back in four weeks we will set a preliminary hearing,” Giorgi said. “I’m going to push them. I promise you, I’m going to push them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Giorgi told the defense and prosecution to be ready for that now-scheduled May 26 court date, Assistant District Attorney Darby Williams asked the judge if she could approach the bench and conferred with her and the defense in a hushed tone, inaudible to others in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s those kinds of secretive exchanges that worry Moore, she says, leaving her with little left to cling to except faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even grieve for my son being gone because I have to listen to all this garbage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A mental health struggle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The few images the public has seen of Sean Moore are mostly taken from body camera footage from the night officers showed up at his doorstep and later shot him. The 46-year-old, who claimed he was being unduly harassed, appears enraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Cleo Moore’s Daly City home, photos of her son during happier times are laid out across her piano like a shrine. In one, Sean embraces family members. In another he wraps his arms around his prom date. A third captures him smiling broadly, as he poses in a bright red-and-white uniform, holding a baseball bat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean was born and raised in San Francisco, and later moved to Daly City. He played basketball and varsity baseball at Archbishop Riordan High School, and continued playing baseball at Skyline College in nearby San Bruno, where he received a “most improved player” award. He and his family were decades-long 49ers ticket holders at Candlestick Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Color photo of a smiling young African American boy on a piano with flowers next to it.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64217_007_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school photo of Sean Moore sits on a piano at the home of his mother, Cleo Moore, in Daly City on March 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cleo bonded with her son over sports. They bowled together as partners, earning a first-place trophy at Westlake Bowl in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as an adult, Sean’s mental health began to deteriorate, his mother says. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which prevented him from holding down a job, and he moved back into his family’s home in San Francisco’s Ingleside neighborhood. Cleo says she helped him by picking up his medications, to avoid potential conflicts with pharmacy staff at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1697453539&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I supported my children in whatever they did,” Cleo said. “I tried to do the best that I can do. I can’t control what happened in later life, when someone becomes ill. If I could push a button and correct it, I would.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also made calls to San Francisco city services seeking mental health interventions for her son, but because Sean had private health insurance, through Kaiser Permanente, she was directed back to them. Cleo, though, says Kaiser was not up to the task of meeting her son’s mental health needs, especially when they reached crisis level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city of San Francisco, like most of the country, does not have the appropriate responses to mental illness,” said Yoel Haile, director of the ACLU Northern California’s criminal justice program, who is helping Moore’s family decipher the legal process and negotiate with the DA’s office. “Sean had as much resources as someone can, right? At least by way of what his family was able to provide for him. And most people are nowhere near that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949399\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023.jpg\" alt=\"A tombstone with flowers on the grave.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/001_KQED_SeanMooreGraveSite_04052023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grave site of Sean Moore in Colma on April 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A deadly encounter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At about 4 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2017, SFPD officers Cha and Colin Patino \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">knocked on the front-door gate of Sean Moore’s Ingleside apartment\u003c/a>, responding to a neighbor’s noise complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Moore opened the door, he looked agitated as he stood behind the still-closed safety gate, and repeatedly yelled at the officers to leave, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBb3_WvFtXk\">the body camera video shows\u003c/a>. Roughly eight minutes later, after the officers continued to demand that Moore open the gate, he finally did so and stood near the top of the steps. The officers then yelled at him to get on the ground. When Moore refused, Patino struck him with a baton and Cha fired his gun twice, hitting Moore in the stomach and groin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894821/sf-da-charges-officer-with-homicide-in-2017-on-duty-shooting-of-sean-moore\">Moore died in San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a>, where he had been serving time for an unrelated conviction. A Marin County coroner investigation found the cause of death to be an obstruction in his stomach caused by scar tissue from the gunshot wound inflicted three years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA may use those facts to push for the case to be dismissed, argues Rebecca Young, the prosecutor Boudin had initially assigned to the case, but who was later fired by Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Young, Williams, who took over the prosecution, asked for a research memo to determine whether the DA’s office could establish a connection between Moore’s 2017 shooting and his subsequent death in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young suspects Williams is trying “to find a way to break the chain of causation” between the shooting and the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older African American woman speaks into a microphone at a rally.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63462_010_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleo Moore, whose son Sean Moore was shot by San Francisco police in 2017, attends a rally in support of both the family of Keita O’Neil and her son outside the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Court records obtained by KQED show repeated delays in setting a preliminary hearing date, after the judge granted repeated requests from attorneys on both sides for additional time to seek and review what they called “voluminous” medical documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haile, from the ACLU, agrees that most signs point to Jenkins dismissing the case against Cha, noting that she has not only delayed court proceedings, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php#:~:text=San%20Francisco%20District%20Attorney%20Brooke,public%20commitment%20to%20police%20accountability.\">reportedly downsized the division in her office\u003c/a> devoted to investigating police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A lonely fight for justice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In late April, Williams finally met with Cleo Moore, telling her that the lack of communication over the case shouldn’t continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I apologize, and I bear responsibility for that,” Williams told Moore, as the two stood in a hallway in San Francisco Superior Court, with a scrum of reporters watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first time she, Darby Williams, has said anything to me,” Moore later told KQED, explaining she had been worried about being placated in front of the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore says her ongoing fight for justice for her son has been a lonely one, and worries about a dearth of local political pressure from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to many other communities across the country with larger Black populations, not as many San Franciscans typically turn out to protest after police kill an unarmed Black man, noted Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman looks at a photo of a young African American man while seated at a table at home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_SeanMooreFamily_03312023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" 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She noted that the city’s declining Black population may have translated into a lack of political will to prosecute police who kill unarmed Black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not gonna be a thousand people of African descent outside the DA’s office or the court building,” Simon said. “The organized Black left is diminishing, there is absolutely no question about that. When community power begins to die down, there’s less pressure.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We’ve learned in modern times about deescalation [tactics used by law enforcement], about time and distance. And none of that appears in this video. The guard clearly has the upper hand in the physical altercation, punches Banko Brown, is able to wrestle Banko down to the ground. Never seems in danger at any point. It’s pretty horrific,” Peskin told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached for comment, the attorney general’s office said, “As of right now, our office is not currently involved in the matter. We suggest you reach out to the San Francisco DA’s office on the case.”[aside postID=news_11949558 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/1-crop-1020x765.jpg']San Francisco Mayor London Breed supported Jenkins’ charging decision, she told reporters on Tuesday, but added, “I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with welcoming our California attorney general or anyone else to review the case and make a determination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are expected to vote on the resolution next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was allegedly shoplifting when he was shot and killed by security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony in late April. 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Many argued that the released video clearly showed Brown backing away from the security guard when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Democratic Party chair Honey Mahogany, who is also Black and transgender, attended Monday night’s rally.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Honey Mahogany, San Francisco Democratic Party chair\"]‘I think people are extremely frustrated with the district attorney’s decision. A lot of people feel as though, you know, she really fumbled this entire case from the very beginning.’[/pullquote]“I think people were feeling both anger and anguish. I mean, this is a tragic situation. I certainly was feeling emotional about it, seeing somebody lose their life that way,” Mahogany said. “I think people are extremely frustrated with the district attorney’s decision. A lot of people feel as though, you know, she really fumbled this entire case from the very beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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The horrific political attacks on trans young people around the country only make the problem worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown lived in and out of homelessness and grew up in the foster care system, and his friends and family said he was experiencing poverty when he allegedly stole candy and drinks from the Market Street Walgreens the day of his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 1,073 homeless youth surveyed in \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-San-Francisco-Youth-Count.pdf\">the city’s 2022 homeless point-in-time count (PDF)\u003c/a>, roughly 38% identified as members of the LGBTQ+ community. Youth respondents under age 25 were more likely than adults to identify as transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to respond to community allegations that she made the wrong call to not charge the security guard, Jenkins said she cannot base prosecutions on community outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any time you have a particular shooting or a killing, people are emotional, and they should be. A life was lost here. That spawns grief. It spawns emotion. It spawns a reaction that is normal, it is human. And I understand that. And it’s a part of the nature of the work that we do here in the DA’s office. What I cannot do, however, is base my decisions on that emotion,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same communities made their voices heard at San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday as Peskin introduced his resolution.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joshua Bell, San Francisco resident\"]‘As a queer man in District 5, how am I to feel safe after the murder of Banko Brown, a homeless trans Black man, that took place three blocks from my apartment?’[/pullquote]One person making public comment at the City Hall meeting, but who declined to give their name to KQED, identified themselves as a brown transgender woman who has faced danger for her identity — including from a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my time in this city, I’ve been beat, been assaulted. I’ve had knives pulled on me. I’ve had people just treat me like trash. I’ve had security guards treat me like garbage. I’ve had bouncers physically pushing me out of places because of, because of who I am,” she said. “With this resolution, all we are asking for is just a morsel of justice. Not just for Banko, but for all of us who have to face living in the city with this threat of violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Bell, 34, spoke at the Board of Supervisors meeting and said they’re from the queer community and have lived in San Francisco for seven years, but feels their community isn’t protected in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a queer man in District 5, how am I to feel safe after the murder of Banko Brown, a homeless trans Black man, that took place three blocks from my apartment?” Bell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banko Brown deserved to live,” said Julia Thompson, 22, a San Francisco resident and friend of Brown’s who testified before the board. “We must live with the sobering reality that he was killed for no other cause but $14. 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But after public outcry over the decision grew following \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/banko-brown-unarmed-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-jenkins-release-evidence/\">confirmation from law enforcement that Brown was not armed\u003c/a> and reporting indicating Anthony had followed Brown outside and shot him in the chest after ejecting him from the store, as \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/walgreens-banko-brown-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-video/\">one witness told Mission Local\u003c/a>, Jenkins changed course on May 8, stating that the investigation is ongoing and she has not ruled out filing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors voted on the nonbinding resolution that urges Jenkins and the San Francisco Police Department to release more information. City residents made impassioned pleas for the release of videos during public comment at the supervisors’ meeting, before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tory, San Francisco resident at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting\"]‘Being hungry is not a crime. Being homeless is not a crime. Being Black is not a crime … Release the tapes.’[/pullquote]“Please, please insist this DA show the evidence. It’s time for her to stop rationalizing inappropriate behavior,” said Yulanda Williams, vice president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP. “I’ve been a police officer for 32 years. I’m now retired. I never would have thought to use my gun on someone stealing some type of merchandise out of a store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being hungry is not a crime. Being homeless is not a crime. Being Black is not a crime,” said Tory, a resident of San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood. “We want to see the tapes immediately. Release the tapes and justice for Banko Brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another public commenter referenced intense recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/technology/cash-app-founder-stabbed-san-francisco.html\">regional and national coverage\u003c/a> of a different San Francisco killing, that of Cash App creator Bob Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here for the same reason everyone else is here … Banko Brown’s case is just as important as the Cash App case,” said Jalen Clark, who added that his sister had worked with Brown. “My people are important … This is not just a situation here in San Francisco, this is all over the U.S. and we need to start somewhere. Why not right here, right now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin on Tuesday evening said the resolution to urge the release of evidence in the “beyond tragic” situation was one that united the city’s progressive and moderate factions. He also refuted allegations made by Jenkins that the resolution interferes with an active investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Supervisor Shamann Walton wrote a letter of inquiry to Jenkins requesting that she reevaluate the case. Jenkins fired back in a letter to Walton on Monday saying his comments could disrupt the investigation and a fair judicial process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I disagree with the District Attorney’s opinions and have been informed by our Deputy City Attorney that my request has no interference with the investigation and it is not at all unethical,” wrote Walton. “Videos are released all the time during investigations and in some cases even required. We are asking for transparency around the killing of Banko Brown and release of this video will most certainly help with that transparency. I hope the district attorney will reconsider her decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday evening, Walton said supporters of Brown “still need to organize” to put pressure on the District Attorney’s Office and on Walgreens to release footage of Brown’s shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody has to give us that video,” he said. “If there was evidence on that video that led to the assessment from the DA, everybody should have the opportunity to view that video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who is said to have been unhoused at the time of his death, died shortly after Anthony shot him. Peskin, who called for the case to be reopened, told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that Brown had allegedly stolen $14 worth of candy from the pharmacy before Anthony opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13928870 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/008_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg']The tragedy is not uncommon in the United States, where gun-related deaths have increased 23% since 2019, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the majority of those deaths are suicide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/\">gun murders in particular increased 45% from 2019 to 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/vvsogi1720.pdf\">People who are transgender are 2.5 times more likely to face violence than people who align with the gender they were assigned at birth (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to 2022 data from the U.S. Department of Justice. Trans youth are also disproportionately likely to be unhoused, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">nearly 40% saying they have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a 2021 national survey from The Trevor Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing has since sparked outrage from Brown’s family, Bay Area community members and advocates for the transgender community around the country. A memorial to Brown’s life now sits outside the Walgreens on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing also has ignited debate over whether security guards should carry guns. Supervisor Dean Preston on Tuesday also announced legislation that would limit use of guns by security guards and using lethal force for shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also need to take some action and make sure this never happens again,” the District 5 supervisor said in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1656023543333933057\">video posted to social media\u003c/a> on Tuesday. “Human life is more important than property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said that releasing the information prematurely could “compromise” the investigation. She said the charging decision on May 1 was made to comply with a law that requires charges to be filed for suspects who are in custody within 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hear and understand the concerns from people calling for transparency, but releasing any evidence before the investigation is complete could compromise the investigation and is unethical,” Jenkins said in a press release. “I have asked SFPD investigators to locate and interview additional witnesses and gather additional evidence. A final charging decision will be made when the investigation is complete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her letter to Walton, Jenkins personally called out the supervisor for pointing out that Brown was Black, but not acknowledging that the Walgreens security guard is also Black. She stated how “many historic injustices that our community has faced can be traced back to politically motivated prosecutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"candles, photos and posters sit against a chain link fence in the background as the blurry feet of a pedestrian walk past in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks past a memorial for Banko Brown on May 9, outside the Market Street Walgreens in downtown San Francisco where Brown was killed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other government officials and legal experts have pushed back on Jenkins’ decision not to release evidence in the case, as well as her earlier decision not to prosecute the security guard for shooting and killing someone over alleged shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In recent days, a steady stream of information has become public regarding the shooting death of Banko Brown, resulting in significant public doubt about the security guard’s claim of self-defense,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener. “This shooting has caused profound and growing concern in the community, particularly among Black and transgender San Franciscans. Transparency with the public is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the police camera videos are not released … we are going to be in a very dangerous situation here,” Supervisor Hillary Ronen said at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the district attorney does not press any charges, Jenkins said, her office “will publicly release a comprehensive report that provides a full accounting of the evidence reviewed and how the decision was made because I understand the public’s need for a higher degree of transparency in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If charges are filed, she said, she would not directly release the information to the press, but rather it would be presented in an open courtroom during legal proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my duty to follow the law and the evidence wherever it leads, and do everything in our power to advance justice and healing in our communities,” Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vigil for Banko Brown at 825 Market Street is planned for Tuesday evening after the Board of Supervisors hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Christopher Alam contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Trans youth are also disproportionately likely to be unhoused, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">nearly 40% saying they have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a 2021 national survey from The Trevor Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing has since sparked outrage from Brown’s family, Bay Area community members and advocates for the transgender community around the country. A memorial to Brown’s life now sits outside the Walgreens on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing also has ignited debate over whether security guards should carry guns. Supervisor Dean Preston on Tuesday also announced legislation that would limit use of guns by security guards and using lethal force for shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also need to take some action and make sure this never happens again,” the District 5 supervisor said in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1656023543333933057\">video posted to social media\u003c/a> on Tuesday. “Human life is more important than property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said that releasing the information prematurely could “compromise” the investigation. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]hayne Maupin sat in the front row of the church staring stoically at the projector screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos of his girlfriend, Alissa Parraz, and their infant son, Nycholas, ticked by: Nycholas playing in a laundry basket, looking up at the camera; Nycholas tucked into his car seat; and Shayne holding hands with Alissa in the snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shayne, 18, wiped his eyes with the sleeve of a red hoodie he had shared with Alissa. He didn’t know their time together as a family would be so brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue, orange and yellow flowers were arranged on the altar next to a framed photo of Alissa holding Nycholas. Also on the altar: an urn, and plastic children’s toys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Lee Maupin Jr., Shayne’s father, rubbed his son’s head to comfort him before walking onstage to address the funeral audience. He was struggling, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m grateful that my son had fell in love,” he said through tears. “I just wish it would have lasted longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man at a podium inside a church memorial service speaks with a projected photo of a young couple and their baby behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Lee Maupin Jr., father of Shayne Maupin, speaks during the funeral service for Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alissa, 16, and 10-month-old Nycholas were slain Jan. 16 in a mass shooting in Goshen, an unincorporated community bisected by railroad tracks along Highway 99 west of Visalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first of 13 days of gun violence that rocked California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891960/monterey-park-reeling-after-lunar-new-year-massacre\">In Monterey Park\u003c/a>, 11 people died at a dance studio on Jan. 21; the suspected gunman also died, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On Jan. 23, seven people were gunned down at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939064/at-least-7-killed-in-half-moon-bay-shooting\">two Half Moon Bay farms\u003c/a>. In Goshen, the violence and concerns about possible cartel involvement shocked neighbors into silence, fearful of retaliation. Almost four months later, loved ones of the victims are still trying to piece together what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers responding to a 911 call on the morning of Jan. 16 immediately found the bodies of Alissa and Nycholas in the street in front of the house where she lived with family. Both were shot in the back of the head, and were the last to be killed in a massacre that claimed six lives. A neighbor recalled seeing Alissa’s body in the predawn light next to an abandoned child’s mattress on the curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of mourning family members, from teens to older males, sit inside a church. One bows their head with a sad expression as they listen to speakers during a funeral service for their loved ones who've died.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family and friends of Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz listen to speakers during the funeral service. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In surveillance video shown at a police press conference, Alissa is seen running from the house with Nycholas in her arms. She drops him on the other side of a fence before hoisting herself over a chain-link gate. One of the two gunmen follows her, a rifle in his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nycholas, who was in foster care for most of his life, had been reunited with Alissa just three days earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of Alissa’s other family members also died in the shooting, including her grandmother, Jennifer Analla; great-grandmother, Rosa Parraz; great-uncle, Eladio Parraz Jr.; and cousin, Marcos Parraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement were familiar with the Harvest Avenue house, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told reporters. Deputies executed a search warrant there on Jan. 3. According to Boudreaux, at least two people in the family were Sureño gang members. He said both gunmen were members of the rival Norteño gang and had targeted the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Beard, 25, of Visalia, and Angel Uriarte, 35, of Goshen, were arrested and charged with six counts of murder with special circumstances, among other charges. Both pleaded not guilty.[aside postID=news_11947532 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1252149086-1020x680.jpg']Valerie Gensel, Shayne’s mother, said no social worker or representative from the sheriff’s office called to notify Shayne of Nycholas’ death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not one cop,” she told KQED. “Nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ashley Ritchie said detectives, who were focused on catching the killers, did not immediately know Nycholas’ identity or the identity of his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months before the shooting, Gensel said, she had concerns about Alissa’s living situation and her grandfather, Martin Pena Parraz, who sometimes stayed at the Harvest Avenue property. Gensel said he had threatened Shayne’s father and verbally attacked Shayne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s deputies conducting a parole compliance check on Parraz on Jan. 3 found his brother, Eladio Parraz Jr., at the house instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Martin and his brother Eladio Parraz are documented Sureño gang members in Tulare County,” a sheriff’s deputy wrote in a report reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, a search of a trailer on the property belonging to Parraz Jr. turned up an AR-style rifle with no serial number, a shotgun, a handgun, ammunition, methamphetamine, pipes for smoking meth, body armor and 10 bags of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man's hand holds a cell phone that displays a photo of himself with a teenage girl and her baby boy who clutches a baby blanket.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Lee Maupin Jr. displays a photo on his cellphone of one of the family’s only visits with his grandson, Nycholas Parraz, in late November 2022. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alissa and another minor, whose name in the report is redacted, were at the house at the time of the search. Deputies did not contact Child Welfare Services because, according to Ritchie, the drugs and guns were found in the trailer and not in the house, where the minors were. The trailer, one of two on the property, was a “completely different residence from where Alissa was living,” Ritchie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement is required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/info_bulletins/2020-dle-17.pdf?\">Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act\u003c/a>. When asked about the search, Carrie Monteiro, public information officer for the Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency, which includes Child Welfare Services, pointed to the law. She declined to answer questions about the case, citing confidentiality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Jan. 13 juvenile court hearing, according to Gensel, a judge decided Nycholas would be returned to live with Alissa full-time in the house. In a March 7 Facebook post, Gensel wrote that Nycholas and Alissa were “failed badly” by law enforcement and the county’s child protection agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only if the judge [listened] to me my grandson would still be here and my son wouldn’t be heartbroken or lost like he is right now,” she wrote, referencing the Maupins’ desire for Shayne and Alissa to share custody of Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial display set up for a teenage mother and her baby boy is pictured. Candles, photos and baby toys are a part of the memorial.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar set up in the corner of the Maupins’ living room displays photos of Alissa and Nycholas, baby toys and other mementos, on Feb. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the funeral on March 17, relatives, co-workers and friends of the Maupins gathered inside Faith Baptist Church in Alturas, a small town in the remote, high desert of upstate California where Alissa lived before moving to the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family wanted answers. Why were Nycholas and Alissa allowed to remain in a home known to law enforcement for gang activity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no reason to kill [Nycholas],” said Shayne’s grandfather Jim Lee Maupin Sr., who traveled to the service from Oklahoma, where the family has its roots in the Peoria Tribe. “He couldn’t have said a word about them. Even if they let him live, he ain’t going to be able to point them out.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Valerie Gensel, Shayne Maupin’s mother\"]‘Only if the judge [listened] to me my grandson would still be here and my son wouldn’t be heartbroken or lost like he is right now.’[/pullquote]Micki Witzel, Shayne’s great-aunt, was distraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really need answers to why this even happened,” she said through sobs. “They should never have put that baby back in that house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, the Maupins said, they had been confronted by Alissa’s family. Some of Alissa’s relatives who live in Alturas appeared at the park where the Maupins were gathered on what would have been Nycholas’ first birthday. It was March 1, and the solemn balloon release was disrupted by revving engines and spinning tires, according to Gensel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It left her questioning how Alissa ended up in Goshen in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would have did anything for her if [Child Welfare Services] or the courts asked us if she could stay with us,” Gensel told KQED after the funeral. “We would have opened our arms and our doors to her. We would have gave her [the] life that she wanted and needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘She didn’t want to be there’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alturas is the seat of Modoc County in the northeastern corner of the state. Bordering Oregon and Nevada, Modoc is one of the state’s least populated counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At over 4,000 feet above sea level, Alturas and its desert brush and grazing livestock are covered by a fine snow in winter. Deer meander into yards with pristine views of the snow-capped Warner Mountains. “Where the West Still Lives” is the Alturas motto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948217\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1.jpg\" alt='A large, wooden sign in the middle of yellow grass and brush reads \"Welcome to Alturas: Where the West Still Lives.\" A snowy mountain range is seen in the background and a semi truck drives down a country road. Snow is melted on the ground and telephone poles dot the road.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi-truck drives past a sign advertising businesses in Alturas on March 17, 2023, with the Warner Mountains in the background. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Antonio’s Cucina Italiana, where Shayne once worked, a funeral program was tacked to a bulletin board. A former co-worker recalled Shayne frequently on the phone in the evenings talking about getting custody of Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in this town of 2,700 people that Shayne and Alissa met. They were introduced by Shayne’s younger brother. Shayne, who declined to be interviewed for this story, was 15 and Alissa had just turned 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the funeral, Gensel fondly recalled memories of Alissa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She liked to play. She liked to dress up Shayne,” Gensel, a traveling certified nursing assistant, said of the girl she described as bright and shy. “They’d go to the park to walk. [They’d] have little snacks to take with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young couple walks in the snow holding hands with their backs toward the camera.\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Maupin and Alissa Parraz walk through Alturas while holding hands in an undated photo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Valerie Gensel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The memories flooded back to Gensel, 44, who spoke to KQED at a lodge near her home: Alissa and Shayne jumping on the trampoline in the snow, and Alissa nibbling on snacks “like a little bird” because she was too shy to eat in front of the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa’s adolescence was marked by repeated shuffles among family members in Alturas and the Central Valley, 500 miles away. Police records reviewed by KQED show she had trouble at school: In October 2020, she and another female student fought. Alissa punched the other student several times, according to an incident report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had a sassy attitude. Her mom told me that I wouldn’t be able to handle her,” Gensel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa learned she was pregnant in the summer of 2021. Soon after, she moved to Tulare County to live with her father’s family, Gensel said. Exactly why remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gensel, Alissa’s mother, Shyla Pina, told her that the juvenile court system required Alissa to live with her grandparents after she spent time in juvenile detention for fighting with her younger sister while holding another sibling. But Gensel believes Pina, an Alturas resident, chose to send Alissa away after learning about the pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Deer in the country.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A deer stands near downtown Alturas, on March 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She never wanted to go down there,” Gensel said. “That was her first words — ‘I don’t want to leave, I don’t want to go.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pina declined to be interviewed. When reached on Facebook, she ignored a reporter’s question seeking clarity about how Alissa came to live in Goshen with her grandparents. Instead, she wrote: “My daughter is very smart and loving yes she had her ups and down[s] with everything that has happened to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach other family members were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juvenile courts do send minors to live with family members in other counties in certain situations — for example, the court determining a minor is a danger to their family, or a minor’s living situation is unsafe, Modoc County Chief Probation Officer Stephen Svetich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we find that they need to be placed out of home, they could be placed anywhere else in the state,” Svetich said in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Brown and black cows are pictured on a snow-covered field.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A herd of cattle in a snow-covered field near Alturas, on Feb. 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alissa had lived in Tulare County as a child. Documents obtained by KQED reveal that in September 2017, a Tulare County court issued a protective order barring contact between Alissa and her father, Martin Eulojio Parraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 6, 2017, a police officer responding to a report of suspected child abuse at Freedom Elementary School in Farmersville, a small town east of Visalia, was told an 11-year-old female student in the sixth grade had come to school with scratches on her face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student, identified in an arrest report only by her initials, “AP,” told police she lived with her father, Martin Eulojio Parraz, in nearby Woodlake. She said she had lived in a house that was frequently shot at, and that she was used to getting down on the floor and crawling to the back rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did not know if her father was a gang member, and said he likes the color blue, has a tattoo on the back of his head with ‘CFM,’ and tattoos of a 1 and a 3 on each hand forming a 13,” an officer wrote in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The color blue and tattoos with the number 13 are common Sureño identifiers. The Sureños — or Southerners — are a network of street gangs that pledge loyalty to the Mexican Mafia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, “AP” said she saw her grandfather and father get arrested. She detailed physical abuse, including having her head slammed against a wall, being shoved into a closet and having chili rubbed in her mouth and eyes. She also told police she didn’t feel safe at home and hadn’t seen her mother in three years. Police and social workers immediately removed the student and her siblings from their father’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show Alissa’s father told police five months later he was a “Southerner” and a member of CFM, short for Crazy F—’ Mexicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Martin Eulojio Parraz was sentenced to almost 18 years in prison for child abuse, and charges stemming from his role in a gas station robbery. That same year, according to a Tulare County court judgment, Pina was granted custody of Alissa and her siblings; they moved to Alturas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alissa was back in the Visalia area, living with her father’s side of the family, within about two years. Once again in Tulare County, she posted TikTok videos of herself lip-synching songs in a bedroom and choreographing dance moves with her cousin in a backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11948262 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial card for Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz hangs at Antonio’s Cucina Italiana in Alturas, on March 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shayne used the money he earned working at Antonio’s to buy bus tickets and pay for taxis so he could visit Alissa, and later Nycholas. Sometimes his parents drove him the 500 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa’s grandfather didn’t approve of her relationship with Shayne, and limited the time she could spend with him when he visited, Gensel said. According to Gensel, during one of the first visits, he verbally attacked Shayne because he was wearing the red hoodie he shared with Alissa, the one he later wore to her funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gensel said there was also tension between the families because she gave Alissa birth control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She always asked me to kidnap her or take her home with us,” Gensel said. “She didn’t want to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one visit, they circled the block while Alissa waved from the driveway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was scared to leave the yard,” Gensel said. “She was scared her grandfather was going to see her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alissa’s aunt, Christina Castro, said Alissa had a special relationship with her grandfather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had the cutest way she would say ‘graanpaa,’” said Castro, the mother of Marcos Parraz, who was also killed in the shooting. “She was sweet, funny, beautiful, outspoken, confident and full of pride. She was all that and more, and proud to be a Parraz and a young mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after Nycholas was born, Tulare County Child Welfare Services placed him in foster care. Boudreaux later told reporters Alissa wasn’t able to provide sufficient care. Alissa was allowed monthly, supervised visits until she was granted full custody on Jan. 13, he said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christina Castro, Alissa Parraz’s aunt\"]‘She was sweet, funny, beautiful, outspoken, confident and full of pride. She was all that and more, and proud to be a Parraz and a young mother.’[/pullquote]The Maupins said they wanted Nycholas to live with them half of the time in Modoc County, but attorneys for Nycholas and Alissa believed nine hours in a car every two weeks would be inappropriate for an infant. Gensel recalled the drive back to Modoc County after the hearing as “sickening, quiet, long.” In the car, the Maupins talked about how they planned to return to Tulare County the following week for their first overnight visit with Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they were killed before we got that chance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alissa’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@alissaparraz/video/7188731502912474414?_r=1&_t=8b3qjPLhc66\">last TikTok post\u003c/a> on Jan. 14, the words, “Who would sit at your grave the longest?” appeared on the screen, followed by photos of Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the morning of Jan. 16, Shayne went to the lodge near the Maupins’ home where he could use the Wi-Fi, and tried calling Alissa. At the same time, a relative of Alissa’s came to the Maupins’ home and informed Shayne’s parents of the shooting. Gensel drove to the lodge and told Shayne to stop dialing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no one on the other end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with short, brown hair and a red hoodie sits in a row among family inside a church where a funeral is being held for his partner and his baby who were killed in a mass shooting. His face is heartbroken.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Maupin, the father of Nycholas, watches a slideshow of his late girlfriend, Alissa Parraz, and their child at Faith Baptist Church in Alturas, on March 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For him to look at me and say, ‘Why, Mom?’ — to have to tell him his family was murdered, to watch his soul walk out of him — hurt so bad,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police records and Tulare County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ritchie, in the weeks leading up to the shooting, sheriff’s deputies and a parole officer had been to the house at least four times looking for Parraz, who had an active parole warrant. He was arrested hours after the mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 16, Parraz was indicted on federal charges of possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re all lost’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Maupins live in a mobile home park on the edge of a reservoir about 15 minutes outside of Alturas. Aside from the lake, the nearby lodge and a few ranches, the neighborhood is surrounded by desert grass and open sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a day in late February, snow flurries fell on cars parked in the driveway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, the Maupins had set up an altar in the corner of their living room. A poster showed photos of Alissa and Nycholas, and a guardian angel candle had been placed next to an urn decorated with an image of trees in the fall. There was also a homemade Father’s Day card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, Alissa’s family members had shown up at a house where Shayne was hanging out with a friend, Gensel said. After Alissa’s and Nycholas’ deaths, Shayne had been given half of their ashes, and Alissa’s family members were demanding his half. Shayne didn’t go outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa’s relatives didn’t attend the funeral that Gensel organized at Faith Baptist Church in Alturas. Gensel streamed the service on Facebook for family and others who couldn’t attend. The photo slideshow had a technical glitch and had to be restarted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish Alissas’s family could have been here today. But they’re not. It hurts,” Gensel said onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shayne asked Gensel to keep the flowers from the funeral alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He barely eats,” Gensel said. “He’s just lost. We’re all lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a memorial site where her loved ones were shot and killed. Votive candles, purple and red bouquets, balloons, and a wooden cross are all positioned on a dirt sidewalk in front of a chain link fence. The woman sits on an abandoned mattress as she stares solemnly at the display.\" width=\"1478\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1.jpg 1478w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1478px) 100vw, 1478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Gensel visits a memorial at the site where Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz were shot and killed in Goshen, on April 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Valerie Gensel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Jim Lee Maupin Jr., Gensel and their daughter stood where Alissa’s and Nycholas’ bodies were found. They cleared some of the dried grass and adjusted a small, leaning wooden cross so it stood upright. They added an Easter sign, photos and purple, blue, red and white artificial flowers next to the votive candles and bouquets that had dried in the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New cellophane balloons tied to the cross bobbed in the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone that knew what was going on in that house is at fault because we all could have came together and fought for them,” Gensel said. “But we all failed them. Just not the system, but all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He was struggling, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m grateful that my son had fell in love,” he said through tears. “I just wish it would have lasted longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man at a podium inside a church memorial service speaks with a projected photo of a young couple and their baby behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64895_105_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Lee Maupin Jr., father of Shayne Maupin, speaks during the funeral service for Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alissa, 16, and 10-month-old Nycholas were slain Jan. 16 in a mass shooting in Goshen, an unincorporated community bisected by railroad tracks along Highway 99 west of Visalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first of 13 days of gun violence that rocked California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891960/monterey-park-reeling-after-lunar-new-year-massacre\">In Monterey Park\u003c/a>, 11 people died at a dance studio on Jan. 21; the suspected gunman also died, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On Jan. 23, seven people were gunned down at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939064/at-least-7-killed-in-half-moon-bay-shooting\">two Half Moon Bay farms\u003c/a>. In Goshen, the violence and concerns about possible cartel involvement shocked neighbors into silence, fearful of retaliation. Almost four months later, loved ones of the victims are still trying to piece together what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers responding to a 911 call on the morning of Jan. 16 immediately found the bodies of Alissa and Nycholas in the street in front of the house where she lived with family. Both were shot in the back of the head, and were the last to be killed in a massacre that claimed six lives. A neighbor recalled seeing Alissa’s body in the predawn light next to an abandoned child’s mattress on the curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of mourning family members, from teens to older males, sit inside a church. One bows their head with a sad expression as they listen to speakers during a funeral service for their loved ones who've died.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64362_059_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family and friends of Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz listen to speakers during the funeral service. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In surveillance video shown at a police press conference, Alissa is seen running from the house with Nycholas in her arms. She drops him on the other side of a fence before hoisting herself over a chain-link gate. One of the two gunmen follows her, a rifle in his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nycholas, who was in foster care for most of his life, had been reunited with Alissa just three days earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of Alissa’s other family members also died in the shooting, including her grandmother, Jennifer Analla; great-grandmother, Rosa Parraz; great-uncle, Eladio Parraz Jr.; and cousin, Marcos Parraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement were familiar with the Harvest Avenue house, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told reporters. Deputies executed a search warrant there on Jan. 3. According to Boudreaux, at least two people in the family were Sureño gang members. He said both gunmen were members of the rival Norteño gang and had targeted the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Beard, 25, of Visalia, and Angel Uriarte, 35, of Goshen, were arrested and charged with six counts of murder with special circumstances, among other charges. Both pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Valerie Gensel, Shayne’s mother, said no social worker or representative from the sheriff’s office called to notify Shayne of Nycholas’ death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not one cop,” she told KQED. “Nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ashley Ritchie said detectives, who were focused on catching the killers, did not immediately know Nycholas’ identity or the identity of his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months before the shooting, Gensel said, she had concerns about Alissa’s living situation and her grandfather, Martin Pena Parraz, who sometimes stayed at the Harvest Avenue property. Gensel said he had threatened Shayne’s father and verbally attacked Shayne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s deputies conducting a parole compliance check on Parraz on Jan. 3 found his brother, Eladio Parraz Jr., at the house instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Martin and his brother Eladio Parraz are documented Sureño gang members in Tulare County,” a sheriff’s deputy wrote in a report reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, a search of a trailer on the property belonging to Parraz Jr. turned up an AR-style rifle with no serial number, a shotgun, a handgun, ammunition, methamphetamine, pipes for smoking meth, body armor and 10 bags of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man's hand holds a cell phone that displays a photo of himself with a teenage girl and her baby boy who clutches a baby blanket.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64482_004_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Lee Maupin Jr. displays a photo on his cellphone of one of the family’s only visits with his grandson, Nycholas Parraz, in late November 2022. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alissa and another minor, whose name in the report is redacted, were at the house at the time of the search. Deputies did not contact Child Welfare Services because, according to Ritchie, the drugs and guns were found in the trailer and not in the house, where the minors were. The trailer, one of two on the property, was a “completely different residence from where Alissa was living,” Ritchie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement is required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/info_bulletins/2020-dle-17.pdf?\">Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act\u003c/a>. When asked about the search, Carrie Monteiro, public information officer for the Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency, which includes Child Welfare Services, pointed to the law. She declined to answer questions about the case, citing confidentiality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Jan. 13 juvenile court hearing, according to Gensel, a judge decided Nycholas would be returned to live with Alissa full-time in the house. In a March 7 Facebook post, Gensel wrote that Nycholas and Alissa were “failed badly” by law enforcement and the county’s child protection agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only if the judge [listened] to me my grandson would still be here and my son wouldn’t be heartbroken or lost like he is right now,” she wrote, referencing the Maupins’ desire for Shayne and Alissa to share custody of Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial display set up for a teenage mother and her baby boy is pictured. Candles, photos and baby toys are a part of the memorial.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64483_006_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar set up in the corner of the Maupins’ living room displays photos of Alissa and Nycholas, baby toys and other mementos, on Feb. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the funeral on March 17, relatives, co-workers and friends of the Maupins gathered inside Faith Baptist Church in Alturas, a small town in the remote, high desert of upstate California where Alissa lived before moving to the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family wanted answers. Why were Nycholas and Alissa allowed to remain in a home known to law enforcement for gang activity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no reason to kill [Nycholas],” said Shayne’s grandfather Jim Lee Maupin Sr., who traveled to the service from Oklahoma, where the family has its roots in the Peoria Tribe. “He couldn’t have said a word about them. Even if they let him live, he ain’t going to be able to point them out.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Micki Witzel, Shayne’s great-aunt, was distraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really need answers to why this even happened,” she said through sobs. “They should never have put that baby back in that house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, the Maupins said, they had been confronted by Alissa’s family. Some of Alissa’s relatives who live in Alturas appeared at the park where the Maupins were gathered on what would have been Nycholas’ first birthday. It was March 1, and the solemn balloon release was disrupted by revving engines and spinning tires, according to Gensel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It left her questioning how Alissa ended up in Goshen in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would have did anything for her if [Child Welfare Services] or the courts asked us if she could stay with us,” Gensel told KQED after the funeral. “We would have opened our arms and our doors to her. We would have gave her [the] life that she wanted and needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘She didn’t want to be there’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alturas is the seat of Modoc County in the northeastern corner of the state. Bordering Oregon and Nevada, Modoc is one of the state’s least populated counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At over 4,000 feet above sea level, Alturas and its desert brush and grazing livestock are covered by a fine snow in winter. Deer meander into yards with pristine views of the snow-capped Warner Mountains. “Where the West Still Lives” is the Alturas motto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948217\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1.jpg\" alt='A large, wooden sign in the middle of yellow grass and brush reads \"Welcome to Alturas: Where the West Still Lives.\" A snowy mountain range is seen in the background and a semi truck drives down a country road. Snow is melted on the ground and telephone poles dot the road.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64317_006_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi-truck drives past a sign advertising businesses in Alturas on March 17, 2023, with the Warner Mountains in the background. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Antonio’s Cucina Italiana, where Shayne once worked, a funeral program was tacked to a bulletin board. A former co-worker recalled Shayne frequently on the phone in the evenings talking about getting custody of Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in this town of 2,700 people that Shayne and Alissa met. They were introduced by Shayne’s younger brother. Shayne, who declined to be interviewed for this story, was 15 and Alissa had just turned 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the funeral, Gensel fondly recalled memories of Alissa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She liked to play. She liked to dress up Shayne,” Gensel, a traveling certified nursing assistant, said of the girl she described as bright and shy. “They’d go to the park to walk. [They’d] have little snacks to take with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young couple walks in the snow holding hands with their backs toward the camera.\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64891_003_CourtesyPhoto_ShayneAlissa_Undated-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Maupin and Alissa Parraz walk through Alturas while holding hands in an undated photo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Valerie Gensel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The memories flooded back to Gensel, 44, who spoke to KQED at a lodge near her home: Alissa and Shayne jumping on the trampoline in the snow, and Alissa nibbling on snacks “like a little bird” because she was too shy to eat in front of the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa’s adolescence was marked by repeated shuffles among family members in Alturas and the Central Valley, 500 miles away. Police records reviewed by KQED show she had trouble at school: In October 2020, she and another female student fought. Alissa punched the other student several times, according to an incident report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had a sassy attitude. Her mom told me that I wouldn’t be able to handle her,” Gensel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa learned she was pregnant in the summer of 2021. Soon after, she moved to Tulare County to live with her father’s family, Gensel said. Exactly why remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gensel, Alissa’s mother, Shyla Pina, told her that the juvenile court system required Alissa to live with her grandparents after she spent time in juvenile detention for fighting with her younger sister while holding another sibling. But Gensel believes Pina, an Alturas resident, chose to send Alissa away after learning about the pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Deer in the country.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64410_016_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A deer stands near downtown Alturas, on March 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She never wanted to go down there,” Gensel said. “That was her first words — ‘I don’t want to leave, I don’t want to go.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pina declined to be interviewed. When reached on Facebook, she ignored a reporter’s question seeking clarity about how Alissa came to live in Goshen with her grandparents. Instead, she wrote: “My daughter is very smart and loving yes she had her ups and down[s] with everything that has happened to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach other family members were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juvenile courts do send minors to live with family members in other counties in certain situations — for example, the court determining a minor is a danger to their family, or a minor’s living situation is unsafe, Modoc County Chief Probation Officer Stephen Svetich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we find that they need to be placed out of home, they could be placed anywhere else in the state,” Svetich said in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Brown and black cows are pictured on a snow-covered field.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64419_007_KQED_AlexHall_AlturasCalifornia_02222023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A herd of cattle in a snow-covered field near Alturas, on Feb. 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alissa had lived in Tulare County as a child. Documents obtained by KQED reveal that in September 2017, a Tulare County court issued a protective order barring contact between Alissa and her father, Martin Eulojio Parraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 6, 2017, a police officer responding to a report of suspected child abuse at Freedom Elementary School in Farmersville, a small town east of Visalia, was told an 11-year-old female student in the sixth grade had come to school with scratches on her face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student, identified in an arrest report only by her initials, “AP,” told police she lived with her father, Martin Eulojio Parraz, in nearby Woodlake. She said she had lived in a house that was frequently shot at, and that she was used to getting down on the floor and crawling to the back rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did not know if her father was a gang member, and said he likes the color blue, has a tattoo on the back of his head with ‘CFM,’ and tattoos of a 1 and a 3 on each hand forming a 13,” an officer wrote in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The color blue and tattoos with the number 13 are common Sureño identifiers. The Sureños — or Southerners — are a network of street gangs that pledge loyalty to the Mexican Mafia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, “AP” said she saw her grandfather and father get arrested. She detailed physical abuse, including having her head slammed against a wall, being shoved into a closet and having chili rubbed in her mouth and eyes. She also told police she didn’t feel safe at home and hadn’t seen her mother in three years. Police and social workers immediately removed the student and her siblings from their father’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show Alissa’s father told police five months later he was a “Southerner” and a member of CFM, short for Crazy F—’ Mexicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Martin Eulojio Parraz was sentenced to almost 18 years in prison for child abuse, and charges stemming from his role in a gas station robbery. That same year, according to a Tulare County court judgment, Pina was granted custody of Alissa and her siblings; they moved to Alturas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alissa was back in the Visalia area, living with her father’s side of the family, within about two years. Once again in Tulare County, she posted TikTok videos of herself lip-synching songs in a bedroom and choreographing dance moves with her cousin in a backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11948262 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64407_014_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03182023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial card for Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz hangs at Antonio’s Cucina Italiana in Alturas, on March 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shayne used the money he earned working at Antonio’s to buy bus tickets and pay for taxis so he could visit Alissa, and later Nycholas. Sometimes his parents drove him the 500 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa’s grandfather didn’t approve of her relationship with Shayne, and limited the time she could spend with him when he visited, Gensel said. According to Gensel, during one of the first visits, he verbally attacked Shayne because he was wearing the red hoodie he shared with Alissa, the one he later wore to her funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gensel said there was also tension between the families because she gave Alissa birth control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She always asked me to kidnap her or take her home with us,” Gensel said. “She didn’t want to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one visit, they circled the block while Alissa waved from the driveway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was scared to leave the yard,” Gensel said. “She was scared her grandfather was going to see her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alissa’s aunt, Christina Castro, said Alissa had a special relationship with her grandfather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had the cutest way she would say ‘graanpaa,’” said Castro, the mother of Marcos Parraz, who was also killed in the shooting. “She was sweet, funny, beautiful, outspoken, confident and full of pride. She was all that and more, and proud to be a Parraz and a young mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after Nycholas was born, Tulare County Child Welfare Services placed him in foster care. Boudreaux later told reporters Alissa wasn’t able to provide sufficient care. Alissa was allowed monthly, supervised visits until she was granted full custody on Jan. 13, he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gensel recalled the drive back to Modoc County after the hearing as “sickening, quiet, long.” In the car, the Maupins talked about how they planned to return to Tulare County the following week for their first overnight visit with Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they were killed before we got that chance,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alissa’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@alissaparraz/video/7188731502912474414?_r=1&_t=8b3qjPLhc66\">last TikTok post\u003c/a> on Jan. 14, the words, “Who would sit at your grave the longest?” appeared on the screen, followed by photos of Nycholas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the morning of Jan. 16, Shayne went to the lodge near the Maupins’ home where he could use the Wi-Fi, and tried calling Alissa. At the same time, a relative of Alissa’s came to the Maupins’ home and informed Shayne’s parents of the shooting. Gensel drove to the lodge and told Shayne to stop dialing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no one on the other end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with short, brown hair and a red hoodie sits in a row among family inside a church where a funeral is being held for his partner and his baby who were killed in a mass shooting. His face is heartbroken.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64357_050_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Maupin, the father of Nycholas, watches a slideshow of his late girlfriend, Alissa Parraz, and their child at Faith Baptist Church in Alturas, on March 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For him to look at me and say, ‘Why, Mom?’ — to have to tell him his family was murdered, to watch his soul walk out of him — hurt so bad,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police records and Tulare County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ritchie, in the weeks leading up to the shooting, sheriff’s deputies and a parole officer had been to the house at least four times looking for Parraz, who had an active parole warrant. He was arrested hours after the mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 16, Parraz was indicted on federal charges of possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re all lost’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Maupins live in a mobile home park on the edge of a reservoir about 15 minutes outside of Alturas. Aside from the lake, the nearby lodge and a few ranches, the neighborhood is surrounded by desert grass and open sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a day in late February, snow flurries fell on cars parked in the driveway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, the Maupins had set up an altar in the corner of their living room. A poster showed photos of Alissa and Nycholas, and a guardian angel candle had been placed next to an urn decorated with an image of trees in the fall. There was also a homemade Father’s Day card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, Alissa’s family members had shown up at a house where Shayne was hanging out with a friend, Gensel said. After Alissa’s and Nycholas’ deaths, Shayne had been given half of their ashes, and Alissa’s family members were demanding his half. Shayne didn’t go outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa’s relatives didn’t attend the funeral that Gensel organized at Faith Baptist Church in Alturas. Gensel streamed the service on Facebook for family and others who couldn’t attend. The photo slideshow had a technical glitch and had to be restarted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish Alissas’s family could have been here today. But they’re not. It hurts,” Gensel said onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shayne asked Gensel to keep the flowers from the funeral alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He barely eats,” Gensel said. “He’s just lost. We’re all lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1478px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a memorial site where her loved ones were shot and killed. Votive candles, purple and red bouquets, balloons, and a wooden cross are all positioned on a dirt sidewalk in front of a chain link fence. The woman sits on an abandoned mattress as she stares solemnly at the display.\" width=\"1478\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1.jpg 1478w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64434_002_image_ValerieGensel-qut-1-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1478px) 100vw, 1478px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Gensel visits a memorial at the site where Alissa Parraz and Nycholas Parraz were shot and killed in Goshen, on April 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Valerie Gensel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Jim Lee Maupin Jr., Gensel and their daughter stood where Alissa’s and Nycholas’ bodies were found. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of an ongoing project of \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/\">inewsource\u003c/a> in San Diego, KQED and other NPR member stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ormer San Diego County resident Robert Wilson, a known neo-Nazi, was arrested Tuesday by Polish authorities on suspicion of projecting an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, according to experts who monitor extremist activity around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amsterdam police said a 41-year-old suspect was arrested in Poland after an investigation into the incident in February, when a laser projection appeared on the former home of Anne Frank claiming her diary was a hoax. The stunt gained international attention and condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Amsterdam police did not name the suspect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942315/san-diego-neo-nazi-suspected-in-antisemitic-incident-at-anne-frank-house\">citizen sleuths linked Wilson to the incident shortly after it occurred using digital forensic techniques\u003c/a>. The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors Wilson’s activity, believes he has been living in Poland since fleeing the U.S. to evade hate crime charges in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11942315 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63308_GettyImages-1149467364-qut-1020x680.jpg']On Tuesday morning, 41-year-old Wilson posted a video he took of several Polish police officers approaching his house. In the footage, he tells the officers in English, “I don’t do anything illegal. My lawyer told me not to open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the ADL identified Wilson as the man confronting police in the video posted Tuesday. They said they believe he was arrested shortly after it was filmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other extremists have since circulated the news of his arrest,” ADL West spokesperson Laura Fennell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is a public-facing figure of the Goyim Defense League, a network of individuals in the U.S. who spread antisemitic and white supremacist messages online, as well as in person through flyer distributions, street demonstrations and banner drops. The group was responsible for more than 450 propaganda campaigns last year, according to the ADL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Canada, Wilson moved to Chula Vista in 2016. Then in 2021, he allegedly assaulted his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs at him and was charged with a hate crime. Before he could be prosecuted, he fled the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office has declined to say whether it is attempting to extradite Wilson to the U.S. It did not provide a comment on Wilson’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a photo circulated on social media showing Wilson at the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland along with the founder of the Goyim Defense League, Jon Minadeo. The two men were holding antisemitic signs outside the entrance, and the incident led to Minadeo’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League is known for spreading false conspiracy theories about Jews. Among other things, its members claim Jewish people are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and the 9/11 terrorist attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png\" alt='Two white men wearing sun glasses, a sleeveless t shirt and shorts hold signs while standing outside in the street with buildings to the left and trees to the right. 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The Anne Frank House organization, which runs a museum on the property, said at the time that they “learned of this with shock and revulsion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the projection and the video the perpetrators are attacking the authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary and inciting hatred,” the organization said in a statement. “It is an antisemitic and racist film. We are acutely aware of what this means for the Jewish community and for the city of Amsterdam as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='extremism']Members of a citizen sleuth group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which was founded by a Netherlands resident, tied Wilson to the Anne Frank House incident using videos he posted in online channels. They provided evidence to police showing that he was in Amsterdam at the time of the projection and drew the route they believe he took to get there from Poland in the days prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their statement, written in Dutch, the Amsterdam police said they also settled on a suspect shortly after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the projection, the Amsterdam detective department started an investigation in which the suspect soon came into their sights,” the police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the suspect left for Poland “immediately after the laser-projection” and have been in close contact with the Polish authorities, the statement said. Amsterdam detectives traveled to Poland on Monday, joining Polish police during the search of the suspect’s home and the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Netherlands is in the process of requesting extradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Amsterdam Public Prosecutor has requested the extradition of the suspect to the Polish authorities,” the statement said. “A decision will be made later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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