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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by David Downs and Michael Montgomery, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/berkeley-pot-dispensary-biggest-casualty-federal-crackdown-15994\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its only retail outlet due to close Monday, Berkeley Patients Group is set to become the biggest casualty so far in a bold and controversial legal offensive by federal prosecutors against California’s pot industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group sent an e-mail to customers earlier today announcing the pending closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63953\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 254px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/berkpatientsgroups.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63953\" title=\"berkpatientsgroups\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/berkpatientsgroups.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"298\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Montgomery/California Watch\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While dozens of other medical marijuana dispensaries around the state have been forced to shut down since California’s four U.S. attorneys launched the crackdown in October, none is as large or commands the same local political support as Berkeley Patients Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last year, Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney for Northern California, warned the group’s landlord, David Mayeri, that the government would seize his assets if marijuana continued to be distributed at the property. The letter cited violations of federal law and the outlet’s 1,000-foot proximity to two schools. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marijuana dispensaries are full of cash and they’re full of marijuana, and everybody knows that,” Haag said \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/prominent-berkeley-marijuana-dispensary-close-shop-15320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in an interview in March.\u003c/a> “They are at risk of being robbed, and many of them are robbed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haag said another dispensary being targeted for closure was located next to a preschool in Santa Cruz. In February, armed gunmen robbed the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Patients Group supporters, including neighboring businesses, contend the facility has operated safely for 12 years and has never been the scene of a serious crime. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s owners declined interview requests. But in written responses today, they said closing the current site “would deprive many patients safe access to their medicine and be particularly difficult for the hundreds of low income patients who rely on BPG for free medical cannabis and holistic health services. This is an outcome that we have been working very hard to prevent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a legal agreement with Mayeri, Berkeley Patients Group must cease operations at its location tomorrow and vacate the premises by June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical marijuana activists have denounced efforts to close the facility. They’ve also condemned a recent raid by federal agents on nearby Oaksterdam University, a medical marijuana training school that has been dubbed the “Princeton of pot.” With federal indictments possible in that case, owner Richard Lee announced he’s stepping down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Patients Group representatives declined to say whether they have secured a new location for their dispensary. But real estate experts said the federal crackdown has left property owners nervous about renting to medical marijuana establishments, even if they have permits from local authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost impossible to relocate, especially under the rules and regulations that the cities and state have in place right now,” said Adam Peterson, a real estate agent for Cassidy Turley BT Commercial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the dispensary reopens, other challenges remain, including a whopping tax bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2011 state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/346718-c-berkeley-patients-group-inc-sum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audit\u003c/a>, Berkeley Patients Group owes $6.4 million to the California State Board of Equalization for its failure to pay sales taxes from 2004 to 2007. Officials have said they are paying off the debt in monthly installments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has also been embroiled in bitter legal battles with two former employees – the group’s co-founder and a senior manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the dispute stems from the group’s decision – at the peak of California’s pot boom three years ago – to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in four dispensaries in Maine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, Berkeley Patients Group helped create a sister business, Northeast Patients Group, which eventually won permits for the dispensaries. The group projected annual revenues of more than $22 million, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/347384-npg-package.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documents\u003c/a> submitted to Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/347383-bpg-npg-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documents\u003c/a> from Maine show Berkeley executives pumped more than $600,000 in loans, services and other expenses into the enterprise, which was headed by a former manager and modeled on the group’s operations in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the collaboration went sour. Last year, Berkeley Patients Group filed a lawsuit against the former employee, Rebecca DeKeuster, and Northeast Patients Group, alleging they sold trade secrets to a competitor and failed to repay the loans. The case is still in litigation. Since then, DeKeuster opened three dispensaries in Maine, but Berkeley Patients Group has ended its involvement in the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the group’s executives said they decided to establish the business in Maine because they wanted to help set up the nation’s first state-run dispensary system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision to work in Maine was not taken lightly, but it was a unanimous decision by our Board,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two former employees criticized the way the group went about the expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug McVay, Berkeley Patients Group’s bookkeeper in 2009 and 2010, said the decision to invest in out-of-state dispensaries was “ill-conceived and over-ambitious at best,” leaving the organization financially vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Funds went out without a clear understanding of whether they were for a loan, an investment or something different, and those designations would change over time,” he said in an e-mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Goldsberry, a co-founder who left Berkeley Patients Group last year, alleged money for the Maine project was pulled from a special trust account set aside to cover the group’s state tax obligations, according to a wrongful termination \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/346717-bpg-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaint\u003c/a> filed in Alameda County Superior Court in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsberry declined to comment on the complaint, which was settled in January. In a statement, Berkeley Patients Group denied “using any money set aside for taxes to fund the work in Maine” and said the complaint “was never served and any matters have been resolved to the parties’ mutual satisfaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company business documents show money for the Maine expansion came from internal reserves as well as a loan from the group’s landlord, Mayeri. The documents do not show the group drew funds from a special tax account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McVay, Berkeley Patients Group’s former bookkeeper, said the dispute over the Maine project was connected to other financial arrangements, including a deal in which current CEO Tim Schick and Goldsberry purchased a property adjacent to the dispensary. Berkeley Patients Group provided the down payment and covered monthly mortgage installments, according to McVay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time … we never had a signed agreement on file – no interest, no repayment plan, no terms, nothing,” he said. “The paperwork was minimal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Berkeley Patients Group said the property was purchased by Goldsberry and Schick in 2009 “in anticipation that BPG would expand physically at that location. Clearly those plans have changed, and what will be done with that additional space has yet to be decided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prominent players in the Bay Area’s medical marijuana industry said the acrimony was fueled by a clash between Berkeley Patients Group’s “hippie” roots and the need to operate an increasingly sophisticated business amid murky laws and zealous federal law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very different organization back then,” said Mickey Martin, an Oakland-based dispensary consultant, referring to the founding of the group after Californians legalized medical marijuana in 1996. “Very hippie-rooted. They tried to run it like a family organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, SB 420 provided legal cover for medical marijuana outlets. Six years later, the medical marijuana retail business was booming across California. Operating with a city permit, Berkeley Patients Group was serving thousands of customers a month with $19 million in annual revenues, according to interviews and Internet postings by company managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also cultivated a community-friendly reputation, donating thousands of dollars to local groups ranging from a special school for hearing-impaired children to the local chamber of commerce. In 2009, the Berkeley City Council declared “Berkeley Patients Group Day,” lauding the dispensary for its tax revenue, donations, sponsorships and “living wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same year, Berkeley Patients Group started to move away from its hippie roots, according to Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said the group’s push into new business ventures was spurred in part by competition. In 2010, Steve DeAngelo – owner of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, another large dispensary – founded “CannBe” to export marijuana-related business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CannBe offered the services of a legalization “A-team” that would work to pass local medical marijuana regulations and win coveted distribution permits for clients around the country. A CannBe internal sales brochure dated October 2010 lists consulting fees of $270,000 for each signed contract plus an additional $5.15 charge for every customer transaction, payable monthly for at least 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo said the document was similar to a franchise agreement but that actual deals were for “significantly” less money. CannBe folded last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a bill to tightly regulate medical marijuana is debated in Sacramento, Henry Wykowski, a finance expert who advises dispensaries, said more rules could mean fewer disputes of the kind that Berkeley Patients Group and other operators have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that more regulation would be bad for the industry. The guidelines are gray and when they’re gray that can lead to all sorts of problems,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported in collaboration with KQED public radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But in written responses today, they said closing the current site “would deprive many patients safe access to their medicine and be particularly difficult for the hundreds of low income patients who rely on BPG for free medical cannabis and holistic health services. This is an outcome that we have been working very hard to prevent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a legal agreement with Mayeri, Berkeley Patients Group must cease operations at its location tomorrow and vacate the premises by June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical marijuana activists have denounced efforts to close the facility. They’ve also condemned a recent raid by federal agents on nearby Oaksterdam University, a medical marijuana training school that has been dubbed the “Princeton of pot.” With federal indictments possible in that case, owner Richard Lee announced he’s stepping down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Patients Group representatives declined to say whether they have secured a new location for their dispensary. But real estate experts said the federal crackdown has left property owners nervous about renting to medical marijuana establishments, even if they have permits from local authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost impossible to relocate, especially under the rules and regulations that the cities and state have in place right now,” said Adam Peterson, a real estate agent for Cassidy Turley BT Commercial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the dispensary reopens, other challenges remain, including a whopping tax bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2011 state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/346718-c-berkeley-patients-group-inc-sum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audit\u003c/a>, Berkeley Patients Group owes $6.4 million to the California State Board of Equalization for its failure to pay sales taxes from 2004 to 2007. Officials have said they are paying off the debt in monthly installments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has also been embroiled in bitter legal battles with two former employees – the group’s co-founder and a senior manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the dispute stems from the group’s decision – at the peak of California’s pot boom three years ago – to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in four dispensaries in Maine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, Berkeley Patients Group helped create a sister business, Northeast Patients Group, which eventually won permits for the dispensaries. The group projected annual revenues of more than $22 million, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/347384-npg-package.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documents\u003c/a> submitted to Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/347383-bpg-npg-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documents\u003c/a> from Maine show Berkeley executives pumped more than $600,000 in loans, services and other expenses into the enterprise, which was headed by a former manager and modeled on the group’s operations in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the collaboration went sour. Last year, Berkeley Patients Group filed a lawsuit against the former employee, Rebecca DeKeuster, and Northeast Patients Group, alleging they sold trade secrets to a competitor and failed to repay the loans. The case is still in litigation. Since then, DeKeuster opened three dispensaries in Maine, but Berkeley Patients Group has ended its involvement in the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the group’s executives said they decided to establish the business in Maine because they wanted to help set up the nation’s first state-run dispensary system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision to work in Maine was not taken lightly, but it was a unanimous decision by our Board,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two former employees criticized the way the group went about the expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug McVay, Berkeley Patients Group’s bookkeeper in 2009 and 2010, said the decision to invest in out-of-state dispensaries was “ill-conceived and over-ambitious at best,” leaving the organization financially vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Funds went out without a clear understanding of whether they were for a loan, an investment or something different, and those designations would change over time,” he said in an e-mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Goldsberry, a co-founder who left Berkeley Patients Group last year, alleged money for the Maine project was pulled from a special trust account set aside to cover the group’s state tax obligations, according to a wrongful termination \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/346717-bpg-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaint\u003c/a> filed in Alameda County Superior Court in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsberry declined to comment on the complaint, which was settled in January. In a statement, Berkeley Patients Group denied “using any money set aside for taxes to fund the work in Maine” and said the complaint “was never served and any matters have been resolved to the parties’ mutual satisfaction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company business documents show money for the Maine expansion came from internal reserves as well as a loan from the group’s landlord, Mayeri. The documents do not show the group drew funds from a special tax account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McVay, Berkeley Patients Group’s former bookkeeper, said the dispute over the Maine project was connected to other financial arrangements, including a deal in which current CEO Tim Schick and Goldsberry purchased a property adjacent to the dispensary. Berkeley Patients Group provided the down payment and covered monthly mortgage installments, according to McVay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time … we never had a signed agreement on file – no interest, no repayment plan, no terms, nothing,” he said. “The paperwork was minimal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Berkeley Patients Group said the property was purchased by Goldsberry and Schick in 2009 “in anticipation that BPG would expand physically at that location. Clearly those plans have changed, and what will be done with that additional space has yet to be decided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prominent players in the Bay Area’s medical marijuana industry said the acrimony was fueled by a clash between Berkeley Patients Group’s “hippie” roots and the need to operate an increasingly sophisticated business amid murky laws and zealous federal law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very different organization back then,” said Mickey Martin, an Oakland-based dispensary consultant, referring to the founding of the group after Californians legalized medical marijuana in 1996. “Very hippie-rooted. They tried to run it like a family organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, SB 420 provided legal cover for medical marijuana outlets. Six years later, the medical marijuana retail business was booming across California. Operating with a city permit, Berkeley Patients Group was serving thousands of customers a month with $19 million in annual revenues, according to interviews and Internet postings by company managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also cultivated a community-friendly reputation, donating thousands of dollars to local groups ranging from a special school for hearing-impaired children to the local chamber of commerce. In 2009, the Berkeley City Council declared “Berkeley Patients Group Day,” lauding the dispensary for its tax revenue, donations, sponsorships and “living wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same year, Berkeley Patients Group started to move away from its hippie roots, according to Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said the group’s push into new business ventures was spurred in part by competition. In 2010, Steve DeAngelo – owner of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, another large dispensary – founded “CannBe” to export marijuana-related business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CannBe offered the services of a legalization “A-team” that would work to pass local medical marijuana regulations and win coveted distribution permits for clients around the country. A CannBe internal sales brochure dated October 2010 lists consulting fees of $270,000 for each signed contract plus an additional $5.15 charge for every customer transaction, payable monthly for at least 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo said the document was similar to a franchise agreement but that actual deals were for “significantly” less money. 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"content": "\u003cp>From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco police say one person was arrested after a protest march in the city's Mission District turned violent. Officers responded to a large group of demonstrators vandalizing property a little after 9 p.m. on Monday. Among the properties that were damaged was the Mission police station.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/30/BA2U1OBG3L.DTL\">Chronicle\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At least a dozen businesses, including Tartine Bakery at 18th and Guerrero streets and Locanda restaurant on Valencia, had their windows broken out and were splattered with paint and food. Vehicles along Valencia and Guerrero streets had windows broken out - an Aston Martin had its windshield shattered and brown paint covered the hood.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2012/05/01/protesters_trash_valencia_street_businesses_mission_police_station_in_early_may_day_demonstration.php\">SFist\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At Four Barrel, a handiman fixing the shop's door was struck with a crowbar, but he was able to keep protesters from shattering the windows. Vinny Ng, Manager of Bar Tartine, also told SFist that service continued throughout the protests, despite one broken window in a side section of the dining room. At Farina, protesters sprayed Anarchy symbols and \"Yuppies Out\" on the restaurant's window while diners remained inside.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>SFist also points out this \u003ca href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jTJHnvfhB0cJ:strikemay1st.com/the-strike-starts-early/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us\">cached version\u003c/a> of a now-removed web page from the \u003ca href=\"http://strikemay1st.com/\">hub site of the Bay Area May Day protests\u003c/a>. The post was titled \"The Strike Starts Early Street Party,\" and it called for protesters to gather at Dolores Park for a \"ruckus street party to counter gentrification, capitalism, and the policing of our communities\"... \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>They’ve stolen our lives. They’ve stolen our health. They’re taking over every inch of our cities and pushing us nowhere. If there is anything we have learned from the last six months it is this: May 1st isn’t the only day for striking, and isn’t only a day for workers. April 30th kicks off a string of actions in the Bay Area against all who would take our lives from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, once a stronghold of the dispossessed, has become a playground for the rich and a living hell for those of us who can’t keep up or have no interest in capitalist relations. Homelessness, gentrification, racist police murders, the displacement of all that is queer, outrageous rent prices, our list is endless: it is time to reclaim our playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We call on our comrades from every corner of the Bay to descend upon Dolores Park, 8pm April 30th, for a ruckus street party to counter gentrification, capitalism, and the policing of our communities.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:45 p.m.\u003c/strong> Four Barrel, the artisan coffee roaster, is not happy about last night...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong> Four Barrel Coffee in the Mission was vandalized last night and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/fourbarrel\">they're not happy about it\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp>Nice work, occupiers. You made me leave my sick kid at home to go clean paint bombs off my windows. That'll show Wall Street, fellas. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%2523OWS\">#OWS\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Four Barrel Coffee (@fourbarrel) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fourbarrel/status/197201585519075329\">May 1, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp>Yes, we know. We know. You're still here, and you're still \"occupying.\" Great. Leave small businesses out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Four Barrel Coffee (@fourbarrel) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fourbarrel/status/197202473788776448\">May 1, 2012\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos, video and Tweets about last night's incidents in a Storify below...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/photos-vandalism-in-san-francisco-s-mission-distri\" target=\"_blank\">View the story \"Photos and More: Vandalism in San Francisco's Mission District April 30\" on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But as there are strong likelihoods for future demonstrations, we hope the Department will take heed of the lessons it has learned from its organizational introspection and the assistance it has received from its external consultants.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, District Court Judge Thelton Henderson, who has overseen the settlement, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/judge-strips-power-oakland-police/\">said he was in “disbelief” at the slow pace of the reform measures\u003c/a> and that the department was “woefully behind its peers around the state and nation.” He also said he might put the department under federal receivership if it did not finish implementing the required changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the latest report by the monitor states, \"we find that OPD remains in compliance with no more than 12 of the remaining 22 Tasks; the same number as reported in our last two reports.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nUpdate 5:36 p.m.\u003c/strong> From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland/ci_20515740/overall-lack-progress-could-land-oakland-police-department\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Jim Chanin, an attorney representing plaintiffs in the Riders case, said he was planning to move forward with a receivership motion that would be heard by Henderson in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only way the motion wasn't going to happen was if we saw some dramatic improvement in the monitor's report, and this isn't it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/crime/story/oakland-police-aim-improve-crowd-tactics/\">Bay Citizen\u003c/a> also reported today that \"[internal] use-of-force reports...reveal that police officers from Oakland and other Bay Area agencies repeatedly used weapons that were illegal under Oakland’s policy.\" \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>OAKLAND (Bay City News) The trial of an Occupy Oakland protester concluded today with a jury convicting him of a felony count of deterring an officer during the performance of his duties but deadlocking on another charge and finding him guilty of a misdemeanor on a third count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office prosecuted 47-year-old Cameron Rose for allegedly striking Oakland police Officer Patrick Gerrans with a folding chair at a protest at Frank Ogawa Plaza on Dec. 30 and for allegedly resisting arrest on Jan. 22 when authorities tried to arrest him on a warrant for the Dec. 30 incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most serious charge against Rose, who's been in jail in lieu of $130,000 bail since he was arrested on Jan. 22, was a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer with force likely to produce great bodily injury. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But jurors today only convicted him of the lesser included offense of simple misdemeanor assault. Jurors also deadlocked on the misdemeanor resisting arrest charge for the Jan. 22 incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors announced their guilty verdict on the deterring an officer felony count on Tuesday. They deliberated for a total of four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his closing argument in Rose's trial last week, prosecutor Tim Wagstaffe said Rose struck Oakland police Officer Patrick Gerrans with a metal chair on Dec. 30 while Gerrans was \"defenseless\" because his head was turned in the opposite direction as he was helping other officers detain another protester, Carly Bate, who had refused an order to remove her property from the plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said Gerrans \"is lucky he was wearing a protective vest\" but still felt a sharp pain in his back and neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rose's lawyer, Alameda County Associate Public Defender Kathleen Guneratne, told jurors that Rose should be found not guilty of all the charges against him because the prosecution failed to prove its case against him beyond a reasonable doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guneratne said Gerrans was not acting lawfully during the Dec. 30 protest because he should have known that his fellow officers didn't have probable cause to arrest Bate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said, \"Police have to follow the rules\" and alleged that Oakland officers had no authority to arrest Bate because she and other Occupy Oakland protesters had a permit to be at Frank Ogawa Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said today that he is \"pleased\" that Rose was convicted of deterring an officer because it means that the jury believes police were acting lawfully during the protest on Dec. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, \"The jury did the right thing because I think Mr. Rose is a rogue individual who was acting outside the goals of the occupy movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guneratne said she is \"grateful\" that jurors didn't convict Rose of a felony count of assault on a peace officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said Rose could face up to three years in prison when Alameda County Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon sentences him on May 24 but he also could be placed on probation.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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You vowed in 2008, when you were running for election, that you would not “use Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws about medical marijuana.” Yet we just ran a \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-20120216\">story that shows your administration is launching more raids on medical pot than the Bush administration did\u003c/a>. What’s up with that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what’s up: What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it’s against federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t nullify congressional law. I can’t ask the Justice Department to say, “Ignore completely a federal law that’s on the books.” What I can say is, “Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage.” As a consequence, there haven’t been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only tension that’s come up – and this gets hyped up a lot – is a murky area where you have large-scale, commercial operations that may supply medical marijuana users, but in some cases may also be supplying recreational users. In that situation, we put the Justice Department in a very difficult place if we’re telling them, “This is supposed to be against the law, but we want you to turn the other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not something we’re going to do. I do think it’s important and useful to have a broader debate about our drug laws. One of the things we’ve done over the past three years was to make a sensible change when it came to the disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. We’ve had a discussion about how to focus on treatment, taking a public-health approach to drugs and lessening the overwhelming emphasis on criminal laws as a tool to deal with this issue. I think that’s an appropriate debate that we should have.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If that reasoning sounds familiar to followers of this issue, it may be because it’s similar to that expressed in comments made by Melinda Haag, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">announced with her colleagues last October\u003c/a> that they would be targeting medical marijuana dispensaries and growers, plus their landlords. The prosecutors have been true to their words; that’s exactly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/medical-marijuana/\">what’s happened\u003c/a> and is \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/novato/ci_20481413/feds-target-novato-pot-dispensaries-one-closes\">continuing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, KQED’s Michael Montgomery sat down with Haag, who for the first time \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/interview-w-us-attorney-haag-on-pot-operations-if-its-close-to-children-thats-a-line-were-going-to-draw/\">explained her rationale for the amped up enforcement\u003c/a>. 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KQED’s Mina Kim reports last night's initial hearing was all about process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission Chair Benedict Hur said it would likely take until late May for the five-member commission to decidee whether to include live witness testimony in the proceedings,\" Kim says. In the meantime, Hur directed the city to submit its legal brief first, followed by one from Mirkarimi's lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=142&clip_id=14920\">\u003cstrong>Watch video replay of Ethics Commission hearing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After listening to nearly two hours of procedural discussion, the public got its turn to speak. About 30 supporters of Mirkarimi lined up to voice their opposition to the suspension. Among the first to speak was self-described activist Ernestine Waters Weiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A man's life hangs in the balance and you should take it seriously,\" she said. \"And dismiss this completely because it's out of bounds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Fernandez introduced himself as a former San Francisco police officer and called the proceedings a political witchhunt. \"It's a waste of time, it's a waste of taxpayers' money, and it's ruining this man's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone who spoke was on Mirkarimi's side. Beverly Upton, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Consortium, said the commission's decision on Mirkarimi will have a far-reaching impact. \"The world is watching. My concern is that victims are watching, victims who cannot come out of their homes and talk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will make a recommendation, but only a super-majority on the Board of Supervisors has the power to remove Mirkarimi from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Monday's post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nToday at 4:30 p.m. -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2009/05/commission-members.html\">San Francisco Ethics Commission\u003c/a> hearing of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">\u003cstrong>Watch the hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/23/ross-mirkarimi-ethics-hearing-live-430-p-m/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>KQED Twitter coverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That's the one where they discuss misconduct charges brought against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirakimi by Mayor Ed Lee. Lee pulled the trigger on the filing after Mirkarimi pled guilty to a misdemeanor False Imprisonment charge stemming from the now-famous domestic dispute with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mayor is seeking to have Mirkarimi -- sworn in as sheriff in January, suspended in March -- permanently removed from his position for official misconduct under Section 15.105 of the city charter. That states...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Official misconduct means any wrongful behavior by a public officer in relation to the duties of his or her office, willful in its character, including any failure, refusal or neglect of an officer to perform any duty enjoined on him or her by law, or conduct that falls below the standard of decency, good faith and right action impliedly required of all public officers and including any violation of a specific conflict of interest or governmental ethics law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When any City law provides that a violation of the law constitutes or is deemed official misconduct, the conduct is covered by this definition and may subject the person to discipline and/or removal from office.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nToday's hearing opener is probably not going to provide a surfeit of human drama. From the Ethics Board's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2012/04/agenda-april-23-2012.html\">agenda\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Ethics Commission will confer on procedural issues regarding charges pending against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commission will hold a hearing on this date to establish the process, parameters and protocol for the hearing required under the Charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commissioners will provide an opportunity for the attorney(s) of the Mayor and the attorney(s) of Sheriff Mirkarimi to identify their concerns regarding procedure and scheduling. There will be opportunity for public comment on this item. (Discussion and possible action.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After that, things may or may not heat up. From the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/MNM21O6T5D.DTL&tsp=1\"> Chronicle's look-ahead\u003c/a> today...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rather than a courtroom-style trial before the five commission members - which could involve witnesses, exhibits, cross-examination and surprise testimony - the tentative plan for the hearing calls for a series of written legal briefs from the city and Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing would be a slow-motion affair, with the city's opening brief, along with its evidence in the case, due a week after Monday's hearing. Mirkarimi's response, with his own evidence, would come two weeks later and the city's reply a week after that. One suggested option would cut the timeline by a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all the briefs had been filed and read, the commission would hear oral arguments from the attorneys, discussing whether live witnesses would need to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Live testimony may not be necessary,\" [Commission Executive Director John] St. Croix's letter said, but if it is, potential witnesses \"should indicate all weekdays on which they have an unavoidable conflict within the next 90 days.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/MNM21O6T5D.DTL&tsp=1\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After its proceedings are done, the Ethics Board is required to forward the case to the Board of Supervisors with a recommendation. At that point, the supes will take up the case, with nine of 11 board members in favor of removal required for Mirkarimi to lose his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how likely is that? Last month, both University of San Francisco political science professor Corey Cook and Golden Gate University Law School Professor Peter Keane told us that obtaining such a super-majority could be a tall order. But both also agreed that the supes will be in a difficult position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mirkarimi has a lot of political and personal allies on the board,\" Cook told KQED's Cy Musiker. \"This will pose a challenge to other progressives...They'll be under a lot of pressure from constituents who are both angered by the charges and others who want to keep him around... This is a no-win politically. The allegations are very strong and disturbing to anyone who lives in the city. It's hard for progressives on the board to try to defend that behavior. Do they try to make the argument that these don’t rise to the standard of official misconduct? And how much political capital are they willing to expend?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane agreed the circumstances surrounding the case will not help Mirkarimi. \"San Francisco is a place that has tremendous consciousness and sympathy toward victims of domestic abuse, as opposed to maybe some other areas of the country where it's seen as a family or private matter,\" he said on KQED Public Radio's \"Forum\" show. \"The empathy for domestic violence victims has been part of the furor that has resulted in Mirkarimi's being brought to where he is now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since those interviews, Mirkarimi has gone public in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">emotional account of what he says transpired during the incident with his wife\u003c/a>. 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My concern is that victims are watching, victims who cannot come out of their homes and talk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will make a recommendation, but only a super-majority on the Board of Supervisors has the power to remove Mirkarimi from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Monday's post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nToday at 4:30 p.m. -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2009/05/commission-members.html\">San Francisco Ethics Commission\u003c/a> hearing of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">\u003cstrong>Watch the hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/23/ross-mirkarimi-ethics-hearing-live-430-p-m/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>KQED Twitter coverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That's the one where they discuss misconduct charges brought against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirakimi by Mayor Ed Lee. 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