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Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Berkeley and author of the bill, said her intent is to make sure California residents who are traveling in other states or living there temporarily — like college students — can still have access to medication that’s legal in their home state. But she acknowledged the bill would also apply to California doctors who treat patients who live in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is essential health care,” Skinner said. “Our health care practitioners should be protected for treating their patients regardless of where their patients are geographically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Maryland and Vermont have proposed or passed similar laws, according to Skinner’s office. Connecticut’s law, among other things, blocks criminal summonses from other states related to reproductive health care services that are legal in Connecticut while also blocking extradition — unless the person fled from a state requesting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, if a provider is engaging in telehealth services with someone, even if they do inquire about where they are, they kind of have to take it on faith,” said Connecticut state Rep. Matt Blumenthal, a Democrat and co-chair of that state’s General Assembly’s Reproductive Rights Caucus. “We don’t want to make providers their police for their patients. And we don’t want to make them have to do an investigation every time they perform telehealth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other states have tried to block the distribution of the abortion pill, known as mifepristone. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-missouri-state-government-west-virginia-united-states-us-food-and-drug-administration-a1b1a387788bb5aaa39c9ce4128d77ab\">Attorneys general in 20 states\u003c/a>, mostly with Republican governors, have warned some of the nation’s largest pharmacy companies they could face legal consequences if they distribute the pill within their states.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley)\"]‘Our health care practitioners should be protected for treating their patients regardless of where their patients are geographically.’[/pullquote]Most abortions are outlawed in Idaho, including medication abortions. Blaine Conzatti, president of the Idaho Family Policy Center — a group that opposes abortion rights — said California has a responsibility to extradite physicians who break Idaho laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The arrogance of such a proposal is astounding,” Conzatti said of Skinner’s bill. “It flaunts the traditional relationship between states and would upend our federal system altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner’s bill goes beyond abortions. It would also protect doctors for mailing contraceptives and transgender health care-related medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-california-recall-texas-business-laws-6e99a292c386f6b7b0062057601b6f52\">laws that prevents courts from enforcing out-of-state judgments on abortion providers and volunteers\u003c/a>. That law was aimed at protecting doctors who provide abortions to people who travel to California from other states. Abortion opponents say laws like that are illegal because they violate a clause in the U.S. Constitution that says states must give “full faith and credit” to the laws of other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943921\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1182735949-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A middle aged white woman with straight grayish brown neck-length hair and a black top photographed while speaking and with hands gesturing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Nancy Skinner speaks at a summit held at The Resort at Pelican Hill on Oct. 22, 2019, in Newport Beach. \u003ccite>(Meg Oliphant/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal courts have recognized an exception to that clause, including laws in one state that violate the “public policy” of another state. Skinner’s law declares it is the public policy of California that doctors should not be charged for providing abortion medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very careful,” Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts, like Mary Ziegler from the UC Davis School of Law, say these battles will not be resolved easily because they fall in a legal gray area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in pretty uncharted territory when it comes to states threatening to try to regulate what other states are doing or what’s legal in one state and not in another,” said Ziegler, who explains that, even if this bill passes, some providers may choose not to prescribe across state lines because of pressure from anti-abortion-rights groups. She says while conservative states have so far declined to punish patients for seeking abortion care, they may alter course if these interstate battles intensify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re not likely to see a lot of prosecutions of women in the near term, although I think the possibility of that happening more and more is increasing over time,” Ziegler said, adding that some states have what she calls “ambiguous laws” that she thinks “could be exploited by energetic prosecutors to go after women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abortion pills have been legal in the U.S. for more than two decades and can be used up to the 10th week of pregnancy. It’s now the most common abortion method in the U.S. A federal judge in Texas is weighing whether to revoke or suspend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug, a decision that would apply to all states and not just the ones who have outlawed abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not clear exactly what that would mean for California, because the suit raises a lot of really complicated questions about how much authority a judge has to tell the FDA to pull a drug from the market,” said Ziegler. “It’s not clear how much the judge could do beyond mandating that that process begin. 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Private property was seized by eminent domain. Hundreds of neighborhoods across the country were demolished. More than 1 million people were displaced, according to U.S. Department of Transportation estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six decades ago, the open road was a symbol of American ingenuity. Now, America’s aging highway system serves as a monument to environmental racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interstates were built around Black and brown neighborhoods, cementing racial divides and isolating people of color. Some interstates bisected neighborhoods. The expressways connected predominantly white commuters, who sought homogeneity in the suburbs, to offices in the cities they had fled. The massive migration is colloquially known as “white flight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, gas-guzzling cars and trucks clogging freeways pollute the air in neighborhoods, leading to asthma and other respiratory issues — and a shorter life expectancy. But cities are considering a remedy: highway removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My colleagues at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/education/collection/above-the-noise\">Above the Noise\u003c/a>, KQED’s YouTube series that investigates controversial subjects, broke down the history of this country’s obsession with highways — and how cities are attempting to repair decades of environmental racism — in a recent video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ow5NMC5Cqck\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of freeways, they didn’t really care about the people that they were affecting on the ground in these communities, largely for racist reasons, to put it bluntly,” Chris Sensenig, an urban designer and founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.connectoakland.org/\">ConnectOakland\u003c/a>, told Myles Bess, host of Above the Noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ConnectOakland has been working to reimagine Interstate 980, the 2-mile stretch that connects Interstate 580 and State Route 24 to Interstate 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interstate 980 disconnected West Oakland’s Black residents from downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/\">President Joe Biden released The American Jobs Plan\u003c/a>, which included $20 billion to “redress historic inequities and build the future of transportation infrastructure.” As Bess says in the video, it’s “a PC way of saying ‘reparations.’” The plan, which uses the expressway that runs through the heart of Tremé in New Orleans as an example of a historic inequity, passed in November, narrowly avoiding legislative gridlock caused by the tunnel vision of a Republican-controlled Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the state reparations task force published an exhaustive interim report. 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Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, and Lisa Holder speak during the second day of an in-person meeting of the California Reparations Task Force at the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on April 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to analyze the data and quantify it and come up with a comprehensive way to pay people back for what they lost because of these highway building projects,” Holder continued. “All the equity that they lost in the property that they built and also the cultural genocide — we need to come up with a qualitative response and to quantify that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were supposed to be two highway projects in New Orleans, but local officials were able to stop the one that would’ve rolled through the French Quarter. The people who protested the project in Tremé were ignored like backseat drivers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Claiborne Avenue in Tremé was once the economic and cultural center of Black New Orleans, a bustling road lined by oak trees, theaters, bars, restaurants, other businesses and homes. Back when the city’s annual parade and carnival before the Christian fasting of Lent was segregated, Black Mardi Gras was celebrated on the Claiborne Avenue corridor. The revelry crashed to a halt in the mid-1960s when the oak trees were felled to make room for an elevated portion of Interstate 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right \u003cem>through\u003c/em> Tremé,” New Orleans resident Lloyd Kelly told me. “The interstate goes right through the thriving business district of the Black community, the heart of the Black community. They put the I-10 right through it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Kelly, who is Black, at the California Reparations Task Force meeting earlier this month in Sacramento. The task force is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">examining the historic harms of enslavement and anti-Black racism in the state\u003c/a>. In July, the task force will present its recommendations for dismantling the roadblocks to progress. Kelly was there to talk about reparations eligibility, an issue that has vexed the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I continue, here’s a brief lesson in American history: In 1956, the Federal-Aid Highway Act paved the way for the nation’s interstate system. But ribbon-cutting politicians weren’t interested in making drivers take the scenic route. 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Private property was seized by eminent domain. Hundreds of neighborhoods across the country were demolished. More than 1 million people were displaced, according to U.S. Department of Transportation estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six decades ago, the open road was a symbol of American ingenuity. Now, America’s aging highway system serves as a monument to environmental racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interstates were built around Black and brown neighborhoods, cementing racial divides and isolating people of color. Some interstates bisected neighborhoods. The expressways connected predominantly white commuters, who sought homogeneity in the suburbs, to offices in the cities they had fled. The massive migration is colloquially known as “white flight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, gas-guzzling cars and trucks clogging freeways pollute the air in neighborhoods, leading to asthma and other respiratory issues — and a shorter life expectancy. But cities are considering a remedy: highway removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My colleagues at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/education/collection/above-the-noise\">Above the Noise\u003c/a>, KQED’s YouTube series that investigates controversial subjects, broke down the history of this country’s obsession with highways — and how cities are attempting to repair decades of environmental racism — in a recent video.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ow5NMC5Cqck'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ow5NMC5Cqck'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of freeways, they didn’t really care about the people that they were affecting on the ground in these communities, largely for racist reasons, to put it bluntly,” Chris Sensenig, an urban designer and founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.connectoakland.org/\">ConnectOakland\u003c/a>, told Myles Bess, host of Above the Noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ConnectOakland has been working to reimagine Interstate 980, the 2-mile stretch that connects Interstate 580 and State Route 24 to Interstate 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interstate 980 disconnected West Oakland’s Black residents from downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/\">President Joe Biden released The American Jobs Plan\u003c/a>, which included $20 billion to “redress historic inequities and build the future of transportation infrastructure.” As Bess says in the video, it’s “a PC way of saying ‘reparations.’” The plan, which uses the expressway that runs through the heart of Tremé in New Orleans as an example of a historic inequity, passed in November, narrowly avoiding legislative gridlock caused by the tunnel vision of a Republican-controlled Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the state reparations task force published an exhaustive interim report. 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"content": "\u003cp>Demonstrators outside California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s San Francisco office on Monday called on him to take up a historic prosecution of a city police officer charged with shooting and killing a carjacking suspect, Keita O’Neil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of O’Neil, who were at the rally, said they were meeting with Bonta this afternoon as part of their push to sustain the first-ever prosecution of a San Francisco police officer, the man who killed O’Neil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman speaks into a microphone with people standing around her and a court building behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Green, aunt of Keita O’Neil, speaks outside the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023, during a rally calling on state Attorney General Rob Bonta to prosecute the former SFPD officer who killed Keita O’Neil. Judy O’Neil, mother of Keita O’Neil and sister of Green, sits beside her. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neil’s aunt, April Green, spoke on the steps of the state Supreme Court in San Francisco earlier today, saying, “At this point, Rob Bonta is our only hope. I’m hoping when he leaves that he will see the case from our perspective, but also to give the case time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charges against Christopher Samayoa, a former San Francisco police officer charged with shooting and killing O’Neil, will be officially dismissed on Tuesday, unless Bonta agrees to take up the case.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942689\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='People gathered outside a court building holding banners, with a large banner in foreground that reads \"Evict Brooke Jenkins\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family, friends and activists gather on the steps of 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>The case was most recently in the hands of San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Last month, Jenkins moved to dismiss charges against Samayoa brought by her predecessor, Chesa Boudin, about three years after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, a judge ordered a one-week delay on the dismissal decision after a heartfelt plea from Green. The reprieve was intended to give Bonta additional time to review and decide on the case.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11942239,news_11940624\"]Video footage shows Samayoa, who was in his fourth day of a field training program, shooting O’Neil during a police chase in December 2017, after O’Neil allegedly stole a California Lottery van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa is shown firing his weapon through a patrol car window and hitting O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man, as he tries to escape on foot. Samayoa was subsequently fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin, 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>Jenkins, however, has chosen to dismiss the case, arguing in a Feb. 8 letter to Bonta that Boudin wrongly pursued manslaughter charges against Samayoa for “political reasons and not in the interest of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942688 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='An older Black woman, wearing a blue and purple cloth mask pulled to her chin, and wearing a long black trench coat and a bright blue blouse, speaks into a microphone, holding a sign that says \"Sean Moore.\" The wooden doors of the building and gold text on a transom window above them are blurred in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\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 the family of Keita O’Neil as well as her own 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>Jenkins also said her office had “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>In a letter sent on Feb. 28, Bonta’s office disagreed that there was a conflict preventing Jenkins from taking up the case in her jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecuting Samayoa would be a historic move for Bonta, who made promises to ramp up police accountability when stepping into office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to rebuild trust between law enforcement and communities. 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The young people coming back from the Division of Juvenile Justice are serving sentences for violent crimes — murders, rapes, assaults — and can be far older than other young people in county systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probation agencies oversee county juvenile justice systems around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassen County Probation Chief Jennifer Branning is president of the Chief Probation Officers of California, which advocates on the organization’s behalf in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Branning sees a lot of opportunity ahead, she said, but it’s going to take work — and look different in every one of the state’s 58 counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been doing this,” she said of local probation departments serving young offenders. “We know how to do this. We know how to provide services. We know what services these kids need. We’re really good at it. We just need the support to continue doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planned June 30 closure of the Division of Juvenile Justice will cap a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851491/california-reimagines-juvenile-justice-with-end-of-state-lockups-on-the-horizon\">years-long reform effort \u003c/a>centered on\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924009/as-california-remakes-its-juvenile-justice-system-counties-take-the-lead-on-rehabilitation\"> the idea that young offenders will do better closer to home and in less institutional settings\u003c/a>. California’s reforms have coincided with a dramatic drop in youth crime nationwide that’s left many juvenile halls nearly empty.[aside postID=news_11924009 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Richart-1020x749.jpg']But Branning and other chiefs say the more than $200 million budgeted this year to help smooth the transition isn’t enough. Their concerns include the practical: For example, how do you run an entire program for a sex offender if the county has only one kid with those needs at a time? Are there enough staff, especially in rural counties, to meet the behavioral health and other treatment needs of these young people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their concerns are also logistical, Branning says — like the question of where to house and treat young people coming back from DJJ, who may need more intensive support and can be as old as 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am most concerned about the youth that are coming back from DJJ mixing with a more vulnerable population and how that’s going to really have damaging effects,” she said. “I don’t think it’s going to matter if you’re a small county or a large county. When you bring these youth back without the appropriate services and without the appropriate level of mental health services, it’s going to destabilize things and it could create more crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23696938/djj-transfer-letter-to-governor-1-13-23.pdf\">a series of letters to Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders (PDF)\u003c/a> over the past year, Branning and other chiefs have argued that they need the state to step up and help facilitate the creation of regional treatment programs for girls, or sex offenders, or youth with severe mental illness. They also want more money so they can recruit and hire more staff; and they want other state resources, like short-term beds at the Department of State Hospitals, to be made available for young adults in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees that the counties need more. Dan Macallair is executive director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727255/state-juvenile-justice-facilities-are-failing-kids-report-finds\">a nonprofit group that has long advocated for DJJ’s closure\u003c/a>. Macallair believes counties have plenty of room and resources to make the transition work.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Esa Ehmen-Krause, probation chief, Contra Costa County\"]‘What I don’t feel has been adequately considered is the higher need level of these young people, whether or not counties have existing resources or the ability to even grow the capacity for those resources locally.’[/pullquote]“We’ve got 12,000 juvenile hall beds and only about 3,600 kids in them,” he said. “They have the institutional space. Now, do they have the will is the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macallair argues that probation departments need to get more creative and “break out of the confines of that bureaucratic box that many of them have been operating in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve had plenty of time to plan for this and most of these departments should be ready to implement this,” he said. “They have the money to staff up. But it’s not just staffing up the juvenile halls. It’s also building up the community-based services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who has led the effort to shutter DJJ, has been directing more money to counties over the past several years to help them prepare for this change. How much money each county received was based in part on how many youths they historically sent to state lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Probation Chief Esa Ehmen-Krause said she initially thought her county would be getting plenty of money to cover its costs. But over the past two years, since the state stopped taking new youths into DJJ, she’s found that keeping those more serious offenders in Contra Costa juvenile hall is costing three times what the state is providing Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just looking at bed space, one could argue that we are in a good position to receive them back,” she said. “What I don’t feel has been adequately considered is the higher need level of these young people, whether or not counties have existing resources or the ability to even grow the capacity for those resources locally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehmen-Krause said that the increased cost to house these young people doesn’t even include all the money the county is also spending on new educational and vocational programs, social workers, financial literacy classes and other support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really robust programming to meet these kids’ needs, to really put them on the right path for success” she said. “But just our housing alone, the staff supervision and the housing alone, has already, like, tripled what our local allocation was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment about Ehmen-Krause’s concerns. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of an ongoing project of \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/\">inewssource\u003c/a> in San Diego, KQED and other NPR member stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]olice suspect that former Chula Vista resident Robert Wilson could be responsible for an incident that shocked the public on several continents in February, when an antisemitic message was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1156279273/anne-frank-house-amsterdam-holocaust-antisemitic-projection\">displayed on the Anne Frank House\u003c/a> in Amsterdam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is a public figure of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940804/tracing-the-bay-area-roots-of-a-neo-nazi-propaganda-group\">Goyim Defense League, an American neo-Nazi hate group that spreads antisemitic messages online\u003c/a>, with flyer distributions and through street demonstrations. GDL members participated in at least 450 antisemitic campaigns across 42 states last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, and are connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/goyim-defense-league\">11 arrests or criminal cases\u003c/a> nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 41-year-old Wilson, who is originally from Canada, was supposed to stand trial in San Diego County for allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sdcda.org/content/office/newsroom/tempDownloads/255a9815-e2fe-4007-94b3-8a4cdc65d9e0_Hate%20Crime%20Charges%20Robert%20Wilson%2012-27-2021.pdf\">assaulting his next-door neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs in late 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. inewsource reported in February that Wilson \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/2023/02/14/antisemitic-extremist-evaded-hate-crime-prosecution/\">escaped prosecution and fled to Poland last year\u003c/a>, where he has continued to spread white supremacist messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jnewsgabe/status/1565506822617718784\">social media image went viral\u003c/a> showing Wilson standing outside the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland while holding a sign with an antisemitic statement.\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. The Signs read \"Shoah the ADL\" and \"Greenblatt suck 6 million dicks.\" A red circle is around the man on the left.' width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-1020x574.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo showing Robert Wilson (left) and Jon Minadeo II, formerly of Petaluma, holding signs displaying antisemitic statements outside the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland went viral on social media in August 2022.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Antisemitic rhetoric and hate incidents are on the rise across the U.S. and in other countries. In the Netherlands, laser displays featuring white supremacist messages started appearing on buildings a few months ago. One of the first incidents occurred during a nationally televised New Year’s Eve celebration, when the text “White Lives Matter” was \u003ca href=\"https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/01/racist-messages-projected-erasmus-bridge-rotterdam-new-years-fest\">projected on the Erasmus Bridge\u003c/a> in Rotterdam, along with antisemitic language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Bay Area connections' link1='https://www.kqed.org/news/11940804,Read related coverage from KQED tracing the Bay Area roots of a neo-Nazi propaganda group' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/NeoNaziExtremistsmain-1020x570.jpg']On Feb. 6, blue lasers were used to display a message on the house in Amsterdam where 13-year-old Anne Frank chronicled her experience during the Holocaust. The antisemitic text, appearing on the building in Dutch and English, stated that Frank was the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2023/2/10/antisemitic-projection-anne-frank-house/\">inventor of the ballpoint pen\u003c/a>.” The message referenced a false conspiracy theory that \u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/authenticity-diary-anne-frank/\">alleges Frank’s diary was a forgery\u003c/a>, claiming it was written with a ballpoint pen, which was not common in Europe until after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, a video of the incident appeared in a Telegram group that included members of the Goyim Defense League.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png\" alt='A screenshot from video showing a laser projection on a building wall that says \"Ballp.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-800x445.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1020x567.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1536x854.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-672x372.png 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1038x576.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from a video showing part of a laser projection of an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam on Feb. 6. The video garnered widespread condemnation and was referenced in high-profile news articles in several countries.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for citizen sleuths to start digging for possible perpetrators. A research group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which uses digital forensic techniques to track down right-wing extremists, unearthed what they believe to be an original video of the incident, which was posted by “Aryan Bacon” — the name Robert Wilson uses online. The video also includes footage from what appears to be a road trip to Amsterdam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founder of Capitol Terrorists Exposers said she used videos posted to Wilson’s social media channels to trace the path she believes he took from Poland through Germany to Amsterdam shortly before the incident. One video features a person believed to be Wilson looking at magazines inside a German gas station the day before the Anne Frank House message was displayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a person who is known who has a lot of footage, then it’s very easy,” said Mary, with Capitol Terrorists Exposers. “You’re gonna look at, what does he look like? What kind of clothes does he wear? You know, you try to profile somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>inewsource has agreed to use only Mary’s first name to protect her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and her group also used the road trip footage to identify the type of van the suspect was driving as a black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, most likely with a Polish license plate. The footage shows the van parked outside the Hard Rock Hotel in Amsterdam and reveals the reflection of the videographer in a car window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person filming was wearing a plaid sweater that resembled what Wilson had worn in another video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then I was like, OK, now it’s getting interesting,” Mary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg\" alt=\"A collage showing different photos of a white man, from headshots to full body pictures with arrows and green squares pointing to different pictures.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage shows how citizen sleuths compared a video from the antisemitic broadcast in Amsterdam with online footage of Robert Wilson, including a recording captured by CBS8 outside a San Diego County courthouse. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Mary sent her research and findings to the Amsterdam police linking Wilson to the events at the Anne Frank House, she received a message in response: “An amazing piece of work! Compliments,” a police officer wrote to her in Dutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also very busy with this investigation and had ended up with the same suspect, van and route. Without revealing too much about the research, I can tell you that it is progressing very well. Every bit of information we get helps us, of course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, police told the \u003cem>Volkskrant\u003c/em> newspaper in the Netherlands that they had reviewed the report by Capitol Terrorists Exposers and are happy with “citizens conducting their own investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, that did not lead to new information,” the spokesperson told the newspaper, adding that the police “indeed have the impression” the suspect is not residing in The Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he shows up within our borders, we will arrest him,” the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amsterdam police would not confirm the identity of the suspect in the case for inewsource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of four photos showing with green squares and red circles highlighting different parts of a vehicle.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage created by citizen sleuths shows how they identified the vehicle they believe was driven by a suspect. The material was shared with the Amsterdam police. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson did not respond to requests for comment. He has previously denied assaulting his neighbor in Chula Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warrant is still out for Wilson’s arrest in San Diego County. The district attorney’s office declined to comment on whether they are attempting to extradite him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary said she was very encouraged by the response she received from the Amsterdam police and was glad her research on Wilson was in the right hands. She also credited inewsource’s prior coverage on Wilson as a key part of her investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capitol Terrorists Exposers has helped perform research in high-profile cases in the U.S., Mary said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sedition-hunters-fbi-capitol-attack-manhunt-online-sleuths_n_60479dd7c5b653040034f749\">including tracing the identities of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mary learned about the incident at the Anne Frank House, the latest of several antisemitic incidents occurring in her home country, she felt compelled to get involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t a joke. This is serious what they’re doing,” she said. “I cannot sit still. I cannot let it go if I’m able to do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Feb. 6, blue lasers were used to display a message on the house in Amsterdam where 13-year-old Anne Frank chronicled her experience during the Holocaust. The antisemitic text, appearing on the building in Dutch and English, stated that Frank was the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2023/2/10/antisemitic-projection-anne-frank-house/\">inventor of the ballpoint pen\u003c/a>.” The message referenced a false conspiracy theory that \u003ca href=\"https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/authenticity-diary-anne-frank/\">alleges Frank’s diary was a forgery\u003c/a>, claiming it was written with a ballpoint pen, which was not common in Europe until after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, a video of the incident appeared in a Telegram group that included members of the Goyim Defense League.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png\" alt='A screenshot from video showing a laser projection on a building wall that says \"Ballp.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-800x445.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1020x567.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1536x854.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-672x372.png 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-02-27-at-8.18.41-PM-e1677882420340-1038x576.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from a video showing part of a laser projection of an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam on Feb. 6. The video garnered widespread condemnation and was referenced in high-profile news articles in several countries.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for citizen sleuths to start digging for possible perpetrators. A research group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which uses digital forensic techniques to track down right-wing extremists, unearthed what they believe to be an original video of the incident, which was posted by “Aryan Bacon” — the name Robert Wilson uses online. The video also includes footage from what appears to be a road trip to Amsterdam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founder of Capitol Terrorists Exposers said she used videos posted to Wilson’s social media channels to trace the path she believes he took from Poland through Germany to Amsterdam shortly before the incident. One video features a person believed to be Wilson looking at magazines inside a German gas station the day before the Anne Frank House message was displayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a person who is known who has a lot of footage, then it’s very easy,” said Mary, with Capitol Terrorists Exposers. “You’re gonna look at, what does he look like? What kind of clothes does he wear? You know, you try to profile somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>inewsource has agreed to use only Mary’s first name to protect her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The footage shows the van parked outside the Hard Rock Hotel in Amsterdam and reveals the reflection of the videographer in a car window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person filming was wearing a plaid sweater that resembled what Wilson had worn in another video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then I was like, OK, now it’s getting interesting,” Mary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg\" alt=\"A collage showing different photos of a white man, from headshots to full body pictures with arrows and green squares pointing to different pictures.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/17-1676711010153-1-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage shows how citizen sleuths compared a video from the antisemitic broadcast in Amsterdam with online footage of Robert Wilson, including a recording captured by CBS8 outside a San Diego County courthouse. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Mary sent her research and findings to the Amsterdam police linking Wilson to the events at the Anne Frank House, she received a message in response: “An amazing piece of work! Compliments,” a police officer wrote to her in Dutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also very busy with this investigation and had ended up with the same suspect, van and route. Without revealing too much about the research, I can tell you that it is progressing very well. Every bit of information we get helps us, of course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, police told the \u003cem>Volkskrant\u003c/em> newspaper in the Netherlands that they had reviewed the report by Capitol Terrorists Exposers and are happy with “citizens conducting their own investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, that did not lead to new information,” the spokesperson told the newspaper, adding that the police “indeed have the impression” the suspect is not residing in The Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he shows up within our borders, we will arrest him,” the officer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amsterdam police would not confirm the identity of the suspect in the case for inewsource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of four photos showing with green squares and red circles highlighting different parts of a vehicle.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/5-1676704858037-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage created by citizen sleuths shows how they identified the vehicle they believe was driven by a suspect. The material was shared with the Amsterdam police. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Capitol Terrorists Exposers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson did not respond to requests for comment. He has previously denied assaulting his neighbor in Chula Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warrant is still out for Wilson’s arrest in San Diego County. The district attorney’s office declined to comment on whether they are attempting to extradite him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary said she was very encouraged by the response she received from the Amsterdam police and was glad her research on Wilson was in the right hands. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121\">Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans\u003c/a> met in Sacramento for two days this weekend, bringing it one step closer to finalizing recommendations for the nation’s first-ever statewide plan for reparations for Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Annelise Finney, who was in Sacramento, shared what was talked about and what’s next for the task force in an interview with KQED’s Rachael Vasquez.[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Vasquez:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Can you remind us what the task force has been up to in the last year and a half?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney:\u003c/strong> This task force is now about three quarters of the way through its work. During the first year, its big focus was on documenting the history and impact of anti-Black racist policies in California. They produced a 500-page report, and it’s one of the most comprehensive government documents studying the impact of anti-Black policies. It’s pretty amazing, and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-reparations-interim-report-2022.pdf\">it’s available on the Department of Justice website (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in the second year, they’ve been digging into what reparations for these harms should really look like. And they’re supposed to produce recommendations in four months, by July 1 — a quickly approaching deadline.[aside postID=news_11941469 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/The-Road-to-Reparations_Thumbnail_1_v16-e1677009994307-1020x574.png']The first area of reparations that they’re looking at is compensation. That’s direct payments to people who are the descendants of people who were enslaved in the U.S. and who now live in California. They don’t have an exact number for how many people would be receiving this money or how much it would be, but they’re still working on it. One proposal they are considering is to create a new state agency that would be called the Freedmen Affairs Agency that would, among other things, handle doling out these payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other form of reparations that they’re primarily looking at are ways to stop harm moving forward, and the way they’re hoping to do that is by changing state policy. They have dozens of policy recommendations on the table right now. One is to repeal or amend Proposition 209 — a California law that prohibits policies that benefit or discriminate against a specific racial group. It was originally passed in 1996 and was reaffirmed by voters in 2020. Task force member Donald Tamaki laid out the simple contradiction that Prop. 209 presents when it comes to addressing racial inequality at the meeting on Saturday, saying, “Obviously this thing was created by hate and racism, and now you can’t consider race to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942552\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A older African American man in a black suit with a top hat holds a sign in a conference hall surrounded by people. The sign reads \"CA Reparations Now 2023.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morris Griffin, also known as Big Money Griff, a community activist, speaks during public comment at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This weekend the task force has been talking about how to get its recommendations turned into law. Tell us what that process would look like. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each recommendation that the task force makes would have to be taken up by individual lawmakers. Some of the recommendations might be pretty broad, so lawmakers will have to refine down the proposals and work out details the task force wasn’t able to get to. Bills will then have to be written, lobbied for and passed through the [state] Legislature in order for the reparations proposals to become a reality for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force member Rev. Amos Brown emphasized during the meeting yesterday that these recommendations still have a long way to go. He said, “We still have miles to go and promises to keep before we fall asleep, if anything’s gonna become a reality, and for meaningful, significant change in the lives of Black folk in the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942557 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A panel of people with screens behind them face a seated crowd of people in a conference hall. In the aisle, in the right of the frame, people line up to address the panel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Reparations Task Force members listen to public comments during a meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m guessing a fair amount of public support would be needed to pass these pieces of legislation. What is the task force doing to encourage public support for their recommendations?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big thing they’re doing is working on public education programs. That means taking all of the information that was in that report and making sure people in California actually know the history. One way they’re doing that is by trying to develop a curriculum that would get this information into schools. They’ve also talked about creating a grant program that would support documentaries and public art projects. But all of that hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942556 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A line of people, all African American, in a conference hall look toward the podium. The woman closest to the camera is older with long gray braids; the woman behind her is much younger, with long black braids, an orange beanie, and an orange sweatshirt. Three men stand behind her, from left to right: One man is middle-aged, wearing a black and red sweatshirt and dark sunglasses; the next is older and wearing a brown fedora with a black ribbon; and the third is tallest, with shoulder-length gray locs, dark sunglasses, and a bright red zip-up winter coat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up to speak during public comment at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big thing that’s been coming up in public comments during the meeting yesterday and today is the lack of a real public awareness about what the task force is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One public commenter this morning who identified himself as John Mud spoke to this feeling, saying, “I talk to people every day about reparations, and I bring up this task force, and no one knows about it.” Ultimately, whether these recommendations are passed will come down to whether Californians support them. A lot of people feel like there’s still a lot of work to be done to make sure people know that the task force exists, that they know about the work that it’s doing, and that they are also on board to support these proposals as they move through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942559 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged African American woman, wearing black-framed glasses and a shoulder-length black bob, a white blouse under a beige cardigan, and a gold and beaded necklace, gestures with both hands as she speaks into a small microphone at a dais. People wait in line behind her, to speak next.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pierrot-Dyer speaks about her family from Allensworth during public comment at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next for this task force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have a few more in-person meetings before the deadline in June. There’ll be one in March, another in May, and then a final meeting in June when the recommendations are finalized. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB490\">a bill\u003c/a> in the Legislature right now to extend the work of the task force for an additional year. That wouldn’t change any of the deadlines. The final recommendations would still be due in June, but it would give the task force members more time to work together in order to shepherd these proposals through the state Legislature, and potentially into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942566 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='Three older African American men stand having a conversation. The man on the far left, with a neat gray beard, wears a black baseball cap with colorful splotches of pink, yellow and green, watching the other two men speak. The man in the middle, mostly bald, wears a gray suit of a very light plaid, an ochre pocket handkerchief, and an ochre-and-navy-striped tie. He faces the last man, on the far right, who is speaking and seems to be resting his right hand on the back of the man in the suit. He is the tallest, bald and with a white goatee and glasses, and a black hoodie with an outline of California in white that says \"CA Reparations Now 2023,\" and a sticker name tag on his chest.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Vasquez:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Can you remind us what the task force has been up to in the last year and a half?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney:\u003c/strong> This task force is now about three quarters of the way through its work. During the first year, its big focus was on documenting the history and impact of anti-Black racist policies in California. They produced a 500-page report, and it’s one of the most comprehensive government documents studying the impact of anti-Black policies. It’s pretty amazing, and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-reparations-interim-report-2022.pdf\">it’s available on the Department of Justice website (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in the second year, they’ve been digging into what reparations for these harms should really look like. And they’re supposed to produce recommendations in four months, by July 1 — a quickly approaching deadline.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The first area of reparations that they’re looking at is compensation. That’s direct payments to people who are the descendants of people who were enslaved in the U.S. and who now live in California. They don’t have an exact number for how many people would be receiving this money or how much it would be, but they’re still working on it. One proposal they are considering is to create a new state agency that would be called the Freedmen Affairs Agency that would, among other things, handle doling out these payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other form of reparations that they’re primarily looking at are ways to stop harm moving forward, and the way they’re hoping to do that is by changing state policy. They have dozens of policy recommendations on the table right now. One is to repeal or amend Proposition 209 — a California law that prohibits policies that benefit or discriminate against a specific racial group. It was originally passed in 1996 and was reaffirmed by voters in 2020. Task force member Donald Tamaki laid out the simple contradiction that Prop. 209 presents when it comes to addressing racial inequality at the meeting on Saturday, saying, “Obviously this thing was created by hate and racism, and now you can’t consider race to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942552\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg\" alt='A older African American man in a black suit with a top hat holds a sign in a conference hall surrounded by people. The sign reads \"CA Reparations Now 2023.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/019_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morris Griffin, also known as Big Money Griff, a community activist, speaks during public comment at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This weekend the task force has been talking about how to get its recommendations turned into law. Tell us what that process would look like. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each recommendation that the task force makes would have to be taken up by individual lawmakers. Some of the recommendations might be pretty broad, so lawmakers will have to refine down the proposals and work out details the task force wasn’t able to get to. Bills will then have to be written, lobbied for and passed through the [state] Legislature in order for the reparations proposals to become a reality for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force member Rev. Amos Brown emphasized during the meeting yesterday that these recommendations still have a long way to go. He said, “We still have miles to go and promises to keep before we fall asleep, if anything’s gonna become a reality, and for meaningful, significant change in the lives of Black folk in the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942557 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A panel of people with screens behind them face a seated crowd of people in a conference hall. In the aisle, in the right of the frame, people line up to address the panel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63320_011_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Reparations Task Force members listen to public comments during a meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m guessing a fair amount of public support would be needed to pass these pieces of legislation. What is the task force doing to encourage public support for their recommendations?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big thing they’re doing is working on public education programs. That means taking all of the information that was in that report and making sure people in California actually know the history. One way they’re doing that is by trying to develop a curriculum that would get this information into schools. They’ve also talked about creating a grant program that would support documentaries and public art projects. But all of that hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942556 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A line of people, all African American, in a conference hall look toward the podium. The woman closest to the camera is older with long gray braids; the woman behind her is much younger, with long black braids, an orange beanie, and an orange sweatshirt. Three men stand behind her, from left to right: One man is middle-aged, wearing a black and red sweatshirt and dark sunglasses; the next is older and wearing a brown fedora with a black ribbon; and the third is tallest, with shoulder-length gray locs, dark sunglasses, and a bright red zip-up winter coat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/027_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up to speak during public comment at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big thing that’s been coming up in public comments during the meeting yesterday and today is the lack of a real public awareness about what the task force is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One public commenter this morning who identified himself as John Mud spoke to this feeling, saying, “I talk to people every day about reparations, and I bring up this task force, and no one knows about it.” Ultimately, whether these recommendations are passed will come down to whether Californians support them. A lot of people feel like there’s still a lot of work to be done to make sure people know that the task force exists, that they know about the work that it’s doing, and that they are also on board to support these proposals as they move through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942559 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged African American woman, wearing black-framed glasses and a shoulder-length black bob, a white blouse under a beige cardigan, and a gold and beaded necklace, gestures with both hands as she speaks into a small microphone at a dais. People wait in line behind her, to speak next.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63328_018_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pierrot-Dyer speaks about her family from Allensworth during public comment at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next for this task force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have a few more in-person meetings before the deadline in June. There’ll be one in March, another in May, and then a final meeting in June when the recommendations are finalized. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB490\">a bill\u003c/a> in the Legislature right now to extend the work of the task force for an additional year. That wouldn’t change any of the deadlines. The final recommendations would still be due in June, but it would give the task force members more time to work together in order to shepherd these proposals through the state Legislature, and potentially into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942566 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='Three older African American men stand having a conversation. The man on the far left, with a neat gray beard, wears a black baseball cap with colorful splotches of pink, yellow and green, watching the other two men speak. The man in the middle, mostly bald, wears a gray suit of a very light plaid, an ochre pocket handkerchief, and an ochre-and-navy-striped tie. He faces the last man, on the far right, who is speaking and seems to be resting his right hand on the back of the man in the suit. He is the tallest, bald and with a white goatee and glasses, and a black hoodie with an outline of California in white that says \"CA Reparations Now 2023,\" and a sticker name tag on his chest.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63355_048_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8 p.m. Wednesday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men who plotted to bomb the headquarters of the California Democratic Party, spurred by former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, were sentenced to federal prison Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Benjamin Rogers, of Napa, was sentenced to nine years and three years of supervision after he is released. Jarrod Copeland, of Vallejo, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years. He also has three years of supervision after he is released. Both men were forbidden to contact each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland worked together at Rogers’ auto repair shop in downtown Napa. After Joe Biden was elected president in 2020, Rogers and Copeland discussed attacking Democrats in a series of text messages. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">They targeted the party headquarters in Sacramento\u003c/a>, just blocks from the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court records, the following exchange occurred after Rogers sent Copeland a link to the building’s location:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: sent link to the address of the California Democratic Party office…\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: Right next to CHP\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: gotta be cautious\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Only takes 3 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Take a brick break a window pour gas in and light\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The pair settled on Jan. 20, 2021, the date of Biden’s inauguration, but they didn’t get to launch their plan: The Napa County Sheriff’s Office raided Rogers’ business and home on Jan. 15, 2021. Officers found a cache of more than 50 weapons, including pipe bombs and illegally modified firearms. Rogers, 47, was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913965 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg']Prior to his arrest, Rogers owned the now-defunct British Auto Repair and often exercised at a local gym with the 39-year-old Copeland, who was taken into custody in July 2021. Both men were charged with conspiracy to destroy by fire or explosive a building used in interstate commerce. Copeland faced an additional charge of destruction of records in official proceedings for deleting Rogers’ text messages from his phone, according to court records. Both still face state charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland, who have been incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, appeared in person in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Family and friends were there to support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing decision by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer reflects a heightened vigilance around domestic extremism amid repeated warnings of violence from the Department of Homeland Security. In November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-november-30-2022\">Homeland Security issued a bulletin about the “persistent and lethal threat” in the United States\u003c/a>, citing, among other incidents, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939421/sf-court-releases-911-call-and-sfpd-body-cam-recordings-of-paul-pelosi-attack\">vicious attack on Paul Pelosi\u003c/a>, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several recent attacks, plots, and threats of violence demonstrate the continued dynamic and complex nature of the threat environment in the United States,” the bulletin read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland’s case is part of a surge in domestic extremism activity the FBI is investigating in Northern California and throughout the nation. Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title18/html/USCODE-2009-title18-partI-chap113B-sec2331.htm\">defines domestic terrorism\u003c/a> as “acts dangerous to human life” that violate state or federal criminal law, and appear to be an attempt to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the spring of 2020, the number of FBI investigations of suspected domestic extremists has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. And just over a year after hundreds of people were arrested after storming the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of the presidential election, the DOJ announced it was creating a special unit to address “the threat posed by domestic extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers pleaded guilty in May 2022 to conspiring to use explosives or fire to destroy the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters, and for possessing an explosive device and a machine gun. In September, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926952/sentencing-delayed-for-napa-man-who-plotted-to-destroy-democratic-headquarters\">Breyer refused to approve the plea agreement for Rogers\u003c/a>, citing an apparent lack of remorse. The judge asked federal prosecutors to justify why they thought a sentence of seven to nine years in prison would be appropriate, “especially in light of the defendant’s statements, which to the court suggests that he continues to be a substantial danger to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11940804 label='Related Coverage']Breyer also ordered a psychiatric evaluation to assess the level of threat Rogers poses to the public. The report is confidential, but Rogers’ attorney Colin Cooper said the evaluator concluded his client was at low risk for reoffending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Rogers submitted a handwritten letter to Breyer. “I was wrong to think about causing damage to any building or anyone. And, I think about that every day,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers also said he struggled with substance abuse and was duped by the former president’s lies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, I believed the election was stolen,” he wrote. “At the time, I believed things said by the Trump administration. At the time, I was in a dark place in my life and I was abusing alcohol and acting out, in part, because of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rogers blamed alcohol abuse for warping his judgment, and said he would regret possessing machine guns and pipe bombs for the rest of his life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am sorry for all these things I said, but I can assure you I never seriously meant them in any way,” he told the court. “They were just dumb, stupid, drunken thoughts, and I regret saying them all.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rogers also apologized to family members in the courtroom, including his wife and two sons. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I let you down,” he said as his voice cracked. “I hope you can forgive me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breyer told Rogers he had to believe that alcoholism was the reason someone with no previous criminal record would threaten to harm political opponents. Breyer added that he understood that Rogers had serious disagreements with the way the government is operated.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And you’re not wrong to have those views,” he said. “You are entitled to have those views. You are entitled to it, because you are an American living in this society.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What you’re not entitled to is to violate the law and to threaten the existence of the government and its institutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, read a victim impact statement. He said employees and volunteers suffered emotional and mental harm.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dedicated folks who work at the party headquarters expressed concern about their own safety, fearing that individuals associated with the defendants or those who shared the defendants’ political views and happened to see the news would follow through with the defendants’ plans,” Hicks said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copeland apologized to the party in his statement, and said he regretted causing fear. He stopped reading several times to fight back tears. “I’m truly ashamed of myself,” he said. “I ask for your forgiveness.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the plea deal, federal prosecutors agreed that Rogers may serve his federal sentence concurrently with a potential state sentence. The Napa County district attorney has charged Rogers with 28 felony counts, including conspiracy and possession of illegal weapons. If the case goes to trial, Rogers faces a statutory maximum of 45 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That state case is expected to move forward now that Rogers has been sentenced in federal court. A hearing at the Napa County Superior Court is scheduled for Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Hall contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breyer also ordered a psychiatric evaluation to assess the level of threat Rogers poses to the public. The report is confidential, but Rogers’ attorney Colin Cooper said the evaluator concluded his client was at low risk for reoffending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Rogers submitted a handwritten letter to Breyer. “I was wrong to think about causing damage to any building or anyone. And, I think about that every day,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers also said he struggled with substance abuse and was duped by the former president’s lies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, I believed the election was stolen,” he wrote. “At the time, I believed things said by the Trump administration. At the time, I was in a dark place in my life and I was abusing alcohol and acting out, in part, because of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rogers blamed alcohol abuse for warping his judgment, and said he would regret possessing machine guns and pipe bombs for the rest of his life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am sorry for all these things I said, but I can assure you I never seriously meant them in any way,” he told the court. “They were just dumb, stupid, drunken thoughts, and I regret saying them all.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rogers also apologized to family members in the courtroom, including his wife and two sons. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I let you down,” he said as his voice cracked. “I hope you can forgive me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breyer told Rogers he had to believe that alcoholism was the reason someone with no previous criminal record would threaten to harm political opponents. Breyer added that he understood that Rogers had serious disagreements with the way the government is operated.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And you’re not wrong to have those views,” he said. “You are entitled to have those views. You are entitled to it, because you are an American living in this society.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What you’re not entitled to is to violate the law and to threaten the existence of the government and its institutions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, read a victim impact statement. He said employees and volunteers suffered emotional and mental harm.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dedicated folks who work at the party headquarters expressed concern about their own safety, fearing that individuals associated with the defendants or those who shared the defendants’ political views and happened to see the news would follow through with the defendants’ plans,” Hicks said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copeland apologized to the party in his statement, and said he regretted causing fear. He stopped reading several times to fight back tears. “I’m truly ashamed of myself,” he said. “I ask for your forgiveness.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the plea deal, federal prosecutors agreed that Rogers may serve his federal sentence concurrently with a potential state sentence. The Napa County district attorney has charged Rogers with 28 felony counts, including conspiracy and possession of illegal weapons. If the case goes to trial, Rogers faces a statutory maximum of 45 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That state case is expected to move forward now that Rogers has been sentenced in federal court. A hearing at the Napa County Superior Court is scheduled for Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Hall contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940316/fear-of-deportation-keeps-some-workers-from-reporting-labor-abuses-a-new-biden-program-aims-to-change-that\">Leer en inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ir a:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"#funciona\">\u003cstrong>Cómo funciona la solicitud de acción diferida\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A medida que progresan las investigaciones sobre posibles violaciones laborales en las dos granjas de hongos de Half Moon Bay donde se produjo un tiroteo masivo el mes pasado, los abogados laborales y de inmigración del Área de la Bahía dicen que están tratando de correr la voz sobre las nuevas protecciones federales anunciadas recientemente por la administración del presidente Biden que podrían proteger a los trabajadores indocumentados de la deportación si hablan sobre los abusos en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el gobernador Gavin Newsom visitó Half Moon Bay tras la matanza del 23 de enero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">la cual cobró la vida de siete trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes,\u003c/a> expresó su conmoción al enterarse que los empleados vivieran en contenedores de transporte y dijo que algunos le habían contado que ganaban sólo 9 dólares la hora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Patricia Ortiz, Directora jurídica del programa de inmigración, California Rural Legal Assistance\"]\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable. Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que tienen acceso las personas en otras partes del estado, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"¿Quieren saber el salario mínimo de California? No es de 9 dólares la hora\", dijo Newsom. \"Sin atención sanitaria, sin ayudas, sin servicios. Pero ellos cuidan de nuestra salud. Prestando un servicio a todos y cada uno de nosotros, todos los días\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades estatales comenzaron inmediatamente a recabar información sobre California Terra Garden y Concord Farms, las dos granjas atacadas, y consiguieron entrar dos horas después de que las fuerzas del orden abrieron de nuevo los sitios el 25 de enero, según Peter Melton, portavoz del Departamento de Relaciones Industriales del estado. Confirmó que su agencia está investigando a ambas empresas por posibles infracciones en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melton subrayó que la agencia no solicita ni rastrea el estatus migratorio de los trabajadores, y añadió: \"En California, los trabajadores agrícolas y de la mayoría de las demás industrias están protegidos por las leyes laborales y las normas de seguridad y salud en el lugar de trabajo de California, independientemente de su estatus migratorio\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por una cuestión de política, el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. no quiso confirmar si también está investigando las granjas. Pero el vicealcalde de Half Moon Bay, Joaquín Jiménez Ureña, dijo que la semana anterior investigadores federales estuvieron en la ciudad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tuve la oportunidad de reunirme con ellos\", dijo. \"Compartieron conmigo lo que están investigando. Quieren colaborar con nosotros para asegurarse de que los trabajadores agrícolas estén bien atendidos con salarios y vivienda, y que se les comunique cualquier incidente que ocurra en las granjas.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vulnerables a la explotación\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A pesar de las protecciones laborales de California, los trabajadores inmigrantes suelen tener miedo a denunciar por temor a las represalias de los empleadores y a la amenaza de la deportación, afirman los defensores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casi el 60% de los trabajadores agrícolas del estado \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/national-agricultural-workers-survey/research/data-tables\">son inmigrantes indocumentados\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés), según los últimos datos del Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incluso los trabajadores agrícolas que trabajan legalmente, con \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/espanol\">visados agrícolas temporales H-2A\u003c/a>, pueden ser reacios a quejarse \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">porque dependen de sus empleadores para mantener sus visados de trabajo\u003c/a>. Y para los inmigrantes indocumentados, el temor es aún mayor, dice Patricia Ortiz, directora legal del programa de inmigración de la organización sin fines de lucro California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA, por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11919450\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarmworkersIlloVignet-1020x659-1.jpg\"]\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable\", dijo Ortiz. \"Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que la gente en otras partes del estado tiene acceso, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/13/dhs-anuncia-mejoras-en-los-procesos-para-apoyar-las-investigaciones-de-cumplimiento\">un nuevo programa simplificado y acelerado de solicitud de \"acción diferida\"\u003c/a>, destinado a ayudar al gobierno a acabar con los empleadores abusivos, podría animar a más trabajadores indocumentados a denunciar condiciones injustas o inseguras, dijo Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores que demuestren que están cooperando con una investigación laboral pueden solicitar un permiso de trabajo y dos años de protección contra la deportación a través de un proceso acelerado anunciado en enero por el Secretario de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés), Alejandro Mayorkas. La protección, que se concederá caso por caso, se basa en \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/memo_from_secretary_mayorkas_on_worksite_enforcement.pdf\">un memorando de octubre de 2021 en el que se describe la estrategia del DHS para hacer cumplir la ley en los lugares de trabajo (PDF)\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Los empresarios sin escrúpulos que se aprovechan de la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores extranjeros perjudican a todos los trabajadores y ponen en desventaja a las empresas que respetan las normas\", declaró Mayorkas al anunciar el nuevo programa en enero. \"Responsabilizaremos a estos depredadores animando a todos los trabajadores a hacer valer sus derechos\".\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Difundir el mensaje\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ortiz dice que grupos de defensa de los inmigrantes como el suyo han estado organizando apresuradamente cursos de formación y seminarios web para informar sobre el programa a otros proveedores de servicios jurídicos que trabajan con inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Jiménez Ureña, vicealcalde de Half Moon Bay, que también ayuda dirigir la organización sin fines de lucro ALAS, o Ayudando Latinos a Soñar, que apoya a trabajadores agrícolas en el condado de San Mateo, dijo que desconocía la iniciativa federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tras el tiroteo masivo y las posibles infracciones laborales en las granjas de hongos, la Agencia de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral de la administración del gobernador Newsom ha empezado a compartir información sobre el nuevo programa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"La administración ha estado en estrecho contacto con el condado de San Mateo y las organizaciones comunitarias en relación con asistencia migratoria y las nuevas orientaciones del DHS sobre posibles ayudas de inmigración para los trabajadores que hayan sufrido infracciones en el lugar de trabajo.\", dijo Erin Hickey, portavoz de la agencia, en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los líderes sindicales de California llevaron a cabo un curso de formación sobre el nuevo programa en Los Ángeles. Y un grupo de abogados del Área de la Bahía programaron una videollamada para debatir cómo podrían beneficiar a sus clientes estas protecciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Un giro de 180 grados\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sergio Benavides, un abogado de inmigración de Hayward dijo que ya hace tiempo es que la administración Biden debería haberse enfocado en las protecciones laborales para los inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Para mí representa un giro completo de 180 grados con respecto a la era del expresidente Trump\", dijo. \"La administración Biden está diciendo, 'Oigan, trabajadores, queremos ayudarlos. Queremos protegerlos. Queremos investigar las violaciones de la ley. Por favor, salgan a la luz'\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Benavides advirtió que la acción diferida es sólo temporal, y dijo que los inmigrantes deberían consultar primero a un abogado para decidir si les beneficiaría solicitarla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hay otras formas de alivio de la inmigración que podrían ser más duraderas para los inmigrantes indocumentados, incluidos los de las granjas de setas de Half Moon Bay, dijo. Una de ellas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/es/programas-humanitarios/victimas-de-la-trata-de-personas-y-de-otros-crimenes/victimas-de-actos-criminales-estatus-u-de-no-inmigrante\">el visado U\u003c/a>, puede conducir a una tarjeta verde y, en última instancia, a la ciudadanía para las víctimas de determinados delitos que cooperen con las fuerzas del orden o los investigadores gubernamentales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y la eficacia del nuevo programa federal dependerá de lo bien que se administre, dijo Benavides. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]yre Nichols was mercilessly beaten by Memphis police officers after a traffic stop last month — and it was his fault. That’s if you believe the five officers accused of killing Nichols, of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the story officers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1157756023/memphis-tyre-nichols-police-officers-court-charges\">who pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges on Feb. 17\u003c/a>, wanted the public to buy: Nichols, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/article272243108.html\">lived in Sacramento\u003c/a> before moving to Memphis, was driving recklessly, a misdemeanor in Tennessee, before he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being forcibly removed from his car at gunpoint, he fled. The officers, then-part of an elite crime suppression unit, chased Nichols. They punched and kicked Nichols and struck him with a baton, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/tyre-nichols-arrest-videos.html\">justifying the violence in a false police report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of police and traffic camera footage revealed the glaring disparity that often exists between the police narrative and what actually occurs. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, wasn’t violent or aggressive, and he didn’t reach for an officer’s gun, as the initial report falsely asserted. So why did Nichols flee? In my bones, I know he was running to his mother’s house in search of what many police officers decline to provide Black people: safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety of Black people in America has been imperiled for four centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety of Black people in America is at the core of the California Reparations Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wish more Californians were aware of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">the first statewide body to consider reparations for Black people\u003c/a>. The task force has presented an irrefutable examination of how systemic racism was woven into the fabric of America and California. I can think of at least 1,619 reasons why the work is largely unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about it: After the unpaid workforce of millions was emancipated, laws were enacted to restrict economic and social mobility. The emancipated population was terrorized by white supremacists intent on preserving the racial hierarchy as promises of land, opportunity and security were abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t safe for Black people to look white people in the eye. It wasn’t safe for Black people to vote. It wasn’t safe for Black people to be in some towns after dark. It wasn’t safe for Black people to prosper. To maintain institutionalized social order, first it was the slave patrols, and now it’s the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]Racial terror swept this country for decades after emancipation as white mobs — some dressed in robes and hoods, some flashing badges and guns — destroyed homes, towns and lives. The racial segregation enforced in the South initiated the migration of Black people to states like California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, the reparations task force, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-03032023-03042023.pdf\">which meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento (PDF)\u003c/a>, has documented the unsavory truth about Black history — a history that is more than the cherry-picked sections of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream speech. Honoring Black history must include the centuries of state-sanctioned violence that America willfully ignores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black history is American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I watched the footage of Nichols being brutalized by the officers who immediately began constructing a false narrative as they gasped for air, I thought about Rodney King, the Black man who was savagely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, an assault recorded by an amateur videographer. The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. The investigation “revealed systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPD-IA-cases-NSA-compliance-report.pdf\">blistering report (PDF)\u003c/a> concluded. The next day Armstrong was placed on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he should’ve copped a plea and said, “My bad, y’all.” Instead, he campaigned for his job at a rally on the steps of Oakland City Hall. The NAACP held another rally on Feb. 20. I called Terry Wiley, the former Alameda County prosecutor who is handling press around the firing for the NAACP. Wiley told me that Armstrong had made the kind of progress people of color want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile shot of a group of roughly 10 people, most of them Black, listening while a woman in the middle claps her hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members listen to speakers during a rally in support of terminated Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong at City Hall on Feb. 16. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the balance of all of the positives he has brought to the department as the chief, the question becomes, was this incident such that he should be terminated?” said Wiley, who lost the November election for district attorney to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940920/when-da-boudin-investigated-police-killings-arrests-slowed-that-may-not-happen-with-da-pamela-price\">progressive Pamela Price\u003c/a>. “Our conclusion was that the mayor went too far on this, and that there should have been much more contemplation about the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released by Sam Singer, a crisis manager, shortly after Armstrong was terminated, Armstrong referred to himself as a “loyal and effective reformer.” But reform isn’t possible without zero tolerance for misconduct, and the failure to issue appropriate discipline is inexcusable, especially for someone who pledges loyalty to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are incapable of policing the police. Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. And in Berkeley, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932420/berkeley-postpones-hiring-of-new-police-chief-amid-controversy-over-another-officers-alleged-racist-texts\">former police union head allegedly sent racist, anti-unhoused text messages\u003c/a> to officers while pushing for more arrests, as multiple newsrooms, including KQED, reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wesley Lowery, journalist, author and contributing editor to The Marshall Project\"]‘What type of resources are we pouring into communities if our aim is to cut down on crime? Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?’[/pullquote]In January, the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board published a report that found that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2023.pdf\">police searched Black people at twice the rate of white people in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And get this: Officers were more likely to find contraband on white people than Black and Latino people, according to the report, which also found that police were twice as likely to use force against Black people than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/data-reveals-racial-disparities-police-stops-bay-17763091.php\">Black people were six times as likely to be stopped in Oakland than white people\u003c/a>, according to the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s analysis of the police-stop data recently released by the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black people were at least five times as likely to be stopped than white people. This is a city where officers accused of, among other infractions, sexual misconduct, domestic violence and sharing racist and antisemitic texts work desk duty in a windowless room while raking in millions collectively, according to the San Francisco Standard’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/cop-used-drugs-had-car-sex-with-a-teenager-then-sf-spent-1-2m-to-keep-him-on-desk-duty/\">three-part series on police accountability\u003c/a>. This is the city where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php\">the law-and-order district attorney gutted the unit that investigates police misconduct and violence\u003c/a>, according to reporting by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892172/wesley-lowery-on-americas-elusive-racial-reckoning\">episode of Forum\u003c/a>, Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, talked with host Mina Kim about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-george-floyd-police-reform/672986/\">Why There Was No Racial Reckoning\u003c/a>,” a piece he wrote for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>. George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked nationwide uprisings not seen since 1967. Floyd’s death was supposed to also spark a reimagining of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, hasn’t happened. Instead, the backlash against protests that demanded more funding for social services has empowered cities to continue criminalizing poverty. Posturing by police and politicians isn’t going to provide relief for families who have been living in poverty for generations. The police are trained in coercion, which renders their skills insufficient to respond to the circumstances which allow criminal activity to flourish: disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of resources are we pouring into those communities if our aim is to cut down on crime?” Lowery said on Forum. “Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Reparations Coverage' tag='california-reparations']In July, the task force will deliver reparations recommendations, which are expected to include direct payments to eligible Black Californians. But reparations are more than compensation. Last summer, the task force \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">released a preliminary report (PDF)\u003c/a> with recommendations to address, among other things, the unjust legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are the gatekeepers of that system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preliminary report suggests reducing “the scope of law enforcement jurisdiction within the public safety system” and shifting “more funding for prevention and mental health care.” The report also calls for the elimination of “discriminatory policing and particularly killings, use of force and racial profiling” of Black people; the elimination of racial disparities in police stops; and the elimination of over-policing of predominantly Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force could pave the road to viable racial equity in America. But to get to that place, it’s guaranteed to be a bumpy journey. Make sure you buckle up for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Racial terror swept this country for decades after emancipation as white mobs — some dressed in robes and hoods, some flashing badges and guns — destroyed homes, towns and lives. The racial segregation enforced in the South initiated the migration of Black people to states like California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, the reparations task force, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-03032023-03042023.pdf\">which meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento (PDF)\u003c/a>, has documented the unsavory truth about Black history — a history that is more than the cherry-picked sections of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream speech. Honoring Black history must include the centuries of state-sanctioned violence that America willfully ignores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black history is American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I watched the footage of Nichols being brutalized by the officers who immediately began constructing a false narrative as they gasped for air, I thought about Rodney King, the Black man who was savagely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, an assault recorded by an amateur videographer. The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. The investigation “revealed systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPD-IA-cases-NSA-compliance-report.pdf\">blistering report (PDF)\u003c/a> concluded. The next day Armstrong was placed on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he should’ve copped a plea and said, “My bad, y’all.” Instead, he campaigned for his job at a rally on the steps of Oakland City Hall. The NAACP held another rally on Feb. 20. I called Terry Wiley, the former Alameda County prosecutor who is handling press around the firing for the NAACP. Wiley told me that Armstrong had made the kind of progress people of color want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile shot of a group of roughly 10 people, most of them Black, listening while a woman in the middle claps her hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members listen to speakers during a rally in support of terminated Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong at City Hall on Feb. 16. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the balance of all of the positives he has brought to the department as the chief, the question becomes, was this incident such that he should be terminated?” said Wiley, who lost the November election for district attorney to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940920/when-da-boudin-investigated-police-killings-arrests-slowed-that-may-not-happen-with-da-pamela-price\">progressive Pamela Price\u003c/a>. “Our conclusion was that the mayor went too far on this, and that there should have been much more contemplation about the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released by Sam Singer, a crisis manager, shortly after Armstrong was terminated, Armstrong referred to himself as a “loyal and effective reformer.” But reform isn’t possible without zero tolerance for misconduct, and the failure to issue appropriate discipline is inexcusable, especially for someone who pledges loyalty to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are incapable of policing the police. Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. And in Berkeley, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932420/berkeley-postpones-hiring-of-new-police-chief-amid-controversy-over-another-officers-alleged-racist-texts\">former police union head allegedly sent racist, anti-unhoused text messages\u003c/a> to officers while pushing for more arrests, as multiple newsrooms, including KQED, reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In January, the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board published a report that found that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2023.pdf\">police searched Black people at twice the rate of white people in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And get this: Officers were more likely to find contraband on white people than Black and Latino people, according to the report, which also found that police were twice as likely to use force against Black people than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/data-reveals-racial-disparities-police-stops-bay-17763091.php\">Black people were six times as likely to be stopped in Oakland than white people\u003c/a>, according to the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s analysis of the police-stop data recently released by the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black people were at least five times as likely to be stopped than white people. This is a city where officers accused of, among other infractions, sexual misconduct, domestic violence and sharing racist and antisemitic texts work desk duty in a windowless room while raking in millions collectively, according to the San Francisco Standard’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/cop-used-drugs-had-car-sex-with-a-teenager-then-sf-spent-1-2m-to-keep-him-on-desk-duty/\">three-part series on police accountability\u003c/a>. This is the city where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php\">the law-and-order district attorney gutted the unit that investigates police misconduct and violence\u003c/a>, according to reporting by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892172/wesley-lowery-on-americas-elusive-racial-reckoning\">episode of Forum\u003c/a>, Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, talked with host Mina Kim about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-george-floyd-police-reform/672986/\">Why There Was No Racial Reckoning\u003c/a>,” a piece he wrote for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>. George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked nationwide uprisings not seen since 1967. Floyd’s death was supposed to also spark a reimagining of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, hasn’t happened. Instead, the backlash against protests that demanded more funding for social services has empowered cities to continue criminalizing poverty. Posturing by police and politicians isn’t going to provide relief for families who have been living in poverty for generations. The police are trained in coercion, which renders their skills insufficient to respond to the circumstances which allow criminal activity to flourish: disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of resources are we pouring into those communities if our aim is to cut down on crime?” Lowery said on Forum. “Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Five detainees on an ongoing hunger strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/hunger-strikers-central-valley-immigration-detention-facilities-file-class-action-lawsuit\">have sued\u003c/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a private prison company for alleged retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several dozen men have refused meals for more than a week, protesting what they call “inhumane” living and working conditions at the two for-profit detention centers in Kern County where they are held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Mendez_v._ICE_Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> accuses ICE and its detention contractor The GEO Group of punishing hunger strikers by taking away their yard time, family visitation and other recreational activities, and by threatening them with solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO staffers have also made dormitory temperatures “uncomfortably cold” and tried to halt the detainees’ strike by leaving food on their beds for long periods of time, according to the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We filed this lawsuit to protect the First Amendment rights of a group of people who have put their bodies on the line to protest the injustice of their detention,” said Bree Bernwanger, senior attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they should draw is the attention of ICE and GEO to the horrendous conditions that they are detained under,” she added. “Instead, they were deprived for no reason except to punish them. That violates the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for ICE and GEO have denied the alleged retaliation, but declined to comment further on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five plaintiffs, who have been detained for lengths ranging from 10 months to more than two years, are asking the court to let them represent about 80 detainees who began the hunger strike on Feb. 17, in a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>More than 70 people locked up at two for-profit immigration detention centers in Kern County have refused to eat any meals for a week now, according to interviews with detainees and legal assistance organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson confirmed that the hunger strike became official as of last Sunday evening, after detainees missed nine consecutive meals at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield and the nearby Golden State Annex in McFarland.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Oscar Rodriguez Picazo, ICE detainee and hunger striker\"]'We are not being heard. Our basic needs are not being met. So we are asking ICE to release us.'[/pullquote]Hunger strikers said they will risk their lives as a last resort to pressure ICE officials to improve the “\u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/pressroom_posts/breaking-seventy-seven-detained-immigrants-launch-hunger-strike-at-two-central-valley-facilities-protest-unpaid-labor-and-inhumane-conditions/\">soul-crushing\u003c/a>” working and living conditions at the facilities they’ve complained repeatedly about, to no avail. The detainees \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/opla/prosecutorial-discretion\">argue officials should also use their prosecutorial discretion to release those who don’t pose a safety threat or flight risk\u003c/a>, but are jailed long-term while they fight deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not being heard. Our basic needs are not being met. So we are asking ICE to release us,” Oscar Rodriguez Picazo told KQED by phone from Mesa Verde, where he has been held for more than a year. The 36-year-old said he felt weak after skipping all meals since last Friday, but that he and others would continue the hunger strike “until we drop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesa Verde staffers have responded by taking away yard time and other recreational activities, as well as access to the law library, said Rodriguez Picazo and another hunger striker, Jose Hernandez. That has left protesters confined to their dorm 24/7, they said, except for trips to get medical checkups elsewhere in the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we asked an officer, she told us, ‘You guys don’t get no visits, no rec, nothing of nothing, because you are on a hunger strike,’” said Rodriguez Picazo, who grew up in California’s Tulare County after emigrating from Mexico.[aside postID=news_11938736 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS57626_007_KQED_AnoopPrasad_08052022-qut-1020x680.jpg']Medical personnel must carefully monitor the health, as well as food and water intake, of detainees on hunger strike, which ICE considers as such \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2019/4_2.pdf\">only after detainees have not eaten for 72 hours (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the agency’s standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers,” said an agency spokesperson in a statement. “ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency’s custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency did not confirm how many detainees it considers on hunger strike at the two facilities. But commissary food items remain available for purchase by detainees, the spokesperson added, saying “ICE explains the negative health effects of not eating to our detainees, and they are under close medical observation by ICE or contract medical providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike represents an escalation of an ongoing, months-long work stoppage that detainees say they are waging to protest expired food, substandard medical care and overpriced commissary items that have pushed Rodriguez Picazo and others to work at the facilities for well below minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex are overseen by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officials stationed in San Francisco. The agency contracts with the multinational prison company The GEO Group to operate those detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, more than a dozen supporters of the hunger strikers sang chants on megaphones and rallied outside ICE headquarters in downtown San Francisco, as dozens of people looked on while they waited in line to enter the agency offices, clutching paper forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” Esperanza Cuautle, an organizer with the nonprofit Pangea Legal Services, told the crowd on the street. Hunger strikers “are tired of the mistreatment, tired of the violation of their human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941702\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman speaks into a megaphone with male and female protesters behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esperanza Cuautle, 30, an organizer with the Mesa Verde-Golden State Annex Hunger Strike Support Committee, speaks outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in downtown San Francisco on Feb. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group pays detainees $1 per day for eight-hour shifts to scrub bathrooms, do laundry, work as barbers and do other tasks to maintain the facilities, per \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/5-8.pdf\">ICE guidelines that require compensation of “at least” $1 per day (PDF)\u003c/a>. Yet the company has engaged in “unlawful wage theft, unjust enrichment and forced labor” by coercing detainees to work, according to a \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919749/ice-detainees-making-1-a-day-sue-over-alleged-wage-theft#:~:text=GEO%20pays%20the%20paltry%20daily,facilities%2C%20according%20to%20the%20lawsuit.\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919749/ice-detainees-making-1-a-day-sue-over-alleged-wage-theft#:~:text=GEO%20pays%20the%20paltry%20daily,facilities%2C%20according%20to%20the%20lawsuit.\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the suit was filed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925791/california-lawmakers-call-for-investigation-into-detainee-complaints-of-solitary-confinement\">more than a dozen California members of Congress urged top immigration authorities to investigate\u003c/a> alleged “disturbing conditions and abusive and retaliatory behavior” toward detainees — including the use of solitary confinement — for participating in the peaceful labor strike at the two detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-to-chair-senate-judiciary-subcommittee-on-immigration/\">Senator Alex Padilla of California\u003c/a>, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety, did not immediately return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José) led the request six months ago for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate detention conditions at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am hoping they can address the issues my colleagues and I highlighted in our September 2022 letter as soon as possible. I also hope the Administration has already begun the thorough investigation we requested,” said Lofgren, a senior member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement and a former immigration lawyer, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As disturbing reports of inhumane conditions, retaliation, and abusive behavior continue at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex, I am renewing my call for a national phase-out of all private detention facility and jail contracts and for ICE to ensure humane detention standards,” she added.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José)\"]'As disturbing reports of inhumane conditions, retaliation, and abusive behavior continue at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex, I am renewing my call for a national phase-out of all private detention facility and jail contracts and for ICE to ensure humane detention standards.'[/pullquote]KQED obtained a copy of ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson’s recent response to Lofgren, Padilla and the other California members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE was made aware of the allegations against the Geo Group,” said Johnson in his letter. “On July 7, 2022, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) submitted all documentation related to the allegations to the ICE Joint Intake Center for further review and investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS’ Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which also received a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/laf-09-12-2022-mv-gsa\">complaint from nine detainees at the two facilities last September\u003c/a>, is investigating reports “related to conditions of detention” at Golden State Annex, said Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A GEO Group spokesperson rejected allegations of retaliation against detainees or substandard detention conditions at the facilities. Both detention centers provide round-the-clock medical care, nutritional meals approved by a registered dietician and enhanced recreational amenities, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it relates to allegations regarding retaliation, GEO has a grievance process in place for use by persons housed at our facilities that is grounded in accessibility, confidentiality, fairness, objectivity and integrity, without fear of retaliation,” the GEO spokesperson said. “GEO has a zero-tolerance policy with respect to staff misconduct. Any alleged misconduct by GEO staff is promptly investigated and addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also contesting fines of more than $104,000 issued last December by California workplace health and safety regulators for \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1609228.015\">several violations\u003c/a>, after worker detainees filed a complaint and Cal/OSHA inspectors visited Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Freedom for Immigrants documented that at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/hunger-strikes\">1,600 people went on hunger strike while held at 20 detention centers nationwide\u003c/a> between May 2015 and early 2020. The incidence of such actions surged early on in the pandemic, with nearly 2,500 detainees waging COVID-related hunger strikes between March and July 2020, according to Detention Watch Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials and facility staffers have commonly responded with abuse and retaliation against people protesting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cruelty-and-coercion-how-ice-abuses-hunger-strikers\">refusing to eat — a First Amendment-protected right\u003c/a>, according to a report by the ACLU and Physicians for Human Rights. The groups analyzed hundreds of hunger strikes in immigration detention between 2013 and 2017. The authors of the report said those responses included use of force, solitary confinement and involuntary medical procedures.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11924388,news_11934879\"]“Since the issuance of our report in 2021, ICE has not changed its policies or practices with respect to its treatment of hunger strikes. ICE’s failure to do so is of obvious concern,” said Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU National Prison Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">Immigration detention\u003c/a> is legally classified as civil and should be nonpunitive, unlike in the criminal justice setting. ICE detains noncitizens to secure their presence for immigration proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While people convicted of aggravated felonies or other crimes are subject to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/mandatory_detention_ice_hold_policy_handout.pdf\">mandatory detention (PDF)\u003c/a>,” ICE officials may still decide to free them from custody with conditions after a case-by-case review, according to immigration attorneys. Often, the agency arrests immigrants with a criminal record after they have served sentences and are released from state prison or county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/quickfacts/\">ICE held more than 24,000 people in detention as of the end of January 2023\u003c/a>, slightly more than a year ago, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data monitoring project at Syracuse University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">190 men are held at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex\u003c/a>, according to ICE’s most recent detention statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Medical personnel must carefully monitor the health, as well as food and water intake, of detainees on hunger strike, which ICE considers as such \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2019/4_2.pdf\">only after detainees have not eaten for 72 hours (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the agency’s standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers,” said an agency spokesperson in a statement. “ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency’s custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency did not confirm how many detainees it considers on hunger strike at the two facilities. But commissary food items remain available for purchase by detainees, the spokesperson added, saying “ICE explains the negative health effects of not eating to our detainees, and they are under close medical observation by ICE or contract medical providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike represents an escalation of an ongoing, months-long work stoppage that detainees say they are waging to protest expired food, substandard medical care and overpriced commissary items that have pushed Rodriguez Picazo and others to work at the facilities for well below minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex are overseen by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officials stationed in San Francisco. The agency contracts with the multinational prison company The GEO Group to operate those detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, more than a dozen supporters of the hunger strikers sang chants on megaphones and rallied outside ICE headquarters in downtown San Francisco, as dozens of people looked on while they waited in line to enter the agency offices, clutching paper forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” Esperanza Cuautle, an organizer with the nonprofit Pangea Legal Services, told the crowd on the street. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story was produced in partnership with inewsource, a nonprofit news organization in San Diego. It is part of an ongoing project with inewsource and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story contains descriptions of antisemitic violence and speech.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n October, an antisemitic hate group hung a banner over a Los Angeles freeway. It read: “Kanye Is Right About the Jews.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people standing behind the banner gave Nazi salutes to cars speeding past on Interstate 405. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ADLSoCal/status/1584199722524213248\">Photos of the stunt went viral.\u003c/a>[aside label='READ MORE ABOUT WILSON' link1='https://inewsource.org/2023/02/14/antisemitic-extremist-evaded-hate-crime-prosecution/,Read coverage from inewsource about Robert Wilson, a public face of the hate group known as the Goyim Defense League, who was supposed to stand trial for allegedly assaulting his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs.' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-2-1020x571.png']Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and in social media posts — comments immediately seized upon by the Goyim Defense League, the group that performed the hateful stunt and promoted its streaming platform GoyimTV on another banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the stunt took place in LA, the roots of the antisemitic propaganda group behind it lead back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Minadeo II created the group in 2018 while living in Petaluma, the small town nestled in Sonoma County wine country about an hour north of San Francisco. Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f—ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the “great replacement theory” — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups, Western States Center\"]‘There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence … The GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.’[/pullquote]The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You’d hope that it never happens here. And then … ‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. It’s very offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a photo of a black and white flyer contained in a zip lock bag\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordechai Winter holds a photo on his phone of an antisemitic flyer left in his driveway and several of his neighbors’ driveways in Tiburon. The front of the flyer reads, ‘Let’s Go Brandon: Every Single Aspect of the Biden Administration Is Jewish.’ The back of the flyer reads, ‘Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few local governments have found creative ways to exert pressure on people who distribute the flyers. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Minadeo, Wilson and a small group of supporters rented a U-Haul truck and covered it with antisemitic symbols and rhetoric. They drove to the Beverly Hilton, a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\">video posted on Twitter by StopAntisemitism\u003c/a>, a group that calls out “antisemites” to hold them accountable, two men dressed as members of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi paramilitary group colloquially known as the brownshirts, paraded around the truck. Minadeo, who is wearing a black hat with fake side curls shouts, “The Nazis are coming!” Wilson also appears in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Beverly Hills they drove to West Hollywood. “A group of Nazis have rampaged down Santa Monica Blvd from Beverly Hills to West Hollywood harassing Black people, gay people and Jewish people,” WeHo Social Justice Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528174801541419008\">tweeted in a video\u003c/a> that shows the U-Haul parked at a gas station on Santa Monica Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of queer activists \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528184993410781186\">posted another video of Wilson and Minadeo\u003c/a>, who wore a T-shirt with the Black Sun, a Nazi-era symbol now popular with neofascists, being confronted by onlookers. The pair allegedly harassed a Black woman at the gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you get the f— out of here,” one man says. “This isn’t your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man says to Wilson, “You’re a racist!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson replies, “Who taught you people to read and write?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers were concerned about the real-world consequences of online antisemitism long before 2018 when a man shouting antisemitic slurs entered the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and killed 11 people. The perpetrator had been immersed in antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracies on Gab, and was posting on the site just minutes before he opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, on the last day of the Jewish Passover holiday, a 19-year-old man killed one woman and wounded three others at a synagogue in San Diego County. He had posted an antisemitic and racist letter in an online forum claiming Jewish people were planning the replacement of white people by genocide, a conspiracy theory that led white nationalists to march through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not folks just making disparaging remarks about Jews on the internet and laughing about it,” Piggott said, referring to Minadeo and Wilson. “They’re showing to the world they’re truly committed to this by going into the streets and getting in the face of people and publicly harassing them with all sorts of horrendous slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can certainly lead to escalations and can lead to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913965 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg']According to the ADL’s Center for Extremism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2022-05/ADL_2021%20Audit_Report_042622_v11.pdf\">there were more than 2,700 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the highest tabulation since the organization began tracking four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this month in San Francisco, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including religious terrorism for allegedly brandishing a replica handgun and firing blanks inside a synagogue. The man, Dmitri Mishin, shared photos of himself in Nazi uniforms on social media and posted other antisemitic content online prior to his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL has identified supporters of Minadeo’s network who have been charged with or convicted of crimes such as arson, assault and making death threats. One man, who distributed antisemitic flyers in Florida, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/02/04/3-arrested-after-violence-at-nazi-rally-in-orange-county-deputies-say/\">arrested at a Nazi rally last February for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man\u003c/a>. He also faced charges for allegedly pointing a gun at a group of Black men in a parking lot that same month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man filmed himself plastering GoyimTV stickers on public streets and buildings in Texas. In July 2021, he messaged the ADL’s website threatening to “kill all of you Zionist pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo and Wilson’s Auschwitz stunt would not be considered criminal in the United States. But Poland has stronger laws governing hate speech, specifically the banning of “hatred against national, ethnic, racial or religious differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, of Chula Vista, a city in the San Diego metropolitan area, wasn’t arrested alongside Minadeo in Poland. But he’s currently evading charges of felony battery and a hate crime allegation for yelling homophobic slurs at his neighbor and striking him in the face in November 2021. On Aug. 19, a judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest after he failed to show up for court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Petaluma yoga studio owner exposes Minadeo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no clear indication of why Minadeo became a perpetrator of hate speech. He refused to comment on the record in an hour-long conversation with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to high school in the northern Marin County city of Novato, where he lived with his mother in a series of inexpensive apartments, according to public records. For a time, he worked for the family business, Dinucci’s Italian Dinners, a mainstay in Valley Ford, a town in an unincorporated section of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dabbled in show business. According to imdb.com, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981622/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk\">he co-wrote and starred in \u003cem>Curveball\u003c/em>, a low-budget 2011 comedic drama about a love triangle\u003c/a>. He also released rap songs under the name Shoobie Da Wop, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pufs_Ertcwo\">My Name Is Shoobie\u003c/a>,” a song that borrows liberally from Too $hort, a Bay Area hip-hop legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with a KQED reporter, a former high school classmate of Minadeo described him as “the popular, cool guy.” But the classmate, a longtime Petaluma resident, thinks differently after watching a few of Minadeo’s livestreams. He was particularly disturbed by the way Minadeo uses Omegle, a website that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, to scream slurs at children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting for the day when they can get him with something,” said the former classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retaliation. “At least sue him or take his website down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Renfro, yoga studio owner\"]‘You have to watch [the videos] to realize how evil they are. They were inciting violence. It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.”[/pullquote]When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k—,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,” he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. He said that instead of demonizing the people who distribute them, Jews should admit that the flyers are “factual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Minadeo and four others were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-neo-nazi-jon-minadeo-cited-for-littering-with-flyers-in-florida/\">cited in Palm Beach for littering after “they were apprehended tossing weighted baggies containing propaganda sheets targeting Jews,”\u003c/a> according to The Press Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro has reached out to groups in Florida to warn them about Minadeo. Tracking his whereabouts has become like a second job, he said, and he won’t stop just because Minadeo left California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I watch what he does, it’s like not really a choice,” Renfro said. “You can’t ignore it.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and in social media posts — comments immediately seized upon by the Goyim Defense League, the group that performed the hateful stunt and promoted its streaming platform GoyimTV on another banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the stunt took place in LA, the roots of the antisemitic propaganda group behind it lead back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Minadeo II created the group in 2018 while living in Petaluma, the small town nestled in Sonoma County wine country about an hour north of San Francisco. Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f—ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the “great replacement theory” — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You’d hope that it never happens here. And then … ‘\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. 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In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k—,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,” he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. 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