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But that policy changed as a result of Hogan’s case, directing that people with mental illness only be transported in a sedan or ambulance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had absolutely no policy,” Canny said. “They had no training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCLEM report echoes suspicions first advanced by county supervisors Joe Simitian and Otto Lee last month about politics potentially influencing an internal investigation in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail’s watch commander at the time, then-Lt. Amy Le, who was present at the scene of Hogan’s injury, according to Canny and others familiar with the case, was promoted three months after Hogan was injured. She was also the head of the correctional officers union, which had endorsed Smith in a contentious reelection bid that the sheriff won in November 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These facts, taken together with the unexplained closure of the Internal Affairs investigation, certainly raise the question of whether the officer’s position in the union and its support for the Sheriff’s political campaign played a role in the decision to deactivate the Internal Affairs investigation,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le resigned facing discipline for misconduct unrelated to the Hogan case in 2019. She’s suing the county for wrongful termination alleging discrimination, harassment and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oversight agency was granted subpoena power late last year under a new state law, and the office says it will now use that power to probe what happened to shut down the internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once an Internal Affairs investigation is initiated, it should be the extraordinary circumstance that would cause it to be closed without a finding,” the OCLEM report says. “The interruption of the fact-collection process means that leadership remains in the dark about precisely what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county and oversight office plan to release more information about the case as it is prepared. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to receive the reports on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: Due to the stigma of domestic violence in tribal communities, KQED is not using Mark and Lydia’s real names, or disclosing their location or tribal affiliation. This story contains depictions of violence and a description of racial slurs.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a kid, Mark often came home to a racket on the block. Then the truth would sink in. The hitting and screaming was coming from his house. His dad’s drinking made the beatings worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He busted my mom’s teeth out with a rifle,” said Mark, who grew up in rural Northern California near the Oregon border. “I remember seeing this. So my first memories are of domestic violence. I was born into domestic violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark, now in his early fifties, found out later that his father had been abused, beaten as a child. His dad was repeating what he had learned. And after Mark fell in love and began a relationship with Lydia, it wasn’t long before he carried the behavior forward again, himself. “I’m a typical Native American man,” he said. “There’s a thousand of me all around the area right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia, who had also experienced intergenerational violence and abuse in her family, stayed in the relationship. In time, she’d wind up facing a domestic violence charge herself, just like Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mark\"]'I loved her and I loved my children, and I wanted to be better. But I didn’t know how to get there.'[/pullquote]A National Institute of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/violence-against-american-indian-and-alaska-native-women-and-men\">study from 2016\u003c/a> found that nearly 85% of American Indians and Alaska Natives had experienced violence in their lifetime, compared to a little over two-thirds for non-Hispanic whites. The rates of physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner were also markedly higher for Indigenous respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the root is trauma that dates back generations, all the way to colonizers' invasions. Mental health experts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/stress-and-trauma/indigenous-people\">defined that historical trauma\u003c/a> as “cumulative emotional and psychological wounding, over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma experiences.” In California, the forcible separation of Indigenous peoples from their lands, traditions and language are just some examples of the collective losses Native Americans have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Mark and Lydia’s journey eventually brought healing – thanks in part to an approach to justice rooted in the region’s Indigenous cultural values, restorative more than punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key, Lydia said: “Going back and really finding out, ‘Where did this start?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cycles of abuse\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Mark, the racial slurs began in elementary school. 'Wagon burner.' 'Dirty Indian.' He said he came home crying nearly every day. By now, his mom had left his dad and Mark had a step-father, who “taught me most of all the cultural things that I know,” he said. “He taught me how to fish. He taught me how to take care of my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also signed Mark up for boxing lessons, so he could learn to fight his bullies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started busting people's noses and giving them black eyes, and they quit teasing me. That power was intoxicating,” he said. “Like a drug. It was addicting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Lydia, also contended with trauma. Her dad had abused her mom, who left with Lydia when she was a baby to move in with her own mother. But Lydia’s grandma – who herself had been beaten and molested as a child, Lydia later learned – could be cruel, locking Lydia in a back room in the dark. Denying her food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mom was around, Lydia said, but had different priorities: “Drugs and alcohol and partying.” By age 15, Lydia was doing drugs, too, and couch surfing. She found a boyfriend – who beat her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just really wanted to be loved,” she said, “and of course when they tell you, ‘I love you,’ you really want to believe it, even if you know it’s not true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Historical trauma\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Abby Abinanti is chief justice of the Yurok Tribe, whose ancestral lands in California stretch from Humboldt to Del Norte County near the Oregon border. In 1974, she became the \u003ca href=\"https://trellis.law/judge/abby.abinanti\">first Native American woman admitted to the State Bar of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abby Abinanti, chief justice of the Yurok Tribe\"]'People covered up the dance sites, hid the regalia, weren’t allowed to speak the language. Language is something that comes out of what people think and believe... And so we learned another language that didn’t think and believe what we did.'[/pullquote]Legends and parables make it clear that domestic violence was not tolerated in traditional Yurok culture, said Abinanti, 73. Rather, it’s a relatively recent symptom of the wound of colonization. Treating that symptom without addressing the cause gets you nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have to do is look at the context and where it came from,” she said. And in Northern California, “it came from things \u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/indiv/t/tumminia/memorial.htm\">like boarding school, massacres and the Indian Slave Act\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official title of the latter was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/IB.pdf\">The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians\u003c/a>.” Passed at California’s first Constitutional Convention in 1850, it allowed Indigenous children – and adults – to be indentured to white settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many were captured in the North and sold down into the middle of the state and to the South,” Abinanti said, in many cases after witnessing the murder of their parents. Many escaped and ran home. But “the problem is they were adults,” she said, “and then they got into adult relationships and had children and had no idea how to parent. And had a lot of anger, frankly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg\" alt=\"Profile shot of Judge Abby Abinanti standing outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1536x1055.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abby Abinanti is chief justice of the Yurok Tribe, whose ancestral lands stretch through Humboldt and Del Norte counties, near the Oregon border. In 1974 she became the first Native American woman admitted to the State Bar of California. Her court’s approach to substance abuse and domestic violence is restorative more than punitive, and emphasizes cultural values as a key to healing offenders and the communities they’ve harmed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the mid-19th Century through the 1960s, more trauma: U.S. officials forced Native American children across the country to attend government-run boarding schools designed, as one historian explains, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/10/native-american-boarding-schools-shadows-of-sherman-institute/\">to destroy that which was Indian and re-create people in the image of White America\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People covered up the dance sites, hid the regalia, weren’t allowed to speak the language,” said Abinanti. And with cultural amnesia came pain and self-denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is something that comes out of what people think and believe,” she said. “And so we learned another language that didn’t think and believe what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Love and violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the time Lydia turned 18 she’d been on her own for a while, walking four miles each way to a fast food job. But she cherished one cultural tradition: \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/features/klamath-salmon-yurok-tribe\">Salmon fishing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so I go down there,” she said. To the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see this beautiful girl step out of this truck,” Mark recalled. “And I thought, Oh man! There she is...I’m gonna marry that girl. But it was scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an automatic connection,” said Lydia. “I wanted this picture-perfect life. I knew there was a life without abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok citizen Tasheena Natt fishes for salmon in the Klamath River. Salmon fishing is central to the Yurok culture and economy, and is considered a deeply spiritual practice. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, they were like glue on glue. They moved in together and decided to have a baby. Lydia quit drinking, drugs, cigarettes. She gave birth to a girl, and a couple of years later, a boy. But Mark was still partying. The fights began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About five years in, it got physical. Mark slapped Lydia during an argument in the kitchen, giving her a fat lip. She ran to a neighbor’s apartment. And to her horror, that neighbor dialed 911. Lydia didn’t trust law enforcement. She said she’d learned that from her mom and grandmother. But the wheels were in motion. Police arrested Mark, and state prosecutors offered him a deal: If he attended a 52-week batterers intervention program, the charges would be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark said he “participated fully.” He learned to walk away from a fight, to take a time out. It was progress. But he’d realize later how much he still didn’t know – about himself and the roots of his violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved her and I loved my children, and I wanted to be better,” Mark said. “But I didn’t know how to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Addiction in Indian Country\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Mark completed his program, he said he “continued to work on myself and work on myself.” But, for four more years, he “was still using meth.” In the late '90s, he managed to quit. Then came the opioid explosion, “when the doctors were basically giving away, just as many as you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a laborer with regular injuries, he had access to that open tap. They both did. Addiction followed, \u003ca href=\"https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/d7/priv/sma14-4866.pdf\">another symptom of historical trauma\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/diverse-populations/americanindian/mentalhealth/\">often goes hand in hand with domestic violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11883520 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/634_original-1180x887.jpg']“I would grab her by her arm and I would shake her and I’d do these things and I knew better,” Mark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They split up, on and off, for years. Then, in 2013, Mark quit the opioids. And they reunited, both of them clean and sober. Then, a few years later, a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their adult daughter died in a single-vehicle accident. Mark and Lydia sank into depression and isolation. Complicating matters, Mark said, they’d been trying to persuade their daughter to leave an abusive partner, and she was resisting. That caused a rift in their relationship with her, so “we didn’t get to spend the last years with her. It started creating this hell, this guilt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Sunday argument, Lydia scratched Mark’s nose while trying to knock a cigarette from his mouth. He called 911. This time, Lydia was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It just so happened, the couple’s adult son had a court date the next day – on a domestic violence charge. Lydia had planned to be there to support him. Instead, she showed up as another defendant in a jail jumpsuit. Charged with domestic abuse, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just can’t imagine how he must have felt,” Lydia said of her son, “to see me walk in there the next morning, on the other side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A path to healing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2018/02/cover-healing-heritage\">growing consensus\u003c/a> in Indian Country across the nation that the most effective way to alleviate symptoms of historical trauma like domestic violence and substance abuse is to incorporate traditional cultural values and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/restorative-justice-in-indian-country\">forms of justice\u003c/a>. Thanks to a cultural renaissance, that is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abby Abinanti, chief justice of the Yurok Tribe\"]'If you look at the state and federal system, they're very rights-based. Our culture is very responsibility-based. And the responsibilities are interlocking in family and in community. So you have to assist people to meet their responsibility and come back into community in a good way.'[/pullquote]Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation returned home to mine the stories of elders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-feb-06-la-me-yurok-language-20130207-story.html\">revive the language\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060208-the-yurok-tribe-welcomes-you#document/p5/a2053772\">master the wisdom needed to bring back ceremonial dances\u003c/a>. Yurok Judge Abby Abinanti was among them, and decades later she would deepen her commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, she began to expand the Yurok tribal justice system, launching a dedicated court docket to help tribal members struggling with substance abuse. To help participants repair the harm they’ve caused, so they could heal. So the community could heal. She called it \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-yurok-tribal-judge-20140305-dto-htmlstory.html\">Wellness Court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the state and federal system, they're very rights-based,” Abinanti said. “Our culture is very responsibility-based. And the responsibilities are interlocking in family and in community. So you have to assist people to meet their responsibility and come back into community in a good way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State court judges started releasing Yurok defendants to Abinanti’s court – and seeing results. So in 2015, she decided it was time to reach more tribal members cycling through county jail. A laborious rolling cross-tally of two separate databases revealed which Yurok members were incarcerated and why. The most common offense: domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Walking the path\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many defendants, it turned out, were in county jail for violating probation. For not completing the state’s 52 week batterer’s intervention program – the same one Mark had attended. One barrier was financial. Even at the lowest end of the sliding scale, the state program cost $1,000. There were transportation and child care problems, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Abinanti’s team decided to create their own 52-week batterers’ program, one that drew on core cultural values, and get the state to certify it as an option for state court defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence of domestic violence was startling yet unsurprising. Surveys and focus groups conducted a few years earlier by the \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> – a collective of tribal judges – revealed the scope of the crisis. Nearly half the women and a fifth of the men who \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/NCTCC_Responses_D_V.pdf\">responded\u003c/a> said they’d been abused by a partner. Drugs and alcohol played a role about two-thirds of the time. Lack of trust in law enforcement and state court systems was common. So was a lack of awareness of services at the county level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And participants “generally believed that these services lacked a necessary cultural component to ensure they were appropriate for a Native American population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court coalition stepped up to help build the Yurok batterers program, funding the training for two facilitators. It launched in 2016, with state certification, the first of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum includes the basics: Take full responsibility for your actions and identify your triggers. Specific Yurok cultural practices aren’t on the agenda. Because, the only way to make the program pencil out was to open it to everyone – tribal members from throughout the region and non-tribal members, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1536x1052.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok tribal member Lori Nesbitt was the founding facilitator of the Yurok Batterers Intervention Program, which takes a restorative approach to healing and emphasizes the roots of intergenerational trauma. It rolled out in 2016 and is certified by the state as one of the 52-week programs available to domestic violence offenders in Northern California. Here, Nesbitt presents details of the program at a 2019 conference in Washington D.C. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Lori Nesbitt, the founding facilitator, said the whole approach stems from Yurok-style justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who are they and who is their family,” she explained, “and how can we walk the path with them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total cost is $30, for a book. All participants make a family tree, and conduct an interview with a community elder outside their immediate family about that generation’s experiences with domestic abuse. Participants are pressed to identify not just the family members that led them astray, but the ones who taught them cultural practices and helped root them to a sense of self – whatever their culture. Most of all, Nesbitt said she acknowledges past pain as the deep generational roots of family violence come to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you've gone through this program, you can kind of acknowledge that, ‘Yeah some things happened. And I've repaired those. I've forgiven myself,’ ” she said. “However they choose to find that forgiveness, to me, is their pathway to healing for the rest of their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Self-forgiveness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Lydia’s arrest, state prosecutors offered her the same deal as Mark. Complete a 52-week batterers intervention program and her charge would disappear. She chose the Yurok one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of me being the victim all the time, I learned that I was also abuser,” she said. “I learned that I did that to my children. Because I had the choice to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turning point: understanding the context of her trauma and the chain of traumas that came before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned how to love myself,” she said. “I’m just now feeling like I don’t walk around in shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple separated after Lydia’s arrest. But while she worked her program, Mark went to counseling and to a Christian faith-based recovery program that, he said, flooded him with “realizations and epiphanies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started learning about what PTSD was,” he said, \"and what it does to your body and the fear and how it paralyzes you...just understanding my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have now reunited, and both say a big part of their healing is participating in their own tribal community, giving back. Each has an idea that they believe would help tribal members affected by domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia’s is for a safe house for women and children, \"but it would have to be way up in the mountains, gated, with security. It would be a home with programs for them to heal, and the children to heal too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark’s idea is specifically for men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go into an isolated place where they're taught their culture, where they're taught to fish, to dance, to sing, to give to your elders. And then I want them to come out as a dance crew to show that strength,” he said. “There's going to be so much power, to recover those men. I just feel that so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a> at 1-800-799-7233\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.strongheartshelpline.org/\">StrongHearts Native Helpline\u003c/a> at 1-844-7NATIVE)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> mobile app\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ccuih.org/red-women-rising-program/\">Red Women Rising\u003c/a>, for Native Americans living in urban areas\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible by Yurok tribal member \u003ca href=\"https://www.pli.edu/faculty/laura--woods-30562\">Laura Woods\u003c/a>, and documentary filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/219880229\">Luisa Conlon\u003c/a>. This story was produced by The California Report Magazine courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-jc.htm\">The Judicial Council of California\u003c/a>, which commissioned the \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/14851.htm\">original version\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Legends and parables make it clear that domestic violence was not tolerated in traditional Yurok culture, said Abinanti, 73. Rather, it’s a relatively recent symptom of the wound of colonization. Treating that symptom without addressing the cause gets you nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have to do is look at the context and where it came from,” she said. And in Northern California, “it came from things \u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/indiv/t/tumminia/memorial.htm\">like boarding school, massacres and the Indian Slave Act\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official title of the latter was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/IB.pdf\">The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians\u003c/a>.” Passed at California’s first Constitutional Convention in 1850, it allowed Indigenous children – and adults – to be indentured to white settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many were captured in the North and sold down into the middle of the state and to the South,” Abinanti said, in many cases after witnessing the murder of their parents. Many escaped and ran home. But “the problem is they were adults,” she said, “and then they got into adult relationships and had children and had no idea how to parent. And had a lot of anger, frankly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg\" alt=\"Profile shot of Judge Abby Abinanti standing outside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/judgeabinanti-1536x1055.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abby Abinanti is chief justice of the Yurok Tribe, whose ancestral lands stretch through Humboldt and Del Norte counties, near the Oregon border. In 1974 she became the first Native American woman admitted to the State Bar of California. Her court’s approach to substance abuse and domestic violence is restorative more than punitive, and emphasizes cultural values as a key to healing offenders and the communities they’ve harmed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the mid-19th Century through the 1960s, more trauma: U.S. officials forced Native American children across the country to attend government-run boarding schools designed, as one historian explains, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/10/native-american-boarding-schools-shadows-of-sherman-institute/\">to destroy that which was Indian and re-create people in the image of White America\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People covered up the dance sites, hid the regalia, weren’t allowed to speak the language,” said Abinanti. And with cultural amnesia came pain and self-denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is something that comes out of what people think and believe,” she said. “And so we learned another language that didn’t think and believe what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Love and violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the time Lydia turned 18 she’d been on her own for a while, walking four miles each way to a fast food job. But she cherished one cultural tradition: \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/features/klamath-salmon-yurok-tribe\">Salmon fishing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so I go down there,” she said. To the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see this beautiful girl step out of this truck,” Mark recalled. “And I thought, Oh man! There she is...I’m gonna marry that girl. But it was scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an automatic connection,” said Lydia. “I wanted this picture-perfect life. I knew there was a life without abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/SalmonFishing-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok citizen Tasheena Natt fishes for salmon in the Klamath River. Salmon fishing is central to the Yurok culture and economy, and is considered a deeply spiritual practice. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, they were like glue on glue. They moved in together and decided to have a baby. Lydia quit drinking, drugs, cigarettes. She gave birth to a girl, and a couple of years later, a boy. But Mark was still partying. The fights began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About five years in, it got physical. Mark slapped Lydia during an argument in the kitchen, giving her a fat lip. She ran to a neighbor’s apartment. And to her horror, that neighbor dialed 911. Lydia didn’t trust law enforcement. She said she’d learned that from her mom and grandmother. But the wheels were in motion. Police arrested Mark, and state prosecutors offered him a deal: If he attended a 52-week batterers intervention program, the charges would be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark said he “participated fully.” He learned to walk away from a fight, to take a time out. It was progress. But he’d realize later how much he still didn’t know – about himself and the roots of his violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved her and I loved my children, and I wanted to be better,” Mark said. “But I didn’t know how to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Addiction in Indian Country\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Mark completed his program, he said he “continued to work on myself and work on myself.” But, for four more years, he “was still using meth.” In the late '90s, he managed to quit. Then came the opioid explosion, “when the doctors were basically giving away, just as many as you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a laborer with regular injuries, he had access to that open tap. They both did. Addiction followed, \u003ca href=\"https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/d7/priv/sma14-4866.pdf\">another symptom of historical trauma\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/diverse-populations/americanindian/mentalhealth/\">often goes hand in hand with domestic violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation returned home to mine the stories of elders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-feb-06-la-me-yurok-language-20130207-story.html\">revive the language\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060208-the-yurok-tribe-welcomes-you#document/p5/a2053772\">master the wisdom needed to bring back ceremonial dances\u003c/a>. Yurok Judge Abby Abinanti was among them, and decades later she would deepen her commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, she began to expand the Yurok tribal justice system, launching a dedicated court docket to help tribal members struggling with substance abuse. To help participants repair the harm they’ve caused, so they could heal. So the community could heal. She called it \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-yurok-tribal-judge-20140305-dto-htmlstory.html\">Wellness Court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the state and federal system, they're very rights-based,” Abinanti said. “Our culture is very responsibility-based. And the responsibilities are interlocking in family and in community. So you have to assist people to meet their responsibility and come back into community in a good way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State court judges started releasing Yurok defendants to Abinanti’s court – and seeing results. So in 2015, she decided it was time to reach more tribal members cycling through county jail. A laborious rolling cross-tally of two separate databases revealed which Yurok members were incarcerated and why. The most common offense: domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Walking the path\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many defendants, it turned out, were in county jail for violating probation. For not completing the state’s 52 week batterer’s intervention program – the same one Mark had attended. One barrier was financial. Even at the lowest end of the sliding scale, the state program cost $1,000. There were transportation and child care problems, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Abinanti’s team decided to create their own 52-week batterers’ program, one that drew on core cultural values, and get the state to certify it as an option for state court defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prevalence of domestic violence was startling yet unsurprising. Surveys and focus groups conducted a few years earlier by the \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> – a collective of tribal judges – revealed the scope of the crisis. Nearly half the women and a fifth of the men who \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/NCTCC_Responses_D_V.pdf\">responded\u003c/a> said they’d been abused by a partner. Drugs and alcohol played a role about two-thirds of the time. Lack of trust in law enforcement and state court systems was common. So was a lack of awareness of services at the county level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And participants “generally believed that these services lacked a necessary cultural component to ensure they were appropriate for a Native American population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court coalition stepped up to help build the Yurok batterers program, funding the training for two facilitators. It launched in 2016, with state certification, the first of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum includes the basics: Take full responsibility for your actions and identify your triggers. Specific Yurok cultural practices aren’t on the agenda. Because, the only way to make the program pencil out was to open it to everyone – tribal members from throughout the region and non-tribal members, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/LoriNesbitt-1536x1052.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yurok tribal member Lori Nesbitt was the founding facilitator of the Yurok Batterers Intervention Program, which takes a restorative approach to healing and emphasizes the roots of intergenerational trauma. It rolled out in 2016 and is certified by the state as one of the 52-week programs available to domestic violence offenders in Northern California. Here, Nesbitt presents details of the program at a 2019 conference in Washington D.C. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Yurok Tribe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Lori Nesbitt, the founding facilitator, said the whole approach stems from Yurok-style justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who are they and who is their family,” she explained, “and how can we walk the path with them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total cost is $30, for a book. All participants make a family tree, and conduct an interview with a community elder outside their immediate family about that generation’s experiences with domestic abuse. Participants are pressed to identify not just the family members that led them astray, but the ones who taught them cultural practices and helped root them to a sense of self – whatever their culture. Most of all, Nesbitt said she acknowledges past pain as the deep generational roots of family violence come to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you've gone through this program, you can kind of acknowledge that, ‘Yeah some things happened. And I've repaired those. I've forgiven myself,’ ” she said. “However they choose to find that forgiveness, to me, is their pathway to healing for the rest of their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Self-forgiveness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After Lydia’s arrest, state prosecutors offered her the same deal as Mark. Complete a 52-week batterers intervention program and her charge would disappear. She chose the Yurok one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of me being the victim all the time, I learned that I was also abuser,” she said. “I learned that I did that to my children. Because I had the choice to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turning point: understanding the context of her trauma and the chain of traumas that came before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned how to love myself,” she said. “I’m just now feeling like I don’t walk around in shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple separated after Lydia’s arrest. But while she worked her program, Mark went to counseling and to a Christian faith-based recovery program that, he said, flooded him with “realizations and epiphanies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started learning about what PTSD was,” he said, \"and what it does to your body and the fear and how it paralyzes you...just understanding my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have now reunited, and both say a big part of their healing is participating in their own tribal community, giving back. Each has an idea that they believe would help tribal members affected by domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia’s is for a safe house for women and children, \"but it would have to be way up in the mountains, gated, with security. It would be a home with programs for them to heal, and the children to heal too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark’s idea is specifically for men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go into an isolated place where they're taught their culture, where they're taught to fish, to dance, to sing, to give to your elders. And then I want them to come out as a dance crew to show that strength,” he said. “There's going to be so much power, to recover those men. I just feel that so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a> at 1-800-799-7233\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.strongheartshelpline.org/\">StrongHearts Native Helpline\u003c/a> at 1-844-7NATIVE)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://nctcc.org/\">Northern California Tribal Court Coalition\u003c/a> mobile app\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ccuih.org/red-women-rising-program/\">Red Women Rising\u003c/a>, for Native Americans living in urban areas\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible by Yurok tribal member \u003ca href=\"https://www.pli.edu/faculty/laura--woods-30562\">Laura Woods\u003c/a>, and documentary filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/219880229\">Luisa Conlon\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two of the nation's biggest oil companies are suing Bay Area air regulators to block a new rule that would force their regional refineries to significantly reduce the amount of pollution they spew into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron and PBF Energy filed separate lawsuits this week in Contra Costa County Superior Court against the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876301/bay-area-refineries-must-dramatically-cut-pollution-air-district-says-in-historic-vote\">board voted 19 to 3 to require both refineries to reduce the particulate matter\u003c/a> their plants emit. The rule is set to take effect in five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878624/a-pivotal-moment-for-regulating-the-bay-areas-oil-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In the lead-up to the July vote\u003c/a>, both companies slammed the rule and threatened legal action.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Andres Soto, Richmond community activist\"]'Chevron and PBF would rather spend endless dollars on their army of lawyers rather than implement a hard-won victory by frontline polluted communities to improve their health.'[/pullquote]Chevron says the air district overstated the public health benefits of the new rule and underestimated the costs of implementing it at the company's Richmond refinery. It contends the new rule represents the most expensive particulate matter regulation in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Air Board's rulemaking process was flawed and the Board's actions ... conflict with state law and are based on faulty science,\" Chevron said in a statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF — the second company — has argued that having to buy and install a device \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754005/shell-to-sell-martinez-refinery-for-1-billion\">to meet the particulate matter reduction requirements would force it to shut down its Martinez refinery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its lawsuit, PBF says its own emissions proposal, which called for a reduction in particulate matter releases, but to a lesser degree than the one approved, was improperly removed from consideration by the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company argues the district ignored requirements set forth by the California Environmental Quality Act, and says the technology likely needed to meet the new standard \"will have significant adverse cost, operational, and business impacts to regulated refineries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Davis, president of PBF Energy's Western Region, said in a statement that the refinery is moving forward on a planned project that will significantly reduce its particulate matter releases by early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\"Despite being disappointed by the ... board's decision,\" the refinery is \"committed to continue working with the air district to reduce particulate matter emissions,\" Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874932/air-regulators-weigh-plan-aimed-at-dramatically-cutting-bay-area-refinery-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rule\u003c/a> focuses on key refinery components called fluidized catalytic cracking units, which break down heavy crude oil into lighter products like gasoline. 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They argued the district needed to follow through on its stated mission to keep nearby residents, many of whom are lower-income people of color who have suffered from disproportionately high rates of respiratory disease, safe from air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andres Soto, a Richmond organizer with Communities for a Better Environment, called the lawsuits an egregious act of racial and environmental injustice by some of the world's largest corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"bay-area-refineries\"]\"Chevron and PBF would rather spend endless dollars on their army of lawyers rather than implement a hard-won victory by frontline polluted communities to improve their health,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Amanda Millstein, a Richmond pediatrician and co-founder of Climate Health Now, a group of California health professionals pushing to transition away from fossil fuels, took aim at Chevron, the oil giant that runs the refinery in her city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron's shameless and predictable delay is coming at the expense of my patients' and their families' lives,\" Millstein said. \"It is outrageous for the oil industry to sue a government entity for acting in the public's interest while fulfilling its charter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute, said the lawsuits fly in the face of research that shows fossil fuel pollution causes thousands of premature deaths in California every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's contemptible for Chevron to pay its pricey lawyers to sue rather than just install pollution-control equipment that many refineries already have in place,\" Kretzmann said. \"Given this is a matter of life and death for frontline communities, Chevron's penny-pinching is completely immoral.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jed Holtzman, a former policy analyst with 350 Bay Area, which pushed for the rule, said local advocates fought hard to get the district to put the life-saving rule in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bay Area communities should be outraged that Big Oil is trying to subvert democratic government action to protect our health,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is not expected to affect the Bay Area's three other refineries. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting “from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,” said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally’s co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan\"]‘At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States’ struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has “been a beam of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans “is something that’s really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. “I’m Afghan myself, and I’m out here to support my people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to continue to have hope,” she added. “I’m very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. [aside postID=news_11885170,news_11885908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it’s important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don’t have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they’ve been struggling for, for the last twenty years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,” Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan’s history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. “Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,” she said. “There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. … That’s how scared they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1431276649744502788\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the crowd, organizer Nagar Nawabi called on the U.S. to promote social equity among genders and among marginalized groups and to establish a committee to investigate the actions of the U.S., Pakistan and others in Afghanistan over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not asking for much, but we are asking for human rights. But clearly, that’s too much to ask when you’re an Afghan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghanistan-evacuation-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From State Senator Alex Padilla’s office\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: If you or your immediate family need assistance evacuating or immigrating from Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghan-evacuation-form/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please complete this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For any questions about how to complete the above form, please email: afg-evac@padilla.senate.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/afghanistan-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>From Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it’s important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don’t have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they’ve been struggling for, for the last twenty years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,” Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan’s history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. “Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,” she said. “There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. … That’s how scared they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to: \u003ca href=\"#help\">How to help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">Two explosions outside the international airport in Kabul on Thursday\u003c/a> left dozens of people dead and injured, including members of the U.S. military and Afghan civilians. The attacks, which occurred at one of the gates to the airport and at a nearby hotel, came less than a day after the U.S. Embassy warned U.S. citizens to get out of the area. ISIS-K, the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan, has said it carried out the attack, according to The Associated Press and Reuters. In an afternoon address, President Joe Biden vowed to “hunt down” the attackers and “make [them] pay.” \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">Follow NPR’s ongoing coverage\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mishkan Zahir Darbi, program manager of Fremont’s Afghan Coalition, told KQED on Thursday that the group had been bracing for the possibility of an attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that the behavior of this terrorism group is such that they will make certain to keep these individuals inside the country to torture essentially,” Darbi said. “It wasn’t a surprise, but it is devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Aug. 15, when Taliban soldiers took over Kabul, thousands of people have continued to make their way to the airport hoping to flee the country. On Aug. 16, some rushed the airport and were so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it took off, and plunged to their deaths. At least seven people were reported dead in that chaos, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-gunmen-killed-by-us-forces-kabul-airport-past-24-hours-official-2021-08-16/\">two people shot by the U.S. military\u003c/a> trying to control the crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area lawmakers are responding to the attacks, calling them “horrific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our urgent priority must be the safe and immediate evacuation of Americans and those who demonstrated allegiance to the U.S. during the war or are at risk if they remain in the country,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San José, said in a statement. “Today, we mourn the U.S. military men and women who lost their lives. Their bravery and sacrifices must not be forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) said in a statement that he is continuing to monitor the situation in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that we do all we can to secure the area so we can prioritize the safe and swift rescue of U.S. citizens, diplomatic personnel, U.S. servicemembers, as well other individuals at imminent risk, such as journalists, women, civil servants and Afghan allies,” Swalwell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) said in an interview with KQED Thursday there needs to be a review of U.S. evacuation operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we could have started the evacuation earlier,” he said. “I do think when we have those oversight questions in Congress we should look not just at the last 20 days but at the last 20 years of went wrong in the war in Afghanistan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Garamendi (D-Davis) urged Pres. Joe Biden to maintain the Aug. 31 withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is tragically obvious that the American soldiers are in harm’s way … so the sooner they’re out of there, the better,” Garamendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the U.S., the Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15 was something many feared in their worst nightmares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just in complete shock and complete despair. I can’t control my emotions,” Nahid Fattahi told KQED through tears, shortly after the Aug. 15 takeover. “My nightmare came true today with the collapse of the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi said she feels let down, especially by the American government and by President Biden. “It was literally a slap on every Afghan’s face. It’s a very dark day for me — and millions of Afghans,” she said. “This is a dark day for anyone who believes in freedom and humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi, a human rights activist, said she’s been in disbelief since the collapse of Herat. Herat is Afghanistan’s third-largest city and her birthplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m extremely emotional because, for Afghans — we foresaw this,” she added.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mizgon Zahir Darby, freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine\"]‘My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Taliban tightened their grip on her hometown back in the mid-’90s, Fattahi says her parents made the agonizing choice to send her to Canada at the age of 14 to marry a man who promised to provide her a better life and an education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since coming to the U.S., she’s been outspoken about the dangers of the extremist group and the importance of making sure women’s rights are included when negotiating peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We warned the American government about this,” she said through tears. “I and millions of Afghans around the world … we just feel betrayed, let down and hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fattahi started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/pres-biden-and-congress-ensure-afghan-women-s-rights-alongside-peace-with-the-taliban?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Change.org\u003c/a> petition over two years ago to ensure women’s rights were considered in discussions with the Taliban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Taliban cannot be trusted,” she said. “Women will pay a huge price for this, and for generations to come.” But she also said the impact will be felt globally. “I think the world will eventually pay a huge price for this because we are not separate — the world is very much connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward-based Mizgon Zahir Darby, a freelance writer and former publisher of an Afghan American magazine, echoed Fattahi shortly after the Taliban takeover in saying that there’s a sense of hopelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women and girls have lost their rights, but in addition, they have lost their humanity,” Darby said. “My concern for women in Afghanistan is the same as it would be here in the United States if women and girls lost their humanity — if they were being ripped out of their mother’s arms at 12 or 13 years old to marry terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Farhad Yousafzai, who came to Sacramento in 2014 after working for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, he’s worried neighboring countries will help fund proxy armies, which could lead to even more death. He told KQED he’s disappointed and mad. “What was the point of all the death?” he asked, of the many years of instability and war in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>How to help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell — who represents parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and one of the largest Afghan American populations in the Bay Area — said following the Taliban takeover, “right now, the best thing I believe we can do as leaders in the community is to help give comfort and support to families who are looking for answers over in Afghanistan.” He’s also been working to assist those with visa applications already in place. [aside tag=\"afghanistan, afghan\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell said he spoke with the secretaries of state and defense on Aug. 15, and they had pledged to look into ways of streamlining applications. “Of course, we want to honor the interpreters who worked with us on the battlefield through the special immigration visa,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/politics/afghan-interpreters-evacuated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18,000 Afghans have been caught “in bureaucratic limbo”\u003c/a> after applying for special immigrant visas — available to those facing threats as a result of working for the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 25, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, joined 28 senators in writing \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Afghan-Parole-Letter-8.25.21.pdf\">a letter urging the Biden administration to expedite efforts to evacuate Afghans at risk\u003c/a> . Previously, Padilla said his office would work with the State Department to process special immigration visa requests “as expeditiously as possible,” in a statement released Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled some additional resources to support Afghans and Afghan Americans in the U.S. and abroad:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a local or international organization \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family and Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JFCS East Bay has already welcomed dozens of people from Afghanistan to begin new lives in the East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">in an Aug. 20 update\u003c/a> said they expected dozens more Afghans to arrive this week, noting that they often get very little notice before being called to meet arriving planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has an \u003ca href=\"https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CW3QPCLGZMBC/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon wish list\u003c/a> where items can be shipped to their Concord office and distributed to refugees directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also especially in need of gift cards to low-cost grocery stores like FoodMaxx or Grocery Outlet or Target,” Ami Dodson, who coordinates volunteer services, wrote in an email to KQED. “We have actually been inundated with responses. This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. The fund is specifically “to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the urgent need to help journalists, lawyers, and other academics—especially women—flee the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal is to raise $100,000 by August 27. If that number is reached, the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Office has pledged to match it in an effort to enable emergency travel and placement in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donate \u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Volunteer as a U.S.-based attorney for pro bono cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaGqsmuMLBr6H36GAwYgSpLNS-h1FbNSE9aRkmNeh8HKfCRg/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google form\u003c/a> is an effort to put individuals who have immigration questions related to Afghanistan in contact with attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/maitelsadany/status/1427016158503477249\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Committee to Protect Journalists\u003c/a> has warned that journalists in Afghanistan face extreme dangers, specifically women who are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/10/please-pray-for-me-female-reporter-being-hunted-by-the-taliban-tells-her-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrified\u003c/a>” with the Taliban returning to power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The International Women’s Media Foundation offers an \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/emergency-fund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emergency Fund\u003c/a> to assist journalists in distress.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediasupport.org/news/hundreds-of-afghan-media-workers-are-under-threat-support-afghanistans-journalists/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AJSC (Afghan Journalists Safety Committee)\u003c/a> provides shelters, safe houses and other support for journalists and their families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area individuals and organizations are encouraging people to call their congresspeople to provide emergency aid to support fleeing Afghan migrants. Reach out to your representative \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got something to add on how to help in the Bay Area? Let us know by sending an email to lsarah@kqed.org or tagging us on @kqednews.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Aug. 17. This post includes reporting from KQED’s Gabriella Frenes, The Associated Press and NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Alex Padilla, D-California, joined 28 senators in writing \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Afghan-Parole-Letter-8.25.21.pdf\">a letter urging the Biden administration to expedite efforts to evacuate Afghans at risk\u003c/a> . Previously, Padilla said his office would work with the State Department to process special immigration visa requests “as expeditiously as possible,” in a statement released Aug. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve compiled some additional resources to support Afghans and Afghan Americans in the U.S. and abroad:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a local or international organization \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family and Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JFCS East Bay has already welcomed dozens of people from Afghanistan to begin new lives in the East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">in an Aug. 20 update\u003c/a> said they expected dozens more Afghans to arrive this week, noting that they often get very little notice before being called to meet arriving planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has an \u003ca href=\"https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1CW3QPCLGZMBC/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon wish list\u003c/a> where items can be shipped to their Concord office and distributed to refugees directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also especially in need of gift cards to low-cost grocery stores like FoodMaxx or Grocery Outlet or Target,” Ami Dodson, who coordinates volunteer services, wrote in an email to KQED. “We have actually been inundated with responses. This community is so compassionate and generous,” Dodson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Refugee Services Fouzia Azizi thanked the thousands of Bay Area residents who have offered their help so far. “Each of these actions ensure that our new neighbors are welcomed with dignity and care,” Azizi wrote on the JFCS website. “We are overwhelmed by your heartfelt desire to help the new arrivals move from trauma to comfort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those interested in donating furniture can reach out to her via email (adodson@jfcs-eastbay.org) with a photo of what they’d like to donate. Dodson said they do not have a pickup service available, so donations would need to be delivered to their storage unit in Walnut Creek. They are also unable to take queen- or king-size mattresses, sofas/couches, or other large or heavy items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also requesting volunteers to sign up through this \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPhmo7tSgUe6kSu18TC3ubHExjXv8E7fukUAmOUmFtcCSSVQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Form\u003c/a> to assist case managers with airport pickups, signing up for social services and providing language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial donations can also be made \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/donate-now-newsletter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6145505079&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Fremont Afghan Refugee Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Fremont, home to one of the largest Afghan communities in the country, has established a fund through the Human Services Department. The fund is specifically for direct assistance to Afghan refugees arriving in Fremont, Newark and Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Rescue Committee, which operates branches in Oakland as well as internationally, has launched a $10 million appeal to raise funds for the emergency response to ensure aid can still be provided within Afghanistan, as well as to continue to provide support and protection for internally displaced people in Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Humanitarians like the IRC have remained in Afghanistan through crisis after crisis and have proven remarkably effective in delivering impartial and principled responses in challenging operating environments,” said Amanda Catanzano, IRC senior director for international programs policy and advocacy, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-urges-leaders-protect-civilians-and-safeguard-aid-workers-afghanistan-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> on Aug. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations can be made \u003ca href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Support a ‘Scholars at Risk’ fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A ‘\u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk\u003c/a>‘ fund has been created by \u003ca href=\"https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center\u003c/a>, in partnership with San José State’s Human Rights Institute and the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association. The fund is specifically “to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the urgent need to help journalists, lawyers, and other academics—especially women—flee the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal is to raise $100,000 by August 27. If that number is reached, the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Office has pledged to match it in an effort to enable emergency travel and placement in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donate \u003ca href=\"https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/27209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Volunteer as a U.S.-based attorney for pro bono cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaGqsmuMLBr6H36GAwYgSpLNS-h1FbNSE9aRkmNeh8HKfCRg/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google form\u003c/a> is an effort to put individuals who have immigration questions related to Afghanistan in contact with attorneys.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 2015 a man named Herrera fled to the U.S. with his family after he says he became the target of political violence in his hometown in central Mexico. When they reached the San Francisco Bay Area, he applied for asylum. But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,” said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. “But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Herrera, asylum seeker\"]‘I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a ruthless mob attacked his home one night, bashing in doors and windows, and kidnapped him for days over his involvement with a rival political campaign. When authorities told him they couldn’t protect him or his wife and three kids, he said he knew he had to get them to safety. Herrera spoke to KQED on the condition that he only be identified by one of his last names, because of fear that divulging his identity could hurt his asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1106366/download\">growing number of asylum seekers\u003c/a> at the U.S.-Mexico border, and U.S. immigration courts mired in an \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/\">epic backlog\u003c/a> of nearly 1.4 million cases, the Biden administration has proposed a fundamental change in the way asylum cases are decided. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/08/18/dhs-and-doj-publish-notice-proposed-rulemaking-make-asylum-process-more-efficient\">plan\u003c/a>, announced last week, aims to speed up the process and reduce pressure on the courts. It could also make the experience more humane for migrants fleeing persecution, like Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The trauma is hard to shake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three hours into his last hearing, Herrera broke down sobbing on the witness stand, recalled his pro bono lawyer, Abby Sullivan Engen, a supervising immigration attorney with Oakland-based Centro Legal de la Raza. She said she asked the judge for a break but was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The judge] instead helped him to focus on his breathing and asked that he keep recounting his traumatic story,” said Sullivan Engen, who found the experience disturbing. “The prosecutor’s sight remained fixed on her computer and desk, never once looking at this man crying profusely on the witness stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just recounting the hostile questioning he experienced in immigration court, and his inability to satisfy the Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor with every detail of the violence he suffered, was agitating for Herrera. In the middle of an interview with KQED over Zoom, he stopped suddenly, wiped his face and walked away, eventually returning with a bottle of cold water to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11886302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez watch their son jump on the trampoline at their home on August 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera’s wife — whom KQED agreed to refer to only by her last name, Gonzalez, so as not to jeopardize the case — remained on the living room couch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s still really traumatized,” she said. “We’ve been through a lot, and each time we have to present it in court, it’s like living through it all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said what’s hardest to see is the anxiety her children suffer each time their parents prepare to go to court. She said they’re still haunted by memories of watching the angry mob kidnap their father and threaten to burn them alive in their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our children ask, ‘Mami, what’s going to happen if we have to go back there? Are we going to have to go live there again?'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Different systems for different asylum seekers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Herrera was one of almost 64,000 people who applied for asylum in 2015 after reaching the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2020, the number was close to 200,000. And all of those cases must go through the immigration court system, where overstretched judges are often rushed and hearings are routinely delayed for months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every asylum seeker goes through immigration court — only people who seek refuge at the time they are entering the country. The process is different for those who request protection after they’re already in the U.S. — on a student visa or as a tourist, for example. Those applicants are interviewed in an office setting by an asylum officer employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/20/2021-17779/procedures-for-credible-fear-screening-and-consideration-of-asylum-withholding-of-removal-and-cat\">proposed rule\u003c/a> by the Department of Justice, which oversees the immigration courts, and the Department of Homeland Security, where U.S.C.I.S. is located, was published Aug. 20 in the Federal Register. It would send everyone who claims asylum at the border to the U.S.C.I.S. asylum office as well. One primary objective: Officials say adjudications would move faster than in immigration court, allowing cases to be decided in months, rather than years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\"]‘We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Individuals who are eligible will receive relief more swiftly, while those who are not eligible will be expeditiously removed,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a statement. “We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would help restore credibility to an immigration system that’s “pretty badly broken,” says Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., who has advocated for such a reform for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Biden administration’s new rule represents a fundamental retooling of the asylum system that preserves asylum as a bedrock element of the U.S. immigration system while also recognizing that a secure border and deterring unlawful crossings are legitimate and necessary attributes of an effective, credible immigration system,” Meissner wrote in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/biden-asylum-processing-proposed-rule\">commentary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All asylum seekers must prove they meet the legal definition of a refugee: that they have suffered persecution, or fear that they will suffer persecution, in their home country due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having your case heard by a U.S.C.I.S. asylum officer doesn’t mean you’re more likely to be granted asylum, though. The annual approval rate from 2012 to 2020 in immigration court ranged from 26% to 53%. At U.S.C.I.S., it ranged from 27% to 48%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But asylum officers have more specialized training on asylum law and country conditions around the world, according to Meissner. And supervision in the U.S.C.I.S. asylum division leads to greater consistency in asylum decisions compared to immigration courts, where the \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judge2020/denialrates.html\">approval rates\u003c/a> of individual judges can vary from 0.9% of all cases to 96.7%, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"asylum-seeker\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule would only affect future cases, not those currently in immigration court. But Sullivan Engen says if Herrera could have made his case to an asylum officer, rather than before a judge and a prosecutor, it would have been much less harrowing for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t say that it’s completely non-adversarial because sometimes the officers do ask questions in a manner that’s a little bit more like a prosecutor. But as a general rule, the asylum officer’s task is to elicit the story,” she said. “The applicant doesn’t feel like they’re being grilled in the same way. A lot of the officers have training in trauma-informed approaches to interviewing … It’s just night and day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diego Aranda-Teixeira is a supervising attorney with Al Otro Lado, a cross-border legal services agency with offices in San Diego, Los Angeles and Tijuana. He says another important aspect of the Biden plan is that it would also allow the government to release some asylum seekers who’d otherwise be locked up while their cases proceed. The rule doesn’t require releasing detainees, but it gives officials leeway to decide that “detention is unavailable or impracticable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are actively harmed by detention,” said Aranda-Teixeira. “It’s bad for their mental health and really bad for their immigration case, because if you’re new to the country and you’re detained, who are you going to call? There are no public defenders for immigration … When people get released, that really improves the chances they will get some kind of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Questions of due process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But not all immigrant advocates are convinced the new system would be an improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulce Garcia, a San Diego immigration attorney and executive director of the advocacy group Border Angels, has seen the work of U.S.C.I.S. asylum officers up close when they perform another of their functions: conducting initial screenings, called “credible fear interviews,” of people who ask for asylum at the border. She said she often finds problems with those screenings, and that makes her skeptical about expanding the role of asylum officers further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen on the ground, those of us that work at the border, when you give so much power to someone in an arbitrary system, things usually go wrong and they don’t favor migrants,” she said. “If we’re going to rework the system, I think there are better ways to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dulce Garcia, Director of Border Angels\"]‘If we’re going to rework the system, I think there are better ways to do so.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said she would rather see a broader overhaul to make the immigration courts independent of the Department of Justice and to build in greater due process protections. That’s a plan that has been endorsed by the American Bar Association and others, but would require Congress to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Human Rights First, a U.S.-based international human rights nonprofit, has also raised concerns. The group said it welcomed the proposal to allow asylum seekers to present their claims in the “less traumatizing, non-adversarial setting” of the U.S.C.I.S. asylum office. However, it criticized the government’s plan to continue to subject unauthorized migrants at the border to a fast-track deportation process known as “expedited removal,” unless they pass their initial asylum screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed rule could be used and abused to rush asylum seekers through adjudications without sufficient time to secure legal representation, gather evidence or prepare their cases, leading U.S. agencies to return to persecution people who actually do qualify for asylum,” said Eleanor Acer, the group’s senior director for refugee protection, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/human-rights-first-expresses-concern-some-proposed-asylum-changes\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Immigration Stories\" tag=\"immigration\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision that allows people to request an administrative review — but not a full appeal in immigration court — if their claim is denied by U.S.C.I.S. also raised a red flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal’s restriction on access to immigration court hearings … could limit their ability to present crucial evidence,” Acer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism also came from groups that favor further restrictions on immigration. The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., \u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Arthur/DHSDOJ-Propose-Changes-Asylum-Process-Border\">argued\u003c/a> that the proposed rule would give asylum seekers too much of a right to appeal and found fault with the rule for expanding discretion to release asylum seekers from detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public have until Oct. 19 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/20/2021-17779/procedures-for-credible-fear-screening-and-consideration-of-asylum-withholding-of-removal-and-cat\">submit comments\u003c/a> on the proposed rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New funding for asylum officers needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the new plan goes into effect, the job of the nation’s nearly 800 asylum officers would expand by perhaps 150,000 claims per year, according to U.S.C.I.S. The agency currently has 350,000 pending cases, and the only way to actually speed up asylum adjudications under the new system would be to hire more staff. U.S.C.I.S. has announced plans to add 1,000 more asylum officers and 1,000 support staff to meet the workload. But that will depend on new funding, something Biden has requested of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Herrera, asylum seeker\"]‘I wish that whatever’s going to happen, would just happen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S.C.I.S. asylum offices are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles and nine other major cities. Asylum officers also travel to perform interviews at additional U.S.C.I.S. field offices around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Biden proposal makes its way through the federal rulemaking process, those currently seeking asylum through the overtaxed immigration courts must continue to wait. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse toward women and children and disturbing language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ver since former spokesperson-for-hire Nate Ballard's arrest in October last year, for allegedly assaulting his wife and attempting to smother his child with a pillow in an incident at a Napa resort, the public relations expert has done what he does best:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's talked to media. He's talked to the public. He's talked to his allies in San Francisco government. In every case, Ballard — who served as a top aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom while Newsom was mayor of San Francisco — has characterized the event as a misunderstanding brought on by grief and alcohol use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the legal saga comes to a close nearly a year later, Ballard's wife Mara Reinhardt finally told her side of the harrowing tale in public: She says Ballard abused her and their children for years, subjecting them to psychological torment. Ballard was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Former-Newsom-aide-sentenced-to-probation-in-16398787.php\">sentenced to probation Thursday\u003c/a> after striking a plea deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mara Reinhardt\"]'I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me. I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a [PR] expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.'[/pullquote]Reinhardt's victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court last week, came after a long list of prominent, politically connected San Franciscans — including the head of a domestic violence shelter and a former city police chief — had continued to back Ballard in a separate but related family court proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reinhardt, who filed for divorce shortly after the Napa incident and who agreed to the plea deal — which calls for Ballard to stay away from their two young children for six years — says he is too dangerous to be near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who know me, you know that being up here today is one of the most frightening things I have ever done,\" Reinhardt told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me,\" she said. \"I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a public relations expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a purpose in finally speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am here for our safety and for our protection from Nathan Ballard,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her version of events is dramatically different from Ballard's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard — the former press secretary for Newsom while he was mayor, a former San Francisco deputy city attorney and a former city police union spokesperson — has for months told his side of the story, featuring apologies and explanations that a long-running struggle with alcohol use disorder swayed his behavior. He even, at one point, claimed he fell asleep on his child, countering his wife's accusation that he grabbed a pillow and used his entire body's weight to smother their daughter's face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations made against me by Mara are mostly false, and the remainder are grossly exaggerated,\" Ballard told KQED on Tuesday, in a written statement. \"I never harmed my daughter, and I never would have agreed to any settlement that required me to say that I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I refuse to be sidelined by regrets,\" Ballard added. \"We all fall down sometimes. It is getting back up that matters most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His talk garnered goodwill from allies — including former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, former San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the executive director of domestic violence help organization La Casa de las Madres, Kathy Black — who sang his praises in a legal fashion, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">filing attestations to his good character in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They repeatedly told the court they could not imagine him doing the things his wife claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All throughout, Reinhardt, 37, mostly kept her point of view between herself and law enforcement authorities. Reinhardt is a Pilates instructor — and, by her own admission, doesn't have the same skill with words as Ballard, who has made a living spinning stories to his clients' advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt broke her silence by recounting her version of events in the public statement she read aloud in court last Thursday. KQED obtained a transcript of her account, which was submitted to the court but is not a publicly available document. KQED verified the transcription's veracity with Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2,600-word statement, Reinhardt alleged Ballard isolated her from friends and family for years and had physically harmed their children before, to the point where they cower in fear when they see any black Tesla on the street, the same car he drives. Their daughter still wakes in the night confused and crying, and often says she cannot breathe at bedtime, Reinhardt said, indicating ongoing trauma from the pillow-smothering incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also alleges Ballard, who has made a career representing businesses like the NFL and the Golden State Warriors, made an anti-Black racist comment in the course of trying to control the clients he'd allow Reinhardt to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt declined to comment to KQED, instead opting to let her testimony stand for itself. The names of their children, ages 3 and 5, have been redacted by KQED from her testimony and will not be used, for their protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read Reinhardt's full victim impact statement.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mara Reinhardt recorded herself re-reading her victim impact statement, and shared that recording with KQED. KQED has bleeped out the moments where Reinhardt mentions her children's names. \u003cstrong>Warning: This recording contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse and disturbing language.\u003c/strong> Listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/mara-reinhardt-reads-her-victim-impact-statement/embed?style=artwork\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mara Reinhardt Reads Her Victim Impact Statement\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Skip to: Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not the first time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ballard's defense against Reinhardt's accusations boils down to this: He says the pillow-smothering incident was isolated, due to his alcohol use disorder and exacerbated by the death of his father, and that he is now in a recovery program to heal himself. He denies he assaulted his daughter. He submitted letters from various recovery program staff and logs of his time in such programs, and swore he would one day be a new man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public and to the Napa County court, Ballard has repeatedly denied his wife's version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will say I am not proud of the way I conducted myself that evening. Mara and I both drank too much,\" Ballard told the court in filings. \"That said, I adamantly deny hurting [my daughter] that evening or at any previous time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am actively engaged in a daily program of recovery,\" he told KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in her statement, Reinhardt said the Oct. 17, 2020, incident was a clear attack, and that it wasn't the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dark moods were not \"an aberration, as he would have everyone believe,\" she said. His attacks, \"had nothing to do with his father or with alcohol.\" Reinhardt said Ballard would behave this way even when sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is who he is,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mara Reinhardt\"]'He told me I was a disgusting c*** and that training [pro athletes] would ruin his image. That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard allegedly cut Reinhardt off from friends and family. She said he \"isolated\" her, showing up unannounced when she was with friends or her sister and would \"stay until I left.\" At public events he would not allow her to go beyond his sight. Even when she went to the bathroom he would follow her and wait outside the door, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said Ballard also isolated her in regard to her career and their finances, having all financial correspondence sent to his office so she could not see it. She said he also dictated the clients she coached and forbade her to train professional athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me I was a disgusting cunt and that training them would ruin his image,\" she wrote. \"That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Ballard's career in public life involves attending parties with politicos, making face time with the wealthy and powerful. His website lists the Golden State Warriors, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.levisstadium.com/2016/02/super-bowl-50-becomes-most-watched-program-in-tv-history/\">Super Bowl 50 event hosted by the late Mayor Ed Lee\u003c/a>, and former Sen. John Kerry as past clients. He served on a board for \u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/\">The Representation Project\u003c/a>, started by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. As recently as last week he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Some-California-prison-workers-ordered-to-get-16401824.php\">quoted in a news story\u003c/a> on behalf of one of his clients, the California Correctional Peace Officer's Association, the union that represents state prison officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at San Francisco's frequent galas, balls and various shindigs that he made the connections that kept his name on the lips of the state's power players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt was told by Ballard she would need to attend these events regularly or \"suffer the consequences,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would have to go and sing his praises only to come home [and] have him be angry and abusive,\" she said. \"He would try to make me [have] sex and if I refused, I was scared he would punish me or my kids. I would lock myself in their room to hide from Nate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life with Ballard was unpredictable, she told the court. She lived in fear of Nate's moods and \"wrath.\" He would also make comments about their daughter that Reinhardt described as \"disgusting and creepy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The men are going to love her,\" Reinhardt recounted Ballard saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left their home countless times fearing for her safety, and the safety of her children. She became numb to him, she said, and stayed in their marriage for fear of what he would do to their children if she ever were to leave. When their now 5-year-old daughter was 6 months old, Reinhardt said Ballard told her that if she left him, \"he would kill me and kill [our daughter].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that moment, I felt trapped,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11807639 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Narcissistic, sociopathic fury'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Until Ballard's sentencing last week, Reinhardt had never publicly spoken about the alleged assault of Oct. 17, 2020, nor of Ballard's public defense of his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt and her children were staying at the Carneros Resort and Spa in Napa, and Ballard arrived a bit later the same day. \"He showed up with a look in his eye that I had seen many times before,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expected his behavior to escalate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt spent the afternoon and evening trying to calm Ballard down. He called her \"a cunt, a bitch, a whore as his words and body language became more vile, aggressive, erratic, and scary,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Reinhardt said, \"this was not an argument that got out of hand.\" Instead, it was one of his familiar and unprovoked rages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously said he fell asleep on top of his daughter, a claim he supports with a comment his daughter made to a Napa County detective that she thought she heard him snoring. Reinhardt countered that this story emerged only because she actively tried to shield her daughter from the truth by telling her that the attack was an instance of Ballard becoming sick with COVID, and that they stayed locked in a bedroom to \"keep away from his germs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what I told her to protect her and explain a big scary thing,\" she said. \"It's not because it was anywhere close to what she truly knew had happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Reinhardt said, what happened was this: Ballard, shouting and in a rage, shoved Reinhardt into a glass door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no doubt in my mind that in the final charge towards me, as he had his hands in the air aimed at my neck, that Nate would have killed me that night,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't finished. Next, Ballard, whom Reinhardt described as a strong, 200-plus-pound man, \"fortified by a narcissistic, sociopathic fury and an unprovoked, blind irrational rage I knew all too well,\" attacked their daughter, shouting and hurling profanities, calling their daughter a \"cunt and a bitch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt saw her daughter lying in bed, her arms flailing, as Ballard held a large pillow on top of her. He leaned on the pillow with his full weight, Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I didn't know was whether I would be able to pull him off of [my daughter] before she stopped breathing,\" Reinhardt said. \"He could have killed her and had I not been there, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said she used all of her strength to push Ballard off their daughter. They escaped to another bedroom where the other child, then 3 years old, was sleeping, and locked the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the arrival of police brought an end to that particular nightmare, the public relations barrage would soon begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nate Ballard\"]'If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements. But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF politicos stand up for Ballard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20190514173239/https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/inside-men\">A profile of Ballard in \"San Francisco\" magazine's \"Power Issue\"\u003c/a> from December 2016 described him as a \"preeminent media whisperer\" who represents a \"veritable Yellow Pages of powerful clients.\" He's frequently quoted by the press as an insider with intimate knowledge of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he represented when Newsom was mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his actions in October took a toll. In court documents, Ballard claims his $10 million public relations agency \"collapsed overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His clients? They \"fled,\" he told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his agency's collapse didn't stop him from tapping some of those friends in high places to help him. More than 40 friends (and some family) wrote mitigation letters in his defense, asking the family court for leniency. That proceeding was separate from the ongoing Napa County criminal court case, but was related as it dealt with the custody of their children, and was legally intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a personal level, I would say I know him very well and Nate has shown me that he is a good and decent human being,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">wrote Kathy Black\u003c/a>, the more-than-20-year executive director of La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence support group in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">The organization\u003c/a> provides a 24-hour hotline to domestic abuse survivors, domestic abuse prevention education, and long-term support services. The organization's stated mission is to \"stand for a safer San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her defense of Ballard, Black wrote that \"over that [sic] last two decades, Nate has become a trusted friend, strategist, and ally to La Casa,\" adding, \"While I cannot speak to this case and its very serious allegations, I just do not believe that it is in Nate's nature to hurt anyone — period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wrote in defense of Ballard, saying, \"In our many conversations about life, relationships, and family, what couldn't be any clearer is his love for his kids. He is a devoted father.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously represented the police officers' union as a spokesperson, defending Suhr's police force in the public sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added, \"I will not comment on Nate's current criminal case in your county as I know nothing more about it other that [sic] what I've read in the papers. I can and will say I don't believe for a minute that it is in Nate to ever hurt anyone; and it is inconceivable to me that he could ever hurt a child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate,\" Suhr wrote, \"is a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard's mitigation letters include other movers and shakers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11140354/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations\">Martin Halloran\u003c/a>, past president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mark-Farrell-says-brief-tenure-as-SF-mayor-will-12541019.php\">Mark Farrell\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/sunday-best/breaking-barriers-for-prieto-its-all-about-hard-work/\">Ramona Prieto\u003c/a>, retired California Highway Patrol deputy commissioner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/former-supervisor-michela-alioto-pier-district-2\">Michela Alioto-Pier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-garvey-76033956/\">Erin Garvey\u003c/a>, senior director of operations communications at PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-fire.org/people/tom-oconnor\">Tom O'Connor\u003c/a>, past president of San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/our-board/joanna-rees/\">Joanna Rees\u003c/a>, managing partner at market creation company West and board member of The Representation Project\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins, was a partner in a Danville law firm for 18 years and said she often represented wealthy and well-connected clients. Still, she told KQED, the level of support Ballard garnered from influential people, considering the allegations against him, was \"unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letters stink of cronyism and everything that is wrong with the 'rich white boy' politics of San Francisco,\" Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the verdict against Ballard, Napa County Deputy District Attorney Kecia Lind said it's common for high-profile abusers to use their prestige in the community to their advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuser uses their prominence to intimidate and further control their victims,\" Lind said. \"[T]hreatening to use their power to continue the abuse and assassination of character of the victims are features used to deflect personal responsibility and accountability for their wrongdoing. The Napa County District Attorney’s Office amplifies the voices of survivors, and this brave survivor refuses to be cowed by continued bullying or minimization of criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard told KQED on Tuesday he could have \"destroyed\" Reinhardt's credibility if he had not chosen to settle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements,\" Ballard wrote. \"But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing prominent people in power defend her former husband strikes fear in Reinhardt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate always makes sure that everyone knows that he is highly connected to powerful people: The Governor, The Vice President, various Congressmen and Women, Senators, Mayors, SF Police Chief, District Attorneys, many more people of influence in both the political and private world,\" Reinhardt said in her statement. \"He was written up as one of the 10 most powerful people in San Francisco. He never let me forget it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, in order for Reinhardt to secure an agreement from Ballard to not see their children for six years, she agreed to withdraw a domestic violence restraining order she had filed after the assault, and to take the unusual step of sealing the declaration attached to the order's petition. Without the information from that declaration being in the public sphere, Ballard has more ability to control the narrative — a tactic Reinhardt says she knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to withdraw the restraining order and seal Reinhardt's declaration was \"totally motivated\" by Ballard's own desire to protect his image, Bevins alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Long after we leave here today,\" Reinhardt said, \"I know that Nate will spend his life trying to spin yet another story, to destroy me, the children, and most likely anyone associated with this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the family law court may consider allowing Ballard to have contact with his two young children again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"statement\">\u003c/a>Read Mara Reinhardt's full victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court on Aug. 19:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21048306-victim-impact-statement-redacted/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"victim-impact-statement-redacted (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you been or are you being harmed by domestic violence? Find help via these resources, in the Bay Area and beyond:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://centerfordomesticpeace.org/\">Center for Domestic Peace\u003c/a>: Call their 24/7 English-Spanish hotline at (415) 924-6616. Shelter requests are handled via this number, as are appointments for legal advocacy services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roclinic.org/\">Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic\u003c/a>: CROC provides free legal services to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking survivors: (415) 969-6711.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fvlc.org/\">Family Violence Law Center\u003c/a>: Call (800) 947-8301 for legal services as well as 24-hour crisis intervention and support.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">La Casa de las Madres\u003c/a>: For support, resources and safety planning, call their 24/7 hotline at (877) 503-1850. You can also contact them via text at (415) 200-3575.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">The National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a>: Call (800) 799-7233, or (800) 799-7233 for TTY, or if you’re unable to speak safely, go online or text LOVEIS to 22522.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.standffov.org/\">STAND! For Families Free of Violence, Contra Costa County\u003c/a>: STAND's toll-free crisis line remains active 24 hours a day at (888) 215-5555.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.womaninc.org/\">WOMAN, Inc. (Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent)\u003c/a>: Offers 24/7 support line services, remote counseling via Zoom, Google Hangouts and phone calls in English and Spanish at (877) 384-3578.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard — the former press secretary for Newsom while he was mayor, a former San Francisco deputy city attorney and a former city police union spokesperson — has for months told his side of the story, featuring apologies and explanations that a long-running struggle with alcohol use disorder swayed his behavior. He even, at one point, claimed he fell asleep on his child, countering his wife's accusation that he grabbed a pillow and used his entire body's weight to smother their daughter's face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations made against me by Mara are mostly false, and the remainder are grossly exaggerated,\" Ballard told KQED on Tuesday, in a written statement. \"I never harmed my daughter, and I never would have agreed to any settlement that required me to say that I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I refuse to be sidelined by regrets,\" Ballard added. \"We all fall down sometimes. It is getting back up that matters most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His talk garnered goodwill from allies — including former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, former San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the executive director of domestic violence help organization La Casa de las Madres, Kathy Black — who sang his praises in a legal fashion, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">filing attestations to his good character in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They repeatedly told the court they could not imagine him doing the things his wife claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All throughout, Reinhardt, 37, mostly kept her point of view between herself and law enforcement authorities. Reinhardt is a Pilates instructor — and, by her own admission, doesn't have the same skill with words as Ballard, who has made a living spinning stories to his clients' advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt broke her silence by recounting her version of events in the public statement she read aloud in court last Thursday. KQED obtained a transcript of her account, which was submitted to the court but is not a publicly available document. KQED verified the transcription's veracity with Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2,600-word statement, Reinhardt alleged Ballard isolated her from friends and family for years and had physically harmed their children before, to the point where they cower in fear when they see any black Tesla on the street, the same car he drives. Their daughter still wakes in the night confused and crying, and often says she cannot breathe at bedtime, Reinhardt said, indicating ongoing trauma from the pillow-smothering incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also alleges Ballard, who has made a career representing businesses like the NFL and the Golden State Warriors, made an anti-Black racist comment in the course of trying to control the clients he'd allow Reinhardt to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt declined to comment to KQED, instead opting to let her testimony stand for itself. The names of their children, ages 3 and 5, have been redacted by KQED from her testimony and will not be used, for their protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read Reinhardt's full victim impact statement.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mara Reinhardt recorded herself re-reading her victim impact statement, and shared that recording with KQED. KQED has bleeped out the moments where Reinhardt mentions her children's names. \u003cstrong>Warning: This recording contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse and disturbing language.\u003c/strong> Listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/mara-reinhardt-reads-her-victim-impact-statement/embed?style=artwork\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mara Reinhardt Reads Her Victim Impact Statement\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Skip to: Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not the first time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ballard's defense against Reinhardt's accusations boils down to this: He says the pillow-smothering incident was isolated, due to his alcohol use disorder and exacerbated by the death of his father, and that he is now in a recovery program to heal himself. He denies he assaulted his daughter. He submitted letters from various recovery program staff and logs of his time in such programs, and swore he would one day be a new man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public and to the Napa County court, Ballard has repeatedly denied his wife's version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will say I am not proud of the way I conducted myself that evening. Mara and I both drank too much,\" Ballard told the court in filings. \"That said, I adamantly deny hurting [my daughter] that evening or at any previous time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am actively engaged in a daily program of recovery,\" he told KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in her statement, Reinhardt said the Oct. 17, 2020, incident was a clear attack, and that it wasn't the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dark moods were not \"an aberration, as he would have everyone believe,\" she said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF politicos stand up for Ballard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20190514173239/https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/inside-men\">A profile of Ballard in \"San Francisco\" magazine's \"Power Issue\"\u003c/a> from December 2016 described him as a \"preeminent media whisperer\" who represents a \"veritable Yellow Pages of powerful clients.\" He's frequently quoted by the press as an insider with intimate knowledge of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he represented when Newsom was mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his actions in October took a toll. In court documents, Ballard claims his $10 million public relations agency \"collapsed overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His clients? They \"fled,\" he told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his agency's collapse didn't stop him from tapping some of those friends in high places to help him. More than 40 friends (and some family) wrote mitigation letters in his defense, asking the family court for leniency. That proceeding was separate from the ongoing Napa County criminal court case, but was related as it dealt with the custody of their children, and was legally intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a personal level, I would say I know him very well and Nate has shown me that he is a good and decent human being,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">wrote Kathy Black\u003c/a>, the more-than-20-year executive director of La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence support group in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">The organization\u003c/a> provides a 24-hour hotline to domestic abuse survivors, domestic abuse prevention education, and long-term support services. The organization's stated mission is to \"stand for a safer San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her defense of Ballard, Black wrote that \"over that [sic] last two decades, Nate has become a trusted friend, strategist, and ally to La Casa,\" adding, \"While I cannot speak to this case and its very serious allegations, I just do not believe that it is in Nate's nature to hurt anyone — period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wrote in defense of Ballard, saying, \"In our many conversations about life, relationships, and family, what couldn't be any clearer is his love for his kids. He is a devoted father.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously represented the police officers' union as a spokesperson, defending Suhr's police force in the public sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added, \"I will not comment on Nate's current criminal case in your county as I know nothing more about it other that [sic] what I've read in the papers. I can and will say I don't believe for a minute that it is in Nate to ever hurt anyone; and it is inconceivable to me that he could ever hurt a child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate,\" Suhr wrote, \"is a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard's mitigation letters include other movers and shakers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11140354/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations\">Martin Halloran\u003c/a>, past president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mark-Farrell-says-brief-tenure-as-SF-mayor-will-12541019.php\">Mark Farrell\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/sunday-best/breaking-barriers-for-prieto-its-all-about-hard-work/\">Ramona Prieto\u003c/a>, retired California Highway Patrol deputy commissioner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/former-supervisor-michela-alioto-pier-district-2\">Michela Alioto-Pier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-garvey-76033956/\">Erin Garvey\u003c/a>, senior director of operations communications at PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-fire.org/people/tom-oconnor\">Tom O'Connor\u003c/a>, past president of San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/our-board/joanna-rees/\">Joanna Rees\u003c/a>, managing partner at market creation company West and board member of The Representation Project\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins, was a partner in a Danville law firm for 18 years and said she often represented wealthy and well-connected clients. Still, she told KQED, the level of support Ballard garnered from influential people, considering the allegations against him, was \"unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letters stink of cronyism and everything that is wrong with the 'rich white boy' politics of San Francisco,\" Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the verdict against Ballard, Napa County Deputy District Attorney Kecia Lind said it's common for high-profile abusers to use their prestige in the community to their advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuser uses their prominence to intimidate and further control their victims,\" Lind said. \"[T]hreatening to use their power to continue the abuse and assassination of character of the victims are features used to deflect personal responsibility and accountability for their wrongdoing. The Napa County District Attorney’s Office amplifies the voices of survivors, and this brave survivor refuses to be cowed by continued bullying or minimization of criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard told KQED on Tuesday he could have \"destroyed\" Reinhardt's credibility if he had not chosen to settle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements,\" Ballard wrote. \"But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing prominent people in power defend her former husband strikes fear in Reinhardt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate always makes sure that everyone knows that he is highly connected to powerful people: The Governor, The Vice President, various Congressmen and Women, Senators, Mayors, SF Police Chief, District Attorneys, many more people of influence in both the political and private world,\" Reinhardt said in her statement. \"He was written up as one of the 10 most powerful people in San Francisco. He never let me forget it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, in order for Reinhardt to secure an agreement from Ballard to not see their children for six years, she agreed to withdraw a domestic violence restraining order she had filed after the assault, and to take the unusual step of sealing the declaration attached to the order's petition. Without the information from that declaration being in the public sphere, Ballard has more ability to control the narrative — a tactic Reinhardt says she knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to withdraw the restraining order and seal Reinhardt's declaration was \"totally motivated\" by Ballard's own desire to protect his image, Bevins alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Long after we leave here today,\" Reinhardt said, \"I know that Nate will spend his life trying to spin yet another story, to destroy me, the children, and most likely anyone associated with this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the family law court may consider allowing Ballard to have contact with his two young children again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"statement\">\u003c/a>Read Mara Reinhardt's full victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court on Aug. 19:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21048306-victim-impact-statement-redacted/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"victim-impact-statement-redacted (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you been or are you being harmed by domestic violence? Find help via these resources, in the Bay Area and beyond:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://centerfordomesticpeace.org/\">Center for Domestic Peace\u003c/a>: Call their 24/7 English-Spanish hotline at (415) 924-6616. Shelter requests are handled via this number, as are appointments for legal advocacy services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roclinic.org/\">Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic\u003c/a>: CROC provides free legal services to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking survivors: (415) 969-6711.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fvlc.org/\">Family Violence Law Center\u003c/a>: Call (800) 947-8301 for legal services as well as 24-hour crisis intervention and support.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">La Casa de las Madres\u003c/a>: For support, resources and safety planning, call their 24/7 hotline at (877) 503-1850. You can also contact them via text at (415) 200-3575.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">The National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a>: Call (800) 799-7233, or (800) 799-7233 for TTY, or if you’re unable to speak safely, go online or text LOVEIS to 22522.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.standffov.org/\">STAND! For Families Free of Violence, Contra Costa County\u003c/a>: STAND's toll-free crisis line remains active 24 hours a day at (888) 215-5555.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.womaninc.org/\">WOMAN, Inc. (Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent)\u003c/a>: Offers 24/7 support line services, remote counseling via Zoom, Google Hangouts and phone calls in English and Spanish at (877) 384-3578.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Fletcher plans to sue Daly City, but doesn’t yet have a lawyer. “I will get justice,” Fletcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher said Black people like her brother are often fearful when stopped by police. “Are we going to get shot or go to jail when we get pulled over?” she asked. “These are the things we think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/28/110-deaths-police-killings-in-the-bay-area-since-2015-result-in-no-prosecutions-of-cops-and-little-discipline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Bay Area News Group study\u003c/a> of 110 law enforcement-involved deaths since 2015 found an outsized percentage of Black people had been killed — even when they were unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of body camera video, the DA’s investigation reconstructed the incident from interviews and physical evidence. According to the DA’s report, Officer Nicholas McCarthy said he saw a truck pulled over with a flat tire on the 700 block of Niantic Avenue, just east of Highway 280 in Daly City. It was a few minutes before 2 p.m. He decided to check on the driver, and pulled behind the truck without his lights or sirens on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy told investigators he saw Allen, who was in the truck’s passenger seat, trying to hide a pipe. He asked the driver, James Colangelo, to step out of the vehicle. Officer Rosa Brenes arrived, followed closely by Lt. Michael Brennan and detective Cameron Newton, who approached the passenger side of the truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy said he then noticed that Allen was holding what looked like a semiautomatic handgun in his lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer yelled “Gun, gun, gun!” and drew his own firearm, according to the DA’s report, as Allen raised the weapon and began to yell, pointing it at McCarthy’s face. As he prepared to fire, the officer said he felt a “pinch” on his forehead. He said he feared shooting could hit the other officers and decided to retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had Mr. Allen’s gun been an actual firearm, officer McCarthy would have been shot in the head and likely suffered a fatal wound instead of only suffering a graze wound from a BB,” Wagstaffe wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan had opened the passenger side door and was struggling with Allen, officers and witnesses told DA’s investigators. Detective Cameron Newton reached around Brennan and fired two shots at Allen, hitting him once fatally in the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a feeling of being terrified that the subject was going to kill the Lieutenant right in front of me, kill me, whoever else was in the vehicle,” Newton told investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colangelo and another witness in the truck’s back seat told investigators Allen pointed what looked like a gun at police officers, according to the DA’s report. 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The police department has purchased 100 body cameras and 32 in-car cameras and is training officers to use them, according to a statement from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, Daly City hired former Oakland police chief Howard Jordan’s consulting firm to investigate the shooting to see whether the officers violated the department’s use-of-force policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Wagstaffe said he believed his office examined all evidence in the case, but also said he would be open to new evidence if the independent investigation discovered something new.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They have their paperwork but they can’t go through.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of sitting at home, she decided to organize a protest in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Afghan Americans and their allies showed up in Fremont on Saturday, demanding that local representatives pressure President Biden to ensure military-led evacuations from the Kabul airport continue beyond the expected Aug. 31 withdrawal date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high: People have told Massoumi, “‘I’m lesbian, I’m gay, I’m a musician, I’ve gotten death threats from the Taliban.’” Some are U.S. citizens, have green cards or qualify for the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/siv-iraqi-afghan-translators-interpreters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Immigrant Visa\u003c/a>, while others don’t qualify under the current visa system, yet fear for their lives. Massoumi would like to see a new visa category allowing more people to qualify for a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/5xLsX1IvEwPB9dUw3AuuTa\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Mayor Pro Tempore Aisha Wahab, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/file/2021-08-19/first-afghan-american-woman-elected-public-office-us-speaks-afghan-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first Afghan American woman elected to public office in the U.S.\u003c/a>, said people can support by uplifting Afghan voices. “Repost what we’re sharing. 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But the stress of watching from afar has taken a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all devastated and exhausted mentally because we feel so helpless,” Aziz said. “They have their visas in hand. They have their paperwork but they can’t go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Pak, who works for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee and Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a> in Oakland, also attended the march and said it’s important to support community members with loved ones in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to support our Afghan community,” Pak said. 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She said the ordeal was confusing and dehumanizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was doing my best to do everything right, giving no reason to be treated like this,” said Porter, 33, who is Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, brought by attorney Yasin Almadani, accuses the deputies of violating state and federal civil rights statutes by engaging in “unlawful seizure, assault and excessive force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, the video evidence contradicted the fabricated facts,” Almadani said. “So what occurred here, we believe, was a racially motivated beating and terrorizing of a Black family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County sheriff’s officials couldn’t immediately comment because the department hadn’t received a copy of the \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046122/nakiaportercomplaint.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> by Wednesday afternoon, Sgt. 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Porter already was out of the car and explained that they were just switching drivers and would be on their way, according to the court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies said they noticed the car had mismatched license plates — a California plate on the back of the car, and one from Maryland on the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, the deputies had called in the rear license plate to their dispatch and knew that it matched the description of the car and that there was no report of the car being stolen,” the filing states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCampbell, who had his gun drawn, ordered Porter back to the driver’s side, and he and his partner moved to detain her, according to edited body camera footage acquired by Almadani and provided to The Associated Press. Almadani acquired more than 18 minutes of raw footage through a California Public Records Act request, and edited it down to just under 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those that are listening, I am not resisting,” Porter said into the deputies’ cameras. “You are not reading me my rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below: In this YouTube video, Solano County Sheriff’s Office footage shows \u003c/em>\u003cem>body camera footage of Nakia Porter’s arrest by sheriff’s deputies obtained by Porter’s attorney, Yasin Almadani, through a public records request. 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