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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. For Herrera, the six long years have been hard to bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult,” he said. “For me personally, I wish that whatever’s going to happen, would just happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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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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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. Make sure our voice does not die,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also noted that it’s important to support people in the long term. “How are we going to make sure that the Afghans that do come here are still supported, not just dropped off here,” she said. [aside postID=news_11885170]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab believes everyone has a role to play. “It’s literally just being kind, compassionate and asking how you can help,” she said. “Sharing and understanding our pain and making sure that this conversation doesn’t die when the media stops paying attention to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Hayward has set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/residents/equity-inclusion/afghan-relief-and-assistance-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webpage with information\u003c/a> on Afghan relief efforts, and residents of Fremont can \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\">donate to a relief fund\u003c/a> to support new arrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muzhdah Aziz, who lives and works in Fremont, also attended the march and rally to show support for her brother-in-law, who is currently stuck in Afghanistan. Her sister, who is four months pregnant, returned to the Bay Area from Afghanistan a month ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885939 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a long afternoon of marching in the sun, Layla, Ali, Aziza, Lina and Roshan (who did not give their last name) rest together in the shade at Thornton Jr. High in Fremont on Aug. 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has a baby on the way and he’s fighting every day, standing at the airport, getting beaten by the Taliban, just to come here to be with my sister,” she said. “We’re just trying to show our support.” Her parents left Afghanistan 20 years ago. 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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab believes everyone has a role to play. “It’s literally just being kind, compassionate and asking how you can help,” she said. “Sharing and understanding our pain and making sure that this conversation doesn’t die when the media stops paying attention to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Hayward has set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/residents/equity-inclusion/afghan-relief-and-assistance-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webpage with information\u003c/a> on Afghan relief efforts, and residents of Fremont can \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\">donate to a relief fund\u003c/a> to support new arrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muzhdah Aziz, who lives and works in Fremont, also attended the march and rally to show support for her brother-in-law, who is currently stuck in Afghanistan. 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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. 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The judge said he will issue a subpoena to compel the worker's appearance if he does not attend voluntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup is overseeing PG&E's probation for criminal convictions arising from the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11287618/pge-gets-3m-fine-for-san-bruno-blast-must-advertise-its-conviction-on-tv\">2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline disaster\u003c/a>. He wants the company to more fully explain the actions of the worker, called a troubleman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In orders issued \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21045564/1417-usavpge-210817.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuesday\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21045565/1418-usavpge-210818.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wednesday\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046071/1419-usavpge-210819.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thursday\u003c/a>, Alsup posed dozens of questions centering on events in the first 10 hours of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In filings submitted last month to the California Public Utilities Commission and Judge Alsup's court, PG&E reported that the first sign of problem in the area where the fire started was detected early July 13: A power outage was detected at the company's Cresta Dam, on the North Fork of the Feather River northeast of Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's filing explained that remote sensing equipment had detected a momentary surge of current on the three-conductor line at 6:48 a.m. The surge was too brief — just a few thousandths of a second — for a safety device called a recloser to trip and shut off power through the line. That meant that current continued to flow through the line in an area well known to be at high risk for wildfires as PG&E began the process of investigating the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most attention-getting detail in the company's account of its response was its admission that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881837/why-it-took-pge-9-5-hours-to-get-to-the-scene-where-dixie-fire-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it took nearly 10 hours\u003c/a> after the first sign of a problem for its troubleman to reach the site where a 70-foot Douglas-fir tree had fallen across a power line and ignited a small fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11881837 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/dixiefire-1536x851.jpg']The worker tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the blaze, which he described as growing to about 1,200 square feet as he fought it. A fire crew that happened to be driving up the other side of the Feather River on Highway 70 had already spotted the flames and, a few minutes after 5 p.m., reported the incident to a Cal Fire dispatcher as an \"established\" fire measuring about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his long list of queries, Judge Alsup asks PG&E to explain why the power line problem apparently took so long to ignite the small fire the troubleman first encountered. Noting that no one had spotted a fire before the PG&E worker arrived at the site, Alsup asked, \"What, if anything, did the troubleman do upon his arrival at the site that might have accidentally caused the fire?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup's questions include a back-and-forth between the judge and PG&E over what the company knows about a drone flight that interfered with firefighters in the hours immediately following the discovery of the Dixie Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884337/investigators-probing-pges-possible-link-to-fateful-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered the company \u003c/a>on Aug. 6 to tell him what it knows about the drone, including whether it might have been flown by a contractor. In a response filed Monday, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885363/pge-tells-judge-it-knows-nothing-about-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flatly denied\u003c/a> knowing anything about the drone flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, Alsup posed the drone question again. The judge said he had information by way of the court monitor assigned to track PG&E's safety performance that the company might know something about the drone after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court has received information that PG&E informed the monitor of the following: PG&E believed that the drone that interfered with Dixie firefighting on July 13 was being flown by a PG&E contractor at the time of the interference,\" Alsup wrote. \"PG&E believed that the contractor was not doing work for PG&E at the time of the interference, however, because records indicated that it had completed PG&E surveillance work for the day. Is it true that PG&E did believe that a PG&E contractor operated the drone (regardless of whether it was on behalf of PG&E or not)? What was the source of this information? Does PG&E still believe that?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PG&E reiterated it's \"not aware of any evidence that the company or any of its contractors operated a drone anywhere near the start of the Dixie fire on July 13.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We intend to update the court on what appears to be a misunderstanding based on early reports and preliminary information,\" the company said. \"We will clarify this information with the court and seek to clarify all stakeholders' understanding of the facts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire has burned more than 1,050 square miles over the past 38 days, has destroyed more than 500 homes and continues to threaten communities in Lassen, Plumas and Tehama counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The worker tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the blaze, which he described as growing to about 1,200 square feet as he fought it. A fire crew that happened to be driving up the other side of the Feather River on Highway 70 had already spotted the flames and, a few minutes after 5 p.m., reported the incident to a Cal Fire dispatcher as an \"established\" fire measuring about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his long list of queries, Judge Alsup asks PG&E to explain why the power line problem apparently took so long to ignite the small fire the troubleman first encountered. Noting that no one had spotted a fire before the PG&E worker arrived at the site, Alsup asked, \"What, if anything, did the troubleman do upon his arrival at the site that might have accidentally caused the fire?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup's questions include a back-and-forth between the judge and PG&E over what the company knows about a drone flight that interfered with firefighters in the hours immediately following the discovery of the Dixie Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884337/investigators-probing-pges-possible-link-to-fateful-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered the company \u003c/a>on Aug. 6 to tell him what it knows about the drone, including whether it might have been flown by a contractor. In a response filed Monday, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885363/pge-tells-judge-it-knows-nothing-about-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flatly denied\u003c/a> knowing anything about the drone flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, Alsup posed the drone question again. The judge said he had information by way of the court monitor assigned to track PG&E's safety performance that the company might know something about the drone after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court has received information that PG&E informed the monitor of the following: PG&E believed that the drone that interfered with Dixie firefighting on July 13 was being flown by a PG&E contractor at the time of the interference,\" Alsup wrote. \"PG&E believed that the contractor was not doing work for PG&E at the time of the interference, however, because records indicated that it had completed PG&E surveillance work for the day. Is it true that PG&E did believe that a PG&E contractor operated the drone (regardless of whether it was on behalf of PG&E or not)? What was the source of this information? Does PG&E still believe that?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PG&E reiterated it's \"not aware of any evidence that the company or any of its contractors operated a drone anywhere near the start of the Dixie fire on July 13.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We intend to update the court on what appears to be a misunderstanding based on early reports and preliminary information,\" the company said. \"We will clarify this information with the court and seek to clarify all stakeholders' understanding of the facts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire has burned more than 1,050 square miles over the past 38 days, has destroyed more than 500 homes and continues to threaten communities in Lassen, Plumas and Tehama counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-review-oscar-grant-case\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced Tuesday\u003c/span>\u003c/a> it will look into the actions of a former BART police officer who was involved, but never criminally charged, in the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant, a 24-year-old Black man, had no weapons and was being held down on his stomach on a Fruitvale BART station platform when transit cop Johannes Mehserle fired a fatal shot into his back. The incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823246/it-started-with-oscar-grant-a-police-shooting-in-oakland-and-the-making-of-a-movement-2\">led to massive protests\u003c/a> and murder charges for Mehserle. Mehserle, who said he confused his gun for his Taser, was convicted of manslaughter in 2010 and sentenced to a two-year prison term, of which he served 11 months. He was released in June 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now more than a decade later, California Attorney General Rob Bonta says his office will look into the actions of a second officer: Anthony ‘Tony’ Pirone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rev. Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant\"]‘[Pirone] should have been charged 12 years ago. And I’m grateful that the attorney general is stepping into it.’[/pullquote]“Transparency is critical to building and maintaining trust between law enforcement and the communities we serve,” Bonta said in a statement. “The California Department of Justice is committed to conducting a thorough, fair, and independent review and will go where the facts lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request for an independent review came from BART’s board of directors and Grant’s family including his mother, Rev. Wanda Johnson, according to the DOJ statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Pirone] should have been charged 12 years ago,” Johnson said. “And I’m grateful that the attorney general is stepping into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s decision to look into Pirone’s role in Oscar Grant’s killing comes on the heels of another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841062/alameda-da-reopens-investigation-into-oscar-grant-killing-nearly-12-years-later\">review of the case\u003c/a> done by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley last year. In January, O’Malley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854829/crying-out-for-justice-oscar-grants-family-vows-to-keep-fighting-after-da-declines-to-file-new-charges\">announced her office would not bring criminal charges\u003c/a> against the former transit cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11854829 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-1020x741.jpg']Pirone was the first officer on the scene in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, responding to a call about a fight on a crowded BART train. He pulled Grant off the train, kneed Grant and pinned him to the ground moments before Mehserle fired the fatal shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART fired Pirone in 2010, finding he was “in large part, responsible for setting the events in motion that created a chaotic and tense situation on the platform, setting the stage, even if inadvertent, for the shooting of Oscar Grant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit filed this year by KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880600/on-our-watch-litigation-reveals-new-details-in-police-shooting-of-oscar-grant\">uncovered new details\u003c/a> about Pirone’s involvement in Grant’s death and confidential tapes of BART’s flawed investigation of the incident that were featured in the investigative podcast “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510360/on-our-watch\">On Our Watch\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11880600 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/finalgrant_wide-e975852f7a7910e38d96a29e7717eea38cf16446-1020x574.jpg']Video footage and witness testimony revealed Pirone threw Grant’s friend Michael Greer to the ground, struck Grant repeatedly, and used the N-word in a verbal exchange with Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley called Pirone’s conduct “utterly unprofessional and disgraceful” in a recorded statement issued in January, but found his only potential crime was assault under color of authority. She said that is a misdemeanor, and the statute of limitations for that crime had long since expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no conduct [by Pirone] that would support felony murder,” O’Malley said in a June interview with KQED. A team of five lawyers from her office reviewed all the reports and videos, said O’Malley. “I know that we did more than we’ve done for most cases ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirone is currently a special forces communications sergeant serving in the California National Guard. His lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby X’ Johnson, Grant’s uncle, said after all this time and many disappointments, he is “cautiously optimistic” about the DOJ review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS43770_048_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS43770_048_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS43770_048_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS43770_048_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS43770_048_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS43770_048_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby X’ Johnson, the uncle of Oscar Grant, speaks during a Juneteenth rally in downtown Oakland on June 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very little small price for us to pay, to continue to stand and protest and seek the justice that Oscar was simply trying to get when he was on that platform before he was murdered,” Cephus Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his hope is that this move by the attorney general will provide momentum for two police reform bills that are currently being considered by the Legislature: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB2&showamends=false\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">S.B. 2\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which would create a decertification process for police officers, and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> S.B. 16\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which would expand police transparency requirements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Grant’s mother Wanda Johnson said she hopes that her family’s years-long struggle for justice and the DOJ review will provide hope to other families who have lost loved ones to police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing can bring my son back,” she said, “but my family sure can help other families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She also suggested the FBI should investigate her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also voted for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884772/horrific-incidents-in-jails-prompt-santa-clara-county-supervisors-call-for-investigations-of-sheriff\">public release of information related to the case of Andrew Hogan\u003c/a>, a man with schizoaffective disorder who in 2018 suffered a traumatic brain injury in sheriff’s custody. The county settled a legal claim in the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21041082-2020-0316-hogan-andrew-settlement-agreement\">for over $10 million last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21041080-2021-08-17-public-safety-and-justice-referral\">legislative referral passed on Tuesday\u003c/a>, supervisors question the “appearance of impropriety” in the aftermath of Hogan’s injuries. It notes the promotion of former sheriff’s Captain Amy Le three months after she was present at the Hogan incident. She was also president of the correctional officers union at the time, which raised over $300,000 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703698/incumbent-santa-clara-county-sheriff-laurie-smith-takes-big-lead-in-early-returns\">Smith’s 2018 reelection campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Joe Simitian criticized a lack of transparency in that and other cases, calling for “a fuller understanding of what is and isn’t happening, what consequences there have or have not been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the sheriff’s office has stonewalled the county’s relatively new oversight office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Otto Lee, Santa Clara County Supervisor\"]‘Change is long overdue. The issue is over the lack of oversight, accountability and transparency in our sheriff’s office and our county jail.’[/pullquote]“The sheriff has repeatedly declined, over the course of more than a year now, to enter into an information sharing agreement with our Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring,” Simitian said. “I just don’t see that we’ve been left with any other choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors directed the oversight office to prepare reports, video and audio files from the Hogan case for public release by Sept. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change is long overdue. 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Liccardo said that alone should raise red flags to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That should disqualify anyone from serving in any law enforcement capacity, let alone the highest ranking,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said she does not plan to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Or to quote a general, ‘Nuts,’” she said. “There’s a lot still to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith defended her refusal to testify before the grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my right, and I’m glad that I did it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that probe undersheriff Rick Sung and Captain James Jensen were indicted, as were others outside the sheriff’s office. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, a prominent San Francisco affordable housing advocate and community activist, resigned his seat on the city's Building Inspection Commission last week and took a leave of absence as chair of the nonprofit Latino Task Force's health committee following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jon-Jacobo-rising-San-Francisco-political-star-16371828.php#photo-21333574\">allegations that he raped a woman earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\">seven-page document posted to Twitter\u003c/a> on Aug. 6, housing organizer Sasha Perigo accused Jacobo, whom she had known since 2019 and considered a close friend, of raping her at his home in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Perigo went to the hospital to complete a rape kit — also known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/articles/rape-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assault forensic exam\u003c/a> — and texted friends about what happened, actions experts say are important for sexual assault survivors to take when it comes to holding attackers accountable. Perigo included screenshots of text messages between herself and Jacobo as well as between her and friends in the document she posted to Twitter, along with a photo of a letter from SFPD confirming that her rape kit was processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police report is automatically generated when a rape kit is processed in order to catalogue evidence — but beyond that, Perigo has intentionally chosen not to pursue legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I haven't done is fill out any details,\" Perigo told KQED this week. \"I didn't talk to an officer at the hospital [or] give him Jon's name. And I don't want to cooperate with an investigation going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Perigo\"]'I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man. [Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.'[/pullquote]Perigo shared some of the reasons why she's choosing not to pursue legal action against Jacobo: the trauma of retelling the incident, her distrust of the criminal justice system and the absence of a sense of justice she believes she would feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of reasons that victims of sexual assault don't go to the cops. That's actually quite common,\" Perigo said. \"To say that we don't take this seriously, unless people talk to the police, to me shows a misunderstanding of the crime of sexual assault and the trauma that follows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo was referencing remarks made by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí last week before Jacobo resigned: \"We can't try people via social media. Regardless of what information is presented, I think everyone is afforded due process.\" He also indicated that only if criminal charges were filed would he see it as a strong indication of evidence warranting Jacobo's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many sexual assault survivors, the experience of having to retell their experience multiple times within the legal system is retraumatizing. \"That is not something I want to do,\" Perigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo also acknowledged what she sees as her own position of power within the justice system. \"I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man,\" Perigo said. \"[Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not trust the cops ... I genuinely believe that we should abolish and defund the police. I don't think justice is brought forward through our current criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo said her Twitter post marked a moment of letting go. \"This was kind of like the end for me,\" Perigo said. \"This was my closure. This isn't the beginning of a campaign to get justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even without Perigo's involvement, a rape case against Jacobo could still proceed. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/08/jon-jacobo-rape-case-could-proceed-regardless-of-accusers-wishes/\">told Mission Local this week\u003c/a> that Boudin's office is investigating the case in cooperation with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prosecute violent crimes even without witness cooperation when we can prove the case,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Perigo's experience indicative of larger systemic issues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, told KQED that Perigo's experience is part of a larger systemic failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to rape and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When communities of color experience crime and violence, there’s a perception that we somehow contribute to our own victimization,” Hollins said, “rather than looking at the systemic issues and things that contribute to violence and crime in our communities, especially when it comes to sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins shared some of the reasons she's observed that people choose not to report sexual assault: “One is obviously the trauma of having to relive and retell your experiences to systems that are often not equipped to help you deal with the trauma,” she said. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of every three\u003c/a> sexual assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason Hollins said people choose not to report is that the process of prosecution can be lengthy. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209892449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape kits were severely backlogged \u003c/a>for several years. Some sexual assault survivors had to wait over two years for the results. Hollins also said that while folks are waiting to go through the legal system, the people that assaulted them may not have been charged or prosecuted. \"Some people just don't feel safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to RAINN, of the sexual violence crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not reported to police from 2005 to 2010\u003c/a>, the top three reasons given were fear of retaliation (20%), belief the police would not do anything to help (13%) and the belief that it was a personal matter (13%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"sexual-assault, domestic-violence\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo did not reply to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (\u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAINN\u003c/a>) created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, which is 24/7, confidential and free: (800) 656-HOPE/(800) 656-4673\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bay Area Women Against Rape (\u003ca href=\"https://bawar.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAWAR\u003c/a>) operates a 24-hour hotline in English and Spanish: (510) 345-1056\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ifrsf.org/mission_and_vision\">Instituto Familiar de la Raza\u003c/a> offers therapy and counseling in English and Spanish: (415) 229-0500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/advocacy/sexual-assault-prevention/\">The Women's Building's Sexual Assault & Harassment Prevention Project\u003c/a>: (415) 431-1180, ext. 20\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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