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Almost 70% of the incidents they documented were reported by women. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11865171 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47867_GettyImages-1231773402-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Chu and others Thursday said former President Donald Trump “stoked” anti-Asian hate by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881810671/white-house-defends-trumps-use-of-racist-term-to-describe-coronavirus\">using phrases like “kung flu”\u003c/a> and “China plague” in order to shift blame away from his response to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening remarks, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said he was concerned that the hearing was about “policing of rhetoric,” but Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/978024380/8-women-shot-to-death-at-atlanta-massage-parlors-man-arrested\">the shooting deaths of eight people Tuesday at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia\u003c/a> – six of whom were women of Asian descent – Bay Area public officials and Asian American community leaders expressed feelings of heartbreak and outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I saw it last night, it broke my heart. It just simply broke my heart,\" said Malcolm Yeung, executive director of the Chinese Community Development Center, which owns and operates low-income housing in San Francisco's Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am horrified by the murder of API women in Georgia,\" said Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1372213199764779008?s=20\">on Twitter\u003c/a>. \"Make no mistake — this crime was driven by hate, fueled by racism that has festered during this pandemic. ... This must be an inflection point. Enough is enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sheng Thao, Oakland councilmember\"]'For far too long our culture has belittled, fetishized, and dehumanized API women, especially poorer, southeast Asian women. This was not only a hate act directed at the API community but at women everywhere who constantly face sexual violence in our country.'[/pullquote]In the wake of the Atlanta killings and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859965/700-anti-asian-hate-incidents-reported-in-bay-area-during-pandemic-true-figures-might-be-even-worse\">numerous other attacks\u003c/a> against AAPI community members in the Bay Area and across the nation, Chiu, alongside California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, and other politicians, called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a state attorney general who will make stopping anti-AAPI hate \"a top priority\" in a press conference on Wednesday. Ma pointed to Assemblymember Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, as a voice for the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://secureservercdn.net/104.238.69.231/a1w.90d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/210312-Stop-AAPI-Hate-National-Report-.pdf\">report\u003c/a> released Tuesday by \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> – a project based out of San Francisco State University that asks members of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to self-report acts of hate and discrimination – between March 19, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021, there were at least 3,795 incidents of anti-Asian hate across the nation, ranging from physical assault and verbal harassment to various civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 of those incidents occurred in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859965/700-anti-asian-hate-incidents-reported-in-bay-area-during-pandemic-true-figures-might-be-even-worse\">according to an earlier Stop AAPI Hate report\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jian Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital, which first opened its doors in San Francisco in 1925, said many in her community are \"afraid to go out. It's terrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hate crimes against Chinese and Asians need to stop,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Councilmember Sheng Thao said in a statement, \"For far too long our culture has belittled, fetishized, and dehumanized API women, especially poorer, southeast Asian women. This was not only a hate act directed at the API community but at women everywhere who constantly face sexual violence in our country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the state level, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said the California Department of Education would double down on its effort to address bias and acts of hate. The state’s “Education to End Hate” Initiative that began last year has provided grants to schools for anti-racism and bias training for educators, Thurmond said. The department will host roundtables in the upcoming months to discuss solutions with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just have to reiterate our sadness at seeing these deplorable acts being carried out. And we want to offer as much support as we can to our schools and work with them,\" Thurmond said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will work with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus to \"continue our work\" to end violence and bigotry across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These shootings are a vicious and vile act that compounds the fear and pain that Asian-Americans face each day. It is a profound and cruel injustice that, amid the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis, the AAPI community also faces the surging threat of violent and deadly attack,\" Pelosi said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to host Mina Kim on KQED's Forum on Wednesday, Cynthia Choi, co-director of Chinese for Affirmative Action and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, put the Atlanta shootings into personal terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has been a difficult evening and today has been especially hard learning about more of the facts around the case and connecting with community leaders across the country,\" Choi said. \"The days ahead, I think, are going to continue to be really difficult for our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'There Is a Pattern ... And We Can't Ignore That'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Georgia police said the Atlanta shooter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978141138/atlanta-shooting-suspect-is-believed-to-have-visited-spas-he-targeted\">denied\u003c/a> his crimes were racially motivated, AAPI community members have responded, in myriad ways, that it remains impossible to separate his actions from the current rise of anti-Asian hate and increased attacks in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While anti-Asian violence is woven throughout our nation's history, the Trump administration's relentless scapegoating of Asians for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased [those incidents],\" said the advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta in a statement on Wednesday. \"We're calling on our allies across communities of color to stand with us in grief and solidarity against racist violence in all its forms,\" said Stephanie Cho, the Atlanta group's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882555/after-murder-of-eight-asian-americans-in-georgia-fears-of-anti-asian-racism-and-violence-intensify\">On KQED's Forum Wednesday\u003c/a>, sociologist and author Nancy Wang Yuen told Mina Kim that hate crimes are often multilayered when it comes to women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not saying 'I'm a racist' or 'I'm only targeting Asians,' but they want to limit it to the gender or the roles of all the jobs,\" she said. \"But, of course, we know that six Asian women are dead. And these are from three different businesses. So there is a targeting. There is a pattern. And we can't ignore that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860549 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/AAPI-1038x576.jpg']Yeung, the head of the Chinatown Community Development Center, said that while the shooter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978141138/atlanta-shooting-suspect-is-believed-to-have-visited-spas-he-targeted\">connected his actions to sex addiction\u003c/a>, there are many other places to find similar activities, instead of targeting spas where Asian women were working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What brought that about, versus any number of areas in and around the sex trade? You've got to wonder what context was created by the anti-Asian sentiment catalyzed by Trump. You've got to wonder what that causes people to think and feel,\" Yeung said. \"I can't get away from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860549/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-effects-of-anti-asian-attacks-run-deep\">climate of anti-AAPI sentiment has clouded San Francisco's Chinese community with fear\u003c/a>, said Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we have late meetings, I wouldn't let [my staff] take a bus home. I would drop them off myself,\" Zhang said. \"After the attack, it takes people a long time to recover. They're scared. The impact is huge. Also for the family, too, not just the victims. And the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is so tragic and horrifying to the community,\" said Rev. Norman Fong, the former director of the Chinatown Community Development Center and a community leader in his own right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong likened the shooting to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/who-vincent-chin-history-relevance-1982-killing-n771291\">1982 beating death of Vincent Chin\u003c/a> in Detroit, an act of hate by white autoworkers who were angry at joblessness they blamed on Japanese Americans (though Chin was Chinese). Fong recalled the solidarity from Rev. Jesse Jackson and other members of the Black community who joined hands with the AAPI community across the country in the wake of that hateful act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865265\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner with a sign reading 'Black and Asian Solidarity #StopAsianHate' stands at the site of two shootings that occurred yesterday at spas across the street from one another, in memorial for the lives lost, on March 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Suspect Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested after a series of shootings at three Atlanta-area spas left eight people dead on Tuesday night, including six Asian women. \u003ccite>(Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We all need to pull together to overcome this anti-Asian hate,\" Fong said. \"We also need to educate ourselves on each other's history otherwise it's too easy to scapegoat and hate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again on KQED's Forum, Choi of Stop AAPI Hate noted that impacted communities have a second layer of mental health crises ongoing right now: first, with the pandemic, and secondly, with rising racist hate, which compounds other trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When violence against the AAPI community emerges, \"what we're experiencing is re-traumatizing,\" Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang Yuen suggested taking a break from social media to ease that mental health crisis, and for Asian women in particular to seek safe spaces where they can share their traumatic experiences to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Making a Safer Community for All\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As attacks against the Asian American community garner more attention, a split has emerged from different voices calling for two approaches: more police and prosecution, or alternatives to policing that can bring safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has asked the police to increase patrols in “areas with a high number of Asian residents, visitors, and businesses immediately,” she announced on Twitter Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More long-term efforts will also be announced shortly. No one should have to live in fear that their race or ethnicity could make them a victim,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Fong noted that some people want to defund police over issues of brutality, but said “we have to be practical, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love community cops that walk the beat,” Fong said. “I may not be popular for saying that, but I think the brutality and the training definitely we have to address. But practically for the seniors, what they would say was they would like more foot cops, but more Chinese-speaking. That's the problem. There aren’t that many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though, Fong added, “I’m from a different generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for enforcement were also echoed by Ma, the state treasurer, in arguing for Bonta to become the state’s next attorney general. On Wednesday, Ma argued for an attorney general who will “put resources to these crimes” and “to convict those people perpetrating crimes against the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeung, the executive director of Chinatown CCDC, said he’s seen police become part of the Chinatown community. A few years back, police were assigned to public housing that his organization operates, which Yeung was grateful for. He called it “transformative” for people living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some occasions, officers were so embedded in the community of people living there, that one officer once noticed when a Chinatown family was missing from a community barbeque, and called them up themselves to invite them to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That level of intimacy with people living there made them feel safe, Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It moved me in a way that’s hard to describe,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1372232626237370368\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some in the AAPI community are calling for unity with the Black community in not demanding more policing, fearing conflict and death that have come in those interactions. From George Floyd to Oscar Grant, there is a fear that the Black community may see a rising risk from increased police enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, in response to deadly attacks in the Bay Area, dozens of Asian American organizations from the Bay Area banded together to issue a joint statement calling for a non-police response, like patrols by volunteers, tailored support for victims and mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s Forum, Choi told Mina Kim that policing wasn’t necessarily the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pushing for more community-based and community-led safety initiatives that really get at the different forms of violence and assaults,” Choi said. “And so this has been a time for our community to look at all forms of violence that we have been subjected to. And that includes working with other communities who are also affected by systemic racism. And there has been a movement to move away from an overreliance on law enforcement approaches, given the conversations that we're having today about abusive policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was also echoed by groups in the East Bay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892437/oaklanders-combat-chinatown-attacks-with-volunteering-mutual-aid\">in February\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this current moment and historically — I’m just going to be explicit — policing has not meant safety for communities of color or young people,” said Stanley Pun, co-director of AYPAL, a youth nonprofit based in Oakland Chinatown that works with low-income Asian and Pacific Islander families. “We need to work together from a space of compassion, empathy and understanding to seek justice, not vengeance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there may be nuanced disagreements on approaches to policing, for Yeung there is unanimity that communities of color need to nurture their relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we've all fallen down on that,\" Yeung said. \"It's not just something we do in a moment of crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters MJ Johnson, Nastia Voynovskaya and Forum host Mina Kim contributed to this report. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yeung, the head of the Chinatown Community Development Center, said that while the shooter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978141138/atlanta-shooting-suspect-is-believed-to-have-visited-spas-he-targeted\">connected his actions to sex addiction\u003c/a>, there are many other places to find similar activities, instead of targeting spas where Asian women were working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What brought that about, versus any number of areas in and around the sex trade? You've got to wonder what context was created by the anti-Asian sentiment catalyzed by Trump. You've got to wonder what that causes people to think and feel,\" Yeung said. \"I can't get away from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860549/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-effects-of-anti-asian-attacks-run-deep\">climate of anti-AAPI sentiment has clouded San Francisco's Chinese community with fear\u003c/a>, said Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we have late meetings, I wouldn't let [my staff] take a bus home. I would drop them off myself,\" Zhang said. \"After the attack, it takes people a long time to recover. They're scared. The impact is huge. Also for the family, too, not just the victims. And the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is so tragic and horrifying to the community,\" said Rev. Norman Fong, the former director of the Chinatown Community Development Center and a community leader in his own right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong likened the shooting to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/who-vincent-chin-history-relevance-1982-killing-n771291\">1982 beating death of Vincent Chin\u003c/a> in Detroit, an act of hate by white autoworkers who were angry at joblessness they blamed on Japanese Americans (though Chin was Chinese). Fong recalled the solidarity from Rev. Jesse Jackson and other members of the Black community who joined hands with the AAPI community across the country in the wake of that hateful act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865265\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner with a sign reading 'Black and Asian Solidarity #StopAsianHate' stands at the site of two shootings that occurred yesterday at spas across the street from one another, in memorial for the lives lost, on March 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Suspect Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested after a series of shootings at three Atlanta-area spas left eight people dead on Tuesday night, including six Asian women. \u003ccite>(Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We all need to pull together to overcome this anti-Asian hate,\" Fong said. \"We also need to educate ourselves on each other's history otherwise it's too easy to scapegoat and hate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again on KQED's Forum, Choi of Stop AAPI Hate noted that impacted communities have a second layer of mental health crises ongoing right now: first, with the pandemic, and secondly, with rising racist hate, which compounds other trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When violence against the AAPI community emerges, \"what we're experiencing is re-traumatizing,\" Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang Yuen suggested taking a break from social media to ease that mental health crisis, and for Asian women in particular to seek safe spaces where they can share their traumatic experiences to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Making a Safer Community for All\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As attacks against the Asian American community garner more attention, a split has emerged from different voices calling for two approaches: more police and prosecution, or alternatives to policing that can bring safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has asked the police to increase patrols in “areas with a high number of Asian residents, visitors, and businesses immediately,” she announced on Twitter Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More long-term efforts will also be announced shortly. No one should have to live in fear that their race or ethnicity could make them a victim,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Fong noted that some people want to defund police over issues of brutality, but said “we have to be practical, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love community cops that walk the beat,” Fong said. “I may not be popular for saying that, but I think the brutality and the training definitely we have to address. But practically for the seniors, what they would say was they would like more foot cops, but more Chinese-speaking. That's the problem. There aren’t that many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though, Fong added, “I’m from a different generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for enforcement were also echoed by Ma, the state treasurer, in arguing for Bonta to become the state’s next attorney general. 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"content": "\u003cp>March 13 marked a year since Breonna Taylor was shot by police in her home in Louisville, Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds rallied in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, beginning at Mission High School and marching to the Mission Police Station for a vigil and open mic. They lit candles, burned sage and held signs in an effort to honor her memory and fight for justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the people, we hold the power and we must continue to show up,” said Asmara Gebre, a midwife at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital who has been on strike to protest racism in her workplace. Gebre implored the audience to show up not just on anniversaries, “but every fucking day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers and those in attendance said they want to continue to keep Taylor’s memory alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just keep having to add names,” Jasmine Ordonez said. She came from another vigil — one for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863507/will-angelo-quintos-death-lead-to-police-reforms-in-antioch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angelo Quinto\u003c/a> who was allegedly killed by Antioch police in December. Ordonez says she wants justice for Taylor and for others killed by police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some have been demanding three officers who fired into Taylor’s home be criminally charged, others — like Ordonez — say more incarceration isn’t the solution. Instead, she wants to see police abolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after Taylor's death, none of the officers who fired their service weapons — a total of 32 rounds — face criminal charges directly as a result of Taylor's killing. At least three officers connected to the raid have been terminated from the force, and Louisville officials have also banned \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/11/875466130/no-knock-warrants-banned-in-louisville-in-law-named-for-breonna-taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no-knock warrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the crowd, Gebre, the midwife, also stressed the importance of honoring Breonna Taylor’s memory by building an anti-racist society. “Are you complicit when you show up to work?” she asked, addressing the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do you share space with your friends, how do you intervene in those moments? … That is what we need because we need an anti-racist society,” Gebre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeli Gaufo writes, 'Justice for Breonna' outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021. 'F\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p9-0\"}]'>or me it's just about fighting everything that's happening with police brutality, and getting justice for Black liberation — because all of our liberation is tied to Black liberation,' Gaufo said. \u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864732\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Justice for Breonna Taylor' during a rally in her honor outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, one year after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police officers in Kentucky. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in honor of Breonna Taylor outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, the day marks one year after Taylor was fatally shot by police officers inside her home. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, 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https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A march in honor of Breonna Taylor passes by the Women's Building in the Mission District of San Francisco on March 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47685_058_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some have been demanding three officers who fired into Taylor’s home be criminally charged, others — like Ordonez — say more incarceration isn’t the solution. Instead, she wants to see police abolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after Taylor's death, none of the officers who fired their service weapons — a total of 32 rounds — face criminal charges directly as a result of Taylor's killing. At least three officers connected to the raid have been terminated from the force, and Louisville officials have also banned \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/11/875466130/no-knock-warrants-banned-in-louisville-in-law-named-for-breonna-taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no-knock warrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the crowd, Gebre, the midwife, also stressed the importance of honoring Breonna Taylor’s memory by building an anti-racist society. “Are you complicit when you show up to work?” she asked, addressing the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do you share space with your friends, how do you intervene in those moments? … That is what we need because we need an anti-racist society,” Gebre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeli Gaufo writes, 'Justice for Breonna' outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021. 'F\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p9-0\"}]'>or me it's just about fighting everything that's happening with police brutality, and getting justice for Black liberation — because all of our liberation is tied to Black liberation,' Gaufo said. \u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864732\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Justice for Breonna Taylor' during a rally in her honor outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, one year after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police officers in Kentucky. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in honor of Breonna Taylor outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, the day marks one year after Taylor was fatally shot by police officers inside her home. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47663_029_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march in honor of Breonna Taylor in the Mission District of San Francisco on March 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47666_033_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A march in honor of Breonna Taylor passes by the Women's Building in the Mission District of San Francisco on March 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47685_058_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" 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"content": "\u003cp>Two former Rohnert Park police officers are facing federal corruption charges of conspiracy, extortion, falsification of records and tax evasion, all tied to an alleged years-long scheme to pull over and rob people of cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker were assigned to Rohnert Park’s drug interdiction team at various times between 2015 and 2017, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Friday. The program was aimed at seizing illegal drugs and cash proceeds trafficked along the Highway 101 corridor. Over about four years, Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers seized $3.6 million and 2½ tons of marijuana, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis\u003c/a> of records from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘Highway Robbery’: Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities and police departments can legally take people’s money and seize property if it’s tied to illegal activity through a process called civil asset forfeiture. The department gets to keep a cut of whatever they take, providing a monetary incentive to confiscate cash and make narcotics busts. Former Sgt. Jacy Tatum was in charge of the drug interdiction team and supervised asset forfeiture, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everything that Tatum and Huffaker seized was legal, the complaint alleges. A number of motorists had paperwork to prove they were transporting legal cannabis for testing or to medical marijuana dispensaries. But the officers took their cannabis product or cash anyway, and in some cases failed to properly document those seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal criminal complaint alleges that Tatum extorted at least $3,700 in cash and “significant amounts of marijuana,” and was aided by Huffaker in at least one of the illegal stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tatum and other officers made no reports of the seizure, did not submit the marijuana or assets into evidence, and sought no destruction orders for the marijuana,” a press release from the Northern California U.S. Attorney’s Office says.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nA KQED investigation in 2018 found that documentation for the destruction of about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">800 pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park officers was missing\u003c/a> from court files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors charge that Tatum and Huffaker continued extorting motorists even after Rohnert Park ended its drug interdiction program in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of that year, two men allegedly impersonated agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when they pulled over Texas resident Zeke Flatten about 50 miles North of Rohnert Park and across the Mendocino County line. The FBI is charging Tatum and Huffaker in connection with this stop. Flatten said that Huffaker was there but Tatum was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers didn’t identify themselves, but they took about $3,000 worth of marijuana Flatten was driving from a farm in Humboldt County to a lab in Santa Rosa, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flatten didn’t go quietly. He reported the stop to Mendocino County law enforcement and the FBI. By early 2018, he’d also told his story to independent reporter Kym Kemp, who started \u003ca href=\"https://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/outraged-one-mans-two-month-quest-from-the-fbi-to-the-atf-to-expose-what-he-says-are-corrupt-police-officers-in-mendocino-county/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking questions\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11678122,news_11681642,news_11706921\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More From 'Highway Robbery' Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum drafted a press release on Feb. 13, 2018, months after the Flatten stop, touting a large “black market” marijuana bust by Rohnert Park police. Tatum “then prepared a false police report to conceal his criminal activity,” according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to February 13, 2018, TATUM told Commander J.T. that there was a female reporter up north writing articles linking a stop to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s office and the Hopland Tribal police,” the criminal complaint says. “Tatum clarified that it was actually an interdiction stop conducted by RPDPS and that he wanted to correctly identify the law enforcement agency responsible for the stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum didn’t write a police report on the Dec. 5 seizure until Feb. 20, and he recorded the amount of marijuana and other details from a different case in that report. The FBI’s investigation found probable cause that Tatum “falsified a report for the undocumented stop and seizure of marijuana from (Flatten) in order to conceal his and HUFFAKER’s actions during the stop and deflect negative media attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said Friday that he hoped the federal prosecution would prompt officers to “come clean” and hold each other accountable for “the dishonor they did to themselves and their badge and their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys are not going to get away with what they were doing,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Flatten’s case became public, more drivers started to come forward with accounts of shady encounters with Rohnert Park officers intent on seizing cash and marijuana during pretextual traffic stops. KQED and Kemp spoke to a total of nine people with similar stories in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaborative investigative report\u003c/a> published in summer of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint details six traffic stops, four from 2016, the Flatten case, and another stop about two weeks later, on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum can be heard on body camera video telling one driver “there is no such thing as easy money” before the former officer illegally seized $3,700 in cash and $22,400 in marijuana, according to the complaint. Other than Huffaker, the charging document conceals the identities of other Rohnert Park officers who were with Tatum during the stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman was pulled over by the officers a year before Flatten, in December 2016. They took 47 pounds of medical cannabis from him. Now, he said he feels very satisfied with the announcement of criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not have any idea that this journey would end up where it did,” he said. “I feel vindicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten, Freeman, and seven other drivers sued Rohnert Park and all won settlements in the past year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">totaling $1.8 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker are both charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, which carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence. Tatum is further charged with falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion, which carry a combined 25-year maximum sentence.[aside postID=\"news_11702984,news_11701249,news_11700572\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More on Ex-Sgt. Jacy Tatum\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that in 2016, Tatum deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars into his and his wife’s bank accounts and bought a $46,000 fishing boat, totaling over $440,000 that wasn’t reported on the former officer’s tax returns. The cash deposits were all in amounts under $10,000, “in an apparent attempt to avoid banking laws requiring disclosure,” according to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s cash deposits “decreased significantly” after he resigned from the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety in 2018, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no greater responsibility for law enforcement than to abide by the oath of office and respect the constitutional rights of all people,” said Sid Patel, assistant special agent in charge for the FBI's San Francisco office. “And this was a serious breach of public trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park city officials issued a statement saying that they cooperated with the FBI investigation and that they “do not tolerate” corruption among their police staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten alleges that the scheme went beyond the two officers who are now facing charges. He said his hope is that Tatum and Huffaker cooperate with the investigation and expose other co-conspirators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They owe that to their own community because it definitely does go much higher than them,” Flatten said. “And there are more people that should be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two former Rohnert Park police officers are facing federal corruption charges of conspiracy, extortion, falsification of records and tax evasion, all tied to an alleged years-long scheme to pull over and rob people of cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker were assigned to Rohnert Park’s drug interdiction team at various times between 2015 and 2017, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Friday. The program was aimed at seizing illegal drugs and cash proceeds trafficked along the Highway 101 corridor. Over about four years, Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers seized $3.6 million and 2½ tons of marijuana, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis\u003c/a> of records from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘Highway Robbery’: Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities and police departments can legally take people’s money and seize property if it’s tied to illegal activity through a process called civil asset forfeiture. The department gets to keep a cut of whatever they take, providing a monetary incentive to confiscate cash and make narcotics busts. Former Sgt. Jacy Tatum was in charge of the drug interdiction team and supervised asset forfeiture, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everything that Tatum and Huffaker seized was legal, the complaint alleges. A number of motorists had paperwork to prove they were transporting legal cannabis for testing or to medical marijuana dispensaries. But the officers took their cannabis product or cash anyway, and in some cases failed to properly document those seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal criminal complaint alleges that Tatum extorted at least $3,700 in cash and “significant amounts of marijuana,” and was aided by Huffaker in at least one of the illegal stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tatum and other officers made no reports of the seizure, did not submit the marijuana or assets into evidence, and sought no destruction orders for the marijuana,” a press release from the Northern California U.S. Attorney’s Office says.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum drafted a press release on Feb. 13, 2018, months after the Flatten stop, touting a large “black market” marijuana bust by Rohnert Park police. Tatum “then prepared a false police report to conceal his criminal activity,” according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to February 13, 2018, TATUM told Commander J.T. that there was a female reporter up north writing articles linking a stop to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s office and the Hopland Tribal police,” the criminal complaint says. “Tatum clarified that it was actually an interdiction stop conducted by RPDPS and that he wanted to correctly identify the law enforcement agency responsible for the stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum didn’t write a police report on the Dec. 5 seizure until Feb. 20, and he recorded the amount of marijuana and other details from a different case in that report. The FBI’s investigation found probable cause that Tatum “falsified a report for the undocumented stop and seizure of marijuana from (Flatten) in order to conceal his and HUFFAKER’s actions during the stop and deflect negative media attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said Friday that he hoped the federal prosecution would prompt officers to “come clean” and hold each other accountable for “the dishonor they did to themselves and their badge and their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys are not going to get away with what they were doing,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Flatten’s case became public, more drivers started to come forward with accounts of shady encounters with Rohnert Park officers intent on seizing cash and marijuana during pretextual traffic stops. KQED and Kemp spoke to a total of nine people with similar stories in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaborative investigative report\u003c/a> published in summer of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint details six traffic stops, four from 2016, the Flatten case, and another stop about two weeks later, on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum can be heard on body camera video telling one driver “there is no such thing as easy money” before the former officer illegally seized $3,700 in cash and $22,400 in marijuana, according to the complaint. Other than Huffaker, the charging document conceals the identities of other Rohnert Park officers who were with Tatum during the stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman was pulled over by the officers a year before Flatten, in December 2016. They took 47 pounds of medical cannabis from him. Now, he said he feels very satisfied with the announcement of criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not have any idea that this journey would end up where it did,” he said. “I feel vindicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten, Freeman, and seven other drivers sued Rohnert Park and all won settlements in the past year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">totaling $1.8 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker are both charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, which carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence. Tatum is further charged with falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion, which carry a combined 25-year maximum sentence.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The recent spate of violent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859965/700-anti-asian-hate-incidents-reported-in-bay-area-during-pandemic-true-figures-might-be-even-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attacks\u003c/a> against elderly Asian Americans and robberies of Asian-owned businesses in the Bay Area have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860549/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-effects-of-anti-asian-attacks-run-deep\">reawakened conversations\u003c/a> around racism towards Asians and the best ways of keeping them safe. 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OPD said the position was created in response to the string of assaults and robberies in Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer-led patrol team walks through Oakland's Chinatown on Feb. 26, 2021. Several of these types of community-led patrol groups have popped up in Chinatown in the wake of recent robberies and attacks against Asian seniors. The groups offer to accompany seniors to their destinations and offer translation services. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weng Kee Fu, who has operated Ruby King Bakery in Chinatown for more than 30 years, said he wants more police in the area – but since that’s not happening, he welcomes the armed security guards and says they help community members feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he understands recent calls for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-reform/\">defunding police\u003c/a> and reinvesting that money into community programs, Fu said officials need to focus on removing bad officers instead of defunding the police force at large. And he thinks police presence is still needed to deter crime in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's not the only one who feels like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11862973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakery owner Weng Kee Fu makes the shop's signature egg tart at Ruby King Bakery in Chinatown in Oakland on Feb. 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I ask all of our seniors in Chinatown and basically all of our businesses: Do you want to see police in this community?\" said Carl Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>, which represents more than 150 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So far, I haven't heard anybody say no,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is a stark contrast to what some Asian American activists have been calling for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, holds an air horn similar to ones he has given out to businesses and residents of Chinatown in Oakland in the wake of recent attacks and robberies. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Prison Is Not the Only Solution for Public Safety'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 13, hundreds of people attended a \u003ca href=\"https://fb.watch/3YXw0M-ys9/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rally in Oakland Chinatown’s Madison Square Park\u003c/a> to show solidarity with the Asian American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ener Chiu, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation\"]’Racial profiling is lazy. It escalates the tension that makes violence against people and property more likely. And it makes all of us less safe.'[/pullquote]Many of the merchants and seniors in Chinatown are first-generation immigrants, but the Asian Americans attending the rally tended to be younger and born in the U.S. And many of them were mindful of the ongoing national and local movements calling for racial justice and police accountability in the wake of police killings of Black people last year, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the activists were concerned that viral videos of some of the recent Bay Area attacks – which show Black people hurting Asian American seniors – are unfairly stereotyping Black and African Americans as criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speakers, including Ener Chiu with the \u003ca href=\"https://ebaldc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation\u003c/a>, denounced more police as the solution, arguing it pits minorities against one another and risks further endangering Black lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Racial profiling is lazy,\" Chiu told the crowd. “It escalates the tension that makes violence against people and property more likely. And it makes all of us less safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11862998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/chinatown-11-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ener Chiu with the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation speaks at a vigil and rally in Oakland's Madison Square Park on Feb. 13, 2021. Chiu denounced more police as the solution to the recent attacks, arguing increased law enforcement pits minorities against one another and risks further endangering Black lives. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claire Jean Kim\u003c/a>, a racial studies expert and professor at UC Irvine, says cases of Black violence against Asian Americans are few, and \"even in those cases, it is not clear that there is racial motivation. On the other hand, there is a long history in the U.S. of white Americans attacking Asian Americans in times of crisis – World War II, U.S.-Japan trade tensions in the 1980s, etc.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Feb. 13 rally, Chiu and others called for solutions that address the root causes of crime, like poverty, gentrification and lack of mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddy Zheng is the founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.new-breath.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Breath Foundation\u003c/a>, a group that supports formerly incarcerated individuals like himself. Zheng said the Chinatown community gave him a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in the community still show me love because they believe in the power of transformation,\" Zheng said. \"Because people believe that prison is not the only solution for public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zheng thanked the crowd for their support but called for unity across racial lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support that we're looking for is not about dividing our community. The support and love is for all of us who are suffering under the white supremacy and the structural racism,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't see the need to increase police protection. And instead of investing more in them, why don't we reinvest in mental health resources? Why don't we reinvest in ethnic studies so that we increase the masses' fluency to talk about these matters?\" said Ysrael Quezon, who attended the rally. Quezon lives in Alameda but works at \u003ca href=\"http://filipinos4justice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filipino Advocates for Justice\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BayAreaJulie/status/1360728786157797380\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Feb. 13, city leaders and organizers held a press conference outside Oakland City Hall to call for unity between the Black and Asian American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChaneyTurner?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chaney Turner\u003c/a>, an Oakland business owner and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/volunteers/a-kathryn-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Cannabis Regulatory Commission at-large commissioner\u003c/a>, who spoke at the press conference, told KQED that the generational divide around the policing issue doesn't exist only within the Asian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the same with the Black community, right?\" Turner said. \"Our older community have been conditioned that police keep them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner was not upset at those in Chinatown who are calling for more police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to have conversations with our loved ones and, you know, in communities to really explain why the police isn't and has not kept us safe,\" Turner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those conversations are beginning to happen, but Chan, from the Chamber of Commerce, is still skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people are talking about all the alternatives and they are talking about the future — 'we don’t need the police.' And let me say this, when there are no crimes, we don't need the police. When there are actually working solutions, we don't need the police. And we wouldn't mind to explore the option,\" Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11827832 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Arash-1020x642.jpg']Chan supports addressing the root causes of crime but he said until those services are in place and have made impact, “They are talking about the future, and I'm talking about today, tonight and tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later this month, the Oakland City Council will examine the city’s police budget for the next two years. Included in the talks: bringing a second liaison officer into Chinatown in addition to moving some police funds to pay for public safety measures that address the root causes of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Finance and Management Committee will meet \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=835738&GUID=2F48A6EA-E411-45AB-831C-8F47A32057D3&Options=info%7C&Search=\">March 8\u003c/a> and the Public Safety Committee will meet on \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=837014&GUID=7468C394-F76F-4707-BEFD-DE412FD3A185&Options=info%7C&Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to private security guards, volunteer-led patrol groups have been walking around Chinatown, assisting seniors by walking them to the store or providing translation services. Several of these volunteer groups have popped up since early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department also added a new Mandarin-speaking liaison officer in Chinatown in mid-February. OPD said the position was created in response to the string of assaults and robberies in Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47483_042_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer-led patrol team walks through Oakland's Chinatown on Feb. 26, 2021. Several of these types of community-led patrol groups have popped up in Chinatown in the wake of recent robberies and attacks against Asian seniors. The groups offer to accompany seniors to their destinations and offer translation services. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weng Kee Fu, who has operated Ruby King Bakery in Chinatown for more than 30 years, said he wants more police in the area – but since that’s not happening, he welcomes the armed security guards and says they help community members feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he understands recent calls for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-reform/\">defunding police\u003c/a> and reinvesting that money into community programs, Fu said officials need to focus on removing bad officers instead of defunding the police force at large. And he thinks police presence is still needed to deter crime in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's not the only one who feels like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11862973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakery owner Weng Kee Fu makes the shop's signature egg tart at Ruby King Bakery in Chinatown in Oakland on Feb. 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I ask all of our seniors in Chinatown and basically all of our businesses: Do you want to see police in this community?\" said Carl Chan, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>, which represents more than 150 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So far, I haven't heard anybody say no,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is a stark contrast to what some Asian American activists have been calling for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47446_001_KQED_Oakland_Chinatown_02262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, holds an air horn similar to ones he has given out to businesses and residents of Chinatown in Oakland in the wake of recent attacks and robberies. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Prison Is Not the Only Solution for Public Safety'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 13, hundreds of people attended a \u003ca href=\"https://fb.watch/3YXw0M-ys9/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rally in Oakland Chinatown’s Madison Square Park\u003c/a> to show solidarity with the Asian American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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