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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda on Tuesday released body camera footage of an April 19 incident in which an Oakland man died after police officers pinned him to the ground while attempting to handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez, 26, stopped breathing in Alameda police custody after what police described as a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">according to a statement \u003c/a>released by the Alameda Police Department on April 20. Police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">said\u003c/a> Gonzalez “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” and experienced a “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family, who viewed the video footage before it was released publicly, accused the police of murdering Gonzalez by using excessive force and escalating a situation that was entirely avoidable. Gonzalez was healthy and had no known medical conditions, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, my family and I saw the footage and we know what really happened. Alameda police officers murdered my brother Mario,” said Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest sibling, at a Tuesday press conference and rally outside of the Alameda Police Department, shortly before the video was publicly released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was heartbroken to see Mario’s last moments,” he told the roughly 50 attendees, many holding “Justice 4 Mario” signs. “It was painful to watch the violence and disregard for his humanity. The police killed my brother in the same manner that they killed George Floyd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11870691 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg']The three officers directly involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure. Officer James Fisher has been with the Alameda Police Department since 2010, while the two other officers, Cameron Leahy and Eric McKinley, joined in 2018, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Alameda is committed to full transparency and accountability in the aftermath of Mr. Gonzalez’s death,” the city said in a statement Tuesday, announcing the release of the video. It noted that separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an independent outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy findings have not yet been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I share probably the views of much of the community that you see a video like that and nobody wants to see a young man die,” interim Alameda Police Chief Randy Fenn told KQED on Wednesday. He called Gonzalez’s death “awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And certainly as a police chief, I don’t want to see something like that during an involvement with the police,” he added. “And like the rest of the community, now we’re looking for answers and trying to figure out what exactly happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Due to its graphic nature, and out of consideration for our communities, KQED is not embedding the video. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">The full version is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly hourlong video, which shows footage from two different police body cameras filmed from different angles, two officers are seen approaching Gonzalez, who is standing alone in the small park next to what appear to be two Walgreens shopping baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers were responding to separate 911 calls, also included in the video, one from a neighbor who reports a man in his front yard “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.” The caller adds, “He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife.” A second 911 caller reports the same man, now in the park nearby, who he says has been there for about 30 minutes and appears to be breaking the security tags off of alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrive, they question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he lives in Alameda, Gonzalez says, “I haven’t gotten a house yet” and briefly puts one hand in his pocket, while standing on a small stump. The officers tell him to take his hands out of his pockets before approaching him. Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms, leads him down from the stump and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez can be heard saying, “It’s not that, there’s something else,” and tells them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, while the officers are still trying to get Gonzalez’s hands behind his back, one of them says, “I think we talked before, Mario. This is all coming back to me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11871442 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021 for a press conference to address the police body camera footage of his death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez continues to resist being handcuffed, the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, adjacent to a driveway, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They hold his hands behind his back and eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they continue attempting to subdue him, Gonzalez keeps grunting, heaving and briefly shouting, but his voice is now muffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, one of the officers requests a “wrap,” presumably referring to a type of \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/what-is-bola-wrap-the-police-tool-used-to-restrain-suspects-without-lethal-force/75-16ea474f-dce9-4f8a-9894-5fbbfee8d8d9\">full-body restraint device\u003c/a>. The officers ask for the device several more times throughout the altercation, but never ultimately use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK Mario,” one officer says. “We’re going to take care of you, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez shouts several times what sounds like “Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the officers repeatedly asks Gonzalez when his birthday is, and again requests a wrap, as Gonzalez’s screams grow increasingly loud and seemingly distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you just had too much to drink today, that’s all,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario, calm down please,” one of the officers says. The other officer tells him to stop kicking, amid the sound of approaching sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez remains pinned face down to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, his protestations becoming increasingly weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think we can roll him on his side?” one officer asks. The other responds, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez grows silent and his body goes limp, one officer instructs his partner to not put any weight on his chest. The other officer appears to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 seconds later, when Gonzalez appears to be completely motionless, they roll him on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going unresponsive,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers shout Gonzalez’s first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, his hands still restrained behind his back. About one minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up, as more officers and EMTs arrive. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went from combative to non-responsive almost immediately and then we started compressions,” one of the officers tells an EMT from the Alameda Fire Department, before Gonzalez is lifted into an ambulance and brought to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-killings\"]Gonzalez’s family members and supporters say the released footage reveals a blatant case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows officers on top of Mario while he was face down on the ground,” his brother Gerardo said at Tuesday’s press conference. “They had their weight on his head and his back. He was complying and they continued to bring him down with their weight. Everything we saw in that video was unnecessary and unprofessional, and it took a minuscule event and made it fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Gerardo said, shows Mario sitting in the park “and not bothering anyone,” and at no point was he out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have asked him to call his family and we would have come and picked him up,” he said. “There was no reason to detain him, let alone kill him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leaves behind a 4-year-old son, and was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows what we already knew,” Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, said in Spanish, and accused the officers of “killing my son.” One of the officers, she said, held his knee on Gonzalez’s head — a claim not clearly evident in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a kind man and level headed,” Arenales added. “There was a way to deal with this situation without killing my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fenn, the interim police chief, said the video only shows “just a part of what was happening there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got questions about what I see with what the officers are doing,” Fenn said. “But that’s what has to be borne out in the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just see kind of two dimensional, for us watching on screen,” he added. “And the officers were living it at that time and all their senses were firing. So we have to figure out what it is that they were experiencing and why they did certain things and how we ended up in the position where we ended up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters are demanding an independent investigation into Gonzalez’s death, any additional footage and had sought release of the officers’ names. They have also hired Haddad & Sherwin LLP, a firm of civil rights trial attorneys, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a ‘Justice 4 Mario’ sign in front of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have the police investigating the police,” said George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, in a statement Tuesday. “DA O’Malley has only brought charges in an officer-involved shooting once in her entire career. This company is working for the City, being spoon fed information by the City, and will no doubt come to a conclusion that is in the City’s best interests. That’s why the family has called for an outside, independent investigation, led by their lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press event, Galvis said the city of Alameda and its police department have a long history of racism, and there is “zero oversight of the Alameda police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Galvis noted, was released just a week after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. But he cautioned supporters against mistaking that outcome for any kind of real transformation in police accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to repeat and reiterate that one verdict does not create systemic change,” Galvis said, noting the multiple deaths of people of color across the country at the hands of police in just the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-Police-release-body-cam-footage-of-black-15322278.php\">showing officers pinning a 44-year-old Black man\u003c/a> to the ground and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief, who was sharply criticized for his response to the incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alameda-police-chief-retires-after-28-years-on-15427045.php\">announced his retirement\u003c/a> several months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-exclusive-Navy-vet-who-died-8-days-after-15364030.php\">40-year-old navy veteran died\u003c/a> eight days after Alameda police arrested him, pinning him to the ground on his stomach and tasing him multiple times. Last year, the city agreed to pay the man’s mother $250,000 as part of a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, a longtime community activist who leads the Anti Police-Terror Project, said Gonzalez’s death once again painfully underscores the urgent need to defund police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defund is about taking money out of bloated police budgets and putting that into the community in the form of resources, programs and supports,” she told event attendees on Tuesday. “And it’s about not calling the cops anymore when there’s a mental-health crisis. … It’s about not calling the cops when someone is in the middle of a substance-abuse crisis. We got folks that can handle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenn said he agrees it’s time to reexamine which types of professionals are best suited to respond to different kinds of situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s going to be a really important question going forward. And that’s really the question that we’ve been having, not just in Alameda, but in police departments across the state and across the country even before this incident,” he said. “Who are the appropriate responders?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that can get complicated fast, Fenn added, noting that Gonzalez may have been experiencing a mental health issue or may have been under the influence, or possibly both, making him potentially unpredictable and possibly dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, would properly trained, non-sworn people be the best to respond to this? Possibly,” he said. “Would they be in some level of danger? Again, possibly. So do you have a mix of a social worker with a police officer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “And I think each community is trying right now to figure out what’s that look like and what’s the best model for Alameda?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Beth LaBerge.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday at 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda on Tuesday released body camera footage of an April 19 incident in which an Oakland man died after police officers pinned him to the ground while attempting to handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Gonzalez, 26, stopped breathing in Alameda police custody after what police described as a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Multi-Agency-Investigation-Launched-Into-Mans-Death\">according to a statement \u003c/a>released by the Alameda Police Department on April 20. Police \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaPD/status/1384341596481593350/photo/1\">said\u003c/a> Gonzalez “appeared to be under the influence and a suspect in a possible theft,” and experienced a “medical emergency” after officers tried to place his hands behind his back. Gonzalez was transported by Alameda Fire Department personnel to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family, who viewed the video footage before it was released publicly, accused the police of murdering Gonzalez by using excessive force and escalating a situation that was entirely avoidable. Gonzalez was healthy and had no known medical conditions, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday, my family and I saw the footage and we know what really happened. Alameda police officers murdered my brother Mario,” said Gerardo Gonzalez, Mario’s youngest sibling, at a Tuesday press conference and rally outside of the Alameda Police Department, shortly before the video was publicly released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was heartbroken to see Mario’s last moments,” he told the roughly 50 attendees, many holding “Justice 4 Mario” signs. “It was painful to watch the violence and disregard for his humanity. The police killed my brother in the same manner that they killed George Floyd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The three officers directly involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure. Officer James Fisher has been with the Alameda Police Department since 2010, while the two other officers, Cameron Leahy and Eric McKinley, joined in 2018, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Alameda is committed to full transparency and accountability in the aftermath of Mr. Gonzalez’s death,” the city said in a statement Tuesday, announcing the release of the video. It noted that separate investigations into the incident have been initiated, including criminal investigations by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and an independent outside investigation by a private law firm hired by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopsy findings have not yet been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I share probably the views of much of the community that you see a video like that and nobody wants to see a young man die,” interim Alameda Police Chief Randy Fenn told KQED on Wednesday. He called Gonzalez’s death “awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And certainly as a police chief, I don’t want to see something like that during an involvement with the police,” he added. “And like the rest of the community, now we’re looking for answers and trying to figure out what exactly happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Due to its graphic nature, and out of consideration for our communities, KQED is not embedding the video. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">The full version is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly hourlong video, which shows footage from two different police body cameras filmed from different angles, two officers are seen approaching Gonzalez, who is standing alone in the small park next to what appear to be two Walgreens shopping baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers were responding to separate 911 calls, also included in the video, one from a neighbor who reports a man in his front yard “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.” The caller adds, “He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife.” A second 911 caller reports the same man, now in the park nearby, who he says has been there for about 30 minutes and appears to be breaking the security tags off of alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrive, they question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he lives in Alameda, Gonzalez says, “I haven’t gotten a house yet” and briefly puts one hand in his pocket, while standing on a small stump. The officers tell him to take his hands out of his pockets before approaching him. Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms, leads him down from the stump and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez can be heard saying, “It’s not that, there’s something else,” and tells them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, while the officers are still trying to get Gonzalez’s hands behind his back, one of them says, “I think we talked before, Mario. This is all coming back to me now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11871442 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48831_013_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021 for a press conference to address the police body camera footage of his death. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez continues to resist being handcuffed, the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, adjacent to a driveway, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They hold his hands behind his back and eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they continue attempting to subdue him, Gonzalez keeps grunting, heaving and briefly shouting, but his voice is now muffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, one of the officers requests a “wrap,” presumably referring to a type of \u003ca href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/what-is-bola-wrap-the-police-tool-used-to-restrain-suspects-without-lethal-force/75-16ea474f-dce9-4f8a-9894-5fbbfee8d8d9\">full-body restraint device\u003c/a>. The officers ask for the device several more times throughout the altercation, but never ultimately use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK Mario,” one officer says. “We’re going to take care of you, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez shouts several times what sounds like “Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the officers repeatedly asks Gonzalez when his birthday is, and again requests a wrap, as Gonzalez’s screams grow increasingly loud and seemingly distressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you just had too much to drink today, that’s all,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario, calm down please,” one of the officers says. The other officer tells him to stop kicking, amid the sound of approaching sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez remains pinned face down to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, his protestations becoming increasingly weak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think we can roll him on his side?” one officer asks. The other responds, “I don’t want to lose what I got, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez grows silent and his body goes limp, one officer instructs his partner to not put any weight on his chest. The other officer appears to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 seconds later, when Gonzalez appears to be completely motionless, they roll him on his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going unresponsive,” one of the officers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers shout Gonzalez’s first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, his hands still restrained behind his back. About one minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up, as more officers and EMTs arrive. They are also seen administering at least two doses of Narcan, which is given to counteract opiate overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went from combative to non-responsive almost immediately and then we started compressions,” one of the officers tells an EMT from the Alameda Fire Department, before Gonzalez is lifted into an ambulance and brought to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family members and supporters say the released footage reveals a blatant case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows officers on top of Mario while he was face down on the ground,” his brother Gerardo said at Tuesday’s press conference. “They had their weight on his head and his back. He was complying and they continued to bring him down with their weight. Everything we saw in that video was unnecessary and unprofessional, and it took a minuscule event and made it fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Gerardo said, shows Mario sitting in the park “and not bothering anyone,” and at no point was he out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have asked him to call his family and we would have come and picked him up,” he said. “There was no reason to detain him, let alone kill him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leaves behind a 4-year-old son, and was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The footage shows what we already knew,” Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, said in Spanish, and accused the officers of “killing my son.” One of the officers, she said, held his knee on Gonzalez’s head — a claim not clearly evident in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a kind man and level headed,” Arenales added. “There was a way to deal with this situation without killing my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fenn, the interim police chief, said the video only shows “just a part of what was happening there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got questions about what I see with what the officers are doing,” Fenn said. “But that’s what has to be borne out in the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just see kind of two dimensional, for us watching on screen,” he added. “And the officers were living it at that time and all their senses were firing. So we have to figure out what it is that they were experiencing and why they did certain things and how we ended up in the position where we ended up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters are demanding an independent investigation into Gonzalez’s death, any additional footage and had sought release of the officers’ names. They have also hired Haddad & Sherwin LLP, a firm of civil rights trial attorneys, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a ‘Justice 4 Mario’ sign in front of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have the police investigating the police,” said George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, in a statement Tuesday. “DA O’Malley has only brought charges in an officer-involved shooting once in her entire career. This company is working for the City, being spoon fed information by the City, and will no doubt come to a conclusion that is in the City’s best interests. That’s why the family has called for an outside, independent investigation, led by their lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press event, Galvis said the city of Alameda and its police department have a long history of racism, and there is “zero oversight of the Alameda police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, Galvis noted, was released just a week after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. But he cautioned supporters against mistaking that outcome for any kind of real transformation in police accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to repeat and reiterate that one verdict does not create systemic change,” Galvis said, noting the multiple deaths of people of color across the country at the hands of police in just the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The police, she said, have not provided any clear information about what happened to her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mario was a noble and decent man who didn’t deserve to have his life ended in this way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, she added, has a 4-year-old son and was the devoted caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“His brother can’t eat. He can’t sleep. He keeps asking where Mario is,” Arenales told the crowd that gathered Wednesday evening, just a day after the nation reacted to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking near a large memorial crowded with photos of Gonzalez, flowers and candles, George Galvis of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice told attendees that the police report for Gonzalez looks “almost identical” to the one for George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Edith Arenales, Mario Gonzalez's mother\"]‘We need justice because we lost someone who was indispensable to our family.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you take a healthy person in custody who has no health problems and then they mysteriously die? There’s not an uncanny correlation. It’s obvious he was murdered by Alameda police,” he said. “The city of Alameda has a pattern of not holding police officers accountable. And so we’re saying, ‘Ya basta,’ we’re saying, ‘That’s enough, that’s not happening today. That’s not happening in this case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galvis accused police of already trying to craft a negative image of Gonzalez by saying he was a suspect in a “possible” theft, part of a pattern, he said, of trying to criminalize people killed in custody to limit public support and empathy for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that if they could drag up an old incident report from middle school [of him] smoking weed when he was 12 years old, they’d bring it up. 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He also demanded all available footage of the incident – including video from police body-worn cameras – as well as the names of the three officers involved, and said an independent investigation was necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not explained to our family why they killed Mario,” he said. “The Alameda Police Department needs to explain why a perfectly healthy man who was never charged with a crime was killed in their custody. … We need answers, and we cannot trust their version of the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-killings\"]The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office have both begun investigations into the incident, and the city of Alameda will contract with an outside investigator “to conduct a separate, parallel investigation,” according to Tuesday’s statement from the Alameda Police Department. The department also anticipates releasing the body-worn camera video to the public by the end of next week after all parties involved have been interviewed by the investigating agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three officers involved in the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave, per standard procedure, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection of human life is our primary duty as police officers,” interim Police Chief Randy Fenn said in the statement. “The loss of Mr. Gonzalez is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Melissa Nold said police should be transparent and release any footage of the incident as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If nobody did anything wrong, then releasing footage isn’t problematic,” she said. “If they release it, and we see a man with his face down on the ground, and there are people on top of him, obviously struggling, then there are concerns about whether those things were within policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft underscored the importance of due process in the investigation, and said the family should have a chance to view the footage before the public does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very much holding them in my heart, and we will move forward as best as we can to do the right thing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48699_010_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Majail-Blanco, sister of Erik Salgado, places her hand on the shoulder of Gerardo Gonzalez during a vigil for his brother Mario Gonzalez in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department came under fire last May for use of heavy-handed tactics following the release of a video showing officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-11/police-detain-black-man-who-was-dancing-in-the-street-in-alameda\">pinning a middle-aged Black man to the ground\u003c/a> and handcuffing him, after he had been seen dancing in the street near his house. The police chief, who was sharply criticized for his response to the incident, announced his retirement several months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the speakers at Wednesday’s vigil was Amanda Majail-Blanco, whose brother Erik Salgado was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823531/protesters-demand-answers-in-chp-fatal-shooting-of-erik-salgado\">shot and killed in Oakland\u003c/a> last June by California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want justice. We are tired. I am tired,” she said. “I am tired of continuously having to go through stuff like this at the hands of police and police are still not held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And here we are again with another mourning family,” she added. “We’re here sharing the same story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a passionate and exasperated address, Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project told attendees she was “fed up” with needing to consistently have these vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the only time we see each other, is when the state terrorizes our communities,” she said. “They just keep killing us, they just keep raping us, they just keep tormenting us, they just keep profiling us, they just keep incarcerating us. 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About 20 were filed, many of which had nothing to do with the bill, Hirono has said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the parties agreed to vote on three of those GOP amendments that all failed to garner the 60 votes needed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer, D-New York, said the legislation was the mark of progress since \"dark chapters in our history,\" with accounts of discrimination against the AAPI community rising under former President Donald Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the past several years, the forces of hate and bigotry seemed to have gained strength too often encouraged by our former president,\" Schumer said on the Senate floor. \"The Senate makes it very clear that hate and discrimination against any group has no place in America. Bigotry against one is bigotry against all.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='anti-asian-attacks']Through grant programs and other efforts, the legislation incentivizes law enforcement agencies to better track instances of hate crimes and establish related hotlines. It also requires the attorney general designate a Department of Justice official to quickly initiate a review of such hate crime reports for law enforcement departments across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general would also direct guidance for agencies to take part in new, related online reporting requirements and efforts to expand public awareness campaigns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the measure also includes a bipartisan provision authored by Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Kansas GOP Sen. Jerry Moran to allow alternative sentencing during prosecution. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was a victory to many in the Bay Area, but a painful one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870396/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">convicted Tuesday\u003c/a> of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd. With gatherings planned in Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco to honor Floyd’s life and process the verdict, many offered muted words of relief, but stopped short of jubilant celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public statements and on social media, Bay Area civic and social justice leaders said while the conviction of Chauvin was perhaps surprising, and may uplift movements emphasizing the value of Black lives and demanding an end to systemic racism and police violence in the United States, it came at too high a cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True justice would see George Floyd still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant\"]‘Eyes are being opened to see the inhumane things happening to people of color, to people not being held accountable for their actions.’[/pullquote]Cat Brooks, a longtime Oakland activist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, told KQED she expected a conviction because of the “sheer brutality of what Derek Chauvin did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was an evolutionary moment in our movement, and we forced justice to take place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Johnson – the mother of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant/\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, who was killed by former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in 2009 – told KQED she was relieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just thankful,” Johnson said, because “eyes are being opened to see the inhumane things happening to people of color, to people not being held accountable for their actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said there was less awareness of police violence against Black people when Mehserle, who claimed he meant to reach for his Taser, shot her son in the back as he lay face down on the Fruitvale Station BART platform. A jury convicted Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter in 2010. He was sentenced to a two-year prison term, of which he served 11 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in my heart that it is being viewed differently now, it’s different than when Oscar was killed,” Johnson said. In Chauvin’s trial, “there was no way a conviction could not take place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BLeeForCongress/status/1384632496504008709\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lateefah Simon, a BART board member, longtime activist and adviser on policing reform to Gov. Newsom, sees the verdict as a long-overdue signal of something deeper. “To me, it is the beginning of hopefully some deep reconciliation, that has taken over 400 years,” Simon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can no longer look at these boys like monsters — that have no families, and rip them out of cars and shoot them in the back,” Simon told KQED, through tears. “I can’t believe it. I’m shocked. I’m banging pots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s death on Memorial Day 2020 sparked protests in Minneapolis, across the United States and around the world, as people rallied for police reform and racial justice. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man from Houston, had moved to Minnesota just three years earlier. He was a father and brother who idolized his mother, loved making music and had been a star athlete as a young man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd died after Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds as Floyd lay face down, hands cuffed behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“George Floyd is still dead,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed said the verdict brought up “a lot of emotion,” because “sadly as an African American, it’s something we’ve lived with our entire lives. It’s something that unfortunately we’ve come to expect, that this could happen and no one would be held accountable because in some cases African Americans do feel less valued.” She added, “a lot of what you see in this verdict is the outrage that comes from people of all walks of life, in this country and in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care what race you are, if you saw this video and if you saw what happened, how could you not be heartbroken by what you saw?” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is hard to process the verdict, she said, but it is “definitely a step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Breed highlighted San Francisco’s own efforts to reform its police force, from its Street Crisis Response Teams to send paramedics and behavioral health specialists, instead of police, to mental health 911 calls, to an effort to redirect some $120 million from law enforcement efforts to investing in Black youth and families, housing and health care. Some critics have derided that disinvestment \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/uhshanti/status/1383870914073305088\">as not really cutting into police work itself\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://defundsfpdnow.com/\">The Defund SFPD Now group\u003c/a> said it would “be tempting to consider this verdict a win,” but “the only way to reduce police violence is to reduce the number of interactions between police and our communities” by defunding, disarming and disbanding police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11869627 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-22-1020x680.jpg']At Lake Merritt, Wednesday, Oaklanders speaking to KQED said everything from Floyd’s death, to the trial, and the verdict, were sad all around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit of a paradox for me. The damage is done, but how do we provide justice?” said Robel Habte, an Oakland resident who comes from eastern Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ainsworth, also an Oakland resident who is originally from the United Kingdom, said, “I don’t feel personally any cause for celebration in putting someone away for life,” while adding that police reform is needed across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland resident, Toyosi Oniru, who intends on studying criminal law in school, told KQED the conviction was a win because “they’re finally hearing us, that Black lives do matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she added, “I still wake up every day concerned for my dad, for my brothers, for my cousins, all the Black males in my family, all my Black male friends — that’s still a big concern for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/WhiteAndOniru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/WhiteAndOniru.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/WhiteAndOniru-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/WhiteAndOniru-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/WhiteAndOniru-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/WhiteAndOniru-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anisha White (left) and Toyosi Oniru sit at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Tuesday April, 20, 2021, after a guilty verdict was announced for Derek Chauvin earlier in the afternoon. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Oakland officials agreed that the work to bend the arc of justice in the country carries on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There can be no justice when lives are stolen. Only accountability,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/carroll_fife/status/1384615256148701199?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a> Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife. Councilmember Loren Taylor \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1384628374996275203?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a>, “Relieved that our criminal justice system finally got something right when it comes to police violence. At the same time, I’m not naive to the fact that this is just one verdict in one trial and true just society consistently renders (justice).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland’s vice mayor, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Kaplan4Oakland/status/1384599940895154177?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a>, “Let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LibbySchaaf/status/1384615756797595648?s=20\">tweeted\u003c/a>, “Today’s verdict is a just one, and it’s also an indictment. The deep structural racism that pervades our country — and leads to the state-sponsored murder of Black men like George Floyd and too many others — must end. Juries shouldn’t have to tell us this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom noted, in a statement, “The hard truth is that, if George Floyd looked like me, he’d still be alive today. No conviction can repair the harm done to George Floyd and his family, but today’s verdict provides some accountability as we work to root out the racial injustice that haunts our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one Bay Area political leader drew condemnation for her remarks on the Chauvin verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1384624882600796167\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at a press conference with the Congressional Black Caucus, said, “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many on social media criticized Pelosi’s remarks, noting that Floyd did not willingly sacrifice his life – it was taken from him by Derek Chauvin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer, and NPR’s Laurel Wamsley.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all the counts he faced over the murder of George Floyd. The trial has been one of the most closely watched cases in recent memory, setting off a national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism even before the trial commenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chauvin, 45, has been found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With only his eyes visible as the rest of his face was hidden behind a surgical mask, Chauvin watched as the verdict was returned. Judge Peter Cahill thanked the jury for their “heavy-duty jury service.” Chauvin was remanded into custody as the jury was dismissed, and Cahill said sentencing is expected in eight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State sentencing \u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/msgc-stat/documents/Guidelines/2020/2020StandardSentencingGuidelinesGrid.pdf\">guidelines\u003c/a> recommend 12.5 years in prison for a conviction on unintentional second-degree murder for someone with no criminal history. But prosecutors could seek a sentence up to the maximum of 40 years on that count if Cahill determines there were aggravating factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A deputy handcuffed Chauvin and escorted him to a side room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd\"]‘I was just praying they would find him guilty. As an African American, we usually never get justice.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, hugged prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and others, according to pool reports from a journalist in the courtroom. Ellison and Blackwell shook hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philonise Floyd had been seen praying in the courtroom. Asked by a pool reporter afterward what he had been praying for, he answered: “I was just praying they would find him guilty. As an African American, we usually never get justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no noticeable reaction from the jury, according to a pool reporter. The jurors each remained still and quiet, staring at the judge until they were called upon to announce their judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury had been deliberating for about 10 hours over two days, following closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s death on Memorial Day 2020 sparked protests in Minneapolis, across the United States and around the world. It prompted calls for police reform and soul-searching on issues of systemic racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd was a 46-year-old Black man from Houston who had moved to Minnesota just three years earlier. He was a father and brother who idolized his mother, loved making music and had been a star athlete as a young man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd died after Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds as Floyd lay face down, hands cuffed behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Trial\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Judge Cahill presided in the case. Known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975678095/judge-peter-cahill-in-derek-chauvin-trial-hes-known-for-being-fair-decisive\">being fair and decisive\u003c/a>, Cahill made the unusual decision to allow the trial to be broadcast live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Floyd died as a direct result of Chauvin’s actions: that due to Chauvin’s weight on Floyd’s neck and back while holding him in the prone position, Floyd died of low oxygen levels that caused a brain injury and arrhythmia, causing his heart to stop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did what he did on purpose, and it killed George Floyd,” said prosecutor Steve Schleicher. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony in the case was remarkable in that witnesses for the prosecution included numerous members of the Minneapolis police. Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo and other members of his department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/05/984412060/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-enters-second-week-of-testimony\">testified\u003c/a> that Chauvin’s lengthy restraint of Floyd was not reasonable and violated the department’s policies on use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an initial reasonableness in trying to get him under control in the first few seconds,” Arradondo testified, “but once there was no longer any resistance, and clearly when Mr. Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back — that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy, is not part of our training and is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/ap_21109604855161-722286e201da0400f8c7c82d899c1b9549f2905c-e1618950002875.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Chauvin without a mask, frowning\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870397\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to his defense attorney make closing arguments on Monday during his trial in the death of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Court TV via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chauvin’s defense, meanwhile, argued that there were a range of potential factors in Floyd’s death, including what it said was Floyd’s enlarged heart, fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide from squad car exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, defense attorney Eric Nelson strove to inject doubt into the state’s case. He framed Chauvin’s actions as those of a “reasonable police officer” doing his job under stressful and chaotic circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony ranged from complex medical and forensic pathology topics to discussion of police training and officers’ use of force. There were moments of deep emotion, including from bystander \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/31/983192384/chauvin-trial-witnesses-describe-officers-fatal-detention-of-george-floyd\">Charles McMillian\u003c/a> and the young woman identified in court as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/30/982729306/it-wasnt-right-young-woman-who-recorded-chauvin-and-floyd-on-video-tells-court\">Darnella\u003c/a>, who was 17 when she took video of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennepin County’s medical examiner, Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Andrew Baker\u003c/a>, testified that Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest resulting from “law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression.” He said the manner of death was “homicide,” meaning that someone else was involved in the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='george-floyd']Compared with the prosecution, the defense’s testimony was brief. Defense attorney Nelson called just six witnesses, including a retired Minneapolis police officer and a retired paramedic who had interacted with Floyd during a 2019 traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense spent the most time questioning Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/14/987134841/watch-live-defense-testimony-resumes-in-derek-chauvins-trial\">David Fowler\u003c/a>, a retired forensic pathologist who testified that Floyd died from a sudden cardiac event and that opioids and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide poisoning played a role. He disputed the Hennepin County medical examiner’s judgment that the manner of Floyd’s death was “homicide” and said that it should have been classified as “undetermined,” given the number of factors in play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the opinion of Baker, the medical examiner, “the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take, by virtue of those heart conditions.” While fentanyl and heart disease may have contributed to Floyd’s death, they were not the direct cause, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Baker said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other medical and forensic witnesses called by the prosecution agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. George Floyd died from a cardiopulmonary arrest. It was caused by low oxygen levels. And those low oxygen levels were induced by the prone restraint and positional asphyxiation that he was subjected to,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986405385/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-testimony-enters-3rd-week\">testified \u003c/a>Dr. Jonathan Rich, a cardiologist. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/986508546/watch-george-floyds-brother-testifies-in-derek-chauvin-trial\">Philonise Floyd\u003c/a>, described their Houston childhood and told the court about how Floyd “was a leader in our household.” Floyd’s girlfriend, Courteney Ross, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/01/983407032/watch-live-day-4-of-derek-chauvin-trial-starts-with-floyd-s-girlfriend\">described\u003c/a> her affection for him and their mutual struggle with opioid addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg\" alt=\"very emotional woman wearing mask, crying with face upturned\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman cries as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unintentional second-degree murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/19/988775742/trial-of-derek-chauvin-in-the-death-of-george-floyd-goes-to-the-jury\">is defined\u003c/a> as causing death without intent to do so, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense. The maximum sentence for second-degree murder is 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third-degree murder is causing death to an individual by “perpetrating an act imminently dangerous to others and evidencing a depraved mind without regard for human life,” but without the intent to cause death. It carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second-degree manslaughter is causing the death of another by “culpable negligence, creating an unreasonable risk” in which the defendant “consciously takes the risk of causing death or great bodily harm to another individual.” It carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Jury\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The names of the jurors are not known. But we do know that the jury was significantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980646634/half-of-the-jury-in-the-chauvin-trial-is-non-white-thats-only-part-of-the-story\">less white \u003c/a>than \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/hennepincountyminnesota,minneapoliscityminnesota/PST045219\">Hennepin County\u003c/a> itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12 jurors include four Black people, two people who identify as multiracial and six white people. Two alternates — both of them white women — have been dismissed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury reported each day for duty to the Hennepin County Government Center under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/985803829/jurors-in-chauvin-trial-have-security-escort-are-partially-sequestered\">intense security measures\u003c/a>, using a private entrance to enter the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jurors were given a laptop and monitor to review the extensive video footage and exhibits presented during the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use your common sense. Believe your eyes. What you saw, you saw,” prosecutor Schleicher told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state is “missing any one single element” to meet the burden of proving Chauvin’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for each of the three counts, “it is a not-guilty verdict,” defense attorney Nelson told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870457\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd (C) holds up his hands with family lawyer Ben Crump (R) during a press conference following the guilty verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Courtroom\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the Sunday before the last week of testimony, another Black man was killed at the hands of police in Hennepin County. Daunte Wright, 20, was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop. Potter, who says she mistakenly fired her gun instead of a Taser, resigned from the force and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/987228386/officer-who-shot-daunte-wright-arrested-to-be-charged-with-2nd-degree-manslaught\">charged\u003c/a> with second-degree manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major demonstrations have followed Wright’s shooting, with protesters gathering outside the Brooklyn Center police station in suburban Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama drew a straight line between the deaths of Floyd and Wright: “The fact that this could happen even as the city of Minneapolis is going through the trial of Derek Chauvin and reliving the heart-wrenching murder of George Floyd indicates not just how important it is to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but also just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country,” they said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Trial\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Judge Cahill presided in the case. Known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975678095/judge-peter-cahill-in-derek-chauvin-trial-hes-known-for-being-fair-decisive\">being fair and decisive\u003c/a>, Cahill made the unusual decision to allow the trial to be broadcast live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Floyd died as a direct result of Chauvin’s actions: that due to Chauvin’s weight on Floyd’s neck and back while holding him in the prone position, Floyd died of low oxygen levels that caused a brain injury and arrhythmia, causing his heart to stop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did what he did on purpose, and it killed George Floyd,” said prosecutor Steve Schleicher. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony in the case was remarkable in that witnesses for the prosecution included numerous members of the Minneapolis police. Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo and other members of his department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/05/984412060/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-enters-second-week-of-testimony\">testified\u003c/a> that Chauvin’s lengthy restraint of Floyd was not reasonable and violated the department’s policies on use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an initial reasonableness in trying to get him under control in the first few seconds,” Arradondo testified, “but once there was no longer any resistance, and clearly when Mr. Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back — that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy, is not part of our training and is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/ap_21109604855161-722286e201da0400f8c7c82d899c1b9549f2905c-e1618950002875.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Chauvin without a mask, frowning\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870397\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to his defense attorney make closing arguments on Monday during his trial in the death of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Court TV via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chauvin’s defense, meanwhile, argued that there were a range of potential factors in Floyd’s death, including what it said was Floyd’s enlarged heart, fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide from squad car exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, defense attorney Eric Nelson strove to inject doubt into the state’s case. He framed Chauvin’s actions as those of a “reasonable police officer” doing his job under stressful and chaotic circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony ranged from complex medical and forensic pathology topics to discussion of police training and officers’ use of force. There were moments of deep emotion, including from bystander \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/31/983192384/chauvin-trial-witnesses-describe-officers-fatal-detention-of-george-floyd\">Charles McMillian\u003c/a> and the young woman identified in court as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/30/982729306/it-wasnt-right-young-woman-who-recorded-chauvin-and-floyd-on-video-tells-court\">Darnella\u003c/a>, who was 17 when she took video of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennepin County’s medical examiner, Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Andrew Baker\u003c/a>, testified that Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest resulting from “law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression.” He said the manner of death was “homicide,” meaning that someone else was involved in the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Compared with the prosecution, the defense’s testimony was brief. Defense attorney Nelson called just six witnesses, including a retired Minneapolis police officer and a retired paramedic who had interacted with Floyd during a 2019 traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense spent the most time questioning Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/14/987134841/watch-live-defense-testimony-resumes-in-derek-chauvins-trial\">David Fowler\u003c/a>, a retired forensic pathologist who testified that Floyd died from a sudden cardiac event and that opioids and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide poisoning played a role. He disputed the Hennepin County medical examiner’s judgment that the manner of Floyd’s death was “homicide” and said that it should have been classified as “undetermined,” given the number of factors in play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the opinion of Baker, the medical examiner, “the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take, by virtue of those heart conditions.” While fentanyl and heart disease may have contributed to Floyd’s death, they were not the direct cause, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Baker said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other medical and forensic witnesses called by the prosecution agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. George Floyd died from a cardiopulmonary arrest. It was caused by low oxygen levels. And those low oxygen levels were induced by the prone restraint and positional asphyxiation that he was subjected to,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986405385/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-testimony-enters-3rd-week\">testified \u003c/a>Dr. Jonathan Rich, a cardiologist. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/986508546/watch-george-floyds-brother-testifies-in-derek-chauvin-trial\">Philonise Floyd\u003c/a>, described their Houston childhood and told the court about how Floyd “was a leader in our household.” Floyd’s girlfriend, Courteney Ross, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/01/983407032/watch-live-day-4-of-derek-chauvin-trial-starts-with-floyd-s-girlfriend\">described\u003c/a> her affection for him and their mutual struggle with opioid addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg\" alt=\"very emotional woman wearing mask, crying with face upturned\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman cries as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unintentional second-degree murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/19/988775742/trial-of-derek-chauvin-in-the-death-of-george-floyd-goes-to-the-jury\">is defined\u003c/a> as causing death without intent to do so, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense. The maximum sentence for second-degree murder is 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third-degree murder is causing death to an individual by “perpetrating an act imminently dangerous to others and evidencing a depraved mind without regard for human life,” but without the intent to cause death. It carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second-degree manslaughter is causing the death of another by “culpable negligence, creating an unreasonable risk” in which the defendant “consciously takes the risk of causing death or great bodily harm to another individual.” It carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Jury\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The names of the jurors are not known. But we do know that the jury was significantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980646634/half-of-the-jury-in-the-chauvin-trial-is-non-white-thats-only-part-of-the-story\">less white \u003c/a>than \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/hennepincountyminnesota,minneapoliscityminnesota/PST045219\">Hennepin County\u003c/a> itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12 jurors include four Black people, two people who identify as multiracial and six white people. Two alternates — both of them white women — have been dismissed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury reported each day for duty to the Hennepin County Government Center under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/985803829/jurors-in-chauvin-trial-have-security-escort-are-partially-sequestered\">intense security measures\u003c/a>, using a private entrance to enter the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jurors were given a laptop and monitor to review the extensive video footage and exhibits presented during the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use your common sense. Believe your eyes. What you saw, you saw,” prosecutor Schleicher told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state is “missing any one single element” to meet the burden of proving Chauvin’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for each of the three counts, “it is a not-guilty verdict,” defense attorney Nelson told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870457\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd (C) holds up his hands with family lawyer Ben Crump (R) during a press conference following the guilty verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Courtroom\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the Sunday before the last week of testimony, another Black man was killed at the hands of police in Hennepin County. Daunte Wright, 20, was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop. Potter, who says she mistakenly fired her gun instead of a Taser, resigned from the force and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/987228386/officer-who-shot-daunte-wright-arrested-to-be-charged-with-2nd-degree-manslaught\">charged\u003c/a> with second-degree manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major demonstrations have followed Wright’s shooting, with protesters gathering outside the Brooklyn Center police station in suburban Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama drew a straight line between the deaths of Floyd and Wright: “The fact that this could happen even as the city of Minneapolis is going through the trial of Derek Chauvin and reliving the heart-wrenching murder of George Floyd indicates not just how important it is to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but also just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country,” they said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>More than 60,000 Californians have died from COVID-19. This week, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> is launching a series to remember some of them. Our first tribute is to Eric Warner, who died of COVID-19 in San Quentin State Prison at age 57. He was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Filipino immigrants. He was a barber, a boxer and a beloved brother. Eric’s older brother Hank brings us this tribute.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]aving an only brother incarcerated for life leaves a hole in your heart. You long for sibling companionship. And guard your secret for fear of shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, we collected pollywogs after big rains. We adventured new horizons on bikes, imitated major leaguers in the schoolyard. Life was simple. We happily sang along to Don McLean’s “American Pie,” oblivious to the foreshadowing of things to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By our teenage years, Eric and I drifted in opposite directions. As adults, I only saw him at times of crisis, like when he lost his leg in a tragic car accident, or when I visited him at county jails and hard-to-reach penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank Warner were born just two years apart. Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. He learned how to live a life of redemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 393px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg 393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC-160x226.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E” – as he was known in the pen – studied law in the prison library. He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, think about advocacy from prison,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a level-four prison. Doesn’t have a law degree. A dude serving a life sentence, but passionate about helping people,” Khan said. “He helped others. Never charged no one, and said, ‘Just don’t forget me when you get out.’ That’s who Eric was, and is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to me, Eric had Amanda, his fiancee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met when a close friend introduced his sister-in-law to Eric over the phone. Love letters and phone calls quickly ensued. They inspired one another to live with dignity. Amanda had late-stage cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1020x711.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1536x1071.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019.jpeg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Warner and Eric’s fiancee, Amanda, visiting him in San Quentin in 2019. She died soon after this visit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the only time they met in person. It was magical. I had never seen my brother this happy. That was back in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric talked about their love story, and read a letter to Amanda, in this documentary called “Resilience” — made by Khan and other incarcerated men learning to be filmmakers inside San Quentin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDcatgnKKQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, when I saw on the news that there was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826469/shocking-heartbreaking-san-quentin-coronavirus-outbreak-alarms-health-officials\">COVID outbreak in San Quentin\u003c/a>, my heart sank. I didn’t hear from Eric for weeks. We normally talked on the phone every Sunday. But there were no phone calls, no letters, no news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 18, 2020, I received a call from a nurse. Eric was hospitalized. He made it out of prison, only to end up in a hospital close to where we grew up. He had been in the ICU for over a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facetime was the only way we could visit. Eric’s face, dominated by an air mask, filled my iPad screen. The whooshing sound of the breathing machine drowned out his voice. He gasped for life with every breath. Our visits lasted only a few minutes. I was his cheerleader and soother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just the two of us for seven days, and then he passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-1020x1174.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BMX was Eric’s favorite sport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after Eric died, I received an overwhelming number of texts and phone messages. Formerly incarcerated men and prison staffers reached out to express their condolences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All had to let me know how much Eric meant to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1341868668733456385?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t understand what motivated these people to reach out to me. I didn’t think anyone cared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, these same men organized a memorial to honor my brother. More than a dozen friends from San Quentin showed up. Many more couldn’t be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eric will always be remembered by friends and family as a kind and warm hearted person. And he was loved by so many,” said Chanton Bun, his friend and former cellmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13889012 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/eric-warner-1920-x-1080-1020x574.jpg']One by one, each person told me what Eric meant to them; how he helped them survive in prison and prepared them to get out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it hit me – my brother helped so many men reach freedom – in every sense. It was like they owed their lives to him. This blew my mind!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that some time has passed, I am relieved to say that the hole in my heart is mending. I no longer feel ashamed. I admire my brother for shedding past demons and creating a meaningful life by serving others. Eric’s life may have been taken by COVID, but his spirit will live on. He left his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am proud of my brother Eric William Warner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hank Warner lives in the Los Angeles area. 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As adults, I only saw him at times of crisis, like when he lost his leg in a tragic car accident, or when I visited him at county jails and hard-to-reach penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank Warner were born just two years apart. Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. 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He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, think about advocacy from prison,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a level-four prison. Doesn’t have a law degree. A dude serving a life sentence, but passionate about helping people,” Khan said. “He helped others. Never charged no one, and said, ‘Just don’t forget me when you get out.’ That’s who Eric was, and is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to me, Eric had Amanda, his fiancee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met when a close friend introduced his sister-in-law to Eric over the phone. Love letters and phone calls quickly ensued. They inspired one another to live with dignity. Amanda had late-stage cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1020x711.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1536x1071.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019.jpeg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Warner and Eric’s fiancee, Amanda, visiting him in San Quentin in 2019. She died soon after this visit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the only time they met in person. It was magical. I had never seen my brother this happy. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chanting “say his name” and holding signs that read “abolish the police,” hundreds of demonstrators converged in front of San Francisco’s Mission High School on Thursday evening, demanding a fundamental overhaul of policing in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized by the activist group Defund SFPD Now, the rally is part of a renewed national focus on police violence, sparked by several recent high-profile police shootings of Black men, and amid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/15/987599305/watch-live-chauvin-defense-testimony-continues-in-murder-trial\">ongoing high-stakes trial of Derek Chauvin\u003c/a>, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police will never be held accountable because the system doesn’t want them to be,” said Aditi Joshi of Defund SFPD Now at the demonstration Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1394px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11869757 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1394\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg 1394w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1394px) 100vw, 1394px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial in honor of Roger Allen and people killed by the police fills the steps of Mission High School on April 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of Mission High School, demonstrators spoke, chanted and placed flowers on a memorial for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987795222/officer-who-killed-daunte-wright-makes-first-court-appearance-in-manslaughter-ca\">shot and killed by a police officer\u003c/a> in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, and Roger Allen, a 44-year-old San Francisco resident who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/supporters-march-for-sf-man-killed-by-daly-city-police/\">shot and killed by a Daly City police officer\u003c/a> on April 7 after a reported struggle over a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1382873323739045890?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group then marched to the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station on Valencia Street. While gesturing at police officers outside the building, Talika Fletcher, who said she’s Allen’s sister, said “they didn’t do it, but Daly City did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They should not be allowed to carry any guns. If we can’t have none, why should they have some?” Fletcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11869760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talika Fletcher, who said she’s Roger Allen’s sister, takes a moment during speaking outside of the Mission Police Station on April 15, 2021, during a rally in her brother’s honor and those killed by the police. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wright was killed during what began as a routine traffic stop for expired vehicle tags, just miles from the courthouse where Chauvin is being tried. The officer involved, a 26-year veteran of the department, claims she mistook her handgun for a Taser, firing it at Wright after he resisted arrest for an outstanding warrant. She is being charged with second-degree manslaughter and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, which Wright’s family has decried as far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 135 unarmed Black men and women have been shot and killed by police in the last five years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns\">an NPR investigation\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to Daunte Wright and Roger Allen proves that the criminal legal system can never bring us justice,” Joshi, of Defund SFPD Now, said in a statement prior to Thursday’s rally. “They will always kill because the system of policing is NOT broken. It is functioning as intended. The time for waiting is long over. We must defund, disband, and abolish the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1382873323739045890?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just hours before the start of Thursday’s rally, yet another fatal police incident drew national attention after officials in Chicago released body camera footage of a police officer shooting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987718420/chicago-releases-video-showing-fatal-police-shooting-of-13-year-old-adam-toledo\">13-year-old boy named Adam Toledo\u003c/a> during a foot chase in that city several weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, protests erupted across the region, the country and much of the world, in response to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man. A visceral video of his death in late May shows Floyd — who was arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill — handcuffed and pinned to the ground as Chauvin kneels on his neck for more than nine minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident and its aftermath launched what some consider a racial reckoning in the U.S., galvanizing scores of companies and institutions to reexamine their positions on racial equity and justice, and prompting multiple state legislatures — including in California — to adopt modest policing reforms. It also spurred activists in cities across the country to demand major local policing reforms — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823958/defund-the-police-what-it-means-and-how-bay-area-cities-are-responding\">a push to defund\u003c/a> or flat-out abolish police departments, and reallocate much of those budgets to social service and educational agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple cities across the Bay Area, including San Francisco and Oakland, have since proposed or adopted plans to cut their police budgets by large chunks and reinvest those funds in community service agencies that advocates say are far better equipped to handle many of the non-violent incidents that often escalate when police are called in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1209px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1209\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25.jpg 1209w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Rodriguez, a sophomore at Summit Shasta High School in Daly City, holds a sign that says ‘A badge is not a license to kill’ during a vigil and rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on April 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, San Francisco supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">approved Mayor London Breed’s proposal\u003c/a>, as part of this year’s budget, to strip $120 million from the city’s law enforcement agencies over two years and redirect those funds to support the city’s largely underserved Black community. Breed — who has for years supported increasing SFPD’s budget — also last summer directed the police department to no longer\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824152/san-francisco-police-wont-respond-to-non-criminal-calls\"> respond to non-criminal complaints\u003c/a>, revise its accountability and anti-bias practices, and stop using military-grade equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some activists have said that while these actions mark progress, they don’t go far enough, and that only a complete overhaul of law enforcement systems can make any real dent in reversing the ongoing epidemic of police violence against communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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