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Why this man is dead,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Officers were called to the 4000 block of International Boulevard just after 2 p.m. Monday, July 13, after the California Highway Patrol requested assistance, according to OPD’s initial statement. Officers said they found an armed man who ignored their commands and “lunged at officers with a weapon,” then fired both less-lethal and lethal force, killing him at the scene. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Weapons were recovered, the department said, and no officers or bystanders were hurt. OPD has not publicly identified the man.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said they want OPD to immediately release unedited body-worn camera footage, dispatch and 911 audio, and a minute-by-minute account of the July 13 shooting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The shooting is the third by Oakland police officers this year, and the second fatal shooting. Advocates say it points to a troubling reversal for a department on the cusp of exiting more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085228/oakland-police-judge-clears-path-for-possible-end-to-federal-oversight\">two decades of federal oversight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Brooks and others questioned why the department has not publicly specified what weapon the man was holding and why CHP officers were pursuing a suspect through Oakland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12017328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> police shot and killed a person they said was armed last week, community leaders, advocates and impacted families gathered on Friday outside the department’s headquarters to demand greater accountability from law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chanting “New badge, same gang,” a coalition of restorative justice and Black-led public safety groups called on the Oakland Police Department to justify the use of deadly force on July 13.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We want to know what the legal — based on state law — justification was for them to move from what they call less-lethal to lethal weapons. Why this man is dead,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Officers were called to the 4000 block of International Boulevard just after 2 p.m. Monday, July 13, after the California Highway Patrol requested assistance, according to OPD’s initial statement. Officers said they found an armed man who ignored their commands and “lunged at officers with a weapon,” then fired both less-lethal and lethal force, killing him at the scene. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Weapons were recovered, the department said, and no officers or bystanders were hurt. OPD has not publicly identified the man.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said they want OPD to immediately release unedited body-worn camera footage, dispatch and 911 audio, and a minute-by-minute account of the July 13 shooting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The shooting is the third by Oakland police officers this year, and the second fatal shooting. Advocates say it points to a troubling reversal for a department on the cusp of exiting more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085228/oakland-police-judge-clears-path-for-possible-end-to-federal-oversight\">two decades of federal oversight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Brooks and others questioned why the department has not publicly specified what weapon the man was holding and why CHP officers were pursuing a suspect through Oakland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12017328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OPD did not respond to a request for comment beyond its initial statement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lawrence Cox, a policy advocate for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, said the simultaneous use of less-lethal and lethal force demands an explanation of: “what happened, what was present, how far away the individual was, what de-escalations were attempted, and why less-lethal force was insufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Being labeled a threat, he said, “cannot become a blank check for death.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Where is the outrage when our local police murder? Where is the transparency?” asked George Galvis, executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>With no weapon named and no footage released, he said, the object involved “could have been something completely benign.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On April 27, officers fatally shot a man in the 1800 block of 89th Avenue after police said he pointed a gun at them. Less than two weeks later, officers shot and wounded a man on May 8 who they said dragged one officer and pinned another against a parked car while fleeing a traffic stop near Ninth Avenue. OPD said he survived and was in stable condition.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OPD has been under federal oversight since 2003, stemming from the Riders scandal, in which 119 plaintiffs accused a rogue group of OPD officers of false arrests, beatings, kidnapping, planting evidence, falsifying reports and racial discrimination that violated their constitutional rights. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To settle the case, the city and OPD agreed to pay nearly $11 million and to carry out 51 reforms, addressing use of force, discipline, supervision, training and internal affairs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a May 22 report, federal monitor Robert Warshaw found that OPD had met all 51 tasks for the first time. U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick has said he will close the case at the next court date, Sept. 29, as long as the department stays in compliance. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Organizers argue that another police killing raises doubts about whether OPD is ready to police itself.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That is not reform. That is not progress. That is a department moving backward at the exact moment Oakland is being told OPD is ready to police itself without federal oversight,” Brooks said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department placed the officers who fired on paid administrative leave. OPD is reviewing the shooting through its own criminal and internal-affairs investigations, a press release said, while the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office conducts a separate, independent inquiry. 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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. was out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/world-cup\">World Cup \u003c/a>contention earlier this month, Mexico — which has a large Bay Area diaspora that showed out in numbers to regional watch parties — even earlier and games haven’t taken place in the Bay Area in weeks, but San Francisco soccer fans still found something to celebrate for the tournament’s finale. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hundreds took over Thrive City for hours this afternoon to take in a Spain-Argentina match that capped off the biggest World Cup ever – with 48 teams competing in 104 games. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Spain’s win against the defending champions didn’t come until extra time, when Ferran Torres scored the winning goal, bringing the score to 1-0 and sending the watch party into the loudest it had been all afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12091786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-01004_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-01004_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-01004_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-01004_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soccer fans cheer as they watch the final World Cup match between Spain vs. Argentina at Thrive City in San Francisco on July 19, 2026. Spain defeats Argentina 1-0 in the final World Cup game of 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12091791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00232_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091791\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00232_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00232_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00232_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harsh Zota, an Argentina fan, watches the final World Cup match between Spain vs. Argentina in anticipation at Thrive City in San Francisco on July 19, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Bay Area was lucky to host six games before the final match, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089303/us-fans-geared-up-for-teams-bay-area-world-cup-match-against-bosnia\">a knockout game the U.S. prevailed\u003c/a> in that riled up chants and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088892/world-cup-brings-celebrations-mixed-emotions-for-bay-area-immigrant-communities\">some feelings\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That was true of Thrive City’s packed watch party finale. Some watchers noted that the vibe wasn’t as rowdy as other parties, but fans erupted in cheers at all the right moments. The sole counted goal being one of them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Coronel, who came down from Santa Rosa, said he was happy either way.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00216_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091792\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00216_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00216_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00216_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soccer fans attend a watch party for the final World Cup match between Spain vs. Argentina at Thrive City in San Francisco on July 19, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was good at the end,” Coronel said. “I mean, I always love a dramatic finish.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harsh Parikh, a San Jose resident and fan of Spain, said winning this World Cup would bring back memories of Spain’s last win in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We played so well this tournament,” Parikh said. “The vibe [in the Bay Area] has been amazing, and I think it’s really going to kick off in this country now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00242_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091784\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00242_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00242_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00242_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harsh Parikh, a fan of Spain, poses for a portrait at a watch party for the final World Cup match between Spain vs. Argentina in anticipation at Thrive City in San Francisco on July 19, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The game drew lifelong fans and some just along for the tournament’s end, many from outside of the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Scarlett Carrillo, a Mexico fan who came to root for Spain, said the World Cup coming to the Bay Area on and off screen brought out even more of the region’s diversity.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Even though people are from different countries, you have different people from different cultures and countries, and they’re all rooting for either Spain or Argentina. It doesn’t matter if you’re from there or not,” Carrillo, a Napa County resident who’s from Mexico, said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00188_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00188_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00188_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260719-worldcupfinals-00188_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alejandro Martinez Gonzalez (left) and Scarlett Carrillo (right) pose for a portrait at a watch party for the final World Cup match between Spain vs. Argentina at Thrive City in San Francisco on July 19, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But while most fans were happy either way, some — not including Carrillo, a Ronaldo fan — were upset that Messi failed to win another World Cup in what could be his last game.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I grew up watching Messi my whole life. 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Although plans are still uncertain, the new owners, the Oakland Acquisition Company, an affiliate of the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, have indicated they want the space to become a destination for musical artists. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-Cricket-Playoffs-Oakland-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-Cricket-Playoffs-Oakland-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-Cricket-Playoffs-Oakland-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-Cricket-Playoffs-Oakland-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Unicorns captain Matt Short talks to his players in the huddle during match 15 of the Cognizant Major League Cricket season 4 between San Francisco Unicorns and the Washington Freedom held at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on June 28, 2026. 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The games take about three hours, not three days, and the players are not wearing baggy white flannels but brightly colored uniforms — orange for the Unicorns, purple for the Knight Riders — with logos splashed across the front.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12044155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250612_CRICKETCOLISEUM_GC-23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fans wave flags as the San Francisco Unicorns play the Washington Freedom during their opening Major League Cricket game at the Oakland Coliseum on June 12, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s fast-paced and high-scoring — if you’re annoyed by a soccer match that may end in a 0-0 tie, check out the box score of Thursday’s game, where the Washington Freedom spoiled the Unicorns’ hopes for the championship — 238/6 to 231/6. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In cricket, you can score 360 degrees. You can score behind yourself,” Liam Plunkett, part of the broadcast team for Major League Cricket, said on Sunday. “You don’t run the bases, you run back and forth. And if you do hit the equivalent of a home run — a six — you stay batting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got a batsman who’s hot on that day, he stays there and keeps batting,” he said. “Sometimes you get guys who hit the equivalent of 15 home runs in one game.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Plunkett played for the Unicorns last year, but at age 41, decided it was time to retire, although he did sign a limited contract to play baseball for the Oakland Ballers for a couple of games on cricket off-days. 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A person under the name John Boisa was issued a \u003ca href=\"https://dbw.parks.ca.gov/\">California Boater Card\u003c/a>, according to Angelica De La Peña, a spokesperson with California State Parks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To Matt Juanes, who has captained his own boats as a commercial fisherman and charter boat captain in the Bay Area for the last 12 years, Boisa’s decision to take the Volare out on a cruise toward Angel Island with 20 people on that particular Tuesday wasn’t a safety risk. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s nothing out of the ordinary. It doesn’t throw a flag for me,” Juanes said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said that, in his personal opinion, the fact that a kiteboarder and a fisherman in a 22-foot boat were able to aid in the rescue pointed to relatively calm conditions — not the kind that would swamp the much larger Volare on its own. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Initial reports by first responders and rescuers described a plume of smoke emanating from the vessel, leading officials to initially suspect the Volare was on fire. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Toczko said reports of a fire were unsubstantiated.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“After talking to survivors and folks on scene, there is no evidence of a fire of any kind,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>James Smith, who has captained boats for close to 40 years and owns the Berkeley-based charter fishing boat California Dawn, was among the local fishermen who responded to the Coast Guard’s report of a vessel in distress. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Smith believes whatever happened was a “catastrophic failure.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coming into the bay from a salmon fishing trip, he said he could see a plume of smoke emanating from the boat, adding that it may have been caused by water hitting the engine.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-ALCATRAZ-BOAT-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-ALCATRAZ-BOAT-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-ALCATRAZ-BOAT-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-ALCATRAZ-BOAT-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A boat carrying 20 passengers sank near Alcatraz Island on Tuesday, July 14, leaving one person dead and three missing. 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While retail vacancy in Union Square has improved after several years of store closures, San Francisco Center Mall is still struggling despite millions of dollars raised for Mayor Lurie’s Downtown Development Corporation, free lease programs for small businesses, and other Hail Marys the city is throwing at its primary commercial district. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposal would enable small business owners to collectively negotiate rents with their landlords and direct public resources like legal aid to commercial tenants’ unions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some commercial corridors, small businesses already work together to negotiate rents, but Chan’s proposal would codify that process by requiring property owners to recognize commercial tenants unions where members share the same landlords during lease negotiations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jon Osaki said that the model has shown success in Japantown, where several small businesses collectively bargained rent prices down with property owners during the pandemic when business was extremely slow. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was so disheartening in the pandemic that many of our small businesses were threatened with forced evictions, even though they were in a situation where they could not operate,” Osaki said. “Small businesses have been the lifeblood of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, who owns a bookstore and cocktail bar in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, said many small businesses she hears from have had their leases shift to month-to-month as landlords see opportunities to raise the rent during the current economic boom. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The majority of small businesses are essentially subject to the whims of building ownership,” said Evans, who co-founded the progressive advocacy group Small Business Forward. “It used to be that most small businesses were negotiating with mom-and-pop landlords. 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In 2019, he helped write policy making San Francisco the first city in the country to bar its own agencies, including police, from using facial recognition. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Inside, he counted three cameras near the entrance and dozens more down every aisle and over every checkout. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-03-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign on the door notifies customers about facial matching at a Grocery Outlet location on South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco on July 16, 2026. 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As retail theft rates have increased in recent years — shoplifting in California was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/overall-crime-in-california-fell-last-year-but-shoplifting-continued-to-rise/\">47.5% higher in 2024\u003c/a> than before the pandemic, according to the Public Policy Institute of California — companies like Target, Walmart and grocers like Wegmans have introduced the software. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And it’s legal in California, according to the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\">consumer privacy\u003c/a> laws. Businesses must notify customers that facial recognition is in use, and shoppers can “opt out” by petitioning the company to delete their data — or by not entering the store.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a dragnet that scans everyone. Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, your face is being scanned,” said Mario Trujillo, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hepner said that opting out may not be a realistic financial option for many discount grocery customers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Grocery Outlet is one of the only, if not the only, grocery store that caters to low-income [people]” in the Bay Area, he said. “It’s not as if a lot of these shoppers have the choice to go shop somewhere else. It is essentially a tax on their privacy assessed every time they go to the grocery store to put food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Civil-liberties advocates have long raised alarms over the risk of misidentification. In December 2023, the Federal Trade Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/rite-aid-banned-using-ai-facial-recognition-after-ftc-says-retailer-deployed-technology-without\">banned Rite Aid\u003c/a> from using facial recognition for five years after finding the chain’s system falsely tagged shoppers — disproportionately women and people of color — as shoplifters, leading employees to accuse innocent customers of wrongdoing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hepner said San Francisco banned the technology for government use precisely because research shows it “disproportionately misidentified people with darker complexions and faces of women.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SAFR Guard defends the system as narrow and privacy-conscious. In a statement, company President Charisse Jacques said the software “is not a law enforcement system and has no connection with law enforcement,” and it does not build “a general-purpose face matching database of the public.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Grocery Outlet location on Bayshore Boulevard in San Francisco on July 16, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emeryville-based Grocery Outlet has rolled out software by an AI company called SAFR Guard at several Bay Area stores, including Pleasant Hill and the San Francisco location Hepner visited. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The technology is designed to identify people suspected of shoplifting, according to its privacy policy, and notifies employees if someone on a watchlist enters a store. SAFR Guard builds a database of “subjects of interest” across the retailers using it, Hepner said — meaning whoever lands on a watchlist at one store can follow them to another.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s part of a quiet spread of automated anti-theft tools into neighborhood groceries and retail businesses. As retail theft rates have increased in recent years — shoplifting in California was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/overall-crime-in-california-fell-last-year-but-shoplifting-continued-to-rise/\">47.5% higher in 2024\u003c/a> than before the pandemic, according to the Public Policy Institute of California — companies like Target, Walmart and grocers like Wegmans have introduced the software. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And it’s legal in California, according to the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\">consumer privacy\u003c/a> laws. Businesses must notify customers that facial recognition is in use, and shoppers can “opt out” by petitioning the company to delete their data — or by not entering the store.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a dragnet that scans everyone. Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, your face is being scanned,” said Mario Trujillo, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hepner said that opting out may not be a realistic financial option for many discount grocery customers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Grocery Outlet is one of the only, if not the only, grocery store that caters to low-income [people]” in the Bay Area, he said. “It’s not as if a lot of these shoppers have the choice to go shop somewhere else. It is essentially a tax on their privacy assessed every time they go to the grocery store to put food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Civil-liberties advocates have long raised alarms over the risk of misidentification. In December 2023, the Federal Trade Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/rite-aid-banned-using-ai-facial-recognition-after-ftc-says-retailer-deployed-technology-without\">banned Rite Aid\u003c/a> from using facial recognition for five years after finding the chain’s system falsely tagged shoppers — disproportionately women and people of color — as shoplifters, leading employees to accuse innocent customers of wrongdoing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hepner said San Francisco banned the technology for government use precisely because research shows it “disproportionately misidentified people with darker complexions and faces of women.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SAFR Guard defends the system as narrow and privacy-conscious. In a statement, company President Charisse Jacques said the software “is not a law enforcement system and has no connection with law enforcement,” and it does not build “a general-purpose face matching database of the public.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260716-GROCOUTAI-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Grocery Outlet location on Bayshore Boulevard in San Francisco on July 16, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The system only holds data on people a retailer has added to a security list after an incident, such as suspected theft, Jacques said. \u003ca href=\"https://safrguard.ai/\">According to their privacy policy\u003c/a>, records on suspected individuals are kept for up to 12 months, while encrypted images and general CCTV footage are automatically deleted after 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shoppers who aren’t matched to that list are never stored at all: their biometric data “never leave the camera and are immediately deleted.” She said that SAFR has never shared retailer or shopper data with any government agency, including ICE, and has never received a court order or subpoena for it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Grocery Outlet did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hepner doesn’t dispute that the store’s current privacy policy is narrow. His worry is what would happen if the software is abused. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Today it’s just facial recognition for the purpose of preventing crime,” he said. “But tomorrow, this technology, without changing the camera, with only tweaks to the back-end software, can be used to surveil workers, can be used to collect information from every shopper who enters the store.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Major chains like Kroger are experimenting with dynamic pricing — or using personal data and tracking to adjust prices for each customer — and the ACLU \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/retailers-secretively-using-face-recognition\">reported \u003c/a>in January that Wegmans shares information with law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Beyond markets, bars in the Castro have begun scanning patrons’ faces at the door with ID-verification software, he noted — bars he said he now avoids. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A patron database “may not seem like a big problem” in San Francisco but carries real risk “under a broader federal regime that’s increasingly cracking down on trans rights and on gay rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Trujillo recommended a change to state law in line with what Illinois and Colorado are doing, requiring stores to seek out affirmative consent from consumers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hepner worries the drift is heading the other way. 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Miller lived in Sacramento County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260715-ALCATRAZSEARCHUPDATE-32-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091253\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260715-ALCATRAZSEARCHUPDATE-32-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260715-ALCATRAZSEARCHUPDATE-32-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260715-ALCATRAZSEARCHUPDATE-32-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Commander Brien Hoo speaks during a press conference at Gashouse Cove Marina in San Francisco on July 15, 2026, about the fatal capsizing of a boat near Alcatraz on July 14. 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Our goal is always to bring home families, loved ones, and we understand that families want answers. And that is never lost on us.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said there’s a “high possibility” that the remaining passengers could be trapped inside the 49-foot multi-story boat, which took on a wave and quickly lost stability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve done survivor debriefs, and we do know that individuals were in the main deck and potentially below deck,” he said. “However, that is gonna come out in the investigation stage of this. 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