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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Professional hockey in Northern California seemed like a pretty kooky idea back in 1990 when the National Hockey League, or the NHL, awarded San Jose an expansion team to start play the following year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Wall Street Journal, Business Week, New York Times, ESPN, CBS started calling and saying, ‘God, hockey in California? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week in the Russia investigations: A major new indictment from the special counsel's office that charges thirteen individuals and three companies and shakes up the political rhetoric as new facts are revealed in the sprawling imbroglio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller prefers to let his work do the talking for him. On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/16/586500591/grand-jury-indicts-russians-linked-to-interference-in-2016-election\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he delivered a stemwinder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities were \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4380489-Justice-Department-s-Internet-Research-Agency\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indicted by a federal grand jury\u003c/a> in connection with the attack on the 2016 election. 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They traveled to the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At least three Russian operatives physically traveled to the United States to do reconnaissance for their active measures campaign, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They traveled throughout the West, South and Midwest, to New York and elsewhere. That led to the tracking and study of American political organizations that later matured into the sophisticated targeting of certain groups during the 2016 election cycle. For example, black voters later were encouraged not to vote for Hillary Clinton by messages suggesting they not vote at all or that they vote for a third-party candidate. Anti-Muslim groups were encouraged to stage rallies and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian operatives also bought space on computer servers within the United States. 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How many meetings might have taken place between intelligence officers or their agents and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/21/579230705/the-russia-investigations-is-infiltration-the-new-collusion\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American political organizations\u003c/a> that might have been infiltrated, for example?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And will stories about Russian spies actually prowling around the U.S. — not just posting from behind a firewall somewhere overseas — change the politics of punishing Russia for its interference? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RNicholasBurns/status/963550708950818816\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump has been criticized\u003c/a> for not imposing stronger sanctions after they were put into law last year by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Operatives dealt directly with Americans, including some Trump campaign workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Russian influence-mongers corresponded with a number of Trump campaign workers and even paid some Americans to show up for protests they organized, the indictment alleges. They hired a person to buy a cage and paid another to stand in it pretending to be Hillary Clinton — part of the push to \"lock her up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller's indictment says none of the Americans knew they were dealing with Russian operatives, but they nonetheless provided the Russians with some important help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in June of 2016, Russian operatives began talking with an American \"affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization. During the exchange [the Russians] learned ... that they should focus their activities on 'purple states like Colorado, Virginia and Florida.'\" [contextly_sidebar id=\"T2sMSFFAcauL2KiNuNwdszMVnrP69vuw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This insight, which might appear obvious to Americans, was treated as a major gem by the Russian influence operatives. Remember, these were foreigners trying to understand how to target a foreign land. It also helps explain another avenue through which they tried to influence the presidential race: cyberattacks on state elections systems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russians might have wanted to know, simply, what those systems were, what information they contained and how they might have been able to exploit them. As outsiders they might not have known or trusted that a lot of voter information was already public in lists bought and sold by political campaign professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Trump now acknowledges active measures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>President Trump has gone back and forth about what he accepts and what he rejects about the Russian \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/528500501/lies-forgery-and-skulduggery-the-long-history-of-active-measures\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">active measures\u003c/a> campaign. On a trip to Asia, the president said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/11/563481331/trump-putin-issue-joint-statement-on-defeating-syria\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he believed Putin believed there was no election interference\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment on Friday, complete with an on-camera announcement by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, took away much of Trump's room to maneuver. 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And the start date for the effort in 2014 gives Trump and allies a political weapon if they want to make a point of asking why Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and others didn't do more to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer-term outlook for Trump is muddier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller has now documented many contacts between Trump aides and Russians, both witting and unwitting, not including the much-discussed contacts between Trump aides before and after Election Day in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the indictment was politically beneficial for Trump in the near term, or at least fell short of targeting another campaign aide, there — as always — is much more to the Russia imbroglio than any one document or news story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. Mueller and the feds have a huge wealth of information at their disposal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Russia isn't going to extradite the people indicted on Friday by the grand jury. There will be no status hearings or jury selection or opening arguments. 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Did Obama and his aides look the other way from Russia's actions in order to protect other aspects of the relationship such as the international deal to restrict Iran's nuclear program?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Russians didn't just post from afar. They traveled to the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At least three Russian operatives physically traveled to the United States to do reconnaissance for their active measures campaign, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They traveled throughout the West, South and Midwest, to New York and elsewhere. That led to the tracking and study of American political organizations that later matured into the sophisticated targeting of certain groups during the 2016 election cycle. For example, black voters later were encouraged not to vote for Hillary Clinton by messages suggesting they not vote at all or that they vote for a third-party candidate. Anti-Muslim groups were encouraged to stage rallies and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian operatives also bought space on computer servers within the United States. That enabled them to connect from their headquarters in St. Petersburg and, using a virtual private network, post on Facebook and Twitter while appearing to be inside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact of the travel of Russian operatives also raises questions about other aspects of the influence campaign. How many meetings might have taken place between intelligence officers or their agents and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/21/579230705/the-russia-investigations-is-infiltration-the-new-collusion\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American political organizations\u003c/a> that might have been infiltrated, for example?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And will stories about Russian spies actually prowling around the U.S. — not just posting from behind a firewall somewhere overseas — change the politics of punishing Russia for its interference? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RNicholasBurns/status/963550708950818816\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump has been criticized\u003c/a> for not imposing stronger sanctions after they were put into law last year by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. 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During the exchange [the Russians] learned ... that they should focus their activities on 'purple states like Colorado, Virginia and Florida.'\" \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This insight, which might appear obvious to Americans, was treated as a major gem by the Russian influence operatives. Remember, these were foreigners trying to understand how to target a foreign land. It also helps explain another avenue through which they tried to influence the presidential race: cyberattacks on state elections systems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russians might have wanted to know, simply, what those systems were, what information they contained and how they might have been able to exploit them. As outsiders they might not have known or trusted that a lot of voter information was already public in lists bought and sold by political campaign professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ramona Morales, who turns 80 in May, technically has a criminal record. Her offense? One of her renters kept chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beautiful chickens. Beautiful roosters they were,\" Morales says walking in the backyard of the modest ranch home she rents out in the Coachella Valley city of Indio, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beautiful, but annoying to some neighbors and against the Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And violating that code comes with a price. The price for Morales: $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steep fine stems from a change in city codes. In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners like Morales with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City administrators defend their aggressive approach, saying they're simply recovering the public cost of getting people to clean up their acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a nonprofit legal group filed suit Tuesday, challenging the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say it is a for-profit policy that signals a dangerous trend of criminally prosecuting people and then billing them thousands of dollars for what are otherwise minor code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what happened to Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inspector with the Indio Police Department sent Morales a warning citation: Provide some type of front yard landscaping, get rid of the chickens and obtain a business license for her rental property, required by a newly enacted law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wasn't sure how to force her tenants to comply but warned them to stop with the chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told him (tenant) lots of times,\" Morales says. \"He say, 'Well the chickens are gone.' And I understand that he removed the roosters because they make a lot of noise early in the morning, but he doesn't remove the hens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second warning citation arrived: \"Remove chickens/roosters from the property.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650742\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all the chickens and she went to city court to clear it all up. But there, she was baffled to learn she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the court they told me if I know about the roosters. I say 'yes.' And they said, 'How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?' And I have to say 'guilty' because if I don't say guilty, I have to pay for the lawyers. And I said 'guilty' and I paid $225.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales thought that $225 fine for all the violations was the end of the chicken, landscaping and rental license saga. \"We walk away thinking everything is good. But wasn't like that, no.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650740\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of the $225 fine, she soon got legal bills on behalf of Indio from the private law firm of \u003ca href=\"https://www.silverwrightlaw.com/\">Silver & Wright\u003c/a> totaling $5,659.02. The order said \"the city reasonably incurred\" this money to \"abate the nuisance conditions\" and was entitled to reimbursement in \"defending the City's cost recovery rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That much money for some rooster? I think it's way too much. It's unfair,\" Morales says. \"I don't know what to do because I don't have that much money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a divorced, single mom Morales worked two, sometimes three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store. She saved enough to buy some property but isn't wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never had that much money with me,\" she says. \"I just try to have enough for my payments, and the rest I spend it in take care of my houses and pay taxes and insurance and everything else.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She borrowed money from her son who is in the U.S. Marine Corps to get out of the chicken trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650827\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New code in town\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, state law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys at Silver & Wright law firm have helped about a dozen California cities rewrite their municipal codes — including Indio and neighboring Coachella — to expand the kind of property violations that constitute a public nuisance and to pursue cost recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor.\"It saves the public money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city spent \"an exorbitant amount of time and cost\" bringing Morales' property into compliance, adding she was given ample time and warnings to fix the problems prior to her summons for criminal prosecution. The city is entitled to get that money back, Anderson says, \"to make the public whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution," says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. "It saves the public money."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. \"It saves the public money.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The $31,000 permit violation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In neighboring Coachella, Silver & Wright helped rewrite the codes there, too. Just ask Cesar Garcia. His fine is $31,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back that his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is handy and didn't think it would be a huge deal to not get a permit. Garcia says he had heard that a lot of people don't pull permits for additions. He now deeply regrets he didn't do that and that he ignored at least 10 warning citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. "I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cesar commutes about three hours round trip every day to his job as a grocery store manager. He says he just doesn't have $31,000 to spare and is now worried he could lose everything he has worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letter that I receive, they say if I don't pay the $31,000, they're going to put a lien on my house,\" Garcia says. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright's co-founder Curtis Wright and officials in Coachella say they're not trying to take away anyone's home. Wright maintains it is rare to take the criminal route for nuisance cases. But he adds, sometimes fines and the civil process just don't work to get people to clean up their messes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Garcia's unlicensed addition, he says, \"was not a safe habitable living space in compliance with the California Building Standards Code. Each day of maintaining those violations is also a new violation for each instance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650741\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I asked him whether he thought the \"cost recover\" legal bills to Garcia and Morales are proportionate to the crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, I don't think that they are proportionate,\" he says. \"But you have to understand that if the defendant is going to be uncooperative after they have been given notices and administrative opportunity to comply — and then we get into the criminal case and they're still not being cooperative and they're going to drag things out and drive up the public's cost — then the public is entitled to get that money back. It's not intended to be punitive at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many who've been prosecuted criminally for annoyance violations say they were totally unaware and never warned that they faced legal fees on top of local fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had never run into this practice of criminally prosecuting homeowners for municipal code violations,\" says Shaun Sullivan, Garcia's attorney. He alleges that Silver & Wright and Coachella, which hired the firm, are trying to run up legal fees under the guise of code enforcement. He says their methods are deceitful and end up shafting working people across the Coachella Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wait until it's difficult to withdraw your (guilty) plea and say, 'Oh, too late. By the way, you owe us money.' It's absolutely an unethical practice,\" Sullivan says. \"They don't tell Cesar before he pleads guilty that, in fact, you're going to be paying for everything we've done up this point. And they certainly don't tell it when they initially file criminal charges. And with every new court appearance, (Garcia's) bill is getting bigger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost recovery controversy here echoes the other ways the criminal justice system has greatly expanded the fees charged to criminal defendants, many of them poor, across the nation. Check out NPR's award-winning investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/313986316/guilty-and-charged\">Guilty And Charged.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650830\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories of some of the excessive nuisance fines in the Coachella Valley were first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2017/11/15/he-confessed-minor-crime-then-city-hall-billed-him-31-k-his-own-prosecution/846850001/\">the Palm Springs Desert Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Coachella now says it's putting the brakes on new cases with Silver & Wright until it can review what is happening, says Jacob Alvarez, assistant to Coachella's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are hearing that there are issues. We have hit pause. We just want to make sure there is some equity and sensitivity for our residents,\" Alvarez says.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Indio, however, see no problem, saying the law firm is merely recovering the cost of prosecuting violators and helping clean up the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright works on nuisance issues with more than 40 cities and towns across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether it's a dangerous nuisance or just an aesthetic nuisance or a blight nuisance, the public is the victim of these, so we're there trying to help correct the issue for the public,\" attorney Wright says. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawsuit against the practice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, the 79-year-old with the annoying chickens, is fighting back. She is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The business model here of for-profit prosecution is premised on recovering fees from every criminal defendant. That creates perverse incentives, and it distorts the way prosecutors exercise their discretion,\" says Jeffrey Redfern, the Institute for Justice's lead attorney on this case\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern calls it policing for-profit and charges that Silver & Wright is, essentially, asking cities to define just about any violation of their property codes as a public nuisance, \"which means that things as little as faded street numbers could be treated as a public nuisance. And, if it's a nuisance, then they can abate it by prosecuting you criminally and then they can recover those costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Riverside County, says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern hopes that those in other California cities who've been forced to pay huge legal fees for nuisance crimes sign on to his lawsuit and that it is eventually granted statewide class action status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd love to hear from other people who are affected by this,\" he says. \"The more we hear from people, the more we can learn about what's going on. That only makes the case stronger.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Institute for Justice is filing a lawsuit alleging that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver and Wright and these cities to have a financial "cost recovery" stake in the nuisance cases they bring. The lawsuit says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650831\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Institute for Justice is filing a lawsuit alleging that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver and Wright and these cities to have a financial \"cost recovery\" stake in the nuisance cases they bring. The lawsuit says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Some+California+Cities+Criminalize+Nuisance+Code+Violations&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners like Morales with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City administrators defend their aggressive approach, saying they're simply recovering the public cost of getting people to clean up their acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a nonprofit legal group filed suit Tuesday, challenging the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say it is a for-profit policy that signals a dangerous trend of criminally prosecuting people and then billing them thousands of dollars for what are otherwise minor code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what happened to Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inspector with the Indio Police Department sent Morales a warning citation: Provide some type of front yard landscaping, get rid of the chickens and obtain a business license for her rental property, required by a newly enacted law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wasn't sure how to force her tenants to comply but warned them to stop with the chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told him (tenant) lots of times,\" Morales says. \"He say, 'Well the chickens are gone.' And I understand that he removed the roosters because they make a lot of noise early in the morning, but he doesn't remove the hens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second warning citation arrived: \"Remove chickens/roosters from the property.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650742\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all the chickens and she went to city court to clear it all up. But there, she was baffled to learn she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the court they told me if I know about the roosters. I say 'yes.' And they said, 'How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?' And I have to say 'guilty' because if I don't say guilty, I have to pay for the lawyers. And I said 'guilty' and I paid $225.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales thought that $225 fine for all the violations was the end of the chicken, landscaping and rental license saga. \"We walk away thinking everything is good. But wasn't like that, no.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650740\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of the $225 fine, she soon got legal bills on behalf of Indio from the private law firm of \u003ca href=\"https://www.silverwrightlaw.com/\">Silver & Wright\u003c/a> totaling $5,659.02. The order said \"the city reasonably incurred\" this money to \"abate the nuisance conditions\" and was entitled to reimbursement in \"defending the City's cost recovery rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That much money for some rooster? I think it's way too much. It's unfair,\" Morales says. \"I don't know what to do because I don't have that much money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a divorced, single mom Morales worked two, sometimes three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store. She saved enough to buy some property but isn't wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never had that much money with me,\" she says. \"I just try to have enough for my payments, and the rest I spend it in take care of my houses and pay taxes and insurance and everything else.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She borrowed money from her son who is in the U.S. Marine Corps to get out of the chicken trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650827\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New code in town\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, state law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys at Silver & Wright law firm have helped about a dozen California cities rewrite their municipal codes — including Indio and neighboring Coachella — to expand the kind of property violations that constitute a public nuisance and to pursue cost recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor.\"It saves the public money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city spent \"an exorbitant amount of time and cost\" bringing Morales' property into compliance, adding she was given ample time and warnings to fix the problems prior to her summons for criminal prosecution. The city is entitled to get that money back, Anderson says, \"to make the public whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution," says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. "It saves the public money."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. \"It saves the public money.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The $31,000 permit violation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In neighboring Coachella, Silver & Wright helped rewrite the codes there, too. Just ask Cesar Garcia. His fine is $31,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back that his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is handy and didn't think it would be a huge deal to not get a permit. Garcia says he had heard that a lot of people don't pull permits for additions. He now deeply regrets he didn't do that and that he ignored at least 10 warning citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. "I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cesar commutes about three hours round trip every day to his job as a grocery store manager. He says he just doesn't have $31,000 to spare and is now worried he could lose everything he has worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letter that I receive, they say if I don't pay the $31,000, they're going to put a lien on my house,\" Garcia says. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright's co-founder Curtis Wright and officials in Coachella say they're not trying to take away anyone's home. Wright maintains it is rare to take the criminal route for nuisance cases. But he adds, sometimes fines and the civil process just don't work to get people to clean up their messes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Garcia's unlicensed addition, he says, \"was not a safe habitable living space in compliance with the California Building Standards Code. Each day of maintaining those violations is also a new violation for each instance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650741\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I asked him whether he thought the \"cost recover\" legal bills to Garcia and Morales are proportionate to the crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, I don't think that they are proportionate,\" he says. \"But you have to understand that if the defendant is going to be uncooperative after they have been given notices and administrative opportunity to comply — and then we get into the criminal case and they're still not being cooperative and they're going to drag things out and drive up the public's cost — then the public is entitled to get that money back. It's not intended to be punitive at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many who've been prosecuted criminally for annoyance violations say they were totally unaware and never warned that they faced legal fees on top of local fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had never run into this practice of criminally prosecuting homeowners for municipal code violations,\" says Shaun Sullivan, Garcia's attorney. He alleges that Silver & Wright and Coachella, which hired the firm, are trying to run up legal fees under the guise of code enforcement. He says their methods are deceitful and end up shafting working people across the Coachella Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wait until it's difficult to withdraw your (guilty) plea and say, 'Oh, too late. By the way, you owe us money.' It's absolutely an unethical practice,\" Sullivan says. \"They don't tell Cesar before he pleads guilty that, in fact, you're going to be paying for everything we've done up this point. And they certainly don't tell it when they initially file criminal charges. And with every new court appearance, (Garcia's) bill is getting bigger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost recovery controversy here echoes the other ways the criminal justice system has greatly expanded the fees charged to criminal defendants, many of them poor, across the nation. Check out NPR's award-winning investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/313986316/guilty-and-charged\">Guilty And Charged.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650830\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories of some of the excessive nuisance fines in the Coachella Valley were first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2017/11/15/he-confessed-minor-crime-then-city-hall-billed-him-31-k-his-own-prosecution/846850001/\">the Palm Springs Desert Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Coachella now says it's putting the brakes on new cases with Silver & Wright until it can review what is happening, says Jacob Alvarez, assistant to Coachella's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are hearing that there are issues. We have hit pause. We just want to make sure there is some equity and sensitivity for our residents,\" Alvarez says.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Indio, however, see no problem, saying the law firm is merely recovering the cost of prosecuting violators and helping clean up the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright works on nuisance issues with more than 40 cities and towns across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether it's a dangerous nuisance or just an aesthetic nuisance or a blight nuisance, the public is the victim of these, so we're there trying to help correct the issue for the public,\" attorney Wright says. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawsuit against the practice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, the 79-year-old with the annoying chickens, is fighting back. She is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The business model here of for-profit prosecution is premised on recovering fees from every criminal defendant. That creates perverse incentives, and it distorts the way prosecutors exercise their discretion,\" says Jeffrey Redfern, the Institute for Justice's lead attorney on this case\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern calls it policing for-profit and charges that Silver & Wright is, essentially, asking cities to define just about any violation of their property codes as a public nuisance, \"which means that things as little as faded street numbers could be treated as a public nuisance. And, if it's a nuisance, then they can abate it by prosecuting you criminally and then they can recover those costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Riverside County, says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern hopes that those in other California cities who've been forced to pay huge legal fees for nuisance crimes sign on to his lawsuit and that it is eventually granted statewide class action status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd love to hear from other people who are affected by this,\" he says. \"The more we hear from people, the more we can learn about what's going on. That only makes the case stronger.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Institute for Justice is filing a lawsuit alleging that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver and Wright and these cities to have a financial "cost recovery" stake in the nuisance cases they bring. The lawsuit says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650831\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Institute for Justice is filing a lawsuit alleging that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver and Wright and these cities to have a financial \"cost recovery\" stake in the nuisance cases they bring. The lawsuit says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Some+California+Cities+Criminalize+Nuisance+Code+Violations&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>By the time the first week wrapped up at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the powerful, icy winds that earlier disrupted or delayed competition had largely calmed. Norway’s team led in medals, with 19, and Germany won more gold — nine medals — in the first week than any other country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S., meanwhile, earned eight medals by Friday, including five gold. Snowboarder Redmond “Red” Gerard, a 17-year-old who overslept on the day of his event and had to borrow a too-big jacket after he couldn’t find his own, clinched Team USA’s first gold medal last Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Korean figure skaters made their Olympic debut; a Tongan cross-country skier crossed the finish line after only three months of experience on snow. U.S. and Canadian women’s hockey teams scuffled. Every day, there was curling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a look at some of the athletes, competition and other highlights of the past week in Pyeongchang. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Mirai Nagasu of the United States exults after landing a triple axel during the team figure skating event. Nagasu is the first American woman to successfully complete the jump at the Olympics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-960x613.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-520x332.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirai Nagasu of the United States exults after landing a triple axel during the team figure skating event. Nagasu is the first American woman to successfully complete the jump at the Olympics.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Xin Li/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Team USA's Mikaela Shiffrin kisses her gold medal on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's alpine skiing giant slalom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-1920x1297.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin kisses her gold medal on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s alpine skiing giant slalom.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. speedskater Maame Biney, 18, competes in the 500-meter quarterfinal on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650811\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. speedskater Maame Biney, 18, competes in the 500-meter quarterfinal on Tuesday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Harry How/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Team USA's Adam Rippon competes in the men's short program on Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650812\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team USA’s Adam Rippon competes in the men’s short program on Friday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"A child watches the men's luge singles Run 1.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650788\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-1920x1288.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-1180x792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-960x644.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child watches the men’s luge singles Run 1.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Seventeen-year-old Red Gerard (right), the first Team USA gold medalist of the Pyeongchang Games, gives Canadian silver medalist Max Parrot a high-five during the victory ceremony for men's snowboard slopestyle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650813\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seventeen-year-old Red Gerard (right), the first Team USA gold medalist of the Pyeongchang Games, gives Canadian silver medalist Max Parrot a high-five during the victory ceremony for men’s snowboard slopestyle.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. snowboarder Shaun White wraps himself in the U.S. flag after winning gold in the men's halfpipe. He was later criticized for dragging a flag on the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650814\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. snowboarder Shaun White wraps himself in the U.S. flag after winning gold in the men’s halfpipe. He was later criticized for dragging a flag on the ground.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(David Ramos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Pita Taufatofua of Tonga — who grabbed attention by marching shirtless as his country's flag-bearer in the Olympics opening ceremony — comes in 114th on Friday in the men's cross-country skiing 15-kilometer race. Taufatofua, who had been skiing on snow for only three months, finished ahead of two other skiers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650815\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-1180x792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-960x644.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-520x349.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pita Taufatofua of Tonga — who grabbed attention by marching shirtless as his country’s flag-bearer in the Olympics opening ceremony — comes in 114th on Friday in the men’s cross-country skiing 15-kilometer race. Taufatofua, who had been skiing on snow for only three months, finished ahead of two other skiers.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Clive Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Akwasi Frimpong, Ghana's first skeleton athlete, prepares for the start of his run in the men's event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650816\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-160x107.jpg 160w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By the time the first week wrapped up at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the powerful, icy winds that earlier disrupted or delayed competition had largely calmed. Norway’s team led in medals, with 19, and Germany won more gold — nine medals — in the first week than any other country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S., meanwhile, earned eight medals by Friday, including five gold. Snowboarder Redmond “Red” Gerard, a 17-year-old who overslept on the day of his event and had to borrow a too-big jacket after he couldn’t find his own, clinched Team USA’s first gold medal last Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Korean figure skaters made their Olympic debut; a Tongan cross-country skier crossed the finish line after only three months of experience on snow. U.S. and Canadian women’s hockey teams scuffled. Every day, there was curling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a look at some of the athletes, competition and other highlights of the past week in Pyeongchang. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Mirai Nagasu of the United States exults after landing a triple axel during the team figure skating event. Nagasu is the first American woman to successfully complete the jump at the Olympics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-960x613.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85-520x332.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917171378_custom-3c5eafc2dcaeadf97bd3051f265d64e57b1735f5-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirai Nagasu of the United States exults after landing a triple axel during the team figure skating event. Nagasu is the first American woman to successfully complete the jump at the Olympics.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Xin Li/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Team USA's Mikaela Shiffrin kisses her gold medal on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's alpine skiing giant slalom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-1920x1297.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918510296_custom-a6c7edc9fe333d39dc8f8ec65658767c10d394bb-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin kisses her gold medal on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s alpine skiing giant slalom.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. speedskater Maame Biney, 18, competes in the 500-meter quarterfinal on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650811\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917693978-edit_custom-9dd0bfd2500e24d85c6af0ab1cd91ccda04109d3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. speedskater Maame Biney, 18, competes in the 500-meter quarterfinal on Tuesday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Harry How/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Team USA's Adam Rippon competes in the men's short program on Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650812\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918819628_custom-f3f6316905784003b4d5b87ad830c8c577d42e96-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team USA’s Adam Rippon competes in the men’s short program on Friday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"A child watches the men's luge singles Run 1.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650788\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-1920x1288.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-1180x792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-960x644.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916472766_custom-ac5747633b8bfff669e747b8ccfdc19406eed01b-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child watches the men’s luge singles Run 1.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Seventeen-year-old Red Gerard (right), the first Team USA gold medalist of the Pyeongchang Games, gives Canadian silver medalist Max Parrot a high-five during the victory ceremony for men's snowboard slopestyle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650813\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-916765790_custom-170f50774b4b521dc6b77ba7082b19f0e8a949b1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seventeen-year-old Red Gerard (right), the first Team USA gold medalist of the Pyeongchang Games, gives Canadian silver medalist Max Parrot a high-five during the victory ceremony for men’s snowboard slopestyle.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. snowboarder Shaun White wraps himself in the U.S. flag after winning gold in the men's halfpipe. He was later criticized for dragging a flag on the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650814\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918067536_custom-b06673b57d5070e0768477652875510afb057b33-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. snowboarder Shaun White wraps himself in the U.S. flag after winning gold in the men’s halfpipe. He was later criticized for dragging a flag on the ground.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(David Ramos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Pita Taufatofua of Tonga — who grabbed attention by marching shirtless as his country's flag-bearer in the Olympics opening ceremony — comes in 114th on Friday in the men's cross-country skiing 15-kilometer race. Taufatofua, who had been skiing on snow for only three months, finished ahead of two other skiers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650815\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-1180x792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-960x644.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85-520x349.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918900418_custom-9e82a8acd05f4c57f035296798125e1d9796172a-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pita Taufatofua of Tonga — who grabbed attention by marching shirtless as his country’s flag-bearer in the Olympics opening ceremony — comes in 114th on Friday in the men’s cross-country skiing 15-kilometer race. Taufatofua, who had been skiing on snow for only three months, finished ahead of two other skiers.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Clive Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Akwasi Frimpong, Ghana's first skeleton athlete, prepares for the start of his run in the men's event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650816\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918466754_custom-5b78dbe65ce323778a53e08052274cce6eb54802-s1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akwasi Frimpong, Ghana’s first skeleton athlete, prepares for the start of his run in the men’s event. \u003ccite>(Roland Harrison/Action Plus via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Men compete during the snowboard cross quarterfinals on Thursday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650817\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-918409374_custom-788a100c49c066c567451cd5855a8c5252e35a6b-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men compete during the snowboard cross quarterfinals on Thursday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917130868_custom-90b1c994cdcb73dfb5de725ae5e191f577b93483-s1300-c85-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"Kaitlyn Lawes of Canada throws her rock on the way to a win against Norway in the curling mixed doubles semifinals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650818\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917130868_custom-90b1c994cdcb73dfb5de725ae5e191f577b93483-s1300-c85-800x593.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917130868_custom-90b1c994cdcb73dfb5de725ae5e191f577b93483-s1300-c85-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917130868_custom-90b1c994cdcb73dfb5de725ae5e191f577b93483-s1300-c85-1020x756.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/gettyimages-917130868_custom-90b1c994cdcb73dfb5de725ae5e191f577b93483-s1300-c85-1180x875.jpg 1180w, 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:57 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russians and three Russian entities in connection with the attack on the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants are \"accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes,\" according to a statement from the special counsel's office. The indictment charges them with \"conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the people described in the court documents even traveled to the United States or \"communicated with unwitting individuals associated with [President Trump's campaign] and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities,\" the indictment says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges include some of the most detail yet from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller about who inside Russia waged the broad campaign of \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/528500501/lies-forgery-and-skulduggery-the-long-history-of-active-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">active measures\u003c/a>\" against the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"j5d3zEScRg59Qm97iYXsXzBn3MRErZQZ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Friday afternoon news conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller's investigation, called the Russian efforts \"information warfare\" with \"the stated goal of spreading distrust against the candidates and the political system in general.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Rosenstein underscored that there is \"no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity\" and \"no allegation that this activity actually altered the outcome of the 2016 election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/964594780088033282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted on Friday\u003c/a> shortly after the indictment was handed up that it proved that there was \"no collusion\" between his campaign and Russian agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/964594780088033282\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's tweet also seems to accept that there was some degree of Russian interference. However, Trump has, at times, doubted that there were any efforts by Russians to influence the 2016 election, which Friday's indictment clearly outlines in rich, lengthy detail. He has called media reports and other discussion of the Russian interference campaign a \"hoax\" and \"fake news.\" And last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/30/581800347/u-s-releases-oligarchs-list-and-opts-against-new-sanctions-on-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the administration decided not to impose new sanctions on Russia \u003c/a>despite a law passed by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's personal lawyer, John M. Dowd, also said in an email that he was \"Very happy for the country. Bob and his team did a great job!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions the Russian individuals and entities allegedly carried out -- some of which date to May 2014 -- are extraordinarily detailed and complex as part of what the indictment refers to as \"Project Lakhta.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"gCi6zwVldoexgEZDbFxqq1bjzDXmxEmy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest company indicted, the Internet Research Agency, was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was funded through shell companies by another individual indicted. The IRA employed as many as 80 people focused on the sole project of disrupting and influencing U.S. elections, according to the indictment. By September 2016, the company had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million and was organized into multiple departments, including graphics, search engine optimization, information technology and finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government alleges two defendants traveled to the U.S. and others attempted to hide their Russian origins, even using a virtual private network in the U.S. so it would appear their activity originated there. The Russians also paid real Americans to work for them as part of their interference campaign. However, \"the Americans did not know they were communicating with Russians,\" according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also used \"false U.S. personas to communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump,\" the indictment alleges. Through these personas, they encouraged minority voters in the U.S. to either not vote in the 2016 election or to cast their ballots for a third-party candidate. And they also promoted allegations of voter fraud among Democrats -- a message the Trump campaign seized upon in the closing days of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eEZyxeN6XoxSYXwJb9t4OBr3IugIjSPI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other actions the defendants allegedly undertook, according to the indictment, included \"buying political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities. Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and organization affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates.\" To do so, they stole the identities of many people, including compromising their Social Security numbers, birthdays and home addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment, many of the advertisements the Russians purchased were designed specifically to malign Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. \"Donald wants to defeat terrorism...Hillary wants to sponsor it,\" one ad on May 10, 2016, read. \"Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is,\" was the message of another one on Oct. 19, 2016, just weeks before Election Day. And the indictment alleges the Russian defendants also frequently used election-related hashtags like #TrumpTrain, #MAGA and #Hillary4Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian agents also organized pro-Trump rallies and anti-Clinton rallies, the indictment alleges. They employed real U.S. persons to perform tasks at these events, such as paying one \"to build a cage on a flatbed truck and another U.S. person to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"LN1wpoqgn1qJzFLHtwHWBvJ1MprDvBOe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Internet Research Agency also kept a list, the indictment says, of the more than 100 real U.S. people it had contacted to help with its recruitment efforts, logging their political views and what they had been asked to do by the Russian operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media accounts run by the Russian defendants supported Trump and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Clinton's chief primary rival for the Democratic nomination, the indictment alleges. In addition to Clinton, Russian accounts also denigrated Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment, the individuals created hundreds of social media accounts to influence public opinion that were masquerading as legitimate U.S. political groups. The indictment points to one account, Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP), which gained over 100,000 followers yet had no affiliation with the actual state political party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"k6DtKQHVjl2Use8fqtpuAsG4nDsrAXGu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Research Agency also had employs monitoring social media during both day and night shifts so information would be posted across U.S. time zones, according to the indictment. The Russian operatives were also aware of U.S. holidays and made posts germane to those and also employed people who could post on social media about specific policy topics, such as the economy or foreign policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russians also allegedly created specific groups on Facebook and Instagram. Starting in at least 2014, they spent thousands of dollars each month to purchase targeted advertisements on social media sites. And there was allegedly specific targeting of \"purple states,\" or swing states, that are critical to the outcome in the Electoral College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also efforts beyond influencing the election to simply sow discord and confusion. For example, defendants allegedly organized both pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380612-Justice-Department-s-Internet-Research-Agency\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is also investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, called the indictment from Mueller \"a significant step forward in exposing Russia's political and electoral interference in our democracy and holding Russia, and its agents, accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While it does not include an allegation that any U.S. persons conspired wittingly with the Russian actors, the indictment leaves open the vital question of whether Americans, including any associated with the Trump campaign, knowingly played a role in Russia's active measures campaign,\" Schiff also said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is also probing Russian interference, said that \"While platforms like Facebook and Twitter are allowing Americans to communicate and share ideas in ways unimaginable just a decade ago, we're also learning that we each bear some responsibility for exercising good judgment and a healthy amount of skepticism when it comes to the things we read and share on social media.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders, who was in part a beneficiary of the Russian efforts according to the indictment, said in a statement that it's \"clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has been more accepting of evidence of Russian interference than Trump has, said the \"announcement underscores why we need to follow the facts and work to protect the integrity of future elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These Russians engaged in a sinister and systematic attack on our political system. It was a conspiracy to subvert the process, and take aim at democracy itself,\" Ryan also said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., a frequent Trump critic, said the Mueller indictment \"just put Moscow on notice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This ought to be a wakeup call to Washington: Putin's shadow war is aimed at undermining Americans' trust in our institutions,\" Sasse also said in a statement. \"We know Russia is coming back in 2018 and 2020 -- we have to take this threat seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel struck a tone similar to Trump's, saying in a statement that it \"remains crystal clear there was no collusion and the Russians were unsuccessful in their attempts to influence the results of the election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike the president, McDaniel did say that the indictments \"should serve as a rallying cry for Washington and the country to come together to prevent Russia, or any foreign government, from attempting to meddle in future elections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warnings this week\u003c/a> by the heads of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia's active measures campaign never stopped after 2016 and that the leaders of the major U.S. spy agencies expect interference to continue through this year's midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Friday afternoon, John Brennan, who was CIA director during the Obama administration from 2013-2017, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/964599638916587521\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the \"DOJ statement and indictments reveal the extent and motivations of Russian interference in 2016 election.\" Brennan, who has been a frequent critic of Trump, also said, \"Claims of 'hoax' in tatters.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/964599638916587521\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Bob and his team did a great job!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions the Russian individuals and entities allegedly carried out -- some of which date to May 2014 -- are extraordinarily detailed and complex as part of what the indictment refers to as \"Project Lakhta.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest company indicted, the Internet Research Agency, was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was funded through shell companies by another individual indicted. The IRA employed as many as 80 people focused on the sole project of disrupting and influencing U.S. elections, according to the indictment. By September 2016, the company had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million and was organized into multiple departments, including graphics, search engine optimization, information technology and finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government alleges two defendants traveled to the U.S. and others attempted to hide their Russian origins, even using a virtual private network in the U.S. so it would appear their activity originated there. The Russians also paid real Americans to work for them as part of their interference campaign. However, \"the Americans did not know they were communicating with Russians,\" according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also used \"false U.S. personas to communicate with unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach, as well as grassroots groups that supported then-candidate Trump,\" the indictment alleges. 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Defendants also staged political rallies inside the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities and U.S. persons, and without revealing their Russian identities and organization affiliation, solicited and compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates.\" To do so, they stole the identities of many people, including compromising their Social Security numbers, birthdays and home addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment, many of the advertisements the Russians purchased were designed specifically to malign Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. \"Donald wants to defeat terrorism...Hillary wants to sponsor it,\" one ad on May 10, 2016, read. \"Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is,\" was the message of another one on Oct. 19, 2016, just weeks before Election Day. 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"content": "\u003cp>Clara and Guido Bronzini came to the United States from a town near Pisa, Italy, in the late 1920s, after World War I devastated Italy. There were no crops, no jobs, no future. And the Fascists were gaining power. Al Bronzini remembers his mother telling him that Fascists came to her house when she was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather, her father, he refused to fly the Fascist flag,” he recalls. “So they tortured my grandfather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clara and Guido left Italy as soon as they could. They settled in an Italian community in Oakland. Guido opened a fruit market called the Banana Depot. He worked hard and earned a good income. They bought a house. Then, a refrigerator to replace the icebox, and a brand-new four-door Pontiac. Finally, they got a top-of-the-line Philco radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could receive stations from overseas,” Bronzini recalls. His dad loved listening to opera music. “Listening to that radio,” he recalls, “life was good. Life was better than they could have ever thought possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/02/SpivakItalianAmericans.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/02/16/BronziniForPlayer.jpg\" Title=\"Remember When Italian-Americans Were 'Enemy Aliens?'\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life was so good that Clara and Guido forgot about finishing the paperwork for their citizenship. It didn’t seem necessary. Italy and the United States had a great relationship. But that all started to change in 1939, when Italy and Nazi Germany joined forces. Bronzini remembers his mother, especially, being torn between her love for Italy, and her love for her new home in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She cried her eyes out,” Bronzini says. “She just couldn’t believe what was happening. And the worst was yet to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came in February 1942, just two months after the United States entered the war. Bronzini is 88 years old now, but as we sit in his dining room, he says it feels like yesterday when he was 13, having supper with his family, the night two policemen came to their front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"The Bronzini family: Clara, Al, Guido, and Lorenzo (in front), pose with their new 1939 Pontiac.\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-240x178.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-375x278.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-520x386.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bronzini family: Clara, Al, Guido, and Lorenzo (in front), pose with their new 1939 Pontiac. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Al Bronzini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘Mr. Bronzini, we have to search your house. You are on the enemy alien list,’ ” Bronzini recalls. Clara and Guido were now two of 50,000 Italian immigrants in California who were designated “enemy aliens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They searched the house,” Bronzini says. “Found nothing. So they said, ‘We have to take your Philco radio.’ ” Flashlights, cameras and short-wave radios were considered contraband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers his mother pleaded with the police and pulled on an officer’s sleeve. “‘Please do not take my radio.'” he remembers her saying. “And as she was crying and tugging and pleading, they carried it out the front door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Freedom isn’t free. And don’t take your freedom for granted. You think it can’t happen today? Ha! You kidding me?’\u003ccite>Al Bronzini\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The government imposed a curfew, and placed travel restrictions on anyone labeled an “enemy alien.” Bronzini’s parents couldn’t go more than 5 miles from home without a permit. Clara and Guido, along with 600,000 Italian “enemy aliens” nationwide, had to join a national registry and provide photos and personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bronzini remembers going with them every Friday to have their “little alien book stamped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Executive Order 9066, which created prohibited zones: areas around strategic facilities like the coast and oil fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”i0BfWj9GjKzPWUd9GPugGT42J8z2Duak”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 120,000 people of Japanese descent — two-thirds of them U.S. citizens — would be removed to internment camps further inland. Ten thousand Italian immigrants were forced from their homes in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Los Angeles and the coastal areas in between. The Bronzinis could keep their home, but the family’s fruit market was in one of those zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, my father received a notice that his beloved Banana Depot was off-limits to him,” explains Bronzini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without an income from the Banana Depot, Guido Bronzini took work where he could find it. But the stigma of being an “enemy alien” followed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A little bit of chatter and bingo, that guy’s an ‘enemy alien.’ He’s outta here,” Bronzini says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Al Bronzini at the Castro Valley Bocce Courts, 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Bronzini at the Castro Valley Bocce Courts, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Al Bronzini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Bronzini’s mother, Clara, the growing similarities between the life she escaped in Italy and the new restrictions in America became overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She used to say in Italian, ‘Non abbiamo fatto niente a nessuno. We have done nothing to no one,’ ” Bronzini recalls. ” ‘Why is this happening?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It got so bad that Clara suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted into a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not a crazy woman,” Bronzini says. “This is a woman who has been stripped of her dignity and she just wasn’t handling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers one Sunday going to visit her with his father and brother. It’s still hard for him to remember seeing her like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TloeCfMhX94ls1jQGAmruesjemIwBvzo”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was sitting on her bed, in a straightjacket. A straightjacket,” he says, tearing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months later, on Columbus Day 1942, President Roosevelt lifted the restrictions on Italian enemy aliens, citing their loyalty to America. Historians believe Roosevelt needed the support of Italian-Americans for the invasion of Italy. In the Bronzini family, Clara slowly recuperated. Guido reopened the Banana Depot. He and Clara immediately enrolled in classes and became naturalized citizens before the war ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Bronzini says his parents never talked about their time as enemy aliens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government wouldn’t talk about it either. Information about Italian enemy aliens was confidential until 2001. Then, a grassroots effort urged Congress to pass legislation making these wartime injustices public. In 2010, the state of California apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States congresswoman Zoe Lofgren recently sponsored legislation that would formally apologize and fund education about the treatment of Italian-Americans during WWII. Al Bronzini says he doesn’t blame the government for what happened to his mother and father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a good man. He suffered a lot and so did my mother and so did many others,” Bronzini says. “But freedom isn’t free. And don’t take your freedom for granted. You think it can’t happen today? Ha! You kidding me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Acknowledgment to Lawrence DiStasi for introducing me to Al Bronzini, who first told his story in DiStasi’s books: “Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II” and “Branded: How Italian Immigrants Became ‘Enemies’ During WWII.” Both book were valuable resources for understanding this history.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Bronzini is 88 years old now, but as we sit in his dining room, he says it feels like yesterday when he was 13, having supper with his family, the night two policemen came to their front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"The Bronzini family: Clara, Al, Guido, and Lorenzo (in front), pose with their new 1939 Pontiac.\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-240x178.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-375x278.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BronziniCar-520x386.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bronzini family: Clara, Al, Guido, and Lorenzo (in front), pose with their new 1939 Pontiac. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Al Bronzini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘Mr. Bronzini, we have to search your house. You are on the enemy alien list,’ ” Bronzini recalls. Clara and Guido were now two of 50,000 Italian immigrants in California who were designated “enemy aliens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They searched the house,” Bronzini says. “Found nothing. So they said, ‘We have to take your Philco radio.’ ” Flashlights, cameras and short-wave radios were considered contraband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers his mother pleaded with the police and pulled on an officer’s sleeve. “‘Please do not take my radio.'” he remembers her saying. “And as she was crying and tugging and pleading, they carried it out the front door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Freedom isn’t free. And don’t take your freedom for granted. You think it can’t happen today? Ha! You kidding me?’\u003ccite>Al Bronzini\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The government imposed a curfew, and placed travel restrictions on anyone labeled an “enemy alien.” Bronzini’s parents couldn’t go more than 5 miles from home without a permit. Clara and Guido, along with 600,000 Italian “enemy aliens” nationwide, had to join a national registry and provide photos and personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bronzini remembers going with them every Friday to have their “little alien book stamped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Executive Order 9066, which created prohibited zones: areas around strategic facilities like the coast and oil fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 120,000 people of Japanese descent — two-thirds of them U.S. citizens — would be removed to internment camps further inland. Ten thousand Italian immigrants were forced from their homes in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Los Angeles and the coastal areas in between. The Bronzinis could keep their home, but the family’s fruit market was in one of those zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, my father received a notice that his beloved Banana Depot was off-limits to him,” explains Bronzini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without an income from the Banana Depot, Guido Bronzini took work where he could find it. But the stigma of being an “enemy alien” followed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A little bit of chatter and bingo, that guy’s an ‘enemy alien.’ He’s outta here,” Bronzini says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11649779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11649779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Al Bronzini at the Castro Valley Bocce Courts, 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29401_29400_transform-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Bronzini at the Castro Valley Bocce Courts, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Al Bronzini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Bronzini’s mother, Clara, the growing similarities between the life she escaped in Italy and the new restrictions in America became overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She used to say in Italian, ‘Non abbiamo fatto niente a nessuno. We have done nothing to no one,’ ” Bronzini recalls. ” ‘Why is this happening?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It got so bad that Clara suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted into a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not a crazy woman,” Bronzini says. “This is a woman who has been stripped of her dignity and she just wasn’t handling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers one Sunday going to visit her with his father and brother. It’s still hard for him to remember seeing her like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was sitting on her bed, in a straightjacket. A straightjacket,” he says, tearing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months later, on Columbus Day 1942, President Roosevelt lifted the restrictions on Italian enemy aliens, citing their loyalty to America. Historians believe Roosevelt needed the support of Italian-Americans for the invasion of Italy. In the Bronzini family, Clara slowly recuperated. Guido reopened the Banana Depot. He and Clara immediately enrolled in classes and became naturalized citizens before the war ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Bronzini says his parents never talked about their time as enemy aliens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government wouldn’t talk about it either. Information about Italian enemy aliens was confidential until 2001. Then, a grassroots effort urged Congress to pass legislation making these wartime injustices public. In 2010, the state of California apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States congresswoman Zoe Lofgren recently sponsored legislation that would formally apologize and fund education about the treatment of Italian-Americans during WWII. Al Bronzini says he doesn’t blame the government for what happened to his mother and father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a good man. He suffered a lot and so did my mother and so did many others,” Bronzini says. “But freedom isn’t free. And don’t take your freedom for granted. You think it can’t happen today? Ha! 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the opening night of the much anticipated \"Black Panther\" movie, director Ryan Coogler made a special appearance at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre, talking to fans before the screening. Coogler was born in Oakland, and the film actually begins in his hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is also the birthplace of a different panther, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1966, two black men, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, founded the revolutionary movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a few months earlier two white men, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, had introduced a black superhero into the Marvel Comics canon with the same name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the middle of the civil rights movement, a ramping up of the civil rights movement, and they created a character called Black Panther” said Shawn Taylor, a co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfmlkday.org/bcafcon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Comix Arts Festival\u003c/a> and the website \u003ca href=\"https://thenerdsofcolor.org/\">The Nerds of Color\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that character has his own movie, a movie made by, about, and as Taylor sees it, \u003ca href=\"https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/are-you-black-enough-to-watch-black-panther-a-quiz-1822935444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>for\u003c/em> black people\u003c/a>. “There’s cultural blackness in this film, that some people may not get,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many, my friend calls them blackisms, that if you aren't black you just may not get,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is just fine with him, he said, \"because if people want to watch 'Friends' and 'Seinfeld' that have nothing to do with me, I am OK with 'Black Panther' having nothing to do with a lot of other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"j7bUBLN9Y6lkOUxKTfzw0C2xRr9mlXSN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is one reason this movie is much more than a movie.\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/magazine/why-black-panther-is-a-defining-moment-for-black-america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> It is a cultural event\u003c/a>. “This is a moment, like African medallions in hip-hop, that’s connecting us to a larger mythology,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the anticipation is palpable. Coogler's ties to Oakland have informed his work. His breakthrough first movie, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/movies/fruitvale-station-is-based-on-the-story-of-oscar-grant-iii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>,\" was about the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a young unarmed black man from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/us/09verdict.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland who was killed by a BART police officer in 2009\u003c/a>. Grant lay restrained and face down on a crowded BART platform when he was shot in the back. That was before Trayvon Martin, before Michael Brown, before Black Lives Matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Taylor said it was serendipity that Black Panther was the name given to both a black Marvel superhero and a movement for black liberation in the same year. It was not a connection that Marvel wanted, Taylor said. They even tried to change the name “because they didn’t want to be associated with the Black Panther Party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/peterhartlaub/status/964390926071181314\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the options tried out included Black Jaguar and Coal Tiger, and even dropping the “black” from Black Panther. But none of it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor says it was just too cool of a name. “I mean, ideas are bigger than us,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of the Black Panther grew over time. In comic books and graphic novels a character is not just created by its originator. The universe is explored and populated by other writers. The Black Panther comic, and the Black Panther universe, was written over decades, by \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/5-black-panther-comics-to-read-before-you-see-the-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generations of comic book writers\u003c/a> such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/christopher-priest-made-black-panther-cool-then-disappeared.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Priest\u003c/a>, and more recently by \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/06/wakanda-and-the-black-aesthetic/489290/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003c/a> and Roxane Gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These writers expanded on the mythic world that T'Challa -- the Black Panther -- came from and protected, the imagined African country of Wakanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a country in Africa that has never been conquered by any European powers or anyone else,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wakanda, Taylor said, “is the most technologically advanced country in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11650622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton.jpg 503w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton-240x301.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton-375x470.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Panther Party founders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wakanda is not post-colonial or pre-colonial. It exists in a timeline where colonization \u003cem>never\u003c/em> happened. It is an African country in which people were never raped, murdered and kidnapped, never stacked on top of each other on ships that took them to death and slavery and struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colonization not only shapes the stories of black Americans, but also the narratives of African countries -- countries where colonizers staged proxy wars and propped up dictatorships so they could continue to harvest rich natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the world of Wakanda black people are free to create, to innovate, to determine their own destiny. In that imagined space, they create technology beyond our wildest dreams. The metal that makes Captain America’s shield, vibranium, comes from Wakanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Marvel universe, Captain America represents America’s greatness. It seems fitting that his primary weapon, his shield, comes from the natural resources of an (imagined) African country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a pretty apt metaphor for colonial power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wakanda, the comics created a place where black people rule themselves. Historically, self-rule is a radical concept for people of color in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to the Black Panther Party, because self-rule is a concept for which they advocated and fought. That fight started in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is archival tape of Huey Newton, when he was leader of the Black Panther Party, just after he was arrested, talking to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the police were to withdraw from the community,” Newton said, “and the black community control its own police institution as well as all the other institutions within our community -- we feel that law and order would exist.” Peace too, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he was asking for was a Wakanda, a space in which black people can rule themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Imagination Is Revolutionary \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea of black heroes, this idea of a black liberation army, an army of warriors ready to fight, this is both literal and figurative,” Malkia Cyril said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/lessons-from-growing-up-as-a-black-panther-cub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyril grew up in the Black Panther Party\u003c/a>. “I am the daughter of a Black Panther, a \u003cem>real\u003c/em> Black Panther.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril is also the founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://centerformediajustice.org/\">Center for Media Justice\u003c/a>, so Cyril knows just how much representation matters, and not just representation, but empowered representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the heart of Afrofuturism,” Cyril said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quick history lesson: \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/07/afrofuturism-black-identity-future-science-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afrofuturism\u003c/a> was coined in 1993 by the journalist Mark Dery -- a white guy -- to define the artistic movement where images of ancient Africa intersect with the future and the fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also digging into the past, bringing it forward, imaging the impossible,” Cyril said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afrofuturism was, in part, born out of a question, said Shawn Taylor: Why weren’t more African-Americans represented in science fiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black existence in America is science fiction,” Taylor said. “Aliens came to your land, abducted you, stole your god, stole your music, stole your language, and dropped you off into an alien land with new flora, new fauna -- new everything. So black experience is science fiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Black existence in America is science fiction. Aliens came to your land, abducted you, stole your god, stole your music, stole your language, and dropped you off into an alien land with new flora, new fauna -- new everything. So black experience is science fiction.'\u003ccite>Shawn Taylor,\u003cbr>\nco-founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfmlkday.org/bcafcon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Comix Arts Festival\u003c/a> and the website \u003ca href=\"https://thenerdsofcolor.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nerds of Color\u003c/a>.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the real world is already sci-fi, why not use science fiction and fantasy to imagine a better one, Taylor asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor believes the power of creations like Black Panther lies in their ability to imagine transcending the chains of the past, to fill in the holes of history, and to see the future through a black lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what I think we can do as a revolutionary tool, as a resistance tool, is look at these narratives that Ryan Coogler and his team did, but then ask what do we create new from there,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is another term Taylor uses: ethno-speculation. The idea is to conjure and interrogate the world purely from one's own perspective. Historically, most mainstream movies about the African-American experience, he said, are about slavery and trauma, about the wounds of the past. There is a power in imagining yourself outside of that, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see what an Arab-American story is without white supremacy involved, without having to be labeled a terrorist. I want to see that story,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see a woman’s story not having to contend with misogyny,\" Taylor said. \"I want to see a queer story not having to contend with homophobia, when you do these kind of cultural speculations, you get such beautiful and rich stories without always having to have double consciousness involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the power to speculate about a world without white supremacy makes that world, that self, feel possible. And that creates not a retreat, but a way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor admits that people still have to contend with reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the technologically superior Wakanda, “technology elevates everybody,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor knows that does not carry over to the world we live in. “Oakland is kind of like the anti-Wakanda,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is because technology here is fueling gentrification and the displacement of Oakland’s historic black population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is one reason activist Malkia Cyril said seeing the film is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At screenings, Cyril will also be talking, engaging in conversations. Cyril will be telling people about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorlines.com/articles/16-black-panthers-still-behind-bars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party members still behind bars\u003c/a>. Cyril said they were unfairly accused and convicted, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_cointelpro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">targets of the FBI's COINTELPRO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril will also be talking about the FBI’s newest target, so-called \u003ca href=\"http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/06/the-fbi-has-identified-a-new-domestic-terrorist-threat-and-its-black-identity-extremists/\">Black Identity Extremists\u003c/a>. Cyril said that is a barely disguised code for \u003ca href=\"https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> activists, of which Cyril is one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ryan Coogler’s job was to make this amazing film -- and he did that. He did his job. Now it’s time for us to be on our job,” Cyril said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Some of the options tried out included Black Jaguar and Coal Tiger, and even dropping the “black” from Black Panther. But none of it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor says it was just too cool of a name. “I mean, ideas are bigger than us,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of the Black Panther grew over time. In comic books and graphic novels a character is not just created by its originator. The universe is explored and populated by other writers. The Black Panther comic, and the Black Panther universe, was written over decades, by \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/5-black-panther-comics-to-read-before-you-see-the-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generations of comic book writers\u003c/a> such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/christopher-priest-made-black-panther-cool-then-disappeared.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Priest\u003c/a>, and more recently by \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/06/wakanda-and-the-black-aesthetic/489290/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003c/a> and Roxane Gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These writers expanded on the mythic world that T'Challa -- the Black Panther -- came from and protected, the imagined African country of Wakanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a country in Africa that has never been conquered by any European powers or anyone else,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wakanda, Taylor said, “is the most technologically advanced country in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11650622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton.jpg 503w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton-240x301.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/seale-newton-375x470.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Panther Party founders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wakanda is not post-colonial or pre-colonial. It exists in a timeline where colonization \u003cem>never\u003c/em> happened. It is an African country in which people were never raped, murdered and kidnapped, never stacked on top of each other on ships that took them to death and slavery and struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colonization not only shapes the stories of black Americans, but also the narratives of African countries -- countries where colonizers staged proxy wars and propped up dictatorships so they could continue to harvest rich natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the world of Wakanda black people are free to create, to innovate, to determine their own destiny. In that imagined space, they create technology beyond our wildest dreams. The metal that makes Captain America’s shield, vibranium, comes from Wakanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Marvel universe, Captain America represents America’s greatness. It seems fitting that his primary weapon, his shield, comes from the natural resources of an (imagined) African country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is a pretty apt metaphor for colonial power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wakanda, the comics created a place where black people rule themselves. Historically, self-rule is a radical concept for people of color in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to the Black Panther Party, because self-rule is a concept for which they advocated and fought. That fight started in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is archival tape of Huey Newton, when he was leader of the Black Panther Party, just after he was arrested, talking to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the police were to withdraw from the community,” Newton said, “and the black community control its own police institution as well as all the other institutions within our community -- we feel that law and order would exist.” Peace too, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he was asking for was a Wakanda, a space in which black people can rule themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Imagination Is Revolutionary \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea of black heroes, this idea of a black liberation army, an army of warriors ready to fight, this is both literal and figurative,” Malkia Cyril said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/lessons-from-growing-up-as-a-black-panther-cub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyril grew up in the Black Panther Party\u003c/a>. “I am the daughter of a Black Panther, a \u003cem>real\u003c/em> Black Panther.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyril is also the founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://centerformediajustice.org/\">Center for Media Justice\u003c/a>, so Cyril knows just how much representation matters, and not just representation, but empowered representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the heart of Afrofuturism,” Cyril said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quick history lesson: \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/07/afrofuturism-black-identity-future-science-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afrofuturism\u003c/a> was coined in 1993 by the journalist Mark Dery -- a white guy -- to define the artistic movement where images of ancient Africa intersect with the future and the fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also digging into the past, bringing it forward, imaging the impossible,” Cyril said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afrofuturism was, in part, born out of a question, said Shawn Taylor: Why weren’t more African-Americans represented in science fiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black existence in America is science fiction,” Taylor said. “Aliens came to your land, abducted you, stole your god, stole your music, stole your language, and dropped you off into an alien land with new flora, new fauna -- new everything. So black experience is science fiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Black existence in America is science fiction. Aliens came to your land, abducted you, stole your god, stole your music, stole your language, and dropped you off into an alien land with new flora, new fauna -- new everything. So black experience is science fiction.'\u003ccite>Shawn Taylor,\u003cbr>\nco-founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfmlkday.org/bcafcon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Comix Arts Festival\u003c/a> and the website \u003ca href=\"https://thenerdsofcolor.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nerds of Color\u003c/a>.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the real world is already sci-fi, why not use science fiction and fantasy to imagine a better one, Taylor asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor believes the power of creations like Black Panther lies in their ability to imagine transcending the chains of the past, to fill in the holes of history, and to see the future through a black lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what I think we can do as a revolutionary tool, as a resistance tool, is look at these narratives that Ryan Coogler and his team did, but then ask what do we create new from there,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is another term Taylor uses: ethno-speculation. The idea is to conjure and interrogate the world purely from one's own perspective. Historically, most mainstream movies about the African-American experience, he said, are about slavery and trauma, about the wounds of the past. There is a power in imagining yourself outside of that, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see what an Arab-American story is without white supremacy involved, without having to be labeled a terrorist. I want to see that story,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see a woman’s story not having to contend with misogyny,\" Taylor said. \"I want to see a queer story not having to contend with homophobia, when you do these kind of cultural speculations, you get such beautiful and rich stories without always having to have double consciousness involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the power to speculate about a world without white supremacy makes that world, that self, feel possible. And that creates not a retreat, but a way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor admits that people still have to contend with reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the technologically superior Wakanda, “technology elevates everybody,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor knows that does not carry over to the world we live in. “Oakland is kind of like the anti-Wakanda,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is because technology here is fueling gentrification and the displacement of Oakland’s historic black population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is one reason activist Malkia Cyril said seeing the film is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At screenings, Cyril will also be talking, engaging in conversations. Cyril will be telling people about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorlines.com/articles/16-black-panthers-still-behind-bars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party members still behind bars\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>By many measures the rambunctious campaign for a single-payer health care system in California appears to be floundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that would replace the existing health care system with a new one run by a single payer — specifically, the state government — and paid for with taxpayer money remains parked in the Assembly, with no sign of moving ahead. An effort by activists to recall Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon for shelving the bill has gone dormant. And an initiative that would lay the financial groundwork for a future single-payer system has little funding, undercutting its chances to qualify for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if single payer is a lost cause in the short term, advocates are playing a long game. For now, it may well be less a realistic policy blueprint than an organizing tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by that metric, advocates are making gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riding a wave of enthusiasm from progressive Democrats, supporters of single payer have effectively made it a front-and-center issue in California’s 2018 elections. It’s been discussed in virtually every forum with the candidates running for governor, emerged as a point of contention in some legislative races, and will likely be a rallying cry at the upcoming California Democratic Party convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”sS3Whaix6T8nqcVe0YQAXX8vPyoTkq8S”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue is not going away,” said Garry South, a Democratic political consultant who has worked with the California Nurses Association, which sponsored the stalled \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562\">single-payer bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The progressive elements who are supportive of the single-payer concept know that it’s not going to happen now, it’s not going to happen tomorrow. It’s a long-term process and Jerry Brown is gone as of January 2019.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has not had to stake a position on the bill because it skidded to a stop in the Assembly last summer without reaching his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Sen. Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat who co-authored Senate Bill 562, said Brown was not receptive. Analyses peg the cost of a statewide single-payer system at between $330 billion and $400 billion — far exceeding the state’s entire budget. That made it an anathema to Brown’s record of prioritizing fiscal stability for state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the governor saw that we introduced that bill… all he could look at me and do is shake his head and say, ‘$400 billion dollars.’ And I kept trying to say, ‘Can we back up and talk about what you’ve got to do to get (there)?’” Atkins said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t letting it go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins, who will take over as Senate leader next month, said she’s not giving up on the goal of single-payer but does not expect it to happen this year. “People are polarized on this issue in a way that’s not good for coming together to get it done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by the nurses association — a labor union that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/union-boss-roseann-demoro-doesnt-play-nice/\">embraces firebrand activism\u003c/a> — supporters of single-payer have targeted Rendon after he shelved the bill last summer, saying it lacked critical information on how to pay for a massive overhaul of the healthcare system. They peppered social media with images that not only portrayed the bill fight as a boxing match between Rendon and the nurses, but also depicted a knife labeled “Rendon” back-stabbing the bear symbol of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11650545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-800x1875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-160x375.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-240x563.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-375x879.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-520x1219.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses were not involved in the campaign to recall Rendon, said recall organizer Stephen Elzie, who has since dropped the effort and is now helping Democrat Maria Estrada challenge Rendon’s re-election bid. But the nurses union leapt into the governor’s race as one of the first labor unions to endorse Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Single-payer has emerged as one of few issues on which the Democratic \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/10/22/single-payer-is-lone-contrast-in-first-meeting-of-democratic-gubernatorial-candidates/\">candidates disagree\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Delaine Eastin, the former state superintendent of schools, have both said they \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article174827261.html\">support the nurses’ single-payer bill\u003c/a>. Fellow Democrats Antonio Villaraigosa, former mayor of Los Angeles, and John Chiang, the state treasurer, say they want to expand health care so that everyone is covered, but not necessarily with the single-payer model that would abolish private health insurers and replace them with a government-run system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of medical groups is lobbying against the single-payer bill, arguing that it makes more sense to protect and expand the federal Affordable Care Act, which has increased the number of Californians who have health insurance. Some members of the coalition have a history of spending big money to sway California elections. One of them, the doctors association, donated to Newsom before he voiced support for single-payer; it’s not yet clear if they will shift support to another candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”DV8tS2sJT93TWXubLjjIDaylKLJdvynI”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two-thirds of Californians like the idea of a statewide single-payer health care system, although enthusiasm drops significantly if it would require raising taxes, according to polling last year by the Public Policy Institute of California. Still, Californians didn’t cite health care as a top priority when asked last month what the Legislature and governor should focus on in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly just wrapped up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-chorus-of-healthcare-advocates-praise-1518049362-htmlstory.html\">series of hearings\u003c/a> on what it would take to create a health care system that covers all Californians. It exposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/02/07/80550/these-legal-hurdles-could-trip-up-universal-health/\">many obstacles\u003c/a>—in both federal and state law—to swiftly enacting single-payer. For one, the state would need permission from the federal government—and perhaps an act of Congress—to shift billions of dollars from Medi-Cal and Medi-Care into a state-run single-payer plan. For another, if lawmakers raised taxes to fund single-payer, voters would likely have to approve changes to the California Constitution to allow the money to go to health care instead of schools. (That’s the only single-payer \u003ca href=\"https://www.euhc4ca.org/contact-us/\">initiative\u003c/a> trying to qualify for the ballot, and while a Silicon Valley tech consultant is gathering signatures for it, he doesn’t have support from the nurses union or any other well-financed group.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Wood, a Healdsburg Democrat who chaired the panel, called the single-payer bill “aspirational” and said he’s instead considering legislation that could help more Californians get health care without requiring permission from the federal government. 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Analyses peg the cost of a statewide single-payer system at between $330 billion and $400 billion — far exceeding the state’s entire budget. That made it an anathema to Brown’s record of prioritizing fiscal stability for state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the governor saw that we introduced that bill… all he could look at me and do is shake his head and say, ‘$400 billion dollars.’ And I kept trying to say, ‘Can we back up and talk about what you’ve got to do to get (there)?’” Atkins said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t letting it go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins, who will take over as Senate leader next month, said she’s not giving up on the goal of single-payer but does not expect it to happen this year. “People are polarized on this issue in a way that’s not good for coming together to get it done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by the nurses association — a labor union that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/union-boss-roseann-demoro-doesnt-play-nice/\">embraces firebrand activism\u003c/a> — supporters of single-payer have targeted Rendon after he shelved the bill last summer, saying it lacked critical information on how to pay for a massive overhaul of the healthcare system. They peppered social media with images that not only portrayed the bill fight as a boxing match between Rendon and the nurses, but also depicted a knife labeled “Rendon” back-stabbing the bear symbol of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11650545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-800x1875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-160x375.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-240x563.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-375x879.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/SinglePayerInfograph-520x1219.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses were not involved in the campaign to recall Rendon, said recall organizer Stephen Elzie, who has since dropped the effort and is now helping Democrat Maria Estrada challenge Rendon’s re-election bid. But the nurses union leapt into the governor’s race as one of the first labor unions to endorse Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Single-payer has emerged as one of few issues on which the Democratic \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/10/22/single-payer-is-lone-contrast-in-first-meeting-of-democratic-gubernatorial-candidates/\">candidates disagree\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Delaine Eastin, the former state superintendent of schools, have both said they \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article174827261.html\">support the nurses’ single-payer bill\u003c/a>. Fellow Democrats Antonio Villaraigosa, former mayor of Los Angeles, and John Chiang, the state treasurer, say they want to expand health care so that everyone is covered, but not necessarily with the single-payer model that would abolish private health insurers and replace them with a government-run system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of medical groups is lobbying against the single-payer bill, arguing that it makes more sense to protect and expand the federal Affordable Care Act, which has increased the number of Californians who have health insurance. Some members of the coalition have a history of spending big money to sway California elections. 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