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It was always hush-hush. So Le doesn’t remember that much. What she remembers about her parents is how angry they were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/vietnamwar/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11616324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TheVietnamWar_web-banners-1180x177-e1505162432907.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"301\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le remembers one day when she was 6. She was in first grade and she forgot her backpack at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And no one could understand why I was so worried about that. But when I got home, my mom found out and she just lost her mind,” Le says. “We had this plastic Fisher-Price table. She kicked that thing across the room and hit the wall so hard it terrified me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le says it was like this all the time. She forgot her books when they went to the library, and her mom started screaming. When her sister messed up a sauce for dinner, her dad threw a dish at the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I just didn’t even know what I was dealing with,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to dread every day. And it also took her hours to fall asleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having that kind of anxiety about what mistakes I might make the next day, it would keep me up at night,” she says. “I think that’s where my anxieties over making mistakes started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, Le figured, her family was just like all the other Vietnamese families in the community. She assumed everybody’s parents wanted their kids to be serious about school and remember their backpacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The belief is a cultural piece. But the reaction is influenced by trauma,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.cibhs.org/board-member/clayton-chau-md-phd\">Dr. Clayton Chau\u003c/a>, a psychiatrist at St. Joseph Hoag Health in Irvine. “So parents without trauma would sit the child down and say, ‘Hey, what happened? How can we ensure that you have your backpack, and the importance of having your backpack?’ Versus, if she was traumatized then immediately she would just explode, with no control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chau says he sees this with a lot of Vietnamese families who suffered terrible losses during or after the war. If parents don’t resolve the trauma they experienced, their kids can inherit it. It’s partly \u003ca href=\"https://doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/08_Epigenetic-Transmission.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">genetic (PDF)\u003c/a> — trauma can\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26410355\"> alter genes\u003c/a>, which get passed down to the next generation. 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But while the Jewish mode of managing trauma is commemoration and remembering, in some Buddhist cultures people cope by letting go of things that can’t be changed or focusing on the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For My-Linh Le’s family, the kids were the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in high school, my parents decided for me that I was going to be a pharmacist,” Le remembers. “I was given no say in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Le got older, her parents became more controlling. Because they had lost so much, they were obsessed with her safety. Le says they would listen in on all her phone conversations, and wouldn’t let her walk anywhere. She never learned how to ride the bus, because her parents insisted on hiring drivers to take her to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even my friends and my friends’ parents felt bad for me,” she says. “They would actually lie to my parents for me sometimes so that I could go to the movies or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le got really good at suppressing her own anger and frustration, so she wouldn’t set her parents off. But now, as an adult, she’s started to notice little ways that this family habit is catching up with her. She was on the phone with her boyfriend recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he didn’t do something that I thought he should have done by a certain time,” she says. “And this \u003cem>rage\u003c/em> just suddenly came out of nowhere, just like totally bubbled up within me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wanted to throw the phone across the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this really depressing moment of realizing that I’m just like my mother,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”3FBxMkRLD4J2MlqlVZTzvBdbbQ14QjIi”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le recently asked her parents if she could interview them, ask them about the things that happened to them that she had always been told not to talk about. She was surprised when they said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t about forgiving anybody,” she says. “It wasn’t about me working through any of my own feelings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>was\u003c/em> a way of figuring out who she was, and where these different parts of herself came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her dad told her about his first wife and their two sons. He was a helicopter pilot in the South Vietnamese air force. Then spent three years in a concentration camp after the war. He later made it to the U.S., but when he sent for his family, their boat sank, and his wife and older son drowned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He abruptly stopped talking and then started wailing,” she says. “It was weird for me to be there for him because we just never have had that kind of relationship where we were there for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le had never seen her dad like this. She’d never had such a clear picture of how much suffering her family has had to bear. 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That the carnage on Sunday night was carried out by someone living there was a shock, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a quiet neighborhood,” Russell said on Monday, as he walked among palm trees, cacti and houses of stucco and tile. “All of them up here in Sun City are quiet. People are too old to make any commotion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the first surprise for investigators: that a 64-year-old man, an apparently wealthy retiree, a former postal worker, IRS agent and government auditor, would commit mass murder. He doesn’t fit the mass shooter profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That he did what he did, it just doesn’t compute.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Eric Paddock,\u003cbr>\nbrother of Stephen Paddock\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Others in Mesquite spotted Paddock playing cards and video poker in the local casinos, betting and winning big, stopping in at the community center or picking up coffee at Starbucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His younger brother also said he was puzzled by the rampage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a guy who took his little brother camping,” Eric Paddock told reporter Amy Green at NPR station WMFE in Orlando. “He was a guy who loved his women. He was a guy who played video poker. He was a guy who worked his ass off and made my family — helped make my family and my mother affluent. He was a guy who, you know, was nice to my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That he did what he did, it just doesn’t compute,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter made millions in investments in real estate, according to public records in California, Nevada, Texas and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”nm3p2pryMsUt8qckniJIBFMlpUY3yDWg”]And he loved gambling and guns. Paddock had elite status at bigger casinos in Las Vegas, according to industry sources who insisted on anonymity to protect their jobs. Police say he bought dozens of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives typically used for target shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times earlier this year, he drove the 40 miles from Mesquite to St. George, Utah, to Dixie GunWorx, where gun seller Chris Michel found him more engaging than most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came in and everything he wore, his demeanor, the person that he was, the openness, with his personality,” said Michel. “He was the guy next door that would, you know, mow people’s lawns for you. He would be the guy handing out ice cream cones on the corner when the bus comes to a stop to the kids. He would be the one that all of us would have taken to the family barbecue and invited. He just, he was an open guy to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paddock easily passed the background checks he needed to buy a shotgun from Michel and other weapons from other dealers. So far, police have revealed no evidence of illegal possession of firearms. Some neighbors in Nevada, Texas and Florida who have spoken with reporters simply say Paddock and his girlfriend kept to themselves, and didn’t do anything alarming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very trusting to complete strangers,” said Sharon Judy, who lived next door to the home Paddock owned in Melbourne, Florida. She says he handed her a key, asking her to keep an eye on the house and borrow any tools she might be able to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really scary to think this is a guy next door,” she told NPR’s Pam Fessler. “Perfectly normal. On nobody’s radar. Nobody’s reason to think anything of any of it. And then all of a sudden he goes out and does something like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police are similarly puzzled. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the shooting and the evidence gathered so far show meticulous planning by a disturbed and dangerous man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">VIDEO: provides an update, including a detailed timeline of the incident that occurred on Oct 1. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/wo8LVCxkjX\">https://t.co/wo8LVCxkjX\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— LVMPD (@LVMPD) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LVMPD/status/915769732287971328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Paddock used Airbnb to rent a condo in a downtown Las Vegas high-rise \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/05/555925722/shooter-may-have-considered-other-targets-in-chicago-and-las-vegas\">during a different music festival the weekend before\u003c/a> he fired upon the Route 91 Harvest Festival. And someone named Stephen Paddock booked a room at a Chicago hotel overlooking Grant Park during Lollapalooza there in August, though the hotel says no one by that name actually stayed at the hotel then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials tell NPR that an analysis of Paddock’s electronic devices show he researched hotels around Fenway Park and a site in downtown Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo, and living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood,” Lombardo said on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff speculated that the shooter may have had an accomplice: “You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, said she had no hints of the rampage. Her attorney, Matthew Lombard, read \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/statement-transcript-marilou-danley.html\">a statement\u003c/a> from Danley, which said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I knew Stephen Paddock as a kind, caring, quiet man. I loved him and hoped for a quiet future together with him. He never said anything to me or took any action that I was aware of, that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A little more than two weeks ago, Stephen told me he found a cheap ticket for me to the Philippines and that he wanted me to take a trip home to see my family. Like all Filipinos abroad, I was excited to go home and see family and friends. While there, he wired me money, which he said was for me to buy a house for me and my family. I was grateful, but honestly, I was worried that first, the unexpected trip home, and then the money, was a way of breaking up with me. It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This apparent silence, the secret life, also defies another characteristic of mass shooters, says Dr. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist at the University of California San Diego Medical School. Meloy’s research shows that some kind of grievance — big or small — can be a triggering event. The grievance can spiral into planning and preparing some kind of response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s of course the mystery in this particular case is that there doesn’t yet seem to be any grievance that’s surfaced,” says Meloy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretive planning and preparing for the response can end up overshadowing the grievance as it becomes its own motivation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:20 a.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators in Las Vegas are sifting through evidence they’ve gathered from the homes of the man who sprayed a concert crowd with gunfire. They’ve begun to interview his girlfriend. They’ve learned quite a bit about Stephen Paddock’s past and preparation, but there is still no explanation for why he damaged and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/06/what-we-know-about-california-victims-of-the-las-vegas-shooting/\">destroyed so many lives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Russell is a retired wildlife biologist who lives in the same neighborhood where the Las Vegas shooter lived, in the sunny retirement community of Sun City Mesquite. That the carnage on Sunday night was carried out by someone living there was a shock, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a quiet neighborhood,” Russell said on Monday, as he walked among palm trees, cacti and houses of stucco and tile. “All of them up here in Sun City are quiet. People are too old to make any commotion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the first surprise for investigators: that a 64-year-old man, an apparently wealthy retiree, a former postal worker, IRS agent and government auditor, would commit mass murder. He doesn’t fit the mass shooter profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That he did what he did, it just doesn’t compute.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Eric Paddock,\u003cbr>\nbrother of Stephen Paddock\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Others in Mesquite spotted Paddock playing cards and video poker in the local casinos, betting and winning big, stopping in at the community center or picking up coffee at Starbucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His younger brother also said he was puzzled by the rampage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a guy who took his little brother camping,” Eric Paddock told reporter Amy Green at NPR station WMFE in Orlando. “He was a guy who loved his women. He was a guy who played video poker. He was a guy who worked his ass off and made my family — helped make my family and my mother affluent. He was a guy who, you know, was nice to my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That he did what he did, it just doesn’t compute,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter made millions in investments in real estate, according to public records in California, Nevada, Texas and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>And he loved gambling and guns. Paddock had elite status at bigger casinos in Las Vegas, according to industry sources who insisted on anonymity to protect their jobs. Police say he bought dozens of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives typically used for target shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times earlier this year, he drove the 40 miles from Mesquite to St. George, Utah, to Dixie GunWorx, where gun seller Chris Michel found him more engaging than most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came in and everything he wore, his demeanor, the person that he was, the openness, with his personality,” said Michel. “He was the guy next door that would, you know, mow people’s lawns for you. He would be the guy handing out ice cream cones on the corner when the bus comes to a stop to the kids. He would be the one that all of us would have taken to the family barbecue and invited. He just, he was an open guy to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paddock easily passed the background checks he needed to buy a shotgun from Michel and other weapons from other dealers. So far, police have revealed no evidence of illegal possession of firearms. Some neighbors in Nevada, Texas and Florida who have spoken with reporters simply say Paddock and his girlfriend kept to themselves, and didn’t do anything alarming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very trusting to complete strangers,” said Sharon Judy, who lived next door to the home Paddock owned in Melbourne, Florida. She says he handed her a key, asking her to keep an eye on the house and borrow any tools she might be able to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really scary to think this is a guy next door,” she told NPR’s Pam Fessler. “Perfectly normal. On nobody’s radar. Nobody’s reason to think anything of any of it. And then all of a sudden he goes out and does something like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police are similarly puzzled. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the shooting and the evidence gathered so far show meticulous planning by a disturbed and dangerous man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">VIDEO: provides an update, including a detailed timeline of the incident that occurred on Oct 1. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/wo8LVCxkjX\">https://t.co/wo8LVCxkjX\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— LVMPD (@LVMPD) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LVMPD/status/915769732287971328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Paddock used Airbnb to rent a condo in a downtown Las Vegas high-rise \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/05/555925722/shooter-may-have-considered-other-targets-in-chicago-and-las-vegas\">during a different music festival the weekend before\u003c/a> he fired upon the Route 91 Harvest Festival. And someone named Stephen Paddock booked a room at a Chicago hotel overlooking Grant Park during Lollapalooza there in August, though the hotel says no one by that name actually stayed at the hotel then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials tell NPR that an analysis of Paddock’s electronic devices show he researched hotels around Fenway Park and a site in downtown Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo, and living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood,” Lombardo said on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff speculated that the shooter may have had an accomplice: “You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, said she had no hints of the rampage. Her attorney, Matthew Lombard, read \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/statement-transcript-marilou-danley.html\">a statement\u003c/a> from Danley, which said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I knew Stephen Paddock as a kind, caring, quiet man. I loved him and hoped for a quiet future together with him. He never said anything to me or took any action that I was aware of, that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A little more than two weeks ago, Stephen told me he found a cheap ticket for me to the Philippines and that he wanted me to take a trip home to see my family. Like all Filipinos abroad, I was excited to go home and see family and friends. While there, he wired me money, which he said was for me to buy a house for me and my family. I was grateful, but honestly, I was worried that first, the unexpected trip home, and then the money, was a way of breaking up with me. It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This apparent silence, the secret life, also defies another characteristic of mass shooters, says Dr. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist at the University of California San Diego Medical School. Meloy’s research shows that some kind of grievance — big or small — can be a triggering event. The grievance can spiral into planning and preparing some kind of response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s of course the mystery in this particular case is that there doesn’t yet seem to be any grievance that’s surfaced,” says Meloy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretive planning and preparing for the response can end up overshadowing the grievance as it becomes its own motivation. And Meloy says research shows that mass shooters often fuel their excitement by telling somebody something of their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A number of studies have found that a majority of these individuals that carry out mass murders will communicate their intent to a third party before they do it,” he says. “There is at least one person that knows the path that this individual is on. There does not seem to be any evidence of that yet in this case, which would be an anomaly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an assessment shared by the sheriff on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that would indicate this individual’s trigger point and that would cause him to do such harm — we haven’t understood it yet,” said Lombardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days after the shooter carried out his meticulous plan, investigators have learned some things about Stephen Paddock. But still not enough to make sense of his terrible crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Here's a brief rundown on what we know about the California victims of the Sunday night massacre in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/05/over-half-las-vegas-massacre-victims-from-california-socal-coroner-team-assisting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than half are reportedly from California,\u003c/a> and Southern California coroners are working closely with officials in Nevada to identify the deceased. KQED is confirming and updating details about the California victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deaths:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hannah Ahlers, Beaumont: \u003c/strong>Ahlers was a married mother of three. \"You created happiness wherever you went,\" Mandi Norris wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hannah.ahlers.9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>. Friends of Ahlers are organizing \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1845020542193522&set=a.378264685535789.102014.100000567826096&type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a car wash on Saturday\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/hannah-ahlers-las-vegas-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raise money\u003c/a> for her family.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Carrie Barnette, 34, Riverside: \u003c/strong> Barnette was a Disneyland employee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/02/california-disney-employee-killed-las-vegas-shooting/725432001/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to The Arizona Republic\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RobertIger/status/915028952678252545\">tweeted his condolences\u003c/a>, calling the shooting a \"senseless, horrific act,\" and saying, \"We mourn a wonderful member of the Disney family.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jack Beaton, 54, Bakersfield: \u003c/strong>Beaton was a construction worker who lived with his wife, Laurie Beaton, and their two children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b511830a44bf4e06a4bfd319ced779e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a>. Laurie said he put his own body on top of hers for protection when the shooting started. He told her, \"I love you, Laurie,\" and then his body went heavy. That's when she knew he had been shot. Laurie said that she wants people to hear how he had protected her, just as he always had done. \"I knew every day that he would protect me and take care of me and love me unconditionally, and what he did is no surprise to me, and he is my hero,\" she said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Candace Bowers, 40, Garden Grove:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\">According to the L.A. Times\u003c/a>, Bowers had recently adopted a relative's baby when that woman was struggling — despite the fact that Bowers was already raising a 16-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son on her own. “She had a big heart. She was just a sweetheart. She would do anything for anybody,\" Vicki Jeffries, Bowers’ aunt, told the Times. The waitress at Mimi's Cafe attended the concert with friends. \"She left the world doing what she loved, dancing to country music among loved ones,\" wrote a friend on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/candicebowersfamily\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> for her kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sandy Casey, Manhattan Beach: \u003c/strong>Casey, a special education teacher at Manhattan Beach Middle School, was fatally wounded in the attack, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mbmswaves.com/event/all-mbusd-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a statement from the school district's superintendent\u003c/a>. Several other school district employees were also at the music festival, but were not injured.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Denise Cohen, Santa Barbara County: \u003c/strong>Cohen worked as a Homeowners Association manager. Her co-workers at Team HOA described her as \"a ray of sunshine\" and \"always so positive — always had a smile on her face.\" Cohen leaves behind two sons and a grandson, according to her co-workers. She attended the concert with her boyfriend, \"Bo\" Taylor, who also died, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Austin Davis, 29, Riverside:\u003c/strong> Davis left behind his parents and girlfriend of nine years, Aubree Hennigan, who he met in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\"From Lori and Gary and Stacey and the rest for the family and myself: Tonight we lost an amazing man. Austin, my love, I can't believe this happened. You didn't deserve this,\" Hennigan wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/aubree.hennigan/posts/10214852604417120?pnref=story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tom Day Jr., 54, Corona: \u003c/strong> Day worked the past 24 years as an estimator at Portrait Construction in Corona. Colleague Bruce Abbey \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told KPCC\u003c/a> that Day was a \"people person\" who loved his four adult kids and spending time on the Colorado River on his boat. He said Day loved music and was not at all surprised he had made the trek to Las Vegas to see the country music festival. \"It’s going to be a real void,\" Abbey said. \"He’s a great person.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the L.A. Times\u003c/a>, his four kids were with him at the festival.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Christiana Duarte, 22, Torrance: \u003c/strong>Duarte worked as a fan service associate for the L.A. Kings, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/kings/news/la-kings-to-honor-victims-and-heroes-from-las-vegas-tragedy-on-thursday/c-291564698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement from the team\u003c/a>. She graduated from the University of Arizona in May with a degree in communications, according to \u003ca href=\"https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/statement-ua-president-death-christiana-duarte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement by university president Robert Robbins\u003c/a>. He called the shooting a \"terrible tragedy for hundreds of families\" and said, \"I know I speak for the UA community in expressing our deepest condolences to Christiana's family and in asking for their privacy to be respected.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stacee Etcheber, Novato:\u003c/strong> Etcheber, whose husband, Vinnie Etcheber, is a San Francisco police officer, was killed in the Las Vegas shooting Sunday night, according to her brother-in-law. After shots rang out, Vinnie Etcheber began assisting the injured, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/03/wife-of-sfpd-officer-among-dead-in-las-vegas-massacre/\">his brother, Al Etcheber, told KQED\u003c/a>. When there was a lull in the gunfire, Etcheber told his wife to run, and then there was a “second barrage,” said his brother. Stacee Etcheber was a 50-year-old hairdresser from Novato, and the couple has two children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Brian Fraser, 39, La Palma: \u003c/strong>Fraser was vice president of sales for Greenpath, a mortgage company in Southern California, according to \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/GreenpathFunding/photos/a.658608760827869.1073741829.568313026524110/1654565971232138/?type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement from the company\u003c/a>. His sister-in-laws, Briana Flanigan and Brittany Gonzalez, wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/j8f37g-brians-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> created for his family that he was \"a bigger than life man.\" He attended the concert with his wife and friends, and was attempting to shield his wife, Stephanie, when he was shot, his son, Nick Arellano, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b358d6b81d3a4e279b2a9080fc51cc5f/Some-Las-Vegas-victims-died-with-family,-friends-at-side\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a>. He adopted Nick and another of Stephanie's kids when they were married, and the couple had two more children. \"He taught me what it meant to be an honest, motivated, driven, loving man to not only family and friends, but even to just strangers, or anyone he came in contact with — just to be a human being to everyone on this planet,” Arellano told the AP.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Keri Lyn Galvan, 31, Thousand Oaks: \u003c/strong>Galvan was at the festival with her husband and friends. She worked as a waitress at Mastro's Steakhouse in Thousand Oaks and leaves behind three kids, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\">according to the L.A. Times\u003c/a>. Her sister, Lindsey Poole, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/kerilynngalvan\">wrote on a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> that Galvan was a \"devoted wife and mother\" to her three kids. \"Her days started and ended with doing everything in her power to be a wonderful mother,\" wrote Poole.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dana Gardner, 52, Grand Terrace: \u003c/strong> Gardner was a deputy recorder-county clerk in the San Bernardino County Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk’s Office, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to county spokesman David Wert\u003c/a>. Gardner had worked for the county since 1991, and lived in Grand Terrace, he said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Angie Gomez, Riverside:\u003c/strong> Gomez's death was announced in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RiversidePolyPTSA/photos/a.415559915219462.1073741828.397006753741445/1356357477806363/?type=3&theater\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> by her former high school's PTSA. Gomez graduated from Riverside Polytechnic High School in 2015 and was a cheerleader for the school, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/angela-gomez-memorial-fund\">a GoFundMe page \u003c/a>set up to help her family with funeral costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rocio Guillen, Eastvale, Riverside County: \u003c/strong>Guillen grew up in Anaheim and was a \"young, beautiful, happy, hard-working mother\" who just gave birth to her fourth child, Austin, a month ago, her cousin Vanessa Pineda wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/rocio-guillen-rocha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> she set up. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/555018665/las-vegas-mass-shooting-latest-who-are-the-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to NPR\u003c/a>, Guillen was still on maternity leave from California Pizza Kitchen. Her three other children are 18 months, 13, and 17.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Chris Hazencomb, 44, Camarillo\u003c/strong>: Hazencomb attended the concert with his friend, Nikki Torres, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">according to KPCC\u003c/a>. \"He was the kindest person I knew,\" she said. Hazencomb had worked as a self-checkout host at the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Camarillo since 2013, according to a company spokesperson. He graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in 1991, according to the principal and an alumni account, which \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TOHSAlumni/status/915383231930703874\">tweeted out remembrances of Hazencomb\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2017/10/03/camarillo-man-who-shielded-friend-bullets-among-victims-las-vegas-shooting/728167001/\">According to the Ventura County Star,\u003c/a> he died while attempting to shield Torres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Irvine, San Diego:\u003c/strong> Irvine was a lawyer specializing in family law, with an independent practice in San Diego. Jay Jones, her publicist, confirmed to KQED that she was killed in the shooting. He described Irvine as kind and respectful and said, \"I was happy we had crossed paths.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Nicol Kimura, 38, Placentia:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">According to the Associated Press\u003c/a>, the Southern California native attended the concert with a group of friends who called themselves a \"framily.\" Another member of that group, Ryan Miller, said of Kimura that although she didn't have kids, \"she was a mom to all of our kids; they called her 'auntie.' \" She worked in a tax office in Orange County and \"her heart was bigger than most human beings, her spirit was beautiful, her laugh was infectious,\" Miller wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/nicol-kimura-memorial-fund\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Victor Link, 55, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Aliso Viejo:\u003c/strong> Link attended the festival with his fiancee and had an adopted son. \"I love you so much Dad. Thank you so much for adopting me,\" his son Christian \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/christian.link.96/posts/1493952644022592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Facebook,\u003c/a> \"I'm going to do all the things that we talked about but this time I'm actually going to do it.\" Link worked in the mortgage business.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Kelsey Meadows, 28, Taft: \u003c/strong>A 2007 graduate of Taft Union High School, Meadows got her degree from Cal State Fresno before coming back to her hometown to work as a substitute teacher in the district, where her mother also worked as an IT manager. “Kelsey was smart, compassionate and kind. She had a sweet spirit and a love for children”, said Taft Union High School principal Mary Alice Finn in \u003ca href=\"https://www.taft.k12.ca.us\">a statement\u003c/a>. The district also said they will start a Kelsey Meadows Memorial Scholarship Fund.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Pati Mestas, 67, Menifee: \u003c/strong>Mestas was a country music fan, who once snuck up to the front row of a Brooks & Dunn concert, friend Isa Bahu told \u003ca href=\"http://www.pe.com/2017/10/03/pati-mestas-friend-and-country-music-fan-from-menifee-killed-in-las-vegas-shooting/\">The Press Enterprise\u003c/a>. She had three children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. \"She was a firecracker, a joy to behold and be in the presence of -- lighting up everything around her,\" longtime family friend Alexis Magaña \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">told KPCC\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rachael Parker, 33, Manhattan Beach:\u003c/strong> Parker died in the hospital after being shot at the music festival, according to \u003ca href=\"http://tbrnews.com/news/two-manhattan-beach-employees-killed-in-las-vegas-mass-shooting/article_5e5a7de4-a79f-11e7-81ea-f75c139533d6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement\u003c/a> from the Manhattan Beach Police Department. She worked as a police records technician for the department. Three other Manhattan Beach Police Department employees were at the concert, and one of them sustained minor injuries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Parks, Palmdale: \u003c/strong> Parks was a kindergarten teacher at Anaverde Hills School, where she had taught for three years. \"She was always enthusiastic, energetic, committed, and dedicated to her students, her colleagues and was so proud to be a teacher,\" the Westside Union district said in a statement to KQED. \"The students who were instructed by her knew what it was to love learning as Jennifer gave them the sense of wonder, curiosity, and excitement about all they did.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Lisa Patterson, 48, Lomita: \u003c/strong>Patterson was the mother of three children and married to Bob Patterson. The couple met when she was 18 and he was 25, he told \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPCC\u003c/a>. \"We clicked from the very beginning,\" adding that they lived separately and dated for seven years while she attended Cal State Long Beach. Their Catholic faith was important to them, he said, noting that they sent their three children, now ages 19, 16 and 8, to Catholic schools. The couple opened a hardware flooring company together, a venture that Patterson described as a partnership. \"Even though it's Robert Patterson Hardwood floors, I was more of an employee,\" Patterson said. \"She ran the company. I just knew how to do floors really well.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>John Phippen, 56, Santa Clarita: \u003c/strong> Phippen owned JP Specialties, a home remodeling company in Santa Clarita, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPCC\u003c/a>. He was attending the concert in Las Vegas with his son, Travis, a medic for movie studios, who was shot in the elbow, according to family friend Leah Nagyivanyi. \"He just was one of those people that whether he knew you or he didn’t know you, you needed help, he was there. No questions asked,\" she said. Phippen, an avid music fan, had been excited to attend the concert and have a guys’ weekend away, said Nagyivanyi. \"He loved his country music,\" she said. \"He loved to get out there and dance, and he was just a great guy.\" This is the second time tragedy has struck Phippen's family in recent years, added Nagyivanyi, who said Phippen's wife died in 2013. Nagyivanyi has set up \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/for-the-children-of-john-phippen\">a GoFundMe for Phippen's children.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jordyn Rivera, 21, La Verne:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Associated Press\u003c/a>, Rivera was in her fourth year at California State University, San Bernardino. The university released a statement confirming her death. \"It is with the utmost sadness I must report that a member of our campus community is among the victims,\" said university president Tomás Morales. Rivera was warm, optimistic and kind, he said. Katie Ortega, who has known her for years, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooting-victims/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a> they played softball together as kids. Rivera \"was and always will be a role model to many,\" said Ortega. \"She would always make it a point to make every single individual feel special, always laughing at my stupid jokes.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Chris Roybal, 28, Denver: \u003c/strong> Corona native and Navy veteran Chris Roybal had survived his deployment in Afghanistan, only to die in the Las Vegas shooting. On July 18, he had written \u003ca href=\"http://taskandpurpose.com/navy-veteran-chris-roybal-las-vegas/\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> about what it's like to be shot at. Roybal's mother, Debby Allen, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told KPCC\u003c/a> he was \"a proud American.\" She said \"he sang in Spanish all the time. He sang so beautifully.\" At the time of his death Roybal lived in Denver, where he managed a Crunch Fitness. His grandfather, Stalin Mendoza of Downey, said Roybal was the light of his life. \"He was my baby. He was everything to me,\" said Mendoza, who said he gave Roybal the nickname \"buddy boy ... He was my buddy boy.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bailey Schweitzer, 20, Bakersfield:\u003c/strong> Schweitzer graduated from Centennial High School in Bakersfield in 2015, where she was a cheerleader. The school's official Twitter account \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CentennialHawks/status/915229593157517312\">posted a memorial\u003c/a> and Schweitzer's former cheerleading adviser, Stacy Minnie, told KQED, “Bailey was a wonderful, kind person who was liked by all -- students and staff. The Golden Hawk community is grieving.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Laura Shipp, 50, Thousands Oaks:\u003c/strong> Shipp had moved to Vegas from Southern California in the last few years to be closer to her son, Corey, a Marine Corps reservist whom she had raised as a single mom, according to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b358d6b81d3a4e279b2a9080fc51cc5f/Some-Las-Vegas-victims-died-with-family,-friends-at-side\">the Associated Press\u003c/a>. The two attended the concert together. Her former brother-in-law, Tom Baker, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">told KPCC\u003c/a> she was a wonderful mom. \"The first thing you would notice was that she had a big huge smile on her face, almost all the time,\" he said. \"She was a very bubbly person. She was the kind of person who would go out of her way to make somebody else happy.\" Ship graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in 1985.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Susan Smith, 53, Simi Valley: \u003c/strong>Smith was fatally wounded while attending the music festival, according to Simi Valley Unified School District spokeswoman Jake Finch. Smith was the office manager at one of the district's schools, Vista Fundamental Elementary. She had worked for the school district for the past 16 years. Finch said Smith excelled at her job and had a great sense of humor. Smith was married and the mother of two adult children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Derrick \"Bo\" Taylor, 56, Oxnard\u003c/strong>: Taylor worked at the Ventura Conservation Camp and he was a veteran with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. His career as a California corrections officer had been 29 years. “There are no words to express the feeling of loss and sadness regarding Bo’s passing,\" said Warden Joel Martinez in \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidecdcr.ca.gov/2017/10/las-vegas-shooting-claims-life-of-cdcr-lt-bo-taylor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a department newsletter. \u003c/a>\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. We truly are a family here at SCC and Bo’s loss will be felt throughout the prison, conservation camps, and Department.\" According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the L.A. Times\u003c/a>, he attended the concert with his girlfriend, Denise Cohen, who also died. He has two sons.\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Kurt von Tillow, 55, Cameron Park: \u003c/strong>A 1980 El Molino High School graduate and the owner of Von Tillow Trucking outside Sacramento, von Tillow attended the concert with his wife, daughter, sister and niece, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooting-victims/index.html\">according to CNN\u003c/a>. His sister, Dee Ann Hyatt, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7489174-181/sister-my-brother-kurt-von?gallery=7492076&artslide=0\">the Press Democrat\u003c/a> she credits him with having saved their lives. Friends remember a man who loved golf, beer, his family and had \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/steve.marchi.9/posts/10212662993561953\">a \"famous belly laugh.\"\u003c/a> \"From now on every time I see a Bud Light how can I not think of Kurt,\" wrote Mark Baca on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mark.baca.984/posts/1536935296345674\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Michelle Vo, 32, Los Angeles: \u003c/strong>Vo had been living in Los Angeles for the last three years, but had roots in San Jose and attended Independence High School. She worked as an insurance agent at New York Life Insurance of Pasadena, according to family. Her sister, Diane Hawkins, told KQED she had an infectious smile, loved talking to people, and made friends wherever she went. She was vivacious, charismatic, and ambitious, she said. \"You know, she’s the type of person that just goes. And that’s what she did,\" says Hawkins. \"She just backpacked through Europe and got to know people and I said, “You k\u003cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\">now, Michelle, are you scared going to Europe by yourself?” And she’s like, “No! You know, what? I’m not alone. I can make friends.' ”\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/IiTCbGnyfTI\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Injuries:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Michael Gracia and his fiance, Ontario: \u003c/strong>Gracia, an Ontario police officer, is in critical condition, according to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OntarioPD/status/914934334745829377\">a statement\u003c/a> from the Ontario Police Department. He has been an officer for four years. Gracia's fiance, who has not been named, was also injured in the attack.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Brian and Lara Mack, Santa Barbara: \u003c/strong>Brian and Lara Mack were both injured in the attack and hospitalized, according to a Facebook post by Brian Mack’s sister. Brian Mack was hit in the stomach and underwent surgery, and Lara Mack received a grazing wound to the head. Lara Mack posted a photo of the couple on Facebook at the music festival just over an hour before the first reports of the shooting. The photo was quickly flooded with comments from friends and family. Brian Mack is an anesthesiologist and Lara Mack is a personal trainer. They have three children, according to media reports.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Aaron Mundhenke, Bakersfield:\u003c/strong> Aaron Mundhenke, a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Bakersfield police officer, was attending the event and was shot in his hip, Bakersfield police spokesman Sgt. Ryan Kroeker told KQED. Mundhenke had surgery on his broken pelvis Monday morning and is recovering in a Las Vegas hospital. He is expected to survive. Several other off-duty Bakersfield police officers were also attending the music festival.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Los Angeles Fire Department members: \u003c/strong>Two off-duty members of the Los Angeles Fire Department were struck by the gunfire, but their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, according to\u003ca href=\"http://www.lafd.org/alert/media-advisory-10022017\"> a statement from the fire chief\u003c/a>. At least seven LAFD members were reportedly at the music festival when the gunman opened fire.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>One Los Angeles police officer: \u003c/strong>The off-duty officer, who has remained unnamed, was shot in the leg and is expected to recover, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/914857136189927425\">according to a statement\u003c/a> by the Los Angeles Police Department. Several other LAPD officers were attending the music festival, but it’s unknown if any of them were injured in the attack.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employees: \u003c/strong>Two off-duty employees were shot, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nixle.us/9M5KF\">a statement\u003c/a> from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Office. One was critically injured and the other is stable.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Newport Beach city employees: \u003c/strong>Two people who worked for the city of Newport Beach, including an off-duty police officer, sustained non-life threatening injuries, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbpd.org/civica/press/display.asp?layout=12&Entry=639\">press release \u003c/a>from the police department.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>One Orange County sheriff’s deputy and two family members: \u003c/strong>One off-duty Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy and two family members of other sheriff's department employees were injured in the attack, according to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OCSD/status/914880080073109505\"> a press release from the department.\u003c/a> Their injures are non-life-threatening.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Riverside County Sheriff's Office employees: \u003c/strong>One Riverside deputy sheriff is in critical condition, and one correctional deputy was injured but has been released, according to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RSO/status/914930010342830080\">a tweet\u003c/a> from the Riverside Sheriff's Office.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated as more information becomes available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jeremy Siegel, Tara Siler, Bert Johnson, Sarah Craig and KPCC staff reporters contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's a brief rundown on what we know about the California victims of the Sunday night massacre in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/05/over-half-las-vegas-massacre-victims-from-california-socal-coroner-team-assisting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than half are reportedly from California,\u003c/a> and Southern California coroners are working closely with officials in Nevada to identify the deceased. KQED is confirming and updating details about the California victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deaths:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hannah Ahlers, Beaumont: \u003c/strong>Ahlers was a married mother of three. \"You created happiness wherever you went,\" Mandi Norris wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hannah.ahlers.9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>. Friends of Ahlers are organizing \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1845020542193522&set=a.378264685535789.102014.100000567826096&type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a car wash on Saturday\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/hannah-ahlers-las-vegas-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raise money\u003c/a> for her family.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Carrie Barnette, 34, Riverside: \u003c/strong> Barnette was a Disneyland employee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/02/california-disney-employee-killed-las-vegas-shooting/725432001/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to The Arizona Republic\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RobertIger/status/915028952678252545\">tweeted his condolences\u003c/a>, calling the shooting a \"senseless, horrific act,\" and saying, \"We mourn a wonderful member of the Disney family.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jack Beaton, 54, Bakersfield: \u003c/strong>Beaton was a construction worker who lived with his wife, Laurie Beaton, and their two children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b511830a44bf4e06a4bfd319ced779e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a>. Laurie said he put his own body on top of hers for protection when the shooting started. He told her, \"I love you, Laurie,\" and then his body went heavy. That's when she knew he had been shot. Laurie said that she wants people to hear how he had protected her, just as he always had done. \"I knew every day that he would protect me and take care of me and love me unconditionally, and what he did is no surprise to me, and he is my hero,\" she said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Candace Bowers, 40, Garden Grove:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\">According to the L.A. Times\u003c/a>, Bowers had recently adopted a relative's baby when that woman was struggling — despite the fact that Bowers was already raising a 16-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son on her own. “She had a big heart. She was just a sweetheart. She would do anything for anybody,\" Vicki Jeffries, Bowers’ aunt, told the Times. The waitress at Mimi's Cafe attended the concert with friends. \"She left the world doing what she loved, dancing to country music among loved ones,\" wrote a friend on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/candicebowersfamily\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> for her kids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sandy Casey, Manhattan Beach: \u003c/strong>Casey, a special education teacher at Manhattan Beach Middle School, was fatally wounded in the attack, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mbmswaves.com/event/all-mbusd-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a statement from the school district's superintendent\u003c/a>. Several other school district employees were also at the music festival, but were not injured.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Denise Cohen, Santa Barbara County: \u003c/strong>Cohen worked as a Homeowners Association manager. Her co-workers at Team HOA described her as \"a ray of sunshine\" and \"always so positive — always had a smile on her face.\" Cohen leaves behind two sons and a grandson, according to her co-workers. She attended the concert with her boyfriend, \"Bo\" Taylor, who also died, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Austin Davis, 29, Riverside:\u003c/strong> Davis left behind his parents and girlfriend of nine years, Aubree Hennigan, who he met in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\"From Lori and Gary and Stacey and the rest for the family and myself: Tonight we lost an amazing man. Austin, my love, I can't believe this happened. You didn't deserve this,\" Hennigan wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/aubree.hennigan/posts/10214852604417120?pnref=story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tom Day Jr., 54, Corona: \u003c/strong> Day worked the past 24 years as an estimator at Portrait Construction in Corona. Colleague Bruce Abbey \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told KPCC\u003c/a> that Day was a \"people person\" who loved his four adult kids and spending time on the Colorado River on his boat. He said Day loved music and was not at all surprised he had made the trek to Las Vegas to see the country music festival. \"It’s going to be a real void,\" Abbey said. \"He’s a great person.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the L.A. Times\u003c/a>, his four kids were with him at the festival.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Christiana Duarte, 22, Torrance: \u003c/strong>Duarte worked as a fan service associate for the L.A. Kings, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhl.com/kings/news/la-kings-to-honor-victims-and-heroes-from-las-vegas-tragedy-on-thursday/c-291564698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement from the team\u003c/a>. She graduated from the University of Arizona in May with a degree in communications, according to \u003ca href=\"https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/statement-ua-president-death-christiana-duarte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement by university president Robert Robbins\u003c/a>. He called the shooting a \"terrible tragedy for hundreds of families\" and said, \"I know I speak for the UA community in expressing our deepest condolences to Christiana's family and in asking for their privacy to be respected.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stacee Etcheber, Novato:\u003c/strong> Etcheber, whose husband, Vinnie Etcheber, is a San Francisco police officer, was killed in the Las Vegas shooting Sunday night, according to her brother-in-law. After shots rang out, Vinnie Etcheber began assisting the injured, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/03/wife-of-sfpd-officer-among-dead-in-las-vegas-massacre/\">his brother, Al Etcheber, told KQED\u003c/a>. When there was a lull in the gunfire, Etcheber told his wife to run, and then there was a “second barrage,” said his brother. Stacee Etcheber was a 50-year-old hairdresser from Novato, and the couple has two children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Brian Fraser, 39, La Palma: \u003c/strong>Fraser was vice president of sales for Greenpath, a mortgage company in Southern California, according to \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/GreenpathFunding/photos/a.658608760827869.1073741829.568313026524110/1654565971232138/?type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement from the company\u003c/a>. His sister-in-laws, Briana Flanigan and Brittany Gonzalez, wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/j8f37g-brians-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> created for his family that he was \"a bigger than life man.\" He attended the concert with his wife and friends, and was attempting to shield his wife, Stephanie, when he was shot, his son, Nick Arellano, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b358d6b81d3a4e279b2a9080fc51cc5f/Some-Las-Vegas-victims-died-with-family,-friends-at-side\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a>. He adopted Nick and another of Stephanie's kids when they were married, and the couple had two more children. \"He taught me what it meant to be an honest, motivated, driven, loving man to not only family and friends, but even to just strangers, or anyone he came in contact with — just to be a human being to everyone on this planet,” Arellano told the AP.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Keri Lyn Galvan, 31, Thousand Oaks: \u003c/strong>Galvan was at the festival with her husband and friends. She worked as a waitress at Mastro's Steakhouse in Thousand Oaks and leaves behind three kids, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\">according to the L.A. Times\u003c/a>. Her sister, Lindsey Poole, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/kerilynngalvan\">wrote on a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> that Galvan was a \"devoted wife and mother\" to her three kids. \"Her days started and ended with doing everything in her power to be a wonderful mother,\" wrote Poole.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dana Gardner, 52, Grand Terrace: \u003c/strong> Gardner was a deputy recorder-county clerk in the San Bernardino County Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk’s Office, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to county spokesman David Wert\u003c/a>. Gardner had worked for the county since 1991, and lived in Grand Terrace, he said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Angie Gomez, Riverside:\u003c/strong> Gomez's death was announced in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RiversidePolyPTSA/photos/a.415559915219462.1073741828.397006753741445/1356357477806363/?type=3&theater\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> by her former high school's PTSA. Gomez graduated from Riverside Polytechnic High School in 2015 and was a cheerleader for the school, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/angela-gomez-memorial-fund\">a GoFundMe page \u003c/a>set up to help her family with funeral costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rocio Guillen, Eastvale, Riverside County: \u003c/strong>Guillen grew up in Anaheim and was a \"young, beautiful, happy, hard-working mother\" who just gave birth to her fourth child, Austin, a month ago, her cousin Vanessa Pineda wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/rocio-guillen-rocha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> she set up. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/555018665/las-vegas-mass-shooting-latest-who-are-the-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to NPR\u003c/a>, Guillen was still on maternity leave from California Pizza Kitchen. Her three other children are 18 months, 13, and 17.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Chris Hazencomb, 44, Camarillo\u003c/strong>: Hazencomb attended the concert with his friend, Nikki Torres, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">according to KPCC\u003c/a>. \"He was the kindest person I knew,\" she said. Hazencomb had worked as a self-checkout host at the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Camarillo since 2013, according to a company spokesperson. He graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in 1991, according to the principal and an alumni account, which \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TOHSAlumni/status/915383231930703874\">tweeted out remembrances of Hazencomb\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2017/10/03/camarillo-man-who-shielded-friend-bullets-among-victims-las-vegas-shooting/728167001/\">According to the Ventura County Star,\u003c/a> he died while attempting to shield Torres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Irvine, San Diego:\u003c/strong> Irvine was a lawyer specializing in family law, with an independent practice in San Diego. Jay Jones, her publicist, confirmed to KQED that she was killed in the shooting. He described Irvine as kind and respectful and said, \"I was happy we had crossed paths.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Nicol Kimura, 38, Placentia:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">According to the Associated Press\u003c/a>, the Southern California native attended the concert with a group of friends who called themselves a \"framily.\" Another member of that group, Ryan Miller, said of Kimura that although she didn't have kids, \"she was a mom to all of our kids; they called her 'auntie.' \" She worked in a tax office in Orange County and \"her heart was bigger than most human beings, her spirit was beautiful, her laugh was infectious,\" Miller wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/nicol-kimura-memorial-fund\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Victor Link, 55, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Aliso Viejo:\u003c/strong> Link attended the festival with his fiancee and had an adopted son. \"I love you so much Dad. Thank you so much for adopting me,\" his son Christian \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/christian.link.96/posts/1493952644022592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Facebook,\u003c/a> \"I'm going to do all the things that we talked about but this time I'm actually going to do it.\" Link worked in the mortgage business.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Kelsey Meadows, 28, Taft: \u003c/strong>A 2007 graduate of Taft Union High School, Meadows got her degree from Cal State Fresno before coming back to her hometown to work as a substitute teacher in the district, where her mother also worked as an IT manager. “Kelsey was smart, compassionate and kind. She had a sweet spirit and a love for children”, said Taft Union High School principal Mary Alice Finn in \u003ca href=\"https://www.taft.k12.ca.us\">a statement\u003c/a>. The district also said they will start a Kelsey Meadows Memorial Scholarship Fund.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Pati Mestas, 67, Menifee: \u003c/strong>Mestas was a country music fan, who once snuck up to the front row of a Brooks & Dunn concert, friend Isa Bahu told \u003ca href=\"http://www.pe.com/2017/10/03/pati-mestas-friend-and-country-music-fan-from-menifee-killed-in-las-vegas-shooting/\">The Press Enterprise\u003c/a>. She had three children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. \"She was a firecracker, a joy to behold and be in the presence of -- lighting up everything around her,\" longtime family friend Alexis Magaña \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">told KPCC\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rachael Parker, 33, Manhattan Beach:\u003c/strong> Parker died in the hospital after being shot at the music festival, according to \u003ca href=\"http://tbrnews.com/news/two-manhattan-beach-employees-killed-in-las-vegas-mass-shooting/article_5e5a7de4-a79f-11e7-81ea-f75c139533d6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement\u003c/a> from the Manhattan Beach Police Department. She worked as a police records technician for the department. Three other Manhattan Beach Police Department employees were at the concert, and one of them sustained minor injuries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Parks, Palmdale: \u003c/strong> Parks was a kindergarten teacher at Anaverde Hills School, where she had taught for three years. \"She was always enthusiastic, energetic, committed, and dedicated to her students, her colleagues and was so proud to be a teacher,\" the Westside Union district said in a statement to KQED. \"The students who were instructed by her knew what it was to love learning as Jennifer gave them the sense of wonder, curiosity, and excitement about all they did.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Lisa Patterson, 48, Lomita: \u003c/strong>Patterson was the mother of three children and married to Bob Patterson. The couple met when she was 18 and he was 25, he told \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPCC\u003c/a>. \"We clicked from the very beginning,\" adding that they lived separately and dated for seven years while she attended Cal State Long Beach. Their Catholic faith was important to them, he said, noting that they sent their three children, now ages 19, 16 and 8, to Catholic schools. The couple opened a hardware flooring company together, a venture that Patterson described as a partnership. \"Even though it's Robert Patterson Hardwood floors, I was more of an employee,\" Patterson said. \"She ran the company. I just knew how to do floors really well.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>John Phippen, 56, Santa Clarita: \u003c/strong> Phippen owned JP Specialties, a home remodeling company in Santa Clarita, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPCC\u003c/a>. He was attending the concert in Las Vegas with his son, Travis, a medic for movie studios, who was shot in the elbow, according to family friend Leah Nagyivanyi. \"He just was one of those people that whether he knew you or he didn’t know you, you needed help, he was there. No questions asked,\" she said. Phippen, an avid music fan, had been excited to attend the concert and have a guys’ weekend away, said Nagyivanyi. \"He loved his country music,\" she said. \"He loved to get out there and dance, and he was just a great guy.\" This is the second time tragedy has struck Phippen's family in recent years, added Nagyivanyi, who said Phippen's wife died in 2013. Nagyivanyi has set up \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/for-the-children-of-john-phippen\">a GoFundMe for Phippen's children.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jordyn Rivera, 21, La Verne:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Associated Press\u003c/a>, Rivera was in her fourth year at California State University, San Bernardino. The university released a statement confirming her death. \"It is with the utmost sadness I must report that a member of our campus community is among the victims,\" said university president Tomás Morales. Rivera was warm, optimistic and kind, he said. Katie Ortega, who has known her for years, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooting-victims/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a> they played softball together as kids. Rivera \"was and always will be a role model to many,\" said Ortega. \"She would always make it a point to make every single individual feel special, always laughing at my stupid jokes.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Chris Roybal, 28, Denver: \u003c/strong> Corona native and Navy veteran Chris Roybal had survived his deployment in Afghanistan, only to die in the Las Vegas shooting. On July 18, he had written \u003ca href=\"http://taskandpurpose.com/navy-veteran-chris-roybal-las-vegas/\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> about what it's like to be shot at. Roybal's mother, Debby Allen, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told KPCC\u003c/a> he was \"a proud American.\" She said \"he sang in Spanish all the time. He sang so beautifully.\" At the time of his death Roybal lived in Denver, where he managed a Crunch Fitness. His grandfather, Stalin Mendoza of Downey, said Roybal was the light of his life. \"He was my baby. He was everything to me,\" said Mendoza, who said he gave Roybal the nickname \"buddy boy ... He was my buddy boy.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bailey Schweitzer, 20, Bakersfield:\u003c/strong> Schweitzer graduated from Centennial High School in Bakersfield in 2015, where she was a cheerleader. The school's official Twitter account \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CentennialHawks/status/915229593157517312\">posted a memorial\u003c/a> and Schweitzer's former cheerleading adviser, Stacy Minnie, told KQED, “Bailey was a wonderful, kind person who was liked by all -- students and staff. The Golden Hawk community is grieving.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Laura Shipp, 50, Thousands Oaks:\u003c/strong> Shipp had moved to Vegas from Southern California in the last few years to be closer to her son, Corey, a Marine Corps reservist whom she had raised as a single mom, according to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b358d6b81d3a4e279b2a9080fc51cc5f/Some-Las-Vegas-victims-died-with-family,-friends-at-side\">the Associated Press\u003c/a>. The two attended the concert together. Her former brother-in-law, Tom Baker, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/04/76245/southern-california-victims-of-las-vegas-shooting/\">told KPCC\u003c/a> she was a wonderful mom. \"The first thing you would notice was that she had a big huge smile on her face, almost all the time,\" he said. \"She was a very bubbly person. She was the kind of person who would go out of her way to make somebody else happy.\" Ship graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in 1985.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Susan Smith, 53, Simi Valley: \u003c/strong>Smith was fatally wounded while attending the music festival, according to Simi Valley Unified School District spokeswoman Jake Finch. Smith was the office manager at one of the district's schools, Vista Fundamental Elementary. She had worked for the school district for the past 16 years. Finch said Smith excelled at her job and had a great sense of humor. Smith was married and the mother of two adult children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Derrick \"Bo\" Taylor, 56, Oxnard\u003c/strong>: Taylor worked at the Ventura Conservation Camp and he was a veteran with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. His career as a California corrections officer had been 29 years. “There are no words to express the feeling of loss and sadness regarding Bo’s passing,\" said Warden Joel Martinez in \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidecdcr.ca.gov/2017/10/las-vegas-shooting-claims-life-of-cdcr-lt-bo-taylor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a department newsletter. \u003c/a>\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. We truly are a family here at SCC and Bo’s loss will be felt throughout the prison, conservation camps, and Department.\" According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shootings-victims-list-20171002-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the L.A. Times\u003c/a>, he attended the concert with his girlfriend, Denise Cohen, who also died. He has two sons.\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Kurt von Tillow, 55, Cameron Park: \u003c/strong>A 1980 El Molino High School graduate and the owner of Von Tillow Trucking outside Sacramento, von Tillow attended the concert with his wife, daughter, sister and niece, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooting-victims/index.html\">according to CNN\u003c/a>. His sister, Dee Ann Hyatt, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7489174-181/sister-my-brother-kurt-von?gallery=7492076&artslide=0\">the Press Democrat\u003c/a> she credits him with having saved their lives. Friends remember a man who loved golf, beer, his family and had \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/steve.marchi.9/posts/10212662993561953\">a \"famous belly laugh.\"\u003c/a> \"From now on every time I see a Bud Light how can I not think of Kurt,\" wrote Mark Baca on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mark.baca.984/posts/1536935296345674\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Michelle Vo, 32, Los Angeles: \u003c/strong>Vo had been living in Los Angeles for the last three years, but had roots in San Jose and attended Independence High School. She worked as an insurance agent at New York Life Insurance of Pasadena, according to family. Her sister, Diane Hawkins, told KQED she had an infectious smile, loved talking to people, and made friends wherever she went. She was vivacious, charismatic, and ambitious, she said. \"You know, she’s the type of person that just goes. And that’s what she did,\" says Hawkins. \"She just backpacked through Europe and got to know people and I said, “You k\u003cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\">now, Michelle, are you scared going to Europe by yourself?” And she’s like, “No! You know, what? I’m not alone. I can make friends.' ”\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/IiTCbGnyfTI\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Injuries:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Michael Gracia and his fiance, Ontario: \u003c/strong>Gracia, an Ontario police officer, is in critical condition, according to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OntarioPD/status/914934334745829377\">a statement\u003c/a> from the Ontario Police Department. He has been an officer for four years. Gracia's fiance, who has not been named, was also injured in the attack.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Brian and Lara Mack, Santa Barbara: \u003c/strong>Brian and Lara Mack were both injured in the attack and hospitalized, according to a Facebook post by Brian Mack’s sister. Brian Mack was hit in the stomach and underwent surgery, and Lara Mack received a grazing wound to the head. Lara Mack posted a photo of the couple on Facebook at the music festival just over an hour before the first reports of the shooting. The photo was quickly flooded with comments from friends and family. Brian Mack is an anesthesiologist and Lara Mack is a personal trainer. They have three children, according to media reports.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Aaron Mundhenke, Bakersfield:\u003c/strong> Aaron Mundhenke, a\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Bakersfield police officer, was attending the event and was shot in his hip, Bakersfield police spokesman Sgt. Ryan Kroeker told KQED. Mundhenke had surgery on his broken pelvis Monday morning and is recovering in a Las Vegas hospital. He is expected to survive. Several other off-duty Bakersfield police officers were also attending the music festival.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Los Angeles Fire Department members: \u003c/strong>Two off-duty members of the Los Angeles Fire Department were struck by the gunfire, but their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, according to\u003ca href=\"http://www.lafd.org/alert/media-advisory-10022017\"> a statement from the fire chief\u003c/a>. At least seven LAFD members were reportedly at the music festival when the gunman opened fire.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>One Los Angeles police officer: \u003c/strong>The off-duty officer, who has remained unnamed, was shot in the leg and is expected to recover, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/914857136189927425\">according to a statement\u003c/a> by the Los Angeles Police Department. Several other LAPD officers were attending the music festival, but it’s unknown if any of them were injured in the attack.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employees: \u003c/strong>Two off-duty employees were shot, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nixle.us/9M5KF\">a statement\u003c/a> from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Office. One was critically injured and the other is stable.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Newport Beach city employees: \u003c/strong>Two people who worked for the city of Newport Beach, including an off-duty police officer, sustained non-life threatening injuries, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbpd.org/civica/press/display.asp?layout=12&Entry=639\">press release \u003c/a>from the police department.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>One Orange County sheriff’s deputy and two family members: \u003c/strong>One off-duty Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy and two family members of other sheriff's department employees were injured in the attack, according to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OCSD/status/914880080073109505\"> a press release from the department.\u003c/a> Their injures are non-life-threatening.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Two Riverside County Sheriff's Office employees: \u003c/strong>One Riverside deputy sheriff is in critical condition, and one correctional deputy was injured but has been released, according to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RSO/status/914930010342830080\">a tweet\u003c/a> from the Riverside Sheriff's Office.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated as more information becomes available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jeremy Siegel, Tara Siler, Bert Johnson, Sarah Craig and KPCC staff reporters contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Christopher Wetzel, a 38-year-old firefighter with Cal Fire's Riverside unit, was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Sunday night with his wife and eight friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The country music concert became the scene of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history when Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd from a nearby high-rise hotel. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/05/over-half-las-vegas-massacre-victims-from-california-socal-coroner-team-assisting/\">More than half of those killed\u003c/a> were from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel, a resident of Beaumont (Riverside County), was celebrating his recent birthday and had a room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino — the same hotel from which the shooter fired on concertgoers. It was the third time he and his wife, Amber, had been to the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in his group, who were bigger fans of singer Jason Aldean, wanted to be up front, closer to the musicians. Wetzel and a few other friends were in a beer garden, about 50 yards back from the main stage, when the first burst of gunfire erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many others there that night, it was only when the second round of bullets rained down that he realized what was going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I looked over and saw a woman laying on the ground, and I knew she was deceased right away,\" he said in an interview Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel grabbed his wife and told her to duck down, and together they hid under a table. The gunfire stopped momentarily again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw a man lying on the ground with what looked like a gunshot wound to the stomach,\" Wetzel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and a few other people started tending to the injured man, but then the gunfire erupted again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"We laid on top of him\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his wife hid behind a wheelbarrow, Wetzel lay on top of the injured man to protect him from getting hit again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At that time it really kind of got scary. I started hearing the bullets whiz by me and I could see the crackling of the asphalt all around us,\" Wetzel said. \"I think that was probably the one moment during the whole ordeal that I was kind of accepting that I was going to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bullets stopped. As other people helped the injured man, Wetzel and his wife ran. But seconds later, there was another round of gunfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple saw a man, dazed and pale, stumbling around with blood pouring from his leg -- he had been shot in the backside. As Wetzel went to help him, he got separated from his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was pretty much in 'one of the parents are gonna come home to our kids' mode,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel and others put pressure on the man's bullet wound, while a nurse gave him an IV. Then they took the injured man to a triage area, where an ambulance rushed him away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before the ambulance drove off, the injured man asked Wetzel for his name, promising to find him later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Wetzel turned around and went back into the concert area to help others. Eventually, the gunfire stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We helped who we could,\" he said. \"There was quite a few that we couldn't help that were already gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the shooting, Wetzel has scanned memorial photos of the people who died in the massacre. He remembers the faces of the people he helped. So far, their images haven't appeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Friend is Killed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of his own friends at the concert that night did not make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Ahlers was near the stage when the shooting began, with her husband and a few friends. Wetzel was later told that she was shot in the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11621338 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-375x375.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-520x520.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Ahlers (second from the left, front row) was killed in the Las Vegas shooting. She was photographed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with her friends, including Christopher Wetzel (center, back row). \u003ccite>(Courtesy Christopher Wetzel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 35-year-old Ahlers, also of Beaumont, left behind three children, ages three, 11 and 14. Relatives have described her as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/555018665/las-vegas-mass-shooting-latest-who-are-the-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"loving, caring and devoted mother.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel is now part of a community in mourning, focused on helping Ahlers' family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night he attended a fundraising event for her husband and kids with other community members. Proceeds from a car wash this Saturday will go to Hannah's family – that event will be held at \u003ca href=\"https://www.setfreerocks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Set Free Church\u003c/a>, 13700 Calimesa Boulevard, Yucaipa, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. And another member of Ahlers' family set up an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/hannah-ahlers-las-vegas-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online fundraiser\u003c/a> to help her loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Community in Mourning\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days since the shooting, Wetzel and his wife have gotten little sleep -- concerned friends have been calling his phone nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel and his friends were among a number of off-duty firefighters, law enforcement officers and other public safety officials from California who went to Sunday's concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a total of six Cal Fire employees at the concert that night, according to agency spokeswoman Janet Upton. One of them was injured -- and like many \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoFire/status/914985280813142016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other off-duty firefighters\u003c/a>, police and sheriff's department employees in attendance, they jumped into action to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some members of the public safety community didn't make it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-las-vegas-shooting-live-updates-manhatten-beach-police-employee-among-1506975409-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachael Parker\u003c/a>, a 10-year-veteran of the Manhattan Beach Police Department, where she worked as a records technician, was killed in the hail of bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/las-vegas-shooting-victim-derrick-bo-taylor-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derrick \"Bo\" Taylor\u003c/a>, a state correctional lieutenant who supervised inmate firefighters, is among the dead as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There wasn't a public safety conference in Las Vegas last weekend, so why were so many firefighters and law enforcement workers at the concert?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cops like country music,\" said Mike Durant, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents thousands of law enforcement officers in California and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It looks like firefighters do as well. Wetzel said that many of his friends and colleagues like country music because it can take them away from some real-life problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of times we'll be at a fire station and there's country music playing on the radio,\" Wetzel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Country music is one of those feel-good, have-fun type of things, and those festivals are just awesome. It's really good to take a break from the work life and do stuff like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I looked over and saw a woman laying on the ground, and I knew she was deceased right away,\" he said in an interview Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel grabbed his wife and told her to duck down, and together they hid under a table. The gunfire stopped momentarily again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw a man lying on the ground with what looked like a gunshot wound to the stomach,\" Wetzel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and a few other people started tending to the injured man, but then the gunfire erupted again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"We laid on top of him\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his wife hid behind a wheelbarrow, Wetzel lay on top of the injured man to protect him from getting hit again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At that time it really kind of got scary. I started hearing the bullets whiz by me and I could see the crackling of the asphalt all around us,\" Wetzel said. \"I think that was probably the one moment during the whole ordeal that I was kind of accepting that I was going to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bullets stopped. As other people helped the injured man, Wetzel and his wife ran. But seconds later, there was another round of gunfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple saw a man, dazed and pale, stumbling around with blood pouring from his leg -- he had been shot in the backside. As Wetzel went to help him, he got separated from his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was pretty much in 'one of the parents are gonna come home to our kids' mode,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel and others put pressure on the man's bullet wound, while a nurse gave him an IV. Then they took the injured man to a triage area, where an ambulance rushed him away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before the ambulance drove off, the injured man asked Wetzel for his name, promising to find him later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Wetzel turned around and went back into the concert area to help others. Eventually, the gunfire stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We helped who we could,\" he said. \"There was quite a few that we couldn't help that were already gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the shooting, Wetzel has scanned memorial photos of the people who died in the massacre. He remembers the faces of the people he helped. So far, their images haven't appeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Friend is Killed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of his own friends at the concert that night did not make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Ahlers was near the stage when the shooting began, with her husband and a few friends. Wetzel was later told that she was shot in the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11621338 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-375x375.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-520x520.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Ahlers (second from the left, front row) was killed in the Las Vegas shooting. She was photographed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with her friends, including Christopher Wetzel (center, back row). \u003ccite>(Courtesy Christopher Wetzel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 35-year-old Ahlers, also of Beaumont, left behind three children, ages three, 11 and 14. Relatives have described her as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/555018665/las-vegas-mass-shooting-latest-who-are-the-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"loving, caring and devoted mother.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel is now part of a community in mourning, focused on helping Ahlers' family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night he attended a fundraising event for her husband and kids with other community members. Proceeds from a car wash this Saturday will go to Hannah's family – that event will be held at \u003ca href=\"https://www.setfreerocks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Set Free Church\u003c/a>, 13700 Calimesa Boulevard, Yucaipa, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. And another member of Ahlers' family set up an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/hannah-ahlers-las-vegas-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online fundraiser\u003c/a> to help her loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Community in Mourning\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days since the shooting, Wetzel and his wife have gotten little sleep -- concerned friends have been calling his phone nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wetzel and his friends were among a number of off-duty firefighters, law enforcement officers and other public safety officials from California who went to Sunday's concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a total of six Cal Fire employees at the concert that night, according to agency spokeswoman Janet Upton. One of them was injured -- and like many \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoFire/status/914985280813142016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other off-duty firefighters\u003c/a>, police and sheriff's department employees in attendance, they jumped into action to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some members of the public safety community didn't make it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-las-vegas-shooting-live-updates-manhatten-beach-police-employee-among-1506975409-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachael Parker\u003c/a>, a 10-year-veteran of the Manhattan Beach Police Department, where she worked as a records technician, was killed in the hail of bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/las-vegas-shooting-victim-derrick-bo-taylor-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derrick \"Bo\" Taylor\u003c/a>, a state correctional lieutenant who supervised inmate firefighters, is among the dead as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There wasn't a public safety conference in Las Vegas last weekend, so why were so many firefighters and law enforcement workers at the concert?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cops like country music,\" said Mike Durant, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents thousands of law enforcement officers in California and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It looks like firefighters do as well. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration is rolling back the Obama-era requirement that employer-provided health insurance policies cover birth control methods at no cost to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to senior officials with the Department of Health and Human Services, the goal of the new rule is to allow any company or nonprofit group to exclude the coverage for contraception if it has a religious or moral objection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This provides an exemption and it's a limited one,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/roger-severino/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Severino\u003c/a>, director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights. \"We should have space for organizations to live out their religious identity and not face discrimination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he expects most companies will continue to provide coverage for birth control and that the changes will affect only a tiny percentage of U.S. women. 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The nuns had sued the Obama administration over the birth control requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Affordable Care Act requires employer-provided health insurance policies to include coverage for preventive health care. After the law passed, HHS used its regulatory authority to specify what \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrsa.gov/womens-guidelines/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has to be included\u003c/a> in those preventive services. Birth control included \"all Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the policy was controversial from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several companies and religious groups sued, saying the rule infringed on their religious freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration created an exemption for churches, and allowed other \"religious employers\" to opt out by notifying the government. When they did so, the administration would arrange with their insurance companies to provide the coverage directly, without the employers' involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Little Sisters of the Poor weren't happy with that workaround and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/23/471599946/supreme-court-takes-up-birth-control-access-yet-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group's case, and a second one involving private businesses, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hobbylobby.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hobby Lobby\u003c/a> chain of craft stores, went to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/06/30/326926331/companies-can-refuse-to-cover-contraception-supreme-court-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled in favor\u003c/a> of Hobby Lobby in 2014, saying privately held companies could object on religious grounds. And then, last year, the court issued a split ruling in the Little Sisters case, saying the government shouldn't fine the nuns, but also ordering the two sides to work out an arrangement that accommodates their religious beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before a deal was reached, Donald Trump became president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Rose Garden ceremony in May, he told the Little Sisters of the Poor that he planned to change the rules. \"Your long ordeal will soon be over,\" he promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rule, women who work for Hobby Lobby or the religious group may no longer have access to birth control coverage through the Obama-era workaround. A Hobby Lobby spokesman said the company would have no comment on Friday, and the Little Sisters of the Poor didn't respond to NPR's emails seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hobby Lobby founder and CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.hobbylobby.com/about-us/our-story\">David Green\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/01/11/169136510/businesses-sue-government-over-birth-control-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told reporters\u003c/a> in 2013, \"Our family is now being forced to choose between following the laws of the land that we love or maintaining the religious beliefs that have made our business successful and have supported our family and thousands of our employees and their families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS officials said they don't expect many companies to seek waivers. They said the group seeking waivers will likely be limited to those approximately 200 companies and nonprofits that have already sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Palanker says the impact could be a lot bigger. There are a lot of large private companies, she says, whose owners may hold strong religious beliefs but did not want the publicity and expense of suing the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hobby Lobby has 32,000 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of women will retain birth control coverage,\" Palanker says, \"but there will be a lot of women who will lose that coverage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they'll find themselves paying out of pocket. A one-month supply of birth control pills can cost anywhere from \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodrx.com/marlissa?drug-name=marlissa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$4\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodrx.com/ortho-tri-cyclen-lo?drug-name=ortho-tri-cyclen-lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$55\u003c/a> or more, according to GoodRX.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer-acting contraception, like an IUD, \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2017/01/what-stake-federal-contraceptive-coverage-guarantee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can cost more\u003c/a> than $1,000, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalpartnership.org/about-us/staff/sarah-lipton-lubet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Lipton-Lubet\u003c/a>, a vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. She says the new rule is a tool for discrimination against women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Women shouldn't be denied access to basic health care based on their employers' religious beliefs,\" she says. \"We all have the right to our religious beliefs. But the way that this rule treats religion is really an excuse to discriminate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HHS officials say they also plan more stringent enforcement of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that prohibits federal subsidies from being used for insurance policies that cover abortion. The agency will issue guidelines for insurers today on how they have to charge women who want abortion coverage at least $12 a year more for such a policy, and they have to keep that money in a separate fund to be used only to pay for abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration's rule is likely to face its own legal challenges from groups that favor contraception.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Trump+Guts+Requirement+That+Employer+Health+Plans+Pay+For+Birth+Control&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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When they did so, the administration would arrange with their insurance companies to provide the coverage directly, without the employers' involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Little Sisters of the Poor weren't happy with that workaround and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/23/471599946/supreme-court-takes-up-birth-control-access-yet-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group's case, and a second one involving private businesses, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hobbylobby.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hobby Lobby\u003c/a> chain of craft stores, went to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/06/30/326926331/companies-can-refuse-to-cover-contraception-supreme-court-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled in favor\u003c/a> of Hobby Lobby in 2014, saying privately held companies could object on religious grounds. 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A one-month supply of birth control pills can cost anywhere from \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodrx.com/marlissa?drug-name=marlissa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$4\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodrx.com/ortho-tri-cyclen-lo?drug-name=ortho-tri-cyclen-lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$55\u003c/a> or more, according to GoodRX.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longer-acting contraception, like an IUD, \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2017/01/what-stake-federal-contraceptive-coverage-guarantee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can cost more\u003c/a> than $1,000, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalpartnership.org/about-us/staff/sarah-lipton-lubet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Lipton-Lubet\u003c/a>, a vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. 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That’s a whopping 21-point increase since it began tracking those questions 23 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partisanship has risen markedly since 2004, the year President George W. Bush was re-elected, and has hit a new high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades before, there was about a 15-point gap between Republicans and Democrats on these issues, but it wasn’t that much more pronounced than differences in race or religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, how you identify politically is — by far — the starkest divider of how Americans see certain issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widest two gaps were in views about race and government aid to the poor. Overall, 41 percent of Americans said that racial discrimination is the reason black people struggle to get ahead, which is the highest mark in the survey’s history; 49 percent, however, still said that African-Americans who couldn’t advance were responsible for their own situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png 781w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-240x192.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-375x300.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-520x415.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But broken down along party lines, there’s a huge 50-point gap between the way Republicans and Democrats see the issue — almost two-thirds (64 percent) of Democrats think some African-Americans struggle to get ahead because of discrimination, while just 14 percent of Republicans think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1994, 39 percent of Democrats thought the same thing — a 25-point uptick — while just a quarter (24 percent) of Republicans thought so, a 12-point \u003cem>drop \u003c/em>in the two decades since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a 47-point gap between Democrats who believe that government should do more to help the needy (71 percent) and Republicans who agree with that statement (just 24 percent). Democrats’ belief that the government needs to do more to help is up from 58 percent in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A minority of Republicans have held that belief, and even fewer do today than a decade ago. The percentage saying so has fallen 21 points since 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, there’s also a wide chasm between the parties — 84 percent of Democrats say immigrants have strengthened the country with their “hard work and talents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a 52-point increase since 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the percentage of Republicans saying immigrants help the country is half that (42 percent). A plurality of Republicans (44 percent) believe immigrants are a burden, but that 42 percent is actually higher than in 1994 for Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence of a generational shift among Republicans on social issues, with more support among younger Republicans for immigration and same-sex marriage, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, 62 percent of Republicans under 30 said immigrants strengthen the country (20 points higher than the GOP overall). Just 31 percent of Republicans 65 and older believed the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Majorities in both parties also now said that being gay should be accepted by society. But the margin is far wider among Democrats than Republicans — more than 4 in 5 (83 percent) Democrats said so, while just more than half (54 percent) of Republicans agreed. Because Democratic support has exploded, the gap between the two parties has actually gotten wider despite broader acceptance by people in both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On other issues, like environmental regulations (and whether they have hurt the economy) and use of the military versus noninterventionism, the parties have also moved in very different directions over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is the case with all the issues Pew tested, Doherty explained that with each party being pulled further into its corner, it has been harder for legislators in Washington to reach any type of middle-ground consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These gaps on these fundamental values are underlying some of the divisions you see between Democrats and Republicans in Congress when they debate specific issues,” Doherty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-520x399.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, for as much as people seem to lament inertia in Washington, part of it is because of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrats and Republicans have worse views of each other than ever before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pew study underscored a deep distaste for the “other side,” too — along with evidence of just how polarized society as a whole has become geographically and socially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among both Republicans and Democrats, the share of very unfavorable opinions of the other party has more than doubled in the past 23 years. In 1994, just 16 percent of Democrats said they held very unfavorable opinions of the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades later, that number has practically tripled — to 44 percent. The numbers are almost identical in how Republicans view Democrats, too — 17 percent in 1994 and now 45 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Partisans have long held unfavorable views of the other party, but negative opinions are now more widely held and intensely felt than in the past,” the study notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, both parties say they overwhelmingly associate with people who share their same political beliefs — 67 percent of Democrats say a lot of their close friends are also Democrats; 57 percent of Republicans say the same thing. Only 14 percent of Republicans say they have a lot of friends in the opposing party, while just 9 percent of Democrats do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Differences in where and how we live, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of Republicans in the survey also said they prefer communities where they can have more space, land and a bigger house, while 61 percent of Democrats want a community with smaller houses and walkable amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tracks with recent trends of Republicans dominating in rural areas and Democrats struggling to make inroads there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The partisan split in America is the highest it has been in two decades, with Republicans and Democrats holding vastly disparate views on race, immigration and the role of government, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/the-partisan-divide-on-political-values-grows-even-wider\">new study\u003c/a> from the Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pew has been measuring attitudes on policy issues and political values going back to 1994, and its latest check-in finds — perhaps unsurprisingly — that Americans are more divided than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that Republicans and Democrats differ on these fundamental issues is probably not a surprise, but the magnitude of the difference is striking, and particularly how the differences have grown in recent years and where they’ve grown,” Carroll Doherty, Pew’s director of political research and one of the authors of the study, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-160x227.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-240x340.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-375x531.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pew asked more than 5,000 respondents this summer about 10 specific political issues — including government regulation and aid, same-sex marriage and environmental regulations — and found that, on average, there was a 36-point gap between Republicans and Democrats. That’s a whopping 21-point increase since it began tracking those questions 23 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partisanship has risen markedly since 2004, the year President George W. Bush was re-elected, and has hit a new high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades before, there was about a 15-point gap between Republicans and Democrats on these issues, but it wasn’t that much more pronounced than differences in race or religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, how you identify politically is — by far — the starkest divider of how Americans see certain issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widest two gaps were in views about race and government aid to the poor. Overall, 41 percent of Americans said that racial discrimination is the reason black people struggle to get ahead, which is the highest mark in the survey’s history; 49 percent, however, still said that African-Americans who couldn’t advance were responsible for their own situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png 781w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-240x192.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-375x300.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-520x415.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But broken down along party lines, there’s a huge 50-point gap between the way Republicans and Democrats see the issue — almost two-thirds (64 percent) of Democrats think some African-Americans struggle to get ahead because of discrimination, while just 14 percent of Republicans think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1994, 39 percent of Democrats thought the same thing — a 25-point uptick — while just a quarter (24 percent) of Republicans thought so, a 12-point \u003cem>drop \u003c/em>in the two decades since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a 47-point gap between Democrats who believe that government should do more to help the needy (71 percent) and Republicans who agree with that statement (just 24 percent). Democrats’ belief that the government needs to do more to help is up from 58 percent in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A minority of Republicans have held that belief, and even fewer do today than a decade ago. The percentage saying so has fallen 21 points since 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, there’s also a wide chasm between the parties — 84 percent of Democrats say immigrants have strengthened the country with their “hard work and talents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a 52-point increase since 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the percentage of Republicans saying immigrants help the country is half that (42 percent). A plurality of Republicans (44 percent) believe immigrants are a burden, but that 42 percent is actually higher than in 1994 for Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence of a generational shift among Republicans on social issues, with more support among younger Republicans for immigration and same-sex marriage, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, 62 percent of Republicans under 30 said immigrants strengthen the country (20 points higher than the GOP overall). Just 31 percent of Republicans 65 and older believed the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Majorities in both parties also now said that being gay should be accepted by society. But the margin is far wider among Democrats than Republicans — more than 4 in 5 (83 percent) Democrats said so, while just more than half (54 percent) of Republicans agreed. Because Democratic support has exploded, the gap between the two parties has actually gotten wider despite broader acceptance by people in both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On other issues, like environmental regulations (and whether they have hurt the economy) and use of the military versus noninterventionism, the parties have also moved in very different directions over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is the case with all the issues Pew tested, Doherty explained that with each party being pulled further into its corner, it has been harder for legislators in Washington to reach any type of middle-ground consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These gaps on these fundamental values are underlying some of the divisions you see between Democrats and Republicans in Congress when they debate specific issues,” Doherty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-520x399.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, for as much as people seem to lament inertia in Washington, part of it is because of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrats and Republicans have worse views of each other than ever before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pew study underscored a deep distaste for the “other side,” too — along with evidence of just how polarized society as a whole has become geographically and socially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among both Republicans and Democrats, the share of very unfavorable opinions of the other party has more than doubled in the past 23 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco District Attorney's Office said Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed against police officers in three shootings, two of them fatal, including one dating back to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three \u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/officer-involved-shooting-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completed investigations\u003c/a> from the DA include the fatal shooting of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/16/suspect-in-s-f-police-shooting-dies-officer-critically-wounded/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas McWherter,\u003c/a> who shot a San Francisco police officer before being gunned down by police near Stern Grove on Oct. 14, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McWherter, a 26-year-old Pacifica resident, first fired at officers near a Big 5 Sporting Goods store on Sloat Boulevard after they responded to a report of a mentally disturbed person. He hit Officer Kevin Downs in the head and caused serious injury, according to police.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"WX0rMn1IyCKonWq3vwuVRQ2ktYO7zt8y\"]\u003cbr>\nMcWherter was shot later in the evening by Officers Nathan Chew and Paul Dominguez near Stern Grove after he allegedly fired at them, and died two days later at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballistics analysis showed McWherter used the same gun in both shooting incidents, and an investigation found he had a history of increasing mental health issues, Thursday's official report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 15, 2016, the Pacifica Police Department had issued a written warning to patrol officers about McWherter's potential for violent behavior and mental health issues.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"W2czaTPnTajOjQwJnwjYDG8wtQKrfIUP\"]\u003cbr>\nHis family attempted to intervene, according to the district attorney's report. McWherter's brother turned five of his guns over to police two weeks before the incident. He also reported McWherter missing to SFPD on the morning of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \"was unaware that his brother had purchased the revolver used in this incident on Sept. 16, 2016,\" from a gun store in Pacifica, according to the district attorney's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All available evidence supports the conclusion that Officers Dominguez and Chew acted in self-defense and in defense of others when they fired their weapons at McWherter,\" the report says. \"Under California law, the officers were justified in using deadly force because they faced an imminent danger to themselves and to others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downs, the officer originally shot by McWherter, recently told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20170930/NEWS/170939984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin Independent Journal\u003c/a> that he is \"pretty much back to being 100 percent physically,” has returned to modified duty and hopes to be back to full duty by the end of the year.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"jmh2XrgLluZFDNUDuTS66qvpzsTCNJeo\"]\u003cbr>\nThe oldest of the shooting investigations cleared by the district attorney's office involves the death on Sept. 25, 2014, of Giovany Contreras-Sandoval in the Financial District. Contreras-Sandoval, a Richmond resident, was shot following a pursuit from the East Bay prompted by a report of a carjacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a crash at California and Battery streets, civilian witnesses told officers that Contreras-Sandoval had a gun and had fired at least one shot before police arrived, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers approached the vehicle, Contreras-Sandoval refused to put down his gun and instead raised it toward both a group of officers and civilians in the area, the report said. The officers fired in self-defense, the report concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office also issued a decision today in a non-injury shooting that occurred on May 21 of this year after officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at a home in the 2100 block of Quesada Avenue.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"LG5CVVvJM6nHOsjHeA4H62s0lNHOHQ0x\"]\u003cbr>\nWhen officers encountered three robbery suspects leaving the house, one of the suspects fired at least five rounds at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Dack Thompson fired a single shot at the suspect, but no one was injured in the gunfire, the report notes. The district attorney's office found Thompson acted in self-defense and defense of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three investigations were conducted by the Independent Investigations Bureau of the district attorney's office. The Police Department also investigates police shootings and conducts administrative investigations after the district attorney's office completes its criminal review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decisions issued Thursday will chip away at a backlog of police shooting investigations in the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2016 civil grand jury report, the reports can take an average of 20 months to complete.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"4d8IF1OzJByz108g6kudjsvTX5rw95d0\"]\u003cbr>\nPrior to today, the last decision in an officer-involved shooting investigation came in April of this year, when the district attorney's office found the Feb. 26, 2015, Mission District shooting of 21-year-old Amilcar Perez-Lopez was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legally justified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of other investigations into fatal police shootings remain unresolved, including the controversial shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in 2015 and those of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luis Gongora\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/20/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Williams\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the district attorney's office appears to have 10 pending investigations into fatal police shootings since 2014, with the oldest being that of O'Shaine Evans, who was shot on Oct. 7, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have fatally shot two people this year, Nicholas Flusche, 26, on May 3, and Damian Murray, 46, on Sept. 24. In addition, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/18/police-public-defender-clash-over-body-cam-video-of-officer-involved-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officers shot and injured Sean Moore\u003c/a> on Jan. 6, but Moore survived his injuries and ultimately saw all \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/26/judge-dismisses-most-charges-against-man-shot-by-s-f-police-officers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charges dropped\u003c/a> against him in connection with that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News Service.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \"was unaware that his brother had purchased the revolver used in this incident on Sept. 16, 2016,\" from a gun store in Pacifica, according to the district attorney's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All available evidence supports the conclusion that Officers Dominguez and Chew acted in self-defense and in defense of others when they fired their weapons at McWherter,\" the report says. \"Under California law, the officers were justified in using deadly force because they faced an imminent danger to themselves and to others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downs, the officer originally shot by McWherter, recently told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20170930/NEWS/170939984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin Independent Journal\u003c/a> that he is \"pretty much back to being 100 percent physically,” has returned to modified duty and hopes to be back to full duty by the end of the year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe oldest of the shooting investigations cleared by the district attorney's office involves the death on Sept. 25, 2014, of Giovany Contreras-Sandoval in the Financial District. Contreras-Sandoval, a Richmond resident, was shot following a pursuit from the East Bay prompted by a report of a carjacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a crash at California and Battery streets, civilian witnesses told officers that Contreras-Sandoval had a gun and had fired at least one shot before police arrived, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers approached the vehicle, Contreras-Sandoval refused to put down his gun and instead raised it toward both a group of officers and civilians in the area, the report said. The officers fired in self-defense, the report concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office also issued a decision today in a non-injury shooting that occurred on May 21 of this year after officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at a home in the 2100 block of Quesada Avenue.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWhen officers encountered three robbery suspects leaving the house, one of the suspects fired at least five rounds at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Dack Thompson fired a single shot at the suspect, but no one was injured in the gunfire, the report notes. The district attorney's office found Thompson acted in self-defense and defense of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three investigations were conducted by the Independent Investigations Bureau of the district attorney's office. The Police Department also investigates police shootings and conducts administrative investigations after the district attorney's office completes its criminal review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decisions issued Thursday will chip away at a backlog of police shooting investigations in the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2016 civil grand jury report, the reports can take an average of 20 months to complete.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nPrior to today, the last decision in an officer-involved shooting investigation came in April of this year, when the district attorney's office found the Feb. 26, 2015, Mission District shooting of 21-year-old Amilcar Perez-Lopez was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/da-no-criminal-charges-for-s-f-officers-who-fatally-shot-20-year-old-from-behind/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legally justified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of other investigations into fatal police shootings remain unresolved, including the controversial shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in 2015 and those of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luis Gongora\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/20/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Williams\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the district attorney's office appears to have 10 pending investigations into fatal police shootings since 2014, with the oldest being that of O'Shaine Evans, who was shot on Oct. 7, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have fatally shot two people this year, Nicholas Flusche, 26, on May 3, and Damian Murray, 46, on Sept. 24. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the wake of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas this week, the White House faced questions about whether President Trump would support stricter gun legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t give a definite response to these questions, but her statement showed a White House hesitant to create new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the things we don’t want to do is try to create laws that won’t stop these types of things from happening,” Sanders said Monday. “I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn’t helped there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to Chicago to suggest that gun laws don’t work is not a new talking point — Trump \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2016/nov/03/donald-trump/trump-no-marksman-when-aiming-chicago-gun-laws/\">claimed\u003c/a> Chicago had “the toughest gun laws in the United States” in a 2016 presidential debate; his fellow Republican candidate Chris Christie \u003ca href=\"http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Chris_Christie_Gun_Control.htm\">likewise pointed to Chicago\u003c/a> as a place with high crime despite tight gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”n44byCsO2zR5ykRwe4wwNb8npsPBdV59″]And the rhetoric goes beyond politicians. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/27/gun-controlled-chicago-over-1000-shooting-victims-this-year/\">right-wing\u003c/a> site \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/21/gun-controlled-chicago-least-63-shot-eight-killed-weekend/\">Breitbart\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/05/report-100-shot-gun-controlled-chicago-july-4th-weekend/\">on\u003c/a> many \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/30/gun-controlled-chicago-53-shot-4-killed-memorial-day-weekend/\">occasions\u003c/a> posted \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/16/gun-controlled-chicago-29-people-shot-in-under-18-hours/\">articles\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/05/45-shot-gun-controlled-chicago/\">headlines\u003c/a> containing \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/30/four-year-old-among-29-shot-gun-controlled-chicago/\">the\u003c/a> phrase \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/15/gun-controlled-chicago-15-shot-six-killed-weekend/\">“gun-controlled Chicago.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can sound like a potent talking point — it is a huge city with a notorious crime problem, which Trump already used regularly to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/politics/trump-chicago-100-days-what-happened/index.html\">talk about creating law and order\u003c/a>. It also packs the added rhetorical punch of being closely linked to President Barack Obama, whose actions Trump has worked hard to undo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while gun violence in Chicago is high, the rest of this common talking point doesn’t really hold water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High crime and tough gun laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/07/508722463/gun-deaths-in-chicago-why-is-this-happening\">more than 4,000 shooting victims\u003c/a> in Chicago in 2016. It’s also true that Chicago has suffered a massive amount of gun crime recently. In 2016, homicides in Chicago sharply rose, mostly as a result of gun homicides, as the University of Chicago crime lab \u003ca href=\"https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/attachments/store/2435a5d4658e2ca19f4f225b810ce0dbdb9231cbdb8d702e784087469ee3/UChicagoCrimeLab+Gun+Violence+in+Chicago+2016.pdf\">found in a January report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun homicides in the city rose by 61 percent between 2015 and 2016. That helped make the gun homicide rate in Chicago particularly huge compared with similar cities. The rate was 25.1 per 100,000 residents in 2016, compared with 14.7 in Philadelphia and just 2.3 in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also had a relatively high number of guns recovered — 243 per 100,000 residents. That’s roughly on par with Philadelphia and much higher than Los Angeles or New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not true that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country, as other \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2017/oct/03/sarah-huckabee-sanders/chicago-toughest-gun-control-claim-shot-full-holes/\">fact-checkers\u003c/a> have also repeatedly found.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We generally think of California as having the strongest gun laws in the country.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Hannah Shearer,\u003cbr>\nStaff Attorney, Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> true that Illinois has tougher gun laws than many other states. The state is one of seven that requires licenses or permits to buy any firearm, and it’s one of five that requires waiting periods for buying any firearm. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which tracks gun laws nationwide, has given the state a B+ for its gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago itself has some tough laws — there is an assault-weapons ban in Cook County, for example. But it’s not true that Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country. At one point, it did have much tougher laws — it had banned handguns in the city limits, but a \u003ca href=\"http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws/the-second-amendment/the-supreme-court-the-second-amendment/dc-v-heller/\">2008 Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> declared that ban unconstitutional, and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/28/us.scotus.handgun.ban/index.html\">2010 ruling\u003c/a> reaffirmed that. The city also had a gun registry program since 1968, but ended it in 2013 when the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/us/chicago-city-council-reluctantly-ends-gun-registry.html\">passed a law allowing\u003c/a> the concealed carry of weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We generally think of California as having the strongest gun laws in the country,” said Hannah Shearer, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “The whole state’s laws are pretty strong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has given California an A rating and ranks it No. 1 in terms of the tightness of its gun laws. California bans the open carry of guns and requires background checks on private firearm sales, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”fbtZCz27hHjdl0wrjDTklkv0ar01JfEi”]”Some cities go even beyond that,” Shearer added. “San Francisco has a \u003ca href=\"http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/child-consumer-safety/safe-storage/\">safe storage law\u003c/a>, requiring that guns kept in the home are kept locked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a regulation that Chicago, for example, does not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quibbling over exactly what part of the U.S. is No. 1 in terms of gun-law strictness, however, isn’t the most compelling part of Sanders’ statement. She also said that having gun regulations “certainly hasn’t helped” in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a much more controversial claim — and it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State lines don’t stop guns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to remember here that Chicago is very close to two states that have relatively \u003cem>weak\u003c/em> gun laws: Wisconsin and Indiana. So while it’s easy to pick on Chicago (or any other high-crime city) for its ugly statistics, says one expert, taking bordering states into account weakens this gun-advocacy talking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a scientific study. It’s an anecdote,” said Philip Cook, a professor of public policy studies at Duke University. “They might have pointed to Washington, D.C., back in the days when D.C. banned handguns and yet had high gun-violence rates. Those bans are only at best partially effective, because the borders are permeable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”o2jm8UKoK12zIcKMW7v8wLzD3VINCH2L”]D.C. borders Virginia, which does not have strong gun laws. (It gets a D from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Wisconsin nor Indiana requires licenses or permits to purchase a gun, for example, nor do they require waiting periods. While Illinois has that B+ rating from the law center, Wisconsin has a C- and Indiana a D-.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s good evidence that being next door to those states keeps Chicago criminals well-supplied with guns. A \u003ca href=\"http://home.uchicago.edu/ludwigj/papers/JCrimLC%202015%20Guns%20in%20Chicago.pdf\">2015 study\u003c/a> of guns in Chicago, co-authored by Cook, found that more than 60 percent of new guns used in Chicago gang-related crimes and 31.6 percent used in non-gang-related crimes between 2009 and 2013 were bought in other states. Indiana was a particularly heavy supplier, providing nearly one-third of the gang guns and nearly one-fifth of the non-gang guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘No one’s in a position to say that Chicago’s various special regulations and Illinois’s regulations are doing no good.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Philip Cook, Duke University professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Other evidence corroborates this — a \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagobusiness.com/Assets/downloads/20151102-Tracing-Guns.pdf\">2014 Chicago Police Department report\u003c/a> found that Indiana accounted for 19 percent of all guns recovered by the department between 2009 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New firearms trace data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released last week likewise shows that Illinois as a whole faces a massive influx of guns. Of around 8,700 firearms recovered in Illinois and for which the bureau found a source state, more than half came from out of state — 1,366, nearly 16 percent, came from Indiana alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, 82 percent of guns recovered in Indiana and traced were from within Indiana, suggesting that criminals in that state don’t have to cross state lines, like those in Illinois, to get their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this might suggest that criminals will just go to whatever lengths necessary get their hands on guns, regardless of whatever laws are in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s the wrong way to think about it, Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one’s in a position to say that Chicago’s various special regulations and Illinois’s regulations are doing no good,” he said, “because we don’t know what the homicide rate would be in the absence of those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gunlawscorecard.org/\">2016 Gun Law State Scorecard\u003c/a>. Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/firearms-trace-data-2016\">Firearms Trace Data — 2016\u003c/a>. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/attachments/store/2435a5d4658e2ca19f4f225b810ce0dbdb9231cbdb8d702e784087469ee3/UChicagoCrimeLab+Gun+Violence+in+Chicago+2016.pdf\">Gun Violence In Chicago, 2016\u003c/a>.” University of Chicago Crime Lab. January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone interview with Philip Cook, professor of public policy at Duke University. Oct. 3, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone interview with Adam Winkler, professor of law at UCLA. Oct. 3, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://home.uchicago.edu/ludwigj/papers/JCrimLC%202015%20Guns%20in%20Chicago.pdf\">Some Sources Of Crime Guns In Chicago\u003c/a>.” Philip J. Cook, Richard J. Harris, Jens Ludwig and Harold A. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the wake of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas this week, the White House faced questions about whether President Trump would support stricter gun legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t give a definite response to these questions, but her statement showed a White House hesitant to create new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the things we don’t want to do is try to create laws that won’t stop these types of things from happening,” Sanders said Monday. “I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn’t helped there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to Chicago to suggest that gun laws don’t work is not a new talking point — Trump \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2016/nov/03/donald-trump/trump-no-marksman-when-aiming-chicago-gun-laws/\">claimed\u003c/a> Chicago had “the toughest gun laws in the United States” in a 2016 presidential debate; his fellow Republican candidate Chris Christie \u003ca href=\"http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Chris_Christie_Gun_Control.htm\">likewise pointed to Chicago\u003c/a> as a place with high crime despite tight gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>And the rhetoric goes beyond politicians. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/27/gun-controlled-chicago-over-1000-shooting-victims-this-year/\">right-wing\u003c/a> site \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/21/gun-controlled-chicago-least-63-shot-eight-killed-weekend/\">Breitbart\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/05/report-100-shot-gun-controlled-chicago-july-4th-weekend/\">on\u003c/a> many \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/30/gun-controlled-chicago-53-shot-4-killed-memorial-day-weekend/\">occasions\u003c/a> posted \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/16/gun-controlled-chicago-29-people-shot-in-under-18-hours/\">articles\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/05/45-shot-gun-controlled-chicago/\">headlines\u003c/a> containing \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/30/four-year-old-among-29-shot-gun-controlled-chicago/\">the\u003c/a> phrase \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/15/gun-controlled-chicago-15-shot-six-killed-weekend/\">“gun-controlled Chicago.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can sound like a potent talking point — it is a huge city with a notorious crime problem, which Trump already used regularly to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/politics/trump-chicago-100-days-what-happened/index.html\">talk about creating law and order\u003c/a>. It also packs the added rhetorical punch of being closely linked to President Barack Obama, whose actions Trump has worked hard to undo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while gun violence in Chicago is high, the rest of this common talking point doesn’t really hold water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High crime and tough gun laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/07/508722463/gun-deaths-in-chicago-why-is-this-happening\">more than 4,000 shooting victims\u003c/a> in Chicago in 2016. It’s also true that Chicago has suffered a massive amount of gun crime recently. In 2016, homicides in Chicago sharply rose, mostly as a result of gun homicides, as the University of Chicago crime lab \u003ca href=\"https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/attachments/store/2435a5d4658e2ca19f4f225b810ce0dbdb9231cbdb8d702e784087469ee3/UChicagoCrimeLab+Gun+Violence+in+Chicago+2016.pdf\">found in a January report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun homicides in the city rose by 61 percent between 2015 and 2016. That helped make the gun homicide rate in Chicago particularly huge compared with similar cities. The rate was 25.1 per 100,000 residents in 2016, compared with 14.7 in Philadelphia and just 2.3 in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also had a relatively high number of guns recovered — 243 per 100,000 residents. That’s roughly on par with Philadelphia and much higher than Los Angeles or New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not true that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country, as other \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2017/oct/03/sarah-huckabee-sanders/chicago-toughest-gun-control-claim-shot-full-holes/\">fact-checkers\u003c/a> have also repeatedly found.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We generally think of California as having the strongest gun laws in the country.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Hannah Shearer,\u003cbr>\nStaff Attorney, Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> true that Illinois has tougher gun laws than many other states. The state is one of seven that requires licenses or permits to buy any firearm, and it’s one of five that requires waiting periods for buying any firearm. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which tracks gun laws nationwide, has given the state a B+ for its gun laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago itself has some tough laws — there is an assault-weapons ban in Cook County, for example. But it’s not true that Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country. At one point, it did have much tougher laws — it had banned handguns in the city limits, but a \u003ca href=\"http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws/the-second-amendment/the-supreme-court-the-second-amendment/dc-v-heller/\">2008 Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> declared that ban unconstitutional, and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/28/us.scotus.handgun.ban/index.html\">2010 ruling\u003c/a> reaffirmed that. The city also had a gun registry program since 1968, but ended it in 2013 when the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/us/chicago-city-council-reluctantly-ends-gun-registry.html\">passed a law allowing\u003c/a> the concealed carry of weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We generally think of California as having the strongest gun laws in the country,” said Hannah Shearer, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “The whole state’s laws are pretty strong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has given California an A rating and ranks it No. 1 in terms of the tightness of its gun laws. California bans the open carry of guns and requires background checks on private firearm sales, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>”Some cities go even beyond that,” Shearer added. “San Francisco has a \u003ca href=\"http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/child-consumer-safety/safe-storage/\">safe storage law\u003c/a>, requiring that guns kept in the home are kept locked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a regulation that Chicago, for example, does not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quibbling over exactly what part of the U.S. is No. 1 in terms of gun-law strictness, however, isn’t the most compelling part of Sanders’ statement. She also said that having gun regulations “certainly hasn’t helped” in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a much more controversial claim — and it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State lines don’t stop guns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to remember here that Chicago is very close to two states that have relatively \u003cem>weak\u003c/em> gun laws: Wisconsin and Indiana. So while it’s easy to pick on Chicago (or any other high-crime city) for its ugly statistics, says one expert, taking bordering states into account weakens this gun-advocacy talking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a scientific study. It’s an anecdote,” said Philip Cook, a professor of public policy studies at Duke University. “They might have pointed to Washington, D.C., back in the days when D.C. banned handguns and yet had high gun-violence rates. Those bans are only at best partially effective, because the borders are permeable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>D.C. borders Virginia, which does not have strong gun laws. (It gets a D from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Wisconsin nor Indiana requires licenses or permits to purchase a gun, for example, nor do they require waiting periods. While Illinois has that B+ rating from the law center, Wisconsin has a C- and Indiana a D-.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s good evidence that being next door to those states keeps Chicago criminals well-supplied with guns. A \u003ca href=\"http://home.uchicago.edu/ludwigj/papers/JCrimLC%202015%20Guns%20in%20Chicago.pdf\">2015 study\u003c/a> of guns in Chicago, co-authored by Cook, found that more than 60 percent of new guns used in Chicago gang-related crimes and 31.6 percent used in non-gang-related crimes between 2009 and 2013 were bought in other states. Indiana was a particularly heavy supplier, providing nearly one-third of the gang guns and nearly one-fifth of the non-gang guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘No one’s in a position to say that Chicago’s various special regulations and Illinois’s regulations are doing no good.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Philip Cook, Duke University professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Other evidence corroborates this — a \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagobusiness.com/Assets/downloads/20151102-Tracing-Guns.pdf\">2014 Chicago Police Department report\u003c/a> found that Indiana accounted for 19 percent of all guns recovered by the department between 2009 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New firearms trace data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released last week likewise shows that Illinois as a whole faces a massive influx of guns. Of around 8,700 firearms recovered in Illinois and for which the bureau found a source state, more than half came from out of state — 1,366, nearly 16 percent, came from Indiana alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, 82 percent of guns recovered in Indiana and traced were from within Indiana, suggesting that criminals in that state don’t have to cross state lines, like those in Illinois, to get their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this might suggest that criminals will just go to whatever lengths necessary get their hands on guns, regardless of whatever laws are in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s the wrong way to think about it, Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one’s in a position to say that Chicago’s various special regulations and Illinois’s regulations are doing no good,” he said, “because we don’t know what the homicide rate would be in the absence of those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gunlawscorecard.org/\">2016 Gun Law State Scorecard\u003c/a>. Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/firearms-trace-data-2016\">Firearms Trace Data — 2016\u003c/a>. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/attachments/store/2435a5d4658e2ca19f4f225b810ce0dbdb9231cbdb8d702e784087469ee3/UChicagoCrimeLab+Gun+Violence+in+Chicago+2016.pdf\">Gun Violence In Chicago, 2016\u003c/a>.” University of Chicago Crime Lab. January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone interview with Philip Cook, professor of public policy at Duke University. Oct. 3, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone interview with Adam Winkler, professor of law at UCLA. Oct. 3, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://home.uchicago.edu/ludwigj/papers/JCrimLC%202015%20Guns%20in%20Chicago.pdf\">Some Sources Of Crime Guns In Chicago\u003c/a>.” Philip J. Cook, Richard J. Harris, Jens Ludwig and Harold A. Pollack. \u003cem>The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology\u003c/em>. 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions said transgender people are not protected from employment discrimination through Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a memorandum \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/jeff-sessions-just-reversed-a-policy-that-protects?utm_term=.qqq5Eg51DR#.yxz61X6mGB\">obtained by Buzzfeed\u003c/a>. This withdraws an \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-holder-directs-department-include-gender-identity-under-sex-discrimination\">Obama-era memorandum\u003c/a> that interpreted the law to encompass gender identity in its definition of sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s transgender population will remain protected against workplace discrimination through state law, but nationally employees without a shield through state or local law will no longer be protected from discrimination based on their gender identity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sessions’ memo said: \"Title VII's prohibition on sex discrimination encompasses discrimination between men and women but does not encompass discrimination based on gender identity \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">per se\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, including transgender status.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The memo, issued Wednesday, also states the Justice Department will “continue to affirm the dignity of all people, including transgender individuals.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In reaction, the Oakland-based \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> issued a statement:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a vicious action intended to cause confusion where there was none, with the goal of singling out transgender people and making it harder for us to survive and thrive in this country,” wrote Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hrc.org/state-maps/employment\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is one of 20 states, along with Washington, D.C.,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that has a law or policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2012, California’s Gender Nondiscrimination Act amended the California Fair Employment and Housing Act to explicitly include the terms “gender identity” and “gender expression” as protected categories for housing and employment rights.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, this law does not apply to federal workers located in California, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/know-your-rights/faq-the-gender-nondiscrimination-act\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to the Transgender Law Center’s website\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The law center is prepared to take the administration to court over the issue.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Attorney General does not have the power to change clearly established law, only to enforce it,” Hayashi said. “Transgender Law Center’s 2012 and 2015 cases on behalf of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/employment/eeocfa\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mia Macy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/11521\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tamara Lusardi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, along with extensive case law, firmly established that transgender workers are protected from discrimination under Title VII.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sessions’ move arrives on the back of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/justice-department-asks-dismiss-lawsuit-opposing-transgender-military-ban/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Justice Department requesting a federal court to dismiss\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a lawsuit filed against Trump’s proposed ban on transgender people serving in the military. Trump’s memo to the Department of Justice last month asked for an implementation plan for the ban to go into effect by next March.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Alameda County prosecutors moved to dismiss their own case Thursday morning against an Oakland police officer charged with illegal sex with a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It signals an end to the most serious Alameda County prosecutions of a group of law enforcement officers accused of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexually exploiting\u003c/a> the teenage daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher. The case spanned six Bay Area jurisdictions, spawned a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major upheaval\u003c/a> in leadership of the Oakland Police Department and led to the filing of half a dozen lawsuits, most of which are still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I had the utmost confidence that this would be the result. Unfortunately, it took a year and a half to get here. I am happy. I look forward to getting back and serving the people of Oakland.'\u003ccite>Giovanni LoVerde,\u003cbr>\nOakland police officer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The latest move to drop charges against OPD Officer Giovanni LoVerde follows Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon Rolefson's recent dismissal of related charges against two former law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Sabrina Farrell said in court that the charges against LoVerde -- felony oral copulation with a minor -- had facts similar to the case against former Contra Costa sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez, which Rolefson dismissed Wednesday. The judge ruled prosecutors failed to prove Perez should have known the teen who went by the name Celeste Guap was underage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Wednesday’s ruling on the 995 motion in the case against Ricardo Perez, the judge articulated his analysis of the law,\" Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick, who serves as the DA's spokeswoman, wrote in an emailed response to a request for comment. She added that the office disagrees with Rolefson's rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There exists a conflict in the law interpreting the criminal statutes that govern the crimes charged, and we have determined that we will seek an appellate remedy,\" Drenick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde, who was accused of having oral sex with now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin in an apartment entryway near Lake Merritt when she was 17, said after the hearing that the dismissal was \"long overdue.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"UJtSNfWcyeFz6DiGwyHVfxIufMS3lD4T\"]\u003cbr>\n\"I had the utmost confidence that this would be the result,\" he said. \"Unfortunately, it took a year and a half to get here. I am happy. I look forward to getting back and serving the people of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde said he's been on leave since he was charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense attorneys cast LoVerde as the victim of a case driven by a salacious scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you google his name, all this information comes up,\" attorney Jyoti Rekhi said. \"The allegations were unfounded and that should have been properly processed before a case was filed, and a case shouldn’t have been filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Michael Cardoza said Oakland \"really should be ashamed\" for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paying $989,000\u003c/a> to settle a civil claim brought on behalf of Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was working the streets,\" he said. \"It was her choice. We understand that at one time she was underage when she started, but her mother was a dispatcher for the Oakland Police Department. You mean to tell me the mother didn’t know what was going on in this situation?\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"dWZg1oWB7DEep22veT4dWAsSgmlajJtr\"]\u003cbr>\nSimilar lawsuits are pending against Contra Costa and Alameda counties, as well as Richmond, San Francisco and Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's testimony at preliminary hearings for former Oakland police Officer Brian \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/05/18/teen-at-center-of-cop-sex-scandal-to-testify-in-court/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bunton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perez\u003c/a> was both graphic and grueling, with Abuslin describing various sexually explicit electronic messages swapped with the peace officers. In Perez's case, the former deputy repeatedly coaxed her to send naked pictures of herself, and he repeatedly sent her photos of his penis, according to Abuslin's testimony that referenced the messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her civil attorney, John Burris, said Wednesday that repeating that experience was taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It causes her to have a loss of faith, if you will, in the judicial system and really raises question in her own mind as to whether or not it’s worth it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors made their decision to scrap the charges before a preliminary hearing for LoVerde with that in mind, according to the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are always mindful of how difficult it has been for the victim in these matters to testify in open court about her exploitation, and we made today’s decision in close consultation with her,\" Drenick wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one criminal prosecution related to Abuslin remaining. Former OPD Officer Terryl Smith is charged with five misdemeanors for illegally accessing and furnishing confidential law enforcement records. The case is scheduled to go to trial early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 7:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> An Alameda County Superior Court judge has dismissed criminal charges against a second defendant in a widespread law enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> involving dozens of Bay Area peace officers and the teenage daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/former-contra-costa-deputy-charged-with-sex-with-a-minor-in-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged\u003c/a> former Contra Costa County sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez with felony sex with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of lewd acts in a public place. The charges were based on a series of encounters between Perez and the now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, in the summer of 2015, when she was 17 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Judge Jon Rolefson ruled from the bench Wednesday that the prosecution had not met its burden to prove Perez was guilty of either charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s nothing in this set of facts that he knew or should have known [Abuslin's age],\" Rolefson said in court. \"The burden is on the prosecution to disprove that lack of knowledge. They did not do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the lewd conduct in a public place, Rolefson found prosecutors failed to prove a likelihood that anyone who could be offended would be at the dark spot off rural Fish Ranch Road in Alameda County, where Perez allegedly drove Abuslin to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s no reasonable expectation that someone would be present to see it and be offended,\" Rolefson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez's defense attorney, Joe Motta, said his client couldn't talk about the case because he's still a defendant in one of five lawsuits brought by Abuslin against Contra Costa County, Alameda County, San Francisco, Richmond and Livermore. Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> Abuslin's claim for $989,000 in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony at a preliminary hearing\u003c/a> in the case against Perez described their initial contact on Facebook that quickly turned to sexually graphic messaging and swapping explicit naked photos. Perez sent several photographs of his naked penis to Abuslin between July 2015 and April 2016, according to the testimony and exhibits at the preliminary hearing. Abuslin, though sometimes she protested, sent several naked, sexually explicit photographs of herself to the former deputy, sometimes while he appeared to be on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Perez did nothing to exploit this young woman,\" Motta said. Abuslin appears to have been sexually trafficked since she was 12 years old, he said, but the prosecution didn't investigate her earlier life and what led her to cultivate relationships with so many law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the time she was 17 or 18, she’s been a one-woman wrecking ball,\" Motta said. \"She’s destroyed lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dismissal of charges against Perez comes less than a month after Rolefson \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/13/charges-dismissed-for-ex-oakland-officer-in-police-sex-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tossed out charges\u003c/a> against former Oakland police Officer Brian Bunton for allegedly trading information on prostitution stings for sex with Abuslin, who was over 18 and working in the sex trade at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fizzling criminal prosecutions are in contrast to the major scandal that inspired them and precipitated a succession of police chief \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignations\u003c/a> in Oakland last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the dismissal Wednesday of charges against Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman called the dismissal of charges against Bunton in September \"disappointing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We firmly stand behind the criminal charges that we filed and wholeheartedly believe that the evidence supports the charges,\" the office said in a statement last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg said there's a difference between a major scandal in the news and criminal charges before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it is a highly morally fraught case, as these are, and the allegations -- even if they’re just allegations -- are very, very stigmatizing, then the case is going to look worse for the defendants at the very start because it’s all a big part of this scandal,\" Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the cases proceed through the criminal system, they separate from each other and from the larger scandal, allowing defense attorneys to focus on the weaknesses of charges against individual officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It turns out that the evidence is much more equivocal once you have lawyers homing in on the specific allegations against the specific individual, and you really stick to the facts about that particular individual rather than some general sense that he is part of some wider scandal or scheme,\" Weisberg said. \"The cases look weaker when they’re looked at with great scrutiny on an individual basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible, Weisberg said, that pending civil claims will fare better than the criminal charges, due in part to a lower standard of proof in civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents Abuslin in those cases, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The civil case is one place that you can get stuff done,\" he said. \"You don’t have the similar constraints that you have in criminal cases that I think prevents jurors and judges from really objectively evaluating police officers’ conduct if it can result in jail or prison terms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Abuslin's hours-long testimony in preliminary hearings concerning Bunton and Perez was difficult for her, and she's considering whether it's worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very, very painful for her to put herself out like that and offer testimony and then to have it sort of rejected, if you will, later,\" Burris said. \"It’s been an eye-opener for her and certainly raises questions about whether she should go forward in any of these further criminal cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's expected to repeat that process in Alameda County Superior Court Thursday morning, when Oakland police Officer Giovanni LoVerde is scheduled for a preliminary hearing. LoVerde is charged with felony oral copulation with a minor stemming from an alleged meeting near Lake Merritt when Abuslin was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to charging documents, Abuslin \"orally copulated suspect [LoVerde] in a public area, an apartment entryway.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There exists a conflict in the law interpreting the criminal statutes that govern the crimes charged, and we have determined that we will seek an appellate remedy,\" Drenick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde, who was accused of having oral sex with now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin in an apartment entryway near Lake Merritt when she was 17, said after the hearing that the dismissal was \"long overdue.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"I had the utmost confidence that this would be the result,\" he said. \"Unfortunately, it took a year and a half to get here. I am happy. I look forward to getting back and serving the people of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde said he's been on leave since he was charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense attorneys cast LoVerde as the victim of a case driven by a salacious scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you google his name, all this information comes up,\" attorney Jyoti Rekhi said. \"The allegations were unfounded and that should have been properly processed before a case was filed, and a case shouldn’t have been filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Michael Cardoza said Oakland \"really should be ashamed\" for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paying $989,000\u003c/a> to settle a civil claim brought on behalf of Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was working the streets,\" he said. \"It was her choice. We understand that at one time she was underage when she started, but her mother was a dispatcher for the Oakland Police Department. You mean to tell me the mother didn’t know what was going on in this situation?\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nSimilar lawsuits are pending against Contra Costa and Alameda counties, as well as Richmond, San Francisco and Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's testimony at preliminary hearings for former Oakland police Officer Brian \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/05/18/teen-at-center-of-cop-sex-scandal-to-testify-in-court/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bunton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perez\u003c/a> was both graphic and grueling, with Abuslin describing various sexually explicit electronic messages swapped with the peace officers. In Perez's case, the former deputy repeatedly coaxed her to send naked pictures of herself, and he repeatedly sent her photos of his penis, according to Abuslin's testimony that referenced the messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her civil attorney, John Burris, said Wednesday that repeating that experience was taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It causes her to have a loss of faith, if you will, in the judicial system and really raises question in her own mind as to whether or not it’s worth it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors made their decision to scrap the charges before a preliminary hearing for LoVerde with that in mind, according to the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are always mindful of how difficult it has been for the victim in these matters to testify in open court about her exploitation, and we made today’s decision in close consultation with her,\" Drenick wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one criminal prosecution related to Abuslin remaining. Former OPD Officer Terryl Smith is charged with five misdemeanors for illegally accessing and furnishing confidential law enforcement records. The case is scheduled to go to trial early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 7:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> An Alameda County Superior Court judge has dismissed criminal charges against a second defendant in a widespread law enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> involving dozens of Bay Area peace officers and the teenage daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/former-contra-costa-deputy-charged-with-sex-with-a-minor-in-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged\u003c/a> former Contra Costa County sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez with felony sex with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of lewd acts in a public place. The charges were based on a series of encounters between Perez and the now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, in the summer of 2015, when she was 17 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Judge Jon Rolefson ruled from the bench Wednesday that the prosecution had not met its burden to prove Perez was guilty of either charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s nothing in this set of facts that he knew or should have known [Abuslin's age],\" Rolefson said in court. \"The burden is on the prosecution to disprove that lack of knowledge. They did not do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the lewd conduct in a public place, Rolefson found prosecutors failed to prove a likelihood that anyone who could be offended would be at the dark spot off rural Fish Ranch Road in Alameda County, where Perez allegedly drove Abuslin to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s no reasonable expectation that someone would be present to see it and be offended,\" Rolefson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez's defense attorney, Joe Motta, said his client couldn't talk about the case because he's still a defendant in one of five lawsuits brought by Abuslin against Contra Costa County, Alameda County, San Francisco, Richmond and Livermore. Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> Abuslin's claim for $989,000 in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony at a preliminary hearing\u003c/a> in the case against Perez described their initial contact on Facebook that quickly turned to sexually graphic messaging and swapping explicit naked photos. Perez sent several photographs of his naked penis to Abuslin between July 2015 and April 2016, according to the testimony and exhibits at the preliminary hearing. Abuslin, though sometimes she protested, sent several naked, sexually explicit photographs of herself to the former deputy, sometimes while he appeared to be on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Perez did nothing to exploit this young woman,\" Motta said. Abuslin appears to have been sexually trafficked since she was 12 years old, he said, but the prosecution didn't investigate her earlier life and what led her to cultivate relationships with so many law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the time she was 17 or 18, she’s been a one-woman wrecking ball,\" Motta said. \"She’s destroyed lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dismissal of charges against Perez comes less than a month after Rolefson \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/13/charges-dismissed-for-ex-oakland-officer-in-police-sex-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tossed out charges\u003c/a> against former Oakland police Officer Brian Bunton for allegedly trading information on prostitution stings for sex with Abuslin, who was over 18 and working in the sex trade at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fizzling criminal prosecutions are in contrast to the major scandal that inspired them and precipitated a succession of police chief \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignations\u003c/a> in Oakland last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the dismissal Wednesday of charges against Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman called the dismissal of charges against Bunton in September \"disappointing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We firmly stand behind the criminal charges that we filed and wholeheartedly believe that the evidence supports the charges,\" the office said in a statement last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg said there's a difference between a major scandal in the news and criminal charges before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it is a highly morally fraught case, as these are, and the allegations -- even if they’re just allegations -- are very, very stigmatizing, then the case is going to look worse for the defendants at the very start because it’s all a big part of this scandal,\" Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the cases proceed through the criminal system, they separate from each other and from the larger scandal, allowing defense attorneys to focus on the weaknesses of charges against individual officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It turns out that the evidence is much more equivocal once you have lawyers homing in on the specific allegations against the specific individual, and you really stick to the facts about that particular individual rather than some general sense that he is part of some wider scandal or scheme,\" Weisberg said. \"The cases look weaker when they’re looked at with great scrutiny on an individual basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible, Weisberg said, that pending civil claims will fare better than the criminal charges, due in part to a lower standard of proof in civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents Abuslin in those cases, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The civil case is one place that you can get stuff done,\" he said. \"You don’t have the similar constraints that you have in criminal cases that I think prevents jurors and judges from really objectively evaluating police officers’ conduct if it can result in jail or prison terms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Abuslin's hours-long testimony in preliminary hearings concerning Bunton and Perez was difficult for her, and she's considering whether it's worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very, very painful for her to put herself out like that and offer testimony and then to have it sort of rejected, if you will, later,\" Burris said. \"It’s been an eye-opener for her and certainly raises questions about whether she should go forward in any of these further criminal cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's expected to repeat that process in Alameda County Superior Court Thursday morning, when Oakland police Officer Giovanni LoVerde is scheduled for a preliminary hearing. 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