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Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. Es duro ver cuando matan una persona que quieres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 7 de diciembre, Rojo acompañó al hombre a una cena con Elvira y Refugio Nieto, los padres de Alejandro Nieto, quien fue baleado a muerte por oficiales de la policía de San Francisco en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto explicaron el proceso que ha seguido en el caso de su hijo, y animaron al compañero a que declare, dijeron en una entrevista el 25 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue cuando yo le dije que no se preocupara y que no tuviera miedo”, dijo Elvira Nieto. “Y en su forma de platicar, él se veía que estaba muy nervioso. Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. Yo oí que dispararon. Cuando miré eso, sentí que mis pies se me doblaban”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez corría hacia una calle vacía, dijo el compañero de casa, no presentaba amenaza a los oficiales ni a nadie más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ellos no le avisaron de nada”, dijo. “Ellos nomás dispararon”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las declaraciones de los compañeros de casa motivaron a los investigadores del fiscal de distrito a descender nuevamente a la calle Folsom a finales de diciembre, según Smith y otros en la vecindad, entrevistando a docenas de personas. Desde entonces, la pequeña comunidad de amigos, familia y sus defensores, esperan la decisión de Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr se ha comprometido a terminar efectivamente el uso de fuerza letal en contra de individuos portando armas blancas y el departamento continúa con la expansión del entrenamiento de de-escalación y antiprejuicio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que el departamento realiza estos cambios, continúa confrontado por \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">recientes controversias\u003c/a>. El 7 de abril, dos oficiales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">mataron a tiros\u003c/a> a Luis Góngora, otro hombre hispanohablante que presuntamente blandía un cuchillo en el distrito de la Misión. Como en el caso de Amilcar Perez Lopez, algunos testigos contradicen el reporte policiaco del incidente, el cual según dice el departamento ocurrió después de que Góngora se lanzara contra los oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas es el editor en jefe de El Tecolote, un periódico comunitario del Distrito de la Misión. Alex Emslie y Nicole Reinert son reporteros para KQED News. Traducción Mabel Jiménez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10947016 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10947016","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":3139,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":64},"modified":1462491565,"excerpt":"Una comunidad trabajó tras bambalinas para asegurar que los demandantes tuvieran las declaraciones de dos testigos oculares del tiroteo fatal de Amilcar Perez Lopez antes de que el fiscal de distrito tome una decisión en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales. La decisión se espera cualquier día. ","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Una comunidad trabajó tras bambalinas para asegurar que los demandantes tuvieran las declaraciones de dos testigos oculares del tiroteo fatal de Amilcar Perez Lopez antes de que el fiscal de distrito tome una decisión en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales. La decisión se espera cualquier día. ","title":"Como un Testigo del Fatal Tiroteo de Amilcar Perez Lopez por Parte de SFPD Llegó a Hablar | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Como un Testigo del Fatal Tiroteo de Amilcar Perez Lopez por Parte de SFPD Llegó a Hablar","datePublished":"2016-05-05T15:32:51-07:00","dateModified":"2016-05-05T16:39:25-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar","status":"publish","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/aemslie\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Terrazas\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/nreinert\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Reinert\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10947016/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del Editor: Este reportaje fue elaborado en colaboración con \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/es/especiales/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-llego-a-hablar/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. Click \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> to read in English.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En los 14 meses desde que dos policías encubiertos acribillaron a muerte a un carpintero inmigrante guatemalteco de 20 años en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco, el uso de la fuerza policial local ha comenzado a cambiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nAntigua vecina de Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>La decisión del fiscal de distrito, en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales en contra de los dos oficiales de policía, quienes acribillaron a Amilcar Perez Lopez seis veces por la espalda, se espera en cualquier día. Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. Es duro ver cuando matan una persona que quieres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 7 de diciembre, Rojo acompañó al hombre a una cena con Elvira y Refugio Nieto, los padres de Alejandro Nieto, quien fue baleado a muerte por oficiales de la policía de San Francisco en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto explicaron el proceso que ha seguido en el caso de su hijo, y animaron al compañero a que declare, dijeron en una entrevista el 25 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue cuando yo le dije que no se preocupara y que no tuviera miedo”, dijo Elvira Nieto. “Y en su forma de platicar, él se veía que estaba muy nervioso. Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. Yo oí que dispararon. Cuando miré eso, sentí que mis pies se me doblaban”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez corría hacia una calle vacía, dijo el compañero de casa, no presentaba amenaza a los oficiales ni a nadie más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ellos no le avisaron de nada”, dijo. “Ellos nomás dispararon”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las declaraciones de los compañeros de casa motivaron a los investigadores del fiscal de distrito a descender nuevamente a la calle Folsom a finales de diciembre, según Smith y otros en la vecindad, entrevistando a docenas de personas. Desde entonces, la pequeña comunidad de amigos, familia y sus defensores, esperan la decisión de Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr se ha comprometido a terminar efectivamente el uso de fuerza letal en contra de individuos portando armas blancas y el departamento continúa con la expansión del entrenamiento de de-escalación y antiprejuicio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que el departamento realiza estos cambios, continúa confrontado por \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">recientes controversias\u003c/a>. El 7 de abril, dos oficiales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">mataron a tiros\u003c/a> a Luis Góngora, otro hombre hispanohablante que presuntamente blandía un cuchillo en el distrito de la Misión. Como en el caso de Amilcar Perez Lopez, algunos testigos contradicen el reporte policiaco del incidente, el cual según dice el departamento ocurrió después de que Góngora se lanzara contra los oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas es el editor en jefe de El Tecolote, un periódico comunitario del Distrito de la Misión. Alex Emslie y Nicole Reinert son reporteros para KQED News. Traducción Mabel Jiménez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10947016/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar","authors":["byline_news_10947016"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6137","news_19397","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10947098","label":"news_6944"},"news_10942092":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10942092","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10942092","score":null,"sort":[1462366849000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1462366849,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward","title":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This report was produced in collaboration with Mission District neighborhood newspaper \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar\" target=\"_blank\">Haga clic aquí\u003c/a> para leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 14 months since two plainclothes police officers shot and killed a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant carpenter in San Francisco’s Mission District, the local landscape of police use of force has begun to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation.'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nFormer neighbor of Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s decision is expected any day on whether to file criminal charges against two police officers who shot Amilcar Perez Lopez six times from behind. That decision will land in a city that's been the scene of a series of controversial police shootings of black and Latino men, and it will either launch a criminal prosecution or allow a federal civil lawsuit to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Perez Lopez’s name was rarely mentioned at the protests, press conferences and meetings that chronicled the Police Department’s controversies and led to halting reforms and growing public anger. The city was more focused on two other fatal police shootings -- of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> on Bernal Heights in 2014, and the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many months after he [Perez Lopez] was killed, it wasn’t really addressed,” said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. “He’s an immigrant. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t have a history of being a classmate of other people in the neighborhood. In some ways, it can be harder to connect with his story, because he’s an outsider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the Mario Woods shooting, caught on cellphone video from multiple angles, that propelled the Police Department into a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rewriting of the rules\u003c/a> governing all use of force, from control holds to firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> the officers involved in the Nieto shooting after a highly publicized federal civil rights trial. With few \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notable\u003c/a> exceptions, the investigation of Perez Lopez’s death was a whisper amid the roar of those calling for police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year, a small network of advocates, attorneys, investigators and neighbors have worked behind the scenes to facilitate a complex investigation involving witnesses fearful of retaliation from police and immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation,” said Florencia Rojo, a former neighbor of Perez Lopez, who discovered the homicide scene when she tried to return home on Feb. 26, 2015, the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her house, just one door south from where Perez Lopez lived, was blocked off by police, so she went around the corner and tried to climb into her neighbor’s backyard.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"HlQcHLDyIa5rHET80Z2zJG6X0lXCVHrw\"]\u003cbr>\nThat’s where she met one of the dead man’s roommates, whose account of the shooting differs significantly from the multiple versions offered by Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting four days after the shooting, Suhr said two officers responding to a 911 call about a man with a knife came upon Perez Lopez and another man he was allegedly chasing on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez charged the officers from 5 feet away with the knife \"raised overhead,\" Suhr said. Also at that meeting, Mission Station Capt. Daniel Perea said the other man, later identified as Abraham Perez, told him the officers had saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy showed\u003c/a> Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr qualified his previous statements. During an appearance on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em> last July\u003c/a>, the chief said Perez Lopez “came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired and he turned away, which would explain not all of the rounds going in the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the scene that night, the discussion was of Amilcar Lopez moving forward,” Suhr clarified in February. “Later on, in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with a knife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who shot Perez Lopez that night, have long since returned to duty. Perea said in a recent interview that both officers are still assigned to Mission Station. He declined to say whether Tiffe and Reboli had returned to the plainclothes unit, though, citing concerns for the safety of his officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the past year Mission Station's plainclothes unit added a supervisor, and it now consists of two supervising sergeants and 10 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFPD's Attempted Interviews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district attorney’s investigators conducting their own investigation pursued a lead of the two roommates who were rumored to have seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what happened,” one of the roommates said in a recent interview, speaking in Spanish and on condition of anonymity due to what he says is his fear of retaliation from police. “I saw things happen really clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, for the same reason, that he and the other man were afraid to talk to Police Department investigators, and they made a pact not to do so without an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That frustrated the Police Department’s homicide investigation, according to declarations filed by three SFPD officers in a federal wrongful death civil case brought by Perez Lopez’s family in Guatemala. The officers wrote that the roommates changed their stories and evaded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Anthony Ravano declared that he spoke with two roommates the night of the shooting, and that they stated they had not seen the shooting, but only heard gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lt. Daniel Dedet and Ravano tried to follow up, one of the men said an attorney told them to say nothing, and the other reached by phone evaded questions, hung up and didn’t return a phone message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In summary, both roommates have refused to cooperate with the SFPD investigation after speaking with civil attorneys for Mr Perez Lopez’ family,” Ravano wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Abraham Perez were unsuccessful. Civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's family say he told them in an interview that Perez Lopez was simply running from the plainclothes officers when they started shooting, and he likely didn't know the men were police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DA Pursues Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of last year, District Attorney George Gascón started pushing for interviews with the roommates, according to Florencia Rojo and the Rev. Richard Smith. The district attorney’s office declined to comment for this report, citing an open investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said Gascón called him last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘This has the markings of a bad shooting and I absolutely have to get the eyewitnesses in here and get their testimony,’ ” Smith said, adding that Gascón said he could arrest the witnesses, but he’d prefer them to speak voluntarily. “He said ‘I have to have these eyewitnesses in order to make a case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945192\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of attorneys for Amilcar Perez Lopez's family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo said she got a similar phone call from Gascón. She, Smith and others worked to help the men overcome fears of immigration enforcement and the trauma of seeing their friend shot dead by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of fear and a lot of hesitation,” Rojo said. “When your trust in the police and law enforcement and the people who are supposed to protect you and keep you safe is broken, speaking out is very scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocates Scramble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network that included Smith and Rojo worked to secure an immigration attorney for the men, who are both living in the U.S. illegally. The attorney, Laura Sanchez, said she is in the early stages of pursuing a special visa for witnesses or victims of violent crime. Their visa petition, however, involves a crime unrelated to the Perez Lopez shooting, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think finding representation made them feel a lot more comfortable and secure talking openly about what they had seen,” Sanchez said. Generally speaking, she said people in the U.S. unlawfully “are afraid to come forward because they fear some authority will let immigration know of their whereabouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress weighed heavily on the roommate, who spoke recently for this report. He said he's often had trouble sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt the need to talk because I felt like I was dying inside,\" he said in Spanish. \"I was feeling terrible because I felt like justice wasn't being done. I'm not well psychologically. It's hard when you see somebody who you love get killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 7, Rojo accompanied the man to a dinner meeting with Elvira and Refugio Nieto, the parents of Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by San Francisco police officers in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10945196 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a federal civil rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nietos explained the process their son's case had followed, and they encouraged the roommate to come forward, they said in an interview on April 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I told him not to worry, not to worry and not to be afraid,\" Elvira Nieto said in Spanish. \"You could see he was in despair and by his way of speaking, you could tell he was very nervous. But he talked about how they shot him [Perez Lopez] in the back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nietos said they told Perez Lopez's roommate that if more witnesses had come forward in their son's case, and earlier, perhaps they would have seen a different result. Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> who shot Alejandro Nieto of criminal wrongdoing in early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that four officers who fired a combined 59 gunshots at Nieto reasonably believed the object he carried and allegedly pointed at them was a firearm. The officers discovered after fatally shooting Nieto that he had a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they treat this case the same way they treated Alejandro's, the same thing will happen,\" Refugio Nieto said. He said his son's case shows an unfair bias in favor of police officers in both the criminal and civil systems. \"Alejandro, he is gone, but now we’re a symbol of the community, to help others and understand the upcoming process. Amilcar’s case is the one that is next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Statements at the Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week later, the advocates brokered a meeting between Perez Lopez's former roommates and DA's investigators in Richard Smith's church. Florencia Rojo sat in on the four-hour interview with the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them recounted the night Perez Lopez was killed in an interview April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he ran outside after another roommate told him Perez Lopez had come into the flat and grabbed a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to stop any kind of trouble Amilcar was going to get himself in,\" he said. \"We saw him walking toward us calmly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former roommate was about two doors north of Perez Lopez, standing at the edge of his house's entry and the sidewalk, when he saw two larger figures emerge from the darkness behind his friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of them tried to grab him from behind, without saying anything,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez Lopez squirmed free and ran toward the street, between two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said 'Drop the weapon,' \" then both officers fired almost immediately,\" the man said. \"I don’t know if he even got a chance to drop it, but when the first shot was fired, he dropped the knife. I heard the shot, and when I saw that, I felt my legs go weak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was running into an empty street, the roommate said, neither a threat to officers nor anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn’t even talk to him,\" he said. \"They just shot him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roommates' statements prompted DA's investigators to descend back onto Folsom Street in late December, according to Smith and others in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens more people. Since then, the small community of former friends, family and their advocates have been awaiting Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has pledged to effectively end uses of deadly force against people with weapons other than a firearm, and the department continues to expand de-escalation and anti-bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the department makes those moves, it's confronted by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">fresh controversies\u003c/a>. On April 7, two officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">shot and killed\u003c/a> Luis Gongora, another Spanish-speaking man allegedly wielding a knife, in the Mission District. As in the Amilar Perez Lopez case, some witnesses have contradicted the police account of the incident, which the department says occurred after Gongora lunged at officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas is editor-in-chief of Mission District neighborhood newspaper El Tecolote. Alex Emslie and Nicole Reinert are reporters for KQED News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10942092 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10942092","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":2415,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":63},"modified":1462491409,"excerpt":"A community worked behind the scenes to ensure prosecutors had the statements of two witnesses to the fatal police shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez before the district attorney's decision on whether to file criminal charges, which is expected any day.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"A community worked behind the scenes to ensure prosecutors had the statements of two witnesses to the fatal police shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez before the district attorney's decision on whether to file criminal charges, which is expected any day.","title":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward","datePublished":"2016-05-04T06:00:49-07:00","dateModified":"2016-05-05T16:36:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward","status":"publish","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/aemslie\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Terrazas\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/nreinert\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Reinert\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10942092/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This report was produced in collaboration with Mission District neighborhood newspaper \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar\" target=\"_blank\">Haga clic aquí\u003c/a> para leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 14 months since two plainclothes police officers shot and killed a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant carpenter in San Francisco’s Mission District, the local landscape of police use of force has begun to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation.'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nFormer neighbor of Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s decision is expected any day on whether to file criminal charges against two police officers who shot Amilcar Perez Lopez six times from behind. That decision will land in a city that's been the scene of a series of controversial police shootings of black and Latino men, and it will either launch a criminal prosecution or allow a federal civil lawsuit to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Perez Lopez’s name was rarely mentioned at the protests, press conferences and meetings that chronicled the Police Department’s controversies and led to halting reforms and growing public anger. The city was more focused on two other fatal police shootings -- of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> on Bernal Heights in 2014, and the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many months after he [Perez Lopez] was killed, it wasn’t really addressed,” said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. “He’s an immigrant. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t have a history of being a classmate of other people in the neighborhood. In some ways, it can be harder to connect with his story, because he’s an outsider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the Mario Woods shooting, caught on cellphone video from multiple angles, that propelled the Police Department into a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rewriting of the rules\u003c/a> governing all use of force, from control holds to firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> the officers involved in the Nieto shooting after a highly publicized federal civil rights trial. With few \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notable\u003c/a> exceptions, the investigation of Perez Lopez’s death was a whisper amid the roar of those calling for police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year, a small network of advocates, attorneys, investigators and neighbors have worked behind the scenes to facilitate a complex investigation involving witnesses fearful of retaliation from police and immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation,” said Florencia Rojo, a former neighbor of Perez Lopez, who discovered the homicide scene when she tried to return home on Feb. 26, 2015, the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her house, just one door south from where Perez Lopez lived, was blocked off by police, so she went around the corner and tried to climb into her neighbor’s backyard.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThat’s where she met one of the dead man’s roommates, whose account of the shooting differs significantly from the multiple versions offered by Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting four days after the shooting, Suhr said two officers responding to a 911 call about a man with a knife came upon Perez Lopez and another man he was allegedly chasing on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez charged the officers from 5 feet away with the knife \"raised overhead,\" Suhr said. Also at that meeting, Mission Station Capt. Daniel Perea said the other man, later identified as Abraham Perez, told him the officers had saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy showed\u003c/a> Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr qualified his previous statements. During an appearance on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em> last July\u003c/a>, the chief said Perez Lopez “came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired and he turned away, which would explain not all of the rounds going in the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the scene that night, the discussion was of Amilcar Lopez moving forward,” Suhr clarified in February. “Later on, in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with a knife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who shot Perez Lopez that night, have long since returned to duty. Perea said in a recent interview that both officers are still assigned to Mission Station. He declined to say whether Tiffe and Reboli had returned to the plainclothes unit, though, citing concerns for the safety of his officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the past year Mission Station's plainclothes unit added a supervisor, and it now consists of two supervising sergeants and 10 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFPD's Attempted Interviews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district attorney’s investigators conducting their own investigation pursued a lead of the two roommates who were rumored to have seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what happened,” one of the roommates said in a recent interview, speaking in Spanish and on condition of anonymity due to what he says is his fear of retaliation from police. “I saw things happen really clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, for the same reason, that he and the other man were afraid to talk to Police Department investigators, and they made a pact not to do so without an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That frustrated the Police Department’s homicide investigation, according to declarations filed by three SFPD officers in a federal wrongful death civil case brought by Perez Lopez’s family in Guatemala. The officers wrote that the roommates changed their stories and evaded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Anthony Ravano declared that he spoke with two roommates the night of the shooting, and that they stated they had not seen the shooting, but only heard gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lt. Daniel Dedet and Ravano tried to follow up, one of the men said an attorney told them to say nothing, and the other reached by phone evaded questions, hung up and didn’t return a phone message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In summary, both roommates have refused to cooperate with the SFPD investigation after speaking with civil attorneys for Mr Perez Lopez’ family,” Ravano wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Abraham Perez were unsuccessful. Civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's family say he told them in an interview that Perez Lopez was simply running from the plainclothes officers when they started shooting, and he likely didn't know the men were police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DA Pursues Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of last year, District Attorney George Gascón started pushing for interviews with the roommates, according to Florencia Rojo and the Rev. Richard Smith. The district attorney’s office declined to comment for this report, citing an open investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said Gascón called him last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘This has the markings of a bad shooting and I absolutely have to get the eyewitnesses in here and get their testimony,’ ” Smith said, adding that Gascón said he could arrest the witnesses, but he’d prefer them to speak voluntarily. “He said ‘I have to have these eyewitnesses in order to make a case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945192\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of attorneys for Amilcar Perez Lopez's family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo said she got a similar phone call from Gascón. She, Smith and others worked to help the men overcome fears of immigration enforcement and the trauma of seeing their friend shot dead by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of fear and a lot of hesitation,” Rojo said. “When your trust in the police and law enforcement and the people who are supposed to protect you and keep you safe is broken, speaking out is very scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocates Scramble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network that included Smith and Rojo worked to secure an immigration attorney for the men, who are both living in the U.S. illegally. The attorney, Laura Sanchez, said she is in the early stages of pursuing a special visa for witnesses or victims of violent crime. Their visa petition, however, involves a crime unrelated to the Perez Lopez shooting, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think finding representation made them feel a lot more comfortable and secure talking openly about what they had seen,” Sanchez said. Generally speaking, she said people in the U.S. unlawfully “are afraid to come forward because they fear some authority will let immigration know of their whereabouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress weighed heavily on the roommate, who spoke recently for this report. He said he's often had trouble sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt the need to talk because I felt like I was dying inside,\" he said in Spanish. \"I was feeling terrible because I felt like justice wasn't being done. I'm not well psychologically. It's hard when you see somebody who you love get killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 7, Rojo accompanied the man to a dinner meeting with Elvira and Refugio Nieto, the parents of Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by San Francisco police officers in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10945196 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a federal civil rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nietos explained the process their son's case had followed, and they encouraged the roommate to come forward, they said in an interview on April 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I told him not to worry, not to worry and not to be afraid,\" Elvira Nieto said in Spanish. \"You could see he was in despair and by his way of speaking, you could tell he was very nervous. But he talked about how they shot him [Perez Lopez] in the back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nietos said they told Perez Lopez's roommate that if more witnesses had come forward in their son's case, and earlier, perhaps they would have seen a different result. Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> who shot Alejandro Nieto of criminal wrongdoing in early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that four officers who fired a combined 59 gunshots at Nieto reasonably believed the object he carried and allegedly pointed at them was a firearm. The officers discovered after fatally shooting Nieto that he had a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they treat this case the same way they treated Alejandro's, the same thing will happen,\" Refugio Nieto said. He said his son's case shows an unfair bias in favor of police officers in both the criminal and civil systems. \"Alejandro, he is gone, but now we’re a symbol of the community, to help others and understand the upcoming process. Amilcar’s case is the one that is next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Statements at the Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week later, the advocates brokered a meeting between Perez Lopez's former roommates and DA's investigators in Richard Smith's church. Florencia Rojo sat in on the four-hour interview with the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them recounted the night Perez Lopez was killed in an interview April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he ran outside after another roommate told him Perez Lopez had come into the flat and grabbed a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to stop any kind of trouble Amilcar was going to get himself in,\" he said. \"We saw him walking toward us calmly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former roommate was about two doors north of Perez Lopez, standing at the edge of his house's entry and the sidewalk, when he saw two larger figures emerge from the darkness behind his friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of them tried to grab him from behind, without saying anything,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez Lopez squirmed free and ran toward the street, between two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said 'Drop the weapon,' \" then both officers fired almost immediately,\" the man said. \"I don’t know if he even got a chance to drop it, but when the first shot was fired, he dropped the knife. I heard the shot, and when I saw that, I felt my legs go weak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was running into an empty street, the roommate said, neither a threat to officers nor anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn’t even talk to him,\" he said. \"They just shot him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roommates' statements prompted DA's investigators to descend back onto Folsom Street in late December, according to Smith and others in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens more people. Since then, the small community of former friends, family and their advocates have been awaiting Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has pledged to effectively end uses of deadly force against people with weapons other than a firearm, and the department continues to expand de-escalation and anti-bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the department makes those moves, it's confronted by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">fresh controversies\u003c/a>. On April 7, two officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">shot and killed\u003c/a> Luis Gongora, another Spanish-speaking man allegedly wielding a knife, in the Mission District. As in the Amilar Perez Lopez case, some witnesses have contradicted the police account of the incident, which the department says occurred after Gongora lunged at officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas is editor-in-chief of Mission District neighborhood newspaper El Tecolote. Alex Emslie and Nicole Reinert are reporters for KQED News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10942092/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward","authors":["byline_news_10942092"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6137","news_19397","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10945141","label":"news_6944"},"news_10891736":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10891736","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10891736","score":null,"sort":[1457658612000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1457658612,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Jury Clears S.F. Police Officers of Wrongdoing in Nieto Shooting","title":"Jury Clears S.F. Police Officers of Wrongdoing in Nieto Shooting","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>An eight-member jury found no wrongdoing Thursday on the part of four San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a man in Bernal Heights Park two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict in the federal civil rights trial marks the end of almost two years of litigation over the high-profile officer-involved shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro \"Alex\" Nieto\u003c/a> on March 21, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants Richard Schiff, Jason Sawyer, Roger Morse and Nate Chew testified that Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at them and, believing it was a handgun, they fired at him until he stopped pointing it. Schiff and Sawyer reloaded during what plaintiffs' attorneys characterized as a \"one-sided firefight,\" and the four officers shot a total of 59 times, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">district attorney's investigation\u003c/a> of the shooting, which also cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a tragic event to lose a child in any way that that ever happens,\" Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgartner told reporters after the verdict. \"But my officers didn’t violate the Constitution when they used force in this situation, and the jury obviously found that Mr. Nieto had what looked like a gun in his hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891906\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10891906 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-800x974.jpg\" alt='Alejandro \"Alex\" Nieto was shot and killed by San Francisco police on March 21, 2014.' width=\"800\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-800x974.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-960x1169.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro 'Alex' Nieto was shot and killed by San Francisco police on March 21, 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ben Bac Sierra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/03/rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify\" target=\"_blank\">officers testified\u003c/a> that they saw a red laser sight coming from Nieto's Taser, and they continued to fire as long as they saw it -- and what they thought was a gun -- pointed at them. Morse said he never saw the laser sight, but he believed Nieto was pointing and firing a gun at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury deliberated for a total of about eight hours between the end of closing arguments on Wednesday and delivering its verdict Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents were devastated as they left the courthouse, according to their attorney and supporters. They did not stop to speak with reporters gathering outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alex was a loving human being,\" said Ely Flores, who added that he'd been a close friend of Nieto's for several years. \"Alex was a gentle Buddhist, and Alex had a degree in the criminal justice system. Alex was on his way to become a probation officer, and he was brutally killed by the SFPD, somebody he looked up to. This is irony.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs' attorney Adante Pointer said he is \"considering all our legal options,\" but stopped short of promising an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a sad day for my clients, the Nietos, but it’s an even worse day for the city of San Francisco,\" he said, adding that he was surprised physical evidence and the testimony of a civilian witness didn't sway the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonio Theodore testified during the trial that he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/07/a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court\" target=\"_blank\">saw the shooting from a bluff\u003c/a> overlooking an access road in Bernal Heights Park. He said Nieto's hands never left his pockets during the shooting, and officers didn't give him time to respond to commands before they opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Theodore also said during cross-examination that his memory was hazy and that he had become an alcoholic since the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eKK1cHPYJlt5HSBSkcg1CTvxpwn21CVF\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer said that a bone fragment discovered in Nieto's left jacket pocket and the fact that his Taser was discovered in its \"off\" position backed up Theodore's account of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They claim a man’s hand was in front of him, but yet his wrist bone is in his pocket,\" Pointer said. \"They claim a Taser was on and pointed at them and fired at them, but not a single officer says that they saw it fired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict comes as the San Francisco Police Department is besieged by scandals involving fatal shootings and racism. The jury in the Nieto trial was barred from hearing testimony about additional high-profile shootings following the incident. The most recent fatal SFPD shooting of a suspect, that of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> on Dec. 2, prompted a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">review by the U.S. Department of Justice\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/11/talk-of-tasers-overwhelms-debate-over-s-f-police-use-of-force\" target=\"_blank\">sweeping reforms\u003c/a> to the department's use-of-force policies. Part of the changes to SFPD use of force is to discourage multiple officers from firing a large number of gunshots at a suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is harder to present these cases to a jury because of what’s been reported in the press about other events,\" Baumgartner said, adding that jurors were required to focus only on the Nieto shooting. \"This was a singular event by these particular officers who had to make an instantaneous decision about what to do, and this jury found that they acted appropriately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nietos' supporters said they would channel their efforts into other cases alleging misconduct by the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10891736 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10891736","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":791,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":20},"modified":1457736884,"excerpt":"Supporters disappointed in verdict for case that galvanized criticism of beleaguered department.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Supporters disappointed in verdict for case that galvanized criticism of beleaguered department.","title":"Jury Clears S.F. Police Officers of Wrongdoing in Nieto Shooting | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Jury Clears S.F. Police Officers of Wrongdoing in Nieto Shooting","datePublished":"2016-03-10T17:10:12-08:00","dateModified":"2016-03-11T14:54:44-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting","status":"publish","path":"/news/10891736/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An eight-member jury found no wrongdoing Thursday on the part of four San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a man in Bernal Heights Park two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict in the federal civil rights trial marks the end of almost two years of litigation over the high-profile officer-involved shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro \"Alex\" Nieto\u003c/a> on March 21, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants Richard Schiff, Jason Sawyer, Roger Morse and Nate Chew testified that Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at them and, believing it was a handgun, they fired at him until he stopped pointing it. Schiff and Sawyer reloaded during what plaintiffs' attorneys characterized as a \"one-sided firefight,\" and the four officers shot a total of 59 times, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">district attorney's investigation\u003c/a> of the shooting, which also cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a tragic event to lose a child in any way that that ever happens,\" Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgartner told reporters after the verdict. \"But my officers didn’t violate the Constitution when they used force in this situation, and the jury obviously found that Mr. Nieto had what looked like a gun in his hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10891906\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10891906 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-800x974.jpg\" alt='Alejandro \"Alex\" Nieto was shot and killed by San Francisco police on March 21, 2014.' width=\"800\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-800x974.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlexNieto-960x1169.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro 'Alex' Nieto was shot and killed by San Francisco police on March 21, 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ben Bac Sierra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/03/rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify\" target=\"_blank\">officers testified\u003c/a> that they saw a red laser sight coming from Nieto's Taser, and they continued to fire as long as they saw it -- and what they thought was a gun -- pointed at them. Morse said he never saw the laser sight, but he believed Nieto was pointing and firing a gun at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury deliberated for a total of about eight hours between the end of closing arguments on Wednesday and delivering its verdict Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents were devastated as they left the courthouse, according to their attorney and supporters. They did not stop to speak with reporters gathering outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Alex was a loving human being,\" said Ely Flores, who added that he'd been a close friend of Nieto's for several years. \"Alex was a gentle Buddhist, and Alex had a degree in the criminal justice system. Alex was on his way to become a probation officer, and he was brutally killed by the SFPD, somebody he looked up to. This is irony.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs' attorney Adante Pointer said he is \"considering all our legal options,\" but stopped short of promising an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a sad day for my clients, the Nietos, but it’s an even worse day for the city of San Francisco,\" he said, adding that he was surprised physical evidence and the testimony of a civilian witness didn't sway the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonio Theodore testified during the trial that he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/07/a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court\" target=\"_blank\">saw the shooting from a bluff\u003c/a> overlooking an access road in Bernal Heights Park. He said Nieto's hands never left his pockets during the shooting, and officers didn't give him time to respond to commands before they opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Theodore also said during cross-examination that his memory was hazy and that he had become an alcoholic since the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer said that a bone fragment discovered in Nieto's left jacket pocket and the fact that his Taser was discovered in its \"off\" position backed up Theodore's account of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They claim a man’s hand was in front of him, but yet his wrist bone is in his pocket,\" Pointer said. \"They claim a Taser was on and pointed at them and fired at them, but not a single officer says that they saw it fired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict comes as the San Francisco Police Department is besieged by scandals involving fatal shootings and racism. The jury in the Nieto trial was barred from hearing testimony about additional high-profile shootings following the incident. The most recent fatal SFPD shooting of a suspect, that of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> on Dec. 2, prompted a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">review by the U.S. Department of Justice\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/11/talk-of-tasers-overwhelms-debate-over-s-f-police-use-of-force\" target=\"_blank\">sweeping reforms\u003c/a> to the department's use-of-force policies. Part of the changes to SFPD use of force is to discourage multiple officers from firing a large number of gunshots at a suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is harder to present these cases to a jury because of what’s been reported in the press about other events,\" Baumgartner said, adding that jurors were required to focus only on the Nieto shooting. \"This was a singular event by these particular officers who had to make an instantaneous decision about what to do, and this jury found that they acted appropriately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nietos' supporters said they would channel their efforts into other cases alleging misconduct by the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10891736/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6137","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10891854","label":"news_6944"},"news_10886372":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10886372","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10886372","score":null,"sort":[1457362853000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1457362853,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"At Center of Nieto Shooting Case, One Witness Is Pitted Against Four S.F. Cops","title":"At Center of Nieto Shooting Case, One Witness Is Pitted Against Four S.F. Cops","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>After a harrowing week in federal court, a group of Alejandro Nieto's friends and supporters climbed a San Francisco hill Friday to the place where the community college student and aspiring law enforcement officer was shot to death by police two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday -- March 4 -- was Nieto's birthday. He would have turned 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the group of about 20 people have been meeting there since the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">March 21, 2014, shooting\u003c/a>, to remember Nieto and plan the political and legal fight that's finally led them to a civil rights trial that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/02/officers-to-testify-in-trial-over-fatal-san-francisco-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">started last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These disputed facts bear directly on whether a reasonable officer would have viewed Nieto as an immediate threat to themselves or others. ... A jury will have to decide whom to believe.'\u003ccite>Judge Nathanael Cousins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The trial is providing a rare glimpse into the workings of a Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">besieged\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">scandals\u003c/a> involving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racism\u003c/a>, calls for greater \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">transparency\u003c/a> and outrage over multiple high-profile police shootings. Officers Richard Schiff, Roger Morse, Nate Chew and Lt. Jason Sawyer all testified during the trial's opening week about their decisions to shoot -- and keep shooting -- at a man supporters say was casually walking down Bernal Hill to his job as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crime scene investigator, homicide detective, medical examiner and others testified about the investigations that followed, which cleared the officers of any criminal or administrative wrongdoing. The week ahead will likely see expert testimony critiquing the way police handled the shooting and its aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like it's been two years of starving for information,\" Adriana Camarena said Friday evening as Nieto's parents tended a shrine for their son. Now, she said, the details coming out in court are overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the group set up a birthday cake, a lanky, bearded man with dreadlocks approached along the same path Nieto did as he walked toward a police cruiser two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonio Theodore didn't know anyone at the gathering. He didn't go to all the meetings and marches that helped make Nieto's name a hashtag and street tag synonymous \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">in San Francisco's Mission District\u003c/a> with police use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10887237\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10887237\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10887237 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412-400x479.png\" alt=\"Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"400\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412-400x479.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Nieto. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ben Bac Sierra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what Theodore says he saw the night of the shooting, from a bluff overlooking that access road where Nieto died, is a major reason the case made it to trial. His account contradicts a crucial part of the four \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/03/rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify\" target=\"_blank\">officers' story\u003c/a> -- that Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at them from almost 100 feet away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers have all said in either testimony or depositions that they believed Nieto had a handgun and they fired an uninterrupted barrage -- as many as 59 rounds -- as he went to the ground and into a tactical shooting position, continuing to point the weapon at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore swore in court and repeated in an interview Friday night that Nieto's hands never left his jacket pockets. He said the driver of the first squad car at the scene (another would arrive during the shooting) shouted simply \"stop\" before firing four shots, then a few seconds' pause as Nieto fell to the ground, followed by a hail of bullets from all the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Dramatically Different Versions'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Judge Nathanael Cousins cited Theodore's pretrial testimony in a November ruling that allowed the case to go before a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here, there are two dramatically different versions of events presented by the parties,\" he wrote. \"These disputed facts bear directly on whether a reasonable officer would have viewed Nieto as an immediate threat to themselves or others. ... If Theodore testifies at trial as he did at his deposition, and the four officers testify consistently with their reports and deposition testimony, then a jury will have to decide whom to believe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Richard Schiff was first to testify in the case. The 25-year-old officer, who was about 10 weeks out of the academy when the shooting took place, kept calm and described in detail shouting \"show me your hands,\" as he and his training officer, then-Sgt. Jason Sawyer, got out of their patrol car with guns drawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said he started to repeat the command when Nieto mimicked it back to him, pulled up his jacket with both hands, then reached for his right hip. That was the moment Schiff decided to fire, he testified, but he didn't actually get a round off before Nieto had pulled what he thought was a gun emitting a red laser sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10887273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10887273\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10887273\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr addresses an angry crowd at a town hall meeting four days after police fatally shot Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr addresses an angry crowd at a town hall meeting four days after police fatally shot Alejandro Nieto. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I went to fire because he drew the firearm,\" Schiff said. \"I continued to fire because I saw the laser sight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was shot between 7:18 and 7:19 p.m., according to radio calls by Schiff and Sawyer that the defense played in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said Nieto went to the ground in a \"tactical prone\" position -- on his stomach with his hands in front of him -- after he fired his first 13 rounds, which appeared to have no effect. Sawyer testified that he thought Nieto might be wearing body armor and began aiming for the head. Both officers said they reloaded and kept firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore testified he was walking his dog in the park that evening, as he still does most days. He'd arrived about 7 p.m. and noticed Nieto near the access road before he jogged up to a pathway overlooking it. He said he stopped and watched a police car drive slowly up the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore said he was a little over 100 feet behind the officers and on an elevated path on their left when they stopped and raised their guns at Nieto, who was about another 100 feet up the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore said he heard the taller officer on the driver's side of the squad car -- which would be Schiff -- say \"stop,\" then immediately fire four shots. He said Nieto fell to his knees after the third shot, then to his face after the fourth, never removing his hands from his front jacket pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They paused for a little moment and after that they just rapidly opened fire on him while he's already on the ground,\" Theodore said Friday evening, repeating what he said in court. \"That's the part that really angered me and frustrated me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Witness Repeatedly Impeached\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During cross-examination, the officers' defense counsel, Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgartner, pressed Theodore on the timing of events following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His memory was vague about when he'd spoken to a district attorney's investigator versus one hired by the plaintiffs, for example, or when he publicly announced at a concert that he'd seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been long,\" Theodore said on the stand. \"My memory's not right. I've been kind of an alcoholic since.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore said in the interview Friday evening that he had trouble sleeping and eating since witnessing the incident, and it drove him to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think I function pretty well,\" he said. \"I kind of like been heavily drinking most days after that. I do not eat much. ... I never wanted to have to go to the court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said there's no doubt in his mind that the core of his testimony is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m 100 percent clear on what I saw,\" he said, \"and I would say it over and over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions About a Bone Fragment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury could interpret some physical evidence and other testimony as backing Theodore's version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff and Sawyer have testified that their shooting was continuous, and when Schiff ran empty, he shouted a code word, \"red,\" to Sawyer, who responded \"covering.\" The defense played a recording of police dispatch audio in court that captured Sawyer's response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other witnesses who heard, but didn't see the shooting have testified that they heard the four shot burst, a pause, and then a sustained volley. There's also audio recorded from a nearby surveillance camera that appears to back this account, according to local news website \u003ca href=\"http://www.48hills.org/2014/04/25/listen-gunshots-killed-alex-nieto-sound-file/\" target=\"_blank\">48 Hills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's the matter of a small bone fragment the medical examiner found in Nieto's left pocket. He was shot through the left wrist, and plaintiffs' attorneys argue it suggests Nieto's hands were in his pockets when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"aJfJUEwIaycNuajnIfKcY7gw3mjGrZTC\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You didn't put that bone in his pocket, did you?\" plaintiff's attorney Adante Pointer asked city medical examiner Amy Hart after he revealed the bone fragment's existence to the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she said, adding that she didn't try to determine where it came from, but that it could be a piece of Nieto's left wrist or hand. There was a matching tear on Nieto's jacket sleeve, she said, but no bullet holes in his clothing, and no gunshot wounds to his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a gunshot wound to Nieto's right lower leg that fractured both bones, Hart testified, and bruising on his left leg. She said his right leg couldn't have supported his weight after the shot, and it was possible that Nieto fell to his left knee after it struck him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Morse and Chew got to the scene after Schiff and Sawyer started firing. Morse is scheduled to continue testifying Monday. He said Friday that he never saw the red laser sight the other officers said drove them to keep firing, but added he still believed Nieto was shooting a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer has argued that photos of Nieto's Taser on the scene appear to show it with its safety engaged, meaning it was off and and no power was flowing to the laser sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' attorneys have not addressed the Taser's on-off switch yet, but the jury will likely hear a lot more about it on Monday, when the defense is scheduled to call an expert from Taser International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Jury Won't Hear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury won't hear from a psychiatric expert the defense hoped would introduce Nieto's medical history and whether it was likely that a man with a history of depression and a potential diagnosis of schizophrenia (which Nieto disputed when he was still alive, according to journal entries excluded from the case) was attempting to commit \"suicide by cop\" that night on Bernal Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's all information the officers couldn't have known at the time they decided to use deadly force, Cousins ruled, and so is immaterial to the jury's decision on whether that force was reasonable or excessive.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10886372 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10886372","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/07/a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1800,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":48},"modified":1457393771,"excerpt":"SFPD quartet says they fired because they thought Alejandro Nieto was armed; an eyewitness disagrees.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"SFPD quartet says they fired because they thought Alejandro Nieto was armed; an eyewitness disagrees.","title":"At Center of Nieto Shooting Case, One Witness Is Pitted Against Four S.F. Cops | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At Center of Nieto Shooting Case, One Witness Is Pitted Against Four S.F. Cops","datePublished":"2016-03-07T07:00:53-08:00","dateModified":"2016-03-07T15:36:11-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court","status":"publish","path":"/news/10886372/a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a harrowing week in federal court, a group of Alejandro Nieto's friends and supporters climbed a San Francisco hill Friday to the place where the community college student and aspiring law enforcement officer was shot to death by police two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday -- March 4 -- was Nieto's birthday. He would have turned 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the group of about 20 people have been meeting there since the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">March 21, 2014, shooting\u003c/a>, to remember Nieto and plan the political and legal fight that's finally led them to a civil rights trial that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/02/officers-to-testify-in-trial-over-fatal-san-francisco-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">started last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These disputed facts bear directly on whether a reasonable officer would have viewed Nieto as an immediate threat to themselves or others. ... A jury will have to decide whom to believe.'\u003ccite>Judge Nathanael Cousins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The trial is providing a rare glimpse into the workings of a Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">besieged\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">scandals\u003c/a> involving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racism\u003c/a>, calls for greater \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">transparency\u003c/a> and outrage over multiple high-profile police shootings. Officers Richard Schiff, Roger Morse, Nate Chew and Lt. Jason Sawyer all testified during the trial's opening week about their decisions to shoot -- and keep shooting -- at a man supporters say was casually walking down Bernal Hill to his job as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crime scene investigator, homicide detective, medical examiner and others testified about the investigations that followed, which cleared the officers of any criminal or administrative wrongdoing. The week ahead will likely see expert testimony critiquing the way police handled the shooting and its aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like it's been two years of starving for information,\" Adriana Camarena said Friday evening as Nieto's parents tended a shrine for their son. Now, she said, the details coming out in court are overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the group set up a birthday cake, a lanky, bearded man with dreadlocks approached along the same path Nieto did as he walked toward a police cruiser two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonio Theodore didn't know anyone at the gathering. He didn't go to all the meetings and marches that helped make Nieto's name a hashtag and street tag synonymous \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">in San Francisco's Mission District\u003c/a> with police use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10887237\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10887237\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10887237 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412-400x479.png\" alt=\"Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"400\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412-400x479.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS10102_Alex-Nieto-at-a-Wedding.png-alt_412.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Nieto. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ben Bac Sierra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what Theodore says he saw the night of the shooting, from a bluff overlooking that access road where Nieto died, is a major reason the case made it to trial. His account contradicts a crucial part of the four \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/03/rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify\" target=\"_blank\">officers' story\u003c/a> -- that Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at them from almost 100 feet away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers have all said in either testimony or depositions that they believed Nieto had a handgun and they fired an uninterrupted barrage -- as many as 59 rounds -- as he went to the ground and into a tactical shooting position, continuing to point the weapon at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore swore in court and repeated in an interview Friday night that Nieto's hands never left his jacket pockets. He said the driver of the first squad car at the scene (another would arrive during the shooting) shouted simply \"stop\" before firing four shots, then a few seconds' pause as Nieto fell to the ground, followed by a hail of bullets from all the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Dramatically Different Versions'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Judge Nathanael Cousins cited Theodore's pretrial testimony in a November ruling that allowed the case to go before a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here, there are two dramatically different versions of events presented by the parties,\" he wrote. \"These disputed facts bear directly on whether a reasonable officer would have viewed Nieto as an immediate threat to themselves or others. ... If Theodore testifies at trial as he did at his deposition, and the four officers testify consistently with their reports and deposition testimony, then a jury will have to decide whom to believe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Richard Schiff was first to testify in the case. The 25-year-old officer, who was about 10 weeks out of the academy when the shooting took place, kept calm and described in detail shouting \"show me your hands,\" as he and his training officer, then-Sgt. Jason Sawyer, got out of their patrol car with guns drawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said he started to repeat the command when Nieto mimicked it back to him, pulled up his jacket with both hands, then reached for his right hip. That was the moment Schiff decided to fire, he testified, but he didn't actually get a round off before Nieto had pulled what he thought was a gun emitting a red laser sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10887273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10887273\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10887273\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr addresses an angry crowd at a town hall meeting four days after police fatally shot Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr addresses an angry crowd at a town hall meeting four days after police fatally shot Alejandro Nieto. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I went to fire because he drew the firearm,\" Schiff said. \"I continued to fire because I saw the laser sight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was shot between 7:18 and 7:19 p.m., according to radio calls by Schiff and Sawyer that the defense played in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said Nieto went to the ground in a \"tactical prone\" position -- on his stomach with his hands in front of him -- after he fired his first 13 rounds, which appeared to have no effect. Sawyer testified that he thought Nieto might be wearing body armor and began aiming for the head. Both officers said they reloaded and kept firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore testified he was walking his dog in the park that evening, as he still does most days. He'd arrived about 7 p.m. and noticed Nieto near the access road before he jogged up to a pathway overlooking it. He said he stopped and watched a police car drive slowly up the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore said he was a little over 100 feet behind the officers and on an elevated path on their left when they stopped and raised their guns at Nieto, who was about another 100 feet up the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore said he heard the taller officer on the driver's side of the squad car -- which would be Schiff -- say \"stop,\" then immediately fire four shots. He said Nieto fell to his knees after the third shot, then to his face after the fourth, never removing his hands from his front jacket pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They paused for a little moment and after that they just rapidly opened fire on him while he's already on the ground,\" Theodore said Friday evening, repeating what he said in court. \"That's the part that really angered me and frustrated me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Witness Repeatedly Impeached\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During cross-examination, the officers' defense counsel, Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgartner, pressed Theodore on the timing of events following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His memory was vague about when he'd spoken to a district attorney's investigator versus one hired by the plaintiffs, for example, or when he publicly announced at a concert that he'd seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been long,\" Theodore said on the stand. \"My memory's not right. I've been kind of an alcoholic since.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore said in the interview Friday evening that he had trouble sleeping and eating since witnessing the incident, and it drove him to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think I function pretty well,\" he said. \"I kind of like been heavily drinking most days after that. I do not eat much. ... I never wanted to have to go to the court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said there's no doubt in his mind that the core of his testimony is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m 100 percent clear on what I saw,\" he said, \"and I would say it over and over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions About a Bone Fragment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury could interpret some physical evidence and other testimony as backing Theodore's version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff and Sawyer have testified that their shooting was continuous, and when Schiff ran empty, he shouted a code word, \"red,\" to Sawyer, who responded \"covering.\" The defense played a recording of police dispatch audio in court that captured Sawyer's response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other witnesses who heard, but didn't see the shooting have testified that they heard the four shot burst, a pause, and then a sustained volley. There's also audio recorded from a nearby surveillance camera that appears to back this account, according to local news website \u003ca href=\"http://www.48hills.org/2014/04/25/listen-gunshots-killed-alex-nieto-sound-file/\" target=\"_blank\">48 Hills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's the matter of a small bone fragment the medical examiner found in Nieto's left pocket. He was shot through the left wrist, and plaintiffs' attorneys argue it suggests Nieto's hands were in his pockets when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You didn't put that bone in his pocket, did you?\" plaintiff's attorney Adante Pointer asked city medical examiner Amy Hart after he revealed the bone fragment's existence to the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she said, adding that she didn't try to determine where it came from, but that it could be a piece of Nieto's left wrist or hand. There was a matching tear on Nieto's jacket sleeve, she said, but no bullet holes in his clothing, and no gunshot wounds to his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a gunshot wound to Nieto's right lower leg that fractured both bones, Hart testified, and bruising on his left leg. She said his right leg couldn't have supported his weight after the shot, and it was possible that Nieto fell to his left knee after it struck him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Morse and Chew got to the scene after Schiff and Sawyer started firing. Morse is scheduled to continue testifying Monday. He said Friday that he never saw the red laser sight the other officers said drove them to keep firing, but added he still believed Nieto was shooting a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer has argued that photos of Nieto's Taser on the scene appear to show it with its safety engaged, meaning it was off and and no power was flowing to the laser sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' attorneys have not addressed the Taser's on-off switch yet, but the jury will likely hear a lot more about it on Monday, when the defense is scheduled to call an expert from Taser International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Jury Won't Hear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury won't hear from a psychiatric expert the defense hoped would introduce Nieto's medical history and whether it was likely that a man with a history of depression and a potential diagnosis of schizophrenia (which Nieto disputed when he was still alive, according to journal entries excluded from the case) was attempting to commit \"suicide by cop\" that night on Bernal Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's all information the officers couldn't have known at the time they decided to use deadly force, Cousins ruled, and so is immaterial to the jury's decision on whether that force was reasonable or excessive.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10886372/a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_6137","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10887233","label":"news_6944"},"news_10884081":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10884081","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10884081","score":null,"sort":[1457030140000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1457030140,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Rookie and Veteran S.F. Police Officers Testify About Confronting, Shooting Alejandro Nieto","title":"Rookie and Veteran S.F. Police Officers Testify About Confronting, Shooting Alejandro Nieto","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>The pair of San Francisco police officers who first confronted a man they would \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">shoot to death\u003c/a> seconds later in a San Francisco park two years ago testified Wednesday that they were certain Alejandro Nieto was threatening them with a firearm, only to discover after shooting a combined 43 rounds that he was carrying a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents are suing Lt. Jason Sawyer and Officers Richard Schiff, Roger Morse and Nate Chew in federal court for excessive force causing the wrongful death of their 28-year-old son. They plan to call a civilian witness who will testify that Nieto never drew the Taser he was carrying, according to their attorney, after first calling Schiff and Sawyer to the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Once I realized there was no reaction, I picked up my sights and I aimed for the head.'\u003ccite>Lt. Jason Sawyer,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Police Department\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Both officers testified that Nieto seemed not to react to their gunshots and continued to hold a gun-shaped object in front of him that was casting a red laser sight from its tip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Usually there is an expectation that if a person is getting shot or shot at -- maybe they drop the object,\" Sawyer testified. \"If they're getting hit, they wince, scream, yell, something. There was no reaction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said after he emptied the first 13 rounds from his gun and went to reload, he thought maybe Nieto was wearing a bulletproof vest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once I realized there was no reaction, I picked up my sights and I aimed for the head,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High-Priority Call: 'We're going'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, who is now 25, was about 10 weeks out of the police academy and was being evaluated by Sgt. Jason Sawyer on the evening of March 21, 2014. They had just finished a traffic stop and were talking it over in a gas station parking lot about a mile away when dispatch relayed a 911 call of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"50GP7S62DmLs54YkseXthAjzhdVxKBXK\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe I told Officer Schiff, 'We're going,' \" Sawyer testified. They circled around the south side of Bernal Heights Park, but they couldn't get in, and Schiff eventually pulled around a gate to an access road on the park's northern side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff slowed down when they saw a man matching the description of a Latino male -- 6-foot-1, weighing about 200 pounds and wearing a red jacket -- round a corner on the steep access road and stride toward the officers' patrol car, he testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' descriptions of Nieto differed slightly. Schiff said he had nothing in his hands; Sawyer said he was carrying a bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer suggested Schiff pull a little closer, and they both exited their car with their guns drawn about 30 yards from Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Show me your hands'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto stopped and took a shooting stance as they were getting out of the car, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rookie officer testified that he shouted, \"Show me your hands!\" once and began to shout it again when Nieto mimicked the phrase back to him, and raised both arms up slightly. Then, Schiff said, Nieto reached to his hip with his right hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer said he made eye contact with Nieto and saw an \"aggressive, angry response\" to the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He understood what I said, heard what I said, was able to articulate it back to me and now presented a serious threat,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the Nietos' attorney, Adante Pointer, that he didn't recall that Nieto was wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. The officers' lead counsel, Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgarten, said after the hearing that there would be further testimony on whether Nieto was wearing sunglasses, but she did not elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said he saw the laser sight before he was able to fire his first round. After exhausting his first magazine, he shouted \"red\" to Sawyer, a code for being out of ammunition, and Sawyer shouted back \"covering.\" As he reloaded, Schiff said Nieto went to the ground in a prone position -- on his stomach with his arms stretched out in front of him -- and he continued aiming the Taser and its red laser sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime during the shooting, officers Roger Morse and Nate Chew pulled their cruiser alongside Schiff and Sawyer, but neither of the initial officers noticed they were there until the shooting stopped. Morse and Chew also fired at Nieto and are expected to testify Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cease fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All continued shooting until Sawyer gave an order to cease fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw his head go down,\" he testified. \"I saw the gun that was in his hand go to the side, and it appeared that his body went limp.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers spread across the road and approached Nieto in a loose line. Morse kicked the Taser away and Schiff searched and handcuffed Nieto. He said Nieto was making noises and moving his mouth, and he was about to start CPR when another officer relieved him so he could be separated from the other involved officers and taken from the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was pronounced dead at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was tragic, but unfortunately I was forced,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10884081 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10884081","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/03/rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":871,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":28},"modified":1457044719,"excerpt":"Officers' accounts vary somewhat, but both say they saw a red laser sight they believed was coming from a gun.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Officers' accounts vary somewhat, but both say they saw a red laser sight they believed was coming from a gun.","title":"Rookie and Veteran S.F. Police Officers Testify About Confronting, Shooting Alejandro Nieto | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Rookie and Veteran S.F. Police Officers Testify About Confronting, Shooting Alejandro Nieto","datePublished":"2016-03-03T10:35:40-08:00","dateModified":"2016-03-03T14:38:39-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify","status":"publish","path":"/news/10884081/rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The pair of San Francisco police officers who first confronted a man they would \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">shoot to death\u003c/a> seconds later in a San Francisco park two years ago testified Wednesday that they were certain Alejandro Nieto was threatening them with a firearm, only to discover after shooting a combined 43 rounds that he was carrying a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents are suing Lt. Jason Sawyer and Officers Richard Schiff, Roger Morse and Nate Chew in federal court for excessive force causing the wrongful death of their 28-year-old son. They plan to call a civilian witness who will testify that Nieto never drew the Taser he was carrying, according to their attorney, after first calling Schiff and Sawyer to the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Once I realized there was no reaction, I picked up my sights and I aimed for the head.'\u003ccite>Lt. Jason Sawyer,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Police Department\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Both officers testified that Nieto seemed not to react to their gunshots and continued to hold a gun-shaped object in front of him that was casting a red laser sight from its tip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Usually there is an expectation that if a person is getting shot or shot at -- maybe they drop the object,\" Sawyer testified. \"If they're getting hit, they wince, scream, yell, something. There was no reaction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said after he emptied the first 13 rounds from his gun and went to reload, he thought maybe Nieto was wearing a bulletproof vest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once I realized there was no reaction, I picked up my sights and I aimed for the head,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High-Priority Call: 'We're going'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, who is now 25, was about 10 weeks out of the police academy and was being evaluated by Sgt. Jason Sawyer on the evening of March 21, 2014. They had just finished a traffic stop and were talking it over in a gas station parking lot about a mile away when dispatch relayed a 911 call of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe I told Officer Schiff, 'We're going,' \" Sawyer testified. They circled around the south side of Bernal Heights Park, but they couldn't get in, and Schiff eventually pulled around a gate to an access road on the park's northern side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff slowed down when they saw a man matching the description of a Latino male -- 6-foot-1, weighing about 200 pounds and wearing a red jacket -- round a corner on the steep access road and stride toward the officers' patrol car, he testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' descriptions of Nieto differed slightly. Schiff said he had nothing in his hands; Sawyer said he was carrying a bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer suggested Schiff pull a little closer, and they both exited their car with their guns drawn about 30 yards from Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Show me your hands'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto stopped and took a shooting stance as they were getting out of the car, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rookie officer testified that he shouted, \"Show me your hands!\" once and began to shout it again when Nieto mimicked the phrase back to him, and raised both arms up slightly. Then, Schiff said, Nieto reached to his hip with his right hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer said he made eye contact with Nieto and saw an \"aggressive, angry response\" to the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He understood what I said, heard what I said, was able to articulate it back to me and now presented a serious threat,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the Nietos' attorney, Adante Pointer, that he didn't recall that Nieto was wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. The officers' lead counsel, Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgarten, said after the hearing that there would be further testimony on whether Nieto was wearing sunglasses, but she did not elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said he saw the laser sight before he was able to fire his first round. After exhausting his first magazine, he shouted \"red\" to Sawyer, a code for being out of ammunition, and Sawyer shouted back \"covering.\" As he reloaded, Schiff said Nieto went to the ground in a prone position -- on his stomach with his arms stretched out in front of him -- and he continued aiming the Taser and its red laser sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime during the shooting, officers Roger Morse and Nate Chew pulled their cruiser alongside Schiff and Sawyer, but neither of the initial officers noticed they were there until the shooting stopped. Morse and Chew also fired at Nieto and are expected to testify Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cease fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All continued shooting until Sawyer gave an order to cease fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw his head go down,\" he testified. \"I saw the gun that was in his hand go to the side, and it appeared that his body went limp.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers spread across the road and approached Nieto in a loose line. Morse kicked the Taser away and Schiff searched and handcuffed Nieto. He said Nieto was making noises and moving his mouth, and he was about to start CPR when another officer relieved him so he could be separated from the other involved officers and taken from the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was pronounced dead at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was tragic, but unfortunately I was forced,\" Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10884081/rookie-and-veteran-s-f-police-officers-at-center-of-alejandro-nieto-shooting-testify","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_6137","news_4379","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10884484","label":"news_6944"},"news_10882858":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10882858","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10882858","score":null,"sort":[1456939169000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1456939169,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Officers to Testify in Trial Over Fatal San Francisco Police Shooting","title":"Officers to Testify in Trial Over Fatal San Francisco Police Shooting","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Four San Francisco police officers are scheduled to testify Wednesday in a federal civil rights trial brought by the parents of a man they shot and killed two years ago in Bernal Heights Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Richard Schiff, Roger Morse, Nate Chew and Lt. Jason Sawyer are all expected to testify that Alejandro Nieto \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">continued to point what they thought was a handgun\u003c/a> at them as they fired dozens of rounds at him, only later discovering he was holding a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One civilian eyewitness disputes that Nieto ever drew the Taser he was carrying to work as a security guard on the evening of March 21, 2014. Antonio Theodore will testify that Nieto's hands were in his pockets when police opened fire, according to attorney Adante Pointer, who is representing Nieto's parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"EYwIbX8rK49rG2BmVFVcpNeu7YHi4QPP\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have officers who empty a whole clip, reload, and continue firing at a person who a witness says was not holding a Taser, that’s a serious issue, that’s a serious problem and that’s not a credible or reasonable threat,\" Pointer said outside the courthouse Tuesday, noting that the officers fired a total of 59 shots at Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' defense attorney, Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgartner, told the jury they would spend several days scrutinizing an incident that played out in about 11 minutes between the first 911 call reporting a man with a gun and the time Nieto was shot -- looking especially closely at about 45 seconds \"in which these officers actually engaged Mr. Nieto.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently sworn officer Richard Schiff was with his training officer, then-Sgt. Jason Sawyer, when they responded to the call shortly after 7 p.m. Schiff pulled their squad car around a metal gate blocking an access road up Bernal Hill and drove toward a lone man in a red jacket and black hat matching the description they'd received from dispatch, according to the city's trial brief. Schiff stopped about 30 yards away and both officers got out of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argues the officers shouted at Nieto to \"show me your hands,\" and he responded \"no, show me your hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eyewitness says he heard officers simply say \"stop\" before immediately opening fire while Nieto's hands were still in his pockets, according to the plaintiff's amended complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Nieto drew what looked like a gun before Sawyer and Schiff started firing, and the officers could see the Taser's red laser sight pointing at them. Officers Nathan Chew and Roger Morse pulled up next to Sawyer and Schiff's squad car as they were shooting at Nieto, now lying prone, and also said they saw the red laser sight and began firing, according to the city's trial brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators recovered 48 shell casings from the scene, a total that does not match the 59 rounds emptied from officers' magazines and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer told the jury in his opening statement that Schiff fired 13 rounds, then reloaded and fired 10 more. Sgt. Sawyer also reloaded and fired a total of 20 rounds at Nieto. Chew fired five times, and Morse fired 11 shots, Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It'll be up for the jury to decide and make these credibility determinations whether Mr. Nieto was just a super human that could take shots to his temple, into his mouth, into his chest, into his spine, and still maintain the type of activity that they claim he did,\" Pointer said. \"There's no compelling physical evidence to corroborate the story that Alex somehow maintained his position of pointing something out while receiving gunshots from his temple down to his leg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baumgartner told the jury that all four officers saw a laser sight coming from what they thought was a gun in Nieto's hands, and they all kept firing until he stopped pointing it and his head drooped to the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although there were a large number of shots fired, only a small percentage of those shots actually hit Mr. Nieto,\" she said, \"and we don't know when most of them hit him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto died from 14 or 15 gunshot wounds, possibly caused by as few as 10 bullets, according to the San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/12/Nieto-medical-examiners-report/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner's report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baumgartner said the officers feared for their lives even after Sawyer shouted \"cease fire\" and they walked over about 90 feet to Nieto's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Morse approached, he kicked the gun out of the man's hand and it was at that point they saw the yellow markings on the side of the gun,\" she said. \"And it was only at that point that they realized what this man had been pointing at them was a Taser, and was not a gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10882858 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10882858","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/02/officers-to-testify-in-trial-over-fatal-san-francisco-police-shooting/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":800,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":20},"modified":1456960768,"excerpt":"Four police officers involved in a shooting in Bernal Heights Park will testify today.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Four police officers involved in a shooting in Bernal Heights Park will testify today.","title":"Officers to Testify in Trial Over Fatal San Francisco Police Shooting | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Officers to Testify in Trial Over Fatal San Francisco Police Shooting","datePublished":"2016-03-02T09:19:29-08:00","dateModified":"2016-03-02T15:19:28-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"officers-to-testify-in-trial-over-fatal-san-francisco-police-shooting","status":"publish","path":"/news/10882858/officers-to-testify-in-trial-over-fatal-san-francisco-police-shooting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Four San Francisco police officers are scheduled to testify Wednesday in a federal civil rights trial brought by the parents of a man they shot and killed two years ago in Bernal Heights Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Richard Schiff, Roger Morse, Nate Chew and Lt. Jason Sawyer are all expected to testify that Alejandro Nieto \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">continued to point what they thought was a handgun\u003c/a> at them as they fired dozens of rounds at him, only later discovering he was holding a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One civilian eyewitness disputes that Nieto ever drew the Taser he was carrying to work as a security guard on the evening of March 21, 2014. Antonio Theodore will testify that Nieto's hands were in his pockets when police opened fire, according to attorney Adante Pointer, who is representing Nieto's parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have officers who empty a whole clip, reload, and continue firing at a person who a witness says was not holding a Taser, that’s a serious issue, that’s a serious problem and that’s not a credible or reasonable threat,\" Pointer said outside the courthouse Tuesday, noting that the officers fired a total of 59 shots at Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers' defense attorney, Deputy City Attorney Margaret Baumgartner, told the jury they would spend several days scrutinizing an incident that played out in about 11 minutes between the first 911 call reporting a man with a gun and the time Nieto was shot -- looking especially closely at about 45 seconds \"in which these officers actually engaged Mr. Nieto.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently sworn officer Richard Schiff was with his training officer, then-Sgt. Jason Sawyer, when they responded to the call shortly after 7 p.m. Schiff pulled their squad car around a metal gate blocking an access road up Bernal Hill and drove toward a lone man in a red jacket and black hat matching the description they'd received from dispatch, according to the city's trial brief. Schiff stopped about 30 yards away and both officers got out of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argues the officers shouted at Nieto to \"show me your hands,\" and he responded \"no, show me your hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eyewitness says he heard officers simply say \"stop\" before immediately opening fire while Nieto's hands were still in his pockets, according to the plaintiff's amended complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Nieto drew what looked like a gun before Sawyer and Schiff started firing, and the officers could see the Taser's red laser sight pointing at them. Officers Nathan Chew and Roger Morse pulled up next to Sawyer and Schiff's squad car as they were shooting at Nieto, now lying prone, and also said they saw the red laser sight and began firing, according to the city's trial brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators recovered 48 shell casings from the scene, a total that does not match the 59 rounds emptied from officers' magazines and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer told the jury in his opening statement that Schiff fired 13 rounds, then reloaded and fired 10 more. Sgt. Sawyer also reloaded and fired a total of 20 rounds at Nieto. Chew fired five times, and Morse fired 11 shots, Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It'll be up for the jury to decide and make these credibility determinations whether Mr. Nieto was just a super human that could take shots to his temple, into his mouth, into his chest, into his spine, and still maintain the type of activity that they claim he did,\" Pointer said. \"There's no compelling physical evidence to corroborate the story that Alex somehow maintained his position of pointing something out while receiving gunshots from his temple down to his leg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baumgartner told the jury that all four officers saw a laser sight coming from what they thought was a gun in Nieto's hands, and they all kept firing until he stopped pointing it and his head drooped to the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although there were a large number of shots fired, only a small percentage of those shots actually hit Mr. Nieto,\" she said, \"and we don't know when most of them hit him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto died from 14 or 15 gunshot wounds, possibly caused by as few as 10 bullets, according to the San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/12/Nieto-medical-examiners-report/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner's report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baumgartner said the officers feared for their lives even after Sawyer shouted \"cease fire\" and they walked over about 90 feet to Nieto's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Morse approached, he kicked the gun out of the man's hand and it was at that point they saw the yellow markings on the side of the gun,\" she said. \"And it was only at that point that they realized what this man had been pointing at them was a Taser, and was not a gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10882858/officers-to-testify-in-trial-over-fatal-san-francisco-police-shooting","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6137","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10882862","label":"news_6944"},"news_10432299":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10432299","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10432299","score":null,"sort":[1423864129000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1423864129,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"SF District Attorney: Police Acted Lawfully in Nieto Shooting","title":"SF District Attorney: Police Acted Lawfully in Nieto Shooting","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón has determined that four of the city's police officers acted lawfully when they shot and killed 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto in Bernal Heights Park last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 12 letter to San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr (\u003ca href=\"#letter\">read below\u003c/a>), Gascón outlined the decision not to criminally charge any of the officers involved in the shooting. The district attorney's letter outlined similar circumstances leading to the shooting as those described by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr a few days after\u003c/a> the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department's and now the district attorney's view of Nieto has consistently contrasted sharply from the description of him by friends, family and others in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's letter describes a troubled young man with a somewhat recent history of aggression and mental illness. But in San Francisco's Mission District, Nieto was known as a gentle Buddhist, a successful community college student and an aspiring youth probation officer well known and liked by the probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters are calling for a protest at the Hall of Justice Friday afternoon, the latest in a sustained string of demonstrations since the shooting. To many residents of the Mission angry over the shooting, Nieto's death is a tragic \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">example of gentrification gone wrong\u003c/a> , because -- in their view -- those who didn't know the neighborhood well called the police on a man who was simply eating a burrito before going to work as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents filed a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">federal wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city in August, which is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nieto family refused to meet with Gascón today, according to a statement released this afternoon from supporters. The statement said the district attorney's decision was predictable, and that the family's lawsuit will proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand with the Nieto Family by turning our backs on the criminal justice system too,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The DA's Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gascon's letter, several people walking in the park noticed Nieto had what they thought was a gun and were frightened by his behavior. Family and supporters have said he carried a Taser for his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man told investigators Nieto pointed a Taser at his dog, shouted profanity, and aggressively challenged him. The witness attempted to notify police just after 7 p.m. via SFPD's non-emergency phone number, but was unsuccessful, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of three separate witnesses who called 911 at 7:09 p.m. reported seeing a man with a holstered gun, shadow boxing . (Listen to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/sfpd-dispatch-audio-from-fatal-police-shooting-nieto/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD radio scanner audio\u003c/a> of the incident.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Sgt. Jason Sawyer (now a lieutenant) and Officer Richard Schiff responded to the call and encountered Nieto in the park sometime after 7:12 p.m. They stopped their patrol car 25 to 30 yards in front of Nieto, exited with their guns drawn and commanded him to show his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto pulled a weapon both officers believed to be a firearm, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district attorney:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Both officers discharged their firearms at Mr. Nieto. After a number of shots were fired, Mr. Nieto continued standing with his weapon still pointing at the officers. Both officers continued firing towards Mr. Nieto, at which point he dropped to his knees and then laid down flat on the ground in a prone position with his head up, his arms outstretched in front of him, and still pointing his weapon at the officers. Officer Schiff thought Mr. Nieto might have taken this position as a tactical maneuver to make his body a smaller target. Officer Schiff then, for the first time, saw the red light coming from Mr. Nieto’s weapon and thought it might be a laser sight. Both officers believed Mr. Nieto was still trying to fire back at them and continued to fire at Mr. Nieto.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officers Roger Morse and Nathan Chew arrived at the scene in a separate patrol car shortly after the first shots were fired and began shooting at Nieto as he lay on his stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FT866T6lO6AV8aHyH1Ik7DeB7HT2r4Vk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All four officers continued firing until Mr. Nieto's head and weapon went down and Sergeant Sawyer yelled for officers to cease fire,\" the letter says. The DA found that the four officers fired a total of 59 rounds at Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysis of Nieto's Taser showed it was fired approximately five seconds after Sawyer and Schiff began shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Medical Examiner previously found Nieto had been shot 14 or 15 times. The medical examiner's report also included a description of Nieto's medical records obtained from San Francisco General Hospital, which included \"a history of aggressive and bizarre behavior and auditory hallucinations, and a clinical history of psychosis\" exacerbated by his failure to take medications, the district attorney's letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was twice taken into custody by SFPD in 2011 for a 72-hour mental health evaluation, according to the DA. The estranged husband of Nieto's friend also reported Nieto had shot him with a Taser just a few weeks before the Bernal Heights shooting. Nieto and the man filed dueling restraining orders against each other.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\"The belief of each officer that Mr. Nieto’s weapon was a firearm was clearly reasonable,\" Gascón concluded. \"Under these facts, the use of deadly force was justified. It is, therefore, our conclusion that Sergeant Sawyer, Officer Schiff, Officer Morse and Officer Chew acted lawfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read district attorney's letter below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=255684604 key=key-2ktpw7kjaZSer8OBweZi mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10432299 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10432299","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":949,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":26},"modified":1423874611,"excerpt":"Nieto's family and supporters refuse to meet with DA, say finding is example of broken system.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Nieto's family and supporters refuse to meet with DA, say finding is example of broken system.","title":"SF District Attorney: Police Acted Lawfully in Nieto Shooting | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF District Attorney: Police Acted Lawfully in Nieto Shooting","datePublished":"2015-02-13T13:48:49-08:00","dateModified":"2015-02-13T16:43:31-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting","status":"publish","path":"/news/10432299/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón has determined that four of the city's police officers acted lawfully when they shot and killed 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto in Bernal Heights Park last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 12 letter to San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr (\u003ca href=\"#letter\">read below\u003c/a>), Gascón outlined the decision not to criminally charge any of the officers involved in the shooting. The district attorney's letter outlined similar circumstances leading to the shooting as those described by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr a few days after\u003c/a> the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department's and now the district attorney's view of Nieto has consistently contrasted sharply from the description of him by friends, family and others in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's letter describes a troubled young man with a somewhat recent history of aggression and mental illness. But in San Francisco's Mission District, Nieto was known as a gentle Buddhist, a successful community college student and an aspiring youth probation officer well known and liked by the probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters are calling for a protest at the Hall of Justice Friday afternoon, the latest in a sustained string of demonstrations since the shooting. To many residents of the Mission angry over the shooting, Nieto's death is a tragic \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">example of gentrification gone wrong\u003c/a> , because -- in their view -- those who didn't know the neighborhood well called the police on a man who was simply eating a burrito before going to work as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents filed a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">federal wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city in August, which is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nieto family refused to meet with Gascón today, according to a statement released this afternoon from supporters. The statement said the district attorney's decision was predictable, and that the family's lawsuit will proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand with the Nieto Family by turning our backs on the criminal justice system too,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The DA's Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gascon's letter, several people walking in the park noticed Nieto had what they thought was a gun and were frightened by his behavior. Family and supporters have said he carried a Taser for his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man told investigators Nieto pointed a Taser at his dog, shouted profanity, and aggressively challenged him. The witness attempted to notify police just after 7 p.m. via SFPD's non-emergency phone number, but was unsuccessful, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of three separate witnesses who called 911 at 7:09 p.m. reported seeing a man with a holstered gun, shadow boxing . (Listen to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/sfpd-dispatch-audio-from-fatal-police-shooting-nieto/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD radio scanner audio\u003c/a> of the incident.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Sgt. Jason Sawyer (now a lieutenant) and Officer Richard Schiff responded to the call and encountered Nieto in the park sometime after 7:12 p.m. They stopped their patrol car 25 to 30 yards in front of Nieto, exited with their guns drawn and commanded him to show his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto pulled a weapon both officers believed to be a firearm, the letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district attorney:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Both officers discharged their firearms at Mr. Nieto. After a number of shots were fired, Mr. Nieto continued standing with his weapon still pointing at the officers. Both officers continued firing towards Mr. Nieto, at which point he dropped to his knees and then laid down flat on the ground in a prone position with his head up, his arms outstretched in front of him, and still pointing his weapon at the officers. Officer Schiff thought Mr. Nieto might have taken this position as a tactical maneuver to make his body a smaller target. Officer Schiff then, for the first time, saw the red light coming from Mr. Nieto’s weapon and thought it might be a laser sight. Both officers believed Mr. Nieto was still trying to fire back at them and continued to fire at Mr. Nieto.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officers Roger Morse and Nathan Chew arrived at the scene in a separate patrol car shortly after the first shots were fired and began shooting at Nieto as he lay on his stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All four officers continued firing until Mr. Nieto's head and weapon went down and Sergeant Sawyer yelled for officers to cease fire,\" the letter says. The DA found that the four officers fired a total of 59 rounds at Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysis of Nieto's Taser showed it was fired approximately five seconds after Sawyer and Schiff began shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Medical Examiner previously found Nieto had been shot 14 or 15 times. The medical examiner's report also included a description of Nieto's medical records obtained from San Francisco General Hospital, which included \"a history of aggressive and bizarre behavior and auditory hallucinations, and a clinical history of psychosis\" exacerbated by his failure to take medications, the district attorney's letter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was twice taken into custody by SFPD in 2011 for a 72-hour mental health evaluation, according to the DA. The estranged husband of Nieto's friend also reported Nieto had shot him with a Taser just a few weeks before the Bernal Heights shooting. Nieto and the man filed dueling restraining orders against each other.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\"The belief of each officer that Mr. Nieto’s weapon was a firearm was clearly reasonable,\" Gascón concluded. \"Under these facts, the use of deadly force was justified. It is, therefore, our conclusion that Sergeant Sawyer, Officer Schiff, Officer Morse and Officer Chew acted lawfully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read district attorney's letter below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/255684604/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-2ktpw7kjaZSer8OBweZi\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/255684604\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_255684604\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/255684604\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10432299/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_6137","news_546","news_1300","news_3156"],"featImg":"news_10356156","label":"news_6944"},"news_10398649":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10398649","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10398649","score":null,"sort":[1420510908000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1420510908,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Supreme Court Ruling Paved Way for Release of SFPD Names in Nieto Killing","title":"Supreme Court Ruling Paved Way for Release of SFPD Names in Nieto Killing","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department preempted a federal court order to publicly identify a sergeant and three officers involved in a fatal shooting last March, releasing the four names about 4:30 p.m. Friday afternoon instead of today, when a protective order was set to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department identified Sgt. Jason Sawyer and officers Roger Morse, Richard Schiff and Nathan Chew as the police officers who fatally shot 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto on March 21, 2014, in Bernal Heights Park. Police Chief Greg Suhr had said Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at police responding to reports of a man with a gun, and officers believed he had a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a victory,\" Nieto family friend and spokesman Ben Bac Sierra said. \"The attorney is now going to get the full police reports, witness statements. Depositions are going to be taken by everyone who was there at the killing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's family and supporters have long called for the identities of the shooting officers. Without a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/29/state-supreme-court-rules-for-more-transparency-in-police-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">state Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> concerning a Long Beach officer-involved shooting, they'd likely still be waiting, according to legal experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This would be one of the first cases, if not the first case, to test the ruling in the Long Beach case, especially in the context that we’ve seen this heightened sensitivity in these police shooting cases.'\u003ccite>David Levine,UC Hastings Law Professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The majority opinion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/227096918/Long-Beach-Police-Officers-Association-v-City-of-Long-Beach-et-al-Los-Angeles-Times-Communications-Ruling\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Police Officers Association v. City of Long Beach (Los Angeles Times Communications)\u003c/a> narrowed exceptions to public disclosure of the names of officers involved in shootings, but not for every case. The decision was issued May 29, 2014, two months after Nieto was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Long Beach case essentially set out the parameters of when and how these names must be turned over,\" said attorney Adante Pointer, who is representing Nieto's parents in a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against San Francisco and city Police Chief Greg Suhr. \"The Nieto case was potentially a case of first impression. This was going to interpret what constitutes a credible threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Credible Threat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court ruled that \"generally, the public has a right to know the identity of an officer involved in an on-duty shooting.\" But, the ruling says, \"We do not hold that the names of officers involved in shootings have to be disclosed in every case, regardless of the circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The circumstances involve what the Supreme Court majority calls \"particularized,\" or specific, evidence that \"it is essential to protect an officer's anonymity for safety reasons or for reasons peculiar to the officer's duties.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Hastings law Professor David Levine said there have been very few, if any, cases that have tested the disclosure requirements laid out in the Long Beach decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Nieto case is \"one of the first cases, if not the first case, to test the ruling in the Long Beach case, especially in the context that we’ve seen this heightened sensitivity in these police shooting cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"cLoqlYPmos0DT9LHWLkkZhaA56fG2qxt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That heightened sensitivity is not only to officer-involved shootings of suspects, Levine said, but is also affected by the slaying of two \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/26/373291959/wake-held-for-slain-nypd-officers\" target=\"_blank\">New York police officers\u003c/a> on Dec. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD and the San Francisco city attorney argued they had a \"particularized showing\" in the Nieto shooting that warranted keeping the officers' names secret. Suhr described a threat made against the involved officers on a \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/justice4alexnieto/chief-greg-suhr-11122014-on-1010am-hecho-en-california\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish/English radio program in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a credible threat against the officers involved in the Alejandro Nieto tragedy,\" Suhr said. \"We believe he had the capability of carrying out his threats because he’s a violent person. We need to eliminate the chance that he can harm the officers, and then we can put the officers' names out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said on the program that the threat was made \"almost immediately after the shooting took place.\" When pressed, Suhr said, \"Our information right now is that he’s not even in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman confirmed via email today that \"it was a phone threat to the station directing the violence at the officers involved.\" The spokesman wrote that the suspect is still believed to be abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How are you going to say these are credible threats when this person isn’t even in the damn country?\" Pointer said. \"If that’s the precedent, any whacko could make a threat, and the police could say this guy made a threat two years ago, and we don’t have to release the information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge Rules for Plaintiffs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins ruled against the city and set Jan. 5 as the date a protective order blocking the release of the officers' names would expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/12/court-says-city-must-reveal-officer-names-in-nieto-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Local covered\u003c/a> the Dec. 22 discovery hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cousins said that without a more straightforward timeline for the threats to be resolved, the anonymity could continue indefinitely, making it prudent to set a date for the protective order to expire since it limits the plaintiff’s ability to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Levine said in light of the Long Beach ruling, it'd be difficult to reach another conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The case comes down so strongly in favor of disclosure, I can see why the magistrate would reach that conclusion,\" he said. \"Unless you thought that it was both credible and imminent, meaning in a pretty short time frame, the values of disclosure that the Long Beach case expresses are going to outweigh the vagueness of a less credible threat. But if you’re wrong, and then the name is released, and within a relatively short period of time, we find ourselves with another officer murdered, that’s a really tough decision for a judge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sean McGrier contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10398649 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10398649","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/05/supreme-court-ruling-paved-way-for-release-of-sfpd-names-in-nieto-killing/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":974,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":27},"modified":1420566060,"excerpt":"Decision on a police shooting in Long Beach weighs on San Francisco's attempts to prevent disclosure.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Decision on a police shooting in Long Beach weighs on San Francisco's attempts to prevent disclosure.","title":"Supreme Court Ruling Paved Way for Release of SFPD Names in Nieto Killing | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Supreme Court Ruling Paved Way for Release of SFPD Names in Nieto Killing","datePublished":"2015-01-05T18:21:48-08:00","dateModified":"2015-01-06T09:41:00-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"supreme-court-ruling-paved-way-for-release-of-sfpd-names-in-nieto-killing","status":"publish","path":"/news/10398649/supreme-court-ruling-paved-way-for-release-of-sfpd-names-in-nieto-killing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department preempted a federal court order to publicly identify a sergeant and three officers involved in a fatal shooting last March, releasing the four names about 4:30 p.m. Friday afternoon instead of today, when a protective order was set to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department identified Sgt. Jason Sawyer and officers Roger Morse, Richard Schiff and Nathan Chew as the police officers who fatally shot 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto on March 21, 2014, in Bernal Heights Park. Police Chief Greg Suhr had said Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at police responding to reports of a man with a gun, and officers believed he had a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a victory,\" Nieto family friend and spokesman Ben Bac Sierra said. \"The attorney is now going to get the full police reports, witness statements. Depositions are going to be taken by everyone who was there at the killing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's family and supporters have long called for the identities of the shooting officers. Without a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/29/state-supreme-court-rules-for-more-transparency-in-police-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">state Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> concerning a Long Beach officer-involved shooting, they'd likely still be waiting, according to legal experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This would be one of the first cases, if not the first case, to test the ruling in the Long Beach case, especially in the context that we’ve seen this heightened sensitivity in these police shooting cases.'\u003ccite>David Levine,UC Hastings Law Professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The majority opinion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/227096918/Long-Beach-Police-Officers-Association-v-City-of-Long-Beach-et-al-Los-Angeles-Times-Communications-Ruling\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Police Officers Association v. City of Long Beach (Los Angeles Times Communications)\u003c/a> narrowed exceptions to public disclosure of the names of officers involved in shootings, but not for every case. The decision was issued May 29, 2014, two months after Nieto was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Long Beach case essentially set out the parameters of when and how these names must be turned over,\" said attorney Adante Pointer, who is representing Nieto's parents in a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against San Francisco and city Police Chief Greg Suhr. \"The Nieto case was potentially a case of first impression. This was going to interpret what constitutes a credible threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Credible Threat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court ruled that \"generally, the public has a right to know the identity of an officer involved in an on-duty shooting.\" But, the ruling says, \"We do not hold that the names of officers involved in shootings have to be disclosed in every case, regardless of the circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The circumstances involve what the Supreme Court majority calls \"particularized,\" or specific, evidence that \"it is essential to protect an officer's anonymity for safety reasons or for reasons peculiar to the officer's duties.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Hastings law Professor David Levine said there have been very few, if any, cases that have tested the disclosure requirements laid out in the Long Beach decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Nieto case is \"one of the first cases, if not the first case, to test the ruling in the Long Beach case, especially in the context that we’ve seen this heightened sensitivity in these police shooting cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That heightened sensitivity is not only to officer-involved shootings of suspects, Levine said, but is also affected by the slaying of two \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/26/373291959/wake-held-for-slain-nypd-officers\" target=\"_blank\">New York police officers\u003c/a> on Dec. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD and the San Francisco city attorney argued they had a \"particularized showing\" in the Nieto shooting that warranted keeping the officers' names secret. Suhr described a threat made against the involved officers on a \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/justice4alexnieto/chief-greg-suhr-11122014-on-1010am-hecho-en-california\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish/English radio program in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a credible threat against the officers involved in the Alejandro Nieto tragedy,\" Suhr said. \"We believe he had the capability of carrying out his threats because he’s a violent person. We need to eliminate the chance that he can harm the officers, and then we can put the officers' names out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said on the program that the threat was made \"almost immediately after the shooting took place.\" When pressed, Suhr said, \"Our information right now is that he’s not even in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman confirmed via email today that \"it was a phone threat to the station directing the violence at the officers involved.\" The spokesman wrote that the suspect is still believed to be abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How are you going to say these are credible threats when this person isn’t even in the damn country?\" Pointer said. \"If that’s the precedent, any whacko could make a threat, and the police could say this guy made a threat two years ago, and we don’t have to release the information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge Rules for Plaintiffs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins ruled against the city and set Jan. 5 as the date a protective order blocking the release of the officers' names would expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/12/court-says-city-must-reveal-officer-names-in-nieto-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Local covered\u003c/a> the Dec. 22 discovery hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cousins said that without a more straightforward timeline for the threats to be resolved, the anonymity could continue indefinitely, making it prudent to set a date for the protective order to expire since it limits the plaintiff’s ability to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Levine said in light of the Long Beach ruling, it'd be difficult to reach another conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The case comes down so strongly in favor of disclosure, I can see why the magistrate would reach that conclusion,\" he said. \"Unless you thought that it was both credible and imminent, meaning in a pretty short time frame, the values of disclosure that the Long Beach case expresses are going to outweigh the vagueness of a less credible threat. But if you’re wrong, and then the name is released, and within a relatively short period of time, we find ourselves with another officer murdered, that’s a really tough decision for a judge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sean McGrier contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10398649/supreme-court-ruling-paved-way-for-release-of-sfpd-names-in-nieto-killing","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6137","news_1300","news_545"],"featImg":"news_10398813","label":"news_6944"},"news_147530":{"type":"posts","id":"news_147530","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"147530","score":null,"sort":[1410563164000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1410563164,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"New Details in Fatal S.F. Police Shooting Released in Medical Examiner's Report","title":"New Details in Fatal S.F. Police Shooting Released in Medical Examiner's Report","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147578 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto-640x418.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro Nieto's mother Elvira Nieto (center) leads an Aug. 22 march to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the city over the fatal shooting of her son. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto-640x418.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto-1028x672.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Nieto's mother Elvira Nieto (center) leads an Aug. 22 march to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the city over the fatal shooting of her son. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A long-awaited medical examiner's report was released today on the cause and manner of death of a 28-year-old man shot and killed by San Francisco police on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">said four days after the shooting\u003c/a> that Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun at Bernal Heights Park. The officers believed the Taser was a firearm, and shot Nieto from about 75 feet away, Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto died from 14 or 15 gunshot wounds, which \"may have been created by as few as ten (10) bullets,\" according to the report (\u003ca href=\"#report\">read below\u003c/a>). The medical examiner cites gunshot wounds with \"intersecting paths\" that may have been caused by one or more bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was shot in the forehead, upper lip, chest and both arms. He appears to have been shot three times from behind, including in the back of the left shoulder, mid-back, and right lower leg, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A toxicology screen turned up traces of marijuana in Nieto's blood. The medical examiner cites \"a clinical history of psychosis exacerbated by non-compliance with medications\" in the report, a factor Suhr mentioned days after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto had a history of \"aggressive and bizarre behavior, auditory hallucinations, and noncompliance to psychiatric medications,\" according to the report, which also cites a 2011 incident in which Nieto was placed on a 5150 hold, meaning he was taken into custody because he was a danger to himself or others due to a mental health disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead man's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">family and supporters\u003c/a> point out that he was an aspiring probation officer who was cleared to intern at the San Francisco probation department. He was a City College student studying criminal justice, and carried the Taser for his job as a security guard at a San Francisco nightclub. Nieto was also well known in the city's Mission District, where hundreds marched last month to announce the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">filing of a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> over the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents are represented in the suit by Oakland-based civil rights attorney Adante Pointer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn't settle the issue on whether or not these officers acted lawfully,\" Pointer said about the medical examiner's report. \"This is a person who may have had some mental issues, and because of that, essentially he did something that warranted his death. I put my weight in an independent witness as opposed to someone who's biased and has an interest in the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department said the department cannot comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco district attorney's independent investigation into the shooting is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Medical examiner's reports are always important when there’s an officer-involved shooting,\" said DA spokesman Alex Bastion. \"We’ll be reviewing it in conjunction with our independent investigation. There’s quite a bit of information in there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bastion said the district attorney's office will release a summary of its investigation when it's complete.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"report\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nRead the medical examiner's report below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Alejandro Nieto Medical Examiner's Report 9-12-2014 on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/239580234/Alejandro-Nieto-Medical-Examiner-s-Report-9-12-2014\">Alejandro Nieto Medical Examiner's Report 9-12-2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=239580234 key=key-SBeG9zkSi1NzQvECp7Ph mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"147530 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=147530","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/12/new-details-in-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-released-in-medical-examiners-report/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":577,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":16},"modified":1415515335,"excerpt":"Report says Alejandro Nieto had a recent history of mental illness. Supporters say lawsuit will continue.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Report says Alejandro Nieto had a recent history of mental illness. Supporters say lawsuit will continue.","title":"New Details in Fatal S.F. Police Shooting Released in Medical Examiner's Report | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New Details in Fatal S.F. Police Shooting Released in Medical Examiner's Report","datePublished":"2014-09-12T16:06:04-07:00","dateModified":"2014-11-08T22:42:15-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-details-in-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-released-in-medical-examiners-report","status":"publish","customPermalink":"2014/09/12/Nieto-medical-examiners-report/","path":"/news/147530/new-details-in-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-released-in-medical-examiners-report","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147578 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto-640x418.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro Nieto's mother Elvira Nieto (center) leads an Aug. 22 march to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the city over the fatal shooting of her son. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto-640x418.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/NIeto-1028x672.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Nieto's mother Elvira Nieto (center) leads an Aug. 22 march to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the city over the fatal shooting of her son. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A long-awaited medical examiner's report was released today on the cause and manner of death of a 28-year-old man shot and killed by San Francisco police on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">said four days after the shooting\u003c/a> that Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun at Bernal Heights Park. The officers believed the Taser was a firearm, and shot Nieto from about 75 feet away, Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto died from 14 or 15 gunshot wounds, which \"may have been created by as few as ten (10) bullets,\" according to the report (\u003ca href=\"#report\">read below\u003c/a>). The medical examiner cites gunshot wounds with \"intersecting paths\" that may have been caused by one or more bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was shot in the forehead, upper lip, chest and both arms. He appears to have been shot three times from behind, including in the back of the left shoulder, mid-back, and right lower leg, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A toxicology screen turned up traces of marijuana in Nieto's blood. The medical examiner cites \"a clinical history of psychosis exacerbated by non-compliance with medications\" in the report, a factor Suhr mentioned days after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto had a history of \"aggressive and bizarre behavior, auditory hallucinations, and noncompliance to psychiatric medications,\" according to the report, which also cites a 2011 incident in which Nieto was placed on a 5150 hold, meaning he was taken into custody because he was a danger to himself or others due to a mental health disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead man's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">family and supporters\u003c/a> point out that he was an aspiring probation officer who was cleared to intern at the San Francisco probation department. He was a City College student studying criminal justice, and carried the Taser for his job as a security guard at a San Francisco nightclub. Nieto was also well known in the city's Mission District, where hundreds marched last month to announce the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">filing of a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> over the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents are represented in the suit by Oakland-based civil rights attorney Adante Pointer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn't settle the issue on whether or not these officers acted lawfully,\" Pointer said about the medical examiner's report. \"This is a person who may have had some mental issues, and because of that, essentially he did something that warranted his death. I put my weight in an independent witness as opposed to someone who's biased and has an interest in the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department said the department cannot comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco district attorney's independent investigation into the shooting is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Medical examiner's reports are always important when there’s an officer-involved shooting,\" said DA spokesman Alex Bastion. \"We’ll be reviewing it in conjunction with our independent investigation. 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