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When you hear loud electrical pulses the energy is arcing in the air and the current is not received by the suspect. A TASER weapon delivers these 19 pulses per second for a 5-second cycle but when it’s loud like this it has zero effect. It’s all or nothing with a TASER device and is actually very quiet when the circuit is completed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Isabel Angell reports that Robert Asberry has been released from jail in Redwood City after serving 15 days of a 30-day sentence after not contesting charges of being drunk and disorderly on the night of Jan. 29, when BART police shot him with a stun gun during his arrest on a train in the San Bruno station. Authorities told KQED that all additional charges against Asberry -- resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and a felony parole violation -- were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Isabel Angell has obtained the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017843-bart-police-event-record-for-robert-james-ashberry.html\">official \"event record\u003c/a>\" from BART of the Jan. 29 incident. At 10:05 that night, an anonymous caller reported that an African-American man was drunk and harassing customers on the platform at the 24th Street BART station. According to the report, the train was stopped at San Bruno Station, where a BART police officer boarded the train and confronted the suspect. The report identifies the man, who was subsequently arrested after being shot by an officer with a taser gun, as Pittsburg resident Robert James Asberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126355\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/13/126281/asberry-robert/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126355\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-126355 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/asberry-robert-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is investigating an incident from the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, in which a transit police officer was videotaped using a taser to take an African-American man into custody. KQED's Isabel Angell reports that BART authorities expect their investigation to take six months, and that the officer involved in the incident has not been reprimanded or placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which is credited to Rahul Gondalia, runs just over 13 minutes, and shows a passenger who appears to be docile at first but grows increasingly agitated after BART officers use a stun gun on him. Six police officers can be seen in the video. The passenger, lying on the floor of the BART train close to a door, curses repeatedly and tells the officers that they wouldn't have done anything if he had been white. He mentions Rodney King at least three times and says, \"I didn't do nothing … Everybody, put your cameras on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>According to the police log of the incident:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1/29/14 2205 hours\u003cbr>\nAn officer responded to a report of a man who was drunk and harassing patrons on a Millbrae bound train. Upon detention, the suspect (became) resistive and a TASER had to be used to take him into custody. A warrant check on the suspect revealed an outstanding no-bail arrest warrant out of the California Department of Corrections for parole violation. The train was held for 18 minutes. A sergeant arrived at the scene to approve the arrest and conduct the use of force investigation. The suspect was taken to Peninsula Hospital for clearance prior to being booked for resisting arrest, the warrant, and public intoxication.1401-4266 L12\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, per policy and protocol BART Police has initiated the proper investigation into this incident. The link to the video on the internet was also forwarded to BART's independent police auditor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Angell reports that the person who called police to complain about the man they arrested was not on the train but rather standing on a platform in a BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bart-officer-repeatedly-tases-black-man-bart-without-clear-and-present-danger-life\">post published by AlterNet\u003c/a>, Vidya Kaipa, a woman passenger on the train who was sitting next to the man arrested by police, says he was not harassing her. She says that police initiated the arrest even though she told them, \"It’s fine. He’s not bothering me. It’s OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa adds: “It went from being about me to being about the police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa's \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/race-class/385564bd9e8b\">full account\u003c/a> of the incident appears on \"Medium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest incident between BART police and an African-American man is certain to reignite the controversy surrounding the Oscar Grant case, which is currently being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/oscar-grant-mehserle-lawsuit/\">litigated\u003c/a> in the courts. That case, in which Grant was killed by a BART officer, formed the basis for the film \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/12/fruitvale-station-oscar-grant\">Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are excerpts from Kaipa’s written account of her 20-minute BART ride with Robert Asberry:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tonight, I caught the 9:56 pm Millbrae-bound BART from Civic Center. I usually work late, but I rarely feel threatened — there are always plenty of riders at that time, plus I’m good at putting up defenses. I’m small, but (or maybe because of that) I’m street-smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it didn’t bother me when a few stops later, an extremely drunk black man — whose name I later overheard by the police cuffing him to be Robert — crashed onto the seat next to me. I was near the entrance, in a seating area where four seats faced one another, and the train was relatively packed, so I didn’t feel particularly isolated or targeted. He smelled of booze and his words were slurred, but he asked me about the book I was reading and I could tell that he was harmless. This is an opinion I have maintained and have repeated countless times to several police throughout the whole ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I asked him where he was headed, and he told me he was from East Oakland but that he was going to Richmond, where his sister would pick him up. I suggested he get onto the opposite platform, since this train was headed to Millbrae. He politely asked if he was bothering me and said that he would leave me alone, but that he wanted to keep sitting next to me because I was a beautiful and good person. I assured him that he wasn’t a problem—I have a bizarrely high tolerance for friendly drunk/drugged out randos …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I was \u003cem>never\u003c/em> concerned about my safety. If I really felt worried, I would have moved, or I could have indicated my discomfort by at the very least moving my backpack and phone away from him. Not only did I do neither of these things, I continued to engage, smile, laugh, and generally go along with the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I was just as surprised as Robert was when a BART policeman boarded the train at San Bruno and (in his defense) politely asked him to disembark so that he could ask a few questions. I didn’t realize until a few minutes later that someone had specifically called the police, reporting Robert for some unknown reason. Robert didn’t want to go, understandably, and asked why he should get up. I vouched for Robert — I told the cop that he wasn’t bothering me, and that it was totally okay with me if he wanted to continue on. The cop repeated (again, in his defense, in a friendly tone) that he just wanted to ask a few questions, that it wouldn’t take too long, and that Robert would be free to get onto the next train. Robert said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few relatively civil back-and-forths, the cop lightly touched his shoulder, saying “come on, let’s just talk on the platform.” Robert shook him off. This continued for a bit. Eventually, it escalated to the point where the cop was physically pulling him up from the seat with two hands, and Robert was pushing the cop off him. When both men were standing, Robert cornered by the door to the next carriage and the cop standing in the path to the main entrance, Robert asked again and again why the cop wanted him to get off the train, and that he hadn’t done anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…At one point, Robert got very aggravated and tried to sit down again, or maybe it was that he was just shouting and the cop got tired of trying to peacefully usher Robert out of the train. So he pulled out his taser and told Robert that if he didn’t disembark the train, he would tase him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… He \u003cem>literally didn’t do anything\u003c/em>, and on top of that, he was a genuinely nice guy. We were having an admittedly uncomfortable conversation, but only because I was tired and didn’t want to talk to anyone, not because I didn’t want to talk to \u003cem>him. \u003c/em>So he was completely in the right to ask for what reason the cop wanted him off the train, and to not get off until that question was answered. Unfortunately for him, he ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the cop’s credit, he didn’t pull the trigger right away. He gave ample warning, enough so that the man on the diagonal seating (next to where Robert was standing, backed against the doors to the next carriage) had bodily covered the woman next to him in anticipation of the scene that was seconds from occuring. Robert moved around the carriage, at one point sitting next to me again. At this point, I genuinely feared being accidentally tased myself; the taser points a red laser beam at its target, and I saw that target slip to me for a split-second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Robert didn’t “cooperate,” and the cop shot him. Watching someone get tased is one of the worst things I have ever seen—I can’t imagine actually \u003cem>being \u003c/em>tased. Robert limply fell over onto the seats in front of me, crying and twitching, and the cop leaned over to lift him outside. Robert tried to get up again, and the cop threatened to tase him a second time. Finding that he was too heavy, the cop ended up dragging him to the entrance. (The soundtrack of this memory will always be the man diagonal incredulously breathing, “oh my god… oh my god.”) The cop called for backup, and a few others came in time for Robert to regain some control and start resisting again. As the cops cuffed him and held him down, Robert tearfully shouted that he hadn’t done anything wrong, that everyone on the train saw, that we take videos and pictures and prevent another Rodney King incident. Despite the two other officers physically restraining Robert, the initial officer tased him a second time, with a sickening five-second shock that was both excessive and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… To their credit, the cops that came afterwards were as compassionate as they could be in the situation. He was kicking around (understandably), but they were gentle and nicely told him they wanted him to stop kicking them so that he could sit up on a bench and drink some water. He wouldn’t, eventually breaking down crying uncontrollably and repeating that he hadn’t done anything. Watching him get strapped into a body-binding contraption so that they could move him, while he plaintively cried his innocence, might have broken the last intact piece of my heart. … An officer asked if I would give a statement, and I immediately stepped off the train in compliance\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m hesitant to jump to the “police brutality” conclusion, because the aggression wasn’t totally unprovoked. Yes, the cop definitely shouldn’t have used the taser, but at the same time, Robert shouldn’t have resisted the cop for so long. That being said, Robert should have never been stopped in the first place, because he wasn’t posing a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So really — what’s the best-case scenario? 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A TASER weapon delivers these 19 pulses per second for a 5-second cycle but when it’s loud like this it has zero effect. It’s all or nothing with a TASER device and is actually very quiet when the circuit is completed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Isabel Angell reports that Robert Asberry has been released from jail in Redwood City after serving 15 days of a 30-day sentence after not contesting charges of being drunk and disorderly on the night of Jan. 29, when BART police shot him with a stun gun during his arrest on a train in the San Bruno station. Authorities told KQED that all additional charges against Asberry -- resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and a felony parole violation -- were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Isabel Angell has obtained the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017843-bart-police-event-record-for-robert-james-ashberry.html\">official \"event record\u003c/a>\" from BART of the Jan. 29 incident. At 10:05 that night, an anonymous caller reported that an African-American man was drunk and harassing customers on the platform at the 24th Street BART station. According to the report, the train was stopped at San Bruno Station, where a BART police officer boarded the train and confronted the suspect. The report identifies the man, who was subsequently arrested after being shot by an officer with a taser gun, as Pittsburg resident Robert James Asberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126355\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/13/126281/asberry-robert/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126355\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-126355 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/asberry-robert-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is investigating an incident from the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, in which a transit police officer was videotaped using a taser to take an African-American man into custody. KQED's Isabel Angell reports that BART authorities expect their investigation to take six months, and that the officer involved in the incident has not been reprimanded or placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which is credited to Rahul Gondalia, runs just over 13 minutes, and shows a passenger who appears to be docile at first but grows increasingly agitated after BART officers use a stun gun on him. Six police officers can be seen in the video. The passenger, lying on the floor of the BART train close to a door, curses repeatedly and tells the officers that they wouldn't have done anything if he had been white. He mentions Rodney King at least three times and says, \"I didn't do nothing … Everybody, put your cameras on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>According to the police log of the incident:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1/29/14 2205 hours\u003cbr>\nAn officer responded to a report of a man who was drunk and harassing patrons on a Millbrae bound train. Upon detention, the suspect (became) resistive and a TASER had to be used to take him into custody. A warrant check on the suspect revealed an outstanding no-bail arrest warrant out of the California Department of Corrections for parole violation. The train was held for 18 minutes. A sergeant arrived at the scene to approve the arrest and conduct the use of force investigation. The suspect was taken to Peninsula Hospital for clearance prior to being booked for resisting arrest, the warrant, and public intoxication.1401-4266 L12\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, per policy and protocol BART Police has initiated the proper investigation into this incident. The link to the video on the internet was also forwarded to BART's independent police auditor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Angell reports that the person who called police to complain about the man they arrested was not on the train but rather standing on a platform in a BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bart-officer-repeatedly-tases-black-man-bart-without-clear-and-present-danger-life\">post published by AlterNet\u003c/a>, Vidya Kaipa, a woman passenger on the train who was sitting next to the man arrested by police, says he was not harassing her. She says that police initiated the arrest even though she told them, \"It’s fine. He’s not bothering me. It’s OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa adds: “It went from being about me to being about the police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa's \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/race-class/385564bd9e8b\">full account\u003c/a> of the incident appears on \"Medium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest incident between BART police and an African-American man is certain to reignite the controversy surrounding the Oscar Grant case, which is currently being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/oscar-grant-mehserle-lawsuit/\">litigated\u003c/a> in the courts. That case, in which Grant was killed by a BART officer, formed the basis for the film \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/12/fruitvale-station-oscar-grant\">Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are excerpts from Kaipa’s written account of her 20-minute BART ride with Robert Asberry:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tonight, I caught the 9:56 pm Millbrae-bound BART from Civic Center. I usually work late, but I rarely feel threatened — there are always plenty of riders at that time, plus I’m good at putting up defenses. I’m small, but (or maybe because of that) I’m street-smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it didn’t bother me when a few stops later, an extremely drunk black man — whose name I later overheard by the police cuffing him to be Robert — crashed onto the seat next to me. I was near the entrance, in a seating area where four seats faced one another, and the train was relatively packed, so I didn’t feel particularly isolated or targeted. He smelled of booze and his words were slurred, but he asked me about the book I was reading and I could tell that he was harmless. This is an opinion I have maintained and have repeated countless times to several police throughout the whole ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I asked him where he was headed, and he told me he was from East Oakland but that he was going to Richmond, where his sister would pick him up. I suggested he get onto the opposite platform, since this train was headed to Millbrae. He politely asked if he was bothering me and said that he would leave me alone, but that he wanted to keep sitting next to me because I was a beautiful and good person. I assured him that he wasn’t a problem—I have a bizarrely high tolerance for friendly drunk/drugged out randos …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I was \u003cem>never\u003c/em> concerned about my safety. If I really felt worried, I would have moved, or I could have indicated my discomfort by at the very least moving my backpack and phone away from him. Not only did I do neither of these things, I continued to engage, smile, laugh, and generally go along with the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I was just as surprised as Robert was when a BART policeman boarded the train at San Bruno and (in his defense) politely asked him to disembark so that he could ask a few questions. 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When both men were standing, Robert cornered by the door to the next carriage and the cop standing in the path to the main entrance, Robert asked again and again why the cop wanted him to get off the train, and that he hadn’t done anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…At one point, Robert got very aggravated and tried to sit down again, or maybe it was that he was just shouting and the cop got tired of trying to peacefully usher Robert out of the train. So he pulled out his taser and told Robert that if he didn’t disembark the train, he would tase him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… He \u003cem>literally didn’t do anything\u003c/em>, and on top of that, he was a genuinely nice guy. We were having an admittedly uncomfortable conversation, but only because I was tired and didn’t want to talk to anyone, not because I didn’t want to talk to \u003cem>him. \u003c/em>So he was completely in the right to ask for what reason the cop wanted him off the train, and to not get off until that question was answered. Unfortunately for him, he ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the cop’s credit, he didn’t pull the trigger right away. He gave ample warning, enough so that the man on the diagonal seating (next to where Robert was standing, backed against the doors to the next carriage) had bodily covered the woman next to him in anticipation of the scene that was seconds from occuring. Robert moved around the carriage, at one point sitting next to me again. At this point, I genuinely feared being accidentally tased myself; the taser points a red laser beam at its target, and I saw that target slip to me for a split-second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Robert didn’t “cooperate,” and the cop shot him. Watching someone get tased is one of the worst things I have ever seen—I can’t imagine actually \u003cem>being \u003c/em>tased. Robert limply fell over onto the seats in front of me, crying and twitching, and the cop leaned over to lift him outside. Robert tried to get up again, and the cop threatened to tase him a second time. Finding that he was too heavy, the cop ended up dragging him to the entrance. (The soundtrack of this memory will always be the man diagonal incredulously breathing, “oh my god… oh my god.”) The cop called for backup, and a few others came in time for Robert to regain some control and start resisting again. As the cops cuffed him and held him down, Robert tearfully shouted that he hadn’t done anything wrong, that everyone on the train saw, that we take videos and pictures and prevent another Rodney King incident. Despite the two other officers physically restraining Robert, the initial officer tased him a second time, with a sickening five-second shock that was both excessive and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… To their credit, the cops that came afterwards were as compassionate as they could be in the situation. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124185\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/BARTofficer.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/BARTofficer.png\" alt=\"BART Sgt. Tom Smith, shot to death by a fellow police officer while conducting a search Tuesday in Dublin. (Photo courtesy of BART)\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124185\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART Sgt. Tom Smith, shot to death by a fellow police officer while conducting a search Tuesday in Dublin. (Photo courtesy of BART)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:55 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> BART has released more details of the events that led to the fatal shooting of Police Sgt. 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[According to Rainey, the officers were aware Lee was in custody and were looking for a stolen laptop computer, among other items.] They began their search by knocking twice on the door; each knock went unanswered, but the door was unlocked, so four BART officers including Smith stepped inside, Nelson said. Not knowing whether anyone was inside the single-story, one-bedroom apartment, the officers followed protocol and entered with their guns drawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson said that once inside, one of the officers fired a single shot from his weapon, wounding Smith in the upper body. Rainey said Smith was dressed in plainclothes and wore a bulletproof vest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith later died at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson said the officer who fired the shot has more than 10 years experience in law enforcement. Rainey said BART officers typically carry Glock semi-automatic handguns, although some are permitted to carry different weapons.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-police-officer-shot-dead-by-colleague-in-5163548.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that suspect John Henry Lee was wanted for a series of robberies that occurred on BART property and that he'd been arrested last Thursday in Oakland: \"[Lee] was bitten by a police dog and arrested by San Leandro police Thursday after officials said he led officers on a 20-minute chase into Oakland. Lee had been armed with a handgun and was driving a Honda stolen from a BART lot, police said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Rainey issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2014/news20140122\" target=\"_blank\">a statement \u003c/a>on the shooting this morning and praised Smith as \"a great law enforcement officer, but an even better son, brother, husband, father and friend.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's KTVU's raw video of Rainey's Wednesday morning press conference on the shooting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"615\" height=\"392\" classid=\"D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\">\u003cparam name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=3092129413001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fraw-bart-police-chief-talks-about-fatal-accidental%2FvCN8cn%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashvars=\"videoId=3092129413001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fraw-bart-police-chief-talks-about-fatal-accidental%2FvCN8cn%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"615\" height=\"392\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Tuesday): \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A BART police officer was shot and killed earlier today by a fellow BART officer while helping to serve a search warrant in the East Bay town of Dublin. It's the first time a BART officer has died in the line of duty in the agency's 42-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-police-officer-shot-dead-by-colleague-in-5163548.php\" target=\"_blank\">Here's part of the San Francisco Chronicle report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The shooting ... happened at 1:03 p.m. at the Park Sierra apartments at 6450 Dougherty Road, BART said. The officer was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. J.D. 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J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While inside the apartment, a BART officer fired one shot, wounding a fellow male officer, who later died at a hospital, Nelson said. Details of what led to the shooting were not immediately released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of the officers have not been released. Nelson said the officers were wearing bulletproof vests at the time of the shooting; he did not say where on his body the slain officer was struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were there to serve a warrant for a suspect who was wanted in connection with several robberies that took place on BART property, Nelson said. The suspect, whose name was not released, was not at the residence at the time, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a shocking thing for a BART officer to be killed in the line of duty,\" said elected BART Director Gail Murray of Walnut Creek. \"But like all peace officers, our BART police risk their lives when they go out to work in the stations and cities. We feel very saddened for the family, who would not expect to this happen to their loved ones.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's BART's brief statement on the shooting, which does not say how the officer was wounded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey and BART General Manager Grace Crunican issued the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART has been informed that one of our officers has died from wounds sustained during a shooting earlier today. The entire BART organization is deeply saddened by this tragic event and we ask the public to keep the officer’s family in its thoughts and prayers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 1:03 pm a BART Police officer who was doing a probation search in the City of Dublin was shot. The officer was transported to a local hospital and died from his injuries. The identity of the officer is not being released at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation has been taken over by the Dublin Police Department. No further details are being released at this time.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/crime-map.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123937 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/crime-map-640x431.png\" alt=\"There have been at least 15 reported robberies near the Ashby BART station in the past 60 days, with several others also nearby. At least eight of the robberies near BART involved firearms. One incident, at Woolsey and Tremont, is too recent to appear on the map. (CrimeMapping/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There have been at least 15 reported robberies near the Ashby BART station in the past 60 days, with several others also nearby. At least eight of the robberies near BART involved firearms. One incident, at Woolsey and Tremont, is too recent to appear on the map. (CrimeMapping/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Emilie Raguso, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/17/south-berkeley-robberies-on-the-rise-near-ashby-bart/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed robbers have been targeting the South Berkeley neighborhood east of the Ashby BART station in recent months, with a spike in \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-robberies/\" target=\"_blank\">robbery reports\u003c/a> since mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 60 days, there have been at least 28 robberies reported in the area between Adeline Street and Telegraph Avenue — between Ashby and Alcatraz avenues — in South Berkeley and North Oakland. (That number includes several reports just outside those borders.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From mid-July to mid-September, there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Crime-report-for-7_21_2013-9_18_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">six reports in that area\u003c/a>, according to crime statistics posted online by local police agencies. During the next two months there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Crime-report-for-9_19_2013-11_17_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">seven robberies\u003c/a> reported in the vicinity. Most of those incidents, from both periods, took place in Berkeley. Then, from mid-November through mid-January, there were \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Crime-report-for-11_18_2013-1_16_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">15 reports\u003c/a>, split nearly equally between Berkeley and Oakland. At least eight of those involved firearms. (One of those incidents happened Tuesday and does not yet appear as part of the available data set.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/11/police-join-forces-to-crack-berkeley-oakland-robbery-series/\" target=\"_blank\">began a joint patrol\u003c/a> with BART Police officers in early December, and is collaborating with the Oakland Police Department to investigate a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/11/police-join-forces-to-crack-berkeley-oakland-robbery-series/\" target=\"_blank\">rash of armed robberies \u003c/a>involving stolen cars that had been concentrated within a few blocks of each other on the North Oakland-South Berkeley border near Ashby BART station. There have been at least five reported incidents in the area since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, a man was robbed at gunpoint while walking home from Ashby BART at the same intersection, at Woolsey and Tremont streets, where a pregnant woman was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/10/pregnant-woman-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-south-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">robbed by men with a gun in December\u003c/a>. At least \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">six of the 28 incidents\u003c/a> reported over the past six months have been listed as having occurred in that same intersection. (As of publication time, this most recent incident had not year \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on the list\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who was robbed this week said he was walking home from BART at 8 p.m. Tuesday when three men surrounded him, held him at gunpoint, and took his backpack, wallet, cellphone and wedding ring. (Berkeleyside has agreed to identify him only by his first name, Adam, because he was the victim of a crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was walking east along Woolsey near Tremont and noticed three men who were huddled together, looking down and whispering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My instinct was to run,” Adam said. “But I thought to myself, ‘You can’t just run every time you see people huddled together.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He quickened his pace and continued up the street. Moments later, Adam said he felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickling. He started to turn around, and two of the men were right there. They each grabbed one of his arms and pulled him toward a nearby fence. A third man pointed a gun at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He put his hands in my pockets and started taking stuff,” said Adam. “The guy behind me took the backpack off me. Then they casually walked away. They didn’t run. It was like it was no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told him to walk the other way. But one of them said, ‘The ring, too. Don’t forget his ring.” The man with then took his wedding ring off his finger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing he’d have no way to get inside his home, he asked the men to return his keys. They threw them his way and headed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, Adam said, he checked the Find my iPhone app to see if his phone’s signal might appear. Around 11:30 p.m., a signal for the phone suddenly showed up in East Oakland near 85th Avenue and San Leandro Street. An officer later retrieved it for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Better lighting may make a difference, some say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors and officials have said they believe a lack of adequate lighting in the area may be contributing to the robberies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Carleton, co-chair of the Halcyon neighborhood group, said neighbors have been asking for help from the city to improve what she described as “subpar” lighting. She noted that Jim Hynes, from the Berkeley city manager’s office, had visited the neighborhood Friday morning to get a better sense of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carleton said she’s seen better lighting make a difference to improve safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect,” she said, via email. “We hope and trust the City of Berkeley will act quickly to address the subpar lighting on Woolsey Street near the Ed Roberts Campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the president of a nearby neighborhood group, the LeConte Neighborhood Association, encourages residents to walk with flashlights after dark “both to add light and also as a clear signal to potential robbers that you’re paying attention and alert and they won’t be able to escape without being seen and described.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Carleton, “We also do our best to encourage neighbors to leave on porch lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Kriss Worthington said Thursday that he is working together with Councilman Max Anderson’s office to refer the lighting issue to the city manager’s office and the public works department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a heavily trafficked area with all the people getting off of BART and walking home,” said Worthington. “I’ve gone and walked and ridden my bike around there. It definitely is not very brightly lit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city has struggled to keep up with lighting needs because its streetlight fund “is very limited” and “not in very good shape.” Worthington said he has pushed for LED lighting because it’s cheaper in the long term and could make a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The city has applied for a loan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/10/30/berkeley-aims-to-switch-old-streetlights-to-leds/\" target=\"_blank\">install LED lighting throughout Berkeley\u003c/a>. According to city spokesman Matthai Chakko, the city has received a “preliminary award,” and is still discussing the terms of that offer, but “should know more by the end of the month.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, said Worthington, the city needs to take a closer look at whether overgrown trees may be blocking existing lighting, and redouble trimming efforts. He said that, though the city’s resources are limited, firm steps must be taken if there’s an obvious problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look carefully,” he said. “Anywhere there’s a pattern of negative behavior in terms of robberies, we need to prioritize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside provides exclusive coverage of many of Berkeley’s most serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/crime/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, a man was robbed at gunpoint while walking home from Ashby BART at the same intersection, at Woolsey and Tremont streets, where a pregnant woman was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/12/10/pregnant-woman-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-south-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\">robbed by men with a gun in December\u003c/a>. At least \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">six of the 28 incidents\u003c/a> reported over the past six months have been listed as having occurred in that same intersection. (As of publication time, this most recent incident had not year \u003ca href=\"http://www.crimemapping.com/DetailedReport.aspx?db=7/21/2013+00:00:00&de=1/16/2014+23:59:00&ccs=RO&xmin=-13611169.244246583&ymin=4558541.12210104&xmax=-13610632.990719948&ymax=4558931.070378204\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on the list\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who was robbed this week said he was walking home from BART at 8 p.m. Tuesday when three men surrounded him, held him at gunpoint, and took his backpack, wallet, cellphone and wedding ring. (Berkeleyside has agreed to identify him only by his first name, Adam, because he was the victim of a crime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was walking east along Woolsey near Tremont and noticed three men who were huddled together, looking down and whispering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My instinct was to run,” Adam said. “But I thought to myself, ‘You can’t just run every time you see people huddled together.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He quickened his pace and continued up the street. Moments later, Adam said he felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickling. He started to turn around, and two of the men were right there. They each grabbed one of his arms and pulled him toward a nearby fence. A third man pointed a gun at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He put his hands in my pockets and started taking stuff,” said Adam. “The guy behind me took the backpack off me. Then they casually walked away. They didn’t run. It was like it was no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told him to walk the other way. But one of them said, ‘The ring, too. Don’t forget his ring.” The man with then took his wedding ring off his finger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing he’d have no way to get inside his home, he asked the men to return his keys. They threw them his way and headed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, Adam said, he checked the Find my iPhone app to see if his phone’s signal might appear. Around 11:30 p.m., a signal for the phone suddenly showed up in East Oakland near 85th Avenue and San Leandro Street. An officer later retrieved it for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Better lighting may make a difference, some say\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors and officials have said they believe a lack of adequate lighting in the area may be contributing to the robberies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Carleton, co-chair of the Halcyon neighborhood group, said neighbors have been asking for help from the city to improve what she described as “subpar” lighting. She noted that Jim Hynes, from the Berkeley city manager’s office, had visited the neighborhood Friday morning to get a better sense of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carleton said she’s seen better lighting make a difference to improve safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were having a series of robberies on Prince Street some years back, addressing the lighting issues seemed to have a positive effect,” she said, via email. “We hope and trust the City of Berkeley will act quickly to address the subpar lighting on Woolsey Street near the Ed Roberts Campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the president of a nearby neighborhood group, the LeConte Neighborhood Association, encourages residents to walk with flashlights after dark “both to add light and also as a clear signal to potential robbers that you’re paying attention and alert and they won’t be able to escape without being seen and described.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Carleton, “We also do our best to encourage neighbors to leave on porch lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Kriss Worthington said Thursday that he is working together with Councilman Max Anderson’s office to refer the lighting issue to the city manager’s office and the public works department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a heavily trafficked area with all the people getting off of BART and walking home,” said Worthington. “I’ve gone and walked and ridden my bike around there. It definitely is not very brightly lit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city has struggled to keep up with lighting needs because its streetlight fund “is very limited” and “not in very good shape.” Worthington said he has pushed for LED lighting because it’s cheaper in the long term and could make a big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The city has applied for a loan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/10/30/berkeley-aims-to-switch-old-streetlights-to-leds/\" target=\"_blank\">install LED lighting throughout Berkeley\u003c/a>. According to city spokesman Matthai Chakko, the city has received a “preliminary award,” and is still discussing the terms of that offer, but “should know more by the end of the month.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, said Worthington, the city needs to take a closer look at whether overgrown trees may be blocking existing lighting, and redouble trimming efforts. He said that, though the city’s resources are limited, firm steps must be taken if there’s an obvious problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look carefully,” he said. “Anywhere there’s a pattern of negative behavior in terms of robberies, we need to prioritize it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside provides exclusive coverage of many of Berkeley’s most serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/crime/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-119976\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/bart-640b.jpg\" alt=\"MacArthur BART station (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MacArthur BART station (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here's the lowdown on Bay Area transit service tonight. Muni, CalTrain, SamTrans, and VTA will offer free service starting at 8 p.m. Check \u003ca href=\"http://511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">511.org\u003c/a> for specific trip planning. And remember, holiday \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/12/31/bay-area-law-enforcement-stepping-up-new-years-patrols-for-drunk-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\">DUI enforcement is in full force\u003c/a>; public transit may indeed be your best option, or a few transit services — many for free — will cater specifically for those who should not be driving. See that list at the end of this post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Service New Year's Eve\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Do not tag your Clipper card during the complimentary service\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Complimentary Muni service 8 p.m., Dec. 31, to 5 a.m., Jan. 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muni Metro service between West Portal and Embarcadero stations extended to 4 a.m. and until 2:15 a.m. to 4th and King street\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Service on the F Market historic streetcar line is provided by buses after approximately 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Extra Owl service (1 a.m. to 5 a.m.): 5 Fulton, 14 Mission, 22 Fillmore, 24 Divisadero, 38 Geary, 90 and 91 Owl and the L and N Owl bus routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Extra 1-California Route service\u003cbr>\n-Inbound from 9:40 pm to 11:15 pm\u003cbr>\n-Outbound from 10:10pm to 1:40am\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reroutes are not scheduled. The following routes will reroute only if needed.\u003cbr>\n-Downtown: 1, 5, 6, 9, 14, 21, 31, 38, 71, L-Owl, N-Owl, F, California Cable Car\u003cbr>\n-North Beach: 8X, 10, 12\u003cbr>\n-Cow Hollow: 45\u003cbr>\n-Castro: 24, 35\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://transit.511.org/schedules/index.aspx?m0=1#m1=S&m2=rail&cid=SF\" target=\"_blank\"> Schedules and route maps here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART Service New Year's Eve\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART will extend service until 3 am on New Year's Eve and deploy extra staff and trains to help get people home from their festivities. BART will run a normal weekday evening service schedule which will extend until 3 am. Trains will run every 20 minutes after midnight with extra trains standing by in downtown San Francisco after the fireworks show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To further ease platform crowding at our busiest stations, Embarcadero, Montgomery, and West Oakland, beginning at 8 pm, BART will utilize a “skip-stop” train pattern into and out of San Francisco with one important change from past years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2013/news20131219\">Service information for getting to and from downtown San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2013_NYE_Public_Timetable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">New Year's Eve train schedule\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caltrain Service\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>New Year's Eve \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*Extra service on New Year’s Eve:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trains Depart San Francisco at 12:45 a.m., 1:15 a.m., 1:45 a.m. and 2:15 a.m., or when full, making all regular local stops. Caltrain will be \u003cstrong>free beginning at 8 p.m.\u003c/strong> on Dec. 31, ending after the last special reaches San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain does not allow open alcohol containers on trains after 9 p.m. following special events. Disruptive passengers will be asked to detrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day of New Year’s Eve, Caltrain will operate on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/weekdaytimetable.html\" target=\"_blank\">regular weekday schedule\u003c/a>. On New Year’s Day, it will operate a Sunday schedule, with 32 trains between San Francisco and San Jose and shuttle service to and from the Tamien station. Train service will not operate south of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AC Transit Service New Year's Eve\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit is operating on a standard schedule at normal rates. \u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/maps/\" target=\"_blank\">Maps and schedules here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Golden Gate Transit Service New year's Eve\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regular schedule for buses, holiday schedule for ferries. \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/transit/christmas.php\" target=\"_blank\">Schedules here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SamTrans Service New Year's Eve \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SamTrans will offer complimentary rides from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. \u003ca href=\"http://www.samtrans.com/schedulesandmaps/timetables.html\" target=\"_blank\">SamTrans timetables here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara VTA Service \u003cstrong>New Year's Eve \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For New Year’s Eve, between 8 p.m. on December 31 and 5 a.m. on January 1, all VTA service will be free. Both light rail and Express Bus 181 will also have more frequent service. All customers are encouraged to check the VTA schedule for their return trips to ensure they do not miss their bus or train. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/getting-around/Schedules/By-Type\" target=\"_blank\">Routes and schedules here\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't drink and drive:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AAA\u003c/strong> is offering \u003cstrong>free tows of up to 10 miles\u003c/strong> to take drivers and their cars home. The program is available to everyone, not just AAA members. It starts at 6 p.m. today and ends at 6 a.m. on New Year's Day. Call (800) 222-4357 and tell the operator, \"I need a tipsy tow.\" If available, a truck will arrive and bring the stranded driver and the vehicle home. Additional passengers can catch a ride in the tow truck if there is space.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong> residents can call for a \u003cstrong>free taxi ride home\u003c/strong> between 10 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. Wednesday. The Berg Injury Lawyers law firm has teamed up Luxor Cab to provide free rides worth up to $35 for inebriated revelers. Call Luxor Cab at (415) 282-4141 and mention Berg Injury Lawyers to find the next available cab.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of \u003cstrong>Sausalito\u003c/strong> is offering residents \u003cstrong>free rides to and from any location within city limits\u003c/strong> between 7 p.m. tonight and 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. Two city vehicles will be on call throughout the night to provide rides for up to five residents per trip. Call (415) 521-0412.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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BART said the clause was included in the contract by mistake and would cost the district between $5.6 million and $44 million over the four years of the new labor agreement, depending on how many workers used the federally mandated leave. The BART board of directors \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/21/bart-board-vote-union-contract/\" target=\"_blank\">refused to approve the provision\u003c/a>, even though it had been signed by senior management officials and ratified by the unions. That prompted the two unions involved, the BART chapter of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SEIU Local 1021\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu1555.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/03/bart-unions-taking-agency-to-court-over-contract-dispute/\" target=\"_blank\">sue the district\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the agreement announced today, the disputed provision for six weeks of paid family leave has been removed from the contract. Instead, workers will get more flexibility in how they use vacation, sick days or comp time when they take family leave. The district's bereavement leave policy will also be expanded to include time off in the event of the death of a grandchild or step-parent of a spouse or domestic partner. The deal also includes a district agreement to build new break facilities at Daly City, Millbrae and West Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican will submit the final contract to the BART board. If the board approves the agreement, the unions will vote on the pact. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides issued statements early Saturday that seemed to acknowledge the public discontent with the continuing contract dispute, which shut down the system for four days in July and four more in October. BART carries about 200,000 people on weekdays, and the system's two strikes caused jams on Bay Area freeways, burdened other transit agencies. The contract dispute and its aftermath led to widespread public criticism over relatively high union pay and BART management's handling of the family leave provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “After eight months of uncertainty for our riders,\" Crunican said in the BART statement, \"this deal will guarantee that every ounce of the Agency’s focus will be directed to providing great service to the Bay Area during the peak holiday period and beyond.\" John Arantes, president of the SEIU 1021 BART chapter, called today's agreement \"a fair resolution that would close months of drawn out contract talks and — in the interest of the riding public — end the uncertainty caused by the board’s removal of a section from our final, complete contract.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the fallout from this year's labor dispute has settled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Keller, who took over as president of the BART Board of Directors this week, says he wants \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\">to hold a referendum\u003c/a> on whether the agency's union employees should be allowed to strike. That vote would be advisory only — the state Legislature would have to enact any changes in the workers' collective-bargaining status — but Keller's suggestion immediately drew angry denunciations from union officials. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are the statements from BART and from SEIU Local 1021, followed by the signed agreements the two sides announced today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From BART:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican announced that all contract issues have been settled between BART and its two largest labor Unions. She will recommend the ratification of a final collective bargaining agreement with SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555 to the BART Board of Directors as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last remaining contract difference was resolved with solutions that are administrative in nature and/or will be covered within BART's existing budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After eight months of uncertainty for our riders, this deal will guarantee that every ounce of the Agency’s focus will be directed to providing great service to the Bay Area during the peak holiday period and beyond,” said Crunican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART and its Unions have spent the last month working to resolve a disputed tentative agreement which would have added weeks of additional paid leave time to BART employees. The issue was resolved with a series of agreements that 1) expands the District’s Bereavement Leave policy to allow workers paid time off in the event of the death of a grandchild or step-parent of a spouse or domestic partner, 2) upgrades employee break rooms at the Daly City, Millbrae and West Oakland BART stations, to be paid for through the District’s already funded station modernization program, 3) allows qualifying employees more flexibility in how they pay for the costs of their family medical leave, plus additional administrative changes to the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today BART’s largest unions, SEIU 1021 and ATU 1555, reached a tentative agreement with BART’s Management’s negotiators on a disputed contract provision on paid family medical leave.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From the SEIU:\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve reached a resolution that we can bring back to our members for a vote,” said SEIU 1021 BART Chapter President John Arantes. “It’s a fair resolution that would close months of drawn out contract talks and—in the interest of the riding public—end the uncertainty caused by the Board’s removal of a section from our final, complete contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BART Management has been adamant in their admission of a mistake and how they’ve handled the situation,” Arantes continued, “and, in the past few days, we’ve had the opportunity to have meaningful discussion and resolve some of our differences at the bargaining table. 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