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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More demonstrations are planned in Oakland Friday following the third fatal officer-involved shooting in the city this summer. All suspects killed in Oakland since June were black men; all were allegedly armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials are considering whether to release video captured from officer-worn and surveillance cameras that reportedly shows the man shot and killed Wednesday advancing toward police with a gun raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are meeting right now to discuss an appropriate policy,\" Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told KQED Thursday. \"Transparency is so important and as we have these new tools like chest camera footage, it is an opportunity for us to add more information, but we have to balance that with sensitivity to the families involved, as well as the due process and investigatory confidence that we have in this process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people took to the streets and freeway off-ramps in Oakland Wednesday night following the shooting. Protesters briefly blocked Interstate 980, and there were scattered reports of vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, founder of the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project and a member of Black Lives Matter Bay Area and the Black Power Network, was at the scene shortly after the shooting, but neither she nor her organization took part in protests later in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no justification for OPD to have killed this man,\" Brooks told KQED Thursday. \"As usual, our Mayor Libby Schaaf is taking the side of law enforcement over the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaff said she respects that people want to bring up \"the issue in general,\" but that the individual circumstances of each shooting are also important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our current evidence does show that this man was approaching our officers with a gun which was found to be loaded,\" Schaaf said, adding that Oakland Police Department has been an \"active player\" in the national conversation on racial inequity in the criminal justice system and police use-of-force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We always encourage people to not just look at the national conversation, which is so important, but to look at the particular facts,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's most recent officer-involved shooting occurred on the heels of the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's death sparked nationwide calls for accountability when law enforcement officers use deadly force and became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old man in Ferguson Aug. 9, the anniversary of Brown's death. He was allegedly armed with a handgun and fired on plainclothes St. Louis County police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reuters \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/13/us-usa-ferguson-idUSKCN0QI2C920150813\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u003c/a> protests in the city, now renowned for fatal police use-of-force, have calmed since the county police department \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/us/ferguson-missouri-michael-brown-unrest.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> seeming to show Tyrone Harris Jr. pulling a handgun from his waist before charging across West Florissant Avenue -- a street now famous for heavy-handed crowd control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's officer-involved shooting in Oakland began when police pursued a vehicle reported to be involved in an armed robbery in late July, according to the department. The pursuit started at 69th Avenue and International Boulevard in the mid-afternoon and ended near the corner of 27th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, where the suspect crashed his car into another vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deceased man has yet to be officially identified, pending confirmation of his name and notification of relatives, police said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with a handgun, the man fled the vehicle on foot and attempted to carjack another vehicle, according to the department, then ran from approaching officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers shot him after confronting him again. The man was discovered with a loaded, stolen handgun that had not been fired, according to OPD. Accounts differ on whether the man was running from officers when he was shot, or whether he was raising the gun and pointing it at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While there were conflicting reports on whether or not the brother had a gun, what everyone was uniform on was that he was running away from police and was shot in the back,\" Brooks said. \"If someone is running away from you, they cannot then be a threat to you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFGate \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-body-cameras-and-store-security-caught-6443269.php\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u003c/a> an attorney for the Oakland Police Officers Association and another witness say video footage shows the man advancing toward officers with a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department said in a statement Thursday afternoon that a preliminary autopsy report found that \"the bullets entered the front of the man's body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of Wednesday's shooting and protests, department and city leaders have noted a steady decline in overall use-of-force and deadly incidents over the past several years -- while the OPD has been under the close watch of a federal judge and court-appointed monitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the department has seen a 70 percent reduction in overall use-of-force in the last four years, and a 60 percent reduction in citizen complaints since 2012, citing enhanced training and new policies that discourage high-speed vehicle pursuits and some foot pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly these reforms are having an impact, but we need to continue to do more to improve that relationship of trust between our police force and the community,\" she said. \"We recognize that there have been serious harms and damage in the past and that we have to do a lot to rebuild that trust and convince the community that these reforms are sustainable -- that they are sincere and authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks doesn't see a new-and-improved OPD, and she said people passing by Wednesday's crime scene don't see it either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn’t, 'What happened?'\" she said. \"It wasn’t, 'Is everyting all right?' The first thing that came out of almost every single car that stopped was, 'Did OPD kill somebody else?' These are not activists or organizers, these are just average folks who live in the town and are really clear about the egregious history of OPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Anti Police-Terror Project \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/920295411350055/\" target=\"_blank\">plans a vigil\u003c/a> Friday at 6 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and 27th street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Helmick, Zaidee Stavely and Adizah Eghan of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Attorneys representing 14 people who say they were struck and jabbed by police batons, clubbed, beaten, tear gassed, slammed to the ground, fired on with “less lethal” projectiles or arrested during December protests in Berkeley related to the Black Lives Matter movement are considering filing a lawsuit against the city on their clients’ behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Their whole approach to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong. ... They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.'\u003ccite>Rachel Lederman,\u003cbr>Protesters' Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the claimants were reporters or individuals documenting the protests. One UC Berkeley student said she was unable to complete her semester or graduate as a result of her injuries. One woman, a minister who said she was struck in the back of the head while trying to help up another demonstrator who had fallen, required three staples at the emergency room to close the gash she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, attorneys filed four tort claims outlining alleged injuries to their clients. Those documents are required to be submitted prior to the official filing of a lawsuit against a government entity, explained Berkeley attorney James B. Chanin. Chanin and attorney Rachel Lederman of San Francisco-based Lederman & Beach Attorneys At Law are representing the group on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a brief statement posted by Lederman, “Our clients include a Chronicle photographer and a minister who were clubbed on the heads for no apparent reason; a 55-year-old Berkeley Rent Board counselor who was clubbed in the back from behind while she was urging other demonstrators to give the police space; and a visitor from Los Angeles who happened on the demonstration and had been there for only minutes when he was shot with a ‘less lethal’ munition, fracturing his knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman told Berkeleyside in late July that it could be a month or two before the lawsuit is actually filed. She said she and Chanin had been “having some initial discussions” with the city of Berkeley “to see if we can avoid that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the claims is “in excess of $10,000,” according to court documents, and alleges constitutional rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents described in court papers took place from Dec. 6-8, 2014, when protesters demanding an end to police brutality flocked to Berkeley by the hundreds. The majority of the injuries are alleged to have taken place Dec. 6, when crowds demonstrated for hours in Berkeley. Police ultimately used tear gas to clear the streets and push the protesters down Telegraph Avenue into Oakland. Police said members of the crowd surrounded them and were hurling projectiles at them, which ultimately led to the decision to use tear gas on demonstrators in Berkeley for the first time in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community members and some city officials have criticized that decision, which is still \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">under review\u003c/a> by the city’s volunteer Police Review Commission. The Berkeley City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">voted in February\u003c/a> to enact a temporary moratorium on the use of tear gas during nonviolent demonstrations pending the completion of that review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks that followed those first nights in Berkeley, many community members testified repeatedly about what they believed had been inappropriate and repeated use of force by officers in Berkeley during the December protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Complete Berkeleyside Protest Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10640809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png\" alt=\"Berkeleyside\" width=\"715\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png 715w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister-400x266.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">A Sampling of Top Stories\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Report Mistakes, Challenges in Berkeley Protests\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Review Commission Gets First Chance for Answers After Protests \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Police Release Long-Awaited Protest Report\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley City Council Limits Police Tear Gas Use, For Now\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/05/exclusive-23-minute-delay-for-paramedics-during-berkeley-protests-patient-later-died/\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive: 23-minute Delay for Paramedics During Berkeley Protests, Patient Later Died\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/09/photo-gallery-third-night-of-berkeley-protests-trains-halted-a-freeway-at-a-standstill/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Gallery: Third Night of Protests, Trains Halted, a Freeway Brought to a Standstill\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson Demo in Berkeley: Injuries Reported, Tear Gas Used, Property Vandalized\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Police Department completed its own \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> in June, which concluded that mistakes had been made, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested changes\u003c/a> to how it handles protests in the future. The report cost approximately $221,000 -- staff time from January through June for four officers and another city staffer -- to complete. Earlier this year, the department estimated that the response to the protests in December would likely \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">cost several hundred thousand dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police officers used an estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">50 tear gas grenades and “blast rounds”\u003c/a> to clear Telegraph on Dec. 6 around 10:20 p.m. after \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">sustaining numerous injuries to officers\u003c/a> in the preceding several hours. The vast majority of the injuries reported by claimants represented by Chanin and Lederman also took place that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, minister \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Pincus\u003c/a> tried to help a woman who had fallen down after being jabbed by a police officer’s club when an officer from an unknown department \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">struck her in the head\u003c/a>. (Berkeley police had called for mutual aid that night from other Bay Area law enforcement officers. An estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">100-200 of those officers\u003c/a> bolstered Berkeley’s own forces, which included 80-100 police.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had “deployed chemical agents and dangerous ‘less lethal’ munitions into the retreating crowd” and Pincus tried to flee but was disoriented, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">attorneys wrote\u003c/a>, “unable to see and bleeding from the head.” She managed to find two friends who helped her get to the hospital, where she required staples to close the gash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another claimant, UC Berkeley student Allie Loux, said she was trying to get home after taking part in the demonstrations that evening. According to court documents, she was unable to leave due to “police formations.” (At various points in the night, officers set up skirmish lines to try to direct the crowd or limit its access to different areas; police said in June that this increased tension with the crowd, and that the department should consider alternate approaches when possible in the future.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As police were deploying tear gas, Loux collapsed and fell to the ground, which ultimately \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Loux.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">resulted in a concussion\u003c/a>, according to court papers. Loux says she had to withdraw from school as a result of her injuries, and was therefore unable to graduate on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the night, at 6:30 p.m., San Francisco Chronicle photographer Sam Wolson said he was taking pictures of the demonstration near the Public Safety Building in his professional capacity when an officer “pushed him, and then struck him on the back of the head and neck with a police ‘baton’ from behind, as he was kneeling on the ground taking a photograph with his professional camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, three other injuries were reported. Demonstrator Joseph Cuff was walking with his dog when an officer \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YhGTdPosaeU\" target=\"_blank\">shoved him\u003c/a> with his baton, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">slamming him to the ground\u003c/a>.” (Some have said it was the incident with Cuff that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">upset the crowd\u003c/a> and led to much of the tension and violence that followed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Moni Law said she was trying to encourage the crowd to keep a safe distance from police when an officer “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">clubbed her from behind\u003c/a>.” Nearby, UC Berkeley student Nisa Dang said she too was clubbed while “peacefully participating in the demonstration.” According to court documents, police then threw “flash grenades” and “chemical agents” at the crowd. (Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">say they used smoke\u003c/a> canisters at this time, but did not use tear gas until later in the night, on Telegraph. According to Berkeley Police, the department never threw flash grenades.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis Johnson was struck in the knee with what court papers describe as “‘sponge rounds’, a high velocity so-called ‘less lethal’ munition,” after being surrounded without warning by officers, according to the attorneys, near University Avenue around 10 p.m. The blast fractured his knee, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several others said they were injured by police on Telegraph Avenue around 9:40 p.m. Emily Power said she was jabbed by officers who “hit her repeatedly and took her to the ground” and arrested her. Local journalist Rasheed Shabazz “was visibly engaged in photojournalism,” according to the tort claim, when an officer struck his camera and chest multiple times, then clubbed him in the knee from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10 p.m., Joseph Watkins was on his way home when he reportedly saw police using force on demonstrators and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">questioned the tactics\u003c/a>, according to the tort claim. Officers “grabbed and arrested” him, then covered his face and mouth, not allowing him to tell a National Lawyers Guild representative his name, the attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Todd Zimmer and Claire Sandberg, were recording police officers “jabbing and clubbing people” at Telegraph and Channing Way when an officer, according to the documents, struck Sandberg in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers then hit Zimmer’s “hand, camera and shoulder multiple times,” wrote the attorneys. “As with Mr. SHABAZZ, they appeared to be targeting his camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dang, who had been hit earlier near the Public Safety Building, said she was again “pushed and jabbed multiple times by unidentified officers” while on Telegraph Avenue as police moved the crowd south toward Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Hudson Soules and Shannon Strazdas, said they were walking home after a protest in Berkeley the following night, Dec. 7, when they were blocked by a police line. When they asked if they could get through to their South Berkeley home, according to court papers, officers pulled Soules “through the line and beat him, hitting him in the head and face and causing his pants to be pulled down. The officers then left his pants down as he stood handcuffed, under arrest, and refused to pull them up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strazdas asked why Soules was being arrested, and police then arrested her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrote the attorneys, “None of the Claimants presented a threat or engaged in any conduct justifying any use of force by the police at any time. Most appear to have been targeted simply because they were toward the front of the crowd, in some cases because they were trying to act as peacekeepers. Others such as WOLSON, SHABAZZ and ZIMMER appear to have been targeted for taking photos or video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four arrests, the attorneys said none of their clients had been engaged in unlawful conduct, and that charges have not been filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said the National Lawyers Guild had legal observers at many of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the Bay Area in November and December, and provided 24-hour hotlines during those protests to help community members who had trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the Berkeley demonstrations that we actually got the most complaints about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said that led her to attempt to speak with as many people as she could who had been injured or affected “to try to see what we could do to improve Berkeley police practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said she believes the Berkeley Police Department has weaknesses in its approach to general accountability as well as racial profiling, and a “lack of effective oversight.” The department, she added, has a number of “piecemeal” policies related to crowd control that she thinks it has lost track of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">whole approach\u003c/a> to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong,” she said. “They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said officers had too much discretion to use force “against protesters who weren’t actually doing anything wrong,” and said it appeared that “a combination of poor policies, a lack of planning and a lack of sensible command decisions” had led to the issues that arose in December between police and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanin, a civil rights attorney who was a founding member of Berkeley’s Police Review Commission, said it had been disappointing to see the local police response to the December demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other cities had these demonstrations without a lot of dissatisfaction, people getting injured, etc. Even Oakland did,” he said. “It’s very disappointing, because Berkeley used to be much better at this than they were this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor Lederman was impressed by the department’s report about the protests, which they said inappropriately lumped all the demonstrators into one group of bad actors, and failed to account for some of the problems that arose: the missing radio traffic recordings from the first night, which weren’t created due to a technical glitch; the lack of detail regarding officer use of force; and the failure to include specifics about “less lethal” munitions deployed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think they spent too much time talking about all the violence of the demonstrators: They \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">meticulously photographed every rock\u003c/a>, discussed every bad act. But they couldn’t record their own bad acts, their own force,” said Chanin. “They very painstakingly reported everyone’s use of force except their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Review Commission is set to continue its discussion regarding the police response to the Berkeley protests Wednesday night. Meeting details and materials are \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/Commissions/Commissions__Police_Review_Commission_Homepage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">posted on the city website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Berkeleyside's complete \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">protest coverage here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you rely on Berkeleyside for local news? Support independent journalism by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-berkeleyside/\" target=\"_blank\">becoming a Berkeleyside member\u003c/a> for $10 a month or even less, or by making a one-time donation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Attorneys representing 14 people who say they were struck and jabbed by police batons, clubbed, beaten, tear gassed, slammed to the ground, fired on with “less lethal” projectiles or arrested during December protests in Berkeley related to the Black Lives Matter movement are considering filing a lawsuit against the city on their clients’ behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Their whole approach to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong. ... They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.'\u003ccite>Rachel Lederman,\u003cbr>Protesters' Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the claimants were reporters or individuals documenting the protests. One UC Berkeley student said she was unable to complete her semester or graduate as a result of her injuries. One woman, a minister who said she was struck in the back of the head while trying to help up another demonstrator who had fallen, required three staples at the emergency room to close the gash she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, attorneys filed four tort claims outlining alleged injuries to their clients. Those documents are required to be submitted prior to the official filing of a lawsuit against a government entity, explained Berkeley attorney James B. Chanin. Chanin and attorney Rachel Lederman of San Francisco-based Lederman & Beach Attorneys At Law are representing the group on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a brief statement posted by Lederman, “Our clients include a Chronicle photographer and a minister who were clubbed on the heads for no apparent reason; a 55-year-old Berkeley Rent Board counselor who was clubbed in the back from behind while she was urging other demonstrators to give the police space; and a visitor from Los Angeles who happened on the demonstration and had been there for only minutes when he was shot with a ‘less lethal’ munition, fracturing his knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman told Berkeleyside in late July that it could be a month or two before the lawsuit is actually filed. She said she and Chanin had been “having some initial discussions” with the city of Berkeley “to see if we can avoid that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the claims is “in excess of $10,000,” according to court documents, and alleges constitutional rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents described in court papers took place from Dec. 6-8, 2014, when protesters demanding an end to police brutality flocked to Berkeley by the hundreds. The majority of the injuries are alleged to have taken place Dec. 6, when crowds demonstrated for hours in Berkeley. Police ultimately used tear gas to clear the streets and push the protesters down Telegraph Avenue into Oakland. Police said members of the crowd surrounded them and were hurling projectiles at them, which ultimately led to the decision to use tear gas on demonstrators in Berkeley for the first time in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community members and some city officials have criticized that decision, which is still \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">under review\u003c/a> by the city’s volunteer Police Review Commission. The Berkeley City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">voted in February\u003c/a> to enact a temporary moratorium on the use of tear gas during nonviolent demonstrations pending the completion of that review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks that followed those first nights in Berkeley, many community members testified repeatedly about what they believed had been inappropriate and repeated use of force by officers in Berkeley during the December protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Complete Berkeleyside Protest Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10640809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png\" alt=\"Berkeleyside\" width=\"715\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister.png 715w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/canister-400x266.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">A Sampling of Top Stories\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Report Mistakes, Challenges in Berkeley Protests\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/10/police-review-commission-gets-first-chance-for-answers-from-berkeley-police-after-december-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Review Commission Gets First Chance for Answers After Protests \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Police Release Long-Awaited Protest Report\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/11/berkeley-council-limits-police-tear-gas-use-for-now/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley City Council Limits Police Tear Gas Use, For Now\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/05/exclusive-23-minute-delay-for-paramedics-during-berkeley-protests-patient-later-died/\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive: 23-minute Delay for Paramedics During Berkeley Protests, Patient Later Died\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/09/photo-gallery-third-night-of-berkeley-protests-trains-halted-a-freeway-at-a-standstill/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Gallery: Third Night of Protests, Trains Halted, a Freeway Brought to a Standstill\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson Demo in Berkeley: Injuries Reported, Tear Gas Used, Property Vandalized\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Police Department completed its own \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> in June, which concluded that mistakes had been made, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested changes\u003c/a> to how it handles protests in the future. The report cost approximately $221,000 -- staff time from January through June for four officers and another city staffer -- to complete. Earlier this year, the department estimated that the response to the protests in December would likely \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">cost several hundred thousand dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police officers used an estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">50 tear gas grenades and “blast rounds”\u003c/a> to clear Telegraph on Dec. 6 around 10:20 p.m. after \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">sustaining numerous injuries to officers\u003c/a> in the preceding several hours. The vast majority of the injuries reported by claimants represented by Chanin and Lederman also took place that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, minister \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/06/breaking-post-ferguson-demo-in-downtown-berkeley-march-continues-to-berkeley-police-hq/\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Pincus\u003c/a> tried to help a woman who had fallen down after being jabbed by a police officer’s club when an officer from an unknown department \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">struck her in the head\u003c/a>. (Berkeley police had called for mutual aid that night from other Bay Area law enforcement officers. An estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">100-200 of those officers\u003c/a> bolstered Berkeley’s own forces, which included 80-100 police.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had “deployed chemical agents and dangerous ‘less lethal’ munitions into the retreating crowd” and Pincus tried to flee but was disoriented, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Pincus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">attorneys wrote\u003c/a>, “unable to see and bleeding from the head.” She managed to find two friends who helped her get to the hospital, where she required staples to close the gash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another claimant, UC Berkeley student Allie Loux, said she was trying to get home after taking part in the demonstrations that evening. According to court documents, she was unable to leave due to “police formations.” (At various points in the night, officers set up skirmish lines to try to direct the crowd or limit its access to different areas; police said in June that this increased tension with the crowd, and that the department should consider alternate approaches when possible in the future.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As police were deploying tear gas, Loux collapsed and fell to the ground, which ultimately \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Loux.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">resulted in a concussion\u003c/a>, according to court papers. Loux says she had to withdraw from school as a result of her injuries, and was therefore unable to graduate on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the night, at 6:30 p.m., San Francisco Chronicle photographer Sam Wolson said he was taking pictures of the demonstration near the Public Safety Building in his professional capacity when an officer “pushed him, and then struck him on the back of the head and neck with a police ‘baton’ from behind, as he was kneeling on the ground taking a photograph with his professional camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, three other injuries were reported. Demonstrator Joseph Cuff was walking with his dog when an officer \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YhGTdPosaeU\" target=\"_blank\">shoved him\u003c/a> with his baton, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">slamming him to the ground\u003c/a>.” (Some have said it was the incident with Cuff that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/11/police-report-mistakes-challenges-in-berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">upset the crowd\u003c/a> and led to much of the tension and violence that followed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Moni Law said she was trying to encourage the crowd to keep a safe distance from police when an officer “\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">clubbed her from behind\u003c/a>.” Nearby, UC Berkeley student Nisa Dang said she too was clubbed while “peacefully participating in the demonstration.” According to court documents, police then threw “flash grenades” and “chemical agents” at the crowd. (Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/08/berkeley-police-qa-tear-gas-use-protest-costs-more/\" target=\"_blank\">say they used smoke\u003c/a> canisters at this time, but did not use tear gas until later in the night, on Telegraph. According to Berkeley Police, the department never threw flash grenades.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis Johnson was struck in the knee with what court papers describe as “‘sponge rounds’, a high velocity so-called ‘less lethal’ munition,” after being surrounded without warning by officers, according to the attorneys, near University Avenue around 10 p.m. The blast fractured his knee, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several others said they were injured by police on Telegraph Avenue around 9:40 p.m. Emily Power said she was jabbed by officers who “hit her repeatedly and took her to the ground” and arrested her. Local journalist Rasheed Shabazz “was visibly engaged in photojournalism,” according to the tort claim, when an officer struck his camera and chest multiple times, then clubbed him in the knee from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10 p.m., Joseph Watkins was on his way home when he reportedly saw police using force on demonstrators and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Tort-Claim-Attachment-Multiple.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">questioned the tactics\u003c/a>, according to the tort claim. Officers “grabbed and arrested” him, then covered his face and mouth, not allowing him to tell a National Lawyers Guild representative his name, the attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Todd Zimmer and Claire Sandberg, were recording police officers “jabbing and clubbing people” at Telegraph and Channing Way when an officer, according to the documents, struck Sandberg in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers then hit Zimmer’s “hand, camera and shoulder multiple times,” wrote the attorneys. “As with Mr. SHABAZZ, they appeared to be targeting his camera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dang, who had been hit earlier near the Public Safety Building, said she was again “pushed and jabbed multiple times by unidentified officers” while on Telegraph Avenue as police moved the crowd south toward Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others, Hudson Soules and Shannon Strazdas, said they were walking home after a protest in Berkeley the following night, Dec. 7, when they were blocked by a police line. When they asked if they could get through to their South Berkeley home, according to court papers, officers pulled Soules “through the line and beat him, hitting him in the head and face and causing his pants to be pulled down. The officers then left his pants down as he stood handcuffed, under arrest, and refused to pull them up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strazdas asked why Soules was being arrested, and police then arrested her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrote the attorneys, “None of the Claimants presented a threat or engaged in any conduct justifying any use of force by the police at any time. Most appear to have been targeted simply because they were toward the front of the crowd, in some cases because they were trying to act as peacekeepers. Others such as WOLSON, SHABAZZ and ZIMMER appear to have been targeted for taking photos or video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four arrests, the attorneys said none of their clients had been engaged in unlawful conduct, and that charges have not been filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said the National Lawyers Guild had legal observers at many of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the Bay Area in November and December, and provided 24-hour hotlines during those protests to help community members who had trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the Berkeley demonstrations that we actually got the most complaints about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said that led her to attempt to speak with as many people as she could who had been injured or affected “to try to see what we could do to improve Berkeley police practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said she believes the Berkeley Police Department has weaknesses in its approach to general accountability as well as racial profiling, and a “lack of effective oversight.” The department, she added, has a number of “piecemeal” policies related to crowd control that she thinks it has lost track of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">whole approach\u003c/a> to the demonstration from their initial planning was just wrong,” she said. “They assumed the demonstrators would cause violence. And that caused them to treat the demonstrators like potentially violent criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said officers had too much discretion to use force “against protesters who weren’t actually doing anything wrong,” and said it appeared that “a combination of poor policies, a lack of planning and a lack of sensible command decisions” had led to the issues that arose in December between police and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanin, a civil rights attorney who was a founding member of Berkeley’s Police Review Commission, said it had been disappointing to see the local police response to the December demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other cities had these demonstrations without a lot of dissatisfaction, people getting injured, etc. Even Oakland did,” he said. “It’s very disappointing, because Berkeley used to be much better at this than they were this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor Lederman was impressed by the department’s report about the protests, which they said inappropriately lumped all the demonstrators into one group of bad actors, and failed to account for some of the problems that arose: the missing radio traffic recordings from the first night, which weren’t created due to a technical glitch; the lack of detail regarding officer use of force; and the failure to include specifics about “less lethal” munitions deployed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think they spent too much time talking about all the violence of the demonstrators: They \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/06/09/berkeley-police-release-long-awaited-protest-report/\" target=\"_blank\">meticulously photographed every rock\u003c/a>, discussed every bad act. But they couldn’t record their own bad acts, their own force,” said Chanin. “They very painstakingly reported everyone’s use of force except their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Review Commission is set to continue its discussion regarding the police response to the Berkeley protests Wednesday night. Meeting details and materials are \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/Commissions/Commissions__Police_Review_Commission_Homepage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">posted on the city website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Berkeleyside's complete \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">protest coverage here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Black Love Festival Engages More Young People in Black Lives Matter",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> group of organizers is engaging more young people in the Black Lives Matter movement through art, music and love. It's been two years since Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors introduced the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter -- on the night George Zimmerman was acquitted for Trayvon Martin’s murder -- and eventually gave birth to a movement with co-founder Opal Tometi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it has grown through social media, connecting a new generation of organizers. Three of them put on the first annual \u003ca href=\"http://blacklovefestival.tumblr.com/\">Black Love Festival\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point on July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of Black Love is more complex and less hippie-dippie than you might think. It’s a celebration of love as a form of liberation, resistance and unity -- three themes that run deep in African-American culture. Amir \"Keez\" Shabazz is among the 400 or so black folks -- mostly students, young professionals, and creative types -- who came to enjoy an afternoon of arts and culture at Heron's Head Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217041811&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shabazz explains what black love means to him. \"'I’m here, I got your back and I love what you’re doing' is black love,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he organizers chose Bayview-Hunters Point for the festival because they wanted young people to help reclaim San Francisco's historically African-American neighborhood and come together in a positive environment focused on self-care, self-healing and respect. Organizer China Pharr says everyone has a part to play in this movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t have to be a leader or some politician,\" she says. \"You don’t have to be any of that. 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The idea for the Black Love Festival came from two problems they frequently encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there are few black people left in San Francisco, where Leigh Davenport lives. She says, \"It’s palpable, it’s really palpable, the dwindling population,\" which is down to about 5 percent, half of what it was 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, not everyone feels comfortable demonstrating in the streets. \"We’ve had about five different events, and we’ve found that there wasn’t enough young people attending,\" Brown says. \"We were looking for people between the ages of 13 and 30.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they tried a new strategy: They would get young black people to network and come to San Francisco for an arts and culture festival that was part creativity and part activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big thing that’s happened in the black community in America is we have become ashamed of ourselves,\" Pharr says. \"I think when you see all this criminalization in the media, and you see all these representations of us, that we’re kind of afraid to be ourselves and celebrate ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of the women sit barefoot at a table in Brown's mother's apartment, not too far from where the festival took place. They've spent months trying to figure out the best way make this festival happen. The message of Black Love isn’t to shame people for not being at protests. Instead, it's to help a new generation heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media are loaded with videos and stories of young people of color who are killed by the police. Pharr points to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/23/us/23blandlisty.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">July 13 death of Sandra Bland\u003c/a>, who was pulled over for not putting on her turn signal while driving in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"She was found hanging in a jail cell, and she was a college graduate just like me,\" she says. \"Moved to find a new job, just like me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It becomes overwhelming, she adds: \"You kind of feel like there’s no end in sight sometimes. You kind of feel like, is it ever going to end? Are we ever going to stop being murdered? ... Some days I’m so happy that I was born with this beautiful melanin, and then some days I feel like it’s a blessing and a curse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/o1pmfsRCCSo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hese feelings certainly aren't new, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.obatshaka.com/home\">Oba T'Shaka\u003c/a>, who has participated in various forms of resistance, starting with the civil rights movement in San Francisco in the '60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of our youth are experiencing what we experienced, which is anger and disturbance at seeing our people oppressed,\" he says. In the '60s it was social and economic oppression. Today it's police oppression, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"The '60s produced a restructuring of the black mind, not for all blacks,\" T'Shaka says. \"In fact, our movements failed to systematize that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restructuring of the black mind is hard to put into words, but it’s happening with Black Lives Matter, he says. It's an awakening process similar to when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Once people become critically aware of the oppression around them, they start an awakening process and seek to heal from race-based trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People realize that they have been hoodwinked. 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"content": "\u003cp>Inspired by the national Black Lives Matter movement, public defenders throughout the Bay Area have formed a new organization with the goal of bringing issues of racial inequality to the forefront in their own workplace -- the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi spearheaded the grass-roots organization, known as Public Defenders for Racial Justice. More than 100 public defenders, representing Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and other Bay Area counties, turned out for the group’s first official gathering June 27 at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daylong event featured a series of presentations and workshops on implementing strategies for criminal justice reform. Alicia Garza, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and special projects director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, was among the speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this whole national debate going on across the country: Is America suffering from racism?” Adachi said in an interview with KQED. “Part of what we need to do as public defenders is to get people talking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key theme of the conference was how to address implicit bias -– the unconscious tendency to treat people differently based on race. Researchers and civil rights advocates are increasingly highlighting this concept as a problem that can lead to unfair outcomes in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have it, everyone has it,” Adachi said. “Part of becoming better human beings is recognizing that bias.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said his own office had instituted implicit bias trainings to help attorneys recognize their own preconceived notions when representing clients. He said he’d like to see the San Francisco Police Department implement similar trainings for its officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a test, called \u003ca href=\"https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/iatdetails.html\">the Implicit Association Test\u003c/a>, where they can actually measure human bias,” Adachi explained. “They have you look at images that flash on the screen very quickly, and you use your computer keyboard to make certain choices: Good, bad, positive or negative. And what it shows is that most people are going to make judgment calls against African-Americans and in favor of white Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining Adachi at the Public Defenders for Racial Justice conference was Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods, who said he was motivated by personal experience to practice law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have family members that have been incarcerated and gone through the system, uncles in prison, cousins have been in the system,” Woods explained. “I just knew that if I was going to get through high school, college, law school, I was going to be a public defender. 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The meeting picked up where Black Lives Matter left off, applying universal frustration over systemic racism to local problems in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of healers, artists, young professionals, elders and parents, met in the downtown Oakland club to discuss ways to move the community forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Hodge stood on a stage in a red Patrice Lumumba T-shirt and beat on a djembe as he led the room in a joyful opening ceremony, the crowd dancing and chanting along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind him was a poster with a picture of Ghanaian freedom fighter — and Ghana's first president — Kwame Nkrumah. paired with a quote: \"All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any other part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the tone for the gathering, which was put together by a coalition of black organizations. 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And I was in SNCC, Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, and we went out and did stuff right away,\" he said. \"Now I’m one of the seniors, and I’m watching Black Lives do stuff now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchings hopes there’s a role for folks like him in what he sees as a new movement. And that movement is about black unity, according to 26-year-old Akiba Bradford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter,\u003c/a> we’ve seen an influx of people organize on behalf of us,\" she said. \"So it’s important for us to organize for ourselves. And what does that look like? It’s going to look like us getting on the same page, and creating a plan that can move us from the talks and from the marches to actual action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Action would focus on local problems -- such as gentrification, police brutality and neighborhood violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran organizer Oba T’shaka agreed. T'shaka was a leader in San Francisco in the civil rights movement in the early ’60s. He’s lived in Oakland for 22 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T'shaka said Black Lives Matter demonstrates that black culture is stronger than people think, despite the identity crisis that characterizes the \"death culture\" afflicting black youth. He pointed out that the challenge for this generation is creating a unified national movement out of an online movement that varies from city to city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson Riles Jr. was on the Oakland City Council for 13 years. He no longer believes that electoral power leads to self-determination in the way people once thought it could. After all, Oakland has had three black mayors, and the black community continues to struggle with housing, unemployment and racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re disappointed because a lot of the black elected officials didn’t make any difference — in terms of what was going on in communities — and a black president hasn’t made a lot of difference to what’s going on with black people,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riles said the black community is a lot more fractured than it was during and before the civil rights movement. Generations don’t talk or work together like they used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10507408\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10507408\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chinyere Tutashinda, 32, is a co-founder of BlackOUT Collective and a core organizer of State of Black Oakland.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinyere Tutashinda, 32, is a founding member of BlackOUT Collective and a core organizer of State of Black Oakland.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, Kweli Tutashinda and his daughter, Chinyere, do. Not only did both attend the conference, but the two of them are also worried about what’s being lost in the city where he raised her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kweli remembers an Oakland where black businesses thrived and anyone could get by on a part-time job. Since then, he’s watched the black population dwindle from 47 percent to 28 percent, and many of those businesses close by the dozen. He worries how Chinyere will cope with the fallout of gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is whether or not locals will be priced out. \"Many people like in my daughter’s generation, they’re able to make it here, but many of them are struggling. And these are people who have master’s degrees,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Chinyere is one of the core organizers of State of Black Oakland. She grew up mingling with black political legends like Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins and Ron Dellums in North Oakland. She has been advocating on behalf of black folks her entire life. 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And I was in SNCC, Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, and we went out and did stuff right away,\" he said. \"Now I’m one of the seniors, and I’m watching Black Lives do stuff now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchings hopes there’s a role for folks like him in what he sees as a new movement. And that movement is about black unity, according to 26-year-old Akiba Bradford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter,\u003c/a> we’ve seen an influx of people organize on behalf of us,\" she said. \"So it’s important for us to organize for ourselves. And what does that look like? It’s going to look like us getting on the same page, and creating a plan that can move us from the talks and from the marches to actual action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Action would focus on local problems -- such as gentrification, police brutality and neighborhood violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran organizer Oba T’shaka agreed. T'shaka was a leader in San Francisco in the civil rights movement in the early ’60s. He’s lived in Oakland for 22 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T'shaka said Black Lives Matter demonstrates that black culture is stronger than people think, despite the identity crisis that characterizes the \"death culture\" afflicting black youth. He pointed out that the challenge for this generation is creating a unified national movement out of an online movement that varies from city to city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson Riles Jr. was on the Oakland City Council for 13 years. He no longer believes that electoral power leads to self-determination in the way people once thought it could. After all, Oakland has had three black mayors, and the black community continues to struggle with housing, unemployment and racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re disappointed because a lot of the black elected officials didn’t make any difference — in terms of what was going on in communities — and a black president hasn’t made a lot of difference to what’s going on with black people,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riles said the black community is a lot more fractured than it was during and before the civil rights movement. Generations don’t talk or work together like they used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10507408\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10507408\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chinyere Tutashinda, 32, is a co-founder of BlackOUT Collective and a core organizer of State of Black Oakland.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14940_IMG_0502.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinyere Tutashinda, 32, is a founding member of BlackOUT Collective and a core organizer of State of Black Oakland.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, Kweli Tutashinda and his daughter, Chinyere, do. Not only did both attend the conference, but the two of them are also worried about what’s being lost in the city where he raised her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kweli remembers an Oakland where black businesses thrived and anyone could get by on a part-time job. Since then, he’s watched the black population dwindle from 47 percent to 28 percent, and many of those businesses close by the dozen. He worries how Chinyere will cope with the fallout of gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is whether or not locals will be priced out. \"Many people like in my daughter’s generation, they’re able to make it here, but many of them are struggling. And these are people who have master’s degrees,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Chinyere is one of the core organizers of State of Black Oakland. She grew up mingling with black political legends like Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins and Ron Dellums in North Oakland. She has been advocating on behalf of black folks her entire life. Now Chinyere lives in West Oakland, a neighborhood she loves for its strong concentration of blackness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite this, she's not planning on raising a family here. \"No, I’m not planning on staying,\" she says. \"I can’t afford to live here. It costs too much. I have a full-time job, I can’t afford a home, I couldn’t raise children here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she goes back and forth on the idea of staying. But for the most part, her mind is made up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If home-grown organizers like Chinyere are leaving, then what does that mean for black Oakland? In an ideal world, change will come fast enough for Chinyere’s friends and family to stay.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was a march that almost didn't happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, a couple dozen San Francisco students from Visitacion Valley Middle School made a statement on police accountability and violence in their neighborhoods. They took a field trip to a neighboring high school, \u003ca href=\"http://jjse.org/\" target=\"_blank\">June Jordan School for Equity\u003c/a>. And they marched there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That route, through John McLaren Park in southeast San Francisco, wasn't 13-year-old Shauntique Smith-Carter's original idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My whole intention was to walk on both sides of the streets and take up the whole Mission,\" he said, \"and I knew that would probably get ya'lls attention because I know the news. They go for big stories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shauntique's idea started to take off sometime in late February, after he had brought it to a few of his teachers and one assistant principal, Emmanuel Stewart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a lot going on in the country at that time,\" Stewart said, \"a lot with Ferguson and New York City and Michael Brown. There were a lot of issues, and he came to me and asked, 'What would be the possibility of our school having a march or something positive?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199911100\" 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>Stewart said he didn't see why not, and the idea started to gather momentum. Students and teachers from other schools found out and wanted to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after more than one school got involved, what was initially a field trip became a districtwide event that had to be approved by the district, and the \"March on the Mission\" was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco School District risk management said we just didn’t do our due diligence,\" Stewart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD's risk management office did not respond to questions about the district's rationale for canceling the march. A school district spokeswoman said SFUSD is supportive of the students' event today. She said she didn't know about the previous plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a few days in mid-March when the students were sure their march was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At first I was mad and I wanted to flip out,\" Shauntique said. \"But I kept my calm how my mom taught me, and I thought to myself, what would this lead to, if I flipped out?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That moment illustrates a transformation the 13-year-old has undergone over the past year, according to Erica Ross, who has legal custody of Shauntique. Shauntique calls her \"mom,\" but he also maintains a relationship with his biological mother, Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shauntique has a little past of fighting and being angry and just not getting along with staff or students,\" she said. Stewart said his relationship with Shauntique has involved a lot of office visits after teachers kicked him out of class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in February 2014, Shauntique was severely injured -- something he calls a life-changing experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had did something really bad,\" he said. \"I had stole money from someone, and some other things, and I was supposed to get shot. But he ran me over instead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He survived but was hospitalized for months, Ross said, part of the time in a medically induced coma. He had a total of 16 surgeries and carries a metal rod in his right leg and two pins in each of his shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was hanging out in Havenscourt [Oakland] thinking I was a little billy bad butt, but I wasn’t,\" Shauntique said, adding his mother and siblings had always told him to stay away from selling drugs. \"I did my own thing anyway, and I’m crippled now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said when it gets cold, he can feel the metal in his body \"freezing,\" and he exercises every morning to keep his weight down so he doesn't lose his leg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that experience, he realized that’s not the life for him,\" Ross said. \"He wants to pursue a college education; he didn’t feel that way before. He wants to help other people; he was very self-centered and egotistical. And he’s very humble now, a very different kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. entered Shauntique's life, through the curriculum of a special education teacher. Shauntique suddenly had a teacher he could identify with, who was talking about a subject that resonated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10483077\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10483077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Visitacion Valley Assistant Principal Emmanuel Stewart pages through a stack of letters on Tuesday, April 7, that he received from students when they were disappointed about the cancellation of their march.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitacion Valley Assistant Principal Emmanuel Stewart pages through a stack of letters on Tuesday, April 7, that he received from students when they were disappointed about the cancellation of their march. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That educator has done an outstanding job of bringing in things that matter to our students, that have them engaged in the classroom,\" Stewart said. \"So this [march] is just one more engagement piece, and I think that has to happen throughout the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Visitacion Valley could use some engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a higher-than-average number of foster youth at the school, and 84.3 percent of the student body is classified as \"socioeconomically disadvantaged\" by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/assets/sfusd-staff/rpa/sarcs2/sarc-868.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">school district\u003c/a>. Only 7 percent of African-American students score at or above proficient in science. The whole student body ranks at about half the rate of the rest of the district for proficiency in English and math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitacion Valley Middle School's population last year was about equal parts African-American and Latino students, and those two groups make up more than half the student body. Just 4.3 percent of students there are white. Suspensions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/10/with-suspensions-down-some-schools-struggle-to-increase-learning\" target=\"_blank\">started to fall\u003c/a> at the school and districtwide last school year, but Visitacion Valley's suspension rate is still more than six times the district as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, Stewart paged through a stack of letters from Shauntique's class. They were delivered after the students learned their march was canceled, and before the idea was resurrected. They're all very similar, though some students added a phrase here or there. Most say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dear Mr. Stewart,\u003cbr>\nI want to thank you for helping with the March on the Mission. I believe in what you are doing. I just wanted to tell you thank you. Never give up. Never surrender!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"We figured out a different way of doing it,\" Stewart said. \"They should be able to speak about what’s going on in their community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That different way involved scaling back the march. It would be only Visitacion Valley Middle School, and it would be through McLaren Park, not down a busy city street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students played drums and sang as they walked the mile or so between the schools. An SFUSD spokeswoman said the district could not accommodate KQED reporting on events inside June Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ninth- and 10th-grade humanities teacher Karen Zapata said the \"students teaching students\" workshops went went well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s basically our young people showing leadership and sharing their skills as conscious young people with a group of middle schoolers who feel really strongly about injustice,\" Zapata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Whittaker, a 16-year-old who facilitated some of the workshops with the middle schoolers, confirmed that a handful of them, including Shauntique, recited portions from Martin Luther King Jr. speeches to an assembly of the whole high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was crazy because the middle schoolers had so much opinion in them,\" she said. \"They were so engaged and participating.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She said she didn't know about the previous plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a few days in mid-March when the students were sure their march was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At first I was mad and I wanted to flip out,\" Shauntique said. \"But I kept my calm how my mom taught me, and I thought to myself, what would this lead to, if I flipped out?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That moment illustrates a transformation the 13-year-old has undergone over the past year, according to Erica Ross, who has legal custody of Shauntique. Shauntique calls her \"mom,\" but he also maintains a relationship with his biological mother, Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shauntique has a little past of fighting and being angry and just not getting along with staff or students,\" she said. Stewart said his relationship with Shauntique has involved a lot of office visits after teachers kicked him out of class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in February 2014, Shauntique was severely injured -- something he calls a life-changing experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had did something really bad,\" he said. \"I had stole money from someone, and some other things, and I was supposed to get shot. But he ran me over instead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He survived but was hospitalized for months, Ross said, part of the time in a medically induced coma. He had a total of 16 surgeries and carries a metal rod in his right leg and two pins in each of his shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was hanging out in Havenscourt [Oakland] thinking I was a little billy bad butt, but I wasn’t,\" Shauntique said, adding his mother and siblings had always told him to stay away from selling drugs. \"I did my own thing anyway, and I’m crippled now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said when it gets cold, he can feel the metal in his body \"freezing,\" and he exercises every morning to keep his weight down so he doesn't lose his leg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that experience, he realized that’s not the life for him,\" Ross said. \"He wants to pursue a college education; he didn’t feel that way before. He wants to help other people; he was very self-centered and egotistical. And he’s very humble now, a very different kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. entered Shauntique's life, through the curriculum of a special education teacher. Shauntique suddenly had a teacher he could identify with, who was talking about a subject that resonated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10483077\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10483077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Visitacion Valley Assistant Principal Emmanuel Stewart pages through a stack of letters on Tuesday, April 7, that he received from students when they were disappointed about the cancellation of their march.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14774_IMG_1378-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitacion Valley Assistant Principal Emmanuel Stewart pages through a stack of letters on Tuesday, April 7, that he received from students when they were disappointed about the cancellation of their march. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That educator has done an outstanding job of bringing in things that matter to our students, that have them engaged in the classroom,\" Stewart said. \"So this [march] is just one more engagement piece, and I think that has to happen throughout the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at Visitacion Valley could use some engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a higher-than-average number of foster youth at the school, and 84.3 percent of the student body is classified as \"socioeconomically disadvantaged\" by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/assets/sfusd-staff/rpa/sarcs2/sarc-868.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">school district\u003c/a>. Only 7 percent of African-American students score at or above proficient in science. The whole student body ranks at about half the rate of the rest of the district for proficiency in English and math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitacion Valley Middle School's population last year was about equal parts African-American and Latino students, and those two groups make up more than half the student body. Just 4.3 percent of students there are white. Suspensions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/10/with-suspensions-down-some-schools-struggle-to-increase-learning\" target=\"_blank\">started to fall\u003c/a> at the school and districtwide last school year, but Visitacion Valley's suspension rate is still more than six times the district as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, Stewart paged through a stack of letters from Shauntique's class. They were delivered after the students learned their march was canceled, and before the idea was resurrected. They're all very similar, though some students added a phrase here or there. Most say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dear Mr. Stewart,\u003cbr>\nI want to thank you for helping with the March on the Mission. I believe in what you are doing. I just wanted to tell you thank you. Never give up. Never surrender!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"We figured out a different way of doing it,\" Stewart said. \"They should be able to speak about what’s going on in their community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That different way involved scaling back the march. It would be only Visitacion Valley Middle School, and it would be through McLaren Park, not down a busy city street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students played drums and sang as they walked the mile or so between the schools. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Justice Department is poised to declare that former police Officer Darren Wilson should not face civil rights charges over the death of Michael Brown, law enforcement sources tell NPR. Wilson, who is white, shot and killed Brown, who was black, in August. Brown was not armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Two law enforcement sources tell NPR they see no way forward to file criminal civil rights charges\" against Wilson, NPR's Carrie Johnson reports. She adds, \"Those charges would require authorities to prove the officer used excessive force and violated Brown's constitutional rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The development was first reported by t\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/justice-department-ferguson-civil-rights-darren-wilson.html\">he New York Times\u003c/a>, which says prosecutors are preparing a memo that will soon close the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department has been investigating the events that took place in Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown, 18, was killed during an encounter with Wilson that set off weeks of protests and confrontations between demonstrators and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the civil rights inquiry's likely end comes nearly two months after a St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict Wilson. Within days of that decision, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/24/366370100/grand-jury-reaches-decision-in-michael-brown-case\">Wilson resigned from the police force\u003c/a> in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Eric Holder has said the federal investigation is being kept independent from local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And although federal civil rights law imposes a high legal bar in these types of cases, we have resisted forming premature conclusions,\" Holder said, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/11/25/366527106/federal-ferguson-investigation-will-remain-independent-holder-insists\">Johnson reported\u003c/a> in late November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it seems that the investigation of whether Wilson violated Brown's civil rights may soon be over, another federal investigation is ongoing. That effort focuses on whether the Ferguson Police Department might itself be guilty of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the community viewed Brown's killing as the latest in a string of \"illegal and harmful practices,\" as a public defender group told NPR's Joseph Shapiro in late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Shapiro said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"To understand some of the distrust of police that has fueled protests in Ferguson, Mo., consider this: In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson -- a city of 21,135 people -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=68845\">issued 32,975 arrest warrants\u003c/a> for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ArchCity Defenders, a public defender group that \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/vwptqn3mhq9xvy7/ArchCity%20Defenders%20Municipal%20Courts%20Whitepaper.pdf\">produced a report\u003c/a> on the legal systems in Ferguson and nearby communities, said that its study of the Ferguson police department's actions suggested the prime motivation seemed to be to raise money, calling court fines and fees the city's second-biggest source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group also noted that Ferguson police stopped black motorists more often than white ones — even though searches of white drivers' cars were more likely to turn up contraband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Blacks make up 67 percent of the city's population but are 86 percent of motorists stopped by police. Whites make up 29 percent of the population, but 12.7 percent of vehicle stops.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another demographic detail that raised residents' suspicions: The majority of Ferguson's police officers are white, while the majority of the town's residents are black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Justice+Dept.+Will+Reportedly+Clear+Ferguson+Police+Officer+In+Brown+Case&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Eric Holder has said the federal investigation is being kept independent from local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And although federal civil rights law imposes a high legal bar in these types of cases, we have resisted forming premature conclusions,\" Holder said, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/11/25/366527106/federal-ferguson-investigation-will-remain-independent-holder-insists\">Johnson reported\u003c/a> in late November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it seems that the investigation of whether Wilson violated Brown's civil rights may soon be over, another federal investigation is ongoing. That effort focuses on whether the Ferguson Police Department might itself be guilty of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the community viewed Brown's killing as the latest in a string of \"illegal and harmful practices,\" as a public defender group told NPR's Joseph Shapiro in late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Shapiro said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"To understand some of the distrust of police that has fueled protests in Ferguson, Mo., consider this: In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson -- a city of 21,135 people -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=68845\">issued 32,975 arrest warrants\u003c/a> for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ArchCity Defenders, a public defender group that \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/vwptqn3mhq9xvy7/ArchCity%20Defenders%20Municipal%20Courts%20Whitepaper.pdf\">produced a report\u003c/a> on the legal systems in Ferguson and nearby communities, said that its study of the Ferguson police department's actions suggested the prime motivation seemed to be to raise money, calling court fines and fees the city's second-biggest source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group also noted that Ferguson police stopped black motorists more often than white ones — even though searches of white drivers' cars were more likely to turn up contraband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shapiro reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Blacks make up 67 percent of the city's population but are 86 percent of motorists stopped by police. Whites make up 29 percent of the population, but 12.7 percent of vehicle stops.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another demographic detail that raised residents' suspicions: The majority of Ferguson's police officers are white, while the majority of the town's residents are black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Justice+Dept.+Will+Reportedly+Clear+Ferguson+Police+Officer+In+Brown+Case&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Over the last month, the Black Student Union at UC Berkeley has organized three separate events to protest police killings of unarmed black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have marched on the streets, through local businesses and sat in at cafes. The demonstrations have allowed students to grieve, heal and show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson and Staten Island. But they have also been a way to express concerns about race relations at Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m not going to be the last black student at Cal, so it’s time now we start trying to make change.’\u003ccite>Blake Simons, Cal senior\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cal senior Blake Simons feels “extremely blessed and grateful” to be a student at UC Berkeley. But he is also unhappy with the racist experiences he’s had while attending school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to be the last black student at Cal, so it’s time now we start trying to make change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BSU first \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/04/breaking-cal-students-hold-black-lives-matter-rally/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organized a 4½-hour occupation of Golden Bear Caf\u003c/a>e on Dec. 4, designed to last the same amount of time the body of Michael Brown was left on a Ferguson, Missouri, street after he was killed by a white police officer. On Dec. 13, students peacefully marched from Berkeley to join the Millions March in Oakland. Most recently, BSU organized Black Brunch, where protesters marched through \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/05/black-students-march-through-fourth-street-shopping-district/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breakfast spots on Berkeley’s Fourth Street\u003c/a>. The Jan. 3 event was meant to be reminiscent of sit-ins during the civil rights movement, when black protesters would peacefully occupy restaurants they weren’t allowed in, Simons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized that all three protests were peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eniola Abioye, a senior studying integrative biology who co-led all three protests, said organizing the events has helped her feel less frustrated and helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having platforms for black people to be able to speak and other people are listening — that’s empowering for us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”is12gEvjxLWDhHdazx53xI5zJzBMJ0tZ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junior Gabrielle Shuman, co-chair of political affairs for BSU, said students have been adamant that their protests are part of a larger movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about our problems as Cal students. This is about black people in America,” she said. That being said, “Within that, we feel it’s important to tell our stories as black students at Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students have also expressed their own campus experiences through spoken word and poetry, according to freshman Zaynab AbdulQadir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Jan. 3 protest, students sent out a press release that referenced the 2014 Campus Climate Survey that found half of black students at UC Berkeley felt prejudged by faculty based on their identity or background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey revealed that 50 percent of black students felt they didn’t have the same opportunities for success as their classmates, and various racial/ethnic groups unanimously agreed that black students had some of the worst conditions on campus regarding climate and respect from peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California adopted Proposition 209 in 1998, which forbade UC schools from using race as a criterion for admission, the percentage of black UC Berkeley students has been halved. In 2012, there were 874 African-American undergraduate students, about 3 percent of the total student body, according to a UC Berkeley diversity census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty hard when you don’t see people like you, when you don’t see people who have a similar perspective,” said Spencer Pritchard, a senior. He described being in a lecture hall with hundreds of students but few black students as “isolating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student.’\u003cem>Zaynab \u003c/em>\u003ccite>AbdulQadir, Cal freshmen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Shuman said it’s difficult to articulate the negative experiences felt by black students because other students usually aren’t blatantly racist, she said. Rather, students might appropriate black culture or make fun of being “ghetto.” Students might make black jokes or say, “Is it OK if I say n—– around you? Do you mind that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simons said his first experience of racism at Cal was when a racial slur was carved on a wall in a Clark Kerr dormitory, where he lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also recalls a professor using a racial slur in class to say, “I don’t understand why hip-hop artists call each other n—–.” Being one of the few black students in class, Simons remembers the whole room staring at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye said her negative classroom experiences have mostly involved fellow students — she’s one of the few black students in her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that I can’t do the work or I’m not smart,” she said, adding that the assumptions show when the students are asked to form groups or work together in class and some students don’t want to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye, who is originally from Oakland, attended a predominantly black high school. As a freshman, she didn’t live on an African-American themed floor. It was an abrupt transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two black people lived on the floor, and we were expected to represent all black people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchard said his friends have been targets of racial slurs hurled by drunken students while passing fraternity row on their way home. “It definitely happens all the time and it’s hard to deal with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been other issues with fraternities. During Shuman’s freshman year, the fraternity Theta Delta Chi, which happens to be located across the street from a dormitory that has an African-American theme program, hung a “zombie” Halloween decoration — a pair of jeans and a shirt stuffed with straw topped with a gray head — from a noose outside their building for their annual charity Halloween party. The zombie looked like a black man, Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were outraged and disgusted,” she said. Students took the issue to student government and the fraternity took the decoration down and apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408164 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Mara Van Ells/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the places where black students on campus feel safe is the Afro House, an African-American themed student co-op, said Shuman. It’s also affordable. She said 19 or 20 of the 21 students that live there are black. Several other first-year students eat meals and participate in activities at the house, through the Donald Foster Boarder Scholarship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 10 years, no black students lived at the house, Shuman said. In 2011-2012, one black woman lived at the Afro House; the following year six black men, including Pritchard, lived in the house. The group, who called themselves the Afro Six, launched a campaign to reclaim the space. By 2013-2014, all but one resident of the house identified as black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t come across a lot of space by and for black students. We really, really have to fight for it,” Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freshman AbdulQadir lives on an African-American theme floor in her dormitory. 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However, Basri added that faculty is responsible for what goes on in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey, which was taken by students across the UC system in 2013, showed a correlation between the perceived respect level that specific groups have on campus and the number of students of that group attending a university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the climate issue as essentially one of critical mass,” said Basri. “We just don’t have enough [African-American] students [at UC Berkeley] so they don’t feel isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 40 percent of all students accepted by Cal go on to attend the school. If more of the admitted black students would attend Cal, that could help solve the problem, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking to get outside agencies, foundations, whatever to provide targeted financial aid,” Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university is also trying to attract more transfer students. Generally, transfer students are a more diverse population than the freshman class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides increasing the black student population, the department will continue funding innovation grants that encourage students and staff to propose projects that could improve equity and inclusion, Basri said. “A number of nice initiatives” have come from past innovation grants such as Bears Baking Bread, which brought together Palestinian and Israeli students to bake bread together and have dialogue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the campus climate survey findings, a number of new initiatives will take place in the spring. There will be several symposiums focused on the climate for racial minorities on campus and graduate student instructor training will include discussion of climate issues. 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Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs for Residential and Student Service Programs, LeNorman Strong, is also African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuman said representatives from BSU plan to meet with administration in February to discuss conditions for black students on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these efforts, many students feel the university isn’t doing enough. “If they really prioritized or cared about students, I’d hope they’d be doing way more than they are,” Simons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he acknowledged that black faculty has been supportive of black students, particularly after \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/14/anonymous-artist-collective-claims-responsibility-for-lynching-effigies-erected-at-cal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">effigies hung around campus by an anonymous artist collective\u003c/a> left many students traumatized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They staged a protest during finals week when they knew we were taking finals, which meant a lot to black students,” he said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Over the last month, the Black Student Union at UC Berkeley has organized three separate events to protest police killings of unarmed black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have marched on the streets, through local businesses and sat in at cafes. The demonstrations have allowed students to grieve, heal and show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson and Staten Island. But they have also been a way to express concerns about race relations at Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m not going to be the last black student at Cal, so it’s time now we start trying to make change.’\u003ccite>Blake Simons, Cal senior\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cal senior Blake Simons feels “extremely blessed and grateful” to be a student at UC Berkeley. But he is also unhappy with the racist experiences he’s had while attending school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to be the last black student at Cal, so it’s time now we start trying to make change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BSU first \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/04/breaking-cal-students-hold-black-lives-matter-rally/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organized a 4½-hour occupation of Golden Bear Caf\u003c/a>e on Dec. 4, designed to last the same amount of time the body of Michael Brown was left on a Ferguson, Missouri, street after he was killed by a white police officer. On Dec. 13, students peacefully marched from Berkeley to join the Millions March in Oakland. Most recently, BSU organized Black Brunch, where protesters marched through \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/05/black-students-march-through-fourth-street-shopping-district/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breakfast spots on Berkeley’s Fourth Street\u003c/a>. The Jan. 3 event was meant to be reminiscent of sit-ins during the civil rights movement, when black protesters would peacefully occupy restaurants they weren’t allowed in, Simons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized that all three protests were peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eniola Abioye, a senior studying integrative biology who co-led all three protests, said organizing the events has helped her feel less frustrated and helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having platforms for black people to be able to speak and other people are listening — that’s empowering for us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junior Gabrielle Shuman, co-chair of political affairs for BSU, said students have been adamant that their protests are part of a larger movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about our problems as Cal students. This is about black people in America,” she said. That being said, “Within that, we feel it’s important to tell our stories as black students at Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students have also expressed their own campus experiences through spoken word and poetry, according to freshman Zaynab AbdulQadir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Jan. 3 protest, students sent out a press release that referenced the 2014 Campus Climate Survey that found half of black students at UC Berkeley felt prejudged by faculty based on their identity or background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey revealed that 50 percent of black students felt they didn’t have the same opportunities for success as their classmates, and various racial/ethnic groups unanimously agreed that black students had some of the worst conditions on campus regarding climate and respect from peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California adopted Proposition 209 in 1998, which forbade UC schools from using race as a criterion for admission, the percentage of black UC Berkeley students has been halved. In 2012, there were 874 African-American undergraduate students, about 3 percent of the total student body, according to a UC Berkeley diversity census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty hard when you don’t see people like you, when you don’t see people who have a similar perspective,” said Spencer Pritchard, a senior. He described being in a lecture hall with hundreds of students but few black students as “isolating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student.’\u003cem>Zaynab \u003c/em>\u003ccite>AbdulQadir, Cal freshmen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Shuman said it’s difficult to articulate the negative experiences felt by black students because other students usually aren’t blatantly racist, she said. Rather, students might appropriate black culture or make fun of being “ghetto.” Students might make black jokes or say, “Is it OK if I say n—– around you? Do you mind that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simons said his first experience of racism at Cal was when a racial slur was carved on a wall in a Clark Kerr dormitory, where he lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also recalls a professor using a racial slur in class to say, “I don’t understand why hip-hop artists call each other n—–.” Being one of the few black students in class, Simons remembers the whole room staring at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye said her negative classroom experiences have mostly involved fellow students — she’s one of the few black students in her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that I can’t do the work or I’m not smart,” she said, adding that the assumptions show when the students are asked to form groups or work together in class and some students don’t want to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abioye, who is originally from Oakland, attended a predominantly black high school. As a freshman, she didn’t live on an African-American themed floor. It was an abrupt transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two black people lived on the floor, and we were expected to represent all black people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pritchard said his friends have been targets of racial slurs hurled by drunken students while passing fraternity row on their way home. “It definitely happens all the time and it’s hard to deal with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been other issues with fraternities. During Shuman’s freshman year, the fraternity Theta Delta Chi, which happens to be located across the street from a dormitory that has an African-American theme program, hung a “zombie” Halloween decoration — a pair of jeans and a shirt stuffed with straw topped with a gray head — from a noose outside their building for their annual charity Halloween party. The zombie looked like a black man, Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were outraged and disgusted,” she said. Students took the issue to student government and the fraternity took the decoration down and apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408164 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/students-in-front-of-Afro-house-720x480-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Pritchard, Gabrielle Shuman and Blake Simons stand in front of the Afro House, an African-American-themed residence owned and operated by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, which is a nonprofit student-run cooperative housing organization. Most of its members attend UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Mara Van Ells/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the places where black students on campus feel safe is the Afro House, an African-American themed student co-op, said Shuman. It’s also affordable. She said 19 or 20 of the 21 students that live there are black. Several other first-year students eat meals and participate in activities at the house, through the Donald Foster Boarder Scholarship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 10 years, no black students lived at the house, Shuman said. In 2011-2012, one black woman lived at the Afro House; the following year six black men, including Pritchard, lived in the house. The group, who called themselves the Afro Six, launched a campaign to reclaim the space. By 2013-2014, all but one resident of the house identified as black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t come across a lot of space by and for black students. We really, really have to fight for it,” Shuman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freshman AbdulQadir lives on an African-American theme floor in her dormitory. Although she’s able to surround herself with students who have similar viewpoints, she said she experiences many micro-aggressions on campus every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that campus climate is an issue is “not news” to the administration, said Gibor Basri, vice-chancellor for Equity and Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basri, who created his position more than seven years ago, said improving the campus climate has been one of the top strategic goals since the Equity and Inclusion Department was founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Campus Climate Survey, which included questions such as, “Do you feel excluded from study groups or social situations?” and “Do the faculty make assumptions about you?” produced “confirmatory” data that black staff, students and faculty feel the least included of any of the groups identified within the survey, Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basri noted that the survey showed that most exclusionary incidents occurred between students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People seem to think faculty to student is the issue, but that was minor compared to student to student,” he said. However, Basri added that faculty is responsible for what goes on in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey, which was taken by students across the UC system in 2013, showed a correlation between the perceived respect level that specific groups have on campus and the number of students of that group attending a university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the climate issue as essentially one of critical mass,” said Basri. “We just don’t have enough [African-American] students [at UC Berkeley] so they don’t feel isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 40 percent of all students accepted by Cal go on to attend the school. If more of the admitted black students would attend Cal, that could help solve the problem, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking to get outside agencies, foundations, whatever to provide targeted financial aid,” Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university is also trying to attract more transfer students. Generally, transfer students are a more diverse population than the freshman class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides increasing the black student population, the department will continue funding innovation grants that encourage students and staff to propose projects that could improve equity and inclusion, Basri said. “A number of nice initiatives” have come from past innovation grants such as Bears Baking Bread, which brought together Palestinian and Israeli students to bake bread together and have dialogue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the campus climate survey findings, a number of new initiatives will take place in the spring. There will be several symposiums focused on the climate for racial minorities on campus and graduate student instructor training will include discussion of climate issues. Staff will receive an email about the issues and a group of about 10 faculty members are working out how to get instructors into a room to discuss the issue, Basri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A professor from the psychology department hopes to make climate on campus the focus of special discussion sessions within a new course called Critical Dialogues. Students would be encouraged to take what they learn back to their dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several years, Basri said, black administrators have held monthly breakfasts where students can attend and discuss issues. Three top administrators at the school are black: Basri, Vice-Chancellor Harry Le Grande and Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele. 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