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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 7:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is insufficient evidence to criminally charge two plainclothes San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant from behind more than two years ago, the city's district attorney announced on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/27/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-awaited\u003c/a> decision marks the end of the criminal investigation into the high-profile police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, one of a few such incidents that thrust the San Francisco Police Department into years of turmoil, culminating with the May 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resignation\u003c/a> of former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds ... but ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.'\u003ccite>George Gascón\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr remains a defendant in a federal civil \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/262989139/Complaint-Estate-of-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-et-al-v-Suhr-et-al#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of Perez Lopez's family, which points out an inconsistency in Suhr's initial description that officers fired as Perez Lopez charged one of them with a large knife raised over his head. That account was called into question by an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> commissioned by attorneys representing Perez Lopez's family, who live in Guatemala. Its findings, later backed up by the city's official medical examiner's report, show Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconciling the statement of one of the officers involved -- that he fired as Perez Lopez was charging at him -- and the fact that Perez Lopez was shot from behind formed the crux of District Attorney George Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A human being is dead,\" Gascón said on Wednesday, announcing his decision not to charge the officers. \"Amilcar was someone’s son. He was a family member, and he was a member of our community. His loved ones have suffered a loss and my heart goes out to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"Can I prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers here did not act in self defense or the defense of others? If we cannot meet this burden, if we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case. I cannot, and I will not file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, though expected, inspired anger from advocates who wanted the case to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If ever there was a case that could be prosecuted, this is it,\" Mission District priest Richard Smith said on Wednesday. \"This was an opportunity for justice where the DA simply failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leading to the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several rumors have circulated about what started the altercation between Perez Lopez and another man, identified by the district attorney's office as Abraham P., who is Abraham Perez. One, which Abraham Perez initially told officers, was that Perez Lopez attacked him after Abraham refused to sell his bicycle. Another involved Abraham Perez stealing Perez Lopez's cellphone, but the phone was in Perez Lopez's pocket when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/PerezLopezShooting2Way20170412.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-e1416954725536.jpg\" Title=\"No Charges for S.F. Officers Who Shot Amilcar Perez Lopez\" program=\"KQED News\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, which is backed up by the account of one witness and video captured by a passing Muni bus, was that Abraham Perez was taunting Perez Lopez and blocking him from entering his home on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez may have circled around Abraham Perez to dash inside his house and grab a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men appear to have been drinking heavily that evening. Perez Lopez's blood alcohol level was .19 -- intoxicated to the point of \"confusion or excitement, emotional instability, and loss of critical judgment and understanding,\" according to a toxicologist who tested Perez Lopez's blood. Abraham Perez told police he'd consumed half a 24-oz. beer before the incident, but he still smelled of alcohol several hours later, according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who were in plainclothes and an unmarked police car, were the first officers to respond to a 911 call about a person with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2015. They were nearby and arrived within minutes, where they encountered two men on opposite sides of a parked car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli approached a man on the street side of the parked car, who would later be identified as Abraham Perez, and \"announced himself as a police officer and then immediately grabbed Abraham P. by both arms and pinned his arms together in case he was the man with the knife,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. Reboli told Perez they were going to get out of the street and moved toward the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tiffe approached Perez Lopez, who was on the sidewalk side of the parked car.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"nRLBQFFvdnjGZXwTrjtDzXlBgWvbUZwE\"]\u003cbr>\nOfficer Tiffe said he thought Perez Lopez appeared to be in an \"altered state\" and described the look on his face as \"bloodlust crazed,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement. Tiffe said he announced himself as a police officer and asked Perez Lopez to step away from the car. \"Officer Tiffe then pointed to the star on his chest, in case Perez Lopez did not speak English, but he could not tell if Perez Lopez looked at it or understood he was a police officer since he said nothing and simply appeared to 'look through' him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe said he tried to grab Perez Lopez by the left arm and tried to take him to the ground, but Perez Lopez \"suddenly lunged up at him with his right hand,\" according to the summary of Tiffe's statement. He said he shoved Perez Lopez away, and as the two were separating, Perez Lopez swiped at his chest with an object Tiffe then realized was a \"very large knife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli had come to Tiffe's aid at this point. After he was shoved away from Tiffe, Perez Lopez turned and started to run toward Reboli, according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. He said he reached for both his gun and pepper spray, but couldn't get the pepper spray out of his pocket. Reboli said he shouted either \"Police, drop the knife\" or \"Drop the knife,\" but after a momentary pause, Perez Lopez continued to approach Reboli with the knife, and the officer began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fired five shots over about two seconds, which were recorded by a nearby gunshot detection device at 9:47 p.m. and the phone of the 911 caller, who was still speaking to police dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below is a 3D animation depicting the theory that Perez Lopez may have turned as the officers were deciding to shoot.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_tIpl6d5I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement says: \"Officer Reboli explained that, once he started to discharge his firearm, Perez Lopez began turning toward the street, then took a step or two before collapsing, face-down, between the two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Tiffe recalled that, as the shots were being fired, Perez Lopez was 'kind of moving in different directions,' was at some point 'facing, at some point he was turning away,' and appeared to fixate on something in the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe fired a single shot as Perez Lopez moved toward the street, the summary said: \"He didn't know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, uniformed officers were arriving on the block of Folsom between 24th and 25th streets as the shots were being fired, according to the district attorney's summary. As one officer began CPR on Perez Lopez, who was shot through the back of the head among other wounds, another officer spoke with Abraham Perez. The officer recorded Perez saying \"that the man shot by the police wanted his bike and tried to kill him with the knife, and ... that the officer saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of the investigation includes statements or information from a total of 15 independent witnesses, including neighbors who said they heard gunshots and shouting, a man who called 911, a woman waiting for the bus and other bystanders. Part of their information corroborates whether officers Tiffe and Reboli shouted commands before firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Four witnesses reported hearing some version of 'Put the knife down,' prior to shots being fired; five witnesses heard some version of 'Get on the ground!' prior to shots being fired; and six witnesses heard yelling or shouting prior to shots being fired, but did not hear or remember the words said,\" according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable. ... We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.'\u003ccite>Richard Smith\u003cbr>Mission District Priest\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two additional witnesses are former roommates of Perez Lopez who initially told police they hadn't seen anything, but feared their roommate had been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them spoke to KQED and \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Tecolote\u003c/a> last year on condition of anonymity because he said he fears retaliation from the police. Both men also told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/san-francisco-police-shooting-amilcar-perez-lopez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> in 2015 that they feared countering the Police Department's version of the shooting because of their undocumented immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was nearly a year after the shooting that the men, supported by a network of activists around the shooting of Perez Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave statements\u003c/a> to district attorney's investigators in the church of a local priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation notes that the men were likely outside at the time of the shooting -- they were noticed by another pair of witnesses just moments before the gunshots. They both said that, from about 90 feet away, they didn't hear the officers give any commands, never saw Abraham Perez, and that it seemed Perez Lopez was running away when the officers started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their sight was obstructed by trees and parked vehicles, and they wouldn't have seen Abraham Perez on the other side of the cars. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for them to see Perez Lopez at the moment he was shot, though they may have been able to see the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District Attorney's Analysis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's charging decision says that, legally, the officers' account of the shooting indicates that their use of force was justified in self-defense or defense of others. The charging decision then \"turns on whether the officers' statements are consistent with the evidence,\" according to the summary of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis further narrows to \"\u003cem>the moments just before the shots were fired\u003c/em> where it was not immediately clear whether the officers' accounts could be squared with other evidence,\" according to the summary, which notes two crucial inconsistencies. \"These two areas were subject to intense analysis, including close examination by a use of force expert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first apparent inconsistency involves Reboli's statement that he started to fire as Perez Lopez was coming toward him. \"This statement was examined in light of the findings of the Medical Examiner that five of the six shots that struck Perez Lopez struck him in the back, and with the statement of Abraham P., who said that Perez Lopez had his back to the officers when he was shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use-of-force expert Charles Key examined the case and noted that \"a subject can turn one hundred eighty degrees more quickly than the fact that he/she has turned can be comprehended; thus, the shooter who has decided to fire may not recognize that the person has turned and, perhaps, no longer presents a threat and be able to stop shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key also accounts for what he calls \"the mechanics of shooting,\" which changes a person's focus from what their target may be doing to \"shooting the weapon effectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key's analysis is further quoted in the district attorney's report on the shooting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In other words, Reboli may have accurately recalled that Perez Lopez was facing him when he made the decision to shoot and started the process of taking the first shot, but based on action versus reaction time, Perez Lopez would have been able to turn 90 to 180 degrees by the time the first bullet hit him. Further, once Reboli saw Perez Lopez coming toward him with the knife and decided to shoot, his focus would have turned to the mechanics of shooting accurately and he may have at that point lost sight of the exact position of Perez Lopez as he started firing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds, which direction Perez Lopez was facing and to whom he posed a threat when the officers made a decision to shoot,\" Gascón said. \"But ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation also intensely analyzed whether Perez Lopez dropped the knife he was holding before police started firing, something Perez Lopez's roommates believed they heard moments before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that, due to the knife's position in the street after the shooting, it's likely that Perez Lopez was still holding it when he was shot. But, according to the district attorney's report, even if he wasn't:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence is also consistent with the officers' \u003cem>belief\u003c/em> that Perez Lopez was still in possession of the knife when they discharged their weapons, even if the evidence supported a finding that the knife had in fact dropped a moment before the shots were fired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Distirct priest Richard Smith and other advocates around the case are now looking forward to a civil trial, which could still be a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable,\" Smith said. \"We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the district attorney's summary of investigation and legal analysis below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3553854-FOLSOM-STREET-SUMMARY-and-ANALYSIS\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 7:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is insufficient evidence to criminally charge two plainclothes San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant from behind more than two years ago, the city's district attorney announced on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/27/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-awaited\u003c/a> decision marks the end of the criminal investigation into the high-profile police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, one of a few such incidents that thrust the San Francisco Police Department into years of turmoil, culminating with the May 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resignation\u003c/a> of former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds ... but ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.'\u003ccite>George Gascón\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr remains a defendant in a federal civil \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/262989139/Complaint-Estate-of-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-et-al-v-Suhr-et-al#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of Perez Lopez's family, which points out an inconsistency in Suhr's initial description that officers fired as Perez Lopez charged one of them with a large knife raised over his head. That account was called into question by an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> commissioned by attorneys representing Perez Lopez's family, who live in Guatemala. Its findings, later backed up by the city's official medical examiner's report, show Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconciling the statement of one of the officers involved -- that he fired as Perez Lopez was charging at him -- and the fact that Perez Lopez was shot from behind formed the crux of District Attorney George Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A human being is dead,\" Gascón said on Wednesday, announcing his decision not to charge the officers. \"Amilcar was someone’s son. He was a family member, and he was a member of our community. His loved ones have suffered a loss and my heart goes out to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"Can I prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers here did not act in self defense or the defense of others? If we cannot meet this burden, if we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case. I cannot, and I will not file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, though expected, inspired anger from advocates who wanted the case to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If ever there was a case that could be prosecuted, this is it,\" Mission District priest Richard Smith said on Wednesday. \"This was an opportunity for justice where the DA simply failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leading to the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several rumors have circulated about what started the altercation between Perez Lopez and another man, identified by the district attorney's office as Abraham P., who is Abraham Perez. One, which Abraham Perez initially told officers, was that Perez Lopez attacked him after Abraham refused to sell his bicycle. Another involved Abraham Perez stealing Perez Lopez's cellphone, but the phone was in Perez Lopez's pocket when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, which is backed up by the account of one witness and video captured by a passing Muni bus, was that Abraham Perez was taunting Perez Lopez and blocking him from entering his home on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez may have circled around Abraham Perez to dash inside his house and grab a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men appear to have been drinking heavily that evening. Perez Lopez's blood alcohol level was .19 -- intoxicated to the point of \"confusion or excitement, emotional instability, and loss of critical judgment and understanding,\" according to a toxicologist who tested Perez Lopez's blood. Abraham Perez told police he'd consumed half a 24-oz. beer before the incident, but he still smelled of alcohol several hours later, according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who were in plainclothes and an unmarked police car, were the first officers to respond to a 911 call about a person with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2015. They were nearby and arrived within minutes, where they encountered two men on opposite sides of a parked car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli approached a man on the street side of the parked car, who would later be identified as Abraham Perez, and \"announced himself as a police officer and then immediately grabbed Abraham P. by both arms and pinned his arms together in case he was the man with the knife,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. Reboli told Perez they were going to get out of the street and moved toward the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tiffe approached Perez Lopez, who was on the sidewalk side of the parked car.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nOfficer Tiffe said he thought Perez Lopez appeared to be in an \"altered state\" and described the look on his face as \"bloodlust crazed,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement. Tiffe said he announced himself as a police officer and asked Perez Lopez to step away from the car. \"Officer Tiffe then pointed to the star on his chest, in case Perez Lopez did not speak English, but he could not tell if Perez Lopez looked at it or understood he was a police officer since he said nothing and simply appeared to 'look through' him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe said he tried to grab Perez Lopez by the left arm and tried to take him to the ground, but Perez Lopez \"suddenly lunged up at him with his right hand,\" according to the summary of Tiffe's statement. He said he shoved Perez Lopez away, and as the two were separating, Perez Lopez swiped at his chest with an object Tiffe then realized was a \"very large knife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli had come to Tiffe's aid at this point. After he was shoved away from Tiffe, Perez Lopez turned and started to run toward Reboli, according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. He said he reached for both his gun and pepper spray, but couldn't get the pepper spray out of his pocket. Reboli said he shouted either \"Police, drop the knife\" or \"Drop the knife,\" but after a momentary pause, Perez Lopez continued to approach Reboli with the knife, and the officer began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fired five shots over about two seconds, which were recorded by a nearby gunshot detection device at 9:47 p.m. and the phone of the 911 caller, who was still speaking to police dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below is a 3D animation depicting the theory that Perez Lopez may have turned as the officers were deciding to shoot.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Cr_tIpl6d5I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Cr_tIpl6d5I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement says: \"Officer Reboli explained that, once he started to discharge his firearm, Perez Lopez began turning toward the street, then took a step or two before collapsing, face-down, between the two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Tiffe recalled that, as the shots were being fired, Perez Lopez was 'kind of moving in different directions,' was at some point 'facing, at some point he was turning away,' and appeared to fixate on something in the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe fired a single shot as Perez Lopez moved toward the street, the summary said: \"He didn't know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, uniformed officers were arriving on the block of Folsom between 24th and 25th streets as the shots were being fired, according to the district attorney's summary. As one officer began CPR on Perez Lopez, who was shot through the back of the head among other wounds, another officer spoke with Abraham Perez. The officer recorded Perez saying \"that the man shot by the police wanted his bike and tried to kill him with the knife, and ... that the officer saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of the investigation includes statements or information from a total of 15 independent witnesses, including neighbors who said they heard gunshots and shouting, a man who called 911, a woman waiting for the bus and other bystanders. Part of their information corroborates whether officers Tiffe and Reboli shouted commands before firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Four witnesses reported hearing some version of 'Put the knife down,' prior to shots being fired; five witnesses heard some version of 'Get on the ground!' prior to shots being fired; and six witnesses heard yelling or shouting prior to shots being fired, but did not hear or remember the words said,\" according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable. ... We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.'\u003ccite>Richard Smith\u003cbr>Mission District Priest\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two additional witnesses are former roommates of Perez Lopez who initially told police they hadn't seen anything, but feared their roommate had been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them spoke to KQED and \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Tecolote\u003c/a> last year on condition of anonymity because he said he fears retaliation from the police. Both men also told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/san-francisco-police-shooting-amilcar-perez-lopez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> in 2015 that they feared countering the Police Department's version of the shooting because of their undocumented immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was nearly a year after the shooting that the men, supported by a network of activists around the shooting of Perez Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave statements\u003c/a> to district attorney's investigators in the church of a local priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation notes that the men were likely outside at the time of the shooting -- they were noticed by another pair of witnesses just moments before the gunshots. They both said that, from about 90 feet away, they didn't hear the officers give any commands, never saw Abraham Perez, and that it seemed Perez Lopez was running away when the officers started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their sight was obstructed by trees and parked vehicles, and they wouldn't have seen Abraham Perez on the other side of the cars. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for them to see Perez Lopez at the moment he was shot, though they may have been able to see the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District Attorney's Analysis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's charging decision says that, legally, the officers' account of the shooting indicates that their use of force was justified in self-defense or defense of others. The charging decision then \"turns on whether the officers' statements are consistent with the evidence,\" according to the summary of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis further narrows to \"\u003cem>the moments just before the shots were fired\u003c/em> where it was not immediately clear whether the officers' accounts could be squared with other evidence,\" according to the summary, which notes two crucial inconsistencies. \"These two areas were subject to intense analysis, including close examination by a use of force expert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first apparent inconsistency involves Reboli's statement that he started to fire as Perez Lopez was coming toward him. \"This statement was examined in light of the findings of the Medical Examiner that five of the six shots that struck Perez Lopez struck him in the back, and with the statement of Abraham P., who said that Perez Lopez had his back to the officers when he was shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use-of-force expert Charles Key examined the case and noted that \"a subject can turn one hundred eighty degrees more quickly than the fact that he/she has turned can be comprehended; thus, the shooter who has decided to fire may not recognize that the person has turned and, perhaps, no longer presents a threat and be able to stop shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key also accounts for what he calls \"the mechanics of shooting,\" which changes a person's focus from what their target may be doing to \"shooting the weapon effectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key's analysis is further quoted in the district attorney's report on the shooting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In other words, Reboli may have accurately recalled that Perez Lopez was facing him when he made the decision to shoot and started the process of taking the first shot, but based on action versus reaction time, Perez Lopez would have been able to turn 90 to 180 degrees by the time the first bullet hit him. Further, once Reboli saw Perez Lopez coming toward him with the knife and decided to shoot, his focus would have turned to the mechanics of shooting accurately and he may have at that point lost sight of the exact position of Perez Lopez as he started firing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds, which direction Perez Lopez was facing and to whom he posed a threat when the officers made a decision to shoot,\" Gascón said. \"But ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation also intensely analyzed whether Perez Lopez dropped the knife he was holding before police started firing, something Perez Lopez's roommates believed they heard moments before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that, due to the knife's position in the street after the shooting, it's likely that Perez Lopez was still holding it when he was shot. 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"content": "\u003cp>Advocates seeking justice in the case of Amilcar Perez Lopez gathered \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> to mark two years since the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant was shot to death from behind by two San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897\" 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>The shooting was not captured on video, unlike that of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> about nine months later. The Woods shooting propelled the San Francisco Police Department into an era of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">chaos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">reform\u003c/a>, but the Perez Lopez case hardly registered beyond the tight-knit group that formed around the young carpenter's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all present in the pouring rain at the scene of the shooting on Sunday for what the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest, called \"heart work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-960x596.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Amilcar's story has touched us all very deeply and has given us an energy that I suspect many of us didn't even know we had to keep fighting and to keep saying our message, even when it seems like nobody's listening,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez's story began in rural Guatemala. He left his family there to work in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed he encountered immigration officials along the Southern California border in 2013 and was released \"pending the outcome of immigration removal proceedings.\" He met a network of Guatemalan immigrants who work construction in San Francisco sometime that same year, according to interviews with people who knew him, and worked carpentry and other odd jobs until his death on Feb. 26, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, the details of the shooting remain unclear. Perez Lopez had some sort of altercation with a man on a bicycle outside his apartment on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife from inside his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how the fight ended, but the bicyclist wasn't stabbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was walking back toward his home when SFPD officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli approached him from behind. The officers were in plainclothes, and one of them tried to grab Perez Lopez. He wriggled free.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"6H4UcSSQAzGzioCUXYMqdmxLrG50MaOl\"]\u003cbr>\nFormer San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr originally said that Perez Lopez turned and charged at one of the officers with a knife held above his head, and both officers shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> showed all six gunshots came from behind Perez Lopez, a new theory emerged: Perez Lopez was running toward the bicyclist, and the officers fired to protect him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe and Reboli have remained on duty in the city's Mission District, while a criminal investigation into the shooting remains open at the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez group reconvened on the steps of San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Monday, where they were joined by Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mission District Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters proceeded to lie down on the staircase, draping themselves in sheets spattered with fake blood and chalking outlines around their limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations criticizing the role of prosecutors in officer-involved shooting investigations have become a weekly ritual at the Hall of Justice, where the San Francisco District Attorney's Office is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said last week, adding that a charging decision in the Perez Lopez case would come in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336931\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez-Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the creation of a new unit in the district attorney's office -- called the Independent Investigations Bureau -- would speed officer-involved shooting investigations. Protocol around prosecutors taking a lead role in police shooting investigations is currently the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/24/s-f-das-effort-to-take-lead-in-police-shooting-cases-stalls-as-officers-union-seeks-negotiation/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of negotiations\u003c/a> with the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the interim, it's really important that we get these cases done correctly and not just expediently,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón has indicated in the past that prosecutions in this and other high-profile police shooting cases are unlikely, due to legal standards set decades ago by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning police use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the long criminal investigation has also indefinitely stalled a federal lawsuit on behalf of Perez Lopez’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florencia Rojo brought a message from Perez Lopez's father at the vigil on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the money he sent, we managed to get a corn sheller, electricity, potable water, and he will never see these things,\" she said, translating the message from Guatemala. \"He was earning a living and they took his life. The officer is corrupt. He took the life of my son. The death of my son cannot go unpunished.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Advocates seeking justice in the case of Amilcar Perez Lopez gathered \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> to mark two years since the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant was shot to death from behind by two San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was not captured on video, unlike that of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> about nine months later. The Woods shooting propelled the San Francisco Police Department into an era of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">chaos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">reform\u003c/a>, but the Perez Lopez case hardly registered beyond the tight-knit group that formed around the young carpenter's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all present in the pouring rain at the scene of the shooting on Sunday for what the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest, called \"heart work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-960x596.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Amilcar's story has touched us all very deeply and has given us an energy that I suspect many of us didn't even know we had to keep fighting and to keep saying our message, even when it seems like nobody's listening,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez's story began in rural Guatemala. He left his family there to work in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed he encountered immigration officials along the Southern California border in 2013 and was released \"pending the outcome of immigration removal proceedings.\" He met a network of Guatemalan immigrants who work construction in San Francisco sometime that same year, according to interviews with people who knew him, and worked carpentry and other odd jobs until his death on Feb. 26, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, the details of the shooting remain unclear. Perez Lopez had some sort of altercation with a man on a bicycle outside his apartment on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife from inside his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how the fight ended, but the bicyclist wasn't stabbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was walking back toward his home when SFPD officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli approached him from behind. The officers were in plainclothes, and one of them tried to grab Perez Lopez. He wriggled free.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nFormer San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr originally said that Perez Lopez turned and charged at one of the officers with a knife held above his head, and both officers shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> showed all six gunshots came from behind Perez Lopez, a new theory emerged: Perez Lopez was running toward the bicyclist, and the officers fired to protect him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe and Reboli have remained on duty in the city's Mission District, while a criminal investigation into the shooting remains open at the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez group reconvened on the steps of San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Monday, where they were joined by Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mission District Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters proceeded to lie down on the staircase, draping themselves in sheets spattered with fake blood and chalking outlines around their limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations criticizing the role of prosecutors in officer-involved shooting investigations have become a weekly ritual at the Hall of Justice, where the San Francisco District Attorney's Office is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said last week, adding that a charging decision in the Perez Lopez case would come in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336931\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez-Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the creation of a new unit in the district attorney's office -- called the Independent Investigations Bureau -- would speed officer-involved shooting investigations. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:35 p.m. Monday, July 11\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel appointed to investigate bias in the San Francisco Police Department says it encountered roadblocks throughout its yearlong inquiry, according to a hefty \u003ca href=\"#report\">report\u003c/a> released Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273240281\" 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>The Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">convened last year\u003c/a> by District Attorney George Gascón, said it encountered obstruction from both the department and its rank-and-file officers' union, the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA. ... The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one.'\u003ccite>LaDoris Cordell,\u003cbr>\nRetired Superior Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"[T]he Panel did not always receive the cooperation it hoped for from the SFPD management and the union that represents most officers, the San Francisco POA,\" the report says, cataloguing a back-and-forth between department command staff and panel attorneys in which former Police Chief Greg Suhr advised that any officer interviews be scheduled through the union, which had its own thoughts on the panel's legitimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [Blue Ribbon Panel] has no legal standing or authority to conduct an independent investigation of any organization including the SFPD,\" POA President Martin Halloran wrote in the union's \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/POAJournal_June2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">June newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran dismissed a synopsis of the panel's preliminary findings in May as \"a biased, one-sided, and illegitimate work of fiction\" produced by people handpicked by Gascón. On Monday, Halloran called the panel a \"kangaroo court\" and compared the release of its report with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">killing of five police officers\u003c/a> in Dallas last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Thursday, a sniper in Dallas took aim at police officers and murdered five in cold blood,” Halloran said in a written statement. “Today, George Gascón is taking aim at police officers in San Francisco with half-truths and distortions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's independence from Gascón -- and accusations that his criticism of the SFPD is driven by political ambitions -- was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly questioned by the POA\u003c/a> and, to some degree, by the department. The panel's report says the sustained questions of legitimacy and written responses to scant public testimony offered by current SFPD officers had a chilling effect on its ability to interview more current officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA,\" said retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell who, along with retired U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian and retired California Supreme Court Judge Cruz Reynoso constituted the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one,\" Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón appointed the panel, supported by attorneys from seven Bay Area law firms, several weeks after a batch of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist, homophobic and otherwise bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, swapped among more than a dozen officers, came to light through a federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11017250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017250\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawyers' working groups examined seven different areas of SFPD activity: stops, searches and arrests; discipline; use of force; external oversight of the department; compliance with the legal responsibility to make prosecutors and defense attorneys aware of officer misconduct; crime data; and the culture of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working groups' 72 findings and 81 recommendations form the bulk of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looks like it covers the breadth of issues that we’re interested in,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"It’s the kind of report that I wish we had the ability to generate on our own, if we had more staffing and perhaps a policy analyst working with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of SFPD culture, the panel found \"the SFPD blurs the line between it and the POA. ... Because the department has consistently ceded the ground of discourse to the POA, theirs is the dominant law enforcement voice heard on [reforms].\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"7toKMJE8WA8H3xjx3T8jkh3ifftCy4YO\"]\u003cbr>\nThe report adds that \"several witnesses stated that the SFPD and POA functioned like a 'good old boys' club,' making it difficult to impose discipline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 'code of silence' -- informal pressure for officers to 'fall in line' and not report observed misconduct -- makes it difficult to identify and respond to bias within the department,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel found the Police Department's internal disciplinary process \"opaque\" and the rules governing it outdated. The report says discipline -- i.e., findings of misconduct -- are not rigorously tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys found the same lack of reliable data when it came to how often, and on whom, San Francisco police officers use force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They collect data in a fashion where it would be nearly impossible for an outside observer, an auditor, to actually look at the data and see whether the SFPD is applying force more often, and more severely against people of color, gay people, LGBT people, and other groups,\" attorney Colin West said. \"There’s a saying that if you hide a flaw, people will assume the worst. This data couldn’t be collected in a manner better designed to hide flaws that might exist in the police culture when it comes to people of color and the application of uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel made 15 recommendations around improving use-of-force data collection, training and policies. But what could be the biggest change to officer-involved shooting investigations is listed as a finding, not a recommendation: \"Officer-involved shooting investigations conducted by the District Attorney's Office suffer from a lack of independence and an outdated notification system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says both issues are currently at play in the district attorney's investigation of the fatal February 2015 police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>. The district attorney recently told KQED that his office was not properly notified that an officer-involved shooting had occurred, and by the time a district attorney's investigator arrived on scene, Perez Lopez's body had been removed by the city's medical examiner. Gascón called the treatment of the crime scene a \"serious breach of protocol.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel report includes a memorandum of understanding drafted by Gascón's office that would make the district attorney's office the \"lead agency on the scene of any officer-involved shooting,\" according to the report. SFPD homicide inspectors currently lead police shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD and the SFDA understand that the public can no longer be expected to trust a criminal investigation of a law enforcement officer’s use of deadly or alleged excessive force led by that officer’s employing agency, or by a neighboring or allied police agency,\" the draft MOU says. \"As the chief law enforcement officer for the City and County, the District Attorney bears responsibility for bringing charges against any persons who commit crimes in San Francisco, and pursuing justice for all. Therefore, the office of the San Francisco District Attorney (SFDA) shall be the primary criminal investigative agency for all officer-involved fatal incidents and significant uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various city leaders have been seeking an alternative agency to lead police shooting investigations, but so far, suggestions of a neighboring law enforcement agency or the State Attorney General's Office have not reached agreement, let alone implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Commission has moved collaboratively with people from across our City to adopt meaningful reforms for SFPD,\" Commission President Suzy Lofts said via text message. \"That work continues in earnest as we embark on the search for our permanent Chief. As we continue the work ahead, we will carefully review today's report and these findings.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"report\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Mayor Ed Lee thanked the \"Blue Ribbon Committee\" for its efforts in a written statement, and noted a redrafting of SFPD's use-of-force policies that recently passed the Police Commission, enhanced bias and cultural competency training, body cameras on the horizon and increased funding for the department's civilian oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said the department would analyze the panel's report and forward it to the U.S. Department of Justice, a division of which is conducting \u003ca href=\"http://contextly.com/redirect/?id=2RQIyqmnak:10848685:1026:6:IkNSfDEwODQ4Njg1Ig==::previous:57843b249ec154-37142143\" target=\"_blank\">a review\u003c/a> of the Police Department's policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=317973884 key=key-3HVx862HV76C85lpTB9b mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to include statements from LaDoris Cordell, Victor Hwang, Colin West, Suzy Loftus, Ed Lee and the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [Blue Ribbon Panel] has no legal standing or authority to conduct an independent investigation of any organization including the SFPD,\" POA President Martin Halloran wrote in the union's \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/POAJournal_June2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">June newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran dismissed a synopsis of the panel's preliminary findings in May as \"a biased, one-sided, and illegitimate work of fiction\" produced by people handpicked by Gascón. On Monday, Halloran called the panel a \"kangaroo court\" and compared the release of its report with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">killing of five police officers\u003c/a> in Dallas last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Thursday, a sniper in Dallas took aim at police officers and murdered five in cold blood,” Halloran said in a written statement. “Today, George Gascón is taking aim at police officers in San Francisco with half-truths and distortions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's independence from Gascón -- and accusations that his criticism of the SFPD is driven by political ambitions -- was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly questioned by the POA\u003c/a> and, to some degree, by the department. The panel's report says the sustained questions of legitimacy and written responses to scant public testimony offered by current SFPD officers had a chilling effect on its ability to interview more current officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA,\" said retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell who, along with retired U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian and retired California Supreme Court Judge Cruz Reynoso constituted the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one,\" Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón appointed the panel, supported by attorneys from seven Bay Area law firms, several weeks after a batch of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist, homophobic and otherwise bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, swapped among more than a dozen officers, came to light through a federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11017250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017250\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawyers' working groups examined seven different areas of SFPD activity: stops, searches and arrests; discipline; use of force; external oversight of the department; compliance with the legal responsibility to make prosecutors and defense attorneys aware of officer misconduct; crime data; and the culture of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working groups' 72 findings and 81 recommendations form the bulk of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looks like it covers the breadth of issues that we’re interested in,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"It’s the kind of report that I wish we had the ability to generate on our own, if we had more staffing and perhaps a policy analyst working with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of SFPD culture, the panel found \"the SFPD blurs the line between it and the POA. ... Because the department has consistently ceded the ground of discourse to the POA, theirs is the dominant law enforcement voice heard on [reforms].\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe report adds that \"several witnesses stated that the SFPD and POA functioned like a 'good old boys' club,' making it difficult to impose discipline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 'code of silence' -- informal pressure for officers to 'fall in line' and not report observed misconduct -- makes it difficult to identify and respond to bias within the department,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel found the Police Department's internal disciplinary process \"opaque\" and the rules governing it outdated. The report says discipline -- i.e., findings of misconduct -- are not rigorously tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys found the same lack of reliable data when it came to how often, and on whom, San Francisco police officers use force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They collect data in a fashion where it would be nearly impossible for an outside observer, an auditor, to actually look at the data and see whether the SFPD is applying force more often, and more severely against people of color, gay people, LGBT people, and other groups,\" attorney Colin West said. \"There’s a saying that if you hide a flaw, people will assume the worst. This data couldn’t be collected in a manner better designed to hide flaws that might exist in the police culture when it comes to people of color and the application of uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel made 15 recommendations around improving use-of-force data collection, training and policies. But what could be the biggest change to officer-involved shooting investigations is listed as a finding, not a recommendation: \"Officer-involved shooting investigations conducted by the District Attorney's Office suffer from a lack of independence and an outdated notification system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says both issues are currently at play in the district attorney's investigation of the fatal February 2015 police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>. The district attorney recently told KQED that his office was not properly notified that an officer-involved shooting had occurred, and by the time a district attorney's investigator arrived on scene, Perez Lopez's body had been removed by the city's medical examiner. Gascón called the treatment of the crime scene a \"serious breach of protocol.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel report includes a memorandum of understanding drafted by Gascón's office that would make the district attorney's office the \"lead agency on the scene of any officer-involved shooting,\" according to the report. SFPD homicide inspectors currently lead police shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD and the SFDA understand that the public can no longer be expected to trust a criminal investigation of a law enforcement officer’s use of deadly or alleged excessive force led by that officer’s employing agency, or by a neighboring or allied police agency,\" the draft MOU says. \"As the chief law enforcement officer for the City and County, the District Attorney bears responsibility for bringing charges against any persons who commit crimes in San Francisco, and pursuing justice for all. Therefore, the office of the San Francisco District Attorney (SFDA) shall be the primary criminal investigative agency for all officer-involved fatal incidents and significant uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various city leaders have been seeking an alternative agency to lead police shooting investigations, but so far, suggestions of a neighboring law enforcement agency or the State Attorney General's Office have not reached agreement, let alone implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Commission has moved collaboratively with people from across our City to adopt meaningful reforms for SFPD,\" Commission President Suzy Lofts said via text message. \"That work continues in earnest as we embark on the search for our permanent Chief. 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The deputies are expected to surrender Wednesday, with bail expected to be set at $140,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santamaria and Wieber chased suspect Stanislav Petrov from San Leandro and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/13/s-f-public-defender-releases-video-of-police-nightstick-beating\" target=\"_blank\">caught up to him\u003c/a> in a Mission District alley early the morning of last Nov. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a scene captured on video and released by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Nov. 13, the deputies tackled Petrov, punched and kicked him, and subjected him to a prolonged beating with their batons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/irh3JUch7Hg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrov, who did not appear to resist the deputies in the video, had allegedly rammed two marked sheriff's office vehicles with a stolen car, causing minor injuries to one deputy, before fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suffered severe fractures to both arms and hands as well as head injuries in the beating. He was hospitalized for 12 days after the beating and underwent multiple surgeries to repair his “crushed” hands, according to his attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Policing that violates our constitutional rights damages the reputation of every person that wears the uniform, and it damages the public's perception of those that are sworn to serve,\" Gascón said in announcing the charges Tuesday. \"When officers take the law into their own hands, they undermine the moral authority of the entire criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said his office is still investigating \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/29/new-obstruction-of-justice-allegations-expand-alameda-county-sheriffs-beating-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">allegations\u003c/a> of false police statements, bribery, theft and witness tampering made against other Alameda County deputies who were involved in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrov also faces gun and drug charges in a federal case that followed a March 8 search of his apartment by the FBI. Gascón said that the cases are unrelated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913134\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10913134\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"Stanislav Petrov was hospitalized for almost two weeks after two Alameda County Sheriff's deputies beat him with batons.\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-400x333.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-800x667.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-1920x1600.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanislav Petrov was hospitalized for almost two weeks after two Alameda County sheriff's deputies beat him with batons. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michael Haddad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked why it took nearly six months to bring charges in the videotaped beating, Gascón said cases involving alleged police violence warrant a special level of scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police officers are constitutionally given the authority to use force during the exercise of their duties,\" Gascón said, continuing;\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They are looked upon by the law very differently than the rest of us. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrov, who did not appear to resist the deputies in the video, had allegedly rammed two marked sheriff's office vehicles with a stolen car, causing minor injuries to one deputy, before fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suffered severe fractures to both arms and hands as well as head injuries in the beating. He was hospitalized for 12 days after the beating and underwent multiple surgeries to repair his “crushed” hands, according to his attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Policing that violates our constitutional rights damages the reputation of every person that wears the uniform, and it damages the public's perception of those that are sworn to serve,\" Gascón said in announcing the charges Tuesday. \"When officers take the law into their own hands, they undermine the moral authority of the entire criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said his office is still investigating \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/29/new-obstruction-of-justice-allegations-expand-alameda-county-sheriffs-beating-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">allegations\u003c/a> of false police statements, bribery, theft and witness tampering made against other Alameda County deputies who were involved in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrov also faces gun and drug charges in a federal case that followed a March 8 search of his apartment by the FBI. Gascón said that the cases are unrelated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913134\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10913134\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"Stanislav Petrov was hospitalized for almost two weeks after two Alameda County Sheriff's deputies beat him with batons.\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-400x333.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-800x667.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-1920x1600.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanislav Petrov was hospitalized for almost two weeks after two Alameda County sheriff's deputies beat him with batons. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michael Haddad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked why it took nearly six months to bring charges in the videotaped beating, Gascón said cases involving alleged police violence warrant a special level of scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police officers are constitutionally given the authority to use force during the exercise of their duties,\" Gascón said, continuing;\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They are looked upon by the law very differently than the rest of us. Consequently, when we’re looking at these cases we have to look at them through the lens of a constitutional concern as to whether the force was reasonable under the conditions. And there is a tension often that occurs between, between what the law says police officers get to do what the public perceives as being excessive. And that is why it was so important for us to get the video enhanced, it was so important for us to get the right expert in this case.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Adachi criticized the delay in bringing charges, saying, \"It sends a message to law enforcement everywhere as to what’s going to be tolerated. And until today, there really has been no accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, he said he was relieved charges have been filed and added that \"the real hero in this incident\" was the citizen who came forward with the security camera video of the beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the video I doubt very much that we would be standing here,\" Adachi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two deputies are expected to surrender by the end of the day Wednesday, with bail set at $140,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Zoe Lew and from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Calls for a higher power to intervene in San Francisco's criminal justice system have reignited with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/five-more-sfpd-officers-sent-bigoted-text-messages-even-during-textgate-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">revelation last week\u003c/a> that a second batch of police officers traded racist and homophobic text messages, even as the city reeled from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">first batch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">revealed last year\u003c/a>, replete with racial slurs and violent language about African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And exactly how the Police Department notified the District Attorney's Office that new messages indicating racial bias were recently recovered from officers' personal cellphones has prompted the latest round of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/01/sfpds-latest-racist-texting-scandal-who-knew-what-and-when\" target=\"_blank\">public bickering\u003c/a> between Police Chief Greg Suhr and District Attorney George Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because prosecutors are required to notify defendants of exculpatory evidence, or evidence that tends to show a defendant is not guilty of a crime for which he or she is charged, under the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brady v. 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That includes evidence that an arresting officer may have acted out of bias, hence the great interest from the legal community in racist text messages from police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time an officer is deemed to engage in behavior that involves moral turpitude -- an officer is a thief, an officer’s a liar, or if an officer engages in racist or sexist behavior -- that officer has to be put on a list,\" said retired Superior Court of California Judge LaDoris Cordell. \"Basically, Brady officers really become useless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brady notification process is anything but simple, though, largely because \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">peace officer personnel information\u003c/a> is kept so secret in California that not even prosecutors have direct access to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr laid out the process that SFPD's Brady Unit followed regarding the latest text messages in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/307106059/SFPD-Chief-Greg-Suhr-April-4-Letter-to-DA-George-Gascon-re-bigoted-texts\" target=\"_blank\">April 4 letter\u003c/a> to Gascón, arguing that the department made the required notifications, and it was up to prosecutors to either file a motion or work with Police Department to review the personnel files in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gascón has said his office had no way of knowing that bigoted texts were buried in tens of thousands of pages of records seized from officers' personal cellphones as part of an internal sexual assault investigation of Officer Jason Lai. To avoid future oversight, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686232/Gascon-Letter-to-Suhr-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">Gascón suggested\u003c/a> Suhr make the existence of such messages public from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior American Civil Liberties Union attorney Alan Schlosser agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He [Suhr] certainly was free back in August to say that they have uncovered more examples of this kind of conduct, and hopefully use that to reiterate his strong stand and say what they’re going to do about it,\" Schlosser said. \"But in fact it’s been kept secret from the public, and was only revealed last week by the district attorney. That to us was a very telling sign that the leadership of the Police Department is not committed to transparency and to significant reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the second time in a little over four months, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160405-aclu_letter_to_doj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU asked\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Justice for a civil rights investigation of the SFPD, noting that federal authorities \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">conducting a voluntary review\u003c/a> of department policies, following the fatal December police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, have repeatedly said that a stronger civil rights investigation could launch if circumstances change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schlosser said the public feud between Suhr and Gascón adds to concern about San Francisco's overall criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it’s troubling,\" he said. \"I do think that kind of disarray does contribute to a feeling that San Francisco needs outside help, but it has to come from a source that can enforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services conducting the voluntary review of SFPD policies have made no official statements about the latest racially charged scandal, despite repeated inquiries. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division did not respond to KQED's inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We feel new circumstances have added to our original request to provide a compelling case for a pattern and practice investigation,\" Schlosser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/307111310/Letter-from-S-F-Public-Defender-Jeff-Adachi-to-California-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris\" target=\"_blank\">similar request\u003c/a> to state Attorney General Kamala Harris Monday, asking the California Department of Justice to launch a civil rights investigation of San Francisco's Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the ACLU, Adachi cataloged not only the repeated scandals over racist text messages, but also SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">failure to discipline officers\u003c/a> implicated in the first round of texts, SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">extremely disproportionate arrest rate\u003c/a> of African-Americans, three high-profile fatal shootings of black and Latino men, and allegations of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Drug-defendants-accuse-S-F-officers-of-racism-6690332.php\" target=\"_blank\">racial bias in a joint local-federal drug sting\u003c/a> revealed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The incidents reveal a pattern and practice within the police department that has allowed racism and disparate treatment of black and Latino people to fester and grow,\" Adachi wrote. \"An investigation would help settle the pressing question of whether the racism evidenced in these incidents is endemic of a culture within the department which allows these types of incidents to occur. But most importantly it would help restore the confidence of San Franciscans -- and those around the nation who are watching -- that the San Francisco Police Department is not engaging in racist practices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Attorney General said the office is reviewing Adachi's request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen said Tuesday she has not stopped calling for a federal investigation since she and board President London Breed formally requested one in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When is enough, enough?\" Cohen and Breed wrote in a joint statement issued April 5. \"We talk about implicit bias training, yet time and again are confronted with \u003cem>explicit\u003c/em> bias by those who are sworn to protect the community. This behavior cannot be tolerated without consequence; the City must rededicate itself to police reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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To avoid future oversight, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686232/Gascon-Letter-to-Suhr-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">Gascón suggested\u003c/a> Suhr make the existence of such messages public from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior American Civil Liberties Union attorney Alan Schlosser agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He [Suhr] certainly was free back in August to say that they have uncovered more examples of this kind of conduct, and hopefully use that to reiterate his strong stand and say what they’re going to do about it,\" Schlosser said. \"But in fact it’s been kept secret from the public, and was only revealed last week by the district attorney. That to us was a very telling sign that the leadership of the Police Department is not committed to transparency and to significant reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the second time in a little over four months, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160405-aclu_letter_to_doj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU asked\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Justice for a civil rights investigation of the SFPD, noting that federal authorities \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">conducting a voluntary review\u003c/a> of department policies, following the fatal December police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, have repeatedly said that a stronger civil rights investigation could launch if circumstances change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schlosser said the public feud between Suhr and Gascón adds to concern about San Francisco's overall criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it’s troubling,\" he said. \"I do think that kind of disarray does contribute to a feeling that San Francisco needs outside help, but it has to come from a source that can enforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services conducting the voluntary review of SFPD policies have made no official statements about the latest racially charged scandal, despite repeated inquiries. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division did not respond to KQED's inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We feel new circumstances have added to our original request to provide a compelling case for a pattern and practice investigation,\" Schlosser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/307111310/Letter-from-S-F-Public-Defender-Jeff-Adachi-to-California-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris\" target=\"_blank\">similar request\u003c/a> to state Attorney General Kamala Harris Monday, asking the California Department of Justice to launch a civil rights investigation of San Francisco's Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the ACLU, Adachi cataloged not only the repeated scandals over racist text messages, but also SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">failure to discipline officers\u003c/a> implicated in the first round of texts, SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">extremely disproportionate arrest rate\u003c/a> of African-Americans, three high-profile fatal shootings of black and Latino men, and allegations of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Drug-defendants-accuse-S-F-officers-of-racism-6690332.php\" target=\"_blank\">racial bias in a joint local-federal drug sting\u003c/a> revealed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The incidents reveal a pattern and practice within the police department that has allowed racism and disparate treatment of black and Latino people to fester and grow,\" Adachi wrote. \"An investigation would help settle the pressing question of whether the racism evidenced in these incidents is endemic of a culture within the department which allows these types of incidents to occur. 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"content": "\u003cp>The latest batch of racist and homophobic text messages swapped by San Francisco police officers and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/five-more-sfpd-officers-sent-bigoted-text-messages-even-during-textgate-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">revealed Thursday\u003c/a> by the city's district attorney are more than an embarrassment; they have serious legal repercussions for any prosecutions involving the officers who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the issue of how and when the Police Department notified the District Attorney's Office of the latest inappropriate texts has become new fuel for a feud between the city's top cop and top prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After District Attorney George Gascón announced the existence of the bigoted texts and told reporters he'd only discovered them late last week, Police Chief Greg Suhr sent him a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306581549/Greg-Suhr-Letter-to-George-Gascon-March-31-2016\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> indicating that the Police Department told prosecutors about the text messages four times between September and January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous,\" Suhr wrote. \"This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686232/Gascon-Letter-to-Suhr-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">replied Friday\u003c/a> that Suhr was correct to indicate that SFPD internal affairs investigators had worked with the DA's office on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-allegedly-interfered-with-investigation-of-fellow-officer-for-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual assault investigation\u003c/a> of an officer (who SFPD has identified as Jason Lai). But:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is entirely inaccurate to indicate that there was a collaborative effort in the investigation of any racist and homophobic text messages,\" Gascón wrote, adding that his office received some 44,000 pages of cell phone records -- including text messages -- in November. \"At no time were we informed that the text messages from the phone associated with [redacted] or his girlfriend contained any potential racist or homophobic text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón wrote that getting additional text messages seized from a lieutenant -- who is likely Lt. Curtis Liu -- \"became a point of contention\" between SFPD criminal investigators and his office's special prosecutions unit. Those texts were finally produced on March 17, Gascón wrote, adding that they prompted him to notify the Police Department Wednesday and the public on Thursday of the racist and homophobic messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am hopeful that any future incidents that jeopardize the fair administration of justice will be disclosed from the outset to both myself and the public,\" Gascón wrote. \"Delaying disclosure of such misconduct only adds to the current climate of distrust. It is my sincere hope that the San Francisco Police Department will change its practices and usher in a culture that promotes transparency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation of a new batch of racist and homophobic texts comes as Police Department and city leadership try to pull the SFPD out of an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">abyss of scandal\u003c/a>, not only involving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">previously revealed bigoted texts\u003c/a>, but also the fatal shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">black\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Latino\u003c/a> residents and a consistently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">astronomical racial disparity\u003c/a> in arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Friday he was disappointed and frustrated to learn of a new batch of text messages that reportedly, according to District Attorney George Gascón, liberally employ racist slurs for African-Americans and disparage members of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the second batch, and maybe there's a third,\" Lee said in an interview Friday. \"Our public should never be disgraced with the kind of attitudes reflected in these text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will schedule meetings with police employee groups, including the main officers' union as well as the Asian Officers Association, Officers for Justice, the Police Pride Alliance and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These officers seem to feel that they could talk in this way and get away with it,\" Lee said of at least four officers most directly linked to the latest scandal. \"That tells me that there’s some culture going on here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee declined to wade into a back-and-fourth between Gascón and Suhr concerning how prosecutors became aware of the texts, and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main thing is not to fester over who knew what when,\" Lee said. \"It’s when we discovered it, it is our obligation to end it, to serve up examples of why this is bad for the city, for the police force and for the respect of all the other officers that do their best.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1133\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-400x567.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-1180x1672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-960x1360.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But who knew what when is of great concern to San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. He said in an interview Friday that Gascón had a legal obligation to turn over evidence of the texts to relevant defense attorneys as soon as prosecutors became aware of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district attorney says that he just found out about this, yet the chief of police told me that he informed the district attorney six months ago,\" Adachi said. \"It’s a big question because the district attorney, once they have evidence like this of bias, under the law they have to turn it over to the defense because it affects the credibility of these witnesses, and that was not done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's been writing his own letters in the wake of the latest bigoted text messages. He's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686616/Jeff-Adachi-Letter-to-George-Gascon-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">asking the district attorney\u003c/a> for a comprehensive list of every case that involved the officers who sent or received bigoted text messages. He said last year's texting scandal resulted in the dismissal of more than a dozen prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve also made it clear that we want to see all the correspondence between the DA and the chief as to when they became aware of these incidents,\" he said. \"We don’t know at this point how many cases could be affected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired California Superior Court Judge Ladoris Cordell said it was very disheartening to learn of a new batch of bigoted texts. She's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">been serving\u003c/a> on a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">special panel\u003c/a> Gascón convened last year after the first text messaging scandal came to light. She and two other retired judges have been reviewing some 4,000 incident reports prepared by the officers involved, looking for any indications that the overt bigotry displayed in their text messages spilled into their decisions to make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It raises the question of now do we have to expand and look at the police reports dating back for these particular officers,\" she said in an interview Friday. \"Or maybe it’s time to just throw up our hands and say, we don’t need to do this, that what’s going on in the Police Department is such that we just need to pull back, take stock and make some major change.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is entirely inaccurate to indicate that there was a collaborative effort in the investigation of any racist and homophobic text messages,\" Gascón wrote, adding that his office received some 44,000 pages of cell phone records -- including text messages -- in November. \"At no time were we informed that the text messages from the phone associated with [redacted] or his girlfriend contained any potential racist or homophobic text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón wrote that getting additional text messages seized from a lieutenant -- who is likely Lt. Curtis Liu -- \"became a point of contention\" between SFPD criminal investigators and his office's special prosecutions unit. Those texts were finally produced on March 17, Gascón wrote, adding that they prompted him to notify the Police Department Wednesday and the public on Thursday of the racist and homophobic messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am hopeful that any future incidents that jeopardize the fair administration of justice will be disclosed from the outset to both myself and the public,\" Gascón wrote. \"Delaying disclosure of such misconduct only adds to the current climate of distrust. It is my sincere hope that the San Francisco Police Department will change its practices and usher in a culture that promotes transparency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation of a new batch of racist and homophobic texts comes as Police Department and city leadership try to pull the SFPD out of an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">abyss of scandal\u003c/a>, not only involving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">previously revealed bigoted texts\u003c/a>, but also the fatal shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">black\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Latino\u003c/a> residents and a consistently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">astronomical racial disparity\u003c/a> in arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Friday he was disappointed and frustrated to learn of a new batch of text messages that reportedly, according to District Attorney George Gascón, liberally employ racist slurs for African-Americans and disparage members of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the second batch, and maybe there's a third,\" Lee said in an interview Friday. \"Our public should never be disgraced with the kind of attitudes reflected in these text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will schedule meetings with police employee groups, including the main officers' union as well as the Asian Officers Association, Officers for Justice, the Police Pride Alliance and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These officers seem to feel that they could talk in this way and get away with it,\" Lee said of at least four officers most directly linked to the latest scandal. \"That tells me that there’s some culture going on here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee declined to wade into a back-and-fourth between Gascón and Suhr concerning how prosecutors became aware of the texts, and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main thing is not to fester over who knew what when,\" Lee said. \"It’s when we discovered it, it is our obligation to end it, to serve up examples of why this is bad for the city, for the police force and for the respect of all the other officers that do their best.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1133\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-400x567.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-1180x1672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-960x1360.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But who knew what when is of great concern to San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. 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"disqusTitle": "More SFPD Officers Sent Bigoted Text Messages, Even During 'Textgate' Scandal",
"title": "More SFPD Officers Sent Bigoted Text Messages, Even During 'Textgate' Scandal",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7:25 p.m. Thursday, March 31:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new group of San Francisco police officers traded \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a> in 2014 and 2015, expanding the number of officers accused of making overtly racist, homophobic and sexist statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday that the San Francisco Police Department delivered some 5,000 pages of evidence to his office in late 2015 as part of criminal investigation, and that evidence contained the offensive texts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The messages are very clearly talking about African Americans and using the 'N word' repeatedly,\" Gascón said. \"They’re talking about members of the LGBT community also in a very disparaging fashion, and in the context of the conversation, they’re obviously intended to be racist in nature or homophobic. But again, we’ve only scratched the surface.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he couldn't divulge the details of the criminal investigation that netted the offensive messages or the names of the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A substantial number of officers in the San Francisco Police Department feel very comfortable displaying very racist and homophobic behavior. This happened before, during and after the previous scandal, which shows these individuals really didn’t care.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the Police Department said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306580286/SFPD-Statement-on-Internal-Affairs-Investigation\" target=\"_blank\">written statement\u003c/a> Thursday afternoon that the texts emerged through its internal investigation of Officer Jason Lai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-allegedly-interfered-with-investigation-of-fellow-officer-for-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">accused Lai last August\u003c/a> of raping her while he was off duty. SFPD \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/article/sfpd-officer-arrested-following-internal-affairs-probe\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that there was insufficient evidence to prove a sexual assault charge, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-arrested-connection-sexual-assault-probe/\" target=\"_blank\">Lai was charged\u003c/a> with six misdemeanor counts of unlawfully using police department records. Lt. Curtis Liu -- who has since retired -- is also under investigation for allegedly alerting Lai of the internal probe against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Lai and Liu swapped offensive texts, according to the Police Department, as did two other unnamed officers, one of whom has also since left the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As part of the criminal investigation, the Department searched cell phone records of the involved members and determined that four of those members had sent text messages containing reprehensible racial and homophobic remarks,\" SFPD's statement says. \"The Department acted immediately in suspending officers involved in these text messages and referring the matter to the Police Commission for discipline up to and including termination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10915902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 297px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Lai.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10915902\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Lai.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Jason Lai.\" width=\"297\" height=\"372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10915902\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Jason Lai. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three additional unnamed officers \"received single questionable text messages from Officer Lai ... but did not send any questionable messages,\" according to the SFPD. \"The investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to bring [disciplinary] charges against the officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said these newly discovered messages were sent in 2014 through late-2015, indicating that officers continued to swap inappropriate messages even after a similar but unrelated scandal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">broke last March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earlier batch of messages were made public in \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">a federal court filing\u003c/a> concerning former SFPD Sgt. 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The officers remain on paid leave as the city appeals the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors recently began to discover this second batch of text messages with repeated use of \"the N word,\" Gascón said, and derogatory language about \"members of the LGBT community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'For you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous. This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I think that some of the language was referring to other members of the SFPD as well,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he sent a letter to SFPD Chief Greg Suhr Wednesday alerting him to the texts and outlining his concerns. He declined to provide a copy of the letter, saying it contained the officers' names and other confidential information. He said Thursday afternoon that he had not received a response from the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That response came from Suhr a couple hours later in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306581549/Greg-Suhr-Letter-to-George-Gascon-March-31-2016\" target=\"_blank\">a letter\u003c/a> that was shared widely with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his response, in which \"DA Gascón\" is crossed out and replaced with a handwritten \"George,\" Suhr wrote that the department became aware of the offensive text messages on Aug. 8 of last year, and SFPD told the DA's office about them multiple times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nOnce the Department identified the officers involved, I immediately placed these officers on suspension. We repeatedly notified your office of the existence of the text messages on September 21, 2015, October 6, 2015, November 2, 2015, and in January 2016. For your information, these contacts and notifications are documented in the chronological record of investigation, as well as emails.\u003cbr>\n...\u003cbr>\nFor you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous. This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice. My Department is fully committed to the fair administration of justice, and to that end, has provided information and materials relating to the allegations during this cooperative effort.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This latest revelation of more SFPD officers swapping bigoted messages comes after Gascón's response to the previous scandal sparked a feud with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpoa.org\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón convened a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">blue ribbon panel\u003c/a> to investigate bias in the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current and former association presidents recently accused Gascón of making racist comments, himself, at a dinner in 2010, and they have said the blue ribbon panel lacks the authority to prosecute officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QB0ORHVedtD4HZxt3L87M1RhdEaFGILt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Police Officers’ Association condemns the appalling racist behavior committed by a handful of officers,\" POA President Martin Halloran said in a written statement Thursday afternoon about the new text messages. \"They have disgraced the uniform and their profession.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran similarly condemned the previous messages, but later confirmed that a board controlling the POA's legal defense fund voted to pay for the officers' attorneys. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7:25 p.m. Thursday, March 31:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new group of San Francisco police officers traded \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a> in 2014 and 2015, expanding the number of officers accused of making overtly racist, homophobic and sexist statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday that the San Francisco Police Department delivered some 5,000 pages of evidence to his office in late 2015 as part of criminal investigation, and that evidence contained the offensive texts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The messages are very clearly talking about African Americans and using the 'N word' repeatedly,\" Gascón said. \"They’re talking about members of the LGBT community also in a very disparaging fashion, and in the context of the conversation, they’re obviously intended to be racist in nature or homophobic. But again, we’ve only scratched the surface.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he couldn't divulge the details of the criminal investigation that netted the offensive messages or the names of the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A substantial number of officers in the San Francisco Police Department feel very comfortable displaying very racist and homophobic behavior. This happened before, during and after the previous scandal, which shows these individuals really didn’t care.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the Police Department said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306580286/SFPD-Statement-on-Internal-Affairs-Investigation\" target=\"_blank\">written statement\u003c/a> Thursday afternoon that the texts emerged through its internal investigation of Officer Jason Lai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Curtis Liu -- who has since retired -- is also under investigation for allegedly alerting Lai of the internal probe against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Lai and Liu swapped offensive texts, according to the Police Department, as did two other unnamed officers, one of whom has also since left the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As part of the criminal investigation, the Department searched cell phone records of the involved members and determined that four of those members had sent text messages containing reprehensible racial and homophobic remarks,\" SFPD's statement says. \"The Department acted immediately in suspending officers involved in these text messages and referring the matter to the Police Commission for discipline up to and including termination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10915902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 297px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Lai.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10915902\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Lai.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Jason Lai.\" width=\"297\" height=\"372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10915902\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Jason Lai. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three additional unnamed officers \"received single questionable text messages from Officer Lai ... but did not send any questionable messages,\" according to the SFPD. \"The investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to bring [disciplinary] charges against the officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said these newly discovered messages were sent in 2014 through late-2015, indicating that officers continued to swap inappropriate messages even after a similar but unrelated scandal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">broke last March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earlier batch of messages were made public in \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">a federal court filing\u003c/a> concerning former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, and all the messages were recovered from his personal cell phone as part of a federal criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That original scandal was dubbed \"Textgate\" by a black and minority \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD officers' group\u003c/a>. One of the text message exchanges targeted the group's president, Sgt. 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The officers remain on paid leave as the city appeals the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors recently began to discover this second batch of text messages with repeated use of \"the N word,\" Gascón said, and derogatory language about \"members of the LGBT community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'For you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous. This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I think that some of the language was referring to other members of the SFPD as well,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he sent a letter to SFPD Chief Greg Suhr Wednesday alerting him to the texts and outlining his concerns. 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My Department is fully committed to the fair administration of justice, and to that end, has provided information and materials relating to the allegations during this cooperative effort.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This latest revelation of more SFPD officers swapping bigoted messages comes after Gascón's response to the previous scandal sparked a feud with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpoa.org\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón convened a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">blue ribbon panel\u003c/a> to investigate bias in the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current and former association presidents recently accused Gascón of making racist comments, himself, at a dinner in 2010, and they have said the blue ribbon panel lacks the authority to prosecute officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Police Officers’ Association condemns the appalling racist behavior committed by a handful of officers,\" POA President Martin Halloran said in a written statement Thursday afternoon about the new text messages. \"They have disgraced the uniform and their profession.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran similarly condemned the previous messages, but later confirmed that a board controlling the POA's legal defense fund voted to pay for the officers' attorneys. 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