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Officer Eric McKinley’s defense \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016811/officers-defense-mario-gonzalez-case-claims-das-office-withholding-key-evidence\">argued this month\u003c/a> that Omalu had recently met with the district attorney’s office and called the prosecution “political.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu, whose independent second autopsy showed that Gonzalez died as a result of “restraint asphyxiation,” not the “toxic effects of methamphetamine,” as the coroner’s initial autopsy suggested, was a key witness for the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Dr. Omalu did not change his ultimate opinion on the cause of death, multiple key inconsistencies by this now hostile yet necessary witness led the People to conclude they could not meet their burden of proving Officer McKinley committed involuntary manslaughter beyond a reasonable doubt,” the office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">died after police pinned him to the ground\u003c/a> in an Alameda park. The prosecution of those officers on involuntary manslaughter charges has been fraught with problems since the case against two of the three officers was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">thrown out in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman and a Latino man touch heads as they mourn with masks on.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mother of Mario Gonzalez, Edith Arenales, puts her head together with her son Geraldo Gonzalez before speaking at a news conference outside the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price — who was recalled from office last month — charged McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy with involuntary manslaughter for the death of Gonzalez in April. That reversed a decision by her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, who cleared the officers of criminal liability after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases against Fisher and Leahy were dismissed after a judge ruled that the district attorney’s office failed to file arrest warrants that would have commenced felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations. The case against McKinley was allowed to move forward because he had been out of the country for months within that three-year period, effectively pausing the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, McKinley’s defense accused the district attorney’s office of withholding statements Omalu made criticizing the prosecution. They said Omalu told the office that he “believes this case to be a ‘political’ prosecution,” according to a defense motion. Omalu also said the officers did not commit criminal misconduct and should not be prosecuted, the motion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Omalu filed a motion to quash a district attorney’s office subpoena that compelled him to testify in the criminal case. The office said that because his declaration submitted under penalty of perjury in that motion contained inconsistencies with his sworn deposition in the civil case, he would have “more than likely” been impeached if he had been forced to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016811 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another possible forensic pathology expert who could testify on cause of death for the prosecution relied on Dr. Omalu for review, leaving no way to avoid calling Dr. Omalu to the witness stand,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s death caused outrage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871576/deadly-alameda-police-encounter-carries-echoes-of-george-floyd-case\">drew comparisons\u003c/a> to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in 2020. He was unarmed when officers responded to a 911 call of a man behaving strangely in an Alameda park. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">Body camera footage\u003c/a> released by the city shows the officers pin down Gonzalez, who is mumbling and appears not to be fully lucid after he resists being handcuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one officer pressed an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder, and after about five minutes, the officers rolled Gonzalez onto his side, saying he was becoming unresponsive. Officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was later declared dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video footage spurred Gonzalez’s family to accuse the officers of murder, calling it a clear case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine,” stress related to altercation and restraint, obesity and alcoholism. Omalu’s autopsy, independently requested by Gonzalez’s family, showed that his death had been “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley declined to file charges, Price reopened the case shortly after she took office in 2023 as part of a new Police Accountability Unit, which reopened eight police shootings or in-custody death cases in early 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision from the district attorney’s office to drop charges against McKinley comes just weeks after Royl Roberts, who was Price’s second in command, took over as the interim head of the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Dr. Omalu did not change his ultimate opinion on the cause of death, multiple key inconsistencies by this now hostile yet necessary witness led the People to conclude they could not meet their burden of proving Officer McKinley committed involuntary manslaughter beyond a reasonable doubt,” the office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">died after police pinned him to the ground\u003c/a> in an Alameda park. The prosecution of those officers on involuntary manslaughter charges has been fraught with problems since the case against two of the three officers was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">thrown out in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman and a Latino man touch heads as they mourn with masks on.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mother of Mario Gonzalez, Edith Arenales, puts her head together with her son Geraldo Gonzalez before speaking at a news conference outside the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price — who was recalled from office last month — charged McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy with involuntary manslaughter for the death of Gonzalez in April. That reversed a decision by her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, who cleared the officers of criminal liability after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases against Fisher and Leahy were dismissed after a judge ruled that the district attorney’s office failed to file arrest warrants that would have commenced felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations. The case against McKinley was allowed to move forward because he had been out of the country for months within that three-year period, effectively pausing the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, McKinley’s defense accused the district attorney’s office of withholding statements Omalu made criticizing the prosecution. They said Omalu told the office that he “believes this case to be a ‘political’ prosecution,” according to a defense motion. Omalu also said the officers did not commit criminal misconduct and should not be prosecuted, the motion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Omalu filed a motion to quash a district attorney’s office subpoena that compelled him to testify in the criminal case. The office said that because his declaration submitted under penalty of perjury in that motion contained inconsistencies with his sworn deposition in the civil case, he would have “more than likely” been impeached if he had been forced to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another possible forensic pathology expert who could testify on cause of death for the prosecution relied on Dr. Omalu for review, leaving no way to avoid calling Dr. Omalu to the witness stand,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s death caused outrage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871576/deadly-alameda-police-encounter-carries-echoes-of-george-floyd-case\">drew comparisons\u003c/a> to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in 2020. He was unarmed when officers responded to a 911 call of a man behaving strangely in an Alameda park. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">Body camera footage\u003c/a> released by the city shows the officers pin down Gonzalez, who is mumbling and appears not to be fully lucid after he resists being handcuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one officer pressed an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder, and after about five minutes, the officers rolled Gonzalez onto his side, saying he was becoming unresponsive. Officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was later declared dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video footage spurred Gonzalez’s family to accuse the officers of murder, calling it a clear case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine,” stress related to altercation and restraint, obesity and alcoholism. Omalu’s autopsy, independently requested by Gonzalez’s family, showed that his death had been “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley declined to file charges, Price reopened the case shortly after she took office in 2023 as part of a new Police Accountability Unit, which reopened eight police shootings or in-custody death cases in early 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision from the district attorney’s office to drop charges against McKinley comes just weeks after Royl Roberts, who was Price’s second in command, took over as the interim head of the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the only Alameda police officer still facing charges in the 2021 death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> argued in an explosive motion this week that a forensic pathologist who is central to the case recently met with the district attorney’s office and made statements critical of the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court Friday, Officer Eric McKinley’s defense lawyers argued a motion that accuses the Alameda County district attorney’s office of withholding information that could exonerate their client. Among that information is a meeting the district attorney’s office had with independent pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu — who conducted an autopsy on Gonzalez — in which he said he “believes this case to be a ‘political’ prosecution,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25448162-241204-def-reply-in-further-support-of-motion-to-compel-final/\">defense motion\u003c/a>. Omalu also said the officers did not commit criminal misconduct and should not be prosecuted, the motion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge took arguments under submission, indicating he would rule later on whether the prosecution needs to provide McKinley’s defense attorneys with copies of Omalu’s statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, felt at a loss after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can I say? I believe in God, and I’m still hoping they check the second autopsy, they find out a lot of stuff completely different from what they say, so it is what it is,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing Omalu said he “wishes to have no involvement in this matter.” Omalu also issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25448254-omalu-press-release/\">written statement\u003c/a> explaining that he did not expect his findings to be used in a criminal prosecution and that he does not wish to testify in the case because the criminal prosecution “goes against his core personal and religious beliefs and values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley is arguing that the prosecution has unnecessarily stalled discovery in the case in other ways as well, indefinitely delaying an important preliminary hearing that had been set for earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office declined to comment on the defense allegations. Arguing in court Friday, an Alameda County prosecutor said Omalu “has feelings about the case but he stands by his report.” The prosecution also argued that Omalu never contradicted his findings on the cause of Gonzalez’s death, which he determined was asphyxiation from being physically restrained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rene C. Davidson Alameda County Superior Court House on March 2, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McKinley was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter by District Attorney Pamela Price in April, reversing her predecessor Nancy O’Malley’s findings of no criminal wrongdoing by officers. The same charges were also brought against two other officers involved in Gonzalez’s death, but they were dismissed in October after filing errors by the district attorney’s office allowed the statute of limitations to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What will happen to the case now that Price has been recalled from office is unknown. Whoever is selected as the new district attorney by the Board of Supervisors will have the power to drop the case if they see fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is so sad for me to hear that it can be or cannot, but that is why we are here, not only me, but the family of Steven Taylor, another victim of police brutality,” Arenales said. “I’m scared for real though when I hear that they can drop the case because they’re not supposed to have to drop it because they have good evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, was unarmed when McKinley along with officers James Fisher and Cameron Leahy approached him in an Alameda park on April 19, 2021, responding to 911 calls about a man behaving erratically. Body camera footage shows the officers attempting to detain Gonzalez, eventually taking him to the ground and pinning him down on his stomach.[aside postID=news_12011106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg']Gonzalez is shown murmuring to himself as the officers hold him down. At least one officer was shown pressing an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gonzalez became unresponsive after being held down for several minutes, the officers rolled him onto his side. He had stopped breathing, and the officers administered CPR in addition to two doses of Narcan. Gonzalez was eventually taken to the hospital and declared dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial autopsy report released by the Alameda County coroner declared Gonzalez’s death a homicide but cited methamphetamine toxicity, obesity, alcoholism and stress as the primary causes behind his cardiac arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second autopsy, which was conducted independently by Omalu at the request of Gonzalez’s family, showed differently, however. According to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21748401-mario-gonzalez-second-autopsy-report011522/\">autopsy report\u003c/a>, Gonzalez’s death was caused by “restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If not for his asphyxial brain injury, Mr. Gonzalez-Arenales, more likely than not, would not have died and was not expected to die on April 19, 2021,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley’s defense argues those findings by Omalu led to an official determination that officers used unreasonable or excessive force when they pinned Gonzalez to the ground. And if Omalu disputes the prosecution’s interpretation of his findings, it could undermine a central piece of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The People’s failure to disclose even the existence of such a meeting with a witness as critical to the People’s fundamental theory of guilt as Dr. Omalu is emblematic of the People’s utter disregard for their duties,” the defense motion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Charges against the other two officers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">dismissed this month\u003c/a> after a judge ruled that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> district attorney’s office failed to file necessary paperwork within the three-year statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family and supporters of Gonzalez rallied Friday outside the courthouse, demanding justice for Gonzalez’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of oppression to our own communities and the excuse after excuse of letting these cops free is no longer going to be the ordinary. 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He’s just scaring my wife,” a 911 caller said in dispatch audio recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">released by the city\u003c/a> shows the officers pin down Gonzalez, who is mumbling and appears not to be fully lucid after he resists being handcuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009076 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/012_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one officer pressed an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, the officers rolled Gonzalez onto his side, saying he was becoming unresponsive. About eight minutes after they began to arrest Gonzalez, he stopped breathing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> rallied Friday outside an Alameda County courthouse where the only police officer who still faces charges in his 2021 death appeared before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first hearing since a judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">dismissed the cases\u003c/a> against the other two officers charged with involuntary manslaughter, ruling this week that the district attorney’s office failed to file arrest warrants that would have commenced felony prosecution \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005470/attorneys-for-alameda-cops-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-try-to-dismiss-case-over-filing-deadlines\">within the three-year statute of limitations\u003c/a>. Gonzalez, 26, died after police pinned him to the ground in an Alameda park on April 19, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two officers are going to be able to walk off today on a technicality of some paperwork from the DA’s office being served late. Shame on them,” Amanda Majail-Blanco, an organizer for Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, said to about 20 supporters outside the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland. “There were three officers that should be held accountable for Mario’s death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s mother, Edith Arenales, was not at the rally because she has suffered from health issues since this week’s dismissal of charges. His family was “heartbroken” after hearing the judge’s decision, advocate Barni Qaasim, who organizes with the Justice for Mario Gonzalez community group, told KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Scott Patton’s Monday ruling dismissed the charges against Alameda officers James Fisher and Cameron Leahy. 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Manuel Court House in Oakland on Oct. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Samantha Lim/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983439/alameda-county-da-files-manslaughter-charges-against-police-officers-in-mario-gonzalezs-death\">announced charges against the officers\u003c/a> on April 18, one day before the three-year statute of limitations expired, Patton said prosecutors would have had to file an arrest warrant or take several other steps for a felony prosecution to “commence,” which they didn’t do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really just out of sheer luck that anyone is able to be charged at all after the egregious error that the district attorney’s office made,” James Burch, the deputy director of the Anti-Police Terror Project, said after the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley’s arraignment in August marked the start of timely prosecution because the statute of limitations had been paused, the judge ruled. McKinley has also asked the court to dismiss charges against him, alleging that Price “fraudulently induced him to appear” at the arraignment, but Patton rejected that motion on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008407 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48839_022_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Price’s office said it was “unfortunate that all three defendants will not be held accountable,” adding that the court’s decision was not based on any lack of merit in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has drawn comparisons to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in 2020. Gonzalez was unarmed when officers responded to a 911 call of a man behaving strangely in an Alameda park, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\"> body camera footage released by the city\u003c/a> shows the officers pin down Gonzalez, who is mumbling and appears not to be fully lucid after he resists being handcuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one officer pressed an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, officers rolled Gonzalez onto his side, saying he was becoming unresponsive. The officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was later declared dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family accused the officers of murder after viewing the video and called it a clear case of police brutality. An initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine,” stress related to altercation and restraint, obesity and alcoholism. A second autopsy, independently requested by Gonzalez’s family, showed that his death had been “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-District Attorney Nancy O’Malley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910601/no-criminal-charges-against-alameda-officers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">cleared the officers of criminal liability\u003c/a> in 2022, but Price reopened the case shortly after she took office in 2023 as part of her new Public Accountability Unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price announced the charges this year just three days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983091/recall-of-alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price-qualifies-for-a-vote\">recall campaign against her qualified for this November’s ballot\u003c/a>, spurring questions about a possible political motivation behind the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Majail-Blanco, the community organizer, said before Friday’s court hearing that the filing error by the district attorney’s office “is a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had been working with Edith on this journey for three years, and it’s been difficult to see her go through this,” Majail-Blanco said. “And it’s almost a slap in the face of disrespect to put this case out in the media and to just let these officers walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley will return to court on Oct. 25, when he is scheduled to enter a plea. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#anchor\">\u003cem>This report contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> judge dismissed charges against two of the three officers who faced criminal prosecution for their role in the 2021 death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a 26-year-old man who stopped breathing after being pinned to the ground during an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Scott Patton ruled that Alameda County prosecutors failed to file the necessary paperwork to bring charges against Alameda officers James Fisher and Cameron Leahy within the three-year statute of limitations for involuntary manslaughter. Defense attorneys had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005470/attorneys-for-alameda-cops-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-try-to-dismiss-case-over-filing-deadlines\">sought to dismiss the charges\u003c/a>, citing a lack of arrest warrants that would have officially started the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against the third officer, Eric McKinley, can proceed because his clock was paused by a trip abroad, the judge ruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 13-page order published Monday, Patton — who worked in the Alameda County district attorney’s office for two decades — called the statute of limitations the “bedrock” of civil and criminal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A defendant bringing a challenge because of a violation of the statute of limitations is asserting a substantive due process right, not a technical or procedural violation,” Patton said in his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the encounter between the officers and Gonzalez took place on April 19, 2021, the judge determined that the statute of limitations expired on that date this year. Although Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced the charges on April 18, prosecutors would have had to file an arrest warrant or take several other steps for a felony prosecution to “commence,” Patton said. That never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, Patton rejected the motion to dismiss charges against McKinley, who claimed that Price “fraudulently induced him to appear” at an arraignment, which marked the start of his prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge refuted any “outrageous fraudulent conduct” on Price’s part. According to the decision, the district attorney’s office decided to forgo a bench warrant in favor of a “notice to appear” as a “courtesy to officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his decision, Patton still slammed prosecutors for a “mischaracterization that a summons had been issued,” which he cited as “further evidence of the rushed and careless work by the District Attorney’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statute of limitations ruling did not apply to McKinley, who left last December on a five-month mission trip to South Africa. Prosecutors had more time to file charges against McKinley, the judge said, because his time out of the country paused the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley’s attorney, James Shore, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family was “heartbroken” after hearing the judge’s decision, said advocate Barni Qaasim, who organizes with the Justice for Mario Gonzalez community group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so disappointing that charges were dropped not because of a lack of evidence but because the judge prioritizes procedural technicality over the pursuit of justice,” Qaasim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office said it is “unfortunate that all three defendants will not be held accountable” in an email to KQED on Tuesday, noting that the court’s decision was not based on any lack of merit in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005470 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prosecutors will proceed to file an amended complaint against Officer McKinley,” the office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge’s decision is another twist in a high-profile case that has drawn comparisons to the death of George Floyd, whose murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 became a flashpoint in the national conversation over racial justice. It’s another blow to Price, the embattled district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007542/recall-targeting-alameda-county-da-is-endorsed-by-east-bay-congressman\">facing a recall election\u003c/a> this November over criticism of her progressive policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, who was elected in 2023 on a platform of police reform, reopened Gonzalez’s case through her administration’s new Public Accountability Unit. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983439/alameda-county-da-files-manslaughter-charges-against-police-officers-in-mario-gonzalezs-death\">announced charges against the officers\u003c/a> three days after the recall campaign against her qualified for the ballot, drawing criticism from an attorney for one of the officers that the case might have been rushed in “a political effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges reversed a decision by Price’s predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, who in 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910601/no-criminal-charges-against-alameda-officers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">declined to charge the officers\u003c/a> after concluding there was no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez was unarmed when 911 dispatchers received a call of a man behaving strangely in an Alameda park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong. He’s just scaring my wife,” a 911 caller said in dispatch audio recordings. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">Body cam footage\u003c/a> showed a dazed and confused Gonzalez, who appeared to not understand he was being arrested. About \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2021-04-29/breaking-down-the-police-video-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">eight minutes\u003c/a> after officers began arresting Gonzalez, he stopped breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest, including the “toxic effects of methamphetamine,” stress related to altercation, obesity and alcoholism. A second independent autopsy requested by attorneys representing Gonzalez’s family found that his death was “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to Mario could happen to anyone,” Qaasim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocate also added that Gonzalez’s family would “continue to escalate” and hoped that prosecutors would appeal the judge’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next hearing is scheduled for Friday at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 10: The original version of this report said Alameda County prosecutors failed to file necessary paperwork within the three-year statue of limitations for voluntary manslaughter. The three Alameda officers were charged with involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prosecutors will proceed to file an amended complaint against Officer McKinley,” the office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge’s decision is another twist in a high-profile case that has drawn comparisons to the death of George Floyd, whose murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 became a flashpoint in the national conversation over racial justice. It’s another blow to Price, the embattled district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007542/recall-targeting-alameda-county-da-is-endorsed-by-east-bay-congressman\">facing a recall election\u003c/a> this November over criticism of her progressive policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, who was elected in 2023 on a platform of police reform, reopened Gonzalez’s case through her administration’s new Public Accountability Unit. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983439/alameda-county-da-files-manslaughter-charges-against-police-officers-in-mario-gonzalezs-death\">announced charges against the officers\u003c/a> three days after the recall campaign against her qualified for the ballot, drawing criticism from an attorney for one of the officers that the case might have been rushed in “a political effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges reversed a decision by Price’s predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, who in 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910601/no-criminal-charges-against-alameda-officers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">declined to charge the officers\u003c/a> after concluding there was no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez was unarmed when 911 dispatchers received a call of a man behaving strangely in an Alameda park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong. He’s just scaring my wife,” a 911 caller said in dispatch audio recordings. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">Body cam footage\u003c/a> showed a dazed and confused Gonzalez, who appeared to not understand he was being arrested. About \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2021-04-29/breaking-down-the-police-video-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">eight minutes\u003c/a> after officers began arresting Gonzalez, he stopped breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest, including the “toxic effects of methamphetamine,” stress related to altercation, obesity and alcoholism. A second independent autopsy requested by attorneys representing Gonzalez’s family found that his death was “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to Mario could happen to anyone,” Qaasim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocate also added that Gonzalez’s family would “continue to escalate” and hoped that prosecutors would appeal the judge’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next hearing is scheduled for Friday at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 10: The original version of this report said Alameda County prosecutors failed to file necessary paperwork within the three-year statue of limitations for voluntary manslaughter. The three Alameda officers were charged with involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:46 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Alameda County judge is considering a motion to dismiss the case against three Alameda police officers charged in connection with the death of Mario Gonzalez after their attorneys alleged that prosecutors failed to meet the statute of limitations on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters rallied Friday morning outside the county courthouse in Oakland, where Judge Scott Patton listened to arguments at a hearing on the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a human. My son was a human. In the United States, we’re supposed to respect the lives of human people, so they need to charge those three police officers,” said Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patton did not issue a ruling on the motion, and the next hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some commotion in the hallway after sheriff’s deputies asked members of the public to immediately vacate the courtroom following the hearing. Supporters wearing shirts that read “Justice for Mario Gonzalez” began to chant as the crowd filed out, and as the chants grew louder, deputies demanded that they stop and threatened legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021, for a press conference to address the body cam footage that was shown to Gonzalez’s family. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One protester was singled out by a deputy who approached and said they would be detained for allegedly causing the disruption. After the crowd began to scream and protest, the person was eventually allowed to leave, and no one was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983439/alameda-county-da-files-manslaughter-charges-against-police-officers-in-mario-gonzalezs-death\">charged Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy with involuntary manslaughter\u003c/a> for the 2021 death of Gonzalez earlier this year, reversing a decision by the previous district attorney, who did not charge them after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office filed the criminal complaint and obtained certificates of probable cause signed by a judge on April 18, but the officers’ attorneys argue that wasn’t enough to officially start the felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations because arrest warrants for the officers were never filed after Gonzalez’s death on April 19, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney’s office has conceded that they did not secure an arrest warrant. In fact, they contend that they affirmatively declined one, which was a fatal error, in our view,” said Alison Berry Wilkinson, Leahy’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price’s office declined to comment in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, was unarmed when the officers responding to a call of a man behaving oddly pinned him to the ground in an Alameda park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">released by the city\u003c/a> shows Gonzalez, who does not appear to be fully lucid, mumble multiple responses to the officers’ questions and resist putting his hands behind his back when they try to handcuff him. After several minutes, officers pin Gonzalez on his stomach, and footage shows at least one officer press an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder as he cries out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His calls become weaker, and he remains pinned down for about five minutes before appearing silent and motionless. About 15 seconds later, officers roll him onto his side and declare that he is becoming unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family accused the officers of murder after viewing the video and called it a case of clear\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\"> police brutality\u003c/a>. An initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” and “other significant conditions,” including stress related to altercation and restraint, morbid obesity and alcoholism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office, led at the time by Nancy O’Malley, cleared the involved officers of any criminal liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after taking office in January 2023, Price reopened Gonzalez’s case through her administration’s new Public Accountability Unit. A second, independent autopsy requested by attorneys representing Gonzalez’s family found that his death was “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office filed charges against the officers on April 18 and notified them of the charges the following day with a notice to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys argue that simply filing the charges and obtaining the certificates of probable cause was not enough to meet the three-year statute of limitations, which Wilkinson said expired on April 18 at 11:59 p.m. In its opposition to the motion to dismiss, the district attorney’s office argued that the way the timeframe has been “consistently applied by California courts” would extend the statute of limitations through 11:59 p.m. on April 19 and that it began prosecution on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12004395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-44_qut-1020x662.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say that they believe a notice to appear, which is an informal letter sent by the district attorney’s office to someone who has been charged with an offense, is sufficient,” Wilkinson said. “Unfortunately, the California Legislature doesn’t agree with them. And so the Legislature says one of four things has to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their motion, the defense attorneys say prosecution commences when an indictment or information is filed, a complaint charging a misdemeanor or infraction is filed, the defendant is arraigned on a felony complaint, or an arrest or bench warrant is issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t do any of the four,” Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office responded in its opposition that it did commence timely prosecution and that by acknowledging receiving the complaint, probable cause declaration and notice to appear letter on April 19, “defendants cured any remaining jurisdictional defects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those documents established probable cause to arrest and gave defendants notification of the prosecution before the deadline of April 19 at 11:59 p.m., Price wrote, adding that her office opted for that procedure instead of arrest warrants in part as a “courtesy” to the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The statute of limitations did not expire, and the case should not be dismissed,” Price wrote in her opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Wilkinson believes Price failed to fulfill the “everyday steps required to start a criminal case” and that the charges might have been rushed because of the recall election Price faces in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This filing occurred just within a day or so of the DA’s recall being certified,” she said. “It appears that they rushed to file these in a political effort to help support her recall campaign. We don’t know that for certain, but that is certainly how it appears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patton did not issue a ruling on the motion, and the next hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some commotion in the hallway after sheriff’s deputies asked members of the public to immediately vacate the courtroom following the hearing. Supporters wearing shirts that read “Justice for Mario Gonzalez” began to chant as the crowd filed out, and as the chants grew louder, deputies demanded that they stop and threatened legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021, for a press conference to address the body cam footage that was shown to Gonzalez’s family. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One protester was singled out by a deputy who approached and said they would be detained for allegedly causing the disruption. After the crowd began to scream and protest, the person was eventually allowed to leave, and no one was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983439/alameda-county-da-files-manslaughter-charges-against-police-officers-in-mario-gonzalezs-death\">charged Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy with involuntary manslaughter\u003c/a> for the 2021 death of Gonzalez earlier this year, reversing a decision by the previous district attorney, who did not charge them after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office filed the criminal complaint and obtained certificates of probable cause signed by a judge on April 18, but the officers’ attorneys argue that wasn’t enough to officially start the felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations because arrest warrants for the officers were never filed after Gonzalez’s death on April 19, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney’s office has conceded that they did not secure an arrest warrant. In fact, they contend that they affirmatively declined one, which was a fatal error, in our view,” said Alison Berry Wilkinson, Leahy’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price’s office declined to comment in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, was unarmed when the officers responding to a call of a man behaving oddly pinned him to the ground in an Alameda park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">released by the city\u003c/a> shows Gonzalez, who does not appear to be fully lucid, mumble multiple responses to the officers’ questions and resist putting his hands behind his back when they try to handcuff him. After several minutes, officers pin Gonzalez on his stomach, and footage shows at least one officer press an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder as he cries out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His calls become weaker, and he remains pinned down for about five minutes before appearing silent and motionless. About 15 seconds later, officers roll him onto his side and declare that he is becoming unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family accused the officers of murder after viewing the video and called it a case of clear\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\"> police brutality\u003c/a>. An initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” and “other significant conditions,” including stress related to altercation and restraint, morbid obesity and alcoholism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office, led at the time by Nancy O’Malley, cleared the involved officers of any criminal liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after taking office in January 2023, Price reopened Gonzalez’s case through her administration’s new Public Accountability Unit. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price on Thursday announced her office had filed involuntary manslaughter charges against three Alameda police officers involved in the 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez, a young, unarmed man who stopped breathing after they pinned him face-down to the ground in a city park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s move to file felony charges against the officers — Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy — reverses the decision of her predecessor, \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910601/no-criminal-charges-against-alameda-officers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\" data-link=\"native\">who in 2022 declined to charge them after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Gonzalez case was one of the highest-profile of \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/alameda-county-d-a-reopening-investigations-for-17754790.php\" data-link=\"native\">eight police shootings or in-custody deaths\u003c/a> that Price, a former civil rights attorney, reopened shortly after taking office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Thursday press conference, Price said she had been “walled off” from this particular case and that her office’s Public Accountability Unit had independently made the charging decision. Price created that unit after taking office to review officer misconduct cases like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important that we have a Public Accountability Unit, that we hold people accountable when there is harm, and that we don’t have a double standard,” said Price, who is also now facing \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/pamela-price-alameda-county-da-face-recall-vote-19404771.php\" data-link=\"native\">a recall election\u003c/a>. “We won’t be able to administer justice if the community doesn’t trust that the system is going to work for everybody on an equal basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to rebuild trust in a system that has not always been fair to folks, particularly in Alameda County,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, the officers could face up to four years in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Thursday’s press conference, Price declined to say if any new evidence had been introduced that may have influenced the decision to bring the new charges, which were were filed just before the criminal statute of limitations expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three officers continue to work in law enforcement. Fisher is a Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy, while Leahy and McKinley are still at the Alameda Police Department. The two were placed on leave on April 17, after the department was notified of the charges, Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi said in a statement on Friday.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]Joshi, who became chief shortly after the incident, said he was confident in the justice system and pledged to fully cooperate with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also noted that he had conducted his own “independent review” of the multiple previous investigations — including those done by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, the Coroner’s Bureau, and the city — and said he “concurred that Alameda police officers did not engage in any misconduct and I stand by that decision today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Berry Wilkinson, an attorney who represented the three officers during the previous investigations, blasted the DA’s decision, calling it a blatant act of “political prosecution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District Attorney waited until the 11th hour before the statute of limitations was set to expire to bring these charges just days after it was confirmed she would face recall,” she said in an email statement. “There is no new evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson defended the officers’ actions while taking Gonzalez into custody as “reasonable, necessary, and lawful” and attributed his death to “drug toxicity, not criminal misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident a jury will see through this charade and exonerate the officers, just as the two prior independent investigations did,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakland civil rights attorney Michael Haddad praised the DA’s decision to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These charges are long overdue. They’re not excessive,” Haddad told KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very appropriate and in fact obvious in this situation. I think that from our work in the civil case, we basically gave the district attorney this case tied up in a bow, just from the records we filed in open court,” he said. “And it’s really clear that a jury should decide whether these officers are criminally responsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, a 26-year-old man from Oakland, was confronted by three police officers in a small Alameda park on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">morning of April 19, 2021\u003c/a>, after several neighbors called 911 reporting a man behaving erratically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As captured in the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">hour-long police body camera video\u003c/a>, the interaction began calmly but quickly escalated after the officers made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to obtain Gonzalez’s full name and ID. They then grabbed him without ever accusing him of a crime or placing him under arrest. When Gonzalez resisted, the officers took him to the ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one of them pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder as he struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers continued to hold Gonzalez in a prone position, his hands restrained behind his back, for roughly five minutes, at which point he went limp and appeared to stop breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After officers performed CPR and administered at least two doses of Narcan, a drug used to counteract opiate overdoses, paramedics rushed Gonzalez to Alameda Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident sparked fierce local protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 review of the case by then-DA Nancy O’Malley’s office found the officers acted reasonably out of concern that Gonzalez might pose a threat to them, himself and others. O’Malley’s office said the officers had tried to “deescalate” the situation by using “necessary” force but never struck Gonzalez or used any illicit chokeholds or weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/alameda-pio/gonzalez-mario-coroners-investigation.pdf\">performed by the Alameda County coroner (PDF)\u003c/a>, and released nearly eight months after the incident, classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide, but identified the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” as the leading cause of his fatal cardiac arrest. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Second-autopsy-finds-Mario-Gonzalez-died-of-17131892.php\">subsequent independent autopsy\u003c/a>, requested by attorneys representing Gonzalez’s family, classified the death as a homicide, attributing it to “restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, law professor and co-director of Stanford University’s Criminal Justice Center, told KQED on Friday it would be a potentially close case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These would be difficult jury questions,” Weisberg said. “First if the restraint even played a significant causal role in his death, and second of course whether the officers displayed gross negligence or recklessness in supplying that excessive pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can imagine a judge saying ‘Yes, I think there’s sufficient evidence,’ from which a jury could conclude that there’s a basis for an involuntary manslaughter charge. But it’s very tough to say whether a jury would come to that conclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the city of Alameda agreed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970180/attorney-for-family-of-mario-gonzalez-calls-11-million-settlement-a-historic-amount\">to pay $11 million to Gonzalez’s 7-year-old son\u003c/a> and $350,000 to his mother to settle a civil rights suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Alex Emslie.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Joshi, who became chief shortly after the incident, said he was confident in the justice system and pledged to fully cooperate with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also noted that he had conducted his own “independent review” of the multiple previous investigations — including those done by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, the Coroner’s Bureau, and the city — and said he “concurred that Alameda police officers did not engage in any misconduct and I stand by that decision today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Berry Wilkinson, an attorney who represented the three officers during the previous investigations, blasted the DA’s decision, calling it a blatant act of “political prosecution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District Attorney waited until the 11th hour before the statute of limitations was set to expire to bring these charges just days after it was confirmed she would face recall,” she said in an email statement. “There is no new evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson defended the officers’ actions while taking Gonzalez into custody as “reasonable, necessary, and lawful” and attributed his death to “drug toxicity, not criminal misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident a jury will see through this charade and exonerate the officers, just as the two prior independent investigations did,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakland civil rights attorney Michael Haddad praised the DA’s decision to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These charges are long overdue. They’re not excessive,” Haddad told KQED on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very appropriate and in fact obvious in this situation. I think that from our work in the civil case, we basically gave the district attorney this case tied up in a bow, just from the records we filed in open court,” he said. “And it’s really clear that a jury should decide whether these officers are criminally responsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, a 26-year-old man from Oakland, was confronted by three police officers in a small Alameda park on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">morning of April 19, 2021\u003c/a>, after several neighbors called 911 reporting a man behaving erratically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As captured in the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">hour-long police body camera video\u003c/a>, the interaction began calmly but quickly escalated after the officers made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to obtain Gonzalez’s full name and ID. They then grabbed him without ever accusing him of a crime or placing him under arrest. When Gonzalez resisted, the officers took him to the ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one of them pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder as he struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers continued to hold Gonzalez in a prone position, his hands restrained behind his back, for roughly five minutes, at which point he went limp and appeared to stop breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After officers performed CPR and administered at least two doses of Narcan, a drug used to counteract opiate overdoses, paramedics rushed Gonzalez to Alameda Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident sparked fierce local protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 review of the case by then-DA Nancy O’Malley’s office found the officers acted reasonably out of concern that Gonzalez might pose a threat to them, himself and others. O’Malley’s office said the officers had tried to “deescalate” the situation by using “necessary” force but never struck Gonzalez or used any illicit chokeholds or weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/alameda-pio/gonzalez-mario-coroners-investigation.pdf\">performed by the Alameda County coroner (PDF)\u003c/a>, and released nearly eight months after the incident, classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide, but identified the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” as the leading cause of his fatal cardiac arrest. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Second-autopsy-finds-Mario-Gonzalez-died-of-17131892.php\">subsequent independent autopsy\u003c/a>, requested by attorneys representing Gonzalez’s family, classified the death as a homicide, attributing it to “restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, law professor and co-director of Stanford University’s Criminal Justice Center, told KQED on Friday it would be a potentially close case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These would be difficult jury questions,” Weisberg said. “First if the restraint even played a significant causal role in his death, and second of course whether the officers displayed gross negligence or recklessness in supplying that excessive pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can imagine a judge saying ‘Yes, I think there’s sufficient evidence,’ from which a jury could conclude that there’s a basis for an involuntary manslaughter charge. 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And we felt that that was sufficient to send the message we wanted to send, that law enforcement around the state and around the country has to do better.’[/pullquote]The payments “shall fully and forever discharge and release all claims and causes of action … and shall not be construed as an admission by any party of liability,” the statement said. “The City of Alameda remains committed to full transparency and accountability in the tragic death of Mario Gonzalez and extends our heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, a 26-year-old man from Oakland, was confronted by three police officers in a small Alameda park on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">morning of April 19, 2021\u003c/a>, after several neighbors called 911 reporting a man behaving erratically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As captured in the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">hour-long police body camera video\u003c/a>, the interaction began calmly, but quickly escalated after the officers made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to obtain Gonzalez’s full name and ID. They then grabbed him, without ever accusing him of a crime or placing him under arrest. When Gonzalez resisted, the officers took him to the ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one of them pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder as he struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers continued to hold Gonzalez in a prone position, his hands restrained behind his back, for roughly five minutes, at which point he went limp and appeared to stop breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After officers performed CPR and administered at least two doses of Narcan, used to counteract opiate overdoses, Gonzalez was rushed by paramedics to Alameda Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.[aside label='more on Mario Gonzalez' tag='mario-gonzalez']An autopsy \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/alameda-pio/gonzalez-mario-coroners-investigation.pdf\">performed by the Alameda County coroner (PDF)\u003c/a>, and released nearly eight months after the incident, classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide, but identified the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” as the leading cause of his fatal cardiac arrest. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Second-autopsy-finds-Mario-Gonzalez-died-of-17131892.php\">subsequent independent autopsy\u003c/a>, requested by Haddad’s firm, also classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide, but concluded he died from “restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This didn’t need to happen. 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The first caller described a man “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11898773,news_11871887,news_11871345\"]“He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife,” the caller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second caller reported the man lingering in the park on Oak and Powell streets and appearing to be trying to break store security tags off alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As captured in the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">hour-long bodycam video\u003c/a>, the incident began calmly, but after the three officers’ made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to obtain Gonzalez’s full name or ID, they grabbed him, never saying he was under arrest. When Gonzalez resisted being handcuffed, the officers took him to the ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They handcuffed him, holding him down with his hands behind his back as he continued to struggle. After roughly five minutes, he appeared to go limp and stopped breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the officers performed CPR and administered at least two doses of Narcan — given to counteract opiate overdoses — Gonzalez was rushed by paramedics to Alameda Hospital and pronounced dead at 11:45 a.m., according to the autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s death, which sparked community protests and calls for police reform, came a day before a jury in Minneapolis convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the custody death of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898773/mario-gonzalezs-death-at-hands-of-alameda-police-ruled-a-homicide-but-linked-to-substance-abuse-and-health-issues\">the autopsy report\u003c/a>, released nearly eight months after the incident, the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide. 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It said they tried to “deescalate” the situation by using “necessary” force, but never struck Gonzalez or used any illicit chokeholds or weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the announcement, Alison Berry Wilkinson, the officers’ attorney, praised the decision. “The officers are grateful the district attorney recognized that this tragic death was an unintended consequence of their legitimate and lawful actions,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Haddad, an attorney representing Gonzalez’s 5-year-old son in an ongoing civil rights lawsuit, called the decision disappointing but hardly surprising. “[District Attorney] Nancy O’Malley has a long history of not holding police accountable, even when they act unlawfully,” he said. “They used criminal excessive force that caused a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two federal civil rights lawsuits filed on behalf of Gonzalez’s mother and son both allege the officers improperly escalated the confrontation with Gonzalez, who appeared “disoriented and confused,” but was not acting in a threatening manner. 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However, it said he died from cardiac arrest, and listed the “the toxic effects of methamphetamine” as the leading cause. The report also noted several contributing health factors, including morbid obesity, alcoholism and an enlarged heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meth could have led to a fatal cardiac arrhythmia and the stress of struggling and being detained by police could have put overwhelming strain on his heart, the autopsy report concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s review found the officers acted reasonably out of concern that Gonzalez might pose a threat to them, himself and others. It said they tried to “deescalate” the situation by using “necessary” force, but never struck Gonzalez or used any illicit chokeholds or weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the announcement, Alison Berry Wilkinson, the officers’ attorney, praised the decision. “The officers are grateful the district attorney recognized that this tragic death was an unintended consequence of their legitimate and lawful actions,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Haddad, an attorney representing Gonzalez’s 5-year-old son in an ongoing civil rights lawsuit, called the decision disappointing but hardly surprising. “[District Attorney] Nancy O’Malley has a long history of not holding police accountable, even when they act unlawfully,” he said. “They used criminal excessive force that caused a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two federal civil rights lawsuits filed on behalf of Gonzalez’s mother and son both allege the officers improperly escalated the confrontation with Gonzalez, who appeared “disoriented and confused,” but was not acting in a threatening manner. The suits accuse the officers of using improper restraint against Gonzalez in a way that asphyxiated him, and ignoring clear signs that he was struggling to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still intend to hold the officers fully accountable for killing our client Mario Gonzalez Cortez’s father,” Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers, he said, should have known better than to place weight on Gonzalez’s back while restraining him in a prone position for an extended period of time, a hold that can block the flow of oxygen to the lungs, particularly for someone with a preexisting medical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police have been trained about this for more than 30 years now,” he said, noting that regardless of Gonzalez’s health conditions, he would still be alive if officers hadn’t restrained him in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had ruled out all crimes, including theft,” Haddad added. “No harm would have been done by simply walking away and leaving Mario to mind his own business in the park as he had been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its report, the district attorney’s office noted that it didn’t consider whether the officers may have violated Alameda Police Department policy or used improper but noncriminal tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those issues are sometimes determined by a civil action” where the standard of proof is lower than for criminal cases, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED’s Sukey Lewis and Matthew Green, and from The Associated Press. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If any of us hoped that 2021 would somehow be less eventful than the year that came before it, we didn’t get our wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic continued into its second full year, our Bay Area communities also grappled with a rise in hate crime against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, rose up against sexual harassment and assault in schools, and tried to mobilize to aid refugees from Afghanistan — all of which KQED photographer Beth LaBerge endeavored to capture in still images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling these stories requires words both written and spoken, yes, but sometimes photos have a unique ability to let people tell their own stories, to show you their own plights, and bring the audience face-to-face with an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, LaBerge has chosen the images she captured in 2021 that help do exactly that — that paint a portrait of a complex, challenging year, but also one with frequent moments of joy and community togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands in the foreground in a purple sweatshirt with the words \"Class of 21\" with trees and sky in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside of her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement emerged from within San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a former Lowell student, pictured here, said that movement helped the floodgates open for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram. “That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\"> School\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A girl with a mask in the bottom left of the frame flies a kite with the background of buildings in San Francisco \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Lee and Joao Lee Ramirez, 12, fly a kite on Portsmouth Square Bridge in San Francisco on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square in March to mourn the lives of eight people shot and killed in Atlanta, including six Asian women. Those at the rally also called for an end to anti-AAPI violence, which had risen throughout the pandemic. Organizers supplied markers for signs and kite-making kits for the community to express their grief and create joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,” said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865791/bay-area-vigils-remember-atlanta-shooting-victims-challenge-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Area Vigils Remember Atlanta Shooting Victims, Challenge White Supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image from above. A child sits in a red chair at a blue table with a book open at a computer. The reflection can be seen in a mirror in the bottom of the frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onyx attends school at home with his parents in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Ryan Austin, an artist-educator, said she’s been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their community, however, is not a monolith, Austin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this photo, Austin, helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. According to Austin, Onyx has thrived during distance learning because the family can actively engage in his learning. However, Austin is quick to point out that this is only possible due to the fact that both she and her husband, Michael, work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\">‘\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We’re Not a Monolith’: Some Black and Brown Parents in Oakland Feel Conflicted as In-Person Learning Returns\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870699\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870699 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black sweatshirt and a mask places a candle at an altar above the words \"Justice 4 Mario G.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman places a candle at a memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>26-year-old Oakland Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody this year after what the Alameda Police Department termed a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil in April in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in Gonzalez’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Need Justice’: Mourners Demand Alameda Police Provide Answers in Death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11875061 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a person against the blue-sky of sunrise.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Bell, a Vietnam veteran and a Cahto tribe member, stands in a circle during the Bloody Island Sunrise Ceremony near Upper Lake, California, on May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 170 years ago, the small island of Bonopoti in Lake County was still a haven for the people who had lived there for centuries: the Pomo. On May 15, 1850, a U.S Army regiment arrived on the island and killed every Pomo man, woman and child they could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From then on, Bonopoti became known as Bloody Island. And for two decades, the island has hosted a Sunrise Ceremony of Forgiveness every May: A space where people from different Indigenous tribes gather to honor those ancestors claimed in the massacre, and to look to the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Always Have Our Ancestors Within Us’: Scenes From Bloody Island’s Sunrise Ceremony\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl is hoisted onto a horse in front of a Black Panther Party mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister gives kids a chance to sit on top of his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, during a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In celebration of Juneteenth this year, The West Oakland Mural Project opened a small museum to highlight Black Panther Party history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the block party held to celebrate, Donnell McAlister gave kids a chance to sit on top of his horse, JJ, named after Jesse James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878694/this-is-american-history-oakland-mini-museum-on-the-black-panther-party-opens-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘This Is American History’: Oakland Mini Museum on the Black Panther Party Opens on Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899762 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful scene with a large banner in the foreground and many people in the background waving rainbow flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021, during Pride weekend in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political, and more D.I.Y. this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899473/photos-lgbtq-pride-lights-up-the-bay-area-in-all-its-rainbow-glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ Pride Lights Up the Bay Area In All Its Rainbow Glory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Wooley, known as Chef Smelly, prepares garlic noodles at Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food pop-up on Broadway in Oakland on August 7, 2021. Garlic noodles are one of the most popular dishes at the pop-up. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steam rises off of a fresh batch of chef Edward Wooley’s garlic noodles at his Oakland restaurant, Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food. Here in the Bay Area, Asian Americans love garlic noodles. Black and Latino folks love garlic noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My business is soul fusion,” Wooley says. “I take my Black seasonings and style, and mix it with the Asian cuisine. It’s a blend of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900855/garlic-noodles-sf-bay-area-iconic-foods-thanh-long-smellys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Garlic Noodles Became one of the Bay Area’s Most Iconic Foods\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a tractor with the background of a field behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Borba and his son Joseph repair a broken irrigation line on their family-owned farm in Porterville, California, on August 10, 2021. Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. The lack of rain, over-pumping of aquifers, and the rising temperatures from climate change, which dry out the soil, have contributed to many farmers removing crops that they’ve grown for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As seen above, Chris Borba and his family have farmed in the Central Valley for several generations, but he worries that their farm might not survive if there is another year as dry as 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976510/central-valley-farmers-weigh-in-on-californias-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Valley Farmers Weigh in on California’s Historic Drought\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899766\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jatinderpal Singh sits at his home in Fresno on August 11, 2021. Singh is a former employee of the Foster Farms’ Cherry facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jatinderpal Singh, 71, a former line worker at Foster Farms’ Cherry plant, equated the loss of his cousin, Baljinder Dhillon, 65, a mechanic at the plant, to losing an arm. Dhillon tested positive for COVID-19 in December of 2020 during an outbreak at Foster Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My legs still shake,” Singh said in an interview on Aug. 11, speaking in Punjabi through an interpreter. “I still feel it, even today. Sometimes I feel weakness in my legs when I think about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892838/there-is-anger-he-should-be-alive-an-investigation-into-deadly-covid-19-outbreaks-at-foster-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>There Is Anger. He Should Be Alive.’ An Investigation Into Deadly COVID-19 Outbreaks at Foster Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez hold hands in their yard on Aug. 23, 2021. Along with their three children, the couple fled Mexico and are seeking asylum in the U.S. But their case has dragged on for six years in immigration court. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015 a man named Herrera fled to the U.S. with his family after he says he became the target of political violence in his hometown in central Mexico. When they reached the San Francisco Bay Area, he applied for asylum. But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,” said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. “But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886227/like-living-through-it-all-over-again-new-biden-plan-could-ease-impact-on-asylum-seekers-asked-to-recount-their-trauma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>Like Living Through It All Over Again’: New Biden Plan Could Ease Impact on Asylum Seekers Asked to Recount Their Trauma\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899768 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood trees, smoke and a firefighter pointing his hose at a blazing fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Storey County Fire District crew battles the Caldor Fire off of Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe on Aug. 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is in a dangerous place. Scorching summers coupled with tinderbox dry forests render fire containment ineffective — especially when it’s hot, windy, or a combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Caldor Fire burned into the Tahoe Basin, it looked like this city, a center of gravity for culture in this part of the Sierra, could (and many thought, \u003cem>would\u003c/em>) burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did not, thanks to the 3,500 firefighters, a timely shift in the winds and years of fire preparations by a myriad of players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977037/wildfire-torched-the-sierra-all-summer-evading-containment-heres-how-tahoe-protected-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildfire Torched the Sierra All Summer, Evading Containment. Here’s How Tahoe Protected Itself\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899830 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a computer in the background of a home, while a man plays with two kids in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nazia Gabar arrived from Afghanistan and landed in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby. “At first it’s very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn’t have any money, and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had friends who had come earlier who helped them transition, and now they both do the same to help newly arrived Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘I Know Exactly What You Feel’: Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899769 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with glasses and a slight stands in the sunlight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardonia Galeana poses for a portrait at her home in San Jose on Oct. 7, 2021. During the 1990s, she ran an informal restaurant out of her apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In The Bay Area’s Great Immigrant Food City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of stories\u003c/a> exploring San Jose’s wonderfully diverse immigrant food scene, we meet Mardonia Galeana, also known as Abuela, through the eyes of her grandson, Yosimar Reyes. In the early 1990s, Abuela started an informal business selling home-cooked meals and offered them at a reduced price to the immigrant community in their neighborhood. Her clientele grew, and for several nights a week, men crowded into their apartment, sharing laughs and hardships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those men, the camaraderie of sitting around Abuela’s table helped make being in this country feel less lonely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904861/abuela-mexican-kitchen-undocumented-workers-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Abuela’s East San Jose Kitchen Fed Dozens of Undocumented Workers Every Week\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand in different brightly colored dresses and face paint against a backdrop of a mural in the Mission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Eveyln’s Whisper perform a tribute to Evelyn Hernandez during a community healing vigil and living ofrenda celebration on 24th and Capp streets in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2021, part of the neighborhood’s Día de Los Muertos festivities. The event honored the memory of womxn, QTPOC, and children lost to violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of residents filled the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco on the evening of November 2 to honor and celebrate the dead on Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalks of 24th Street, from Mission Street to Potrero Avenue, were packed with families, some holding candles, others wearing delicately crafted dresses, face paint, and hair arrangements made out of cempasúchil, or marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894929/to-also-celebrate-the-living-dia-de-los-muertos-returns-to-the-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘To Also Celebrate the Living’: Día de los Muertos Returns to the Mission\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899771 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A kid sits in a chair receiving a bandaid from a nurse while a woman holds his hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered Nurse Elia Moreno administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Fergus, 10, while his mother, Kyre Osburn, holds his hand at the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On November 2, kids aged 5-11 became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Families filled the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District, including Fergus, who wore a tuxedo shirt to celebrate the long-awaited day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Can I Get a Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids Age 5-11 Near Me?\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899772 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands with arms outstretched in a beautifully outfit lit by the window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesis Rosales dances with family at the 52nd Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 2021, during a visit to Alcatraz by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 marked 52 years since Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island to bring attention to past and ongoing injustices against Native peoples — and it’s a day that brought promises for more inclusion from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anniversary also was marked by a visit and speech from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary\u003c/a>. “The occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indigenous people in 1969 was more than a call for action. It was a cry for a sense of community and the life ways that were stolen from us,” she said. “We’re in a new era, an era in which we can embrace our identities as Indigenous people and be proud of how much we have accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897041/were-in-a-new-era-on-52nd-anniversary-of-alcatraz-occupation-biden-administration-commits-to-native-american-inclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We’re in a New Era’: On 52nd Anniversary of Alcatraz Occupation, Biden Administration Commits to Native American Inclusion\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If any of us hoped that 2021 would somehow be less eventful than the year that came before it, we didn’t get our wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic continued into its second full year, our Bay Area communities also grappled with a rise in hate crime against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, rose up against sexual harassment and assault in schools, and tried to mobilize to aid refugees from Afghanistan — all of which KQED photographer Beth LaBerge endeavored to capture in still images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling these stories requires words both written and spoken, yes, but sometimes photos have a unique ability to let people tell their own stories, to show you their own plights, and bring the audience face-to-face with an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, LaBerge has chosen the images she captured in 2021 that help do exactly that — that paint a portrait of a complex, challenging year, but also one with frequent moments of joy and community togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands in the foreground in a purple sweatshirt with the words \"Class of 21\" with trees and sky in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside of her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement emerged from within San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a former Lowell student, pictured here, said that movement helped the floodgates open for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram. “That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\"> School\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A girl with a mask in the bottom left of the frame flies a kite with the background of buildings in San Francisco \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Lee and Joao Lee Ramirez, 12, fly a kite on Portsmouth Square Bridge in San Francisco on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square in March to mourn the lives of eight people shot and killed in Atlanta, including six Asian women. Those at the rally also called for an end to anti-AAPI violence, which had risen throughout the pandemic. Organizers supplied markers for signs and kite-making kits for the community to express their grief and create joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,” said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865791/bay-area-vigils-remember-atlanta-shooting-victims-challenge-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Area Vigils Remember Atlanta Shooting Victims, Challenge White Supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image from above. A child sits in a red chair at a blue table with a book open at a computer. The reflection can be seen in a mirror in the bottom of the frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onyx attends school at home with his parents in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Ryan Austin, an artist-educator, said she’s been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their community, however, is not a monolith, Austin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this photo, Austin, helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. According to Austin, Onyx has thrived during distance learning because the family can actively engage in his learning. However, Austin is quick to point out that this is only possible due to the fact that both she and her husband, Michael, work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\">‘\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We’re Not a Monolith’: Some Black and Brown Parents in Oakland Feel Conflicted as In-Person Learning Returns\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870699\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11870699 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black sweatshirt and a mask places a candle at an altar above the words \"Justice 4 Mario G.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman places a candle at a memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>26-year-old Oakland Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody this year after what the Alameda Police Department termed a “scuffle” with officers in a small park near the city’s Park Street corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil in April in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in Gonzalez’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Need Justice’: Mourners Demand Alameda Police Provide Answers in Death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11875061 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a person against the blue-sky of sunrise.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Bell, a Vietnam veteran and a Cahto tribe member, stands in a circle during the Bloody Island Sunrise Ceremony near Upper Lake, California, on May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 170 years ago, the small island of Bonopoti in Lake County was still a haven for the people who had lived there for centuries: the Pomo. On May 15, 1850, a U.S Army regiment arrived on the island and killed every Pomo man, woman and child they could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From then on, Bonopoti became known as Bloody Island. And for two decades, the island has hosted a Sunrise Ceremony of Forgiveness every May: A space where people from different Indigenous tribes gather to honor those ancestors claimed in the massacre, and to look to the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Always Have Our Ancestors Within Us’: Scenes From Bloody Island’s Sunrise Ceremony\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl is hoisted onto a horse in front of a Black Panther Party mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister gives kids a chance to sit on top of his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, during a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In celebration of Juneteenth this year, The West Oakland Mural Project opened a small museum to highlight Black Panther Party history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the block party held to celebrate, Donnell McAlister gave kids a chance to sit on top of his horse, JJ, named after Jesse James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878694/this-is-american-history-oakland-mini-museum-on-the-black-panther-party-opens-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘This Is American History’: Oakland Mini Museum on the Black Panther Party Opens on Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899762 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful scene with a large banner in the foreground and many people in the background waving rainbow flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People’s March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021, during Pride weekend in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political, and more D.I.Y. this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899473/photos-lgbtq-pride-lights-up-the-bay-area-in-all-its-rainbow-glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ Pride Lights Up the Bay Area In All Its Rainbow Glory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Wooley, known as Chef Smelly, prepares garlic noodles at Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food pop-up on Broadway in Oakland on August 7, 2021. Garlic noodles are one of the most popular dishes at the pop-up. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steam rises off of a fresh batch of chef Edward Wooley’s garlic noodles at his Oakland restaurant, Smelly’s Creole and Soul Food. Here in the Bay Area, Asian Americans love garlic noodles. Black and Latino folks love garlic noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My business is soul fusion,” Wooley says. “I take my Black seasonings and style, and mix it with the Asian cuisine. It’s a blend of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900855/garlic-noodles-sf-bay-area-iconic-foods-thanh-long-smellys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Garlic Noodles Became one of the Bay Area’s Most Iconic Foods\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a tractor with the background of a field behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Borba and his son Joseph repair a broken irrigation line on their family-owned farm in Porterville, California, on August 10, 2021. Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. The lack of rain, over-pumping of aquifers, and the rising temperatures from climate change, which dry out the soil, have contributed to many farmers removing crops that they’ve grown for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As seen above, Chris Borba and his family have farmed in the Central Valley for several generations, but he worries that their farm might not survive if there is another year as dry as 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976510/central-valley-farmers-weigh-in-on-californias-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Valley Farmers Weigh in on California’s Historic Drought\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899766\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jatinderpal Singh sits at his home in Fresno on August 11, 2021. Singh is a former employee of the Foster Farms’ Cherry facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jatinderpal Singh, 71, a former line worker at Foster Farms’ Cherry plant, equated the loss of his cousin, Baljinder Dhillon, 65, a mechanic at the plant, to losing an arm. Dhillon tested positive for COVID-19 in December of 2020 during an outbreak at Foster Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My legs still shake,” Singh said in an interview on Aug. 11, speaking in Punjabi through an interpreter. “I still feel it, even today. Sometimes I feel weakness in my legs when I think about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892838/there-is-anger-he-should-be-alive-an-investigation-into-deadly-covid-19-outbreaks-at-foster-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>There Is Anger. He Should Be Alive.’ An Investigation Into Deadly COVID-19 Outbreaks at Foster Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez hold hands in their yard on Aug. 23, 2021. Along with their three children, the couple fled Mexico and are seeking asylum in the U.S. But their case has dragged on for six years in immigration court. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015 a man named Herrera fled to the U.S. with his family after he says he became the target of political violence in his hometown in central Mexico. When they reached the San Francisco Bay Area, he applied for asylum. But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,” said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. “But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886227/like-living-through-it-all-over-again-new-biden-plan-could-ease-impact-on-asylum-seekers-asked-to-recount-their-trauma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>‘\u003c/strong>Like Living Through It All Over Again’: New Biden Plan Could Ease Impact on Asylum Seekers Asked to Recount Their Trauma\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899768 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood trees, smoke and a firefighter pointing his hose at a blazing fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Storey County Fire District crew battles the Caldor Fire off of Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe on Aug. 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is in a dangerous place. Scorching summers coupled with tinderbox dry forests render fire containment ineffective — especially when it’s hot, windy, or a combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Caldor Fire burned into the Tahoe Basin, it looked like this city, a center of gravity for culture in this part of the Sierra, could (and many thought, \u003cem>would\u003c/em>) burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did not, thanks to the 3,500 firefighters, a timely shift in the winds and years of fire preparations by a myriad of players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977037/wildfire-torched-the-sierra-all-summer-evading-containment-heres-how-tahoe-protected-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildfire Torched the Sierra All Summer, Evading Containment. Here’s How Tahoe Protected Itself\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899830 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a computer in the background of a home, while a man plays with two kids in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nazia Gabar arrived from Afghanistan and landed in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby. “At first it’s very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn’t have any money, and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had friends who had come earlier who helped them transition, and now they both do the same to help newly arrived Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘I Know Exactly What You Feel’: Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899769 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with glasses and a slight stands in the sunlight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardonia Galeana poses for a portrait at her home in San Jose on Oct. 7, 2021. During the 1990s, she ran an informal restaurant out of her apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In The Bay Area’s Great Immigrant Food City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of stories\u003c/a> exploring San Jose’s wonderfully diverse immigrant food scene, we meet Mardonia Galeana, also known as Abuela, through the eyes of her grandson, Yosimar Reyes. In the early 1990s, Abuela started an informal business selling home-cooked meals and offered them at a reduced price to the immigrant community in their neighborhood. Her clientele grew, and for several nights a week, men crowded into their apartment, sharing laughs and hardships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those men, the camaraderie of sitting around Abuela’s table helped make being in this country feel less lonely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904861/abuela-mexican-kitchen-undocumented-workers-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Abuela’s East San Jose Kitchen Fed Dozens of Undocumented Workers Every Week\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand in different brightly colored dresses and face paint against a backdrop of a mural in the Mission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Eveyln’s Whisper perform a tribute to Evelyn Hernandez during a community healing vigil and living ofrenda celebration on 24th and Capp streets in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2021, part of the neighborhood’s Día de Los Muertos festivities. The event honored the memory of womxn, QTPOC, and children lost to violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of residents filled the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco on the evening of November 2 to honor and celebrate the dead on Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalks of 24th Street, from Mission Street to Potrero Avenue, were packed with families, some holding candles, others wearing delicately crafted dresses, face paint, and hair arrangements made out of cempasúchil, or marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894929/to-also-celebrate-the-living-dia-de-los-muertos-returns-to-the-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘To Also Celebrate the Living’: Día de los Muertos Returns to the Mission\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899771 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A kid sits in a chair receiving a bandaid from a nurse while a woman holds his hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered Nurse Elia Moreno administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Fergus, 10, while his mother, Kyre Osburn, holds his hand at the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On November 2, kids aged 5-11 became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Families filled the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco’s Mission District, including Fergus, who wore a tuxedo shirt to celebrate the long-awaited day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Can I Get a Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids Age 5-11 Near Me?\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899772 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands with arms outstretched in a beautifully outfit lit by the window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesis Rosales dances with family at the 52nd Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 2021, during a visit to Alcatraz by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 marked 52 years since Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island to bring attention to past and ongoing injustices against Native peoples — and it’s a day that brought promises for more inclusion from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anniversary also was marked by a visit and speech from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary\u003c/a>. “The occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indigenous people in 1969 was more than a call for action. It was a cry for a sense of community and the life ways that were stolen from us,” she said. “We’re in a new era, an era in which we can embrace our identities as Indigenous people and be proud of how much we have accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Death of Mario Gonzalez at Hands of Alameda Police Ruled a Homicide, But Linked to Substance Abuse and Health Issues",
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"content": "\u003cp>The death of Mario Gonzalez, a 26-year-old Oakland man who stopped breathing after Alameda police officers pinned him facedown on the ground, is being classified as a homicide by the Alameda County coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the autopsy report, released Friday, attributed Gonzalez’s cardiac arrest and death to several factors, identifying the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” as the leading cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stress of the altercation and restraint combined with prone positioning in the setting of morbid obesity and recent methamphetamine [use] placed further strain on Mr. Gonzalez’s heart,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/alameda-pio/gonzalez-mario-coroners-investigation.pdf\">according to the report\u003c/a>, signed by Chief Forensic Pathologist Vivian S. Snyder. “Therefore the cause of death is the toxic effects of methamphetamine, with the physiologic stress of altercation and restraint, morbid obesity, and alcoholism contributing to the process of dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 cuts and bruises were found on Gonzalez’s body, the report also stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Berry Wilkinson, the attorney representing the three officers involved, said the report underscored how intoxicated and in need of help Gonzalez was, and said her clients had responded appropriately given the condition he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Julia Sherwin, a civil rights attorney representing Gonzalez’s 5-year-old son, intends to\u003cb> \u003c/b>pursue a federal civil rights wrongful death suit against the officers, saying the amount of meth found in Gonzalez’s system was fairly minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a minor amount of recreational meth in his system that definitely would not have killed him,” she said, referring to the toxicology report. “The thing that killed him was asphyxiation. … When the officers forced him facedown in the dirt and put their weight on top of him, with his belly, it would have made it extremely difficult for him to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi — who joined the department several months after the incident occurred — extended condolences to Gonzalez’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know they are already suffering the severe trauma of losing a loved one,” he said in a statement. “The new information being released adds to that pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshi said the Alameda County District Attorney now had the responsibility of determining whether to pursue charges against the three officers and the one civilian employee involved in the incident; all have been placed on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we wait for the District Attorney’s office to make their decision and with the knowledge of the Coroner’s report, the City will work diligently towards completing its ongoing independent investigation and take appropriate action,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the report, citing the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-awaited autopsy report comes nearly eight months after the fatal encounter, captured on police body camera, that sparked fierce protests and drew comparisons to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">On the morning of April 19\u003c/a>, three Alameda police officers confronted Gonzalez in a small Alameda park in a residential neighborhood after responding to separate 911 calls. The first caller described a man “talking to himself” and “not making any sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]“He seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong, he’s just scaring my wife,” the caller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second caller reported the man lingering in the park on Oak and Powell streets and appearing to be trying to break store security tags off alcohol bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As captured in the nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBJnToNolHw\">hour-long bodycam video\u003c/a>, the incident began calmly, but after the three officers’ made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to obtain Gonzalez’s full name or ID, they grabbed him, never saying he was under arrest. When Gonzalez resisted being handcuffed, the officers took him to the ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They handcuffed him, holding him down with his hands behind his back as he continued to struggle for roughly five minutes, at which point he appeared to go limp and stopped breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the officers performed CPR and administered at least two doses of Narcan — given to counteract opiate overdoses — Gonzalez was rushed by paramedics to Alameda Hospital and pronounced dead at 11:45 a.m., according to the autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the release of the video in late April, a slew of social justice activists and policing experts were quick to lambaste the officers, accusing them of unnecessarily escalating a situation that did not appear to necessitate the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To us, the autopsy is pretty much consistent with what we believe, which is that Mario would still be here if not for the overaggressive, heavy-handed tactics of the police,” said Adante Pointer, an attorney representing Gonzalez’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer said attorneys for the officers likely will continue to home in on the other factors listed in the report that contributed to Gonzalez’s death in an effort to “wash their hands of what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the truth of the matter is all of those are preexisting conditions or habits that he had that if he had not interacted with the police, he would have lived through,” he said. “You still can’t run from the ultimate conclusion that this was a homicide and the police officers should be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer said he would continue to push for the officers’ termination, and pressure the district attorney to criminally prosecute them, while also pursuing a substantial financial settlement from the city “to compensate this family for the loss of their loved one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s mother is relieved that the autopsy acknowledges that “the officers killed her son and that he essentially didn’t do it to himself,” Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, in the holiday season, what she’d like more would be for her son to be coming to the door, spending the holidays with their family,” he added. “He’ll never do that. So, you know, this is kind of a hollow victory, if you will, but a victory nevertheless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Tara Siler contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Some of the boldest reform experiments underway in the wake of the national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism following \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/\">George Floyd’s murder\u003c/a> are pilot projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">in Denver, San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-street-response-team-mental-health-crises/283-ed2211d0-e73c-4d6b-82ec-91e94ad8c8ea\">Portland, Oregon\u003c/a>, and elsewhere. They’re confronting hard questions about what role, if any, police should play in responding to calls for persons in nonviolent mental health, drug, alcohol or homeless crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Vice Mayor and Councilmember\"]‘Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response.’[/pullquote]This fall, Oakland aims to join those cities when it launches a pilot project to funnel some nonviolent, noncriminal calls to new, mobile teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response,” says Rebecca Kaplan, the city’s vice mayor who has championed the nascent program called Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, or MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they are not trained to handle is a grave mistake cities keep repeating. “Those cases often go very badly and sometimes horrifically,” she says. “We have seen horrific deaths, killings by police throughout the nation when they’ve been called for matters that deal with mental health or homelessness or public intoxication — or any of these matters that are not a violent crime — and should be better handled by a non-police response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/overlooked-in-the-undercounted.pdf\">One study estimates\u003c/a> people with an untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during an encounter with police than other civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACRO is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">a wider effort by the Oakland City Council and Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/a> to rethink how law enforcement operates in a city where the police department has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Vice Mayor and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they aren’t trained for is a mistake cities keep repeating. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Oakland’s Unique Strategy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The pilot program will operate under the fire department, but the teams will be made up of civilians, not sworn firefighters. And in hiring, the program will place a greater emphasis on lived experience over formal education. It’s a unique Oakland take among urban police reform efforts underway. Most cities’ pilot street teams are sending out a trained and licensed clinical social worker or psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the community was crystal clear and has continued to be crystal clear that they do not want a licensed social worker as part of the street team,” says Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Melinda Drayton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Drayton, who’s spearheading the department’s efforts on MACRO, says the fire department aims to deliver what the community wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civilian teams will deescalate problems, check vitals and potentially get a person in crisis off the streets, she says, by connecting him or her to services anywhere in the city \u003cem>except\u003c/em> a jail, a psychiatric ward or a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be able to take them to city, private nonprofit community-based services, health care clinics. Maybe to their dad’s house,” Drayton says. “As simple as that. ‘Where are you going to feel safe for the night?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is for a civilian emergency medical technician to be paired with someone, for example, with first-hand knowledge of the mental health, criminal justice, homeless or drug treatment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people just need to be heard. Sometimes people just need a warm blanket. Sometimes people just need to sober up, you know?,” says Cat Brooks, co-founder of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>, who has worked on this issue for years. “I mean, sometimes, [people] need to be able to scream. Like, why is that such a big deal? Why does that scare us so much? Look at the world that we live in. I want to scream all the damn time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Police Terror Project Co-founder, Cat Brooks, speaks during a news conference outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks, a key advocate for MACRO, believes the best people to help are those with street knowledge of the systems that have failed them, what she calls “the medical-industrial complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that complex — doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers — stereotypes Black, brown and indigenous bodies. Criminalizes Black, brown and indigenous bodies just as much as law enforcement,” she says. “And so these models have to be more about the ideology and practice with which we respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Concerns About the Pilot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, some worry emphasizing ideology over formal training goes against the science and art of mental health care and could undermine the program’s effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers have a lot to offer as we re-imagine public safety, policing and seek to strengthen our crisis response capacity,” says Sarah Butts, director of public policy for the National Association of Social Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the group fully supports communities creating whatever model works best for them. And Butts agrees that peer counselors with life experience in these systems can and are often an important part of any front-line response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says extensive education and training do matter when addressing the often complex mix facing someone in a mental health or substance use crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers will have a skill set — problem-solving, relationship building, de-escalation — that really lends itself to this to this type of community problem solving,” Butts says. She notes nonpolice responders must accurately assess the situation quickly under often stressful conditions. “And then decide what is the most effective response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever model cities use, it’s important they collect and share data on what’s working and what’s not “so that we can learn from our experience and improve these systems,” Butts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, across the bay in San Francisco, the city’s new police-free Street Crisis Response Teams put a fire department paramedic with a trained clinical social worker and a peer counselor to help respond to some crisis calls for people who are homeless, intoxicated, having a mental health challenge, or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four teams now deployed in San Francisco’s pilot project are, so far, able to respond to only a small number of the overall behavioral crisis calls in that city. But it wants to scale up the program this summer when San Francisco Mayor London Breed hopes to add a companion program of unarmed “wellness” teams to work with the street teams to handle even lower-level calls. It’s part of the mayor’s wider \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-roadmap-new-police-reforms\">pledge to change policing\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Flashpoints with Police \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With startling repetition non-criminal crisis calls to police — often by a friend or loved one — continue to be flashpoints for violence and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11870691 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Examples include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/05/931643057/philadelphia-officials-promise-changes-after-walter-wallace-jr-shooting\">Walter Wallace in Philadelphia\u003c/a>, Daniel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/909086022/daniel-prudes-death-ruled-a-homicide-he-was-restrained-by-police\">Prude in Rochester\u003c/a> and in late April, Oakland resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/991844355/lawyer-says-police-didnt-need-to-arrest-man-who-died-after-being-pinned-to-groun\">Mario Gonzalez, who died in Alameda Police custody\u003c/a>. The 26-year-old was in a small park in Alameda when 911 callers expressed concerned Gonzalez was mumbling to himself and maybe high or drunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was talking to himself and what else was he doing?” the 911 dispatcher asks one caller in tapes released by Alameda police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s just hanging out,” the caller says, “I mean, he seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong. He’s just scaring my wife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two 911 calls make clear there’s no violence, imminent threat or any discernible criminal activity, save a couple bottles of booze with the security tags still attached, indicating they were probably stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda police soon arrive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Body cam footage\u003c/a> shows officers question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11871345 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48857_044_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez continues to resist, and the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez becomes motionless, the officers shout his first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, with Gonzalez’s hands still restrained behind his back. About a minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]Gonzalez leaves behind a grieving family including a 4-year-old son. He was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department officers involved are on paid leave while multiple agencies investigate. An autopsy is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy T. Williams Jr., a police tactics expert, says police need clearer guidelines around “positional asphyxia” — or detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/police/alameda-police-department-policy-manual-11022020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy manual\u003c/a> states that a suspect “shall not be placed on his/her stomach for an extended period, as this could reduce the person’s ability to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Williams says that guideline isn’t specific or directed enough. “Once he or she is handcuffed, they are to be immediately removed from the prone position, put on their side, and, if possible, sat up.” Otherwise, he says, “You leave everything to subjective interpretation: What may be short to you may be long to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no reason whatsoever to go hands-on with Mario,” says civil rights lawyer Julia Sherwin, who represents his family. She has formally asked the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the Alameda Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwin says Gonzalez was unarmed, holding only a comb. “He’s been combing his hair and he’s been loitering there for half an hour. Why this required a law enforcement response is beyond me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s instances like this that have led Oakland to its experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much Work Remains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf originally pushed to put MACRO under an area nonprofit. The city council rejected that idea. Despite ongoing political tussles with the council, Schaaf “wholeheartedly supports this and it is part of her budget proposal,” says her communications director Justin Berton. “We hope it will be up and running as soon as humanly possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big details in implementing the plan remain. The fire agency, already stretched thin, now has to hire, train and equip new teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, for their part, are largely staying quiet on the program for now and letting city hall, the Oakland City Council and fire department work it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And police will still, at first, handle all 5150 calls — that’s the code that allows police to involuntarily confine someone exhibiting behavior that’s “the result of a mental disorder,” and who appears to be endangering him or herself or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big unanswered question is what percentage of the nearly quarter-million annual 911 police calls in Oakland will eventually be transferred to the new unarmed, police-free teams. One city councilwoman says the goal is 20% of nonviolent 911 calls within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Fire Chief Drayton says, at first, the percentage will be far smaller. The aim is to grow over time but start small: one team working a swing shift five days a week going after the relatively low-hanging fruit of noise disturbances, welfare checks, loitering and such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city’s 911 dispatchers will very likely need additional training. The program will put enormous pressure on those dispatchers who will, at first anyway, have to decide which calls to funnel to MACRO or to police for a more traditional response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project\"]‘Broad swaths of Black and brown people will not call the police ever for any reason…Why? Because our lived experience is police do not make it better when they show up.’[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nBut activist Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project says using the traditional 911 system at all for these new teams is a big mistake. She has helped set up a separate non-police, non-city run mental health response program that operates on weekend nights \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\">called MH First Oakland\u003c/a> that uses a separate phone number, not 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broad swaths of Black and brown people will not call the police ever for any reason. Someone could be being shot in broad daylight in front of their house, and they are not dialing 911. Why? Because our lived experience is police do not make it better when they show up,” says Brooks. “Things almost always are worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those big concerns, Brooks remains cautiously hopeful the new effort will mean real change for a city and police department that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can just get out of the Oakland bureaucracy, red tape, ego and drama,” Brooks says with a smile, “I think there’s an opportunity for us to build something really powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Matthew Green.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Oakland+Becomes+Latest+City+Looking+To+Take+Police+Out+Of+Some+Nonviolent+911+Calls&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This fall, Oakland aims to join those cities when it launches a pilot project to funnel some nonviolent, noncriminal calls to new, mobile teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response,” says Rebecca Kaplan, the city’s vice mayor who has championed the nascent program called Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, or MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they are not trained to handle is a grave mistake cities keep repeating. “Those cases often go very badly and sometimes horrifically,” she says. “We have seen horrific deaths, killings by police throughout the nation when they’ve been called for matters that deal with mental health or homelessness or public intoxication — or any of these matters that are not a violent crime — and should be better handled by a non-police response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/overlooked-in-the-undercounted.pdf\">One study estimates\u003c/a> people with an untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during an encounter with police than other civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACRO is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">a wider effort by the Oakland City Council and Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/a> to rethink how law enforcement operates in a city where the police department has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Vice Mayor and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they aren’t trained for is a mistake cities keep repeating. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Oakland’s Unique Strategy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The pilot program will operate under the fire department, but the teams will be made up of civilians, not sworn firefighters. And in hiring, the program will place a greater emphasis on lived experience over formal education. It’s a unique Oakland take among urban police reform efforts underway. Most cities’ pilot street teams are sending out a trained and licensed clinical social worker or psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the community was crystal clear and has continued to be crystal clear that they do not want a licensed social worker as part of the street team,” says Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Melinda Drayton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Drayton, who’s spearheading the department’s efforts on MACRO, says the fire department aims to deliver what the community wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civilian teams will deescalate problems, check vitals and potentially get a person in crisis off the streets, she says, by connecting him or her to services anywhere in the city \u003cem>except\u003c/em> a jail, a psychiatric ward or a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be able to take them to city, private nonprofit community-based services, health care clinics. Maybe to their dad’s house,” Drayton says. “As simple as that. ‘Where are you going to feel safe for the night?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is for a civilian emergency medical technician to be paired with someone, for example, with first-hand knowledge of the mental health, criminal justice, homeless or drug treatment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people just need to be heard. Sometimes people just need a warm blanket. Sometimes people just need to sober up, you know?,” says Cat Brooks, co-founder of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>, who has worked on this issue for years. “I mean, sometimes, [people] need to be able to scream. Like, why is that such a big deal? Why does that scare us so much? Look at the world that we live in. I want to scream all the damn time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Police Terror Project Co-founder, Cat Brooks, speaks during a news conference outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks, a key advocate for MACRO, believes the best people to help are those with street knowledge of the systems that have failed them, what she calls “the medical-industrial complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that complex — doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers — stereotypes Black, brown and indigenous bodies. Criminalizes Black, brown and indigenous bodies just as much as law enforcement,” she says. “And so these models have to be more about the ideology and practice with which we respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Concerns About the Pilot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, some worry emphasizing ideology over formal training goes against the science and art of mental health care and could undermine the program’s effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers have a lot to offer as we re-imagine public safety, policing and seek to strengthen our crisis response capacity,” says Sarah Butts, director of public policy for the National Association of Social Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the group fully supports communities creating whatever model works best for them. And Butts agrees that peer counselors with life experience in these systems can and are often an important part of any front-line response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says extensive education and training do matter when addressing the often complex mix facing someone in a mental health or substance use crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers will have a skill set — problem-solving, relationship building, de-escalation — that really lends itself to this to this type of community problem solving,” Butts says. She notes nonpolice responders must accurately assess the situation quickly under often stressful conditions. “And then decide what is the most effective response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever model cities use, it’s important they collect and share data on what’s working and what’s not “so that we can learn from our experience and improve these systems,” Butts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, across the bay in San Francisco, the city’s new police-free Street Crisis Response Teams put a fire department paramedic with a trained clinical social worker and a peer counselor to help respond to some crisis calls for people who are homeless, intoxicated, having a mental health challenge, or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four teams now deployed in San Francisco’s pilot project are, so far, able to respond to only a small number of the overall behavioral crisis calls in that city. But it wants to scale up the program this summer when San Francisco Mayor London Breed hopes to add a companion program of unarmed “wellness” teams to work with the street teams to handle even lower-level calls. It’s part of the mayor’s wider \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-roadmap-new-police-reforms\">pledge to change policing\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Flashpoints with Police \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With startling repetition non-criminal crisis calls to police — often by a friend or loved one — continue to be flashpoints for violence and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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