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He was also sentenced to two additional one-year terms for using a deadly weapon in the attack and ordered to pay a total of $10,000 in restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cowell addressed the court only briefly, to ask Hymer whether his public defender, Christina Moore, would be able to file an appeal within the state's 60-day time limit. 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"content": "\u003cp>The 27-year-old man accused of murder and attempted murder for allegedly stabbing two women at the MacArthur BART Station last month could face the death penalty under a special circumstance allegation recently added to the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell was scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday morning to charges that he murdered 18-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nia-wilson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nia Wilson\u003c/a> and attempted to murder her sister on the BART station platform on the evening of July 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687502/attorney-says-bart-murder-suspect-menaced-riders-twice-in-days-before-nia-wilson-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">Attorney Says BART Murder Suspect Menaced Riders Twice in Days Before Nia Wilson Attack\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11687502/attorney-says-bart-murder-suspect-menaced-riders-twice-in-days-before-nia-wilson-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/27523684607_75ad9c4d83_k-1180x771.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But his attorney, Deputy Public Defender Christina Moore, told the court she was still waiting for prosecutors to turn over evidence in the case, including any proof that Cowell killed Wilson by “lying in wait,” a legal term generally meaning he concealed his intentions, waited for an opportunity to act or took his target by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors amended the charges against Cowell in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4780526-Cowell1stAmendedComplaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court filing\u003c/a> Friday to include the lying-in-wait allegation, which enhances a possible sentence to include life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty, if prosecutors pursue capital punishment at a later stage in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office provided the latest filing but did not respond to questions about the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods said Wednesday that prosecutors had presented no evidence to support the new allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m deeply concerned that they’re now seeking death, possibly, against someone who’s got severe, severe mental illness,” Woods said, declining to answer whether Cowell’s mental state or history of mental illness would affect his plea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Wilson’s family and black community leaders in Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684939/nia-wilsons-purpose-oakland-buries-a-daughter-and-demands-justice-in-her-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have called\u003c/a> on prosecutors to charge Cowell, who is white, with a hate crime. 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That allegation carries the same potential sentence enhancement as lying in wait — life without parole or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods, however, said there is no evidence that Cowell was motivated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, there’s been a narrative that’s been put out there that this crime is based on race, and that’s just not the case,” Woods said, adding that Cowell had a clear history of seeking treatment for severe mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods declined to elaborate on what, if any, diagnoses Cowell had received during treatment, which included a stay at Atascadero State Hospital about 2½ months before Wilson’s death and repeated admissions to a psychiatric hospital in the East Bay since his release from the facility in San Luis Obispo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He also, 30 days before this incident, sought mental health treatment on multiple, I mean multiple, occasions,” Woods said. “He has a severe mental illness, and that’s why we’re here today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-and-research/learn-more-about/3633-risk-factors-for-violence-in-serious-mental-illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchers have found\u003c/a> no \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525086/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant correlation\u003c/a> between severe mental illness and the commission of violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacArthur BART Station surveillance video footage captured Cowell approaching Wilson and her sister from behind, stabbing them and then running off, according to a statement of probable cause filed in the case. 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Those three deaths were followed last week by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684907/police-search-for-man-accused-of-stabbing-two-people-on-bart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an incident\u003c/a> in which a passenger allegedly slashed two other riders with a box cutter, also at MacArthur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s 12-point proposal included a range of immediate, short-term actions such as canceling regular days off for BART police officers and encouraging more use of the BART Watch app, which patrons can use to report crimes. Those are steps the district can take without a board vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also included measures that need substantial funding — the package’s price tag is estimated at $28 million — and thus require board approval. Those longer-term investments include upgrading the system’s extensive network of surveillance cameras and implementing a system that would allow real-time monitoring and response to the network’s planned 5,000-plus cameras. The package also include an anti-panhandling ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually every one of the proposals was the subject of some form of criticism from the large crowd that showed up to comment during Thursday’s board meeting in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alarm About Surveillance Proposal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many took aim at comments earlier this week by board member Nick Josefowitz, who suggested earlier this week that facial recognition technology could be used in conjunction with BART’s camera network to identify people “who have a warrant out for their arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board should explicitly reject the suggestion from at least one board member to add face surveillance to the BART system,” Mike Chase, a member of the American Civil Liberties Northern California board of directors, said. “This technology is biased, dangerous — it has no place on the BART system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chase and others also took BART to task for releasing a major surveillance proposal while providing no details about how it would work. Critics also pointed out that BART has been working with privacy groups for nearly two years to develop a policy that would govern issues like surveillance and customer data — a process that that’s nearly complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t greenlight $30 million in taxpayer funds based on two paragraphs of text,” Brian Hofer, chair of the city of Oakland’s Privacy Commission. “… We have a surveillance ordinance that’s almost ready … and it’s designed exactly as the vetting mechanism for such a proposal as is here before you today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers accused BART of using Wilson’s murder on July 22 as an excuse for imposing policies that they say will may be turned against the poor and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Burch, policy director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>, said the board had not acted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651646/family-protesters-want-bart-officer-in-fatal-shooting-taken-off-duty-and-prosecuted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demands to fire a BART police officer\u003c/a> who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651433/bart-releases-body-cam-video-of-fatal-west-oakland-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot and killed Sahleem Tindle\u003c/a>, 23, outside the West Oakland station in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Burch said, “I do see you taking advantage of an opportunity to pass through surveillance measures that further criminalize who are trying to ride the BART.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some audience members — and some members of the BART board — said the security plan failed to consider rider, employee and community input and how groups around the region might contribute to making the system safer to ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Why Don’t We Ask?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t we ask people?” Dufty asked. “… Why don’t we ask what we should be doing instead of always trying to bake the cake and present it? I think that’s a mistake on our part. … We are at a stage right now where we need to sit down with our riders and the public so that things (like elements of the security proposal) are not a surprise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Contra Costa County board member Joel Keller said he felt the meeting was not hearing the perspective of the many riders he said had contacted him about their fears of riding BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have heard half the story here today, and only half the story,” Keller said. “… If we act on anything today, we only act with half of the information. We haven’t heard from the frightened riders who are reluctant to use our system, and I think we should hear from them and make a balanced decision about what we’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board agreed to Keller’s suggestion to schedule an evening public hearing in a suburban location — perhaps in central Contra Costa County or in the Dublin-Pleasanton area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, who has served on the committee developing the district’s privacy and surveillance policy, also expressed frustration that the guidelines are not yet in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are two years later, and we’re not able to use technology because we haven’t been able to finalize that policy,” Keller said. “Let’s bring the damn policy to the board and have a vote on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board informally agreed to try to act on the policy within the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a protracted, bewildering round of voting on the safety and security proposal itself — members expressed confusion about what motions they were voting on even as the cast their yeas and nays — the board:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Postponed action\u003c/strong> on four items: the purchase and installation of technology that would enable systemwide surveillance; video screens to show patrons real-time surveillance images; the anti-panhandling ordinance; and acceleration of a program to install physical barriers to make it harder to enter the system without paying.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Approved two items\u003c/strong>: to explore the purchase of new digital security cameras and emergency call boxes on station platforms.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The board also unanimously agreed to a motion from Josefowitz directing BART management to come up with a plan to for the district to “engage with” community organizations, social service and health agencies, police departments and elected officials “to have a more wholistic response” to safety concerns and other issues, such as homelessness, that afflict the transit system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council — the regional business group that helped found BART more than half a century ago — criticized the board for failing to act on most of the safety package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Wunderman called for responding to the recent BART crime with a “shock and awe show of force” involving a mutual-aid response from Bay Area police departments. He said reassuring the public the system is safe is needed to keep riders from abandoning BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Thursday’s meeting, Wunderman criticized the board for failing to move “swiftly and aggressively to adopt the full slate of strong measures for restoring confidence in the system. “The board’s decision is a disservice to the more than 420,000 BART riders who rely on the system daily and presents an open invitation to criminals and others who flagrantly ignore system rules and regulations to continue to act with impunity.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Critics also pointed out that BART has been working with privacy groups for nearly two years to develop a policy that would govern issues like surveillance and customer data — a process that that’s nearly complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t greenlight $30 million in taxpayer funds based on two paragraphs of text,” Brian Hofer, chair of the city of Oakland’s Privacy Commission. “… We have a surveillance ordinance that’s almost ready … and it’s designed exactly as the vetting mechanism for such a proposal as is here before you today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers accused BART of using Wilson’s murder on July 22 as an excuse for imposing policies that they say will may be turned against the poor and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Burch, policy director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>, said the board had not acted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651646/family-protesters-want-bart-officer-in-fatal-shooting-taken-off-duty-and-prosecuted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demands to fire a BART police officer\u003c/a> who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651433/bart-releases-body-cam-video-of-fatal-west-oakland-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot and killed Sahleem Tindle\u003c/a>, 23, outside the West Oakland station in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Burch said, “I do see you taking advantage of an opportunity to pass through surveillance measures that further criminalize who are trying to ride the BART.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some audience members — and some members of the BART board — said the security plan failed to consider rider, employee and community input and how groups around the region might contribute to making the system safer to ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Why Don’t We Ask?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t we ask people?” Dufty asked. “… Why don’t we ask what we should be doing instead of always trying to bake the cake and present it? 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"content": "\u003cp>The mourners wore white from head to toe as they filed into church for Nia Wilson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/\">homegoing\u003c/a>, the funeral tradition for many in the African-American community. The backs of immaculate white jackets, white dresses and even jeans became a perfect canvas on which were painted pictures of Nia Wilson’s beautiful 18-year-old face, surrounded by angel wings and words like “Black Queens Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Aug. 3, the young woman who was brutally stabbed, allegedly by a white man less than two weeks earlier at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland, was being sent home by family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia, people said again and again, means “purpose” in Swahili. That her young life was full of possibility and purpose seemed clear. She wanted to be a paramedic, her family said, even getting CPR-certified after she saved one of her aunts from choking to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNia’s love, the love she gives without no expression.'\u003ccite>A poem written by Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a slideshow of photos of Nia Wilson that streamed while Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” played from loudspeakers, you could see the purpose in her face, beautiful and young, looking at the camera, her eyes full of life, pouting her lips a little bit, capturing her best angle. A familiar pose repeats itself in these pictures, her hip cocked to one side, confident, proud, a girl on the cusp of being a woman, a daughter of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was evident, sitting in the vast room of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland, was how deeply this young woman was loved by her large and close-knit family and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of her family came up to the pulpit, they read poems and told stories about Nia through a curtain of grief. She was everyone's favorite cousin, everyone's favorite aunt, just everyone's favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think about your big smile and your loving ways,” said Aji Lewis, Nia’s oldest niece, still a little girl. “Titi Nia, I was told not to question God, but since you’ve been gone, I’ve been so confused,” the girl said between tears. “Can you promise to come visit me in my dreams?” she asked, before breaking down sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s cousin, Lauren Williams, described Nia as more like an older sister. The last time Williams was at a funeral, Nia was by her side comforting her. Now she was having to confront the loss of the person she wanted to turn to most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebony Monroe, Nia’s older cousin, also said they were more like sisters. The two “had a special bond.” Both women loved to do makeup, and she had made Nia up for her birthday and for prom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just waiting for her to turn 21,” Monroe said. “And we was gonna go out.” Her voice broke while the crowd found a moment of bittersweet laughter. “We had plans,” she said. They had their whole lives ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris, read a poem she had written called \"Nia’s Love,\" while trying to hold back from crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question, Nia’s love, the love she gives without no expression, Nia’s love, the love she gives when you need that feeling of protection,” Harris read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11685025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of a poem, written and read by Malika Harris, at the funeral of her sister, Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, my Nia’s love, so honest and true, baby girl shine bright, and I promise we will get justice for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Nia was named \"Purpose\" at birth, her homegoing made it clear that for family and loved ones, there was purpose in her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed are those of us that find their purpose in life. All of us have now found our purpose,” said Ansar El Muhammad in his eulogy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interfaith. Nia’s father is Muslim, and in addition to family and local and national politicians such as Oakland City Council members and congresswoman Barbara Lee, ministers from both the Nation of Islam and Christian clergy spoke. They were united in their love for Nia and for her family, and in their anger over her savage killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell, a 27-year-old parolee and transient, whose family has said he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Police-arrest-suspect-in-Oakland-train-station-13099383.php\">mentally ill and estranged from them\u003c/a>, is accused of the murder of Nia Wilson and the attempted murder of her sister, Lahtifa Wilson. BART police have said that there is little doubt as to his guilt, as surveillance footage captured the July 22 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police described the murder as a prison-style attack, with Lee allegedly coming up from behind Nia Wilson and slitting her throat, then stabbing her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took around 24 hours for BART police to arrest Cowell, and when they did, the arrest was nonviolent, something many in the community feel might not have happened had he not been white.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'The vengeance that comes from God,\u003c/strong> if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation.'\u003ccite>Minister Keith Muhammad\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pastor and minister alike aired their gut-wrenching anger over Nia’s murder. No one said John Lee Cowell’s name, but he was there in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was mad, and I wanted them to find him, but I was hoping the homies find him first,” Bishop Keith Clark told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anger was echoed by Minister Keith Muhammad: “Pastor said he felt that if law enforcement did not find this man, that he wouldn’t have felt badly if the hood caught up to him. I approve this message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vengeance that comes from God, if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation,” he added, calling on the community to hold politicians' and law enforcement's feet to the fire to get justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many present, there were ghosts in the room, too. Ghosts that haunt Oakland’s black community, reminding them that they’ve felt too often that justice has been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, killed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009, hung in the room. The unarmed Grant was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0d6Q4RVno\">shot in the back\u003c/a> while restrained and lying face-down at Fruitvale Station. The BART police officer said he mistook his gun for his taser. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not guilty on charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He served 11 months in a private jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the death of Oscar Grant or the slaying of Nia Wilson, connected to each other in the same way the BART tracks link station to station, that tinged the emotional service. It was also the echo of too many young black people, especially women, gone too soon. The Say Her Name hashtag and movement has become associated with Nia Wilson. Signs posted on the front windows of the entry to the church read: “Say her name” and “She is not a hashtag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the front of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland for the funeral of Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the service, speakers called out for the room to \"say her name!\" The room roared back “Nia Wilson,” the sound filling the worship hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/\">Say Her Name\u003c/a> began as a response to a disproportionate lack of media attention given to the deaths of black women, especially in interactions with law enforcement. It blew up after Black Lives Matter became a national rallying cry that often focused on the killings of black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media have been criticized for their response to Nia Wilson’s death. Local Fox affiliate KTVU showed a picture of her the day after her death holding a cellphone case that looked like a gun. “As if she was a gang member,” said Nina Knox, who grew up with Nia’s mother. “As if it should be swept under the carpet, as if you know, other people that’s not in the urban areas see such a picture, and say, 'Oh, that was just an old black gangbanger from Oakland and we don’t want to send our support there.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point out that choosing images like that reframe the story, making it seem like she was responsible for her own murder, painting an innocent victim as a villain because of the color of her skin, making it easier for people not to care. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-ktvu-over-use-of-inappropriate-nia-wilson-photo\">KTVU has apologized for its editorial choice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nia Wilson and the War on Black Women\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A headline from \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/BART-killing-Divergent-paths-met-tragically-on-13113688.php\">a San Francisco Chronicle story\u003c/a> about Nia Wilson’s murder said: “Divergent paths met tragically on Oakland platform.” That framing of the narrative threatens to erase Nia's death as the focal point, critics say, and puts her killer on the same level as her, as part of a tragic story rather than the prime mover of that tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nia’s name means purpose, Bishop Keith Clark said again, at the crescendo of his sermon. “That scoundrel of a human being, who snatched our sister’s life, what you meant for evil, God’s gonna work it for our good. 'Cause racism, we come to tell you something,” he called out, the crowd on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners stand at Nia Wilson's funeral. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell has not been charged with a hate crime, but for Nia Wilson's family and the black community in Oakland, there is no doubt that her death is about race. The district attorney's office and investigating officers say they have found no direct links to white supremacist organizations in Cowell’s past, but for many that does not mean it did not happen in the context of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the district attorney, the mayor, and all of those in government, can I be very clear about a piece of history that you and I are very clear about?” Minister Keith Muhammad asked the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we waited for the slave master to say why he enslaved us, he would never admit to hatred. But we’ve got hundreds of years of slavery, suffering, and death,\" said Minister Muhammad. \"Look at how high the bar has been set before a hate crime can be convicted in America, and in the state of California. They have made convicting a hate crime an impossible dream,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Keith Clark spoke directly to the current administration, while not calling out the president by name, hinting at the fact that President Trump has been uniformly silent about Nia Wilson’s murder. This in contrast to how a similar case played out: that of a young woman, Kathryn Steinle, also killed in a seemingly random attack in a public place in a violent and tragic way. When Steinle was fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in July 2015, then-\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-kate-steinle-analysis-20171202-story.html\">candidate Trump used her death as a political rallying cry\u003c/a>. Kathryn Steinle was a white woman, killed by a gun fired by a homeless undocumented immigrant who had been incarcerated for low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Purpose, purpose \u003c/strong>has brought us together today.'\u003ccite>Bishop Bob Jackson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson was a black woman, and the suspect in her killing is a homeless white man who was on parole and had been incarcerated for violent crimes in the past. A jury found that Steinle’s death had been an accident, but there is little doubt that the murder of Nia Wilson was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the family and the community, the difference between these cases is not just that the killing of Nia Wilson was far more brutal and deliberate. It was that she was black, and her attacker white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration done messed up now,” Bishop Clark said. “Because you let us get together, Muslims and Christians, you done messed up now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the over three-hour service, Bishop Bob Jackson, who leads Acts Full Gospel Church, came forward to speak the final words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know her but I love her,” Bishop Jackson said. “I didn’t know her, but I feel she’s a part of me. And I’m praying she became a part of all of us. Because if anybody is going to unite us, it’s going to be Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purpose, purpose has brought us together today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an open casket, as is traditional at African-American homegoing celebrations, and a viewing of Nia Wilson's body. The family sat in the front row, resplendent in all white, as over 100 people lined up to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coffin was covered in a translucent veil, a shroud. The body of Nia Wilson lay there, her makeup perfectly done, as it often was in life, her hair regal, her face silent and composed. Her eyes were closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those who came to say goodbye, she looked like a queen.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The mourners wore white from head to toe as they filed into church for Nia Wilson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/\">homegoing\u003c/a>, the funeral tradition for many in the African-American community. The backs of immaculate white jackets, white dresses and even jeans became a perfect canvas on which were painted pictures of Nia Wilson’s beautiful 18-year-old face, surrounded by angel wings and words like “Black Queens Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Aug. 3, the young woman who was brutally stabbed, allegedly by a white man less than two weeks earlier at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland, was being sent home by family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia, people said again and again, means “purpose” in Swahili. That her young life was full of possibility and purpose seemed clear. She wanted to be a paramedic, her family said, even getting CPR-certified after she saved one of her aunts from choking to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNia’s love, the love she gives without no expression.'\u003ccite>A poem written by Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a slideshow of photos of Nia Wilson that streamed while Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” played from loudspeakers, you could see the purpose in her face, beautiful and young, looking at the camera, her eyes full of life, pouting her lips a little bit, capturing her best angle. A familiar pose repeats itself in these pictures, her hip cocked to one side, confident, proud, a girl on the cusp of being a woman, a daughter of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was evident, sitting in the vast room of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland, was how deeply this young woman was loved by her large and close-knit family and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of her family came up to the pulpit, they read poems and told stories about Nia through a curtain of grief. She was everyone's favorite cousin, everyone's favorite aunt, just everyone's favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think about your big smile and your loving ways,” said Aji Lewis, Nia’s oldest niece, still a little girl. “Titi Nia, I was told not to question God, but since you’ve been gone, I’ve been so confused,” the girl said between tears. “Can you promise to come visit me in my dreams?” she asked, before breaking down sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s cousin, Lauren Williams, described Nia as more like an older sister. The last time Williams was at a funeral, Nia was by her side comforting her. Now she was having to confront the loss of the person she wanted to turn to most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebony Monroe, Nia’s older cousin, also said they were more like sisters. The two “had a special bond.” Both women loved to do makeup, and she had made Nia up for her birthday and for prom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just waiting for her to turn 21,” Monroe said. “And we was gonna go out.” Her voice broke while the crowd found a moment of bittersweet laughter. “We had plans,” she said. They had their whole lives ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris, read a poem she had written called \"Nia’s Love,\" while trying to hold back from crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question, Nia’s love, the love she gives without no expression, Nia’s love, the love she gives when you need that feeling of protection,” Harris read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11685025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of a poem, written and read by Malika Harris, at the funeral of her sister, Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, my Nia’s love, so honest and true, baby girl shine bright, and I promise we will get justice for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Nia was named \"Purpose\" at birth, her homegoing made it clear that for family and loved ones, there was purpose in her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed are those of us that find their purpose in life. All of us have now found our purpose,” said Ansar El Muhammad in his eulogy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interfaith. Nia’s father is Muslim, and in addition to family and local and national politicians such as Oakland City Council members and congresswoman Barbara Lee, ministers from both the Nation of Islam and Christian clergy spoke. They were united in their love for Nia and for her family, and in their anger over her savage killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell, a 27-year-old parolee and transient, whose family has said he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Police-arrest-suspect-in-Oakland-train-station-13099383.php\">mentally ill and estranged from them\u003c/a>, is accused of the murder of Nia Wilson and the attempted murder of her sister, Lahtifa Wilson. BART police have said that there is little doubt as to his guilt, as surveillance footage captured the July 22 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police described the murder as a prison-style attack, with Lee allegedly coming up from behind Nia Wilson and slitting her throat, then stabbing her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took around 24 hours for BART police to arrest Cowell, and when they did, the arrest was nonviolent, something many in the community feel might not have happened had he not been white.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'The vengeance that comes from God,\u003c/strong> if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation.'\u003ccite>Minister Keith Muhammad\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pastor and minister alike aired their gut-wrenching anger over Nia’s murder. No one said John Lee Cowell’s name, but he was there in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was mad, and I wanted them to find him, but I was hoping the homies find him first,” Bishop Keith Clark told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anger was echoed by Minister Keith Muhammad: “Pastor said he felt that if law enforcement did not find this man, that he wouldn’t have felt badly if the hood caught up to him. I approve this message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vengeance that comes from God, if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation,” he added, calling on the community to hold politicians' and law enforcement's feet to the fire to get justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many present, there were ghosts in the room, too. Ghosts that haunt Oakland’s black community, reminding them that they’ve felt too often that justice has been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, killed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009, hung in the room. The unarmed Grant was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0d6Q4RVno\">shot in the back\u003c/a> while restrained and lying face-down at Fruitvale Station. The BART police officer said he mistook his gun for his taser. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not guilty on charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He served 11 months in a private jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the death of Oscar Grant or the slaying of Nia Wilson, connected to each other in the same way the BART tracks link station to station, that tinged the emotional service. It was also the echo of too many young black people, especially women, gone too soon. The Say Her Name hashtag and movement has become associated with Nia Wilson. Signs posted on the front windows of the entry to the church read: “Say her name” and “She is not a hashtag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the front of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland for the funeral of Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the service, speakers called out for the room to \"say her name!\" The room roared back “Nia Wilson,” the sound filling the worship hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/\">Say Her Name\u003c/a> began as a response to a disproportionate lack of media attention given to the deaths of black women, especially in interactions with law enforcement. It blew up after Black Lives Matter became a national rallying cry that often focused on the killings of black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media have been criticized for their response to Nia Wilson’s death. Local Fox affiliate KTVU showed a picture of her the day after her death holding a cellphone case that looked like a gun. “As if she was a gang member,” said Nina Knox, who grew up with Nia’s mother. “As if it should be swept under the carpet, as if you know, other people that’s not in the urban areas see such a picture, and say, 'Oh, that was just an old black gangbanger from Oakland and we don’t want to send our support there.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point out that choosing images like that reframe the story, making it seem like she was responsible for her own murder, painting an innocent victim as a villain because of the color of her skin, making it easier for people not to care. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-ktvu-over-use-of-inappropriate-nia-wilson-photo\">KTVU has apologized for its editorial choice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nia Wilson and the War on Black Women\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A headline from \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/BART-killing-Divergent-paths-met-tragically-on-13113688.php\">a San Francisco Chronicle story\u003c/a> about Nia Wilson’s murder said: “Divergent paths met tragically on Oakland platform.” That framing of the narrative threatens to erase Nia's death as the focal point, critics say, and puts her killer on the same level as her, as part of a tragic story rather than the prime mover of that tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nia’s name means purpose, Bishop Keith Clark said again, at the crescendo of his sermon. “That scoundrel of a human being, who snatched our sister’s life, what you meant for evil, God’s gonna work it for our good. 'Cause racism, we come to tell you something,” he called out, the crowd on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners stand at Nia Wilson's funeral. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell has not been charged with a hate crime, but for Nia Wilson's family and the black community in Oakland, there is no doubt that her death is about race. The district attorney's office and investigating officers say they have found no direct links to white supremacist organizations in Cowell’s past, but for many that does not mean it did not happen in the context of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the district attorney, the mayor, and all of those in government, can I be very clear about a piece of history that you and I are very clear about?” Minister Keith Muhammad asked the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we waited for the slave master to say why he enslaved us, he would never admit to hatred. But we’ve got hundreds of years of slavery, suffering, and death,\" said Minister Muhammad. \"Look at how high the bar has been set before a hate crime can be convicted in America, and in the state of California. They have made convicting a hate crime an impossible dream,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Keith Clark spoke directly to the current administration, while not calling out the president by name, hinting at the fact that President Trump has been uniformly silent about Nia Wilson’s murder. This in contrast to how a similar case played out: that of a young woman, Kathryn Steinle, also killed in a seemingly random attack in a public place in a violent and tragic way. When Steinle was fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in July 2015, then-\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-kate-steinle-analysis-20171202-story.html\">candidate Trump used her death as a political rallying cry\u003c/a>. Kathryn Steinle was a white woman, killed by a gun fired by a homeless undocumented immigrant who had been incarcerated for low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Purpose, purpose \u003c/strong>has brought us together today.'\u003ccite>Bishop Bob Jackson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson was a black woman, and the suspect in her killing is a homeless white man who was on parole and had been incarcerated for violent crimes in the past. A jury found that Steinle’s death had been an accident, but there is little doubt that the murder of Nia Wilson was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the family and the community, the difference between these cases is not just that the killing of Nia Wilson was far more brutal and deliberate. It was that she was black, and her attacker white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration done messed up now,” Bishop Clark said. “Because you let us get together, Muslims and Christians, you done messed up now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the over three-hour service, Bishop Bob Jackson, who leads Acts Full Gospel Church, came forward to speak the final words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know her but I love her,” Bishop Jackson said. “I didn’t know her, but I feel she’s a part of me. And I’m praying she became a part of all of us. Because if anybody is going to unite us, it’s going to be Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purpose, purpose has brought us together today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an open casket, as is traditional at African-American homegoing celebrations, and a viewing of Nia Wilson's body. The family sat in the front row, resplendent in all white, as over 100 people lined up to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coffin was covered in a translucent veil, a shroud. The body of Nia Wilson lay there, her makeup perfectly done, as it often was in life, her hair regal, her face silent and composed. Her eyes were closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The board and the public will get a chance to discuss that” at Thursday’s regular meeting of district directors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very glad the general manager heard the board, that we wanted to come out with something in response to the horrible violence we’ve seen in the last two weeks,” Raburn said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has involved three homicides — including a passenger’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682006/one-killed-one-wounded-in-oakland-bart-stabbing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal July 22 knife attack on Nia Wilson, 18,\u003c/a> at MacArthur Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same station was also the scene of an incident Friday night in which a man BART police have identified as Solomon Espinosa, 27, of Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684907/police-search-for-man-accused-of-stabbing-two-people-on-bart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly slashed two men\u003c/a> with a knife or box cutter. Neither victim suffered life-threatening injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack on Wilson, which also injured her sister, has prompted \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/law-firm-representing-nia-wilson-s-family-plans-to-sue-bart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the promise of a lawsuit\u003c/a> alleging that BART’s failure to deny entry to fare evaders has made the system more vulnerable to crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Monday, BART said that as of Monday it had instituted emergency staffing for its police force — a step \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11424842/bart-cops-investigating-weekend-train-robbery-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it also took last year\u003c/a> after a series of high-profile robberies and assaults at Oakland’s Coliseum Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency staffing order cancels off days for all of the BART Police Department’s 180 or so officers and mandates six 10-hour shifts a week. To increase police visibility on the system, officers working on their normal days off have been ordered to ride trains for their full shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other steps that BART General Manager Grace Crunican will present to the board — all excerpted here from BART’s press release — include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Deploying BART employee teams and enhancing employee security training. Teams of BART employees would be trained to staff trains and stations while wearing high-visibility vests to provide an additional layer of visibility to BART’s safety efforts. Teams would be deployed temporarily at times of greatest need.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Accelerating station-hardening efforts to make it harder to bypass fare gates. These efforts include raising barriers to 5 feet and adding additional fencing to include elevators in paid areas. This proposal will be presented to the board in September.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adding a second proof-of-payment team for evenings. The new eight-member team would also increase the non-sworn police presence in the system.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Installing emergency call boxes on platforms. Three emergency call boxes would be installed on each platform with a direct connection to BART police dispatchers. High-priority stations would get the call boxes as early as this fall. A systemwide implementation could take two years and cost an estimated $5.2 million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Systemwide deployment of a “physical security information management system” capable of monitoring thousands of simultaneous video streams and automating response recommendations to BART police. Systemwide implementation could take 12 months. Estimated cost is $4 million for implementation and $1.3 million in ongoing costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Replacement of existing analog security cameras in stations, parking lots and garages with an all-digital camera network. 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