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Money impacts how and what people hear about the recall, and it can shape the decisions voters make as they fill out their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge to Price, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983091/recall-of-alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price-qualifies-for-a-vote\">which qualified for the ballot in April, \u003c/a>marks the second effort in just two years to recall a progressive district attorney in the Bay Area following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">2022 ouster of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If successful, the current recall push would be another blow to criminal justice reform, a platform embraced by both Price and Boudin. A rejection of the effort, however, would be a powerful signal that voters are doubling down on Price’s vision for progressive reform, one that a majority embraced in 2022 when they elected her to serve a 6-year term – becoming Alameda County’s first Black district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To better understand the money behind the push both for and against the Price recall, we culled \u003ca href=\"https://www.netfile.com/agency/coa/\">campaign finance reports\u003c/a> filed with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. Using that data, we dug into where funding is coming from and who the biggest spenders are to create the following charts. These numbers do not include independent expenditures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is the money coming from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The campaign to recall Price, called Save Alameda for Everyone, or SAFE, filed its official paperwork with the county in July 2023. The campaign is publicly headed by two county residents: Brenda Grisham, a victim advocate and small business owner, and Carl Chan, a realtor and the board chair of Oakland Chinatown’s Asian Health Services. They’ve lately been joined on the campaign trail by SAFE campaign manager Chris Moore, a realtor and former county supervisor candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind them, there is a network of campaign consultants and deep-pocketed donors who run a coordinated secondary fundraising committee called Supporters of Recall Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SAFE works in close collaboration with the Supporters of Recall Pamela Price,” Moore said at a press conference earlier this month. “Typically, the larger check donations go to [Supporters of Recall Pamela Price], and those checks go right into the larger expenditures of the campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Fair Political Practices Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/enforcement/EnfDivCaseResults/stipulated-agreements/2024-sdo/august-sdo/supporters-of-recall-pamela-price.html\">fined Supporters of Recall Pamela Price $3,700\u003c/a> in August for failing to meet campaign finance filing deadlines, among other violations of state campaign finance rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, a third fundraising group, Revitalize East Bay Committee, was started by Oakland resident Isaac Abid. Initially, the committee gave exclusively to Supporters of Recall Pamela Price. This month, the committee also donated to efforts supporting Oakland City Council candidates Warren Logan and Leronne Armstrong — the city’s former police chief — and paid for advertisements supporting John Bauters, an Emeryville council member running for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county registrar’s website has fillings showing where a portion of Revitalize East Bay’s funding is coming from, some records are missing and a significant portion of its funding remains unaccounted for. The committee did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abid is the founder of Lakeside Group, a real estate investment and management firm with more than a dozen properties in Alameda County. He works closely with Oakland’s Uptown Downtown Community Benefits Districts and is on the board of the Oakland School for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, SAFE and Supporters of Recall Pamela Price have raised more than $2.6 million from more than 875 individuals, companies and fundraising committees as of Oct. 15. The top 10 funders work in real estate investment, finance and technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 900px;\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/19856260/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Price’s campaign against the recall — Protect the Win For Public Safety, Oppose the Recall of DA Price — formed in September 2023 and has cycled through a few campaign managers, spending its money mostly on rallies, lawyers and advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Oct. 15, Protect the Win had received nearly $340,000 from more than 440 individuals, fundraising committees and businesses. The top 10 donors include personal injury lawyers and police reform advocates, mostly from outside California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 900px;\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/19839626/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Protect the Win, four additional groups have cropped up in support of Price, although none are fundraising for the campaign, according to their filings with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU of Northern California Committee to Oppose the Recall of District Attorney Price was formed in December 2023 and has paid for email outreach supporting Price’s anti-recall efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another committee formed last month is organized by the Center for Empowered Politics, which helps develop grassroots organizations and funds Oakland Rising, a social justice and political advocacy group. It has paid for polling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on DA Pamela Price\" tag=\"pamela-price\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of organizations called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001150/anti-recall-movement-picks-up-steam-in-alameda-county\">Respect Our Vote, No Recalls\u003c/a> formed in August. The coalition includes the Oakland-based Latino Task Force, the Wellstone Democratic Club, Asian Americans for a Progressive Alameda (AAPA) and Bay Area Christian Connection, among other groups that have hosted rallies and handed out posters and yard signs. Coalition organizer Walter Riley, a civil rights attorney, said the group isn’t accepting donations, and the Oakland Rising and AAPA cover its printing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Fxk Yo Recalls, Oppose the Recalls of Thao and Price, formed earlier this month. So far, the committee hasn’t reported any fundraising. Its principal officers are Jennifer Findlay and Nathan Peterson. Both list Oakland addresses in filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where is the money from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are few state or county limits on campaign spending for recall elections, largely because they are considered ballot measures, not candidate races. Unlike most candidate races, money can come from anywhere and in any amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall have claimed supporters are largely “outsiders” trying to overrule the will of local voters. And indeed, the recall effort has generated significant amounts of money from outside the county: Nearly 40% of its funding, or about $963,000, has come from outside of Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nu5Ml\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Contributions to Price recall campaign, by region\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nu5Ml/17/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, more than 60% of funding for the campaign against the recall also comes from outside the county. However, with just over $200,000, it is a fraction of the outside funding supporting the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-2Cnkk\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Contributions to campaign opposing recall of Pamela Price, by region\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2Cnkk/1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Ravel, a UC Berkeley Law professor and former chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission and the Federal Election Commission, said it’s not uncommon for political candidates and ballot measure committees to receive funding from outside the jurisdiction the election takes place in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A candidate may have personal and professional connections out of state,” Ravel said. “Supporters may have businesses locally or family members, even though they live somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there’s localities or cities, or in this case counties, that are particularly influential nationwide, it’s not uncommon for outside money to be flowing into those,” said David Shor, money in politics program manager for Common Cause California, an advocacy group pushing for more transparent democracy in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When money is flooding in from outside the district or outside of localities, oftentimes that ends up leading to those candidates not being accountable to the people who they should be,” Shor added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within Alameda County, the bulk of pro-recall donations comes from just a few neighborhoods in the north end of the county — primarily from one ZIP code in Piedmont and two in Oakland, covering the residential neighborhoods in the hills east of Lake Merritt and downtown Oakland. Nearly a million dollars came from the Piedmont ZIP code, while around $200,000 came from the two Oakland ZIP codes, including residential neighborhoods in the hills east of Lake Merritt and Oakland’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-9AgdZ\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Contributions in Alameda County to Price recall campaign, by ZIP code\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/9AgdZ/21/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Map\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to U.S. Census data, wealth is concentrated in the southeastern end of the county, with the exception of Piedmont— which has the highest median household income in the county— and certain ZIP codes in the Oakland and Berkeley hills. 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Both list Oakland addresses in filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where is the money from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are few state or county limits on campaign spending for recall elections, largely because they are considered ballot measures, not candidate races. Unlike most candidate races, money can come from anywhere and in any amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall have claimed supporters are largely “outsiders” trying to overrule the will of local voters. And indeed, the recall effort has generated significant amounts of money from outside the county: Nearly 40% of its funding, or about $963,000, has come from outside of Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nu5Ml\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Contributions to Price recall campaign, by region\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nu5Ml/17/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, more than 60% of funding for the campaign against the recall also comes from outside the county. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voters in Alameda County and the city of Oakland could recall District Attorney Pamela Price and Mayor Sheng Thao in November. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Price and Thao are progressives who some residents blame for issues like crime, homelessness, and drug use. Opponents say the recalls are undemocratic and unfairly target two women of color who took office less than 2 years ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2043674944&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. It seems like crime and public safety are on just about everyone’s minds in the East Bay, and those issues are taking center stage there this November, when voters will decide whether to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] I think we’re seeing voters really question can the East Bay as kind of progressive bent, deliver the types of results on things like public safety, housing, homelessness, drug use? Can these progressive vision deliver these results or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:45] Today, KQED reporters Annalise Finney and Alex Hall explain the choice before voters and what this says about life in the East Bay right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] So we’re talking about two different recalls here. But there is, of course, some overlap and sort of the backdrop. So, Annelise, I want to start with you and sort of the broader context here. What has been going on in Alameda County in the last couple of years that’s relevant to both of these recall attempts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] A big part of both of these recalls are concerns about public safety. Crime in the East Bay has been a big topic of conversation over the last few years. 2023 was a particularly bad year. Now, since then, that has sort of began to decrease, particularly among violent crimes. But there’s still this narrative over the last few years that has shaped a lot of voters approach to this coming election and these recalls. And a lot of that has to do with the reality of crime and also a fear of crime that sometimes is somewhat separate from those statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Alex I feel like that feeling these fears around crime have been especially the case in Oakland, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:02:07] Definitely. That’s what the organizers of the recall talk about a lot. Illegal dumping, all kinds of stuff. Neighborhood blight in Oakland that it was never like this before that this is different and that, you know someone should be held accountable for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] I do hear that idea a lot, that it’s never been this bad before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:02:29] I think it’s worth pointing out that and actually in Oakland, it has been worse than this before. What we’re seeing now is an uptick from recent years. But in the 1970s, 80s. What we’re seeing now isn’t that bad, but it still feels really bad to a lot of people now, and it is worse than recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] We want to dive in then first to the D.A. recall. And Annelise, I want to start with you here. Before everyone knew who Pamela Price was, right before she was D.A. So remind us, when she first ran, who she was as sort of a candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:01] So Pamela Price is a Yale and U.C. Berkeley educated lawyer for a long time, 30 years, she ran a civil rights practice in Oakland. And in that world, she did a lot of work defending people who had experienced sexual harassment and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Certainly for communities of color. We understand how the criminal justice system has had such a devastating impact on all of our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:25] When she was on the campaign trail, she talked a lot about her personal story. She talked about growing up in Ohio, being a survivor of the foster care system and the Ohio juvenile justice system. She then talked about her life in Alameda County and said that she’d been a survivor of domestic abuse and as part of that, had actually been prosecuted by the Alameda County D.A.. So she represented herself as somebody who both had experience the criminal justice system, as somebody who was being prosecuted and somebody on the other side seeking justice for victims, whether that’s of sexual harassment or racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Change is hard. It’s exciting. It’s a good thing for Alameda County. The reason why I ran was because I know how broken the system is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:10] So in 2022, she ran as a kind of progressive alternative to what the Alameda County D.A. had been. And she ultimately won with 53% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:20] And when she won, it was kind of a big surprise, if I remember that correctly. Can you remind us what was the reaction to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Yeah, I think a lot of people saw it as this kind of huge progressive win. It was part of this wave of progressive prosecutors across the country, also in Alameda County for a long time. There had never been somebody as head D.A. who hadn’t come from inside the office. There was this long term pattern of the incumbent deciding they were going to retire, retiring before the election, appointing somebody as their interim, and then that person ran essentially as an incumbent already. So when Pryce came into office, it represented a really big change in that office. She had things she wanted to change, like not charging young people as adults, like not charging special enhancements on crimes, which is this way to kind of lengthen a sentence later down the line when a case is at the sentencing stage in criminal court. But it was also this big change, just sort of internally and administratively in the office, but somebody coming from outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] And because of this change that she was promising, I do remember even early on, almost as soon as she won, people were already talking about recalling Pamela Price right? But then how did this turn and morph into an actual recall effort that qualified for the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Within a few months, there was this change.org Recall petition going around. It really got off the ground when two people that’s Brenda Grisham, who’s a victim’s rights advocate from East Oakland, and Carl Chan, who is a political leader in Oakland’s Chinatown, got together and started an official recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham \u003c/strong>[00:06:06] So we’re just not standing up for one community. We’re standing up for all of them with safe. It means safety for everybody. It means justice for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] They filed their paperwork with the county in July. So that’s about six months after Price began her work. And they said her progressive policies, these ideas like, you know, like I said, cutting down on sentencing enhancements, not charging young people as adults. They said that policies like that were contributing to crime in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:34] Her ideology and her way to empower the criminals, especially those who are serious killers, hurting every one of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:45] And they had the support of some victim advocates and also victims and their families who said that, you know what, they had experience working with the DA’s office felt disrespectful. They said there was a lack of communication. They said they weren’t seeing the types of case outcomes they wanted. They also said that they felt there was a fair amount of disorganization in the office, and that’s been a theme throughout the recall panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Price is incapable, incompetent, and she’s not qualified to be the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:14] So a lot of people sort of coalesced around this frustration with the DA’s office, and they ultimately were able to qualify a recall for the ballot. And that’s what we’ll be voting on this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:24] And who since has also sort of come out in support of recalling Pamela Price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] Well, as I mentioned, there are victims family members who are part of this, and that group of people has sort of continued to grow. At first it was just a smattering. And now there’s a real handful of victims advocates and victims family members who are frustrated. There’s also some elected officials who are beginning to voice support for the recall, most notably a few weeks ago, U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell, who represents kind of the southeastern part of the county, said he supported the Price recall. And then we’re also seeing a lot of support from real estate investors. And that’s a big part of where the money for this recall has come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:08] Over the past year, D.A. Price’s office has dealt with a wave of bad press. Last fall, at a press conference, Price and some of her deputies banned a reporter from the Berkeley scanner, a website focused on crime news. There was also a dustup with Governor Gavin Newsom, who withdrew an offer to support Price’s office with drug prosecutions because of alleged dysfunction at the DA’s office. For her part, Price has said she’s received a lot of unfair media coverage and that news outlets don’t understand the role of district attorney. Then late last week, another news bombshell broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:54] Things did get even more messy, if you could imagine. Last week with these accusations of extortion against the district attorney. Can you explain what that is all about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Last week, a man filed some court paperwork alleging that D.A. Price had asked him for $25,000 as a contribution to her recall campaign. When he said no. He says that she allegedly made a kind of vague threat that he’d be hearing from her office just a few weeks later. These criminal charges arrived, charging him with something that happened about a year and a half before the charges were actually filed. This man is named Mario Juarez. He’s an East bay politico. He’s been on the political scene for a long time. He donates to campaigns and he’s run for office locally. Now, like I said, all of these are allegations and the man on trial is a long time nemesis of D.A. Price. They’ve both done different things at different times to try and disadvantage each other in political campaigns. But it paints a picture of this kind of back door political dealing that really doesn’t look good for price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And how has Price responded to the extortion accusations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Price’s office says they don’t comment on pending cases and they’re going to respond in court. But her campaign against the recall says Juarez just isn’t reliable. They released a very short statement that was just DA Price denies these claims. Do your own research. Mario Juarez is not a credible source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Who has been coming out in support of D.A. Price, basically who’s saying no to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] There is a coalition of people who support Price. One of them is Stewart Chen. He’s the president of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:10:41] The false narrative because of the crime rate, they’re going to push for this recall. That’s a bunch of baloney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] And what he and other supporters say is that reform is hard turning around a steamship of an office takes a really long time. And Price has been in office for less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Did they give them enough time to do the promises they set out to the policies that they’re going to do for us? These are sour grapes, guys. We have to stand together, united, together. This is undemocratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:17] They also say that this recall is funded by billionaires who they say are trying to change the outcome of the 2022 election. Congresswoman Barbara Lee said that she’s against recalls on principle. State Senator Nancy Skinner said essentially the same thing. She echoed Barbara Lee in a post on X. County Supervisor keith Carson has said that he also is against the recalls and supports price. And then the coalition that I mentioned that Stewart Chen is part of also includes the Oakland based Latino Task Force and a handful of other kind of church and Democratic clubs throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:51] How has Price herself responded to just this entire attempt to recall her just overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:58] When DA Price defends herself against the recall she has sort of a laundry list of things she says are contributing to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] We are living in an age of the politics of exploitation, where we see people with a political agenda exploiting people’s pain, weaponizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] She says people are blaming her for everything in Oakland. She says they’re coming after her because she’s a black woman. She says people are upset that she won the 2022 election fair and square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] We are trying to interrupt the cycles of violence and victimization. It takes time. It cannot be done in a month. This system was not broken in six months. There is no way I could have fixed it in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] Coming up, we’ll talk about the recall campaign against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and what these two elections have in common. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:05] Alex Hall I want to bring you in here. Voters in Oakland will have to decide whether or not they want to recall Pamela Price. But they will also have another recall to decide on with Mayor Sheng Thao. Remind us who Sheng Thao is and who she sort of was as a candidate when she ran for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:13:25] Yeah. So like Price, Sheng Thao was elected in 2022. She came into office having been on the city council for four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:13:33] I am a progressive. I am a progressive in the sense that I want to move the city forward for working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:13:38] She had a lot of backing, including financially from labor unions, and she campaigned on a platform of being kind of like a bridge builder, someone who could bring siloed groups in Oakland together to the negotiating table, business and labor unions, for example. And she also talked a lot about her personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:13:57] So when I ran for my city council seat. It was a lot of community who really pushed me to really run for that seat. And I’ll be very honest, you my response was, well, I don’t have any I don’t come from money and I don’t look like how politicians look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:12] You know, being the daughter of Hmong refugees from Stockton, having fled an abusive relationship, you know, at one point living in her car with her infant son and sleeping on people’s couches, you know, she was really able to excel and go to community college and eventually UC Berkeley and started interning and eventually working for At-Large Council member Rebecca Kaplan. And so she you know, she talked about how that would really help her connect with middle and working class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] As sort of similar to price actually as sort of these candidates who are bringing their personal experience into the job that they’re hoping to get. I do remember, though, Sheng Thao did not win in a landslide necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] Correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] What was the reaction at the time to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:01] So Oakland uses ranked choice voting, which means that people are able to vote for their first, second, third choices when they vote, not just one candidate. And Thao actually did not receive as many first choice votes as her opponent, Loren Taylor, eventually because of ranked choice voting. She did win, but it was she won by a very slim margin, something like just under 700 votes. And on and also, you know, she came in as a progressive city council member after moderate mayor. She her opponent was a moderate. And so, you know, I think there was this expectation of like, what is she going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:42] So how eventually then did the effort to recall Mayor Sheng Tao come about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:49] So the recall was officially launched in January and in June oust Oakland United to recall Shang. Tao said it qualified for the November ballot. The leader of the recall was Brenda Harbin-Forte who is a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge. She definitely clashed with Thao, specifically over the firing of former Oakland police chief LaRonne Armstrong. Brenda Harbin-Forte is actually no longer leading the recall effort, and she’s now running for Oakland City attorney. So now her sisters in charge, Gail Harbin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gail Harbin \u003c/strong>[00:16:24] And so the reason I got involved is because I saw all the harm it was doing to Oakland. Oakland looked like a ghost town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] There were other issues that came up that Harbin-Forte and Seneca Scott, who is the campaign spokesperson for Oust, were very critical of, namely Oakland’s failure to meet the deadline to apply for a state grant that would have given Oakland millions of dollars to fight retail theft. And, you know, I just said that, you know, Thao’s leadership had created a public safety crisis that, you know, wasn’t just dangerous for residents, but it was driving businesses out of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:04] We’ve never seen anything like this in Oakland before. And people are trying to act like it’s just happening because we’ve always had it coming. None of our surrounding cities are dealing with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:17:13] In-n-out shut down, the Hilton Hotel shut down, and basically Thaos, as they described it, incompetence had really hurt Oakland financially and continues to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:25] This progressive movement has failed. None of their policies have worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:17:31] I’ve asked voters at the town halls that she’s been having, you know, how do you feel about the recall? And a lot of people are like, well, I’m upset. I’m unhappy about X, Y, Z. That’s happening in Oakland, but do I know exactly how city government works? Do I know that that is actually Mayor Thao’s fault or what choices are actually made in the room at City Hall? I don’t know. And so I’m trying to figure that out. I think for the recall, the response that I’ve received is more it doesn’t matter because she is the captain of the ship and anything that happens in Oakland is her responsibility because she is the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:08] Sort of a series of catalyzing events. It sounds like two. And I know another one is the FBI raid on Thao’s home. Tell me about that and what role that is sort of playing in the recall campaign now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:18:24] So the FBI executed search warrants on Mayor Thao’s home, but also on the homes of members of the Duong family who own California Waste Solutions, which is the recycling provider for the city of Oakland. The FBI has not said a single word publicly about what they were looking for, about what they are investigating. Thao has said that she’s innocent. She’s not been charged with a crime, and it’s really unclear at this point what’s going to happen with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:52] But obviously, I have to imagine for supporters of the recall is sort of just another thing that’s raising eyebrows and maybe adds just like another reason to move forward with recalling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:07] 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:13] And then who is coming out in support of Mayor Sheng Tao?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:16] So that’s an interesting question. I think that Thao was a little silent on the recall for most of this year. It seemed at that point that her strategy was really to show up to her job. She was hosting these town halls throughout Oakland and showing up alongside the city’s new police chief, the fire chief, and basically just saying, like, we’re here for you. We’re doing what we can. We hear you. We know that there are serious problems in Oakland. And, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:47] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:48] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:19:51] It’s a warm day today. We are out here because we know how important this fight is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:55] And then it wasn’t maybe less than two weeks ago that Oaklanders defending democracy Tao’s anti recall committee hired a spokesperson, held a press conference and actually came out and said, here we are, we are launching a campaign to fight this recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:11] Mayor Thao has been a champion for housing, justice, transportation, justice, climate justice…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:19] The people who has come out in defense of Sheng Thao is Igor Tregub, who is a Berkeley City Council member and also the chair of the Alameda County Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:30] Our Alameda County Democratic Party stands in solidarity with Mayor Thao and against this wasteful recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:43] Jean Quan has been really present and visible and vocal about how she experienced when she was mayor, an attempt to recall her. And so she has really been strongly supporting Mayor Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jean Quan \u003c/strong>[00:20:57] We have to stop this trend. So whether you love Sheng or not, you have to give her a fair chance to do good work. And she’s done some very good work for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:21:11] I mean, how has Mayor Thao herself responded to this campaign to recall her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:16] The mayor has really stressed that a lot of the problems that Oakland is facing, she inherited them as mayor and that the recall would essentially take Oakland backwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:27] We met them head on, applied the solutions and the data shows the data shows that we are on the right track. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:36] And she’s also really strongly emphasized that crime is down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:40] We are on track this year for less than 100 homicides in Oakland, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:46] Another thing that she talks a lot about is Philip Dreyfuss, the hedge fund manager who has footed a lot of the bill for the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:56] Now, let’s be clear about this recall. It got started shortly after I was sworn into office just about a year ago. The recall is funded by one hedge fund manager who doesn’t live in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:22:11] Calling him, you know, a Piedmont billionaire. You know, he’s this guy who doesn’t even live here. Speculation about his motives being some nefarious plot. You know, he doesn’t care about Oakland and Oakland isn’t for sale. And to be clear, Dreyfuss has not spoken publicly. I mean, trust me, we would have talked to him if he was willing to. He has not said anything about why he has been funding the recalls. And you know, we love to know. Philip, please call us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:22:47] Annelise, kind of coming back to you and bringing you back in here. What is the crossover that you see between these two recalls? Like how should voters, I guess, make sense of these concurrent recall efforts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:23:01] So another thing to note about these recalls is they are getting money from a lot of the same people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] I think we’re seeing voters really question can the East Bay as kind of progressive bent, deliver the types of results on things like public safety, housing, homelessness, drug use? Can these progressive vision deliver these results or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:45] Today, KQED reporters Annalise Finney and Alex Hall explain the choice before voters and what this says about life in the East Bay right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] So we’re talking about two different recalls here. But there is, of course, some overlap and sort of the backdrop. So, Annelise, I want to start with you and sort of the broader context here. What has been going on in Alameda County in the last couple of years that’s relevant to both of these recall attempts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] A big part of both of these recalls are concerns about public safety. Crime in the East Bay has been a big topic of conversation over the last few years. 2023 was a particularly bad year. Now, since then, that has sort of began to decrease, particularly among violent crimes. But there’s still this narrative over the last few years that has shaped a lot of voters approach to this coming election and these recalls. And a lot of that has to do with the reality of crime and also a fear of crime that sometimes is somewhat separate from those statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Alex I feel like that feeling these fears around crime have been especially the case in Oakland, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:02:07] Definitely. That’s what the organizers of the recall talk about a lot. Illegal dumping, all kinds of stuff. Neighborhood blight in Oakland that it was never like this before that this is different and that, you know someone should be held accountable for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] I do hear that idea a lot, that it’s never been this bad before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:02:29] I think it’s worth pointing out that and actually in Oakland, it has been worse than this before. What we’re seeing now is an uptick from recent years. But in the 1970s, 80s. What we’re seeing now isn’t that bad, but it still feels really bad to a lot of people now, and it is worse than recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] We want to dive in then first to the D.A. recall. And Annelise, I want to start with you here. Before everyone knew who Pamela Price was, right before she was D.A. So remind us, when she first ran, who she was as sort of a candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:01] So Pamela Price is a Yale and U.C. Berkeley educated lawyer for a long time, 30 years, she ran a civil rights practice in Oakland. And in that world, she did a lot of work defending people who had experienced sexual harassment and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Certainly for communities of color. We understand how the criminal justice system has had such a devastating impact on all of our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:03:25] When she was on the campaign trail, she talked a lot about her personal story. She talked about growing up in Ohio, being a survivor of the foster care system and the Ohio juvenile justice system. She then talked about her life in Alameda County and said that she’d been a survivor of domestic abuse and as part of that, had actually been prosecuted by the Alameda County D.A.. So she represented herself as somebody who both had experience the criminal justice system, as somebody who was being prosecuted and somebody on the other side seeking justice for victims, whether that’s of sexual harassment or racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Change is hard. It’s exciting. It’s a good thing for Alameda County. The reason why I ran was because I know how broken the system is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:10] So in 2022, she ran as a kind of progressive alternative to what the Alameda County D.A. had been. And she ultimately won with 53% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:20] And when she won, it was kind of a big surprise, if I remember that correctly. Can you remind us what was the reaction to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Yeah, I think a lot of people saw it as this kind of huge progressive win. It was part of this wave of progressive prosecutors across the country, also in Alameda County for a long time. There had never been somebody as head D.A. who hadn’t come from inside the office. There was this long term pattern of the incumbent deciding they were going to retire, retiring before the election, appointing somebody as their interim, and then that person ran essentially as an incumbent already. So when Pryce came into office, it represented a really big change in that office. She had things she wanted to change, like not charging young people as adults, like not charging special enhancements on crimes, which is this way to kind of lengthen a sentence later down the line when a case is at the sentencing stage in criminal court. But it was also this big change, just sort of internally and administratively in the office, but somebody coming from outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] And because of this change that she was promising, I do remember even early on, almost as soon as she won, people were already talking about recalling Pamela Price right? But then how did this turn and morph into an actual recall effort that qualified for the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] Within a few months, there was this change.org Recall petition going around. It really got off the ground when two people that’s Brenda Grisham, who’s a victim’s rights advocate from East Oakland, and Carl Chan, who is a political leader in Oakland’s Chinatown, got together and started an official recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Brenda Grisham \u003c/strong>[00:06:06] So we’re just not standing up for one community. We’re standing up for all of them with safe. It means safety for everybody. It means justice for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] They filed their paperwork with the county in July. So that’s about six months after Price began her work. And they said her progressive policies, these ideas like, you know, like I said, cutting down on sentencing enhancements, not charging young people as adults. They said that policies like that were contributing to crime in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:34] Her ideology and her way to empower the criminals, especially those who are serious killers, hurting every one of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:06:45] And they had the support of some victim advocates and also victims and their families who said that, you know what, they had experience working with the DA’s office felt disrespectful. They said there was a lack of communication. They said they weren’t seeing the types of case outcomes they wanted. They also said that they felt there was a fair amount of disorganization in the office, and that’s been a theme throughout the recall panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Carl Chan \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Price is incapable, incompetent, and she’s not qualified to be the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:14] So a lot of people sort of coalesced around this frustration with the DA’s office, and they ultimately were able to qualify a recall for the ballot. And that’s what we’ll be voting on this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:24] And who since has also sort of come out in support of recalling Pamela Price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] Well, as I mentioned, there are victims family members who are part of this, and that group of people has sort of continued to grow. At first it was just a smattering. And now there’s a real handful of victims advocates and victims family members who are frustrated. There’s also some elected officials who are beginning to voice support for the recall, most notably a few weeks ago, U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell, who represents kind of the southeastern part of the county, said he supported the Price recall. And then we’re also seeing a lot of support from real estate investors. And that’s a big part of where the money for this recall has come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:08] Over the past year, D.A. Price’s office has dealt with a wave of bad press. Last fall, at a press conference, Price and some of her deputies banned a reporter from the Berkeley scanner, a website focused on crime news. There was also a dustup with Governor Gavin Newsom, who withdrew an offer to support Price’s office with drug prosecutions because of alleged dysfunction at the DA’s office. For her part, Price has said she’s received a lot of unfair media coverage and that news outlets don’t understand the role of district attorney. Then late last week, another news bombshell broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:54] Things did get even more messy, if you could imagine. Last week with these accusations of extortion against the district attorney. Can you explain what that is all about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:09:08] Last week, a man filed some court paperwork alleging that D.A. Price had asked him for $25,000 as a contribution to her recall campaign. When he said no. He says that she allegedly made a kind of vague threat that he’d be hearing from her office just a few weeks later. These criminal charges arrived, charging him with something that happened about a year and a half before the charges were actually filed. This man is named Mario Juarez. He’s an East bay politico. He’s been on the political scene for a long time. He donates to campaigns and he’s run for office locally. Now, like I said, all of these are allegations and the man on trial is a long time nemesis of D.A. Price. They’ve both done different things at different times to try and disadvantage each other in political campaigns. But it paints a picture of this kind of back door political dealing that really doesn’t look good for price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And how has Price responded to the extortion accusations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Price’s office says they don’t comment on pending cases and they’re going to respond in court. But her campaign against the recall says Juarez just isn’t reliable. They released a very short statement that was just DA Price denies these claims. Do your own research. Mario Juarez is not a credible source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] Who has been coming out in support of D.A. Price, basically who’s saying no to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:33] There is a coalition of people who support Price. One of them is Stewart Chen. He’s the president of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:10:41] The false narrative because of the crime rate, they’re going to push for this recall. That’s a bunch of baloney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] And what he and other supporters say is that reform is hard turning around a steamship of an office takes a really long time. And Price has been in office for less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Stewart Chen \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Did they give them enough time to do the promises they set out to the policies that they’re going to do for us? These are sour grapes, guys. We have to stand together, united, together. This is undemocratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:17] They also say that this recall is funded by billionaires who they say are trying to change the outcome of the 2022 election. Congresswoman Barbara Lee said that she’s against recalls on principle. State Senator Nancy Skinner said essentially the same thing. She echoed Barbara Lee in a post on X. County Supervisor keith Carson has said that he also is against the recalls and supports price. And then the coalition that I mentioned that Stewart Chen is part of also includes the Oakland based Latino Task Force and a handful of other kind of church and Democratic clubs throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:51] How has Price herself responded to just this entire attempt to recall her just overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:11:58] When DA Price defends herself against the recall she has sort of a laundry list of things she says are contributing to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] We are living in an age of the politics of exploitation, where we see people with a political agenda exploiting people’s pain, weaponizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Annelise Finney \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] She says people are blaming her for everything in Oakland. She says they’re coming after her because she’s a black woman. She says people are upset that she won the 2022 election fair and square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Pamela Price \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] We are trying to interrupt the cycles of violence and victimization. It takes time. It cannot be done in a month. This system was not broken in six months. There is no way I could have fixed it in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] Coming up, we’ll talk about the recall campaign against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and what these two elections have in common. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:05] Alex Hall I want to bring you in here. Voters in Oakland will have to decide whether or not they want to recall Pamela Price. But they will also have another recall to decide on with Mayor Sheng Thao. Remind us who Sheng Thao is and who she sort of was as a candidate when she ran for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:13:25] Yeah. So like Price, Sheng Thao was elected in 2022. She came into office having been on the city council for four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:13:33] I am a progressive. I am a progressive in the sense that I want to move the city forward for working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:13:38] She had a lot of backing, including financially from labor unions, and she campaigned on a platform of being kind of like a bridge builder, someone who could bring siloed groups in Oakland together to the negotiating table, business and labor unions, for example. And she also talked a lot about her personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:13:57] So when I ran for my city council seat. It was a lot of community who really pushed me to really run for that seat. And I’ll be very honest, you my response was, well, I don’t have any I don’t come from money and I don’t look like how politicians look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:12] You know, being the daughter of Hmong refugees from Stockton, having fled an abusive relationship, you know, at one point living in her car with her infant son and sleeping on people’s couches, you know, she was really able to excel and go to community college and eventually UC Berkeley and started interning and eventually working for At-Large Council member Rebecca Kaplan. And so she you know, she talked about how that would really help her connect with middle and working class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] As sort of similar to price actually as sort of these candidates who are bringing their personal experience into the job that they’re hoping to get. I do remember, though, Sheng Thao did not win in a landslide necessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] Correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:58] What was the reaction at the time to her win?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:01] So Oakland uses ranked choice voting, which means that people are able to vote for their first, second, third choices when they vote, not just one candidate. And Thao actually did not receive as many first choice votes as her opponent, Loren Taylor, eventually because of ranked choice voting. She did win, but it was she won by a very slim margin, something like just under 700 votes. And on and also, you know, she came in as a progressive city council member after moderate mayor. She her opponent was a moderate. And so, you know, I think there was this expectation of like, what is she going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:42] So how eventually then did the effort to recall Mayor Sheng Tao come about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:15:49] So the recall was officially launched in January and in June oust Oakland United to recall Shang. Tao said it qualified for the November ballot. The leader of the recall was Brenda Harbin-Forte who is a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge. She definitely clashed with Thao, specifically over the firing of former Oakland police chief LaRonne Armstrong. Brenda Harbin-Forte is actually no longer leading the recall effort, and she’s now running for Oakland City attorney. So now her sisters in charge, Gail Harbin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gail Harbin \u003c/strong>[00:16:24] And so the reason I got involved is because I saw all the harm it was doing to Oakland. Oakland looked like a ghost town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] There were other issues that came up that Harbin-Forte and Seneca Scott, who is the campaign spokesperson for Oust, were very critical of, namely Oakland’s failure to meet the deadline to apply for a state grant that would have given Oakland millions of dollars to fight retail theft. And, you know, I just said that, you know, Thao’s leadership had created a public safety crisis that, you know, wasn’t just dangerous for residents, but it was driving businesses out of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:04] We’ve never seen anything like this in Oakland before. And people are trying to act like it’s just happening because we’ve always had it coming. None of our surrounding cities are dealing with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:17:13] In-n-out shut down, the Hilton Hotel shut down, and basically Thaos, as they described it, incompetence had really hurt Oakland financially and continues to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Seneca Scott \u003c/strong>[00:17:25] This progressive movement has failed. None of their policies have worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:17:31] I’ve asked voters at the town halls that she’s been having, you know, how do you feel about the recall? And a lot of people are like, well, I’m upset. I’m unhappy about X, Y, Z. That’s happening in Oakland, but do I know exactly how city government works? Do I know that that is actually Mayor Thao’s fault or what choices are actually made in the room at City Hall? I don’t know. And so I’m trying to figure that out. I think for the recall, the response that I’ve received is more it doesn’t matter because she is the captain of the ship and anything that happens in Oakland is her responsibility because she is the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:08] Sort of a series of catalyzing events. It sounds like two. And I know another one is the FBI raid on Thao’s home. Tell me about that and what role that is sort of playing in the recall campaign now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:18:24] So the FBI executed search warrants on Mayor Thao’s home, but also on the homes of members of the Duong family who own California Waste Solutions, which is the recycling provider for the city of Oakland. The FBI has not said a single word publicly about what they were looking for, about what they are investigating. Thao has said that she’s innocent. She’s not been charged with a crime, and it’s really unclear at this point what’s going to happen with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:52] But obviously, I have to imagine for supporters of the recall is sort of just another thing that’s raising eyebrows and maybe adds just like another reason to move forward with recalling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:07] 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:13] And then who is coming out in support of Mayor Sheng Tao?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:16] So that’s an interesting question. I think that Thao was a little silent on the recall for most of this year. It seemed at that point that her strategy was really to show up to her job. She was hosting these town halls throughout Oakland and showing up alongside the city’s new police chief, the fire chief, and basically just saying, like, we’re here for you. We’re doing what we can. We hear you. We know that there are serious problems in Oakland. And, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:47] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:48] We’re working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:19:51] It’s a warm day today. We are out here because we know how important this fight is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:19:55] And then it wasn’t maybe less than two weeks ago that Oaklanders defending democracy Tao’s anti recall committee hired a spokesperson, held a press conference and actually came out and said, here we are, we are launching a campaign to fight this recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:11] Mayor Thao has been a champion for housing, justice, transportation, justice, climate justice…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:19] The people who has come out in defense of Sheng Thao is Igor Tregub, who is a Berkeley City Council member and also the chair of the Alameda County Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Igor Tregub \u003c/strong>[00:20:30] Our Alameda County Democratic Party stands in solidarity with Mayor Thao and against this wasteful recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:20:43] Jean Quan has been really present and visible and vocal about how she experienced when she was mayor, an attempt to recall her. And so she has really been strongly supporting Mayor Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jean Quan \u003c/strong>[00:20:57] We have to stop this trend. So whether you love Sheng or not, you have to give her a fair chance to do good work. And she’s done some very good work for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:21:11] I mean, how has Mayor Thao herself responded to this campaign to recall her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:16] The mayor has really stressed that a lot of the problems that Oakland is facing, she inherited them as mayor and that the recall would essentially take Oakland backwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:27] We met them head on, applied the solutions and the data shows the data shows that we are on the right track. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:36] And she’s also really strongly emphasized that crime is down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:40] We are on track this year for less than 100 homicides in Oakland, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:21:46] Another thing that she talks a lot about is Philip Dreyfuss, the hedge fund manager who has footed a lot of the bill for the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sheng Thao \u003c/strong>[00:21:56] Now, let’s be clear about this recall. It got started shortly after I was sworn into office just about a year ago. The recall is funded by one hedge fund manager who doesn’t live in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alex Hall \u003c/strong>[00:22:11] Calling him, you know, a Piedmont billionaire. You know, he’s this guy who doesn’t even live here. Speculation about his motives being some nefarious plot. You know, he doesn’t care about Oakland and Oakland isn’t for sale. And to be clear, Dreyfuss has not spoken publicly. I mean, trust me, we would have talked to him if he was willing to. He has not said anything about why he has been funding the recalls. And you know, we love to know. Philip, please call us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:22:47] Annelise, kind of coming back to you and bringing you back in here. What is the crossover that you see between these two recalls? Like how should voters, I guess, make sense of these concurrent recall efforts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>An anti-recall movement is gaining steam in Alameda County, where District Attorney Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao face recall elections in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recalls are two of four in Alameda County that qualified to go before voters this year. Residents recalled two Sunol Glen school board members\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992811/how-a-controversial-flag-policy-ignited-a-recall-in-the-town-of-sunol\"> in July\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bubbling up of new energy countering the remaining recalls arrives after months of headlines dominated by recall supporters. As the county counts down the days to the election, anti-recall organizers say they plan to defend those who voted for Thao and Price in 2022. They want the candidates to serve full terms in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hold them to the same standard: high crimes and misdemeanors,” East Oakland Pastor Billy Dixon said at an anti-recall event on Saturday, referring to the standard for presidential impeachment. “Neither one committed high crimes and misdemeanors. So until that takes place, I don’t think a recall should take place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the campaign to keep Thao in office — Oaklanders Defending Democracy, Oppose the Recall of Mayor Thao — collected its first major donation: a $10,000 check from Quinn Delaney, a Piedmont progressive philanthropist and the founder and board president of Akonadi Foundation, a racial justice organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed push against the recalls comes as the pro-recall campaigns appear to be running out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recall opponents gathered at Thy Word Ministries in East Oakland on Aug. 17, 2024, for the Launch of the Respect Our Vote — No Recalls Coalition. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest campaign finance filings show the two pro-recall campaigns are in debt. According to filings from April 1 through the end of June, the campaign to recall Price, Save Alameda For Everyone, is more than half a million dollars in debt. Most of the money is owed to PCI Consultants, a Calabasas-based signature-gathering company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of the end of June, the campaign to recall Thao, Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, was $21,205 in debt, mostly to Philip Dreyfuss, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">the Piedmont hedge fund manager who has provided nearly 80% of the campaign’s funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations to SAFE during the most recent reporting period were less than $7,000, a notable decrease from the three previous disclosures — $20,000, $240,000 and $160,000, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUST press conference last week announcing that recall leader Brenda Harbin-Forte, a former Superior Court of Alameda County judge, was stepping away to focus on running for Oakland City Attorney, drew only a handful of attendees. A photo of the event, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1824515570454368404\">posted on X by \u003cem>The Oaklandside’s\u003c/em> Darwin BondGraham,\u003c/a> was mocked in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11998651 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20230909-DAPROTEST-44-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the launch event of a new anti-recall coalition on Saturday, hosted by Dixon at his church, Thy Word Ministries, had a crowd of around 100 people at its peak. Civil rights attorney Walter Riley and Pamela Drake, an Oakland political activist and Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club member, organized the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, Respect Our Vote — No Recalls, includes the Oakland-based Latino Task Force, Oakland Rising Action and Asian Americans for a Progressive Alameda, among other members. Speakers described the recalls as an attempt by billionaires to remove the county’s elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to expose that the vehicle of recalls — that is really a people’s device against entrenched power — has been co-opted by billionaires,” said Pastor BK Woodson Sr., a recall opponent, referring to major donations from Dreyfuss and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/06/ron-conway-top-funder-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-campaign/\">tech investor Ron Conway.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Inson, an Oakland Rising Action organizer, estimated the coalition needs to recruit 500 volunteers to knock on doors and talk with county voters. If the coalition can reach 10,000 voters, Inson said it can defeat the recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariano Contreras of the Latino Task Force said the age and ethnic diversity of event attendees was a reflection of the years of progressive organizing that helped elect Thao and Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why there’s a recall,” Contreras said. “This is why that dark money is uncomfortable with our elected officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of donating directly to the recall campaigns, Dreyfuss donated through two fundraising committees — Foundational Oakland Unites and Supporters of Recall Pamela Price. The latter was initially named Reviving the Bay Area but rebranded after a Price campaign attorney complained to election officials that the original name illegally obscured the purpose of the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke to the audience during a Q&A following the planned series of speakers and reflected on the unsuccessful effort to recall her when she was mayor. “What’s clear since then is it’s a tactic,” she said. “It’s an organized tactic of conservative people to take back our elections, and we have to fight to make sure that they respect our votes.” \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An investigation by the Oakland Public Ethics Commission into allegations that Foundational Oakland Unites was illegally coordinating its donations with OUST faced a setback last month when an Alameda County Superior Court Judge \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/26/oakland-judge-recall-sheng-thao-campaign-ethics-investigation-recuses/\">recused herself from a key hearing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she believes the recalls are part of a bigger political backlash to recent progressive electoral wins in the Bay Area. She said the movement found success with the recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Conway and Dreyfuss donated to the 2022 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreyfuss did not respond to requests for comment regarding his recall donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in the East Bay, which is a liberal bastion, is probably a nice target,” Quan said at the event. “If they can take down and divide our community, they don’t have to worry so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan continued: “This is not just about the recalls. It’s about the control of the [Oakland] city council. 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But recently, the number of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000598/oakland-police-say-violent-crime-is-down-but-guns-are-an-issue-in-west-oakland\">homicides, robberies and rapes\u003c/a> in the city has declined, according to Oakland police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a fundraising email last week, OUST defended itself against the claim that billionaires are running the recall. “Newsflash: people with resources invest in political causes,” the email read. “When those causes align with the will of the people, it can be a beautiful thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An anti-recall movement is gaining steam in Alameda County, where District Attorney Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao face recall elections in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recalls are two of four in Alameda County that qualified to go before voters this year. Residents recalled two Sunol Glen school board members\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992811/how-a-controversial-flag-policy-ignited-a-recall-in-the-town-of-sunol\"> in July\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bubbling up of new energy countering the remaining recalls arrives after months of headlines dominated by recall supporters. As the county counts down the days to the election, anti-recall organizers say they plan to defend those who voted for Thao and Price in 2022. They want the candidates to serve full terms in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hold them to the same standard: high crimes and misdemeanors,” East Oakland Pastor Billy Dixon said at an anti-recall event on Saturday, referring to the standard for presidential impeachment. “Neither one committed high crimes and misdemeanors. So until that takes place, I don’t think a recall should take place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the campaign to keep Thao in office — Oaklanders Defending Democracy, Oppose the Recall of Mayor Thao — collected its first major donation: a $10,000 check from Quinn Delaney, a Piedmont progressive philanthropist and the founder and board president of Akonadi Foundation, a racial justice organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed push against the recalls comes as the pro-recall campaigns appear to be running out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recall opponents gathered at Thy Word Ministries in East Oakland on Aug. 17, 2024, for the Launch of the Respect Our Vote — No Recalls Coalition. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest campaign finance filings show the two pro-recall campaigns are in debt. According to filings from April 1 through the end of June, the campaign to recall Price, Save Alameda For Everyone, is more than half a million dollars in debt. Most of the money is owed to PCI Consultants, a Calabasas-based signature-gathering company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of the end of June, the campaign to recall Thao, Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, was $21,205 in debt, mostly to Philip Dreyfuss, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">the Piedmont hedge fund manager who has provided nearly 80% of the campaign’s funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations to SAFE during the most recent reporting period were less than $7,000, a notable decrease from the three previous disclosures — $20,000, $240,000 and $160,000, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An OUST press conference last week announcing that recall leader Brenda Harbin-Forte, a former Superior Court of Alameda County judge, was stepping away to focus on running for Oakland City Attorney, drew only a handful of attendees. A photo of the event, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1824515570454368404\">posted on X by \u003cem>The Oaklandside’s\u003c/em> Darwin BondGraham,\u003c/a> was mocked in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the launch event of a new anti-recall coalition on Saturday, hosted by Dixon at his church, Thy Word Ministries, had a crowd of around 100 people at its peak. Civil rights attorney Walter Riley and Pamela Drake, an Oakland political activist and Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club member, organized the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, Respect Our Vote — No Recalls, includes the Oakland-based Latino Task Force, Oakland Rising Action and Asian Americans for a Progressive Alameda, among other members. Speakers described the recalls as an attempt by billionaires to remove the county’s elected leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to expose that the vehicle of recalls — that is really a people’s device against entrenched power — has been co-opted by billionaires,” said Pastor BK Woodson Sr., a recall opponent, referring to major donations from Dreyfuss and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/06/ron-conway-top-funder-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-campaign/\">tech investor Ron Conway.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Inson, an Oakland Rising Action organizer, estimated the coalition needs to recruit 500 volunteers to knock on doors and talk with county voters. If the coalition can reach 10,000 voters, Inson said it can defeat the recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariano Contreras of the Latino Task Force said the age and ethnic diversity of event attendees was a reflection of the years of progressive organizing that helped elect Thao and Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why there’s a recall,” Contreras said. “This is why that dark money is uncomfortable with our elected officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of donating directly to the recall campaigns, Dreyfuss donated through two fundraising committees — Foundational Oakland Unites and Supporters of Recall Pamela Price. The latter was initially named Reviving the Bay Area but rebranded after a Price campaign attorney complained to election officials that the original name illegally obscured the purpose of the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-ANTIRECALL-AF-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke to the audience during a Q&A following the planned series of speakers and reflected on the unsuccessful effort to recall her when she was mayor. “What’s clear since then is it’s a tactic,” she said. “It’s an organized tactic of conservative people to take back our elections, and we have to fight to make sure that they respect our votes.” \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An investigation by the Oakland Public Ethics Commission into allegations that Foundational Oakland Unites was illegally coordinating its donations with OUST faced a setback last month when an Alameda County Superior Court Judge \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/26/oakland-judge-recall-sheng-thao-campaign-ethics-investigation-recuses/\">recused herself from a key hearing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she believes the recalls are part of a bigger political backlash to recent progressive electoral wins in the Bay Area. She said the movement found success with the recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Conway and Dreyfuss donated to the 2022 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreyfuss did not respond to requests for comment regarding his recall donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in the East Bay, which is a liberal bastion, is probably a nice target,” Quan said at the event. “If they can take down and divide our community, they don’t have to worry so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan continued: “This is not just about the recalls. It’s about the control of the [Oakland] city council. It’s about the policies that we’ve led the nation in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/17/what-is-ceasefire-oakland-gun-violence-prevention-program/\">cease-fire program\u003c/a>, which attempts to stop homicides before they happen by offering resources to young people most likely to commit homicides, and the decision by Oakland and Berkeley to give \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000395/how-teen-voters-in-berkeley-oakland-can-shape-upcoming-school-board-elections\">16- and 17-year-olds a vote in school board elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claims that the recalls are part of a billionaire-funded political plot have frustrated some Alameda County recall supporters who say they just want safety. They blame Thao and Price for the surge in violent crime in Oakland since the pandemic. 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The charges were filed at the end of June following a grand jury indictment and unsealed this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Large clouds of smoke rise from an industrial-looking space where many truck cabs are parked.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1920x1283.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises from a fire burning at Schnitzer Steel in Oakland on Aug. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If found guilty, Radius would be liable for between $625,000 and $33 million in criminal fines, according to Price’s office. Woltmann and Morales could face up to three years in county jail, in addition to financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that Radius has often shrugged off the regulations when it was convenient to them, treating minor administrative fines and civil penalties as the cost of doing business,” Price said. “There is a new day in Alameda County and we intend to hold people accountable. No one is above the law, and we will no longer have a double standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Aaron Dyer, an attorney for Radius, said the company does not treat or store hazardous waste, and it did not hide or destroy any evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully confident that the company’s actions will be proven to have prioritized public safety and compliance with the law,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Hunt, a spokesperson for the Oakland Fire Department, said the fire started in a pile of scrap metal and was likely caused by a lithium battery. The facility shreds cars and other large appliances. The size of the scrap pile prevented firefighters from reaching the source of the fire for hours, according to Hunt. County and city officials advised residents near the Port of Oakland to avoid Jack London Square and to keep windows closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most impacted areas were immediately downwind of the fire. So that was East Oakland, West Oakland and other areas along the I-80 corridor, which are historically overburdened communities that kind of experience a disproportionate impact and exposure to poor air pollution already,” Michael Flagg, principal air quality specialist at Bay Area Air Quality Management District told KQED in August 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates have long called for the facility to leave the city, citing harmful smoke from frequent fires. The facility was the site of large fires in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832073/as-file-suit-against-state-agency-to-regulate-steel-recycler\">Oakland A’s sued\u003c/a> to have the waste materials created by the plant reclassified as hazardous, alleging that five smaller fires had occurred at the facility since 2018. The A’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/State-Supreme-Court-rejects-Oakland-A-s-legal-17726660.php\">lost\u003c/a> the legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past investigations by the Alameda County DA and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control found that the facility released particulate matter contaminated with hazardous metals such as lead, cadmium and zinc. The investigations were cited in a 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-announces-41-million-settlement-schnitzer-steel\">settlement\u003c/a> between Schnitzer and the state Department of Justice over “the release of toxic air contaminants and hazardous particulates” in West Oakland and across the Oakland estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Price called the number of fires significant, the Oakland Fire Department said fires at the facility “are not frequent” compared to other fire sources the city responds to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Awareness and interest in fires at Schnitzer has grown over the last few years,” Hunt said, adding that frequent fires at homeless encampments, which often include burning plastics, pose a more daily source of local air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Gordon, the co-founder of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, an environmental justice organization, said pollution from trucks, ships and fires in and around the Port of Oakland, as well as fires at nearby homeless encampments, contribute to the poor air quality in her West Oakland neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that they saw the impact and investigated with the depth that they did,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is requesting anyone who was impacted by the fire to contact its consumer justice bureau by email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:askcjb-da@acgov.org\">askcjb-da@acgov.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking back state resources from local jurisdictions that don’t act on his priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve days ago, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993611/newsom-to-quadruple-chp-deployment-in-oakland-ramping-up-states-policing-role\">rescinded an offer\u003c/a> to send a state attorney to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office to assist with drug prosecutions, saying the offer had not been “enthusiastically embraced” by District Attorney Pamela Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, last week, he revoked a $10 million grant for San Diego County to build tiny homes for people experiencing homelessness because, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/16/newsom-withdraws-10m-tiny-homes-grant-for-san-diego-00168514\">reporting\u003c/a> by Politico, officials didn’t act fast enough to build the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who has faced criticism from conservatives on the state’s handling of homelessness and public safety, has ratcheted up his focus on these issues in recent months. He proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982070/campaign-to-roll-back-prop-47-criminal-justice-reforms-could-head-to-voters\">a plan to reform Proposition 47\u003c/a>, which decreased penalties for property crimes; deployed California Highway Patrol officers across the state to aid local law enforcement; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/18/newsom-tougher-stance-cities-combating-homelessness-00152983#:~:text=California%20Gov.,ahead%20of%20an%20announcement%20Thursday.\">announced a plan\u003c/a> to hold cities accountable if they fail to build low-income housing, among other actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us have to step up and be accountable. It’s a serious moment, a crisis for members of the community,” Newsom said at a press conference in Oakland on July 11, adding that Alameda County wasn’t responding with urgency to address public safety challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/exploration/crime-statistics/crimes-clearances\">data\u003c/a> from the state Department of Justice, violent crime has been on the rise in the county since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than lament about it and just spend all my time pointing fingers, we’re now working around this,” Newsom said, announcing the state attorney he’d planned to send to Price’s office is now being rerouted to work with the state Attorney General’s office on cases that originate in the county.[aside postID=news_11993611 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240711-NEWSOM-CARS-AF-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Price, who faces a recall election in November, immediately swung back. She accused Newsom of acting rashly and said he disregarded how the negotiations played out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope the governor will get the facts and call us,” Price said at her own press conference on July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom first announced his plan to provide the Alameda DA’s office with extra state attorneys \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975161/newsom-to-send-state-prosecutors-to-oakland-to-help-crack-down-on-rising-crime\">in February.\u003c/a> The plan was modeled after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-fentanyl-drug-crisis-sf-breed-tenderloin-17911401.php\">similar partnership\u003c/a> agreement made with San Francisco’s District Attorney in 2023. The February announcement was timed to coincide with a deployment of California Highway Patrol officers to assist East Bay law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was seemingly simple: The three California National Guard working in San Francisco would transition to Alameda County as they finished their assignments, according to Price. Because of limits on what military personnel can work on, the attorneys would only be able to assist in drug prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Price said she welcomed the assistance, but details remained hazy about who the attorneys were, when they would arrive and how long they would stay in Alameda County. Price said she was notified of Newsom’s February plan one day before the public announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said there was initially confusion about how her office handles drug cases. The vast majority of drug cases follow what is called a horizontal prosecution model, which means attorneys are assigned to different parts of the court process. As a criminal case progresses, it moves from one attorney to the next. In any given case, for example, one attorney decides what charges to apply, another handles the arraignment of the defendant, another files preliminary motions and yet another manages the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some serious drug cases are handled by a coalition of law enforcement officers and prosecutors known as the Alameda County Narcotics Task Force. Assistant District Attorney Michael Nieto represents the DA’s office on the task force. He works in a vertical prosecution model, which means he handles cases from charging to disposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said Col. Mark Inaba, the Cal Guard attorney coordinating with her office, wanted the attorneys to work on serious drug cases and trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t operate like that,” Price recalled telling Inaba in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, alleged drug crimes made up 4% of felony arrests in Alameda County, compared to nearly 18% in San Francisco, according to data from the state Department of Justice. Price said the vast majority of the county’s drug cases are misdemeanors that often get resolved in the county’s diversion courts, not through criminal trials. Price said Inaba provided her office with a draft agreement regarding the attorneys’ work in the office and the attorneys’ resumes in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office sent \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/10yZPFwURVv0Qx4seEL4KnhQT6557Wmnu/view?pli=1\">a letter\u003c/a> to Price, dated the day before, announcing the decision to rescind his offer and outlining their efforts to facilitate the state attorney’s onboarding in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the letter, Cal Guard offered Price a legal advisor and judge advocate, both attorneys, who would work to support “the single person in your office assigned to handle narcotics cases.” Price said this referred to Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price and Lt. Col. Brandon Hill, a spokesperson for Cal Guard, said the offer was for one attorney. Hill said the idea was to get that attorney in place in the office and then assess the need to scale up or down. Price said that the first attorney was supposed to be Maj. Frank Noey, who is serving with Cal Guard while on temporary leave from the Placer County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office interviewed Noey in May, according to Hill. That month, Price said Noey went on vacation, delaying the process. Hill said Cal Guard’s main point of contact in the DA’s office was Otis Bruce Jr., Price’s then-chief assistant district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce stopped responding and Cal Guard didn’t hear from Price’s office again, Hill said. At the end of June, Price announced Bruce had resigned. At a press conference on June 25, Price declined to say why Bruce, who was previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/07/10/marin-files-detail-misconduct-allegations-against-senior-prosecutor/\">accused of misconduct\u003c/a> in the Marin District Attorney’s Office, resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce and Noey did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Newsom announced he was rescinding the offer to the DA’s office on July 10, five months had passed since the announcement of the plan. It took two weeks for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office to onboard Cal Guard attorneys, Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would I have wanted it to go faster? Of course. I want everything to go fast,” Price told KQED on Wednesday, adding that it regularly takes the county months to onboard new employees. “I think that there was not enough understanding about how our office works or how the county functions. We’re not the city and County of San Francisco, and that was their expectation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly how long Noey would have been in the office is a point of disagreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said her understanding was that Noey was available from June 1 to Aug. 12 at the latest — 48 business days. According to Cal Guard, Noey would have been available for 60 days with the possibility of extending to 90. In his work email auto-response from the Placer County DA’s office, Noey said he expects to return to the county by July 29.[aside postID=news_11995937 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1322370857-1020x680.jpg']“If we’re going to bring someone on and train them and embed them in the office, I would want them to be here longer,” Price said at her July 11 press conference. “I thought that it would be more effective to have a lawyer who is actually trained and able to continue the case beyond a short period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price also said there was a mismatch between the governor’s priorities and her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has a focus on working with CHP to address drug cases. We’re doing that already,” Price said. “Our office is focused on prosecuting serious homicides and prosecuting organized retail theft and prosecuting home invasions, burglaries and carjackings. These are the things that the residents of Alameda County, unfortunately, are experiencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom made one comment that particularly irked Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The head of the narcotics unit actually has left,” Newsom said on July 11, referring to Nieto, who Newsom recently appointed to become a Superior Court Judge in Contra Costa County. “So now the unit has no supervisor and actually no personnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said the statement was misleading. The DA’s office doesn’t have a specific narcotics unit, and Nieto hasn’t left yet because his appointment has not been confirmed. Price said the statement created the impression that her office isn’t prosecuting drug crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that we have a substance abuse and an addiction problem in Alameda County, and we’re using all of our tools to address it, not just one lawyer,” Price said Wednesday. “That was ridiculous to say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said missing out on potentially two to three months of support from a Cal Guard attorney “is not particularly significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have our priorities, as does the governor,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>contributed to the reporting\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Price, who faces a recall election in November, immediately swung back. She accused Newsom of acting rashly and said he disregarded how the negotiations played out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope the governor will get the facts and call us,” Price said at her own press conference on July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom first announced his plan to provide the Alameda DA’s office with extra state attorneys \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975161/newsom-to-send-state-prosecutors-to-oakland-to-help-crack-down-on-rising-crime\">in February.\u003c/a> The plan was modeled after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-fentanyl-drug-crisis-sf-breed-tenderloin-17911401.php\">similar partnership\u003c/a> agreement made with San Francisco’s District Attorney in 2023. The February announcement was timed to coincide with a deployment of California Highway Patrol officers to assist East Bay law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was seemingly simple: The three California National Guard working in San Francisco would transition to Alameda County as they finished their assignments, according to Price. Because of limits on what military personnel can work on, the attorneys would only be able to assist in drug prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Price said she welcomed the assistance, but details remained hazy about who the attorneys were, when they would arrive and how long they would stay in Alameda County. Price said she was notified of Newsom’s February plan one day before the public announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said there was initially confusion about how her office handles drug cases. The vast majority of drug cases follow what is called a horizontal prosecution model, which means attorneys are assigned to different parts of the court process. As a criminal case progresses, it moves from one attorney to the next. In any given case, for example, one attorney decides what charges to apply, another handles the arraignment of the defendant, another files preliminary motions and yet another manages the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some serious drug cases are handled by a coalition of law enforcement officers and prosecutors known as the Alameda County Narcotics Task Force. Assistant District Attorney Michael Nieto represents the DA’s office on the task force. He works in a vertical prosecution model, which means he handles cases from charging to disposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said Col. Mark Inaba, the Cal Guard attorney coordinating with her office, wanted the attorneys to work on serious drug cases and trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t operate like that,” Price recalled telling Inaba in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, alleged drug crimes made up 4% of felony arrests in Alameda County, compared to nearly 18% in San Francisco, according to data from the state Department of Justice. Price said the vast majority of the county’s drug cases are misdemeanors that often get resolved in the county’s diversion courts, not through criminal trials. Price said Inaba provided her office with a draft agreement regarding the attorneys’ work in the office and the attorneys’ resumes in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PamelaPrice0624-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on June 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office sent \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/10yZPFwURVv0Qx4seEL4KnhQT6557Wmnu/view?pli=1\">a letter\u003c/a> to Price, dated the day before, announcing the decision to rescind his offer and outlining their efforts to facilitate the state attorney’s onboarding in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the letter, Cal Guard offered Price a legal advisor and judge advocate, both attorneys, who would work to support “the single person in your office assigned to handle narcotics cases.” Price said this referred to Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price and Lt. Col. Brandon Hill, a spokesperson for Cal Guard, said the offer was for one attorney. Hill said the idea was to get that attorney in place in the office and then assess the need to scale up or down. Price said that the first attorney was supposed to be Maj. Frank Noey, who is serving with Cal Guard while on temporary leave from the Placer County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office interviewed Noey in May, according to Hill. That month, Price said Noey went on vacation, delaying the process. Hill said Cal Guard’s main point of contact in the DA’s office was Otis Bruce Jr., Price’s then-chief assistant district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce stopped responding and Cal Guard didn’t hear from Price’s office again, Hill said. At the end of June, Price announced Bruce had resigned. At a press conference on June 25, Price declined to say why Bruce, who was previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/07/10/marin-files-detail-misconduct-allegations-against-senior-prosecutor/\">accused of misconduct\u003c/a> in the Marin District Attorney’s Office, resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce and Noey did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Newsom announced he was rescinding the offer to the DA’s office on July 10, five months had passed since the announcement of the plan. It took two weeks for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office to onboard Cal Guard attorneys, Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would I have wanted it to go faster? Of course. I want everything to go fast,” Price told KQED on Wednesday, adding that it regularly takes the county months to onboard new employees. “I think that there was not enough understanding about how our office works or how the county functions. We’re not the city and County of San Francisco, and that was their expectation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly how long Noey would have been in the office is a point of disagreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said her understanding was that Noey was available from June 1 to Aug. 12 at the latest — 48 business days. According to Cal Guard, Noey would have been available for 60 days with the possibility of extending to 90. In his work email auto-response from the Placer County DA’s office, Noey said he expects to return to the county by July 29.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If we’re going to bring someone on and train them and embed them in the office, I would want them to be here longer,” Price said at her July 11 press conference. “I thought that it would be more effective to have a lawyer who is actually trained and able to continue the case beyond a short period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price also said there was a mismatch between the governor’s priorities and her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has a focus on working with CHP to address drug cases. We’re doing that already,” Price said. “Our office is focused on prosecuting serious homicides and prosecuting organized retail theft and prosecuting home invasions, burglaries and carjackings. These are the things that the residents of Alameda County, unfortunately, are experiencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom made one comment that particularly irked Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The head of the narcotics unit actually has left,” Newsom said on July 11, referring to Nieto, who Newsom recently appointed to become a Superior Court Judge in Contra Costa County. “So now the unit has no supervisor and actually no personnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said the statement was misleading. The DA’s office doesn’t have a specific narcotics unit, and Nieto hasn’t left yet because his appointment has not been confirmed. Price said the statement created the impression that her office isn’t prosecuting drug crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that we have a substance abuse and an addiction problem in Alameda County, and we’re using all of our tools to address it, not just one lawyer,” Price said Wednesday. “That was ridiculous to say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said missing out on potentially two to three months of support from a Cal Guard attorney “is not particularly significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have our priorities, as does the governor,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>contributed to the reporting\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The union representing prosecutors in the office of Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> voted in favor of recalling their boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a wide-ranging press conference on Tuesday, Price said the union is upset because she is rooting out misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prosecutors’ union, at this point, represents a very small percentage of our employees and, unfortunately, the timing is indicative of the fact that this office has had a legacy and a history of unethical behavior,” Price said, noting that the union contributed $125,000 to her opponent’s campaign in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the vote by the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association, Price, who will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986400/alameda-county-district-attorney-will-face-a-recall-election-in-november\">face a recall election in November\u003c/a>, talked about gun violence, the reorganization of her office, the resignation of her second in command and the county’s review of death penalty cases tainted by alleged prosecutorial misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when top elected officials in Alameda County and Oakland are fighting allegations of misconduct and mismanagement, and as Oakland recovers from a mass shooting at Lake Merritt, Price defended her administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said she believed the union’s recall vote was in response to her administration’s review of death penalty convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court of Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983705/allegations-of-prosecutorial-bias-spark-review-of-death-penalty-convictions-in-alameda-county\">directed\u003c/a> Price’s office to review all death penalty convictions for signs of prosecutorial misconduct. The directive came after evidence indicating county prosecutors may have excluded Black and Jewish jurors was found in the case of Ernest Dykes, who sits on death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the latest allegation that prosecutors systematically prevented Black and Jewish residents from serving on death penalty juries in the 1980s and 1990s. The rejection was based on the belief that Black and Jewish jurors were more likely to oppose the death penalty. Price was elected in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure that there are people who are leading the prosecutors’ union who have a problem with that. The whole world is watching and horrified by what we have uncovered,” Price said. “Our effort to hold prosecutors accountable for this kind of misconduct and other ethical lapses has been met with resistance from the prosecutors’ union before we arrived and certainly since we’ve been here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, there are currently 37 people on death row who were convicted in Alameda County, including Dykes. Price’s office told KQED it is reviewing 35 cases. The review could lead to resentencing or retrials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are under the mandate to review all of the cases,” Price said. “We’re continuing to meet with Judge Chhabria as well as the California Attorney General’s office, as well as defense counsel in the cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price announced that Otis Bruce, the chief assistant DA, had resigned. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/07/11/courts/otis-bruce-jr-marin-county-da-misconduct-investigation/#:~:text=But%20Bruce%20did%20make%20headlines,as%20they%20discussed%20a%20case.\">reporting\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>Berkeley Scanner\u003c/em>, Bruce made disparaging remarks about Pacific Islanders to an Asian American prosecutor in 2023 and allegedly fostered an environment of fear when he worked for the Marin County DA, his post, before joining Price’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price did not elaborate on why Bruce, who was replaced by Evanthia Pappas, resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we go through this transition, I think that it will be a great opportunity, as I mentioned, for others who have been longtime prosecutors in this office to prosper,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office’s reorganization includes the addition of two new divisions: gender justice and advancing justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and Alameda County have been rocked by a series of incidents recently. Earlier this month, Price and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988718/alameda-county-sheriffs-office-and-district-attorney-take-to-facebook-to-air-charging-dispute\">disputed a charging decision\u003c/a> publicly on Facebook. At the center of the conflict was a federal parole violation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 12, Patricia Lee, a former public information officer for Price, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990321/lawsuit-claims-alameda-county-da-is-biased-against-asians-how-will-it-impact-the-recall\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against Alameda County and Price, alleging Price made anti-Asian remarks and fired her in retaliation for speaking up about violations of public transparency laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 19, 14 people were shot near Lake Merritt after a Juneteenth celebration. Price said that there were multiple shooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investigation of the Juneteenth incident at Lake Merritt is ongoing,” she said. “There are a lot of videos. We need reliable witnesses so that the Oakland Police Department can, in fact, determine what happened and who is accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning after the mass shooting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">federal agents raided\u003c/a> Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, throwing the embattled leader into further turmoil as she faces an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">upcoming recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s initial silence began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991429/after-oakland-fbi-raids-and-juneteenth-shooting-where-is-mayor-sheng-thao\">fueling speculation\u003c/a> about her future. On Monday, she gave a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991658/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-to-make-first-public-comments-since-fbi-raids\">defiant public statement\u003c/a>. A day later, Francis Zamora, her chief spokesperson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991794/oakland-mayors-press-chief-resigns-after-fbi-raids-as-turmoil-mounts\">resigned\u003c/a>. Thao also parted ways with Anthony Brass, a San Francisco-based attorney who represented her. No City Council allies have spoken out in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price declined to comment on the FBI raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am saddened by what we are experiencing in this season. I know that all of us are traumatized by the events that we have observed, starting with Wednesday night’s mass shooting and then followed by the raid on Thursday morning,” Price said. “I think that we all should reserve judgment until we know the facts, and I think we should all pray for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when top elected officials in Alameda County and Oakland are fighting allegations of misconduct and mismanagement, and as Oakland recovers from a mass shooting at Lake Merritt, Price defended her administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said she believed the union’s recall vote was in response to her administration’s review of death penalty convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court of Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983705/allegations-of-prosecutorial-bias-spark-review-of-death-penalty-convictions-in-alameda-county\">directed\u003c/a> Price’s office to review all death penalty convictions for signs of prosecutorial misconduct. The directive came after evidence indicating county prosecutors may have excluded Black and Jewish jurors was found in the case of Ernest Dykes, who sits on death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the latest allegation that prosecutors systematically prevented Black and Jewish residents from serving on death penalty juries in the 1980s and 1990s. The rejection was based on the belief that Black and Jewish jurors were more likely to oppose the death penalty. Price was elected in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure that there are people who are leading the prosecutors’ union who have a problem with that. The whole world is watching and horrified by what we have uncovered,” Price said. “Our effort to hold prosecutors accountable for this kind of misconduct and other ethical lapses has been met with resistance from the prosecutors’ union before we arrived and certainly since we’ve been here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, there are currently 37 people on death row who were convicted in Alameda County, including Dykes. Price’s office told KQED it is reviewing 35 cases. The review could lead to resentencing or retrials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are under the mandate to review all of the cases,” Price said. “We’re continuing to meet with Judge Chhabria as well as the California Attorney General’s office, as well as defense counsel in the cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price announced that Otis Bruce, the chief assistant DA, had resigned. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/07/11/courts/otis-bruce-jr-marin-county-da-misconduct-investigation/#:~:text=But%20Bruce%20did%20make%20headlines,as%20they%20discussed%20a%20case.\">reporting\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>Berkeley Scanner\u003c/em>, Bruce made disparaging remarks about Pacific Islanders to an Asian American prosecutor in 2023 and allegedly fostered an environment of fear when he worked for the Marin County DA, his post, before joining Price’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price did not elaborate on why Bruce, who was replaced by Evanthia Pappas, resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we go through this transition, I think that it will be a great opportunity, as I mentioned, for others who have been longtime prosecutors in this office to prosper,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office’s reorganization includes the addition of two new divisions: gender justice and advancing justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and Alameda County have been rocked by a series of incidents recently. Earlier this month, Price and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988718/alameda-county-sheriffs-office-and-district-attorney-take-to-facebook-to-air-charging-dispute\">disputed a charging decision\u003c/a> publicly on Facebook. At the center of the conflict was a federal parole violation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 12, Patricia Lee, a former public information officer for Price, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990321/lawsuit-claims-alameda-county-da-is-biased-against-asians-how-will-it-impact-the-recall\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against Alameda County and Price, alleging Price made anti-Asian remarks and fired her in retaliation for speaking up about violations of public transparency laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 19, 14 people were shot near Lake Merritt after a Juneteenth celebration. 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I know that all of us are traumatized by the events that we have observed, starting with Wednesday night’s mass shooting and then followed by the raid on Thursday morning,” Price said. “I think that we all should reserve judgment until we know the facts, and I think we should all pray for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Patricia Lee, a former public information officer for Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, is suing the county and Price, alleging Price made anti-Asian remarks and fired her in retaliation for speaking up about violations of public transparency laws. The \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_nkrX_dIyAhf4HjIzvEdzF74z1c50nX/view?usp=sharing\">lawsuit was filed\u003c/a> Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/03/04/courts/pamela-price-racial-discrimination-whistleblower-retaliation-claims/\">\u003cem>The Berkeley Scanner\u003c/em>\u003c/a> first reported Lee’s allegations in March. The lawsuit builds on previous claims of anti-Asian bias in Price’s administration. Her office denies any anti-Asian bias, but the lawsuit means the narrative likely isn’t going away anytime soon. That’s bad news for Price as she faces a recall election this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context:\u003c/strong> Price has been criticized by some for her handling of two homicide cases with Asian victims in November 2021. Kevin Nishita, a security guard for a TV news crew, was killed during a robbery, and toddler Jasper Wu was killed by a stray bullet during an alleged gang-related shootout on Interstate 880 in Oakland. When Price took office in January 2023, her deputies removed special circumstances enhancements from both cases, eliminating the possibility of sentences of death or life without parole. The move was consistent with Price’s campaign stance. To some, the change made it seem like Asian victims were less important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claims of bias from within the office have added fuel to these fears. In a May 2023 letter of resignation, former Deputy DA Rebecca Warren claimed Price’s chief assistant made racist statements about Somoans. Warren also characterized an email from Price regarding Wu’s death as condescending to Chinese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view:\u003c/strong> Price resubmitted charges for the three defendants in Nishita’s case in February. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alcoda.org/alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price-resubmits-charges-against-three-defendants-in-the-kevin-nishita-murder-case/\">press release\u003c/a>, her office highlighted the long sentences — 189, 151 and 78 years, respectively — the defendants would face if convicted of all counts. It was a pivot from her insistence on the campaign trail that long sentences don’t make communities safer — a stance backed by \u003ca href=\"https://perma.cc/2KJL-SAE8\">U.S. Department of Justice research\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, Price attended a town hall in Oakland’s Chinatown to meet with residents and listen to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the midst of shouting and controversy and people having signs, we’re still having a conversation,” Price said, sitting alongside Trevelyon Jones, Oakland Police Department’s interim assistant chief. “Tell us what the issues are. We’re in the midst of a crisis, and yet we are all working to find solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The big picture:\u003c/strong> The racial dynamics at play here are hard to ignore. There is a long history of tension between Black and Asian communities in America (and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/opinion/asian-black-americans-community.html\">long history of solidarity)\u003c/a>. Price is the county’s first Black district attorney, and she took office amidst a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes. Concerns the justice system wasn’t taking the anti-Asian violence seriously enough \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915634/why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges\">contributed to District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s recall in San Francisco in 2022\u003c/a>. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regardless of the outcome of Lee’s lawsuit, the larger narrative it fits into is something Price will continue to contend with.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next:\u003c/strong> The county and the DA will likely ask the court to dismiss Lee’s case, but if that doesn’t work, they’ll have to decide whether to fight or settle. Settlement would wrap the issue quickly but could imply some admission of guilt, something recall supporters would not let go quietly. Taking the case to trial would drag out the controversy for months, ensuring this narrative would haunt Price throughout her campaign against the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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