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He argued that the policy violates California’s constitutional right to privacy, as well as the state’s equal protection clause and state laws that guarantee students the equal right to an education regardless of their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing comments from school board members who said transgender students were suffering from a mental illness and a perversion, Bonta said the policy was plainly discriminatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In its function, in its text and in its context, this policy is destructive, it’s discriminatory and it is downright dangerous,” Bonta said. “It has no place in California, which is why we have moved in court to strike it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Desperate attempt to stop us’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sonja Shaw, Chino Valley’s school board president, was undaunted by the lawsuit, and said the district’s policy is legally sound.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Sonja Shaw, president, Chino Valley Unified School Board of Education\"]‘This is a desperate attempt to stop us, and quite honestly, it’s embarrassing that Bonta is wasting so much time and money on this.’[/pullquote]“This is a desperate attempt to stop us, and quite honestly, it’s embarrassing that Bonta is wasting so much time and money on this,” Shaw said Monday. “Every time he does something like this, it’s a gift, because it exposes who these people really are — extremists who want to come between students and their parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a boisterous meeting July 20, the Chino Valley Unified board voted 4–1 to pass the policy requiring school staff to notify parents within three days of discovering that a child has changed their gender identity. 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Several others have proposals in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Going to the voters in 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few hours after Bonta filed his lawsuit, the group Protect Kids California filed state paperwork to place \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives/active-measures\">three initiatives\u003c/a> on the fall 2024 ballot that would require schools to notify parents when students alter their gender identity; restrict girls’ locker rooms, bathrooms and sports teams to “biological” girls, based on the sex assigned them on their birth certificates; and ban surgery and hormone therapy for transgender minors.[aside postID=\"news_11959323,news_11936552\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]“These initiatives are necessary because we have a Legislature that’s out of touch with most Californians, so we’re taking these issues directly to the voters,” said Jonathan Zachreson, a Roseville City School District board member and president of Students First California, which is backing the initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has until April to gather close to 550,000 signatures per initiative to qualify for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Monday afternoon on the steps of the Capitol, backers of the initiatives said they were eager to return rights to parents, who they say are best suited to help their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are concerned with is who gets to raise our kids, who gets to raise the next generation of students in the state of California,” Essayli said. “Is it the government or is it their parents?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the event, a group of young activists confronted one of the speakers but was then surrounded by backers of the initiatives. The activists wanted to know why adults were speaking on behalf of youth who’d be affected by the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Impacts on young people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ groups said both efforts — the proposed initiatives and the school board actions — are deeply harmful to LGBTQ students, and that the state is right to intervene. The 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ustranssurvey.org/\">U.S. Trans Survey\u003c/a> found that 10% of transgender people had faced violence from a family member due to their gender identity, and 15% had run away or been forced from their homes. In general, LGBTQ youth are more prone to depression and anxiety and are four times as likely to attempt suicide as their peers, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/\"> Trevor Project,\u003c/a> which advocates for LGBTQ youth.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director, Equality California\"]‘These anti-LGBTQ policies are spreading like wildfire, and people need to realize the harmful impact that these policies have on young people.’[/pullquote]“These anti-LGBTQ policies are spreading like wildfire, and people need to realize the harmful impact that these policies have on young people,” said Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director for \u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/\">Equality California\u003c/a>, a civil rights organization focusing on LGBTQ issues. “It’s imperative that the state take action. … We’re grateful that Bonta filed this suit to uphold the rights and dignity of LGBTQ students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s confident the ballot initiatives will fail, saying that most Californians oppose “hate and discrimination, especially when it comes to LGBTQ students. 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But the district’s board president and supporters say parents have a right to know the decisions their children are making in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta is seeking a court order to immediately block the policy in Chino Valley, east of Los Angeles, which requires schools to notify parents within three days if employees become aware a student is asking to be treated as a gender other than the one listed on official records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For far too many transgender children and gender-nonconforming youth, school serves as their only safe haven — a place away from home where they can find validation, safety, privacy. We have to protect that,” he said. He argued that the policy discriminates against the students and violates the state constitution’s requirement of equal protection for all.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of nearby districts have adopted similar policies and at least one more is considering doing so. The moves have stoked fierce debates at local school board meetings amid an intense national conversation over the rights of transgender people, as other states have sought to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-health-texas-state-government-tennessee-minnesota-878a9217fa434f3ecd83738a71e40572\">impose bans on gender-affirming care\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-transgender-women-sports-ban-athletes-1c58c20cac2b191e323e4376d7949a2d\">bar trans athletes\u003c/a> from girls and women’s sports and require schools to “out” trans and nonbinary students to their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the proposals are coming from communities that have elected more conservative school board members since the COVID-19 pandemic, putting them increasingly at odds with Gov. Gavin Newsom and the other Democrats who dominate the state’s political leadership.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"California Attorney General Rob Bonta\"]‘For far too many transgender children and gender-nonconforming youth, school serves as their only safe haven — a place away from home where they can find validation, safety, privacy. We have to protect that.’[/pullquote]Among them is Chino Valley Unified President Sonja Shaw, who said the lawsuit was no surprise as state officials have repeatedly taken steps “to shut parents out of their children’s lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will stand our ground and protect our children with all we can because we are not breaking the law,” Shaw said in a text message. “Parents have a constitutional right in the upbringing of their children. Period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chino Valley spokesperson Andi Johnston said the district’s policy protects transgender students by requiring schools to notify social services or law enforcement if the student believes they are in danger. In such circumstances, staff wouldn’t notify parents until the appropriate agencies had investigated the concern, Johnston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notification policies aren’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956879/when-culture-wars-rip-through-school-boards-should-the-state-intervene\">the only battle\u003c/a> between local schools and California officials. Earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-temecula-harvey-milk-curriculum-6fceefd6ebe1a201749dccfff7ed975a\">threatened to fine\u003c/a> the Temecula Valley Unified School District after it rejected an elementary school social studies curriculum that included books mentioning politician and gay rights advocate Harvey Milk. The district later reversed course on the curriculum decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are also considering legislation aimed at ensuring school curricula reflects gender, racial and cultural diversity. The bill would require the California Department of Education to release guidance on managing conversations about race and gender at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Newsom said state lawmakers were drafting legislation to address policies to notify parents that their child changed their gender identity. But Assemblymember Chris Ward, vice chair of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, said they won’t introduce the legislation this year.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"President Sonja Shaw, Chino Valley Unified School District\"]‘We will stand our ground and protect our children with all we can because we are not breaking the law. Parents have a constitutional right in the upbringing of their children. Period.’[/pullquote]“Recognizing the nuance and complexity of this work, we are continuing to refine our legislative approach. . . to ensure the most comprehensive and responsible legislation is proposed,” Ward, a Democrat representing San Diego, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parental notification policies began cropping up after Republican state lawmaker Bill Essayli proposed a statewide bill on the issue that never received a hearing in Sacramento. He then shifted focus and started working with local school board members like Shaw and the California Family Council to draft the notification policy that was voted on in Chino Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temecula Valley and Murrieta Valley have also adopted similar policies, and Orange Unified is debating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of systems in place to deal with physical abuse of any minor, and I think it’s wrong for the state to presume that parents are a danger and therefore take a blanket policy where they’re going to withhold information from all parents under the auspice that some parents might be harmful to their kids,” Essayli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jody Herman, a public policy scholar at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law, said requiring school staff to notify parents if their child identifies as trans is taking a “gamble” with someone’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are not uniformly accepting,” Herman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Hoang, executive directory of Equality California, said Chino Valley school board’s policy and others similar to it are “intensifying the already alarming increase of anti-LGBTQ+ hate we are experiencing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"transgender-students\"]“This lawsuit sends a clear message that discrimination and harassment have no place in our schools, and no place in California,” said Hoang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are also caught in the debate. Greg Goodlander, a high school French teacher and the president of the Orange Unified Educators Association, said the proposal has been a distraction and there’s no evidence it would enhance student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teachers are not trained on how to handle this situation, and this has not been negotiated with the association in our contract,” Goodlander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orange Unified, a diverse district made up of residents with wide-ranging political views, board members sparred during a recent debate about the proposal. Supporters said parents ought to be involved in these issues so they can advocate for their children and seek counseling where appropriate, while opponents said the move would discriminate against transgender students and insert government into family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of issue should be between a parent and a child,” said Orange Unified board member Kris Erickson, who opposes the policy. “It shouldn’t be between a teacher, a parent and a child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophie Austin is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Staff contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and legislators on a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953121/reparations-task-force-can-greater-educational-investment-close-californias-racial-achievement-gap\">task force\u003c/a> on inclusive education extracted commitments Wednesday from publishers and vowed more oversight with potential penalties on school boards that resist state policies on inclusive materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force’s news conference and legislative hearing served as a warning to textbook companies not to retreat under pressure from giving students access to frank and positive portrayals of California’s diverse population — or risk hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of our textbooks haven’t kept up with that diversity. This is a chance to diversify those narratives,” Thurmond said. “This is all happening against the backdrop of where you have governors in other states literally trying to strip out any representation about race, about the experience of LGBTQ+ students, students with disabilities. California’s going in the other direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The session also coincided with heated confrontations this month in some California districts — \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2023/06/20/protests-over-lgbtq-issues-bring-drama-to-glendale-school-board-meeting/?utm_email=549A44C674A504FEC5E3F564EF&lctg=549A44C674A504FEC5E3F564EF&active=yesD&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Story+Button&utm_campaign=scng-ladn-breaking-news&utm_content=alert\">arguments in Glendale Unified\u003c/a> over support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pride\">Pride month\u003c/a>, and an investigation by the California Department of Education and Attorney General Rob Bonta into the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/%202023/temecula-valley-school-board-fires-superintendent-jodi-mcclay-as-protests-erupt-outside/692340\">Temecula Valley Unified board’s rejection\u003c/a> of a curriculum recommended by a committee of teachers and parents because it mentioned gay activist and leader Harvey Milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1352\">Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would add teeth to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/senatebill48faq.asp\">FAIR Education Act\u003c/a>, a 2011 law that requires textbooks to include the contributions of racial and ethnic groups and LGBTQ+ people while prohibiting their negative portrayals. Along with expressly prohibiting a school board from contradicting state laws requiring “inclusive policies, practices, and curriculum,” it would authorize a school board to censure and, by a two-thirds vote, oust a member who tried to do so. Bonta’s spouse is the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond announced the membership of the 10-member task force, co-chaired with Sen. Monique Limon, D-Santa Barbara, with all Democratic legislators, this week. Although the first session focused on school textbooks, Thurmond said the task force would be a source of ideas for developing and advocating for legislation on inclusive practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB5\">AB 5\u003c/a>, by task force member Rick Chavez Zbur, an Assemblymember from Santa Monica, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1078\">AB 1078\u003c/a>, by task force member Corey Jackson, an assemblymember from Perris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 5, backed by the California Teachers Association, would develop training in LGBTQ cultural competency for teachers and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Santa Monica)\"]‘Representation is crucial for youth who may feel that they are all alone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1078 originally called for school districts to seek state board approval before banning a book from schools or school libraries or seeking to not teach a required curriculum. As currently amended, it would only require the California Department of Education to guide districts and charter schools on how to conduct conversations about race and gender, and how to review instructional materials to ensure they are culturally relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond, task force members and speakers Wednesday said they’d favor more oversight state of school districts to prevent actions like that of the Temecula Valley Unified board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our students have been asking for the right to not be bullied because they’re LGBTQ+ students. They have been bullied by adults simply for raising their voices for what they believe. There is legislation that will address the actions of these school boards,” said Thurmond. One would impose a fee for any district that bans a book, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11953770 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/Thurmond.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in a navy business suit, gray tie and white shirt is sitting at a table with a notepad and pen in front of him speaking with his hands extending out. 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He warned of potential penalties on school boards that resist state policies on such materials. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oversight of curriculum implementation is critical to ensure that all students are seen, respected and valued,” Zbur said. “Representation is crucial for youth who may feel that they are all alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When districts try to censor history, hold them accountable,” said Don Romesburg, a professor of gender studies and history at Sonoma State. “I know this is a local-control state, and that is wonderful, but that shouldn’t allow ideologues to run roughshod over law, policy and processes based in careful deliberation, public input and scholarship-based evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond used the session both to explain why diverse students benefit when they see themselves in instructional materials and to wheedle pledges for inclusivity from the four textbook companies that attended.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Don Romesburg, professor of gender studies and history, Sonoma State\"]‘When districts try to censor history, hold them accountable.’[/pullquote]“Inclusive education is more than ‘woke education,’ as some have called it. 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The company didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, more than three dozen migrants arrived in Sacramento on the flights Friday and Monday. Most are from Colombia and Venezuela. California had not been their intended destination, and shelters and aid workers were taken by surprise, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s group was dropped off at the Roman Catholic Church diocese’s headquarters in Sacramento. U.S. immigration officials had already processed them in Texas and given them court dates for their asylum cases, and none had planned to arrive in California, said Eddie Carmona, campaign director at PICO California, a faith-based group helping the migrants in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers can change the location of their court appearances, but many are reluctant to try and instead prefer sticking with a firm date, at least for their initial appearances. 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The same men were on the flight Monday, Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see leaders and governments of other states and the state of Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis, acting with cruelty and inhumanity and moral bankruptcy and being petty and small and hurtful and harmful to those vulnerable asylum seekers is blood-boiling,” Bonta said in a Monday interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the migrants who arrived Friday told Bonta they had met each other on their nearly three-month journey to the United States and decided to stick together to keep each other safe as they slept on the streets in several countries, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the migrants arrived in California Monday, a Texas sheriff’s office announced it had recommended criminal charges over the two flights to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-florida-immigration-ron-desantis-san-antonio-fc33092bca2af532841e583b73e24b7f\">Martha’s Vineyard last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Garcia, a spokesperson for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, said the office is not naming suspects at this time. It’s not clear whether the local district attorney will pursue the charges, which include misdemeanor and felony counts of unlawful restraint, according to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Immigration' tag='immigration']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had no specifics as to why the immigrants were taken from Texas to New Mexico before being flown to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Lujan Grisham stresses, yet again, the urgent need for comprehensive, thoughtful federal immigration reform which is rooted in a humanitarian response that keeps border communities in mind,” the governor’s spokesperson, Caroline Sweeney, said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, DeSantis directed Republican lawmakers in Florida to create a program in his office dedicated to migrant relocations. It specified that the state could transport migrants from locations anywhere in the country. The law was designed to get around questions about the legality of transporting people on a flight that originated in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida’s alleged role in the arrival of the two groups in Sacramento is sure to escalate the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-president-democrats-2024-843877ca6aca701a5a68b8cb022203a2\">political feud between DeSantis and Newsom\u003c/a>, who have offered conflicting visions on immigration, abortion and a host of other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Olga Rodriguez reported from San Francisco. Associated Press writers Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The state of Florida picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901984/for-asylum-seekers-finding-a-lawyer\">asylum seekers\u003c/a> on the Texas border Monday and took them by private jet to California’s capital city at taxpayer expense for the second time in four days, California officials said, prompting allegations that migrants were misled and catching shelters and aid workers by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis\u003c/a> and other state officials were mum, as they were initially last year when they flew 49 Venezuelan migrants to the upscale Massachusetts enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, luring them onto private jets from a shelter in San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California Attorney General Rob Bonta investigated the migrants’ transportation, local officials and faith-based groups sought to provide housing, food and other resources to the more than three dozen new arrivals. Many were from Colombia and Venezuela, and California had not been their intended destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, lashed out at DeSantis as a “small, pathetic man” and suggested the state could pursue kidnapping charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the migrants arrived in California, a Texas sheriff’s office announced Monday it has recommended criminal charges over the two flights to Martha’s Vineyard last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Garcia, spokesperson for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, said that at this time they are not naming suspects. It’s not clear whether the district attorney will pursue the charges, which include misdemeanor and felony counts of unlawful restraint, according to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man is looking off to his right shoulder in a room full of large paintings that hang on white walls. 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Instead, they were approached in El Paso by people with Florida-linked paperwork, sent to New Mexico, then put on private flights to California’s capital, California officials and advocates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSantis, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run for president, has been a fierce critic of federal immigration policy under President Joe Biden and has heavily publicized Florida’s role in past instances in which migrants were transported to Democratic-led states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Immigration' tag='immigration']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has made the migrant relocation program one of his signature political priorities, using the state legislative process to direct millions of dollars to it and working with multiple contractors to carry out the flights. \u003ca class=\"paragraph-link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-florida-immigration-massachusetts-san-antonio-e88805be61d7a1a7cf71581d1c20c19f\">Vertol Systems\u003c/a>, which was paid by Florida to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, appears to be behind the flights to Sacramento, California officials said. The company didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the flight that arrived Monday carried about 20 migrants and followed the arrival Friday of 16 others from Colombia and Venezuela. The newest arrivals remained at the airport for a couple of hours and were fed before being transported to a “religious institution,” said Kim Nava, a Sacramento County spokesperson. 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And if you don’t want anyone insulting and assaulting your humanity, then you don’t do it to others. That’s it,” said Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP and pastor of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banko Brown’s family was involved with the church, and his funeral is set to take place there Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 27, Anthony shot and killed Brown, who was said to be living unhoused in San Francisco at the time, after Brown allegedly attempted to shoplift from the store’s 825 Market Street location. 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As Brown gets up and walks outside, Anthony draws his weapon and shoots Brown, who falls to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11949558 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/1-crop-1020x765.jpg']Anthony later told investigators that Brown had threatened to stab him. Witnesses could not corroborate the claim. Police did not recover a knife from Brown’s bag or the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footage prompted calls for state and federal prosecutors to review the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve repeatedly watched the video and reviewed the other released evidence, and I honestly cannot see a justification for this shooting,” state Sen. 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The review does not guarantee that charges will be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banko Brown’s death was a tragedy, and I join his friends and family in wishing he was still here today,” Jenkins said in a press release. “We provided the highest degree of transparency possible that we could with this case. We welcome the Attorney General’s review and will assist and cooperate as needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Banko Brown Coverage' tag='banko-brown']This is the second time one of Jenkins’ decisions in a police killing has come under review by the state’s justice department since she took office in July 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950226/judge-dismisses-case-for-san-francisco-police-officer-who-shot-and-killed-keita-oneil\">Bonta announced he would not file charges against former San Francisco police officer Christopher Samayoa\u003c/a>, who in 2017 shot and killed carjacking suspect Keita O’Neil in the Bayview neighborhood during a chase. O’Neil was on foot when Samayoa shot him through the window of his police car, video footage of the incident shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins’ predecessor, Chesa Boudin, pursued homicide charges against Samayoa, who was on his fourth day on the job when he killed O’Neil. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This is the second time one of Jenkins’ decisions in a police killing has come under review by the state’s justice department since she took office in July 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950226/judge-dismisses-case-for-san-francisco-police-officer-who-shot-and-killed-keita-oneil\">Bonta announced he would not file charges against former San Francisco police officer Christopher Samayoa\u003c/a>, who in 2017 shot and killed carjacking suspect Keita O’Neil in the Bayview neighborhood during a chase. O’Neil was on foot when Samayoa shot him through the window of his police car, video footage of the incident shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins’ predecessor, Chesa Boudin, pursued homicide charges against Samayoa, who was on his fourth day on the job when he killed O’Neil. Jenkins dropped the case when she assumed office following a successful recall effort against Boudin, claiming the initial charges were politically motivated. Bonta agreed to review the case, but ultimately sided with Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neil’s aunt, April Green, was dismayed by Bonta’s decision to drop the case and expressed sympathies with and concerns for Brown’s family, whom she sees as undergoing a similar situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re excited that AG Bonta has decided to review the case. We hope we have better outcomes than the recent Keita O’Neil case, which he refused to charge,” said Morris, the attorney with Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence. “We are all cautious too that the review could just be smoke and mirrors to settle the community down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi officially dismissed charges against San Francisco police officer Christopher Samayoa, who shot and killed carjacking suspect Keita O’Neil during a chase in the city’s Bayview neighborhood in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, initially brought on by former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, was the first homicide prosecution of a police officer for an on-duty killing in San Francisco history. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins earlier this year moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940624/blaming-boudin-sf-d-a-brooke-jenkins-wants-to-dismiss-historic-case-against-sfpd-officer-who-killed-keita-oneil\">dismiss the case brought on by her predecessor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge’s decision came after California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday that he will not prosecute the former officer. In \u003ca href=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/23817262-5-18-23-ca-doj-letter-to-sfda-people-v-christopher-samayoa/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\">a letter to District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on May 18\u003c/a>, Bonta asserted the charges against Samayoa “cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family, friends and community members expressed outrage over the decision on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel powerless. I am really worried about the rest of our Black and brown men who live in the Bayview area because this is a license to kill,” said April Green, O’Neil’s aunt, on Friday outside the courtroom where her nephew’s case was dismissed. “He’s given an okay now for officers to have excuses and justify murdering our Black and brown men.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11942654,news_11949359,news_11940624\"]Green and her attorney, Brian Ford, said they are next seeking to have evidence from the case released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer, was locking arms with fellow advocates for police accountability on Friday at the Hall of Justice. She compared her nephew’s killing and subsequent case dismissal to other recent cases in which security or law enforcement have killed unarmed Black men in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins has said she will not prosecute the officer who shot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950110/the-family-of-sean-moore-waits-for-justice-sean-moores-family-waits-for-justice\">Sean Moore\u003c/a>, who died of his injuries three years after an officer shot him in 2017, or the Walgreens security guard who shot and killed 24-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">Banko Brown\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for the Banko [Brown] family, I feel for the Sean Moore family. Because [Bonta] is not going to do anything for them,” Green said. “He’s not going to give them a chance. He’s going to allow Brooke Jenkins to dismiss these cases without a justification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa was in his fourth day of a field training program when he fired his weapon through the window of his patrol car and hit O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man, as he tried to escape on foot, police camera footage shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa was subsequently fired. Separate from the now-dismissed criminal case, the city of San Francisco in 2021 paid O’Neil’s family $2.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"April Green\"]‘I feel for the Banko [Brown] family, I feel for the Sean Moore family. Because [Bonta] is not going to do anything for them. He’s not going to give them a chance.’[/pullquote]Nearly three years after the incident, Chesa Boudin, Jenkins’ predecessor who was recalled from office last summer, charged Samayoa with multiple counts of manslaughter and assault, marking the first homicide prosecution in San Francisco history against a police officer for an on-duty killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 8 letter to Bonta, Jenkins argued that Boudin wrongly pursued manslaughter charges against Samayoa for “political reasons and not in the interest of justice.” She said her office had also “discovered an internal conflict in the case that impacts our ability to handle the matter,” referring to opposing statements from the attorney in Boudin’s office who initially handled the case and the DA investigator who signed the arrest warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green and Ford then requested that the state’s top prosecutor pick up the case. When stepping into his current position back in 2021, shortly after nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd, Bonta proclaimed he would do more than his predecessors to hold law enforcement accountable for officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta “manipulated the Californian people to vote for him on the plate form of holding police accountable for these unjustly murders that plagues our folks,” said April Green. “We need a California Attorney General who stands by their legislation, which Bonta does not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to Jenkins, Bonta outlined testimony from SF District Attorney Investigator Jack Lundberg, who was the lead investigator in the O’Neil shooting. The letter claims Lundberg saw a simulation training video in which Samayoa, driving a patrol car, pulled over a van with expired plates. The occupants of the van then got out and charged at the patrol car as the driver pulled out a non-lethal gun and shot paintballs at Samayoa’s head. The training happened 21 days before Samayoa shot and killed O’Neil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An officer’s training is legally relevant to assessing his reactions in the actual case. In this case, Officer Samayoa’s very recent training demonstrated that a failure to act when a suspect jumps from a van and runs towards the officer can result in deadly consequences for the officer,” Bonta’s letter reads. “This supports the reasonableness of the officer’s belief that it was necessary to shoot Mr. O’Neil in self-defense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford continues to dispute the assertion that the move was an act of self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It amounts to a concocted defense, a misstatement of the standards of self-defense and cherry picks the facts,” Ford told reporters on Friday. “The fact is that our justice system, jury trials, preliminary hearings, are a fact-finding process. And the victims’ families are entitled to their day in court. They’re entitled to see the evidence, see the light to a jury of their peers, to look at the evidence and to assess the law and hold the facts up against the law to see what is there. And Rob Bonta has refused to do that. 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"content": "\u003cp>Demonstrators outside California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s San Francisco office on Monday called on him to take up a historic prosecution of a city police officer charged with shooting and killing a carjacking suspect, Keita O’Neil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of O’Neil, who were at the rally, said they were meeting with Bonta this afternoon as part of their push to sustain the first-ever prosecution of a San Francisco police officer, the man who killed O’Neil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman speaks into a microphone with people standing around her and a court building behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63466_016_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Green, aunt of Keita O’Neil, speaks outside the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023, during a rally calling on state Attorney General Rob Bonta to prosecute the former SFPD officer who killed Keita O’Neil. Judy O’Neil, mother of Keita O’Neil and sister of Green, sits beside her. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neil’s aunt, April Green, spoke on the steps of the state Supreme Court in San Francisco earlier today, saying, “At this point, Rob Bonta is our only hope. I’m hoping when he leaves that he will see the case from our perspective, but also to give the case time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charges against Christopher Samayoa, a former San Francisco police officer charged with shooting and killing O’Neil, will be officially dismissed on Tuesday, unless Bonta agrees to take up the case.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942689\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11942689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='People gathered outside a court building holding banners, with a large banner in foreground that reads \"Evict Brooke Jenkins\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63464_012_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family, friends and activists gather on the steps of the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case was most recently in the hands of San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Last month, Jenkins moved to dismiss charges against Samayoa brought by her predecessor, Chesa Boudin, about three years after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, a judge ordered a one-week delay on the dismissal decision after a heartfelt plea from Green. The reprieve was intended to give Bonta additional time to review and decide on the case.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11942239,news_11940624\"]Video footage shows Samayoa, who was in his fourth day of a field training program, shooting O’Neil during a police chase in December 2017, after O’Neil allegedly stole a California Lottery van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa is shown firing his weapon through a patrol car window and hitting O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man, as he tries to escape on foot. Samayoa was subsequently fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin, who was recalled from office last summer, charged Samayoa with multiple counts of manslaughter and assault, marking the first homicide prosecution in San Francisco history against a police officer for an on-duty killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, however, has chosen to dismiss the case, arguing in a Feb. 8 letter to Bonta that Boudin wrongly pursued manslaughter charges against Samayoa for “political reasons and not in the interest of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942688 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='An older Black woman, wearing a blue and purple cloth mask pulled to her chin, and wearing a long black trench coat and a bright blue blouse, speaks into a microphone, holding a sign that says \"Sean Moore.\" The wooden doors of the building and gold text on a transom window above them are blurred in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleo Moore, whose son, Sean Moore, was shot by San Francisco police in 2017, attends a rally in support of the family of Keita O’Neil as well as her own son outside the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenkins also said her office had “discovered an internal conflict in the case that impacts our ability to handle the matter,” referring to opposing statements from the attorney in Boudin’s office who initially handled the case and the DA investigator who signed the arrest warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent on Feb. 28, Bonta’s office disagreed that there was a conflict preventing Jenkins from taking up the case in her jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecuting Samayoa would be a historic move for Bonta, who made promises to ramp up police accountability when stepping into office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to rebuild trust between law enforcement and communities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Video footage shows Samayoa, who was in his fourth day of a field training program, shooting O’Neil during a police chase in December 2017, after O’Neil allegedly stole a California Lottery van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa is shown firing his weapon through a patrol car window and hitting O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man, as he tries to escape on foot. Samayoa was subsequently fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin, who was recalled from office last summer, charged Samayoa with multiple counts of manslaughter and assault, marking the first homicide prosecution in San Francisco history against a police officer for an on-duty killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, however, has chosen to dismiss the case, arguing in a Feb. 8 letter to Bonta that Boudin wrongly pursued manslaughter charges against Samayoa for “political reasons and not in the interest of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942688 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='An older Black woman, wearing a blue and purple cloth mask pulled to her chin, and wearing a long black trench coat and a bright blue blouse, speaks into a microphone, holding a sign that says \"Sean Moore.\" The wooden doors of the building and gold text on a transom window above them are blurred in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63458_006_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleo Moore, whose son, Sean Moore, was shot by San Francisco police in 2017, attends a rally in support of the family of Keita O’Neil as well as her own son outside the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenkins also said her office had “discovered an internal conflict in the case that impacts our ability to handle the matter,” referring to opposing statements from the attorney in Boudin’s office who initially handled the case and the DA investigator who signed the arrest warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent on Feb. 28, Bonta’s office disagreed that there was a conflict preventing Jenkins from taking up the case in her jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecuting Samayoa would be a historic move for Bonta, who made promises to ramp up police accountability when stepping into office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to rebuild trust between law enforcement and communities. And I believe that law enforcement are invaluable parts of our communities and that the vast majority want to build and earn that trust,” Bonta said in his swearing-in ceremony in 2021. “Accountability is part of that trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942691\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942691 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63475_023_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A younger African American woman, with shoulder-length black hair and a white blouse beneath a black cardigan, speaks into a microphone she holds, standing behind a large black banner that reads in white text, \"In the name of [out of frame] charge the killer.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63475_023_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63475_023_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63475_023_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63475_023_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63475_023_KQED_KeitaONeilRally_03062023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaylah Williams May speaks on the steps of the Supreme Court of California building in San Francisco on March 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cem>Correction (March 7): The original version of this story incorrectly stated that Attorney General Rob Bonta would have nine days to take up the homicide case against former SFPD officer Christopher Samayoa before the statute of limitations expires. In fact, Bonta has until Tuesday (March 7) to decide whether to take it. If he does not do so, the case will be dismissed.\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini and Beth LaBerge contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A judge on Wednesday delayed a motion from San Francisco’s district attorney to dismiss the historic prosecution of a city police officer charged with shooting and killing a carjacking suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-week delay is intended to give California Attorney General Rob Bonta additional time to determine whether to pursue the case against the officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"keita-oneil\"]“My hope is that the attorney general will give this case fresh eyes,” said San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi at a hearing on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bonta does not pursue the case or request an extension by March 7, charges against Christopher Samayoa, a former San Francisco police officer, will officially be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay comes in response to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ move last month to dismiss charges against Samayoa, who killed Keita O’Neil during a police chase in December 2017, after O’Neil allegedly stole a California Lottery van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samayoa, who was in his fourth day of a field training program, is shown on body camera firing his weapon through the window of his patrol car and hitting O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man, as he tried to escape on foot. Samayoa was subsequently fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three years after the incident, Chesa Boudin, Jenkins’ predecessor who was recalled from office last summer, charged Samayoa with multiple counts of manslaughter and assault, marking the first homicide prosecution in San Francisco history against a police officer for an on-duty killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Feb. 8 letter to Bonta, Jenkins argued that Boudin wrongly pursued manslaughter charges against Samayoa for “political reasons and not in the interest of justice.” She said her office had also “discovered an internal conflict in the case that impacts our ability to handle the matter,” referring to opposing statements from the attorney in Boudin’s office who initially handled the case and the DA investigator who signed the arrest warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge announced her decision to delay the dismissal after hearing a heartfelt plea from O’Neil’s aunt, April Green, who told reporters she hopes to meet with Bonta during the stay order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/014_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942244 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/014_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged woman with light, freckled skin and short dark hair is seated in a wheelchair holding a microphone, next to a photo of a Black man with long black locs. The woman wears a beige leather jacket and a patterned matching blouse, with gold earrings and a necklace.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/014_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/014_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/014_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/014_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/014_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Green, aunt of Keita O’Neil, speaks at a rally for her nephew outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on March 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My family has been through so much. My sister suffers every day. She lost her child,” Green said, noting that O’Neil’s mother has dementia. “All we need is some time. My nephew’s case is still alive. It’s still breathing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate from the pending criminal case, the city of San Francisco in 2021 paid O’Neil’s family $2.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green’s attorney also sent Bonta a letter last month, asking his office to take over the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both letters — from Jenkins and Green — cite Assembly Bill 1506, which puts all officer-involved shootings resulting in the death of an unarmed person within the purview of the state Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Wednesday, Jenkins said she respects the court’s decision to give Bonta’s office more time to review the case, noting her staff had already transferred the entire file to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not opposing that decision. We understand the complexity of this case … and welcome their independent review,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A fair prosecution of this case from our office is not possible because the facts and laws do not support prosecution,” Jenkins added. “The prior administration’s desire to make history blinded them; they chose to press on for personal political gain. They went to extraordinary lengths to ‘find a path,’ where there was none.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the courthouse, dozens of community members gathered to protest the dismissal with signs and chants in support of O’Neil and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that the district attorney’s office is going to effectively immunize every San Francisco police officer for anything they do up to and including murder is outrageous, and folks are right to be out here protesting in the street,” said San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston, who joined protesters on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/025_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11942282 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/025_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters holding signs march on the street behind an 'SFPD' barricade. It is a sunny day and their shadows are long beside them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/025_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/025_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/025_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/025_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/025_KQED_KeitaONeilRallySF_03012023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march outside San Francisco’s Hall of Justice on March 1, 2023, protesting the district attorney’s effort to dismiss charges against the police officer who killed Keita O’Neil in 2017. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At his confirmation hearing in 2021, Bonta pledged to ramp up police accountability and chart a new path for reform, in a shift from his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, who largely avoided prosecuting police officers charged with shooting unarmed civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A Black man was murdered. 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