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Losing by about 9 percentage points to Aaron Peskin, former Board of Supervisors president and a prominent Lee critic, Christensen released a concession statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"While there are still more ballots to be counted, the outcome is clear. I congratulate Mr. Peskin and wish him the best. Although I did not prevail last night, I am so grateful to Mayor Lee for appointing me as supervisor, and I appreciate the support of my colleagues, staff, supporters, and the residents of District Three while I served. This was an amazing opportunity and learning experience, and I look forward to continuing serving the community as an advocate for our neighborhoods in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christensen's defeat means the board's progressive bloc now enjoys a 6-5 majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, he got\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/04/mirkarimi-gets-swamped-by-vicki-hennessy\" target=\"_blank\"> swamped\u003c/a> by former Chief Deputy Sheriff Vicki Hennesy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results below include votes counted through Thursday, Nov. 5, with all precincts reporting and 89,336 vote-by-mail ballots counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Department of Elections said Thursday that it still had about 42,000 mail-in and provisional ballots to count. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Proposition A, a $310 million bond for affordable housing backed by the mayor, is passing easily, with 73.8 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee's re-election was never in doubt. He got 57 percent of first-choice votes, a percentage that increases to 69 percent after two rounds of ranked-choice voting. However, the field of what one publication's editor called \"a clown car of neophytes and eccentrics\" garnered a cumulative total of 43 percent. Make of that what you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And any feeling of invulnerability for Lee has to be tempered by the loss of Supervisor Julie Christensen, whom Lee had appointed to the District 3 seat. Losing by about 9 percentage points to Aaron Peskin, former Board of Supervisors president and a prominent Lee critic, Christensen released a concession statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"While there are still more ballots to be counted, the outcome is clear. I congratulate Mr. Peskin and wish him the best. Although I did not prevail last night, I am so grateful to Mayor Lee for appointing me as supervisor, and I appreciate the support of my colleagues, staff, supporters, and the residents of District Three while I served. This was an amazing opportunity and learning experience, and I look forward to continuing serving the community as an advocate for our neighborhoods in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christensen's defeat means the board's progressive bloc now enjoys a 6-5 majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, he got\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/04/mirkarimi-gets-swamped-by-vicki-hennessy\" target=\"_blank\"> swamped\u003c/a> by former Chief Deputy Sheriff Vicki Hennesy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results below include votes counted through Thursday, Nov. 5, with all precincts reporting and 89,336 vote-by-mail ballots counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Department of Elections said Thursday that it still had about 42,000 mail-in and provisional ballots to count. About 31,000 of them are mail-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/be-prepared-to-wait-and-wait-for-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">For the first time\u003c/a>, ballots postmarked by Election Day, and received by election officials up to three days after the election, will be counted. That means the San Francisco Department of Elections could be counting ballots through Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mayor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Choice Votes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEd Lee — 56.81%\u003cbr>\nFrancisco Herrera — 14.66%\u003cbr>\nAmy Farah Weiss — 11.8%\u003cbr>\nStuart Schuffman — 9.32%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/guide-to-s-f-mayoral-candidates-lee-vs-people-powered-challengers\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to the mayoral race\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sheriff\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Final result pending\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Choice Votes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nVicki Hennessy — 61.15%\u003cbr>\nRoss Mirkarimi — 32.92%\u003cbr>\nJohn Robinson — 5.81%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/22/guide-to-s-f-sheriffs-race-can-mirkarimi-win\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to the sheriff's race\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Board of Supervisors, District 3\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Final result pending\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Choice Votes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAaron Peskin — 52.28%\u003cbr>\nJulie Christensen — 43.86%\u003cbr>\nWilma Pang — 3.76%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julie Christensen conceded to Aaron Peskin on Wednesday, Nov. 4.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/23/guide-to-s-f-district-3-race-board-majority-in-the-balance\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to the District 3 race\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition A (Affordable Housing Bond)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires 66.66% \"Yes\" vote to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 73.84%\u003cbr>\nNo — 26.16%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/25/guide-to-san-francisco-2015-ballot-propositions-a-to-k\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition B (Paid Parental Leave for City Employees)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 67.04%\u003cbr>\nNo — 32.96%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/25/guide-to-san-francisco-2015-ballot-propositions-a-to-k\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition C (Expenditure Lobbyists)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 74.76%\u003cbr>\nNo — 25.24%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/25/guide-to-san-francisco-2015-ballot-propositions-a-to-k\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition D (Mission Rock Development)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 73.63%\u003cbr>\nNo — 26.37%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/25/guide-to-san-francisco-2015-ballot-propositions-a-to-k\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition E (Requirements for Public Meetings)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 33.34%\u003cbr>\nNo — 66.66%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/25/guide-to-san-francisco-2015-ballot-propositions-a-to-k\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition F (Short-Term Residential Rentals)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 44.45%\u003cbr>\nNo — 55.55%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/06/how-san-franciscos-prop-f-would-change-airbnb-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition G (Disclosures Regarding Renewable Energy)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 22.75%\u003cbr>\nNo — 77.25%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/02/citys-cleanpowersf-program-central-to-upcoming-ballot-battle\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition H (Defining Clean, Green, and Renewable Energy)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 79.84%\u003cbr>\nNo — 20.16%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/02/citys-cleanpowersf-program-central-to-upcoming-ballot-battle\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition I (Suspension of Market-Rate Housing in the Mission District)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Requires simple majority to pass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — 42.46%\u003cbr>\nNo — 57.54%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/28/s-f-proposition-i-missions-future-central-issue-in-moratorium-vote\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to this proposition\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition J (Legacy 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"content": "\u003cp>This fall’s race for the next sheriff of San Francisco is one of the most watched contests in the city. Incumbent Ross Mirkarimi is seeking re-election after a first term overshadowed by a series of scandals. His main challenger is Vicki Hennessy, who has worked the bulk of her career in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and the city’s Department of Emergency Management. The third candidate is John Robinson, who worked for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department for 20 years and now runs a private security firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department is responsible for the county’s jails and for law enforcement at City Hall, in the civil and criminal courts, and at public hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, incumbent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is on the defensive over several scandals that have beleaguered his department since he took office in 2012. His policies came under national scrutiny when his department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/mirkarimi-immigration-authorities-trade-blame-in-pier-14-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">ignored requests\u003c/a> for cooperation from federal immigration authorities and released a man from jail who shortly thereafter was arrested for killing a young woman. His department is under fire for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">alleged misconduct\u003c/a> by deputies in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"mAhN1yTIFhtbVLpDAfRkKeYiY3iSkbtD\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor domestic violence-related charge and has most recently had to field questions about whether he failed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=1m23s\" target=\"_blank\">marksmanship test\u003c/a>. As for what he’s accomplished, Mirkarimi points to the award-winning charter high school program inside the county jail and to pushing for change in how transgender jail inmates are treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi said his status as an outsider allows him to make change: “[Former Sheriff Mike Hennessey] supported me in 2011 and he supports me in the re-election because we’re outsiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicki Hennessy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Hennessy worked in the San Francisco Sheriff's Department for over 30 years and in that time was promoted to chief deputy sheriff. Hennessy also directed the city’s emergency services for several years before retiring in 2010. In 2012, she was pulled out of retirement by Mayor Ed Lee to serve as\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/20/live-eliana-lopezs-attorney-speaks\" target=\"_blank\"> interim sheriff\u003c/a> during Sheriff Mirkarimi’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/21/read-the-suspension-documents-served-to-ross-mirkarimi-today\" target=\"_blank\">suspension\u003c/a>. Of the three candidates, Hennessy has raised the most campaign dollars -- over $244,000 as of mid-September. Her endorsements are also the most numerous and include the Deputy Sheriffs' Association and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Managers and Supervisors Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennessy said she has the executive and management experience to run the Sheriff's Department best: “I want to return proactive leadership to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Robinson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Robinson worked as a correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison and later for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department for 20 years. He retired from public service in 1994 and is now CEO of Inter-State Security Inc., a private security firm. Robinson has kept a relatively low profile in this race, raising just over $16,000 as of mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson said he wants to address racial and economic disparities in the criminal justice system and reduce the high rate of incarceration of African-Americans and Hispanics: “I am the one who is intending to identify and promulgate a new path for San Francisco. What we need to do is to figure out how to de-incarcerate our jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Debate in Studio\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We invited all three candidates to debate their views on our weekly current affairs program, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/watch/archive/288227\" target=\"_blank\">\u003ci>KQED Newsroom\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. Here are some highlights from their discussion of \u003ca href=\"#sanctuary\">sanctuary city laws\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#jail\">alleged misconduct in the jails\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#bodycam\">body cameras\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#politics\">getting along with City Hall\u003c/a>. (Excerpts have been edited for clarity and brevity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727090\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The candidates for S.F. Sheriff debate their views on KQED Newsroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The candidates for S.F. sheriff debate their views on KQED Newsroom. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"sanctuary\">\u003c/a>Sanctuary City Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department released Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez from jail earlier this year, it ignored a request for cooperation from federal immigration officials. Lopez-Sanchez had been convicted of immigration violations and deported multiple times, but San Francisco’s sanctuary laws allow local law enforcement to refrain from participating in federal immigration enforcement. Shortly after his release, Lopez-Sanchez was charged with killing Kate Steinle on July 1 as she walked along the city’s waterfront, generating national debate over sanctuary laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question:\u003c/strong> Do you stand by your decision not to contact federal authorities before letting him [Lopez-Sanchez] go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi:\u003c/strong> I do. And I think it would be a real mistake for San Francisco to get sucked into this, where politicians at City Hall are professing their support for sanctuary city yet telling me with a wink and a nod to practice something different. ... There really is a schizophrenia between our municipal laws like the one signed into effect by Mayor Lee called “Due Process For All” in 2013 and how it limits that contact with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], and the changing federal procedures of immigration and customs and enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hennessy:\u003c/strong> The takeaway is there has to be a balance of public safety along with making sure we’re providing constitutional protections. …. I think he [Mirkarimi] erred on the wrong side of public safety in this matter. But I want to say one more thing, and that is that nobody could have known that Francisco-Lopez would go out and what would happen would happen. What we did know, though, is that he was a career criminal and we were releasing him into a city where he had no money. He had no relationships. He had nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question:\u003c/strong> How would you have handled it differently if you were the sheriff? Would you have picked up the phone and called ICE?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robinson:\u003c/strong> I certainly would have. Once that warrant was dismissed, what would have been wrong with simply saying, 'Do you want this guy?'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the exchange \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=5m12s\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727457\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10727457 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Mirkarimi\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"jail\">\u003c/a>Alleged Jail Fights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Letter-re-Sheriff-Deputies-misconduct.pdf\">accused\u003c/a> correctional deputy Scott Neu and his colleagues of orchestrating fights in the back of the county jail and gambling on the outcome, among other abuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question: \u003c/strong>Ross, this happened under your watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi:\u003c/strong> And I was the one that called in the FBI, which is the first time in modern history that a sheriff has requested the FBI to come in. Typically they don’t, unless it’s court-ordered or the U.S. district attorney requires it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robinson:\u003c/strong> When I worked as the high-security unit manager, one of the things you did is you picked your officers based off of their skills and ability and training. You don’t put an individual in charge of prisoners, who had already had a claim paid out on him for over $900,000. This issue of fighting in the back of the jail is a clear example of how they don’t respect their leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hennessy:\u003c/strong> When I managed the jail, I did management by walking around. I walked around the jail constantly, and I think that it’s very important to have the supervisors understand what your expectations are. I think it’s very important to set the expectations, communicate the expectations, work on them, train to them and to make sure that they’re followed and monitored. I think that’s through supervision and that’s the people that have the boots on the ground as the supervisors. And managers have to be held responsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the exchange \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=14m24s\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10727456 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Vicki Hennessy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Hennessy \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"bodycam\">\u003c/a>Body-Worn Cameras Inside Jails\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of outfitting law enforcement officers with body-worn cameras say it will increase transparency and accountability by providing a window into officers' actions. Critics of the idea cite the cost of the technology. Both sides agree that it's crucial to develop a policy for how -- and how long -- images captured on these cameras would be retained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hennessy:\u003c/strong> There are cameras in many of the new jails and they’re in most places where there’s prisoner access. And I do think that body cameras in this case would actually help, and I do think that’s something -- particularly in this linear jail, this one-style jail that we still have left in our resources -- I think it’s important to take a look at that. I think body cameras are a tool; they’re not the answer. I think accountability, expectations, working day-to-day and no complacency [are the answer].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi:\u003c/strong> I think it could be a problem altogether with culture inside prisons and jails throughout the United States. That’s why I’m the first sheriff in California to ask for body cameras to come in the jail system. I find it incomplete that President Obama and everybody else wants body cameras fitted on law enforcement on the streets of America. I can make 10 times the reasons as to why body cameras should be in every prison and jail in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the exchange \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=17m15s\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10727458 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"John Robinson\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/robinson_crop-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Robinson \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"politics\">\u003c/a>Politics and Communication\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions between Mayor Ed Lee and Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi have been ongoing since 2012, when Mayor Lee tried to remove Mirkarimi from office as he defended himself from domestic violence charges. Since then, the two men have not met in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question: \u003c/strong>How many one-on-one meetings with Mayor Lee have you had?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi:\u003c/strong> Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question:\u003c/strong> Wouldn’t the city be better off if the mayor and sheriff were talking to each other?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi: \u003c/strong>I think we should be very careful about the oligarchy that’s forming inside City Hall, and a manipulative mayor who decides who he wants to meet with and who he does not. We’re elected to serve all the people and you don’t cherry-pick. You get the business of the people done. But I have to tell you, the net effect of what’s happened is that I’ve become extremely resourceful and effective in making this department, we together, a national leader in criminal justice reform without the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robinson: \u003c/strong>It’s essential for the sheriff to be able to communicate with the most powerful political person in this city in order to get the funds necessary in order to impact the system of recidivism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hennessy: \u003c/strong>I believe that in order to create new initiatives, you really have to work with your staff and the people on the ground who are going to be responsible for putting those initiatives into force, and I think that’s something that’s been missing. I think that what we’ve had is some leadership by headlines, particularly in The Examiner, and it’s been interesting to see that happen. I think that leadership requires effective communication but communication is sometimes, it’s listening, it’s not just talking but listening. It’s assessing and it’s got to be two-way communication up and down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the exchange \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=20m35s\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This fall’s race for the next sheriff of San Francisco is one of the most watched contests in the city. Incumbent Ross Mirkarimi is seeking re-election after a first term overshadowed by a series of scandals. His main challenger is Vicki Hennessy, who has worked the bulk of her career in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and the city’s Department of Emergency Management. The third candidate is John Robinson, who worked for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department for 20 years and now runs a private security firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department is responsible for the county’s jails and for law enforcement at City Hall, in the civil and criminal courts, and at public hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, incumbent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is on the defensive over several scandals that have beleaguered his department since he took office in 2012. His policies came under national scrutiny when his department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/mirkarimi-immigration-authorities-trade-blame-in-pier-14-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">ignored requests\u003c/a> for cooperation from federal immigration authorities and released a man from jail who shortly thereafter was arrested for killing a young woman. His department is under fire for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">alleged misconduct\u003c/a> by deputies in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor domestic violence-related charge and has most recently had to field questions about whether he failed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=1m23s\" target=\"_blank\">marksmanship test\u003c/a>. As for what he’s accomplished, Mirkarimi points to the award-winning charter high school program inside the county jail and to pushing for change in how transgender jail inmates are treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi said his status as an outsider allows him to make change: “[Former Sheriff Mike Hennessey] supported me in 2011 and he supports me in the re-election because we’re outsiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vicki Hennessy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Hennessy worked in the San Francisco Sheriff's Department for over 30 years and in that time was promoted to chief deputy sheriff. Hennessy also directed the city’s emergency services for several years before retiring in 2010. In 2012, she was pulled out of retirement by Mayor Ed Lee to serve as\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/20/live-eliana-lopezs-attorney-speaks\" target=\"_blank\"> interim sheriff\u003c/a> during Sheriff Mirkarimi’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/21/read-the-suspension-documents-served-to-ross-mirkarimi-today\" target=\"_blank\">suspension\u003c/a>. Of the three candidates, Hennessy has raised the most campaign dollars -- over $244,000 as of mid-September. Her endorsements are also the most numerous and include the Deputy Sheriffs' Association and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Managers and Supervisors Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennessy said she has the executive and management experience to run the Sheriff's Department best: “I want to return proactive leadership to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Robinson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Robinson worked as a correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison and later for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department for 20 years. He retired from public service in 1994 and is now CEO of Inter-State Security Inc., a private security firm. Robinson has kept a relatively low profile in this race, raising just over $16,000 as of mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson said he wants to address racial and economic disparities in the criminal justice system and reduce the high rate of incarceration of African-Americans and Hispanics: “I am the one who is intending to identify and promulgate a new path for San Francisco. What we need to do is to figure out how to de-incarcerate our jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Debate in Studio\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We invited all three candidates to debate their views on our weekly current affairs program, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/watch/archive/288227\" target=\"_blank\">\u003ci>KQED Newsroom\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. Here are some highlights from their discussion of \u003ca href=\"#sanctuary\">sanctuary city laws\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#jail\">alleged misconduct in the jails\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#bodycam\">body cameras\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#politics\">getting along with City Hall\u003c/a>. (Excerpts have been edited for clarity and brevity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727090\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The candidates for S.F. Sheriff debate their views on KQED Newsroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2659-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The candidates for S.F. sheriff debate their views on KQED Newsroom. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"sanctuary\">\u003c/a>Sanctuary City Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department released Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez from jail earlier this year, it ignored a request for cooperation from federal immigration officials. Lopez-Sanchez had been convicted of immigration violations and deported multiple times, but San Francisco’s sanctuary laws allow local law enforcement to refrain from participating in federal immigration enforcement. Shortly after his release, Lopez-Sanchez was charged with killing Kate Steinle on July 1 as she walked along the city’s waterfront, generating national debate over sanctuary laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question:\u003c/strong> Do you stand by your decision not to contact federal authorities before letting him [Lopez-Sanchez] go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi:\u003c/strong> I do. And I think it would be a real mistake for San Francisco to get sucked into this, where politicians at City Hall are professing their support for sanctuary city yet telling me with a wink and a nod to practice something different. ... There really is a schizophrenia between our municipal laws like the one signed into effect by Mayor Lee called “Due Process For All” in 2013 and how it limits that contact with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], and the changing federal procedures of immigration and customs and enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hennessy:\u003c/strong> The takeaway is there has to be a balance of public safety along with making sure we’re providing constitutional protections. …. I think he [Mirkarimi] erred on the wrong side of public safety in this matter. But I want to say one more thing, and that is that nobody could have known that Francisco-Lopez would go out and what would happen would happen. What we did know, though, is that he was a career criminal and we were releasing him into a city where he had no money. He had no relationships. He had nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question:\u003c/strong> How would you have handled it differently if you were the sheriff? Would you have picked up the phone and called ICE?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robinson:\u003c/strong> I certainly would have. Once that warrant was dismissed, what would have been wrong with simply saying, 'Do you want this guy?'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the exchange \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=5m12s\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727457\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10727457 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Mirkarimi\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/mirkarimi_crop.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"jail\">\u003c/a>Alleged Jail Fights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Letter-re-Sheriff-Deputies-misconduct.pdf\">accused\u003c/a> correctional deputy Scott Neu and his colleagues of orchestrating fights in the back of the county jail and gambling on the outcome, among other abuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question: \u003c/strong>Ross, this happened under your watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi:\u003c/strong> And I was the one that called in the FBI, which is the first time in modern history that a sheriff has requested the FBI to come in. Typically they don’t, unless it’s court-ordered or the U.S. district attorney requires it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robinson:\u003c/strong> When I worked as the high-security unit manager, one of the things you did is you picked your officers based off of their skills and ability and training. You don’t put an individual in charge of prisoners, who had already had a claim paid out on him for over $900,000. This issue of fighting in the back of the jail is a clear example of how they don’t respect their leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hennessy:\u003c/strong> When I managed the jail, I did management by walking around. I walked around the jail constantly, and I think that it’s very important to have the supervisors understand what your expectations are. I think it’s very important to set the expectations, communicate the expectations, work on them, train to them and to make sure that they’re followed and monitored. I think that’s through supervision and that’s the people that have the boots on the ground as the supervisors. And managers have to be held responsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the exchange \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchTiri_I0U&feature=youtu.be&t=14m24s\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10727456 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Vicki Hennessy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/hennessy_crop-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Hennessy \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"bodycam\">\u003c/a>Body-Worn Cameras Inside Jails\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of outfitting law enforcement officers with body-worn cameras say it will increase transparency and accountability by providing a window into officers' actions. Critics of the idea cite the cost of the technology. Both sides agree that it's crucial to develop a policy for how -- and how long -- images captured on these cameras would be retained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hennessy:\u003c/strong> There are cameras in many of the new jails and they’re in most places where there’s prisoner access. And I do think that body cameras in this case would actually help, and I do think that’s something -- particularly in this linear jail, this one-style jail that we still have left in our resources -- I think it’s important to take a look at that. I think body cameras are a tool; they’re not the answer. I think accountability, expectations, working day-to-day and no complacency [are the answer].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi:\u003c/strong> I think it could be a problem altogether with culture inside prisons and jails throughout the United States. That’s why I’m the first sheriff in California to ask for body cameras to come in the jail system. I find it incomplete that President Obama and everybody else wants body cameras fitted on law enforcement on the streets of America. 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"content": "\u003cp>The parents of Kate Steinle, the San Francisco woman shot and killed by a man who was in the country illegally, said Tuesday that federal and local authorities contributed to the death of their daughter through negligence and bureaucratic bungling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family alleges in legal claims made public Tuesday that a Bureau of Land Management ranger left his loaded service weapon in a backpack in plain view in his car before the weapon was stolen in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The semi-automatic pistol was later used in the July 1 killing of Steinle, 32, who was shot as she walked on the city's waterfront with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLM spokeswoman Martha Maciel said the agency is cooperating with investigation of the shooting but she declined further comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family and their attorneys filed three separate legal claims seeking unspecified damages from the BLM, San Francisco Sheriff's Department and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The family said it would file lawsuits if the claims are denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221946693\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding the city responsible for the actions of Lopez-Sanchez could be difficult, legal experts said. Similar lawsuits alleging that so-called sanctuary city policies contributed to killings by illegal immigrants have failed, including a high-profile case in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts previously threw out a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the city for failing to turn over a gang member in the country illegally to federal officials before he gunned down a father and his two sons. A state appeals court said the sanctuary policy was not intended to prevent violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys also said cities and counties are legally protected from most lawsuits involving police failures to prevent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's difficult,\" said Matt Davis, an attorney who represented the Bologna family. \"Cities aren't required to provide police protection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parents said they were filing the legal claims to prevent a similar tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're here not only for Kate, we're here for every citizen of this country who comes to San Francisco,\" Jim Steinle, the father of the victim, said at a news conference on the steps of City Hall. \"If you think this can't happen to you, think again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, 45, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the case. He told police he fired the fatal shot accidentally while examining the ranger's gun after finding it under a bench on Pier 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting triggered a national debate over immigration after it was revealed that the Sheriff's Department had released Lopez-Sanchez despite a federal request to detain him for possible deportation. Lopez-Sanchez was previously deported five times to his native Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said his department was following city law when it released Lopez-Sanchez in April after prosecutors dropped old marijuana possession charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and other cities and counties across the state have enacted policies of ignoring so-called detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold jail inmates thought to be in the country illegally for deportation proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Steinle family claimed the sheriff violated federal laws when he issued a memo in March barring jail staff from communicating with federal immigration officials about detainer requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi has said his department requires federal officials to obtain a warrant or some other judicial notice in order for his jail to hold an inmate facing possible deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's spokeswoman Kenya Briggs said Mirkarimi can't comment on potential litigation but continues to extend his sympathy to the Steinle family for their loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family also accused ICE, an agency within Homeland Security, of failing to obtain a warrant or judicial notice required by San Francisco to detain and deport Lopez-Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement met recently with members of the Steinle family to express the agency's profound sympathy for their loss,\" spokeswoman Virgina Kice said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Friday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a morning press conference, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi again defended his department against criticism that it did not inform immigration authorities before the April 15 release of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has been charged with murder in the July 1 shooting death of Kathryn Steinle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had requested that the Sheriff's Department detain Sanchez so he could be deported. But keeping with city policy, the department ignored the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214160175\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"225\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi today prefaced his remarks by saying, \"I find it incredibly sad and incomprehensible that this tragedy is being used as a platform for political gain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mayor Ed Lee and Sen. Dianne Feinstein have called out the Sheriff's Department for not notifying ICE that Sanchez, with multiple drug felonies and deportations on his record, would be released from jail. Lee was especially critical in his Wednesday \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507080900\" target=\"_blank\">appearance on KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> making comments like the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You know, the ordinary thing is to look at who had hands on this felon, this repeated serious felony violator, last. And I'm trying to understand the whole picture, from the feds to the local. But I do happen to agree with Senator Feinstein that you look at who had that last responsibility. It was our sheriff. ... And when the feds released this person to us, there could have been a notification that we're about to release a repeat serious felony offender, who is not legally here. It's a phone call, Michael, and I think the sheriff dropped the ball there.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later, Lee said: \" So, I want to keep this simple for the public that when you vote in public officials and the highest law enforcement officials, they have a duty to balance these things. And, you know, I think a simple phone call would have done the trick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi is up for re-election in November. He and Lee have been at odds since the mayor -- unsuccessfully -- tried to have Mirkarimi removed from office in 2012 after the sheriff pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment related to an incident with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In defending his department against the notion that it should have informed ICE of Sanchez's release, Mirkarimi again pointed to San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=2650835&GUID=9E9091EA-082D-41EB-8282-43E2BD3AC2CA\" target=\"_blank\">Due Process for All Ordinance\u003c/a> (which he has repeatedly mentioned by tacking on: \"Passed by the Board of Supervisors and signed by the mayor.\") Mirkarimi said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor ‘s throwing his own law under the bus, simply trying to walk away or run away from the very ordinance he signed into effect. Because if in fact that he’s looking for some ambiguity in the law in order to cover his position, then it really defeats the whole purpose of the law in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s Department employees shouldn’t have to determine when and how much to cooperate with ICE in connection with detainer requests, which have been \u003ca href=\"http://immigrantjustice.org/sites/immigrantjustice.org/files/Miranda-Olivares%20%20v%20Clackamas%20County%20%28D%20Or.%20detainer%20SJ%20decision%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ruled unconstitutional\u003c/a> by federal courts, Mirkarimi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Due Process ordinance does not address giving ICE advance notice of a release. But Mirkarimi said, \"If you look very clearly In the declarative sense of the law, of what the intention is ... then [critics] are asking us to use a subjective barometer that would then eventually conflict with the constitutional concerns that motivated the birth of the law in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Sanchez’s record of convictions for nonviolent drug offenses and re-entering the country illegally did not “meet the threshold of the local law that would require us to pick up the phone or use our discretion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how many detainers from ICE the Sheriff’s Department had honored, Mirkarimi said none.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the issue of why Sanchez was transferred from federal prison to San Francisco on a 20-year-old bench warrant, subsequently dismissed, Mirkarimi said his department had no discretion but to bring him back to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bench warrant is different from a district attorney warrant,” he said. \"We can intervene (with) the San Francisco district attorney. On a bench warrant, we cannot. That’s the magistrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi again laid blame on the federal government for Sanchez’s return, saying that if ICE wanted to deport him, it should have obtained a warrant or court order, which unlike detainer requests would have had the force of law,.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE, which has said the tragedy could have been prevented if local authorities had notified it of Sanchez’s release, has said “the whole system would collapse” should it have to obtain judicial orders for every deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that is an inconvenience, Mirkarimi said, “then it’s inconvenient for us to be testing the erosion of the Constitution. And that's part of the inherent conflict that needs to be reconciled and has been well explained to leadership of ICE. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff's Department said it had no choice but to request and arrange for the transfer to its custody of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has been charged with murder in the July 1 shooting of Kathryn Steinle on Pier 14 near the Ferry Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, sheriff's officials insist they were \"obligated\" to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freya Horne, chief legal counsel for the department, said in an email that the Sheriff's Department warrant bureau was contacted on March 21 by the Bureau of Federal Prisons about an outstanding 1995 felony warrant issued by the court for possession-for-sale and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Sheriff’s Department responded as is required protocol with a routine letter to arrange for pickup of Lopez-Sanchez from federal custody to transport him to court in San Francisco on the outstanding warrant,\" Horne wrote. \"The Sheriff’s Department arranged for Lopez-Sanchez’s transportation and he was booked into San Francisco County Jail on March 26, 2015. He went to court on March 27, 2015 and the court dismissed the charges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horne noted that the warrant had been on the books two decades, and yet this was the first time the Sheriff’s Department was contacted about it despite the fact Sanchez had been deported directly from federal custody several times in that 20-year period without any contact to clear the warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from the Sheriff's Department can be seen at the bottom of this post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/mirkarimistatement_Redacted.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">A separate statement\u003c/a> by San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi asked: \"Why now do the Feds call SF to satisfy the bench warrant when they could have released him to ICE for deportation proceedings as they had done numerous times before? Why not call the DA or Magistrate to obviate the transfer since SF rarely prosecutes for marijuana possession and sale?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, once we are contacted -- and the Feds contacted SF first -- SF Sheriff is obligated to arrange transportation for the outstanding bench warrant, which we did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It conluded: \"ICE violated their own policy - federal authorities should have proceeded directly with deportation as they had done several times previously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a new twist in the relentless finger-pointing and he-said/she-said exchanges over who's to blame for the fatal July 1 shooting of Kathryn Steinle on San Francisco's Pier 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lee-slams-Mirkarimi-for-not-talking-to-6373929.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c/a>suspect Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez -- an undocumented immigrant with a string of drug felonies and five deportations -- ended up in the city in March because the San Francisco Sheriff's Department asked Bureau of Prisons officials to return him after he'd finished serving a 46-month prison term in Victorville for illegal re-entry to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request (\u003ca href=\"#warrant\">read below\u003c/a>) by the sheriff's office was allegedly made to resolve a $20 marijuana case that was quickly dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation contradicts statements that Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi made on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507070900\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> on Tuesday morning\u003c/a>, in which he said: “We’re trying to understand why ICE returned Sanchez to San Francisco on a 20-year-old marijuana possession charge in a city that really doesn’t even prosecute marijuana possession … and knowing that he had been deported and illegally entered the country.\" (It was actually the Bureau of Prisons that transferred Sanchez, not ICE.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, according to the Chronicle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mirkarimi’s agency requested custody of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez as he was completing a 46-month stint in federal prison in March in San Bernardino County, according to a Sheriff’s Department letter obtained by The Chronicle. Lopez-Sanchez had been deported five times to Mexico and had been imprisoned for illegally re-entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Bureau of Prisons alerted the Sheriff’s Department in March that Lopez-Sanchez was going to be released. Mirkarimi’s agency, realizing that Lopez-Sanchez was wanted on a $5,000 bench warrant related to a 1995 marijuana possession-for-sale case, asked prison officials March 23 to hold him and to notify San Francisco authorities “when the subject is ready for our pick-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also, please notify us if the hold cannot be placed or the named subject is released to another jurisdiction prior to our receipt,” said the letter, signed by Vic Gaerlan of the sheriff’s warrant bureau.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also, more details have emerged about the gun, which belonged to a Bureau of Land Management agent, that was used in the killing of Steinle. BLM spokeswoman Dana Wilson told KQED's Alex Emslie:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weapon was stolen in downtown San Francisco on June 27. The officer was traveling through San Francisco when his vehicle was broken into and the theft occurred. He immediately reported that to the San Francisco Police Department, in addition to following our internal protocols and informing the National Crime Information Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said one of its agents' service guns was used in the shooting death of a woman walking on a popular San Francisco pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLM spokeswoman Dana Wilson said Wednesday that the weapon was issued to an agency ranger and was stolen from the agent's car while he was in San Francisco on business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has been deported to his native Mexico five times and is suspected of living in the United States illegally, told television news stations that he found the gun on Pier 14 and that it accidentally fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Matier & Ross column in today's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Pier-slaying-suspect-s-twisted-road-to-S-F-6371537.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> said one pivotal question hasn't been completely answered yet: \"Why didn't the feds deport Sanchez when they had the chance?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Records show that Lopez-Sanchez had spent 46 months in federal lockup in Victorville (San Bernardino County) for entering the country illegally, then was returned to San Francisco by the federal Bureau of Prisons in March to clear an outstanding felony drug warrant dating from two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, federal immigration officials had already managed to deport Lopez-Sanchez five times since that warrant was issued, apparently without ever having sent him to San Francisco to answer to the drug charge.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the DA's office said the Bureau of Prisons didn't let prosecutors know Sanchez was being sent to San Francisco. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said her agency would have shipped him back to Mexico if the Bureau of Prisons had turned him over, as it had the previous five times. The bureau's spokesman couldn't explain why the 1995 case had never come up before, but said his agency was following standard procedure in sending Sanchez to San Francisco this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, in the endless blame game that has been a byproduct of the shooting, Mayor Ed Lee, during an appearance on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> this morning, once again blasted San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who had hands on this felon, this repeated serious felon, last? \" Lee said. \"I do happen to agree with Senator Feinstein that you look at who had the last responsibility. It was our sheriff. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:25 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> A source close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to KQED News that the gun Francisco Sanchez used to shoot and kill Kate Steinle belonged to a federal agent. The source could not say how Sanchez obtained the gun or which agency the agent worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507070900\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Tuesday and deflected blame to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the release from jail of the man who went on to allegedly shoot and kill 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco last Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez -- who has been referred to by several different names within the U.S. criminal justice system, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-sf-shooting-20150707-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> -- pleaded not guilty to murder charges in Superior Court Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez had been released by the Sheriff's Department from San Francisco County Jail on April 15, despite a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/factsheets/detainer-faq\" target=\"_blank\">detainer request\u003c/a> from ICE and a long rap sheet, which NBC Bay Area has \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Francisco-Sanchez-Pier-14-Heroin-Deportation-Immigration-Debate-Steinle-312139981.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand#data\" target=\"_blank\">transcribed\u003c/a>. Sanchez's criminal record stretches back to 1991 and includes convictions for heroin possession, manufacturing narcotics and -- in between deportations -- multiple instances of illegally re-entering the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Sanchez -- who is 52, according to the San Francisco DA's Office -- finished serving a federal prison sentence for felony re-entry into the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Prisons then transferred him to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department, based on an outstanding arrest warrant from the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the bureau told KQED that it was the Sheriff's Department that initiated the request to transfer Sanchez to San Francisco. The Sheriff's Department has a different take: It says the BOP initiated the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But could the Bureau of Prisons have informed ICE directly that an individual who had just served time for felony re-entry was being released?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not the BOP’s responsibility to tell us,\" wrote ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen. \"We lodged the detainer with [the San Francisco Sheriff's Office] -- it was their responsibility to tell us they were cutting him loose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, the Bureau of Prisons said in an email that an ICE deportation matter would not have taken priority over a local request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charges Dismissed March 27\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-drug-warrant-helped-accused-killer-stay-in-6369360.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> the charge that brought Sanchez back to San Francisco from prison was related to buying $20 worth of marijuana from police in 1995 and \"a separate count of selling more than 28 grams of pot.\" When he skipped his court appearance, the Chronicle says, a judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those charges were dismissed on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE, meanwhile, had received notification that Sanchez had been booked into San Francisco custody and had sent a request for an immigration detainer, asking to be notified prior to his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has laid blame for Sanchez's unsupervised release squarely on the Sheriff's Department for ignoring its request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bottom line: If the local authorities had merely NOTIFIED ICE (ICE emphasis) that they were about to release this individual into the community,\" a spokesperson said in an email, \"ICE could have taken custody of him and had him removed from the country -- thus preventing this terrible tragedy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Ordinance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mirkarimi said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that his department ignored the detainer request in accordance with a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances13/o0204-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">city ordinance\u003c/a> that specifically states: \"A law enforcement official shall not detain an individual on the basis of an immigration detainer after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exceptions to the policy exist for those individuals who have been convicted of a violent felony within the past seven years and are currently in custody for another violent felony, of which a magistrate has determined there is probable cause of guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials who want to hold a prisoner under this exception must also \"consider evidence of the individual's rehabilitation and evaluate whether the individual poses a public safety risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state law, called the Trust Act, also prohibits local law enforcement from detaining noncitizens past their release date, again with exceptions for those who have committed violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a federal court decision in Oregon last year ruled that ICE's authority to issue detainers was \u003ca href=\"http://immigrantjustice.org/sites/immigrantjustice.org/files/Miranda-Olivares%20%20v%20Clackamas%20County%20(D%20Or.%20detainer%20SJ%20decision).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">unconstitutional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring detainer requests from immigration authorities is not uncommon, apparently. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Francisco-Sanchez-Pier-14-Heroin-Deportation-Immigration-Debate-Steinle-312139981.html\">NBC Bay Area reports\u003c/a>: \"Between January 1, 2014, and June 19, ICE records show there have been 10,516 detainers declined in California and 17,193 detainers declined nationwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'This Isn't Like It Was a Surprise'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi said today he met with the Department of Homeland Security in February to reiterate San Francisco's policy of requiring an order or a warrant in order to honor a detainer request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This isn’t like it was a surprise,\" Mirkarimi said. \"And what is even more baffling is that here's somebody that ICE essentially has allowed to be brought to San Francisco on a a 20-year-old warrant for a marijuana narcotics charge, which we don’t prosecute. They fail to even enact their own guidelines for the sixth deportation or illegal re-entry potentially of Mr Sanchez. And then they knew from the rap sheet that the case was summarily dismissed by the magistrate here as soon as he arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> invited ICE to send a representative to the show, but the agency declined. ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice told the Chronicle that obtaining a court order in detainer cases wasn't practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deported 177,000 people last year,” she said. “The whole system would collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Passing the Buck?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Russoniello, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, who appeared on today's show with Mirkarimi, said it would be unusual for a court to issue an order in such cases. Deportations are \"not done on the basis of criminal prosecutions,\" he said. \"They're done on the basis of either voluntary removal or deportation orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russoniello said Mirkarimi was trying to pass the buck by blaming ICE. \"It sort of suggests no one really wants to take responsibility for what happened here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said cities like San Francisco that declare themselves a \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=1067\" target=\"_blank\">sanctuary, \u003c/a>where officials are prohibited from assisting in immigration enforcement, were enacting bad policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi retorted that over 300 municipalities in the U.S. had similar policies of not cooperating with detainer requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did say in a statement that it \"understands local law enforcement's reticence about this issue.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"warrant\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe agency said a new initiative called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/pep\" target=\"_blank\">Priority Enforcement Program\u003c/a> will support \"community policing while ensuring ICE takes custody of dangerous criminals before they are released into the community. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie, Scott Shafer and Adam Grossberg of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=271064564 key=key-bbCwHJ0SH9dXtHkTyHm8 mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mayor Ed Lee and Sen. Dianne Feinstein have called out the Sheriff's Department for not notifying ICE that Sanchez, with multiple drug felonies and deportations on his record, would be released from jail. Lee was especially critical in his Wednesday \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507080900\" target=\"_blank\">appearance on KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> making comments like the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You know, the ordinary thing is to look at who had hands on this felon, this repeated serious felony violator, last. And I'm trying to understand the whole picture, from the feds to the local. But I do happen to agree with Senator Feinstein that you look at who had that last responsibility. It was our sheriff. ... And when the feds released this person to us, there could have been a notification that we're about to release a repeat serious felony offender, who is not legally here. It's a phone call, Michael, and I think the sheriff dropped the ball there.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later, Lee said: \" So, I want to keep this simple for the public that when you vote in public officials and the highest law enforcement officials, they have a duty to balance these things. And, you know, I think a simple phone call would have done the trick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi is up for re-election in November. He and Lee have been at odds since the mayor -- unsuccessfully -- tried to have Mirkarimi removed from office in 2012 after the sheriff pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment related to an incident with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In defending his department against the notion that it should have informed ICE of Sanchez's release, Mirkarimi again pointed to San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=2650835&GUID=9E9091EA-082D-41EB-8282-43E2BD3AC2CA\" target=\"_blank\">Due Process for All Ordinance\u003c/a> (which he has repeatedly mentioned by tacking on: \"Passed by the Board of Supervisors and signed by the mayor.\") Mirkarimi said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor ‘s throwing his own law under the bus, simply trying to walk away or run away from the very ordinance he signed into effect. Because if in fact that he’s looking for some ambiguity in the law in order to cover his position, then it really defeats the whole purpose of the law in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s Department employees shouldn’t have to determine when and how much to cooperate with ICE in connection with detainer requests, which have been \u003ca href=\"http://immigrantjustice.org/sites/immigrantjustice.org/files/Miranda-Olivares%20%20v%20Clackamas%20County%20%28D%20Or.%20detainer%20SJ%20decision%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ruled unconstitutional\u003c/a> by federal courts, Mirkarimi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Due Process ordinance does not address giving ICE advance notice of a release. But Mirkarimi said, \"If you look very clearly In the declarative sense of the law, of what the intention is ... then [critics] are asking us to use a subjective barometer that would then eventually conflict with the constitutional concerns that motivated the birth of the law in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Sanchez’s record of convictions for nonviolent drug offenses and re-entering the country illegally did not “meet the threshold of the local law that would require us to pick up the phone or use our discretion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how many detainers from ICE the Sheriff’s Department had honored, Mirkarimi said none.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the issue of why Sanchez was transferred from federal prison to San Francisco on a 20-year-old bench warrant, subsequently dismissed, Mirkarimi said his department had no discretion but to bring him back to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bench warrant is different from a district attorney warrant,” he said. \"We can intervene (with) the San Francisco district attorney. On a bench warrant, we cannot. That’s the magistrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi again laid blame on the federal government for Sanchez’s return, saying that if ICE wanted to deport him, it should have obtained a warrant or court order, which unlike detainer requests would have had the force of law,.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE, which has said the tragedy could have been prevented if local authorities had notified it of Sanchez’s release, has said “the whole system would collapse” should it have to obtain judicial orders for every deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that is an inconvenience, Mirkarimi said, “then it’s inconvenient for us to be testing the erosion of the Constitution. And that's part of the inherent conflict that needs to be reconciled and has been well explained to leadership of ICE. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff's Department said it had no choice but to request and arrange for the transfer to its custody of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has been charged with murder in the July 1 shooting of Kathryn Steinle on Pier 14 near the Ferry Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, sheriff's officials insist they were \"obligated\" to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freya Horne, chief legal counsel for the department, said in an email that the Sheriff's Department warrant bureau was contacted on March 21 by the Bureau of Federal Prisons about an outstanding 1995 felony warrant issued by the court for possession-for-sale and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Sheriff’s Department responded as is required protocol with a routine letter to arrange for pickup of Lopez-Sanchez from federal custody to transport him to court in San Francisco on the outstanding warrant,\" Horne wrote. \"The Sheriff’s Department arranged for Lopez-Sanchez’s transportation and he was booked into San Francisco County Jail on March 26, 2015. He went to court on March 27, 2015 and the court dismissed the charges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horne noted that the warrant had been on the books two decades, and yet this was the first time the Sheriff’s Department was contacted about it despite the fact Sanchez had been deported directly from federal custody several times in that 20-year period without any contact to clear the warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from the Sheriff's Department can be seen at the bottom of this post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/mirkarimistatement_Redacted.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">A separate statement\u003c/a> by San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi asked: \"Why now do the Feds call SF to satisfy the bench warrant when they could have released him to ICE for deportation proceedings as they had done numerous times before? Why not call the DA or Magistrate to obviate the transfer since SF rarely prosecutes for marijuana possession and sale?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, once we are contacted -- and the Feds contacted SF first -- SF Sheriff is obligated to arrange transportation for the outstanding bench warrant, which we did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It conluded: \"ICE violated their own policy - federal authorities should have proceeded directly with deportation as they had done several times previously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a new twist in the relentless finger-pointing and he-said/she-said exchanges over who's to blame for the fatal July 1 shooting of Kathryn Steinle on San Francisco's Pier 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lee-slams-Mirkarimi-for-not-talking-to-6373929.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c/a>suspect Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez -- an undocumented immigrant with a string of drug felonies and five deportations -- ended up in the city in March because the San Francisco Sheriff's Department asked Bureau of Prisons officials to return him after he'd finished serving a 46-month prison term in Victorville for illegal re-entry to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request (\u003ca href=\"#warrant\">read below\u003c/a>) by the sheriff's office was allegedly made to resolve a $20 marijuana case that was quickly dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation contradicts statements that Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi made on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507070900\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> on Tuesday morning\u003c/a>, in which he said: “We’re trying to understand why ICE returned Sanchez to San Francisco on a 20-year-old marijuana possession charge in a city that really doesn’t even prosecute marijuana possession … and knowing that he had been deported and illegally entered the country.\" (It was actually the Bureau of Prisons that transferred Sanchez, not ICE.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, according to the Chronicle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mirkarimi’s agency requested custody of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez as he was completing a 46-month stint in federal prison in March in San Bernardino County, according to a Sheriff’s Department letter obtained by The Chronicle. Lopez-Sanchez had been deported five times to Mexico and had been imprisoned for illegally re-entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Bureau of Prisons alerted the Sheriff’s Department in March that Lopez-Sanchez was going to be released. Mirkarimi’s agency, realizing that Lopez-Sanchez was wanted on a $5,000 bench warrant related to a 1995 marijuana possession-for-sale case, asked prison officials March 23 to hold him and to notify San Francisco authorities “when the subject is ready for our pick-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Also, please notify us if the hold cannot be placed or the named subject is released to another jurisdiction prior to our receipt,” said the letter, signed by Vic Gaerlan of the sheriff’s warrant bureau.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Also, more details have emerged about the gun, which belonged to a Bureau of Land Management agent, that was used in the killing of Steinle. BLM spokeswoman Dana Wilson told KQED's Alex Emslie:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weapon was stolen in downtown San Francisco on June 27. The officer was traveling through San Francisco when his vehicle was broken into and the theft occurred. He immediately reported that to the San Francisco Police Department, in addition to following our internal protocols and informing the National Crime Information Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said one of its agents' service guns was used in the shooting death of a woman walking on a popular San Francisco pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLM spokeswoman Dana Wilson said Wednesday that the weapon was issued to an agency ranger and was stolen from the agent's car while he was in San Francisco on business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has been deported to his native Mexico five times and is suspected of living in the United States illegally, told television news stations that he found the gun on Pier 14 and that it accidentally fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Matier & Ross column in today's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Pier-slaying-suspect-s-twisted-road-to-S-F-6371537.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> said one pivotal question hasn't been completely answered yet: \"Why didn't the feds deport Sanchez when they had the chance?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Records show that Lopez-Sanchez had spent 46 months in federal lockup in Victorville (San Bernardino County) for entering the country illegally, then was returned to San Francisco by the federal Bureau of Prisons in March to clear an outstanding felony drug warrant dating from two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, federal immigration officials had already managed to deport Lopez-Sanchez five times since that warrant was issued, apparently without ever having sent him to San Francisco to answer to the drug charge.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the DA's office said the Bureau of Prisons didn't let prosecutors know Sanchez was being sent to San Francisco. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said her agency would have shipped him back to Mexico if the Bureau of Prisons had turned him over, as it had the previous five times. The bureau's spokesman couldn't explain why the 1995 case had never come up before, but said his agency was following standard procedure in sending Sanchez to San Francisco this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, in the endless blame game that has been a byproduct of the shooting, Mayor Ed Lee, during an appearance on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> this morning, once again blasted San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who had hands on this felon, this repeated serious felon, last? \" Lee said. \"I do happen to agree with Senator Feinstein that you look at who had the last responsibility. It was our sheriff. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:25 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> A source close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to KQED News that the gun Francisco Sanchez used to shoot and kill Kate Steinle belonged to a federal agent. The source could not say how Sanchez obtained the gun or which agency the agent worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507070900\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Tuesday and deflected blame to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the release from jail of the man who went on to allegedly shoot and kill 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco last Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez -- who has been referred to by several different names within the U.S. criminal justice system, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-sf-shooting-20150707-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> -- pleaded not guilty to murder charges in Superior Court Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez had been released by the Sheriff's Department from San Francisco County Jail on April 15, despite a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/factsheets/detainer-faq\" target=\"_blank\">detainer request\u003c/a> from ICE and a long rap sheet, which NBC Bay Area has \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Francisco-Sanchez-Pier-14-Heroin-Deportation-Immigration-Debate-Steinle-312139981.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand#data\" target=\"_blank\">transcribed\u003c/a>. Sanchez's criminal record stretches back to 1991 and includes convictions for heroin possession, manufacturing narcotics and -- in between deportations -- multiple instances of illegally re-entering the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Sanchez -- who is 52, according to the San Francisco DA's Office -- finished serving a federal prison sentence for felony re-entry into the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Prisons then transferred him to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department, based on an outstanding arrest warrant from the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the bureau told KQED that it was the Sheriff's Department that initiated the request to transfer Sanchez to San Francisco. The Sheriff's Department has a different take: It says the BOP initiated the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But could the Bureau of Prisons have informed ICE directly that an individual who had just served time for felony re-entry was being released?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not the BOP’s responsibility to tell us,\" wrote ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen. \"We lodged the detainer with [the San Francisco Sheriff's Office] -- it was their responsibility to tell us they were cutting him loose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, the Bureau of Prisons said in an email that an ICE deportation matter would not have taken priority over a local request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charges Dismissed March 27\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-drug-warrant-helped-accused-killer-stay-in-6369360.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> the charge that brought Sanchez back to San Francisco from prison was related to buying $20 worth of marijuana from police in 1995 and \"a separate count of selling more than 28 grams of pot.\" When he skipped his court appearance, the Chronicle says, a judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those charges were dismissed on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE, meanwhile, had received notification that Sanchez had been booked into San Francisco custody and had sent a request for an immigration detainer, asking to be notified prior to his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has laid blame for Sanchez's unsupervised release squarely on the Sheriff's Department for ignoring its request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bottom line: If the local authorities had merely NOTIFIED ICE (ICE emphasis) that they were about to release this individual into the community,\" a spokesperson said in an email, \"ICE could have taken custody of him and had him removed from the country -- thus preventing this terrible tragedy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Ordinance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mirkarimi said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that his department ignored the detainer request in accordance with a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances13/o0204-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">city ordinance\u003c/a> that specifically states: \"A law enforcement official shall not detain an individual on the basis of an immigration detainer after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exceptions to the policy exist for those individuals who have been convicted of a violent felony within the past seven years and are currently in custody for another violent felony, of which a magistrate has determined there is probable cause of guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials who want to hold a prisoner under this exception must also \"consider evidence of the individual's rehabilitation and evaluate whether the individual poses a public safety risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state law, called the Trust Act, also prohibits local law enforcement from detaining noncitizens past their release date, again with exceptions for those who have committed violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a federal court decision in Oregon last year ruled that ICE's authority to issue detainers was \u003ca href=\"http://immigrantjustice.org/sites/immigrantjustice.org/files/Miranda-Olivares%20%20v%20Clackamas%20County%20(D%20Or.%20detainer%20SJ%20decision).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">unconstitutional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring detainer requests from immigration authorities is not uncommon, apparently. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Francisco-Sanchez-Pier-14-Heroin-Deportation-Immigration-Debate-Steinle-312139981.html\">NBC Bay Area reports\u003c/a>: \"Between January 1, 2014, and June 19, ICE records show there have been 10,516 detainers declined in California and 17,193 detainers declined nationwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'This Isn't Like It Was a Surprise'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi said today he met with the Department of Homeland Security in February to reiterate San Francisco's policy of requiring an order or a warrant in order to honor a detainer request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This isn’t like it was a surprise,\" Mirkarimi said. \"And what is even more baffling is that here's somebody that ICE essentially has allowed to be brought to San Francisco on a a 20-year-old warrant for a marijuana narcotics charge, which we don’t prosecute. They fail to even enact their own guidelines for the sixth deportation or illegal re-entry potentially of Mr Sanchez. And then they knew from the rap sheet that the case was summarily dismissed by the magistrate here as soon as he arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> invited ICE to send a representative to the show, but the agency declined. ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice told the Chronicle that obtaining a court order in detainer cases wasn't practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deported 177,000 people last year,” she said. “The whole system would collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Passing the Buck?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Russoniello, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, who appeared on today's show with Mirkarimi, said it would be unusual for a court to issue an order in such cases. Deportations are \"not done on the basis of criminal prosecutions,\" he said. \"They're done on the basis of either voluntary removal or deportation orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russoniello said Mirkarimi was trying to pass the buck by blaming ICE. \"It sort of suggests no one really wants to take responsibility for what happened here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said cities like San Francisco that declare themselves a \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=1067\" target=\"_blank\">sanctuary, \u003c/a>where officials are prohibited from assisting in immigration enforcement, were enacting bad policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi retorted that over 300 municipalities in the U.S. had similar policies of not cooperating with detainer requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did say in a statement that it \"understands local law enforcement's reticence about this issue.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"warrant\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe agency said a new initiative called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/pep\" target=\"_blank\">Priority Enforcement Program\u003c/a> will support \"community policing while ensuring ICE takes custody of dangerous criminals before they are released into the community. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie, Scott Shafer and Adam Grossberg of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A political drama that gripped San Francisco in 2012 is now the subject of a one-woman play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 28, actress Eliana López took center stage at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts with a press preview of “¿Cuál es El Escándalo? / What Is The Scandal?” The play premieres tonight, May 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created in collaboration with her brother, Alfonso López, the production offers a personal account of her experience during the year that her husband, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, faced domestic violence charges stemming from an argument in which he bruised her arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To revisit the twists and turns of the ensuing legal battle, which attracted international attention and dominated news headlines for months, see KQED’s previous coverage \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/13/ap-mirkarimi-to-face-misdemeanor-charges-in-domestic-violence-case\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203210900\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201210100900\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, who previously starred in soap operas and has been an actress for 25 years, begins the story in her native Venezuela, as she engaged in soul-searching over whether to relocate to San Francisco to start a life with an American politician she’d fallen in love with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She portrays multiple characters throughout the 70-minute bilingual performance, and made it very clear during interviews and a question-and-answer segment that the theater piece should not be interpreted as a documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of these characters are real,” López insisted in an interview with KQED, “and all is fiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, real photographs of her family, San Francisco City Hall, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-s-wife-gives-her-side-of-story-3463213.php\">an op-ed she penned for the San Francisco Chronicle in 2012\u003c/a> are displayed on screen throughout the performance, which runs through June 7. And one character in particular is sure to spark the interest of San Francisco political observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s named “Mr. Lie,” portrayed with a mustache, and there’s a scene where a bodyguard in dark sunglasses rescues him from San Francisco City Hall during a bomb threat. This brings to mind \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/authorities-waited-22-minutes-to-clear-mayor-ed-lee-from-city-hall-after-bomb-threat/Content?oid=2201152\">a bizarre incident in 2012\u003c/a> in which San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was abruptly removed from an Ethics Commission hearing concerning the misconduct charges brought against Mirkarimi. Police later explained that the disruption was due to a bomb threat that had been phoned in 20 minutes earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Lopez said she hopes her theater production will start a dialogue. “This experience, this situation, divided the community [into] two different sides that are still not talking to each other,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people it was domestic violence, and they demonized us. And for others, it was a political witch hunt, and they demonized [domestic violence advocates] who were doing, for them, the right thing. But the part that is missing in all of this is the human part. We are all humans, we all make mistakes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López also said she felt her family had come under attack. “The system did not work in our case,” she said. Instead, “We are strong enough to survive the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/112154749\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López added that Mirkarimi hadn’t read the script or attended a rehearsal. He was expected to attend the premiere Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, KQED asked Mirkarimi if he was concerned that the subject of his wife’s play would cause the domestic violence incident to return as a focal point in his current re-election campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I think that my opposition will continue to reloop the events and the turbulence of several years ago, anyway,” Mirkarimi responded. “I know that my opposition has done everything they could to mute Eliana’s voice. And this is Eliana’s opportunity to really project a perspective that really hasn’t been put out there, and it’s done through her artistry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for District Attorney George Gascón did not respond to a request for comment about Lopez’ decision to use the domestic violence trial as inspiration for a theater production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also reached out to Casa de Las Madres, a domestic violence group that was vocal during the campaign in 2012 against the sheriff's reinstatement, seeking a reaction to the news that López would star in a play about the politically charged affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that everything that we wanted to say about this situation was said already, so at this point we do not have anything else new to add,” Laia Gasa-Pons of Casa de Las Madres responded in an email, “but to wish Eliana success in her play.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A political drama that gripped San Francisco in 2012 is now the subject of a one-woman play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 28, actress Eliana López took center stage at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts with a press preview of “¿Cuál es El Escándalo? / What Is The Scandal?” The play premieres tonight, May 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created in collaboration with her brother, Alfonso López, the production offers a personal account of her experience during the year that her husband, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, faced domestic violence charges stemming from an argument in which he bruised her arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To revisit the twists and turns of the ensuing legal battle, which attracted international attention and dominated news headlines for months, see KQED’s previous coverage \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/13/ap-mirkarimi-to-face-misdemeanor-charges-in-domestic-violence-case\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203210900\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201210100900\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, who previously starred in soap operas and has been an actress for 25 years, begins the story in her native Venezuela, as she engaged in soul-searching over whether to relocate to San Francisco to start a life with an American politician she’d fallen in love with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She portrays multiple characters throughout the 70-minute bilingual performance, and made it very clear during interviews and a question-and-answer segment that the theater piece should not be interpreted as a documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of these characters are real,” López insisted in an interview with KQED, “and all is fiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, real photographs of her family, San Francisco City Hall, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-s-wife-gives-her-side-of-story-3463213.php\">an op-ed she penned for the San Francisco Chronicle in 2012\u003c/a> are displayed on screen throughout the performance, which runs through June 7. And one character in particular is sure to spark the interest of San Francisco political observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s named “Mr. Lie,” portrayed with a mustache, and there’s a scene where a bodyguard in dark sunglasses rescues him from San Francisco City Hall during a bomb threat. This brings to mind \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/authorities-waited-22-minutes-to-clear-mayor-ed-lee-from-city-hall-after-bomb-threat/Content?oid=2201152\">a bizarre incident in 2012\u003c/a> in which San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was abruptly removed from an Ethics Commission hearing concerning the misconduct charges brought against Mirkarimi. Police later explained that the disruption was due to a bomb threat that had been phoned in 20 minutes earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Lopez said she hopes her theater production will start a dialogue. “This experience, this situation, divided the community [into] two different sides that are still not talking to each other,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people it was domestic violence, and they demonized us. And for others, it was a political witch hunt, and they demonized [domestic violence advocates] who were doing, for them, the right thing. But the part that is missing in all of this is the human part. We are all humans, we all make mistakes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López also said she felt her family had come under attack. “The system did not work in our case,” she said. Instead, “We are strong enough to survive the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/112154749&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/112154749'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López added that Mirkarimi hadn’t read the script or attended a rehearsal. He was expected to attend the premiere Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, KQED asked Mirkarimi if he was concerned that the subject of his wife’s play would cause the domestic violence incident to return as a focal point in his current re-election campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I think that my opposition will continue to reloop the events and the turbulence of several years ago, anyway,” Mirkarimi responded. “I know that my opposition has done everything they could to mute Eliana’s voice. And this is Eliana’s opportunity to really project a perspective that really hasn’t been put out there, and it’s done through her artistry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for District Attorney George Gascón did not respond to a request for comment about Lopez’ decision to use the domestic violence trial as inspiration for a theater production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also reached out to Casa de Las Madres, a domestic violence group that was vocal during the campaign in 2012 against the sheriff's reinstatement, seeking a reaction to the news that López would star in a play about the politically charged affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that everything that we wanted to say about this situation was said already, so at this point we do not have anything else new to add,” Laia Gasa-Pons of Casa de Las Madres responded in an email, “but to wish Eliana success in her play.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:55 p.m. Thursday, April 30\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of four sheriff's deputies under criminal investigation, after several inmates at a San Francisco jail alleged he humiliated them and forced them to brawl for entertainment and bets, is facing termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Neu was taken off paid leave and issued a notice of intent to terminate on April 28, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence has arrived at a place where we can,\" Mirkarimi said, in response to questions about why he's so far requested that only one of the deputies be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff said the remaining three deputies -- Eugene Jones, Clifford Chiba and Evan Staehely -- would soon return to duty with assignments that don't include contact with inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bringing them back no longer requires us to keep them on paid time off,\" he said. \"That's why we're bringing them back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation continues, led by San Francisco's district attorney with assistance from the FBI, and none of the four deputies have been exonerated, Mirkarimi said. He said that additional deputies are being interviewed as witnesses but are not the focus of the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post April 10\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is leading an inquiry into allegations that a group of San Francisco sheriff's deputies abused inmates at one of the city's jails, forcing them to fight and gambling on the outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced the FBI investigation Friday, two weeks and a day since the city's public defender, Jeff Adachi, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">publicly revealed\u003c/a> the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had I been alerted, I would have taken immediate steps to protect the inmates and take the appropriate administrative actions involving the identified deputies,\" Mirkarimi said. \"However, Mr. Adachi’s decision was to conduct his own limited investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty.'\u003ccite>Jeff Adachi,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Defender\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The four deputies named at the center of an \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Public-Defender-Inquiry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">independent investigation\u003c/a> initiated by Adachi remain on paid leave, Mirkarimi said. Their names are Scott Neu, Eugene Jones, Clifford Chiba and Evan Staehely. The law firm representing the deputies did not return a call seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal inquiry officially started April 3. Special Agent Greg Wuthrich said the FBI investigation is at a very early stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Civil rights allegations are definitely huge for the bureau,\" Wuthrich said. \"These kind of things, we take very seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is wading into a crowded group of agencies probing the sheriff's department. That includes the city's police department and district attorney, as well as the sheriff's internal administrative and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to figure out and coordinate how all that works,\" Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"k2bfGY98IQGO7ilwnvV0SL1Yy11hYxr6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal probe is being conducted by the same group of FBI agents who investigated the San Francisco Police Department after Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/02/public-defender-video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> of plainclothes narcotics officers illegally searching hotel rooms in 2011, Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation led to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/27/six-san-francisco-police-officers-indicted-on-civil-rights-drug-theft-charges\" target=\"_blank\">indictment of six former SFPD officers\u003c/a>, including former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was sentenced in February to three years and five months in prison. Furminger is also at the center of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that has rocked the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said in a statement that he is pleased with the FBI's involvement and commended Mirkarimi for taking the unusual step of inviting the federal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty,\" Adachi said. \"I look forward to a thorough and fair investigation that includes determining whether additional deputies were aware of the abuse and complicit in their silence. To ensure this never happens again, there must be accountability -- not only for the perpetrators, but for those who fail to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said last month that his office first learned of the allegations when then-inmate Ricardo Garcia's father contacted a deputy public defender, concerned for his son's safety. Garcia at first didn't want to speak up, Adachi said, but then more inmates started contacting his office. So the public defender enlisted an independent private investigator, Barry Simon, to look into the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon interviewed five inmates total. Two said they were forced to fight each other, and two others corroborated parts of their statements. The fifth inmate told investigators that Neu had sex with a civilian employee in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Adachi in a recorded interview made public in late March that he was scared for his life in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10485642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriffs' deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriff's deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when they're gonna come and, you know, try to basically attack or anything,\" he said. \"I'm kind of walking on eggshells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Harris said in a separate recorded conversation with Adachi that he was forced to fight Garcia twice, and that Neu often harassed him, forcing him to do pushups to \"train for another fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said Neu threatened to handcuff and beat them if they didn't fight. Harris said Neu threatened to rape him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's office said the San Francisco district attorney dropped charges against Garcia and he had been released from custody. Mirkarimi said the remaining inmates were all transferred to the city's jail in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One inmate told Simon that Neu had tattoos that said \"850 Mob,\" an apparent reference to San Francisco's Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street, where County Jail #4 is located. Mirkarimi initially said the alleged tattoo gave him concern that more deputies may be involved, but he downplayed questions about the tattoo Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't as it was initially said,\" he said, declining to elaborate on the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi also addressed a recent inmate escape, saying he'd seek to fire a deputy who appeared not to follow protocol. The sheriff is facing a re-election challenge from former Chief Deputy Sheriff Vicky Hennessy, who was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deputies-endorse-Hennessy-over-Mirkarimi-in-6181889.php\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed\u003c/a> by the deputies' union on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bringing them back no longer requires us to keep them on paid time off,\" he said. \"That's why we're bringing them back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation continues, led by San Francisco's district attorney with assistance from the FBI, and none of the four deputies have been exonerated, Mirkarimi said. He said that additional deputies are being interviewed as witnesses but are not the focus of the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post April 10\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is leading an inquiry into allegations that a group of San Francisco sheriff's deputies abused inmates at one of the city's jails, forcing them to fight and gambling on the outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced the FBI investigation Friday, two weeks and a day since the city's public defender, Jeff Adachi, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">publicly revealed\u003c/a> the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had I been alerted, I would have taken immediate steps to protect the inmates and take the appropriate administrative actions involving the identified deputies,\" Mirkarimi said. \"However, Mr. Adachi’s decision was to conduct his own limited investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty.'\u003ccite>Jeff Adachi,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Defender\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The four deputies named at the center of an \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Public-Defender-Inquiry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">independent investigation\u003c/a> initiated by Adachi remain on paid leave, Mirkarimi said. Their names are Scott Neu, Eugene Jones, Clifford Chiba and Evan Staehely. The law firm representing the deputies did not return a call seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal inquiry officially started April 3. Special Agent Greg Wuthrich said the FBI investigation is at a very early stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Civil rights allegations are definitely huge for the bureau,\" Wuthrich said. \"These kind of things, we take very seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is wading into a crowded group of agencies probing the sheriff's department. That includes the city's police department and district attorney, as well as the sheriff's internal administrative and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to figure out and coordinate how all that works,\" Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal probe is being conducted by the same group of FBI agents who investigated the San Francisco Police Department after Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/02/public-defender-video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> of plainclothes narcotics officers illegally searching hotel rooms in 2011, Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation led to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/27/six-san-francisco-police-officers-indicted-on-civil-rights-drug-theft-charges\" target=\"_blank\">indictment of six former SFPD officers\u003c/a>, including former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was sentenced in February to three years and five months in prison. Furminger is also at the center of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that has rocked the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said in a statement that he is pleased with the FBI's involvement and commended Mirkarimi for taking the unusual step of inviting the federal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty,\" Adachi said. \"I look forward to a thorough and fair investigation that includes determining whether additional deputies were aware of the abuse and complicit in their silence. To ensure this never happens again, there must be accountability -- not only for the perpetrators, but for those who fail to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said last month that his office first learned of the allegations when then-inmate Ricardo Garcia's father contacted a deputy public defender, concerned for his son's safety. Garcia at first didn't want to speak up, Adachi said, but then more inmates started contacting his office. So the public defender enlisted an independent private investigator, Barry Simon, to look into the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon interviewed five inmates total. Two said they were forced to fight each other, and two others corroborated parts of their statements. The fifth inmate told investigators that Neu had sex with a civilian employee in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Adachi in a recorded interview made public in late March that he was scared for his life in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10485642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriffs' deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriff's deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when they're gonna come and, you know, try to basically attack or anything,\" he said. \"I'm kind of walking on eggshells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Harris said in a separate recorded conversation with Adachi that he was forced to fight Garcia twice, and that Neu often harassed him, forcing him to do pushups to \"train for another fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said Neu threatened to handcuff and beat them if they didn't fight. Harris said Neu threatened to rape him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's office said the San Francisco district attorney dropped charges against Garcia and he had been released from custody. Mirkarimi said the remaining inmates were all transferred to the city's jail in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One inmate told Simon that Neu had tattoos that said \"850 Mob,\" an apparent reference to San Francisco's Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street, where County Jail #4 is located. Mirkarimi initially said the alleged tattoo gave him concern that more deputies may be involved, but he downplayed questions about the tattoo Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't as it was initially said,\" he said, declining to elaborate on the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Eliana Lopez, the Venezuelan actress who is married to San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, briefly considered “The Sheriff’s Wife” as the title of the play she’s been pouring hours into rehearsing every week. Instead, she decided on “What Is the Scandal?” Or in Spanish: \"\u003cem>Cuál Es el Escándalo?\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made this play because I need to do it,” Lopez explained during an interview at her family’s San Francisco home. “I need to say my side of the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As anyone who’s followed the news in San Francisco well knows, the scandal that dominated headlines in 2012 began with Mirkarimi’s arrest that January on charges of domestic violence, stemming from an incident in which he bruised Lopez’s arm during an argument on New Year's Eve 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It kicked off a nine-month saga that boiled down to Mirkarimi pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment, then retaining his job as sheriff despite Mayor Ed Lee’s attempt to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m\" target=\"_blank\">oust him from office\u003c/a> on charges of official misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, meanwhile, refused to cooperate with prosecutors and condemned the actions taken against Mirkarimi as an attack on her family. She insisted that she felt she was not in danger and opposed a stay-away order that prevented Mirkarimi from contacting her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could not understand at that moment why my voice was taken away,” Lopez said, explaining that she felt silenced because nobody would take her objections seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the turmoil finally died down, she said, she converted the nightmarish ordeal into inspiration for her play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me two years to be able to sit down and write,” Lopez said, explaining that the experience was emotionally painful. “When you are an actor, your life is all about your art.” An actress since the age of 14, Lopez worked in theater with her family prior to coming to the United States and starred in telenovelas in Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spoke a bit about what audiences can expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to reflect on my experience, the person that was living that situation, the person [who] everybody was talking about, and acting [on] behalf of ... but never heard me,\" Lopez said. \"And it’s a comedy, also. It’s like, we are going to be laughing about a painful experience. We are going to be reflecting the ironies and the big contradictions that I felt in that moment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196217347\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Lopez, a filmmaker from Caracas and Eliana’s brother, is the writer and director of the play and has composed original music to accompany it. Eliana Lopez will be the sole performer in \"\u003cem>Cuál Es El Escándalo?\" \u003c/em>She'll play\u003cem> \u003c/em>multiple characters throughout the 70-minute performance based on real people she encountered during the domestic abuse trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will see a lot of characters that maybe you can recognize,” she hinted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play is scheduled to premier May 29 at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionculturalcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\u003c/a>, a venue selected because Lopez and Mirkarimi have received “a lot of love and support from the Latino community,” she said. It will be performed in Spanish with English subtitles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said she hoped the play would change people’s attitudes toward her. “Some people say, ‘She just has the [battered] woman syndrome, and they stick with their husbands.’ Like I don’t have any brain, voice or anything. … Maybe those people should come to see the show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet much of the public perception surrounding the case was shaped by a video featuring Lopez just after the argument that kicked off the ordeal. In a 45-second video released to the public in 2012 that became central to the case, she's seen gesturing tearfully at a large bruise on her biceps. In the clip, she explains her plan to document the injury as evidence in case Mirkarimi would ever seek sole custody of their son, Theo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d intended for the video to remain confidential but Ivory Madison, the neighbor who filmed it at Lopez’s request, contacted authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a secret that being Latino or African-American in this country is completely to be at a disadvantage\" in a custody dispute, Lopez said. \"And what is terrifying to a woman is that just that fact of being an immigrant can be the only thing that they can use to take away your son.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said she had trusted Madison, who had told her making the video was \"the right thing to do,\" but felt betrayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196217670\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadly speaking, the fact that a domestic abuse trial went forward despite Lopez’s objections actually reflects a hard-won victory for domestic violence advocates. They’ve long pushed for more aggressive prosecution to break a long-standing pattern of victims remaining vulnerable to abuse after agencies would disengage, frequently allowing couples to sort out disputes under a “curtain of privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, advocates for victims of domestic violence campaigned furiously against the sheriff’s reinstatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said she didn't feel supported by them, but was approached by \"several women coming close to me, saying, 'I work in domestic violence, and I do not support what’s happening to your family.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a 7-4 vote by the Board of Supervisors in October 2012, Lee was unable to get the nine votes needed to uphold his bid to oust Mirkarimi on charges of official misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said she takes the issue of domestic violence seriously, but doesn’t see herself as a victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also indicated that she believes things would have gone differently had her husband not been an elected official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi was politically at odds with the mayor and District Attorney George Gascón long before the conflict began. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Laird Harrison and Jon Brooks\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78229\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Mirkarimi-and-Lopez.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-78229\" title=\"Mirkarimi and Lopez\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Mirkarimi-and-Lopez-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi (far left) and Eliana Lopez were jubilant after a vote by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors left him in office as sheriff. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We fully understand that many San Franciscans would rather repeatedly watch last year's video of Buster Posey getting his leg broken than delve further into the Ross Mirkarimi situation. But it appears, even after last week's climax of a vote to deny the mayor's move to oust the sheriff from office, that the old Yogi Berra maxim of \"It ain't over till it's over\" is going to apply for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Wednesday, for instance, San Francisco DA George Gascon \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/10/sf-da-gascon-calls-on-mirkarimi-to-recuse-himself-from-domestic-violence-duties/\">called on Mirkarimi to recuse himself from any official duties related to domestic violence\u003c/a>, saying that \"at a minimum,\" he is \"incapable of adequately performing the functions of his office that relate to crimes of domestic violence.\" Meanwhile, Supervisor Jane Kim, one of the four votes on the Board against removing Mirkarimi from office, issued a \u003ca href=\"http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c161bfa7ff9163061f62e888f&id=51d23a6fcb\">statement on her web site\u003c/a> that \"the electorate has every right to recall the Sheriff, an action which I would support.\" Supervisor Malia Cohen, who voted for removal, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/another-supervisor-expresses-support-potential-mir/nSdgb/\">said she would also support a recall.\u003c/a> And the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/10/10/lee-adviser-mirkarimi-is-a-wife-beater/\">Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that Tony Winnicker, Ed Lee's former press secretary and a current mayoral adviser, called Mirkarimi a \"wife-beater\" on his Facebook page. Winnicker also sent Supervisor Christina Olague, who was appointed by Lee but failed to reward her political patron with a \"Yes\" vote on ousting the sheriff, a nasty text:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As your constituent, you disgust me,\" the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Mirkarimi-fight-leaves-deep-political-scars-3941659.php#page-2\">Chron reports Winnicker\u003c/a> as saying. \"You are the most ungrateful and dishonorable person ever to serve on the board. You should resign in disgrace.\" \u003c!--more-->Mirkarimi, for his part, didn't exactly tamp down the rhetoric on his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/09/sf-supes-reinstate-mirkarimi/\">appearance on KQED Public Radio's Forum show\u003c/a> last week when he made the following statements about some of the institutional forces that have both prosecuted and lobbied against him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use,\" Mirkarimi said, alluding to his wife, Eliana Lopez. \"The narrative that Eliana has not fallen into is what's bothered them, which is why I think they've intensified their attacks.\" (Lopez herself wrote in a\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-s-wife-gives-her-side-of-story-3463213.php\"> San Francisco Chronicle piece\u003c/a> in April that \"From the beginning, my public voice has been ignored and treated as irrelevant.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we wondered: Should law enforcement and/or domestic violence workers have tried to contact Lopez?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recap the situation: a neighbor videotaped Lopez saying that Mirkarimi had bruised her arm in an argument on New Year's Eve, 2012. Police arrested the sheriff and separated him from Lopez and their son, but Lopez said she had no complaint against him and wanted to be reunited. Mirkarimi eventually pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We called an expert far from the hue and cry of San Francisco to see what\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darald Hanusa is a PhD psychotherapist who specializes in domestic violence, and he lectures on the subject at the University of Wisconsin. Hanusa says that victims' advocates had excellent reasons for not asking Lopez how they could help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most agencies that deal with domestic violence are very careful not to cross boundaries and reach out to victims if their help is not wanted,\" she said. \"It's a matter of safety and it's a matter of respect for the individual's autonomy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanusa said domestic violence workers long ago decided that they shouldn't pick up the phone until the victim calls them. In the first place, an abuser might pick up the call and retaliate against the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second place, Hanusa said, the victim \"needs to have autonomy and self-efficacy. If you preempt that you are dis-empowering them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many states, even health care workers are not required to report evidence of abuse against non-elderly adults, he pointed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, many jurisdictions require that police make an arrest if there is probable cause of domestic violence, even if the alleged victim sides with the alleged abuser. That's because victims are often afraid to testify against their abusers, may still be attached emotionally, or may be economically dependent on them, Hanusa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But domestic violence counselors don't always refrain from contacting alleged victims, said Kathleen Krenek, executive director of San Jose's Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. \"We want everything to be in her power and control, but it's not such a hard-and-fast rule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example if her agency hears from a third party -- such as a sister -- that someone is being abused and doesn't have the will to get help, a counselor might try to find a safe way of calling, disguising the call if necessary to keep the abuser from finding out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that Mirkarimi might not know if a domestic violence counselor contacted Lopez. \"She might not be comfortable telling him,\" said Krenek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shouldn't the district attorney's office have offered Lopez help or asked her side of the story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact it did, said Alex Bastian, a spokesman for San Francisco Attorney George Gascón. \"A victim service advocate was assigned,\" he said. Advocates offer assistance to alleged victims, and also take evidence, including whatever statements the victims want to make. But Lopez's attorney told the advocate to stop trying to contact Lopez, Bastian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, DA's staff approached Lopez in court and in the presence of Lopez's attorney, he said, providing her with a \"safety plan\" in case she felt herself to be in danger, and with the business card of an assistant district attorney who spoke Spanish, Lopez's first language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi did not return our call seeking to clarify his comments. Our call to the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium also went unanswered, and Kathy Black, of Casa de las Madres, said she was not able to comment. But she \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Victims-advocates-decry-Mirkarimi-outcome-3948532.php#ixzz29Um53yml\">said to the Chronicle\u003c/a> after the vote that \"Right now, I've seen a lot of high fives. That doesn't feel too humble or like he's taking it too seriously to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others who work on domestic violence issues said they were concerned about the effect of Mirkirimi's reinstatement. \"I think part of the fallout is that battered women are going to be much less likely to call the police,\" said Nancy Lemon, who teaches domestic violence law at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as an expert witness in both Mirkirimi's criminal case and the Ethics Commission hearing. \"It may have an effect on batterers who will be told that it's not a big deal, that it's a private family matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krenek, who attended the Board of Supervisors Meeting, said she was disturbed by comments she heard in the halls minimizing the incident in which Mirkarimi injured Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me it was like what we used to hear 20 years ago,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we wondered: Should law enforcement and/or domestic violence workers have tried to contact Lopez?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recap the situation: a neighbor videotaped Lopez saying that Mirkarimi had bruised her arm in an argument on New Year's Eve, 2012. Police arrested the sheriff and separated him from Lopez and their son, but Lopez said she had no complaint against him and wanted to be reunited. Mirkarimi eventually pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We called an expert far from the hue and cry of San Francisco to see what\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darald Hanusa is a PhD psychotherapist who specializes in domestic violence, and he lectures on the subject at the University of Wisconsin. Hanusa says that victims' advocates had excellent reasons for not asking Lopez how they could help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most agencies that deal with domestic violence are very careful not to cross boundaries and reach out to victims if their help is not wanted,\" she said. \"It's a matter of safety and it's a matter of respect for the individual's autonomy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanusa said domestic violence workers long ago decided that they shouldn't pick up the phone until the victim calls them. In the first place, an abuser might pick up the call and retaliate against the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second place, Hanusa said, the victim \"needs to have autonomy and self-efficacy. If you preempt that you are dis-empowering them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many states, even health care workers are not required to report evidence of abuse against non-elderly adults, he pointed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, many jurisdictions require that police make an arrest if there is probable cause of domestic violence, even if the alleged victim sides with the alleged abuser. That's because victims are often afraid to testify against their abusers, may still be attached emotionally, or may be economically dependent on them, Hanusa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But domestic violence counselors don't always refrain from contacting alleged victims, said Kathleen Krenek, executive director of San Jose's Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. \"We want everything to be in her power and control, but it's not such a hard-and-fast rule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example if her agency hears from a third party -- such as a sister -- that someone is being abused and doesn't have the will to get help, a counselor might try to find a safe way of calling, disguising the call if necessary to keep the abuser from finding out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that Mirkarimi might not know if a domestic violence counselor contacted Lopez. \"She might not be comfortable telling him,\" said Krenek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shouldn't the district attorney's office have offered Lopez help or asked her side of the story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact it did, said Alex Bastian, a spokesman for San Francisco Attorney George Gascón. \"A victim service advocate was assigned,\" he said. Advocates offer assistance to alleged victims, and also take evidence, including whatever statements the victims want to make. But Lopez's attorney told the advocate to stop trying to contact Lopez, Bastian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, DA's staff approached Lopez in court and in the presence of Lopez's attorney, he said, providing her with a \"safety plan\" in case she felt herself to be in danger, and with the business card of an assistant district attorney who spoke Spanish, Lopez's first language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi did not return our call seeking to clarify his comments. Our call to the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium also went unanswered, and Kathy Black, of Casa de las Madres, said she was not able to comment. But she \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Victims-advocates-decry-Mirkarimi-outcome-3948532.php#ixzz29Um53yml\">said to the Chronicle\u003c/a> after the vote that \"Right now, I've seen a lot of high fives. That doesn't feel too humble or like he's taking it too seriously to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others who work on domestic violence issues said they were concerned about the effect of Mirkirimi's reinstatement. \"I think part of the fallout is that battered women are going to be much less likely to call the police,\" said Nancy Lemon, who teaches domestic violence law at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as an expert witness in both Mirkirimi's criminal case and the Ethics Commission hearing. \"It may have an effect on batterers who will be told that it's not a big deal, that it's a private family matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krenek, who attended the Board of Supervisors Meeting, said she was disturbed by comments she heard in the halls minimizing the incident in which Mirkarimi injured Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We’re back with photos of the news from around the Bay this week. Check ’em out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012Mirkarimi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78183\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012Mirkarimi\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012Mirkarimi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliana Lopez waves her hands in the air to support the speaker during public comments. The Mirkarimi supporters had been ordered to keep quiet but showed their support with hand waves at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting. The meeting reinstated Ross Mirkarimi as sheriff of San Francisco following his plea to one count of false imprisonment. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HSB.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78184\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012HSB\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HSB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This years Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival held at Golden Gate Park on October 5-7 saw thousands of attendees who had to park their bicycles at the hundreds of bike racks as they were not allowed into the staging area. Bicycles were locked in heaps, some even on top of signposts, as desperate cyclists got creative with keeping their rides safe. (Pearly Tan/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012otter.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78185\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012otter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012otter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nA river otter made \u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/2012/10/10/otter-at-sutro-baths-ruins-captured-in-photos-and-video/\">a rare appearance\u003c/a> at the ruins of Sutro Baths Wednesday morning. It relaxed in the sunshine on one of the foundation walls, curled up in the vegetation at the edge of the water, rolled around on the wall near a great blue heron and seemed at ease in the remains of what once was one of San Francisco’s busiest attractions. (David Cruz/\u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/\">Ocean Beach Bulletin\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012grocery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78208\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012grocery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012grocery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a year of construction work, the Safeway on Shattuck Avenue in the heart of Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto has reopened. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/10/05/newly-revamped-gourmet-ghetto-safeway-opens-today/\">The revamped store\u003c/a> a stone’s throw from Chez Panisse, is unsurprisingly, promoting its organic produce section, fresh fish and meat counters, as well as expansive deli. (D.H. Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SodaTax.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78186\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012SodaTax\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SodaTax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry and movie theater industry have \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/10/10/cinemark-joins-american-beverage-association-in-funding-opposition-to-measure-n/\">come out strongly against\u003c/a> Richmond’s proposed tax on sugar sweetened beverages. Since January, Washington D.C. based lobby group American Beverage Association and Texas-based Cinemark USA Inc. have bankrolled an Independent Committee opposed to Measure N to the tune of $1.6 million. 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(Janice Rombeck/\u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborwebsj.com/\">NeighborWebSJ\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78190\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>A man sleeps behind a parking lot in Berkeley. 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(David Cruz/\u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/\">Ocean Beach Bulletin\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012grocery.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78208\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012grocery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012grocery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a year of construction work, the Safeway on Shattuck Avenue in the heart of Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto has reopened. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/10/05/newly-revamped-gourmet-ghetto-safeway-opens-today/\">The revamped store\u003c/a> a stone’s throw from Chez Panisse, is unsurprisingly, promoting its organic produce section, fresh fish and meat counters, as well as expansive deli. (D.H. Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SodaTax.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78186\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012SodaTax\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SodaTax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry and movie theater industry have \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/10/10/cinemark-joins-american-beverage-association-in-funding-opposition-to-measure-n/\">come out strongly against\u003c/a> Richmond’s proposed tax on sugar sweetened beverages. Since January, Washington D.C. based lobby group American Beverage Association and Texas-based Cinemark USA Inc. have bankrolled an Independent Committee opposed to Measure N to the tune of $1.6 million. (Tawanda Kanhema/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012solarcar.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78187\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012solarcar\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012solarcar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineering and computer science student from UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team drove Impulse, the solar powered vehicle designed and built at the Richmond Field Station over the John T Knox Freeway Saturday. (Tawanda Kanhema/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SJbridge.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78188\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012SJbridge\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012SJbridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>A 315-foot bridge provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborwebsj.com/xanders-crossing-opens-in-memory-of-toddler-who-died-on-tracks-in-2005/\">safe passage for pedestrians and bicyclists \u003c/a>on their way to the nearby shopping center or school. In 2005, a toddler was hit by a train, helping to spur funding for the $10.5 million project. (Janice Rombeck/\u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborwebsj.com/\">NeighborWebSJ\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78190\" title=\"PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/PhotoWeek121012HomelessEssa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>A man sleeps behind a parking lot in Berkeley. 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"disqusTitle": "Gascon Calls on Mirkarimi to Recuse Himself From Domestic Violence Duties; Jane Kim Says Would Support Recall",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62422\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar19mina-e1334617824926.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar19mina-e1334617824926-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mirkarimi2postsentencemar19mina\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Political analyst Corey Cook told me today in relation to the Mirkarimi vote that his \"hope is that last night ended this and now we can talk about other things ... rather than continuing to litigate this issue about whether Mirkarimi should be removed.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's may be wishful thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DA George Gascon today called on Mirkarimi to recuse himself from part of his official duties, saying that \"at a minimum,\" he is \"incapable of adequately performing the functions of his office that relate to crimes of domestic violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascon said, \"I will not allow the clock to be rolled back on thirty years of progress in protecting victims of domestic violence. No victim of crime should fear that their call for help will go unanswered. No victim should have to consider whether their claim will be taken seriously because they are reporting it to an individual who has committed the same crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascon listed seven areas related to domestic violence that he wants overseen by a high level administrator \"pulled out from under the Sheriff's supervision.\" (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/10/sf-da-gascon-calls-on-mirkarimi-to-recuse-himself-from-domestic-violence-duties/#statement\">Full statement\u003c/a> below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a call out to Mirkarimi now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in other this-will-never-be-over news, Supervisor Jane Kim, one of four votes against removing the sheriff from office, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c161bfa7ff9163061f62e888f&id=51d23a6fcb\">statement explaining her decision\u003c/a> that she would support recalling him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recap, on Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declined to remove Mirkarimi from his position as San Francisco sheriff on charges, filed by Mayor Ed Lee, of official misconduct. The charge stemmed from the sheriff's guilty plea related to an incident of domestic violence against his wife. Four supervisors -- David Campos, John Avalos, Kim and Christina Olague -- voted against removal, depriving the mayor of the nine-vote super-majority he needed to prevail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today on KQED's Forum program, Suzy Loftus, a member of the San Francisco Police Commission who has also prosecuted many domestic violence cases, also strongly questioned whether Mirkarimi could perform his job in relation to domestic violence...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been one overriding concern...from the moment we learned of the domestic violence that occurred... Can someone who is convicted of domestic violence, who has subsequently minimized the violence, who has been a part of vilifying witnesseses who come forward to report the violence, discharge the duties of sheriff in one of the most progressive cities in America, where we really believe we are leaders in the fight against violence, against women and vulnerable communities? It's been clear...he can't do that. We're scratching our heads at how the Board of Supervisors found otherwise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two domestic violence organizations, Domestic Violence Consortium and La Casa de las Madres, have sent out this joint statement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The advocacy community shares the concern of the San Francisco Ethics Commission, the mayor, the district attorney, the city attorney, seven supervisors and two out of three San Francisco voters--that a person convicted of domestic violence, and one who has consistently minimized the severity of this crime, is simply unfit to serve in a leading law enforcement role in our city. It is a conflict of interest to have the current Sheriff oversee San Francisco's pioneering domestic violence programs, and as a probationer, he cannot even access his own jail without special approval that he must give himself. San Francisco deserves better\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi, for his part, today \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/09/sf-supes-reinstate-mirkarimi/\">criticized both law enforcement and the domestic violence community\u003c/a> on Forum, saying, \"To this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use.\" That was a reference to his wife, Eliana Lopez, who disavowed the case against her husband despite willingly appearing in a video made by a neighbor in which she showed a bruise she'd received from Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"statement\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Gascon statement\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I believe I echo the sentiment of many San Franciscans when I say I have grave concerns about Ross Mirkarimi’s ability to manage the Sheriff’s Department. While Ross was entitled to the process that unfolded and it has been resolved with his reinstatement, there are serious public safety concerns that remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I appreciate the work of the Ethics Commission, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors. The Mayor sought suspension which the Ethics Commission recommended and the Board of Supervisors rejected. Ross is now reinstated as our Sheriff and I accept that. What I will not accept is any compromise of public safety as a result of his reinstatement. \u003c!--more-->Ross Mirkarimi is on probation in this county for a crime of domestic violence. He is, at a minimum, incapable of adequately performing the functions of his office that relate to crimes of domestic violence. I am calling upon Ross to recuse himself from the duties in his office that relate to the custody, supervision, safety and rehabilitation of domestic violence offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the remainder of his probation he needs to wall himself off from this conflict by appointing a high level administrator within his department to oversee all domestic violence related work. This independent authority should be pulled out from under the Sheriff’s supervision and be allowed to make all decisions related to domestic violence matters including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· The Domestic Violence Batterer’s Program that the Sheriff’s\u003cbr>\nDepartment oversees, both in custody and out of custody programs.\u003cbr>\n· Supervision of inmates for domestic violence related crimes\u003cbr>\n· Direct disciplinary decision making on Sheriff’s personnel charged for domestic violence crimes and any administrative discipline related to domestic violence incidents.\u003cbr>\n· Bailiffs in Domestic Violence Court including Dept 50 and Domestic Violence cases sent to other departments\u003cbr>\n· Sheriff’s classification services on all incoming domestic violence suspects booked into custody\u003cbr>\n· Investigation by Sheriff’s Department Detectives in pending or future domestic violence related matters by current inmates including monitoring of jail calls\u003cbr>\n· Process for serving civil restraining orders related to domestic violence proceedings in Family Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This request is specific, limited and operational. It is crafted to address the core public safety concern arising from the Sheriff’s criminal conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As leaders in public safety, we have a moral obligation to protect all victims of crime. These roles demand that we think beyond ourselves and prioritize the most vulnerable members of our community. These roles should not be self serving, but rather, a noble undertaking to give voice to the voiceless. I implore Ross to embrace this obligation and rectify what he has broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I will not allow the clock to be rolled back on thirty years of progress in protecting victims of domestic violence. No victim of crime should fear that their call for help will go unanswered. No victim should have to consider whether their claim will be taken seriously because they are reporting it to an individual who has committed the same crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chief law enforcement official in this City and County, I will stand unapologetically with the victims. I will work tirelessly to be sure both victims and witnesses know this city does not tolerate domestic violence. I will work to ensure that all of our public safety leaders and agencies afford these victims and every victim a safe refuge where they will be heard and protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our mission in public safety must be to protect and reassure the victims of crime over and above the individual desires of one elected official with a criminal record. San Francisco is better than this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff has another opportunity to act with grace and true compassion by recusing himself from the supervision of domestic violence activities in his department. He can begin to heal the divide in this city and reassure victims that he can be the kind of Sheriff they deserve. I hope he will take this opportunity and begin to rebuild trust with all of us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a call out to Mirkarimi now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in other this-will-never-be-over news, Supervisor Jane Kim, one of four votes against removing the sheriff from office, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c161bfa7ff9163061f62e888f&id=51d23a6fcb\">statement explaining her decision\u003c/a> that she would support recalling him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recap, on Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declined to remove Mirkarimi from his position as San Francisco sheriff on charges, filed by Mayor Ed Lee, of official misconduct. The charge stemmed from the sheriff's guilty plea related to an incident of domestic violence against his wife. Four supervisors -- David Campos, John Avalos, Kim and Christina Olague -- voted against removal, depriving the mayor of the nine-vote super-majority he needed to prevail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today on KQED's Forum program, Suzy Loftus, a member of the San Francisco Police Commission who has also prosecuted many domestic violence cases, also strongly questioned whether Mirkarimi could perform his job in relation to domestic violence...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been one overriding concern...from the moment we learned of the domestic violence that occurred... Can someone who is convicted of domestic violence, who has subsequently minimized the violence, who has been a part of vilifying witnesseses who come forward to report the violence, discharge the duties of sheriff in one of the most progressive cities in America, where we really believe we are leaders in the fight against violence, against women and vulnerable communities? It's been clear...he can't do that. We're scratching our heads at how the Board of Supervisors found otherwise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two domestic violence organizations, Domestic Violence Consortium and La Casa de las Madres, have sent out this joint statement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The advocacy community shares the concern of the San Francisco Ethics Commission, the mayor, the district attorney, the city attorney, seven supervisors and two out of three San Francisco voters--that a person convicted of domestic violence, and one who has consistently minimized the severity of this crime, is simply unfit to serve in a leading law enforcement role in our city. It is a conflict of interest to have the current Sheriff oversee San Francisco's pioneering domestic violence programs, and as a probationer, he cannot even access his own jail without special approval that he must give himself. San Francisco deserves better\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi, for his part, today \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/09/sf-supes-reinstate-mirkarimi/\">criticized both law enforcement and the domestic violence community\u003c/a> on Forum, saying, \"To this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use.\" That was a reference to his wife, Eliana Lopez, who disavowed the case against her husband despite willingly appearing in a video made by a neighbor in which she showed a bruise she'd received from Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:38 a.m.\u003c/strong> Here's \u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/kqed/san-francisco-sheriff-ross-2\">audio of Mirkarimi speaking\u003c/a> on KQED Public Radio's Forum show today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F62927052&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an edited transcript: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: You must be feeling pretty exuberant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong>: Exuberant, yes. My family hasn't slept any. But I'm eternally grateful for all our incredible support and to the people of SF for having to endure this agonizing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: But the polls show 61 percent of the people feeling this shouldn’t have gone down this way, and seven of the supervisors were not with reinstatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">To this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use.\u003cbr>\n--Ross Mirkarimi\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong> Well I don't know what poll you're quoting and I know that a number of people were quoting a variety of polls. We've seen polls leading up to yesterday, very recent polls, that even had district by district breakdowns. And I have to tell you those were not push-button polls. These were well in-depth polls that demonstrated that the high majority of people in many districts throughout he city were undecided about this, and that we either were receiving strong support for reinstatement or it was almost an even split if the undecided was not that large. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think what people are tired of is this torture that has been kind of well-played out in the press. Distorted, misportrayed, of me and my family, and I think everyone looks forward to just now going forward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: How are you going to really roll up your sleeves and get to work in building trust, not only with the supervisors but with Mayor Lee? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong> I started already. As the events were concluding last night, I reached out to the caretaker sheriff, spoke with [her] almost around midnight. We have planned a transition debriefing starting later today and over the next several days. I've reached out to members of the command staff and the president of the rank and file union already to let them know I look forward to a debriefing and catching up with them. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The narrative that Eliana has not fallen into is what's bothered them, which is why I think they've intensified their attacks.\u003cbr>\n--Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I think people should not forget, when you last had me on your show, which was my coming out interview after being quiet about all of this just because of how humiliated and ashamed and lost I was feeling... that I had served as sheriff for nearly three months, and a lot of what we began ...which was halted or stalled... are now the kind of action we can return to. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I come into this as a very humbled person, one that has gone through an incredibly difficult process publicly...and that's not an experience one just loses, that now...indelibly has marked me and I would like to believe enhances me in what it means to be a very effective and dedicated public servant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: What do you say to those detractors who argue that now it's like the fox being in charge of the henhouse? It was a very serious crime according to the attorneys who spoke on behalf of the mayor, and in fact one deputy city attorney said it would be like Michael Vick being in charge of animal control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong> Since day one of this whole ordeal there's been an incredible amount of mischaracterization and mistportrayal about who I am and what I've done. And yet to this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet she has written a number of pieces just outraged at that level of dismissal. So If in fact this is a representation of victims rights, they should talk to the person that they claim to represent and hear what the full story is. And that has never been well told. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative that Eliana has not fallen into is what's bothered them, which is why I think they've intensified their attacks. Such as a Michael Vick analogy, or such as even suggesting to us last night that the next thing I could do is seriously hurt or kill my family. I mean my god to say those kind of things in order to enhance your position, while that might be politics and that might be legal maneuvering in a court contest, it does not mean you have to scare people into falsehoods thinking that is the kind of branding that is going to support their narrative. And I reject that. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After nine months of headlines and bitter legal squabbling over the fate of San Francisco's sheriff, three members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors said Tuesday that they decided he should not be removed from office over a domestic violence case involving his actress wife. Four supervisors voted in favor of Mirkarimi: John Avalos, David Campos, Jane Kim, and Christina Olague, whom Lee had appointed to replace Mirkarimi on the Board after he became sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/mirkarimilopez3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-77908\" title=\"mirkarimilopez\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/mirkarimilopez3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliana Lopez and Ross Mirkarimi with a well-wisher after the vote.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would take at least nine votes from the 11-member board to oust Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who was elected last fall and mired in controversy before his swearing-in ceremony. But three of the first four supervisors to discuss their upcoming vote said they would not find that Mirkarimi was guilty of official misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the third announced his intention, Mirkarimi smiled and appeared stunned, and his wife embraced her attorney. A throng of Mirkarimi supporters cheered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside an intense overflow board chambers mostly filled with Mirkarimi supporters, lawyers for both the mayor's office and the sheriff stated their respective cases before board members during an hours-long hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy City Attorney Sherri Kaiser said that Mirkarimi simply committed an act of domestic violence and that should not be ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a mistake on December 31. It was a crime, a very serious crime,\" said Kaiser as a chorus of boos erupted from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/10/reaction-to-decision-not-to-remove-sf-sheriff-mirkarimi-over-domestic-violence-case/\">Reaction to the Vote\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's attorneys, David Waggoner and Shepard Kopp said that city continues to give ambiguous interpretations of what is \"official misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The punishment doesn't fit the crime,\" Waggoner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dramatic case has played out all year long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi without pay after the sheriff pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment related to a New Year's Eve dispute with his wife, Venezuela soap opera star Eliana Lopez, who suffered a bruised bicep. Mirkarimi was sentenced to three years of probation, fined $590 and ordered to undergo one year of counseling and parenting classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then took the unprecedented step of trying to permanently remove Mirkarimi from office. Lee testified before the city's Ethics Commission in June that he would find it \"extremely difficult\" to work with Mirkarimi again, and said he thought Mirkarimi committed domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the commission decided 4-1 that Mirkarimi committed official misconduct, setting the stage for the supervisors' vote on whether to oust him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi was elected sheriff in November after serving seven years as one of the city's more liberal supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, who starred in numerous TV shows and films in Latin America, seemingly put her budding career on hold to become a mother and the wife of a rising political figure in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's woes began Dec. 31 when the couple got into an argument over whether she could travel to her native Venezuela with their toddler son, Theo. Authorities say Mirkarimi bruised his wife's arm during the fight with an overly firm grip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Lopez turned to a neighbor, Ivory Madison, who later contacted police. Authorities eventually confiscated video Madison had taken, along with text messages and emails between the two women. The video shows Lopez pointing to a bruise on her right bicep where she said Mirkarimi had grabbed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mirkarimi appeared at his swearing in with his wife and son on Jan. 8, reporters asked him about the incident. He called it a \"private matter, a family matter\" — a comment that caused anti-domestic-violence activists to call for him to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple has since reunited and said attempts to remove Mirkarimi are a political witch hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They sat together during the hearing Tuesday, as more than 100 people spoke, an overwhelming majority in favor of Mirkarimi — some wearing \"Stand with Ross\" buttons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relatively few called for the sheriff's ouster. Beverly Upton, executive director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, told board members that Mirkarimi's crime requires disciplinary action on their behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know today will take leadership and courage,\" said Upton, the anti-domestic violence advocate. \"The facts matter. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:38 a.m.\u003c/strong> Here's \u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/kqed/san-francisco-sheriff-ross-2\">audio of Mirkarimi speaking\u003c/a> on KQED Public Radio's Forum show today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F62927052&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an edited transcript: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: You must be feeling pretty exuberant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong>: Exuberant, yes. My family hasn't slept any. But I'm eternally grateful for all our incredible support and to the people of SF for having to endure this agonizing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: But the polls show 61 percent of the people feeling this shouldn’t have gone down this way, and seven of the supervisors were not with reinstatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">To this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use.\u003cbr>\n--Ross Mirkarimi\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong> Well I don't know what poll you're quoting and I know that a number of people were quoting a variety of polls. We've seen polls leading up to yesterday, very recent polls, that even had district by district breakdowns. And I have to tell you those were not push-button polls. These were well in-depth polls that demonstrated that the high majority of people in many districts throughout he city were undecided about this, and that we either were receiving strong support for reinstatement or it was almost an even split if the undecided was not that large. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think what people are tired of is this torture that has been kind of well-played out in the press. Distorted, misportrayed, of me and my family, and I think everyone looks forward to just now going forward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: How are you going to really roll up your sleeves and get to work in building trust, not only with the supervisors but with Mayor Lee? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong> I started already. As the events were concluding last night, I reached out to the caretaker sheriff, spoke with [her] almost around midnight. We have planned a transition debriefing starting later today and over the next several days. I've reached out to members of the command staff and the president of the rank and file union already to let them know I look forward to a debriefing and catching up with them. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The narrative that Eliana has not fallen into is what's bothered them, which is why I think they've intensified their attacks.\u003cbr>\n--Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I think people should not forget, when you last had me on your show, which was my coming out interview after being quiet about all of this just because of how humiliated and ashamed and lost I was feeling... that I had served as sheriff for nearly three months, and a lot of what we began ...which was halted or stalled... are now the kind of action we can return to. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I come into this as a very humbled person, one that has gone through an incredibly difficult process publicly...and that's not an experience one just loses, that now...indelibly has marked me and I would like to believe enhances me in what it means to be a very effective and dedicated public servant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: What do you say to those detractors who argue that now it's like the fox being in charge of the henhouse? It was a very serious crime according to the attorneys who spoke on behalf of the mayor, and in fact one deputy city attorney said it would be like Michael Vick being in charge of animal control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong> Since day one of this whole ordeal there's been an incredible amount of mischaracterization and mistportrayal about who I am and what I've done. And yet to this day, nobody from the domestic violence agencies, nobody from the police department, district attorney, has ever reached out... [to] the very person they claimed to defend, the very person that they have tried to use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet she has written a number of pieces just outraged at that level of dismissal. So If in fact this is a representation of victims rights, they should talk to the person that they claim to represent and hear what the full story is. And that has never been well told. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative that Eliana has not fallen into is what's bothered them, which is why I think they've intensified their attacks. Such as a Michael Vick analogy, or such as even suggesting to us last night that the next thing I could do is seriously hurt or kill my family. I mean my god to say those kind of things in order to enhance your position, while that might be politics and that might be legal maneuvering in a court contest, it does not mean you have to scare people into falsehoods thinking that is the kind of branding that is going to support their narrative. And I reject that. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After nine months of headlines and bitter legal squabbling over the fate of San Francisco's sheriff, three members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors said Tuesday that they decided he should not be removed from office over a domestic violence case involving his actress wife. Four supervisors voted in favor of Mirkarimi: John Avalos, David Campos, Jane Kim, and Christina Olague, whom Lee had appointed to replace Mirkarimi on the Board after he became sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/mirkarimilopez3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-77908\" title=\"mirkarimilopez\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/mirkarimilopez3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliana Lopez and Ross Mirkarimi with a well-wisher after the vote.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would take at least nine votes from the 11-member board to oust Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who was elected last fall and mired in controversy before his swearing-in ceremony. But three of the first four supervisors to discuss their upcoming vote said they would not find that Mirkarimi was guilty of official misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the third announced his intention, Mirkarimi smiled and appeared stunned, and his wife embraced her attorney. A throng of Mirkarimi supporters cheered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside an intense overflow board chambers mostly filled with Mirkarimi supporters, lawyers for both the mayor's office and the sheriff stated their respective cases before board members during an hours-long hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy City Attorney Sherri Kaiser said that Mirkarimi simply committed an act of domestic violence and that should not be ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a mistake on December 31. It was a crime, a very serious crime,\" said Kaiser as a chorus of boos erupted from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/10/reaction-to-decision-not-to-remove-sf-sheriff-mirkarimi-over-domestic-violence-case/\">Reaction to the Vote\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's attorneys, David Waggoner and Shepard Kopp said that city continues to give ambiguous interpretations of what is \"official misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The punishment doesn't fit the crime,\" Waggoner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dramatic case has played out all year long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi without pay after the sheriff pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment related to a New Year's Eve dispute with his wife, Venezuela soap opera star Eliana Lopez, who suffered a bruised bicep. Mirkarimi was sentenced to three years of probation, fined $590 and ordered to undergo one year of counseling and parenting classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then took the unprecedented step of trying to permanently remove Mirkarimi from office. Lee testified before the city's Ethics Commission in June that he would find it \"extremely difficult\" to work with Mirkarimi again, and said he thought Mirkarimi committed domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the commission decided 4-1 that Mirkarimi committed official misconduct, setting the stage for the supervisors' vote on whether to oust him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi was elected sheriff in November after serving seven years as one of the city's more liberal supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, who starred in numerous TV shows and films in Latin America, seemingly put her budding career on hold to become a mother and the wife of a rising political figure in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's woes began Dec. 31 when the couple got into an argument over whether she could travel to her native Venezuela with their toddler son, Theo. Authorities say Mirkarimi bruised his wife's arm during the fight with an overly firm grip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Lopez turned to a neighbor, Ivory Madison, who later contacted police. Authorities eventually confiscated video Madison had taken, along with text messages and emails between the two women. The video shows Lopez pointing to a bruise on her right bicep where she said Mirkarimi had grabbed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mirkarimi appeared at his swearing in with his wife and son on Jan. 8, reporters asked him about the incident. He called it a \"private matter, a family matter\" — a comment that caused anti-domestic-violence activists to call for him to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple has since reunited and said attempts to remove Mirkarimi are a political witch hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They sat together during the hearing Tuesday, as more than 100 people spoke, an overwhelming majority in favor of Mirkarimi — some wearing \"Stand with Ross\" buttons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relatively few called for the sheriff's ouster. Beverly Upton, executive director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, told board members that Mirkarimi's crime requires disciplinary action on their behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know today will take leadership and courage,\" said Upton, the anti-domestic violence advocate. \"The facts matter. The world is watching.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">Watch the hearing live on SFGovTV.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/kqed/sets/san-francisco-sheriff/\">Watch archival videos and read News Fix's coverage of the story so far.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/kqed/sets/san-francisco-sheriff/\">Listen to recordings of Mirkarimi, Mayor Ed Lee and interim Sheriff Vicki Hennessy discussing the case.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors are planning to decide today whether Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi may keep his job after pleading guilty in a domestic violence case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would take at least nine votes from the 11-member board to oust Mirkarimi, who was elected last fall and mired in controversy before his swearing-in ceremony. Five board members currently are campaigning to keep their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up 7-to-4 to keep him or 11-0 to remove him,\" University of San Francisco political scientist Corey Cook told the Associated Press Monday. \"We don't know what to expect. It's been such a roller coaster that I can't even venture a guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Caitlin Esch and other journalists are tweeting live from the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe style=\"border: 1px solid #000\" src=\"http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=63878&ThemeId=6104\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"700\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by the way, KQED's Mina Kim today, on her way to get coffee, ran into Board of Supervisors President David Chiu out on the street. She asked him what amounted to a rhetorical question, as there was little chance he was going to give a substantial answer: \"What's your thinking on Ross Mirkarimi?\" He laughed and said, \"You'll know in about nine hours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was at about 11 a.m. Could be a looong afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the background of the case, it's played out for months at City Hall.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi without pay after the sheriff pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment related to a New Year's Eve dispute with his wife, Venezuela soap opera star Eliana Lopez, who suffered a bruised bicep. Mirkarimi was sentenced to three years of probation, fined $590 and ordered to undergo one year of counseling and parenting classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then took the unprecedented step of trying to permanently remove Mirkarimi from office. 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