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His decision dramatically alters the political landscape in a contest for San Francisco's top prosecutor that was shaping up to be the most contentious in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former prosecutor Suzy Loftus recently made her long-anticipated run for the seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/SF-DA-Gasc-n-faces-formidable-challenge-for-seat-13236836.php\">official\u003c/a>; lawyer Joseph Alioto Veronese and Deputy Attorney General Leif Dautch are also running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The past eight years as your district attorney have been some of the most professionally rewarding years of my life,\" Gascón said in a written statement. \"The job of district attorney is an enormous responsibility. It requires doing the right thing, even when it is unpopular, perhaps especially when it is unpopular. To do it well requires a serious commitment of time and energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón went on to credit the women in his life, saying they have made \"countless sacrifices for my career.\" He cited his wife, Fabiola; his daughters; and his mother, whom he called a \"true warrior who nourished my development and growth in every conceivable way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I recognize that without these strong women in my life, and my late father, who gave up so much for me, I would not be a fraction of the man I am today,\" he stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Gascón said, he realized as he prepared for a third run for office that his mother’s \"weakened health weighed heavily on my mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is 90 years old and has much greater needs than when I took office. I am her only child and have the responsibility to be there for her. It became clear that launching a re-election campaign would not be compatible with taking care of her adequately in this moment of need. As her son, I must meet that obligation. There is no acceptable alternative,\" he stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'At this time, I simply cannot be the son I want to be and seek a third term.'\u003ccite>George Gascón\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gascón, who was born in Cuba, is a former police officer who had never tried a case when he was named to the district attorney post in early 2011 by departing Mayor Gavin Newsom, who had previously recruited Gascón from Mesa, Arizona, to head San Francisco's troubled Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón was named district attorney when then-District Attorney Kamala Harris — now a U.S. senator — was elected California attorney general. Gascón was \u003ca href=\"https://sfdistrictattorney.org/biography\">the city's first Latino district attorney\u003c/a> and the first police chief in the nation to become a top prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón, a former Republican who became a Democrat after moving to San Francisco, was well respected in criminal justice reform circles, but had a contentious relationship with some of the police department's rank and file, including its powerful union leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also split with most of his district attorney counterparts in supporting a slew of ballot measures and legislative proposals that sought to end California's \"tough on crime\" laws in favor of a system more focused on rehabilitation. He was an early champion of Proposition 47, a ballot measure that reduced many drug possession charges from felonies to misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also made national headlines earlier this year when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11647347/san-francisco-plans-to-wipe-out-thousands-of-pot-convictions\">announced\u003c/a> his office would proactively expunge old marijuana convictions, following the 2016 legalization of marijuana in California. He touted that decision in announcing he would not seek re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Against the tide of nearly all prosecutors around the state, we also took the lead in proactively dismissing old marijuana convictions,\" he stated. \"This leadership encouraged many DAs to join our effort and resulted in state legislation that will help people erase their old convictions, which will allow them to find employment and housing and improve their own lives and their community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those close to Gascón said the decision not to run was made recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time, I simply cannot be the son I want to be and seek a third term,\" Gascón said in his statement. \"My career means a great deal to me. But success in the world with a family in chaos is not a choice I am willing to make.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tre’Vonn Doakes said that, a year and a half ago, his life was on the right track. In his early 20s, he had a good job working for Alcatraz Cruises. He was taking college courses, providing for his two young daughters and had another baby on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on April 21, 2017, Doakes said he came close to losing everything he cared about. He got in a fight with a family friend who came to his house, and when Doakes called the Oakland Police Department, he ended up getting arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They charged me with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of domestic violence,” Doakes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he sat in a holding cell in Santa Rita Jail for 12 hours, worrying about his fiancee and his daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everything that I was fighting to keep,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693627\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/File_000-6-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Tre'Vonn Doakes, 24, at Mosswood Park in Oakland. 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He said it will take years to bounce back from an arrest in 2017. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Doakes’ dad was trying to get him out of jail. Doakes said Aladdin Bail Bonds agreed to sign a $75,000 bond in exchange for the 10 percent fee that bail companies charge to guarantee a defendant shows up to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alameda County prosecutors never filed charges against Doakes, and he said he never had to go to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So why am I having to pay a bail bond?” Doakes wondered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the law is concerned Doakes is free and clear of any criminal case. But more than a year later, he said he is still struggling to pay back the $3,000 he owes Aladdin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Senate Bill 10, the new bail reform law \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed\u003c/a> by Gov. Jerry Brown, goes into effect next year, people like Doakes won’t have to pay a bail company to get out of custody, but they won’t necessarily be released either. The new law gives judges a lot of discretion to determine whether a defendant can safely be released pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Gov. Brown Signs Bill Ending Cash Bail in California\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BailBonds-1180x915.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">It gives judges far more power over who gets released from jail as they await trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There is broad agreement among state and criminal justice leaders that the money bail system in California is unfair and often unconstitutional, but there is disagreement about whether the system under the new law complies with the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s directly in contradiction to the fundamental rights protected by the U.S. Constitution and California [constitution] Article 1 Section 12,” San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin is currently arguing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666269/s-f-man-whose-case-upended-californias-bail-system-wins-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case\u003c/a> before the California Supreme Court that could have far-reaching implications for how — or whether — the new state law is implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Kenneth Humphrey, whose \u003ca href=\"https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1886990.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">win before a state appeals court\u003c/a> in January upended California’s reliance on unaffordable bail amounts to keep defendants in jail awaiting trial, is pending before the state Supreme Court. The state’s highest court initially took up the issues raised in Humphrey’s case to determine under what circumstances a defendant can be jailed — with no chance to bail out — before he or she has been convicted of a crime. The court also asked whether judges can consider public safety in setting bail amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Supreme Court requested additional arguments on how SB 10 affects the issues in Humphrey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin says that according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS§ionNum=SEC.%2012.&article=I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 1 Section 12\u003c/a> of the California Constitution, there are only three sets of circumstances in which a defendant can be held before trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A person shall be released on bail by sufficient sureties, except for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(a) Capital crimes when the facts are evident or the presumption great;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(b) Felony offenses involving acts of violence on another person, or felony sexual assault offenses on another person, when the facts are evident or the presumption great and the court finds based upon clear and convincing evidence that there is a substantial likelihood the person’s release would result in great bodily harm to others; or\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(c) Felony offenses when the facts are evident or the presumption great and the court finds based on clear and convincing evidence that the person has threatened another with great bodily harm and that there is a substantial likelihood that the person would carry out the threat if released.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is arguing that the constitution isn’t that restrictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Article 12 was originally passed back in the late 1800s, all felonies were capital offenses,” Gascón said. “The world has evolved tremendously, and there are many cases where you have felonies that are not capital offenses, and they are not necessarily dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also many other crimes that are no longer capital offenses, he said, but are very dangerous. Gascón argues that another provision of the constitution — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS§ionNum=SEC.%2028.&article=I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 28\u003c/a> — lets judges more broadly consider the danger a defendant could pose when deciding to release or hold someone before trial.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBut here is where the arguments of both sides get more complicated. Ten years ago, voters amended Article 28 when they passed \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/victimservices/marsys_law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marsy’s Law\u003c/a>. It says that judges should consider the safety of the crime victim when setting bail and releasing a defendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin said when voters passed Marsy’s Law, they never intended to repeal Article 12. He’s arguing that the narrower provision of the state constitution controls when defendants can be held in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón’s argument to the Supreme Court is that Articles 12 and 28 can be “harmonized” to work together to protect public safety and preserve the fundamental rights of people who have yet to be found guilty of any crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it will be to be up to the California Supreme Court to decide which side has it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have now,” Gascón said, “is we have a great deal of uncertainty in the field both for the prosecutor, the defense and the courts, as to when you can hold someone on pretrial detention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666269/s-f-man-whose-case-upended-californias-bail-system-wins-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">S.F. Man Whose Case Upended California’s Bail System Wins Release\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666269/s-f-man-whose-case-upended-californias-bail-system-wins-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29496_alt_690-1180x902.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The court has ordered the parties in Humphrey to explain their reading of the state constitutional questions surrounding the new state law, SB 10, and submit those briefs by Oct. 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the bail industry is fighting to survive. Across the state, industry representatives are gathering signatures for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2018-news-releases-and-advisories/proposed-referendum-enters-circulation/\">referendum to overturn SB 10\u003c/a>. Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney for the California Bail Agents Association, said she is 95 percent certain that bail proponents will be able to gather the necessary signatures in time for a Nov. 26 deadline. If so, the issue would then go back to voters in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that means a two-year stay [of SB 10] at a minimum,” Dhillon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This constitutional debate has in some ways united the bail industry and the civil rights community, both of which oppose SB 10 for different reasons. For bail companies, it represents an existential threat throughout California. Civil rights groups say the law will result in more jail time for poor defendants — just at a judge’s discretion instead of through unpayable bail amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhillon said even if the bail industry’s referendum fails, she expects the civil rights and defense attorneys to file legal challenges to SB 10 as soon as it goes into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Jerry Brown, goes into effect next year, people like Doakes won’t have to pay a bail company to get out of custody, but they won’t necessarily be released either. The new law gives judges a lot of discretion to determine whether a defendant can safely be released pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Gov. Brown Signs Bill Ending Cash Bail in California\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/BailBonds-1180x915.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">It gives judges far more power over who gets released from jail as they await trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There is broad agreement among state and criminal justice leaders that the money bail system in California is unfair and often unconstitutional, but there is disagreement about whether the system under the new law complies with the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s directly in contradiction to the fundamental rights protected by the U.S. Constitution and California [constitution] Article 1 Section 12,” San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin is currently arguing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666269/s-f-man-whose-case-upended-californias-bail-system-wins-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case\u003c/a> before the California Supreme Court that could have far-reaching implications for how — or whether — the new state law is implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Kenneth Humphrey, whose \u003ca href=\"https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1886990.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">win before a state appeals court\u003c/a> in January upended California’s reliance on unaffordable bail amounts to keep defendants in jail awaiting trial, is pending before the state Supreme Court. The state’s highest court initially took up the issues raised in Humphrey’s case to determine under what circumstances a defendant can be jailed — with no chance to bail out — before he or she has been convicted of a crime. 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"content": "\u003cp>\"Don't give my story nonchalantly,\" Gwendolyn Woods pleaded to a bank of television cameras and reporters Tuesday outside San Francisco's Hall of Justice. For nearly 10 minutes, she spoke about how she has been affected by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670339/no-charges-s-f-da-closes-2-controversial-police-shooting-cases-that-led-to-era-of-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision last week\u003c/a> to not criminally charge police officers who fatally shot her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwendolyn Woods doesn't protest weekly, as some people do in the name of Mario Woods. She has given few public statements about how her son's death on Dec. 2, 2015, changed her life, but she did share some of her pain in an \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/mario-woods-after-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in-depth profile\u003c/a> published by the California Sunday Magazine last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanked by her attorney and family members of Luis Góngora -- whose case Gascón also closed last week with no criminal charges -- Gwendolyn Woods started with an attempt to set the record straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not OK with this, Gascón,\" she said. \"You executed him all over again. I’m going to always say this: He was the best of me. People ask. He had empathy, that’s why. If he would have been in that situation, he would have said, 'Let’s try and talk him off a ledge.' No, you guys didn’t. 'Cause you’re so full of hate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods at times paused, tapping her foot and seeming to hold back tears. 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He was wanted for allegedly stabbing a man in San Francisco's Bayview District near where about a dozen police officers confronted and eventually shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district attorney's report, citing statements from police officers, Woods said to officers that they would have to shoot him. Those statements are disputed by attorneys representing Gwendolyn Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard ‘em say they had to stop people. They had to stop Mario. No they didn’t, because they just went ballistic with the gun when our babies were coming home from school,\" Gwendolyn Woods said. \"They saw him as nothing or nobody, or that nobody loved him. Let me tell you, I loved that kid and he was worth me fighting for. He was the best of me. Something you all can use on this police force, but you can’t because you’re racist and full of hate: empathy. Mario deserved a little empathy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm so broken,\" she said repeatedly as she walked away from the microphones. \"I'm so broken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis Góngora\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousins and a brother of Luis Gongóra, who was killed about four months after Mario Woods by two SFPD officers in San Francisco's Mission District, also spoke Tuesday in reaction to the district attorney's decision not to file charges in that case. Gascón announced both decisions simultaneously last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Góngora Pat, Luis Góngora's brother, said in Spanish that his heart is broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My struggle is against the injustice we share,\" he said. \"I promised my mother I would not rest until I found the way to consequences for those police officers. ... I'm up here crying before you. This is how they hurt us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to statements by family members of Luis Góngora below, including Spanish-to-English translation by advocate Adriana Camarena.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/05/GongoraRaw.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31195_alt_737.jpg\" Title=\"José Góngora Pat\" program=\"KQED News\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 7, 2016, two SFPD officers briskly approached Góngora, who was sitting against a building in the city's Mission District and holding a kitchen knife, after a homeless outreach worker called 911 and reported him waving the knife around and acting erratically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting raised questions, including from former Police Chief Greg Suhr, about whether the officers adhered to SFPD rules enacted in 2013 that encourage fostering \"time and distance\" when confronting suspects armed with knives who may be in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers moved toward Góngora while shouting commands, and one fired four impact rounds before transitioning to his firearm. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 7, 2016, two SFPD officers briskly approached Góngora, who was sitting against a building in the city's Mission District and holding a kitchen knife, after a homeless outreach worker called 911 and reported him waving the knife around and acting erratically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting raised questions, including from former Police Chief Greg Suhr, about whether the officers adhered to SFPD rules enacted in 2013 that encourage fostering \"time and distance\" when confronting suspects armed with knives who may be in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers moved toward Góngora while shouting commands, and one fired four impact rounds before transitioning to his firearm. The encounter lasted less than 30 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation found that Góngora moved approximately 23 feet toward the officers during the encounter, and that he was holding a knife. Góngora had a high level of methamphetamine in his system, according to the medical examiner's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will prove that they killed an innocent man, a person who never caused harm,\" Góngora's widow, Fidelia del Carmen May Can, said in a statement from Yucatan, Mexico, which was read Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Woods' and Góngora's families have filed federal civil rights lawsuits, and those cases are pending.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 7:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is insufficient evidence to criminally charge two plainclothes San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant from behind more than two years ago, the city's district attorney announced on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/27/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-awaited\u003c/a> decision marks the end of the criminal investigation into the high-profile police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, one of a few such incidents that thrust the San Francisco Police Department into years of turmoil, culminating with the May 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resignation\u003c/a> of former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds ... but ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.'\u003ccite>George Gascón\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr remains a defendant in a federal civil \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/262989139/Complaint-Estate-of-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-et-al-v-Suhr-et-al#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of Perez Lopez's family, which points out an inconsistency in Suhr's initial description that officers fired as Perez Lopez charged one of them with a large knife raised over his head. That account was called into question by an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> commissioned by attorneys representing Perez Lopez's family, who live in Guatemala. Its findings, later backed up by the city's official medical examiner's report, show Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconciling the statement of one of the officers involved -- that he fired as Perez Lopez was charging at him -- and the fact that Perez Lopez was shot from behind formed the crux of District Attorney George Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A human being is dead,\" Gascón said on Wednesday, announcing his decision not to charge the officers. \"Amilcar was someone’s son. He was a family member, and he was a member of our community. His loved ones have suffered a loss and my heart goes out to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"Can I prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers here did not act in self defense or the defense of others? If we cannot meet this burden, if we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case. I cannot, and I will not file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, though expected, inspired anger from advocates who wanted the case to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If ever there was a case that could be prosecuted, this is it,\" Mission District priest Richard Smith said on Wednesday. \"This was an opportunity for justice where the DA simply failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leading to the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several rumors have circulated about what started the altercation between Perez Lopez and another man, identified by the district attorney's office as Abraham P., who is Abraham Perez. One, which Abraham Perez initially told officers, was that Perez Lopez attacked him after Abraham refused to sell his bicycle. Another involved Abraham Perez stealing Perez Lopez's cellphone, but the phone was in Perez Lopez's pocket when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/PerezLopezShooting2Way20170412.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-e1416954725536.jpg\" Title=\"No Charges for S.F. Officers Who Shot Amilcar Perez Lopez\" program=\"KQED News\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, which is backed up by the account of one witness and video captured by a passing Muni bus, was that Abraham Perez was taunting Perez Lopez and blocking him from entering his home on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez may have circled around Abraham Perez to dash inside his house and grab a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men appear to have been drinking heavily that evening. Perez Lopez's blood alcohol level was .19 -- intoxicated to the point of \"confusion or excitement, emotional instability, and loss of critical judgment and understanding,\" according to a toxicologist who tested Perez Lopez's blood. Abraham Perez told police he'd consumed half a 24-oz. beer before the incident, but he still smelled of alcohol several hours later, according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who were in plainclothes and an unmarked police car, were the first officers to respond to a 911 call about a person with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2015. They were nearby and arrived within minutes, where they encountered two men on opposite sides of a parked car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli approached a man on the street side of the parked car, who would later be identified as Abraham Perez, and \"announced himself as a police officer and then immediately grabbed Abraham P. by both arms and pinned his arms together in case he was the man with the knife,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. Reboli told Perez they were going to get out of the street and moved toward the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tiffe approached Perez Lopez, who was on the sidewalk side of the parked car.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"nRLBQFFvdnjGZXwTrjtDzXlBgWvbUZwE\"]\u003cbr>\nOfficer Tiffe said he thought Perez Lopez appeared to be in an \"altered state\" and described the look on his face as \"bloodlust crazed,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement. Tiffe said he announced himself as a police officer and asked Perez Lopez to step away from the car. \"Officer Tiffe then pointed to the star on his chest, in case Perez Lopez did not speak English, but he could not tell if Perez Lopez looked at it or understood he was a police officer since he said nothing and simply appeared to 'look through' him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe said he tried to grab Perez Lopez by the left arm and tried to take him to the ground, but Perez Lopez \"suddenly lunged up at him with his right hand,\" according to the summary of Tiffe's statement. He said he shoved Perez Lopez away, and as the two were separating, Perez Lopez swiped at his chest with an object Tiffe then realized was a \"very large knife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli had come to Tiffe's aid at this point. After he was shoved away from Tiffe, Perez Lopez turned and started to run toward Reboli, according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. He said he reached for both his gun and pepper spray, but couldn't get the pepper spray out of his pocket. Reboli said he shouted either \"Police, drop the knife\" or \"Drop the knife,\" but after a momentary pause, Perez Lopez continued to approach Reboli with the knife, and the officer began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fired five shots over about two seconds, which were recorded by a nearby gunshot detection device at 9:47 p.m. and the phone of the 911 caller, who was still speaking to police dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below is a 3D animation depicting the theory that Perez Lopez may have turned as the officers were deciding to shoot.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_tIpl6d5I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement says: \"Officer Reboli explained that, once he started to discharge his firearm, Perez Lopez began turning toward the street, then took a step or two before collapsing, face-down, between the two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Tiffe recalled that, as the shots were being fired, Perez Lopez was 'kind of moving in different directions,' was at some point 'facing, at some point he was turning away,' and appeared to fixate on something in the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe fired a single shot as Perez Lopez moved toward the street, the summary said: \"He didn't know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, uniformed officers were arriving on the block of Folsom between 24th and 25th streets as the shots were being fired, according to the district attorney's summary. As one officer began CPR on Perez Lopez, who was shot through the back of the head among other wounds, another officer spoke with Abraham Perez. The officer recorded Perez saying \"that the man shot by the police wanted his bike and tried to kill him with the knife, and ... that the officer saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of the investigation includes statements or information from a total of 15 independent witnesses, including neighbors who said they heard gunshots and shouting, a man who called 911, a woman waiting for the bus and other bystanders. Part of their information corroborates whether officers Tiffe and Reboli shouted commands before firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Four witnesses reported hearing some version of 'Put the knife down,' prior to shots being fired; five witnesses heard some version of 'Get on the ground!' prior to shots being fired; and six witnesses heard yelling or shouting prior to shots being fired, but did not hear or remember the words said,\" according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable. ... We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.'\u003ccite>Richard Smith\u003cbr>Mission District Priest\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two additional witnesses are former roommates of Perez Lopez who initially told police they hadn't seen anything, but feared their roommate had been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them spoke to KQED and \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Tecolote\u003c/a> last year on condition of anonymity because he said he fears retaliation from the police. Both men also told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/san-francisco-police-shooting-amilcar-perez-lopez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> in 2015 that they feared countering the Police Department's version of the shooting because of their undocumented immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was nearly a year after the shooting that the men, supported by a network of activists around the shooting of Perez Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave statements\u003c/a> to district attorney's investigators in the church of a local priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation notes that the men were likely outside at the time of the shooting -- they were noticed by another pair of witnesses just moments before the gunshots. They both said that, from about 90 feet away, they didn't hear the officers give any commands, never saw Abraham Perez, and that it seemed Perez Lopez was running away when the officers started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their sight was obstructed by trees and parked vehicles, and they wouldn't have seen Abraham Perez on the other side of the cars. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for them to see Perez Lopez at the moment he was shot, though they may have been able to see the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District Attorney's Analysis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's charging decision says that, legally, the officers' account of the shooting indicates that their use of force was justified in self-defense or defense of others. The charging decision then \"turns on whether the officers' statements are consistent with the evidence,\" according to the summary of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis further narrows to \"\u003cem>the moments just before the shots were fired\u003c/em> where it was not immediately clear whether the officers' accounts could be squared with other evidence,\" according to the summary, which notes two crucial inconsistencies. \"These two areas were subject to intense analysis, including close examination by a use of force expert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first apparent inconsistency involves Reboli's statement that he started to fire as Perez Lopez was coming toward him. \"This statement was examined in light of the findings of the Medical Examiner that five of the six shots that struck Perez Lopez struck him in the back, and with the statement of Abraham P., who said that Perez Lopez had his back to the officers when he was shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use-of-force expert Charles Key examined the case and noted that \"a subject can turn one hundred eighty degrees more quickly than the fact that he/she has turned can be comprehended; thus, the shooter who has decided to fire may not recognize that the person has turned and, perhaps, no longer presents a threat and be able to stop shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key also accounts for what he calls \"the mechanics of shooting,\" which changes a person's focus from what their target may be doing to \"shooting the weapon effectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key's analysis is further quoted in the district attorney's report on the shooting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In other words, Reboli may have accurately recalled that Perez Lopez was facing him when he made the decision to shoot and started the process of taking the first shot, but based on action versus reaction time, Perez Lopez would have been able to turn 90 to 180 degrees by the time the first bullet hit him. Further, once Reboli saw Perez Lopez coming toward him with the knife and decided to shoot, his focus would have turned to the mechanics of shooting accurately and he may have at that point lost sight of the exact position of Perez Lopez as he started firing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds, which direction Perez Lopez was facing and to whom he posed a threat when the officers made a decision to shoot,\" Gascón said. \"But ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation also intensely analyzed whether Perez Lopez dropped the knife he was holding before police started firing, something Perez Lopez's roommates believed they heard moments before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that, due to the knife's position in the street after the shooting, it's likely that Perez Lopez was still holding it when he was shot. But, according to the district attorney's report, even if he wasn't:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence is also consistent with the officers' \u003cem>belief\u003c/em> that Perez Lopez was still in possession of the knife when they discharged their weapons, even if the evidence supported a finding that the knife had in fact dropped a moment before the shots were fired.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Distirct priest Richard Smith and other advocates around the case are now looking forward to a civil trial, which could still be a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable,\" Smith said. \"We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the district attorney's summary of investigation and legal analysis below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3553854-FOLSOM-STREET-SUMMARY-and-ANALYSIS\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 7:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is insufficient evidence to criminally charge two plainclothes San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant from behind more than two years ago, the city's district attorney announced on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/27/advocates-press-for-charging-decision-two-years-since-fatal-s-f-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-awaited\u003c/a> decision marks the end of the criminal investigation into the high-profile police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, one of a few such incidents that thrust the San Francisco Police Department into years of turmoil, culminating with the May 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resignation\u003c/a> of former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds ... but ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.'\u003ccite>George Gascón\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr remains a defendant in a federal civil \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/262989139/Complaint-Estate-of-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-et-al-v-Suhr-et-al#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of Perez Lopez's family, which points out an inconsistency in Suhr's initial description that officers fired as Perez Lopez charged one of them with a large knife raised over his head. That account was called into question by an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> commissioned by attorneys representing Perez Lopez's family, who live in Guatemala. Its findings, later backed up by the city's official medical examiner's report, show Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconciling the statement of one of the officers involved -- that he fired as Perez Lopez was charging at him -- and the fact that Perez Lopez was shot from behind formed the crux of District Attorney George Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A human being is dead,\" Gascón said on Wednesday, announcing his decision not to charge the officers. \"Amilcar was someone’s son. He was a family member, and he was a member of our community. His loved ones have suffered a loss and my heart goes out to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, \"Can I prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers here did not act in self defense or the defense of others? If we cannot meet this burden, if we cannot show beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers lack a reasonable justification for their actions, then we cannot charge the case. I cannot, and I will not file charges or decline to file charges due to pressure from anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, though expected, inspired anger from advocates who wanted the case to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If ever there was a case that could be prosecuted, this is it,\" Mission District priest Richard Smith said on Wednesday. \"This was an opportunity for justice where the DA simply failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leading to the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several rumors have circulated about what started the altercation between Perez Lopez and another man, identified by the district attorney's office as Abraham P., who is Abraham Perez. One, which Abraham Perez initially told officers, was that Perez Lopez attacked him after Abraham refused to sell his bicycle. Another involved Abraham Perez stealing Perez Lopez's cellphone, but the phone was in Perez Lopez's pocket when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third, which is backed up by the account of one witness and video captured by a passing Muni bus, was that Abraham Perez was taunting Perez Lopez and blocking him from entering his home on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez may have circled around Abraham Perez to dash inside his house and grab a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men appear to have been drinking heavily that evening. Perez Lopez's blood alcohol level was .19 -- intoxicated to the point of \"confusion or excitement, emotional instability, and loss of critical judgment and understanding,\" according to a toxicologist who tested Perez Lopez's blood. Abraham Perez told police he'd consumed half a 24-oz. beer before the incident, but he still smelled of alcohol several hours later, according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who were in plainclothes and an unmarked police car, were the first officers to respond to a 911 call about a person with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2015. They were nearby and arrived within minutes, where they encountered two men on opposite sides of a parked car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli approached a man on the street side of the parked car, who would later be identified as Abraham Perez, and \"announced himself as a police officer and then immediately grabbed Abraham P. by both arms and pinned his arms together in case he was the man with the knife,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. Reboli told Perez they were going to get out of the street and moved toward the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tiffe approached Perez Lopez, who was on the sidewalk side of the parked car.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nOfficer Tiffe said he thought Perez Lopez appeared to be in an \"altered state\" and described the look on his face as \"bloodlust crazed,\" according to the district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement. Tiffe said he announced himself as a police officer and asked Perez Lopez to step away from the car. \"Officer Tiffe then pointed to the star on his chest, in case Perez Lopez did not speak English, but he could not tell if Perez Lopez looked at it or understood he was a police officer since he said nothing and simply appeared to 'look through' him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe said he tried to grab Perez Lopez by the left arm and tried to take him to the ground, but Perez Lopez \"suddenly lunged up at him with his right hand,\" according to the summary of Tiffe's statement. He said he shoved Perez Lopez away, and as the two were separating, Perez Lopez swiped at his chest with an object Tiffe then realized was a \"very large knife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reboli had come to Tiffe's aid at this point. After he was shoved away from Tiffe, Perez Lopez turned and started to run toward Reboli, according to the district attorney's summary of Reboli's statement. He said he reached for both his gun and pepper spray, but couldn't get the pepper spray out of his pocket. Reboli said he shouted either \"Police, drop the knife\" or \"Drop the knife,\" but after a momentary pause, Perez Lopez continued to approach Reboli with the knife, and the officer began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fired five shots over about two seconds, which were recorded by a nearby gunshot detection device at 9:47 p.m. and the phone of the 911 caller, who was still speaking to police dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below is a 3D animation depicting the theory that Perez Lopez may have turned as the officers were deciding to shoot.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Cr_tIpl6d5I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Cr_tIpl6d5I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of Tiffe's statement says: \"Officer Reboli explained that, once he started to discharge his firearm, Perez Lopez began turning toward the street, then took a step or two before collapsing, face-down, between the two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Tiffe recalled that, as the shots were being fired, Perez Lopez was 'kind of moving in different directions,' was at some point 'facing, at some point he was turning away,' and appeared to fixate on something in the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe fired a single shot as Perez Lopez moved toward the street, the summary said: \"He didn't know exactly where Abraham P. was at that point but believed he was very close and thought that Perez Lopez was going after him, so he fired his weapon one time and saw Perez Lopez fall to the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, uniformed officers were arriving on the block of Folsom between 24th and 25th streets as the shots were being fired, according to the district attorney's summary. As one officer began CPR on Perez Lopez, who was shot through the back of the head among other wounds, another officer spoke with Abraham Perez. The officer recorded Perez saying \"that the man shot by the police wanted his bike and tried to kill him with the knife, and ... that the officer saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's summary of the investigation includes statements or information from a total of 15 independent witnesses, including neighbors who said they heard gunshots and shouting, a man who called 911, a woman waiting for the bus and other bystanders. Part of their information corroborates whether officers Tiffe and Reboli shouted commands before firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Four witnesses reported hearing some version of 'Put the knife down,' prior to shots being fired; five witnesses heard some version of 'Get on the ground!' prior to shots being fired; and six witnesses heard yelling or shouting prior to shots being fired, but did not hear or remember the words said,\" according to the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have yet another case of a shooting of a young man of color in which the officers will not be held accountable. ... We hope to have another shot at this to get the details to light and some of the questions answered, but this is a big disappointment.'\u003ccite>Richard Smith\u003cbr>Mission District Priest\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Two additional witnesses are former roommates of Perez Lopez who initially told police they hadn't seen anything, but feared their roommate had been shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them spoke to KQED and \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Tecolote\u003c/a> last year on condition of anonymity because he said he fears retaliation from the police. Both men also told \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/san-francisco-police-shooting-amilcar-perez-lopez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> in 2015 that they feared countering the Police Department's version of the shooting because of their undocumented immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was nearly a year after the shooting that the men, supported by a network of activists around the shooting of Perez Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave statements\u003c/a> to district attorney's investigators in the church of a local priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation notes that the men were likely outside at the time of the shooting -- they were noticed by another pair of witnesses just moments before the gunshots. They both said that, from about 90 feet away, they didn't hear the officers give any commands, never saw Abraham Perez, and that it seemed Perez Lopez was running away when the officers started shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their sight was obstructed by trees and parked vehicles, and they wouldn't have seen Abraham Perez on the other side of the cars. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for them to see Perez Lopez at the moment he was shot, though they may have been able to see the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District Attorney's Analysis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's charging decision says that, legally, the officers' account of the shooting indicates that their use of force was justified in self-defense or defense of others. The charging decision then \"turns on whether the officers' statements are consistent with the evidence,\" according to the summary of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis further narrows to \"\u003cem>the moments just before the shots were fired\u003c/em> where it was not immediately clear whether the officers' accounts could be squared with other evidence,\" according to the summary, which notes two crucial inconsistencies. \"These two areas were subject to intense analysis, including close examination by a use of force expert.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first apparent inconsistency involves Reboli's statement that he started to fire as Perez Lopez was coming toward him. \"This statement was examined in light of the findings of the Medical Examiner that five of the six shots that struck Perez Lopez struck him in the back, and with the statement of Abraham P., who said that Perez Lopez had his back to the officers when he was shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use-of-force expert Charles Key examined the case and noted that \"a subject can turn one hundred eighty degrees more quickly than the fact that he/she has turned can be comprehended; thus, the shooter who has decided to fire may not recognize that the person has turned and, perhaps, no longer presents a threat and be able to stop shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key also accounts for what he calls \"the mechanics of shooting,\" which changes a person's focus from what their target may be doing to \"shooting the weapon effectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key's analysis is further quoted in the district attorney's report on the shooting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In other words, Reboli may have accurately recalled that Perez Lopez was facing him when he made the decision to shoot and started the process of taking the first shot, but based on action versus reaction time, Perez Lopez would have been able to turn 90 to 180 degrees by the time the first bullet hit him. Further, once Reboli saw Perez Lopez coming toward him with the knife and decided to shoot, his focus would have turned to the mechanics of shooting accurately and he may have at that point lost sight of the exact position of Perez Lopez as he started firing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will never know exactly what happened in those split seconds, which direction Perez Lopez was facing and to whom he posed a threat when the officers made a decision to shoot,\" Gascón said. \"But ultimately, given the proximity of the suspect with a knife to the officers and Abraham P. of just a few feet, the law does not distinguish between whether he was shot coming toward the officers or running away. The law gives significant deference to officers in situations in which they have to make a split-second decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's investigation also intensely analyzed whether Perez Lopez dropped the knife he was holding before police started firing, something Perez Lopez's roommates believed they heard moments before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that, due to the knife's position in the street after the shooting, it's likely that Perez Lopez was still holding it when he was shot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, March 2, 3:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who should take over police shooting cases was the subject of mass rumor in San Francisco's criminal justice community during the second half of 2016. The Police Department was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">under siege\u003c/a> for its handling of several high-profile police shooting cases and was without a permanent chief after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Suhr resigned\u003c/a> following the fatal officer-involved shooting of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Williams\u003c/a> in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final determination came in September, when the mayor \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-DA-s-office-to-take-lead-in-investigating-9223676.php\" target=\"_blank\">approved funding\u003c/a> for a new Independent Investigations Bureau in the district attorney's office, which would take the lead in officer-involved shooting and in-custody death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than five months later, that still hasn't happened. The last step toward implementation -- finalizing a memorandum of understanding between the DA's office and the Police Department -- has become the subject of negotiations with the Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s important in order to maintain public trust. And when police investigate themselves, even if they did everything correctly, the public is going to have less faith in the outcome,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said. \"We are eagerly waiting for [negotiations] to be completed in order to sign the MOU and move forward and make this important change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2015_2016/2015-16_CGJ_Final_Report_Transparent_Investigations_Fatal_SFPD_Shootings_7_6_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Criticism\u003c/a> over how the city handles police shooting cases hasn't landed only with the Police Department. The DA's office \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-prosecutors-haven-t-made-a-decision-in-a-10816464.php\" target=\"_blank\">hasn't issued a charging decision\u003c/a> in a fatal police shooting -- the final phase in the investigation -- in about two years. Advocates around the shooting death of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a> plan to mark the two-year anniversary of his death this Sunday, with no charging decision yet made.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"EqNCsIPPggWObDjA6EEpmSmXtBfMTaLg\"]\u003cbr>\nThat decision is coming in \"weeks, not months,\" Szabo said, but the DA's office has several times indicated that case would soon be finished in the two years since plainclothes officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">shot Perez Lopez six times from behind\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Szabo said implementing the new Independent Investigations Bureau is \"essential\" in shortening the time it takes to issue a charging decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until recently, we did not have the resources to handle these immensely difficult cases,\" he said. \"Prosecutors would be taken from other details who did not have experience and expertise in these types of complex investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Officers Association attorney Gregg Adam said negotiations over the issue are scheduled to start next week, and the union hasn't seen specifics of the new protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My client has some concept that the DA is going to take over these investigations, but the practical, how it’s going to work, we really don’t have any idea,\" Adam said. \"In 4½ months, the city hasn’t been able to produce much of anything by way of information for us to have any real idea as to how this is going to be handled, what the procedures are going to be, how it’s going to affect existing practices with how investigations occur, how it’s going to affect discipline. We’ve got a whole host of questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said \"the department is engaged in ongoing discussions with various entities\" over the new protocols, which were drafted in \"late 2016.\" The Police Department declined to provide a copy of the draft memorandum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department and District Attorney's Office were still discussing the work of the DA's new unit as of Feb. 28, according to the city's Department of Human resources, which typically conducts labor negotiations on behalf of city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the two departments reach an agreement that impacts the working conditions of POA members, meet and confer with POA will be necessary, but that hasn’t happened yet,\" Department of Human Resources Chief of Policy Susan Gard wrote in an emailed response. She added that meet and confer with the union representing DA investigators was completed earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To retired ACLU attorney John Crew, who currently advocates for police accountability in San Francisco, forcing that agreement into negotiations is a tried-and-true tactic the union has used to stall police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this is predictable because this is what the POA has been doing,\" he said. \"They have been extremely expansive in claiming they have the legal right to meet and confer on issues that they have no right to meet and confer on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He referenced two recent major SFPD policy changes that dragged on for months in the black hole of negotiations with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no way that the body-camera policy needed to be stalled for six months. Same with use-of-force policy,\" Crew said. \"This is a political strategy to slow down and delay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/31/san-francisco-reaches-agreement-with-police-union-on-body-cameras/\" target=\"_blank\">reached agreement\u003c/a> on the body-camera policy, but the city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations/\" target=\"_blank\">declared an impasse\u003c/a> in negotiations over the department's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/s-f-police-commission-approves-new-use-of-force-rules-union-has-sticking-points/\" target=\"_blank\">new use-of-force rules\u003c/a>, and immediately implemented them. The union sued, hoping to force the city to enter arbitration over the new policy's prohibition on the carotid -- or sleeper hold -- restraint, shooting at moving cars and the Police Commission's refusal to consider arming officers with Taser stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That civil case is ongoing, and it's scheduled for a hearing on Monday, Feb. 27.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The most recent salvo from the San Francisco Police Officers Association aimed at the city's district attorney missed its mark, by more than 600 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Halloran, president of the officers' union, provided the only reaction in a press release floated yesterday afternoon by Nathan Ballard, a San Francisco spokesman-for-hire who's been coordinating the POA's attacks against District Attorney George Gascón as a simmering feud erupted into a very public fight over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowing headline: \"We're #1: On Gascon's [sic] Watch, A 666.9% Increase in Property Crime in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would the police union want to trumpet a (false) increase in crime?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union's fight with Gascón hit a new high last week when Halloran and former POA President Gary Delagnes \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-police-union-claims-gascon-made-disparaging-remarks/\" target=\"_blank\">stated under oath\u003c/a> that Gascón made racist remarks at a dinner in 2010. That was in response to the DA's convening of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">special panel\u003c/a> to investigate racism and accountability in the SFPD, which the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">POA has opposed\u003c/a>. Gascón testified to the panel \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Greg-Suhr-George-Gasc-n-at-odds-over-SFPD-6848158.php\" target=\"_blank\">last month\u003c/a> that the union obstructed officer discipline and was too close to SFPD leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the context Thursday when Ballard sent out the incorrect press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This staggering increase of 666.9% is a direct result of Prop 47, a law that D.A. George Gascon [sic] co-authored,\" Halloran is quoted as saying in the release. \"Gascon [sic] should be fighting a war on crime. Instead he's fighting a war against the police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle editor Demian Bulwa tweeted the bad math:\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/demianbulwa/status/708094766743838724\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/Mixed-Results-For-Proposition-47\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> took effect in late 2014 and reclassified some thefts of property worth less than $950 from potential felonies to misdemeanors. Gascón trumpeted the measure as a solution to over-incarceration, and the law requires any state savings to be funneled into truancy prevention, mental health, substance abuse treatment and services for crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/22/463210910/california-cops-frustrated-with-catch-and-release-crime-fighting\" target=\"_blank\">attacked by some\u003c/a> public safety leaders as being behind a rise in crime throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the San Francisco POA's \"staggering increase\" is absolutely false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ill-conceived advisory relies on a Feb. 17 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=1954\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a> from two researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California, which reported San Francisco's property crime \u003cem>rate\u003c/em>, per 100,000 residents, jumped by that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NateBallard/status/708161111900626944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC was trying to show how many more property crimes occurred per 100,000 people in San Francisco in the first six months of 2015, compared with the first six months of 2014, according to the post's authors. That rate did increase by 666.9 in raw numbers, from 2,508.5 property crimes per 100,000 residents in the first half of 2014 to 3,175.4 between January and June, 2015. That's according to preliminary 2015 crime data from the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if we're talking percentages, that's a 26.6 percent increase in the rate, not 666.9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a large difference,\" said PPIC senior fellow Magnus Lofstrom, who co-authored the blog post. \"I’ve been working with crime statistics for a number of years now, and this is the first time I’ve heard the numbers being mis-cited to this extent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's actual property crime percent increase between the first half of 2014 and the first half of 2015 was also 27 percent -- from 21,330 crimes to 27,001, again according to FBI data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s still a big increase,\" PPIC research associate and post co-author Brandon Martin said, but both he and Lofstrom said it's far too early to tell what, if any, role Proposition 47 has played in San Francisco's surging property crime rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We made historic changes to our incarceration rate,\" Martin said, noting decreases in the tens of thousands in prison and jail populations in recent years. \"As you change incarceration rates, you may see changes in crime rates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers said more comprehensive statistics for 2015 will likely come out over the summer, from both the FBI and California Department of Justice, and a clearer picture of Proposition 47's impact could emerge then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said Friday that the release was inaccurate, but he stood by the assertion that Proposition 47 is contributing to a rise in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it was pretty deceptive,\" he said. \"Now we're suffering the consequences of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who say that it’s too early to tell, I would have agreed with them this time last year,\" he said. \"I no longer agree with them. Prop 47 has been on the books now for well over a year, and the results are in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of which San Francisco official should shoulder the blame for a crime increase leads to another layer of data -- arrests versus prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco district attorney spokesman Max Szabo said while reported property crimes climbed by more than 6,000 between the first halves of 2014 and 2015, SFPD presented fewer cases to the DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surge in car burglaries over the past several years has driven San Francisco's property crime increase, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Car-break-ins-fuel-spike-in-S-F-property-crimes-6775664.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Chronicle reports\u003c/a>, quoting SFPD leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco has an auto burglary problem,\" Szabo said, noting that prosecutors charged 115 more of those cases in 2015, compared with 2014. But, he said, police make an arrest in only about 2 percent of reported auto burglaries, and that rate held steady between 2014 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re desperate to evade scrutiny, even if that means hoodwinking the public,\" Szabo said. \"The POA and its lackey are issuing recklessly false statements in an attempt to discredit efforts towards reform and it’s shameful.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The PPIC was trying to show how many more property crimes occurred per 100,000 people in San Francisco in the first six months of 2015, compared with the first six months of 2014, according to the post's authors. That rate did increase by 666.9 in raw numbers, from 2,508.5 property crimes per 100,000 residents in the first half of 2014 to 3,175.4 between January and June, 2015. That's according to preliminary 2015 crime data from the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if we're talking percentages, that's a 26.6 percent increase in the rate, not 666.9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a large difference,\" said PPIC senior fellow Magnus Lofstrom, who co-authored the blog post. \"I’ve been working with crime statistics for a number of years now, and this is the first time I’ve heard the numbers being mis-cited to this extent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's actual property crime percent increase between the first half of 2014 and the first half of 2015 was also 27 percent -- from 21,330 crimes to 27,001, again according to FBI data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s still a big increase,\" PPIC research associate and post co-author Brandon Martin said, but both he and Lofstrom said it's far too early to tell what, if any, role Proposition 47 has played in San Francisco's surging property crime rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We made historic changes to our incarceration rate,\" Martin said, noting decreases in the tens of thousands in prison and jail populations in recent years. \"As you change incarceration rates, you may see changes in crime rates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers said more comprehensive statistics for 2015 will likely come out over the summer, from both the FBI and California Department of Justice, and a clearer picture of Proposition 47's impact could emerge then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said Friday that the release was inaccurate, but he stood by the assertion that Proposition 47 is contributing to a rise in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it was pretty deceptive,\" he said. \"Now we're suffering the consequences of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who say that it’s too early to tell, I would have agreed with them this time last year,\" he said. \"I no longer agree with them. Prop 47 has been on the books now for well over a year, and the results are in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of which San Francisco official should shoulder the blame for a crime increase leads to another layer of data -- arrests versus prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco district attorney spokesman Max Szabo said while reported property crimes climbed by more than 6,000 between the first halves of 2014 and 2015, SFPD presented fewer cases to the DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surge in car burglaries over the past several years has driven San Francisco's property crime increase, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Car-break-ins-fuel-spike-in-S-F-property-crimes-6775664.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Chronicle reports\u003c/a>, quoting SFPD leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco has an auto burglary problem,\" Szabo said, noting that prosecutors charged 115 more of those cases in 2015, compared with 2014. But, he said, police make an arrest in only about 2 percent of reported auto burglaries, and that rate held steady between 2014 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re desperate to evade scrutiny, even if that means hoodwinking the public,\" Szabo said. \"The POA and its lackey are issuing recklessly false statements in an attempt to discredit efforts towards reform and it’s shameful.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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