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He told reporters he didn't see the shooting because his vehicle was between the shooter and him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just started screaming, 'Get out! Get out! There's gunfire, gunshots. Go! Go!'\" Calderon said. \"And then everyone started running. It was too quick. Less than 30 seconds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon estimated he heard seven shots in an initial round of firing and that the gunman fired another five or six shots near the corner of 17th Street and San Bruno Avenue. In the hours immediately after the shooting, two bodies lay under yellow tarps at that corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Kim, who runs an auto repair shop in the neighborhood, told the AP he heard at least five gunshots and saw UPS drivers running down the street screaming \"shooter, shooter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Cook, who described himself as a UPS human resources manager, told KQED he was interviewing people in a conference room when he heard five gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that as the shots came closer, he moved people into nearby offices to \"hunker down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he heard another series of five shots before the area fell silent and he escaped from the building with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressroom.ups.com/pressroom/ContentDetailsViewer.page?ConceptType=PressReleases&id=1497461182413-836\">a statement\u003c/a>, UPS said: \"The company is saddened and deeply concerned about affected employees, family members and the community we share. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those touched by this incident. To assist our employees during this time, UPS has made professional counseling available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1920x1329.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-960x664.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPS workers leaving the company shipping facility where a fellow employee opened fire early Wednesday. Four people, including the gunman, were killed and two others wounded. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein also issued a statement late Wednesday morning, one that recalled San Francisco's worst mass shooting -- 1993's 1\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/101-California-shooting-shocked-S-F-1993-4097305.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">01 California Street attack\u003c/a>, in which nine people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was heartbroken to learn that yet another senseless act of gun violence has marred our wonderful city,\" Feinstein said. \"My heart goes out to the victims and their families, and to everyone affected by this despicable act. I can’t help but recall the 101 California Street shooting in 1993, when eight people lost their lives. Violence is never the answer, but the continuing scourge of gun violence is particularly disheartening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/egB1ceOgBHY\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0568-e1497469236381.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0568-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers and emergency responders outside of the UPS facility at 17th and Utah streets shortly after a shooting at the facility on Wednesday morning. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:35 a.m. Thursday, June 15:\u003c/strong> San Francisco police have identified the victims and gunman in Wednesday's attack at the UPS shipping facility at 16th Street and San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who died, all UPS drivers, were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wayne Chan, 56, San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michael Lefiti, 46, of Hercules. In a profile, the San Francisco Chronicle says family and friends remember Lefiti as a man who \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UPS-shooting-victim-Mike-Lefiti-was-always-11220588.php\">was always there\u003c/a>\" for others.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Benson Louie, 50, San Francisco. The Chronicle profiles Louie as a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UPS-shooting-victim-Benson-Louie-was-beloved-11222400.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beloved volleyball coach\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Police identified the attacker, also a UPS driver, as Jimmy Lam, 38, of San Francisco. Lam \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/shooting-san-francisco-ups-center-police-48036518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly\u003c/a> filed a recent grievance citing excessive overtime. A union official familiar with Lam said, \"I never knew Jimmy to not get along with people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (last updated 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, June 14):\u003c/strong> A UPS employee shot and killed three co-workers at the company's main shipping facility in San Francisco Wednesday morning before turning his gun on himself and taking his own life. Two others, also UPS workers, were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a late-morning media briefing, San Francisco Police Department Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin said officers sped to the scene after receiving reports of gunfire at 8:55 a.m. at the UPS building -- which covers the block between 16th and 17th streets and Utah Street and San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said one police response team encountered the gunman, whom he said was armed with an assault pistol. When officers confronted the attacker, Chaplin said, he shot himself in the head. The man died after being taken to San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told The Associated Press the gunman was an employee who opened fire before drivers were sent out to do their normal daily deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they had not determined a motive for the attack, but that it was not considered a terrorist incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions of the two surviving victims, who were also UPS employees, was not immediately known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPS workers cross 16th Street shortly after a shooting at the companies' facility at 17th and Utah Street. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officer Tracy Green of SFPD's Bayview Station told KQED just after the incident unfolded that an active shooter was \"down\" at the scene and that officers were sweeping the UPS shipping facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said the shooter was found with a self-inflicted wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of police officers, including members of the SFPD's SWAT team armed with semi-automatic rifles, swarmed the area just before 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UPS employee who asked that her name be withheld told KQED's John Sepulvado that she was in a break room when the shooting started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,' and I’m thinking, 'OK, it’s either boxes falling or gunshots,' \" she said. \"And then I heard another boom, and then I hear someone screaming, 'Everybody run, everybody run.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPS driver Marvin Calderon said he was at his truck when he heard a series of shots. He told reporters he didn't see the shooting because his vehicle was between the shooter and him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just started screaming, 'Get out! Get out! There's gunfire, gunshots. Go! Go!'\" Calderon said. \"And then everyone started running. It was too quick. Less than 30 seconds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon estimated he heard seven shots in an initial round of firing and that the gunman fired another five or six shots near the corner of 17th Street and San Bruno Avenue. In the hours immediately after the shooting, two bodies lay under yellow tarps at that corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Kim, who runs an auto repair shop in the neighborhood, told the AP he heard at least five gunshots and saw UPS drivers running down the street screaming \"shooter, shooter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Cook, who described himself as a UPS human resources manager, told KQED he was interviewing people in a conference room when he heard five gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that as the shots came closer, he moved people into nearby offices to \"hunker down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he heard another series of five shots before the area fell silent and he escaped from the building with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressroom.ups.com/pressroom/ContentDetailsViewer.page?ConceptType=PressReleases&id=1497461182413-836\">a statement\u003c/a>, UPS said: \"The company is saddened and deeply concerned about affected employees, family members and the community we share. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those touched by this incident. To assist our employees during this time, UPS has made professional counseling available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1920x1329.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-960x664.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPS workers leaving the company shipping facility where a fellow employee opened fire early Wednesday. 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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco judge has dismissed most of the charges against a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/13/s-f-police-shooting-wounded-man-in-psychiatric-crisis-body-camera-footage-withheld/\" target=\"_blank\">man shot\u003c/a> by two city police officers on Jan. 6, ruling that the officers unlawfully continued to engage with Sean Moore after contacting him about a dispute with his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, who survived gunshot wounds to his groin and abdomen, initially faced 10 felonies including assaulting a police officer, battery with injury of a police officer, threatening an officer and resisting an officer causing serious bodily injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>SFPD Shooting Raises Questions About City's Response to Psychiatric Crises\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/16/s-f-police-shooting-raises-questions-about-citys-response-to-psychiatric-crises/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CIT-S12544_alt_564-800x527.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deployment of specially trained officers remains spotty. Department says changes are coming, including training for every officer. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/16/s-f-police-shooting-raises-questions-about-citys-response-to-psychiatric-crises/\" target=\"_blank\">Read here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\n\u003cp>Two of those charges were dismissed previously. On Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ross dismissed all remaining charges involving resisting, threatening or battering police because -- according to Moore's defense attorneys -- the officers lacked probable cause and were essentially trespassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of these charges, nearly all of them, were completely unfounded,\" San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said at a press conference on Wednesday. \"Mr. Moore was within his rights when he asked the officers over 40 times to leave him alone. When the officers then approached him, they were essentially trespassing. They had no legal right to do what they did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino approached a locked gate at the top of Moore's stairs just before 4 a.m. on Jan. 6. Moore's neighbor had called police and complained of banging on a shared wall, an alleged violation of a temporary restraining order scheduled for a hearing the following week. The entire incident was captured on both officers' body cameras, and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/18/police-public-defender-clash-over-body-cam-video-of-officer-involved-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">Adachi released\u003c/a> footage of it in mid-January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore came to the gate and was immediately agitated. He told the officers that he didn't call them and said, \"get the fuck off my stair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers continued to try to talk with Moore about the restraining order and his neighbor's complaint, retreating and reascending the stairs multiple times. Moore repeatedly told them to leave and ended the conversation by closing his front door, only to re-emerge and continue arguing with the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editors note: The following video contains profanity and violence.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBb3_WvFtXk&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About five minutes into the encounter, Moore opened his locked gate and moved toward the officers. Cha pepper-sprayed him, also hitting Patino. Moore went back inside, and the officers ended up back at the bottom of the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Moore came out again, both officers tried to move in and arrest him. They fought on the narrow staircase, and Moore allegedly punched Patino in the face after the officer hit him in the leg with a baton. Patino toppled to the sidewalk with a broken nose. Moore then allegedly kicked Cha, who shot him twice as he fell backward down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back inside his house, Moore called 911 and said he'd been shot. Police arrested him over an hour later, and Moore was taken to the hospital. He's had three major surgeries, according to his family and attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charges Dismissed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal reasoning for dismissing most of the criminal charges against Moore has to do with constitutional protections against unwarranted search and seizure, which are heightened in one's home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To ignore Moore's demand that they leave, the officers needed probable cause to believe a felony had occurred, according to Moore's defense attorneys, or witnessed a misdemeanor. Moore's alleged violation of a pending restraining order may have been a misdemeanor, but the officers weren't there to see it. They also could have continued to engage Moore if they had a warrant or were responding to a citizen's arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had none of those,\" Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman said. \"Going up and ringing the bell was fine, but once Mr. Moore said to 'get off my stairs,' that was it, they needed to leave. And they refused to leave and kept escalating the situation, which led to violence, which led to Mr. Moore being shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11275978\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore still faces one felony and one misdemeanor charge. The felony is for allegedly punching Officer Patino in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The DA would need to show beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Moore was not defending himself at that point,\" Pearlman said. \"They're not officers at that point; they're trespassers. So it'd be just like if somebody was at your house pepper-spraying you and beating you and trying to drag you out your front door. Are you going to be entitled to hit them? I would say definitely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final remaining charge is a misdemeanor for allegedly violating a temporary restraining order, which Pearlman also says will be difficult for prosecutors to prove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is about one bang on the wall, maybe two, at four in the morning,\" he said. \"And this ended in Mr. Moore being shot and almost dying. This is preposterous that this happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the district attorney's office noted that a different judge ruled that there was sufficient evidence to proceed on 10 of the charges against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Another judge that reviewed the transcripts from that hearing came to a very different conclusion,\" district attorney's spokesman Max Szabo said in a written statement. He said the office is evaluating how to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore's mother, Cleo Moore, said she hopes her son's trauma will lead to changes in how police approach people in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being a nurse, I know that the seriousness of his injuries could follow him over the rest of his life,\" she said. \"But being a Christian person, I just know that he could have been dead. ... My son has suffered. The family has suffered a great deal. So hopefully something will happen so that another family won't have to go through what we've gone through.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Moore went back inside, and the officers ended up back at the bottom of the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Moore came out again, both officers tried to move in and arrest him. They fought on the narrow staircase, and Moore allegedly punched Patino in the face after the officer hit him in the leg with a baton. Patino toppled to the sidewalk with a broken nose. Moore then allegedly kicked Cha, who shot him twice as he fell backward down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back inside his house, Moore called 911 and said he'd been shot. Police arrested him over an hour later, and Moore was taken to the hospital. He's had three major surgeries, according to his family and attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charges Dismissed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal reasoning for dismissing most of the criminal charges against Moore has to do with constitutional protections against unwarranted search and seizure, which are heightened in one's home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To ignore Moore's demand that they leave, the officers needed probable cause to believe a felony had occurred, according to Moore's defense attorneys, or witnessed a misdemeanor. Moore's alleged violation of a pending restraining order may have been a misdemeanor, but the officers weren't there to see it. They also could have continued to engage Moore if they had a warrant or were responding to a citizen's arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had none of those,\" Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman said. \"Going up and ringing the bell was fine, but once Mr. Moore said to 'get off my stairs,' that was it, they needed to leave. And they refused to leave and kept escalating the situation, which led to violence, which led to Mr. Moore being shot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11275978\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore still faces one felony and one misdemeanor charge. The felony is for allegedly punching Officer Patino in the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The DA would need to show beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Moore was not defending himself at that point,\" Pearlman said. \"They're not officers at that point; they're trespassers. So it'd be just like if somebody was at your house pepper-spraying you and beating you and trying to drag you out your front door. Are you going to be entitled to hit them? I would say definitely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final remaining charge is a misdemeanor for allegedly violating a temporary restraining order, which Pearlman also says will be difficult for prosecutors to prove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is about one bang on the wall, maybe two, at four in the morning,\" he said. \"And this ended in Mr. Moore being shot and almost dying. This is preposterous that this happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the district attorney's office noted that a different judge ruled that there was sufficient evidence to proceed on 10 of the charges against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Another judge that reviewed the transcripts from that hearing came to a very different conclusion,\" district attorney's spokesman Max Szabo said in a written statement. He said the office is evaluating how to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore's mother, Cleo Moore, said she hopes her son's trauma will lead to changes in how police approach people in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being a nurse, I know that the seriousness of his injuries could follow him over the rest of his life,\" she said. \"But being a Christian person, I just know that he could have been dead. ... My son has suffered. The family has suffered a great deal. So hopefully something will happen so that another family won't have to go through what we've gone through.\"\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>\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 Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president of San Francisco's Police Commission says that if the U.S. Justice Department ends its oversight of the SFPD, the city will move forward on its own to implement hundreds of reforms prompted by a series of fatal officer-involved shootings and racist text message scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-orders-justice-department-to-review-all-police-reform-agreements/2017/04/03/ba934058-18bd-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.2b518e8b5f18\" target=\"_blank\">recently called\u003c/a> for the Justice Department to review federal oversight programs at play in local law enforcement agencies across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaction has focused on the Justice Department's strongest form of intervention -- consent decrees enforced by federal courts, like in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri. But \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3535148/Consentdecreebaltimore.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sessions' memo\u003c/a> also mentions review of \"technical assistance\" -- part of the DOJ's Collaborative Reform Initiative that is underway in San Francisco, among other major cities.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"RcBFxcoHqV7v5THIzw8DeoU6egOf6dJh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that review leads Justice Department officials to pull out of their work aimed at reforming the SFPD, local officials can do it alone, Police Commission President Julius Turman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The agreement between the San Francisco Police Department and the Justice Department may be done away with, but the reforms and measures, we're committed to,\" Turman said in an interview Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD is in the midst of implementing 272 federal recommendations aimed at reducing bias, improving accountability and changing the culture of the department through revamped hiring and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is overseen by the Justice Department's \u003ca href=\"https://cops.usdoj.gov/technicalassistance\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Community Oriented Policing Services\u003c/a>, or COPS office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That office unveiled a \u003ca href=\"https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-w0817-pub.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> in October following an eight-month review that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> San Francisco's Police Department had \"concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,\" including use of force, bias and community policing, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report came during the last months of the Obama administration, which in recent years aggressively pursued federal intervention into police departments with alleged patterns or practices of civil rights abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump's attorney general, Sessions, appears to be moving in a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Local control and local accountability are necessary for effective local policing,\" Sessions wrote in his recent memo. \"It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers say the move is a sign that Trump's Justice Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/03/522309537/justice-department-to-review-all-civil-rights-agreements-on-police-conduct\" target=\"_blank\">will scale back scrutiny of unconstitutional policing\u003c/a>, excessive force and other misconduct allegations.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"jpcWjjmq4dUXXuvUpmWn8DGckDWjeCOA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions' memo is troubling, according to a former top DOJ official who expects the department to pull back from local police accountability work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Department of Justice is retreating from its obligation to enforce the Constitution,\" said Jonathan Smith, the former head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section which conducts \"pattern-or-practice\" investigations and consent decrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all the technical assistance and grant programs are on the table,\" said Smith, who is currently the executive director for the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does not bode well,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turman, though, says there is already strong local support for police reform in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is expected by the citizenry of San Francisco,” Turman said. “We are still going to push through with these measures, regardless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the job is not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In certain areas we still need to bring the work,\" Turman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Police Chief William Scott is leading the effort. He brings experience enacting federally mandated police reform in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco Police Chief William Scott remain fully committed to implementing all of the reforms outlined in the CRI report, regardless of any changes with the Department of Justice,\" SFPD spokesman Officer Robert Rueca said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott recently asked for -- and received -- an extra 90 days before a federal assessment of the Police Department's progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/23/san-franciscos-new-police-chief-to-head-department-in-troubled-times/\" target=\"_blank\">took over the department in January\u003c/a>, and said last month that the extra three months were needed because of the recent change in leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in March, the Police Commission fired an officer in a bias-related case after Scott recommended he be let go. While details of the case are confidential, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/spfd-officer-fired-anti-muslim-text-message-example-departments-zero-tolerance-policy/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Examiner reported\u003c/a> Monday that it involved alleged anti-Muslim texting by the officer.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"NXhcWMb1w3AenChtZKOfyLStivx9FJ14\"]\u003cbr>\nIn March 2015 the department was shaken by the release of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">batch of racist, homophobic and sexist text messages\u003c/a> traded by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, five SFPD officers shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, an African-American man holding a knife. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president of San Francisco's Police Commission says that if the U.S. Justice Department ends its oversight of the SFPD, the city will move forward on its own to implement hundreds of reforms prompted by a series of fatal officer-involved shootings and racist text message scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-orders-justice-department-to-review-all-police-reform-agreements/2017/04/03/ba934058-18bd-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.2b518e8b5f18\" target=\"_blank\">recently called\u003c/a> for the Justice Department to review federal oversight programs at play in local law enforcement agencies across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaction has focused on the Justice Department's strongest form of intervention -- consent decrees enforced by federal courts, like in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri. But \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3535148/Consentdecreebaltimore.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sessions' memo\u003c/a> also mentions review of \"technical assistance\" -- part of the DOJ's Collaborative Reform Initiative that is underway in San Francisco, among other major cities.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that review leads Justice Department officials to pull out of their work aimed at reforming the SFPD, local officials can do it alone, Police Commission President Julius Turman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The agreement between the San Francisco Police Department and the Justice Department may be done away with, but the reforms and measures, we're committed to,\" Turman said in an interview Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD is in the midst of implementing 272 federal recommendations aimed at reducing bias, improving accountability and changing the culture of the department through revamped hiring and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is overseen by the Justice Department's \u003ca href=\"https://cops.usdoj.gov/technicalassistance\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Community Oriented Policing Services\u003c/a>, or COPS office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That office unveiled a \u003ca href=\"https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-w0817-pub.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> in October following an eight-month review that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> San Francisco's Police Department had \"concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,\" including use of force, bias and community policing, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report came during the last months of the Obama administration, which in recent years aggressively pursued federal intervention into police departments with alleged patterns or practices of civil rights abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump's attorney general, Sessions, appears to be moving in a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Local control and local accountability are necessary for effective local policing,\" Sessions wrote in his recent memo. \"It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Observers say the move is a sign that Trump's Justice Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/03/522309537/justice-department-to-review-all-civil-rights-agreements-on-police-conduct\" target=\"_blank\">will scale back scrutiny of unconstitutional policing\u003c/a>, excessive force and other misconduct allegations.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions' memo is troubling, according to a former top DOJ official who expects the department to pull back from local police accountability work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Department of Justice is retreating from its obligation to enforce the Constitution,\" said Jonathan Smith, the former head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section which conducts \"pattern-or-practice\" investigations and consent decrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all the technical assistance and grant programs are on the table,\" said Smith, who is currently the executive director for the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It does not bode well,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turman, though, says there is already strong local support for police reform in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is expected by the citizenry of San Francisco,” Turman said. “We are still going to push through with these measures, regardless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the job is not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In certain areas we still need to bring the work,\" Turman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Police Chief William Scott is leading the effort. He brings experience enacting federally mandated police reform in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco Police Chief William Scott remain fully committed to implementing all of the reforms outlined in the CRI report, regardless of any changes with the Department of Justice,\" SFPD spokesman Officer Robert Rueca said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott recently asked for -- and received -- an extra 90 days before a federal assessment of the Police Department's progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/23/san-franciscos-new-police-chief-to-head-department-in-troubled-times/\" target=\"_blank\">took over the department in January\u003c/a>, and said last month that the extra three months were needed because of the recent change in leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in March, the Police Commission fired an officer in a bias-related case after Scott recommended he be let go. While details of the case are confidential, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/spfd-officer-fired-anti-muslim-text-message-example-departments-zero-tolerance-policy/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Examiner reported\u003c/a> Monday that it involved alleged anti-Muslim texting by the officer.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn March 2015 the department was shaken by the release of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">batch of racist, homophobic and sexist text messages\u003c/a> traded by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, five SFPD officers shot and killed \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, an African-American man holding a knife. 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"content": "\u003cp>Advocates seeking justice in the case of Amilcar Perez Lopez gathered \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> to mark two years since the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant was shot to death from behind by two San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897\" 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>The shooting was not captured on video, unlike that of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> about nine months later. The Woods shooting propelled the San Francisco Police Department into an era of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">chaos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">reform\u003c/a>, but the Perez Lopez case hardly registered beyond the tight-knit group that formed around the young carpenter's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all present in the pouring rain at the scene of the shooting on Sunday for what the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest, called \"heart work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-960x596.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Amilcar's story has touched us all very deeply and has given us an energy that I suspect many of us didn't even know we had to keep fighting and to keep saying our message, even when it seems like nobody's listening,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez's story began in rural Guatemala. He left his family there to work in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed he encountered immigration officials along the Southern California border in 2013 and was released \"pending the outcome of immigration removal proceedings.\" He met a network of Guatemalan immigrants who work construction in San Francisco sometime that same year, according to interviews with people who knew him, and worked carpentry and other odd jobs until his death on Feb. 26, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, the details of the shooting remain unclear. Perez Lopez had some sort of altercation with a man on a bicycle outside his apartment on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife from inside his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how the fight ended, but the bicyclist wasn't stabbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was walking back toward his home when SFPD officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli approached him from behind. The officers were in plainclothes, and one of them tried to grab Perez Lopez. He wriggled free.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"6H4UcSSQAzGzioCUXYMqdmxLrG50MaOl\"]\u003cbr>\nFormer San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr originally said that Perez Lopez turned and charged at one of the officers with a knife held above his head, and both officers shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> showed all six gunshots came from behind Perez Lopez, a new theory emerged: Perez Lopez was running toward the bicyclist, and the officers fired to protect him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe and Reboli have remained on duty in the city's Mission District, while a criminal investigation into the shooting remains open at the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez group reconvened on the steps of San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Monday, where they were joined by Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mission District Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters proceeded to lie down on the staircase, draping themselves in sheets spattered with fake blood and chalking outlines around their limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations criticizing the role of prosecutors in officer-involved shooting investigations have become a weekly ritual at the Hall of Justice, where the San Francisco District Attorney's Office is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said last week, adding that a charging decision in the Perez Lopez case would come in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336931\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez-Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the creation of a new unit in the district attorney's office -- called the Independent Investigations Bureau -- would speed officer-involved shooting investigations. Protocol around prosecutors taking a lead role in police shooting investigations is currently the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/24/s-f-das-effort-to-take-lead-in-police-shooting-cases-stalls-as-officers-union-seeks-negotiation/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of negotiations\u003c/a> with the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the interim, it's really important that we get these cases done correctly and not just expediently,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón has indicated in the past that prosecutions in this and other high-profile police shooting cases are unlikely, due to legal standards set decades ago by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning police use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the long criminal investigation has also indefinitely stalled a federal lawsuit on behalf of Perez Lopez’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florencia Rojo brought a message from Perez Lopez's father at the vigil on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the money he sent, we managed to get a corn sheller, electricity, potable water, and he will never see these things,\" she said, translating the message from Guatemala. \"He was earning a living and they took his life. The officer is corrupt. He took the life of my son. The death of my son cannot go unpunished.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Advocates seeking justice in the case of Amilcar Perez Lopez gathered \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> to mark two years since the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant was shot to death from behind by two San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/310013897'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was not captured on video, unlike that of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> about nine months later. The Woods shooting propelled the San Francisco Police Department into an era of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">chaos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">reform\u003c/a>, but the Perez Lopez case hardly registered beyond the tight-knit group that formed around the young carpenter's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all present in the pouring rain at the scene of the shooting on Sunday for what the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest, called \"heart work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336505\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-960x596.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24420_alt_568-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates held a vigil on Sunday to mark exactly two years since Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot to death by two plainclothes SFPD officers. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Amilcar's story has touched us all very deeply and has given us an energy that I suspect many of us didn't even know we had to keep fighting and to keep saying our message, even when it seems like nobody's listening,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez's story began in rural Guatemala. He left his family there to work in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed he encountered immigration officials along the Southern California border in 2013 and was released \"pending the outcome of immigration removal proceedings.\" He met a network of Guatemalan immigrants who work construction in San Francisco sometime that same year, according to interviews with people who knew him, and worked carpentry and other odd jobs until his death on Feb. 26, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, the details of the shooting remain unclear. Perez Lopez had some sort of altercation with a man on a bicycle outside his apartment on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife from inside his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how the fight ended, but the bicyclist wasn't stabbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was walking back toward his home when SFPD officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli approached him from behind. The officers were in plainclothes, and one of them tried to grab Perez Lopez. He wriggled free.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nFormer San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr originally said that Perez Lopez turned and charged at one of the officers with a knife held above his head, and both officers shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy\u003c/a> showed all six gunshots came from behind Perez Lopez, a new theory emerged: Perez Lopez was running toward the bicyclist, and the officers fired to protect him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffe and Reboli have remained on duty in the city's Mission District, while a criminal investigation into the shooting remains open at the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez group reconvened on the steps of San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Monday, where they were joined by Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mission District Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters proceeded to lie down on the staircase, draping themselves in sheets spattered with fake blood and chalking outlines around their limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations criticizing the role of prosecutors in officer-involved shooting investigations have become a weekly ritual at the Hall of Justice, where the San Francisco District Attorney's Office is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not satisfied with the time it takes to resolve these cases,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said last week, adding that a charging decision in the Perez Lopez case would come in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11336931\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11336931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez-Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24424_20170227_JusticeForAmilcar_Credit_BertJohnson-4-of-9-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Justice For Amilcar Perez Lopez marked the second anniversary of Perez's shooting death with a rally and die-in at San Francisco's Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the creation of a new unit in the district attorney's office -- called the Independent Investigations Bureau -- would speed officer-involved shooting investigations. Protocol around prosecutors taking a lead role in police shooting investigations is currently the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/24/s-f-das-effort-to-take-lead-in-police-shooting-cases-stalls-as-officers-union-seeks-negotiation/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of negotiations\u003c/a> with the police officers' union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the interim, it's really important that we get these cases done correctly and not just expediently,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón has indicated in the past that prosecutions in this and other high-profile police shooting cases are unlikely, due to legal standards set decades ago by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning police use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the long criminal investigation has also indefinitely stalled a federal lawsuit on behalf of Perez Lopez’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florencia Rojo brought a message from Perez Lopez's father at the vigil on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the money he sent, we managed to get a corn sheller, electricity, potable water, and he will never see these things,\" she said, translating the message from Guatemala. \"He was earning a living and they took his life. The officer is corrupt. He took the life of my son. The death of my son cannot go unpunished.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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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\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco police officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino didn't know what they were walking into when they arrived at 515 Capitol Ave. before dawn on Jan. 6 and attempted to contact Sean Moore about a complaint from his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encounter with Moore escalated into the Police Department's first officer-involved shooting of 2017 and the first ever in San Francisco to be captured on police body cameras. It was also the latest example of a tragic trend in San Francisco and across the nation: People in the midst of a psychiatric crisis make up a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill/\" target=\"_blank\">disproportionate number\u003c/a> of those shot by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/308089846\" 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>It's a disparity San Francisco has struggled to reduce for over a decade. That effort involves a police practice called Crisis Intervention Training, or \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/crisis-intervention-team\" target=\"_blank\">CIT\u003c/a>, which teaches officers to recognize the signs of mental illness and techniques to de-escalate the heightened emotional state of someone in psychiatric distress.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"fSxM0Q4sWIN5IMtm2cfPj0SR8m15iFuZ\"]\u003cbr>\nThe SFPD has made strides in the effort, instituting \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\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceDocuments/DepartmentGeneralOrders/DGO%205.21%20CIT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CIT policies\u003c/a> with de-escalation at their core -- and sending over 700 officers, or about half of patrol officers, through the 40-hour training. But the Moore shooting exposed a long-standing problem of identifying people in psychiatric crisis and getting that information to responding officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw aspects of our training come through in terms of how the police handled it,\" said David Elliot Lewis, a civilian trainer in SFPD's CIT program and a member of the city's mental health board. \"It wasn’t ideal, no. CIT is a work in progress, and there’s still work to be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, according to his brother and his defense attorney. He has a reputation among neighbors for hostility, but not necessarily violence. Police had helped get Moore to the hospital for emergency psychiatric treatment several times in the past, according to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore's neighbor, Christopher Choy, had recently filed for a restraining order in civil court, describing threats from Moore and repeated banging on a wall the two homes share in the city's Ocean View neighborhood. The complaint notes a criminal conviction against Moore in 2011 and multiple calls to police since, when officers apparently were unable to talk to Moore. The restraining order request was scheduled for a hearing on Jan. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Moore's psychiatric history doesn't appear to have made it to Cha and Patino, though, neither of whom are trained in crisis intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they contacted Moore, he was angry and said he was going to \"call to remove you,\" then slammed his door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editors note: The following video contains profanity and violence.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBb3_WvFtXk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cha and Patino backed off, but Moore came back out, and they again climbed his staircase. When he opened his gate and moved toward the officers, Cha pepper-sprayed him, also hitting Patino. Moore scrambled back inside his house. Cha called for an ambulance, and when Moore came out again, both officers tried to move in to arrest him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They fought on the narrow staircase. Patino hit Moore with his baton twice, then Moore punched the officer in the face, fracturing his nose and sending him toppling to the street. He kicked Cha, who fired twice as he fell down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was hit in the groin and abdomen. He retreated inside his house and called 911 to report he'd been shot. Police arrested him over an hour later. He was taken to the hospital and had major surgery. Moore remains in custody and faces felony assault and battery charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deployment Unclear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's little agreement on whether the incident that led to Moore's shooting should have elicited a CIT response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319728\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin said in January that officers don't memorize the addresses they're called to, and Cha and Patino had no way of knowing the call about a temporary restraining order would involve mental health issues. He said the department is looking into creating a database of addresses where mental illness has been an issue in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Department is trying to develop a database of people who they frequently contact who have mental health crisis issues or behavioral health issues, who have frequent contact with medical authorities and law enforcement,\" Lewis said. \"And once this database is deployed, then when going out on a call, they’ll have more information up front that the person has a history of mental illness that might need a different approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Department of Emergency Management, which handles 911 calls and dispatch in San Francisco, already has the ability to search by name and address for past psychiatric emergencies, according to Deputy Director Rob Smuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are mechanisms to do that,\" he said. \"What we are trying to do is make sure that the training is in place so we are consistently doing that. For years and years and years, we do that search if there is a premise record of somebody who had a gun or had a knife or something like that. We also really want to make an emphasis on any information that might inform the police’s interaction when they get there, and that’s the mental health history, and that’s not as long-standing a practice in police dispatch world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11267862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11267862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-800x752.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Moore\" width=\"800\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-800x752.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-1020x959.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-1180x1109.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-960x903.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-240x226.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-375x353.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-520x489.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Moore \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kenneth Blackmon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's unknown whether dispatch ran a search on Moore. The Department of Emergency Management declined to provide that information, citing ongoing investigations into the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the officers didn't know Moore's history, his family and attorneys say the signs were clear, and they should have backed off and waited for things to calm down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead, the officers went up the stairs and essentially escalated the situation,\" San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said at a press conference where he released police body-camera video of the shooting. \"This is a situation that could have and should have been avoided. Mr. Moore did not have to be shot, and the officers, had they properly used de-escalation techniques, would have gone home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore's mother, Cleo Moore, spent 40 years as a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital, where her son was treated for gunshot wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something has to be done not only to help the mentally ill in this city, and the Police Department needs to be changed to learn how to deal with mentally ill patients,\" she said outside a recent court hearing for her son. \"Back off from the situation, call Crisis Intervention. The city has crisis intervention. They could have come out and helped them to diffuse the situation. Don’t shoot somebody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275576\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11275576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman release SFPD body-camera video on Jan. 18. The video captured the Jan. 6 police shooting of Sean Moore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman release SFPD body-camera video on Jan. 18. The video captured the Jan. 6 police shooting of Sean Moore. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFPD Lt. Mario Molina, who heads the Police Department's Crisis Intervention Team, said he can't speak in any detail about the incident that remains under investigation. But in general, SFPD's push to train every officer in CIT encourages officers to collect more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The effort is for officers to start thinking the minute they get the call,\" he said. \"Start asking questions, gather more information. And evaluate, reassess, reassess. We continue to emphasize that. Reassess the situation. What do you have? What are you dealing with? What resources will you need?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said even if Moore's psychiatric history was unclear, the need for de-escalation tactics was obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being that angry and that triggered and that escalated clearly is a mental health issue,\" he said. \"Maybe it doesn’t need to have a diagnostic label, but it does call for de-escalation because somebody that angry isn’t listening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crisis Calls Undercounted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dispatch data show a significant undercount in police incidents involving mental illness. The Department of Emergency Management started cataloging police calls that should get a specialized crisis response in May 2014, according to data provided by the department. Since then, 932 \"CR\" codes have been appended to police incidents, an average of about one per day.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"BjdPBFQefSDe9LNSKiTxOabYD2sITV4W\"]\u003cbr>\n\"We average about 13,000 every three months,\" said Molina. That includes attempted suicides, people in general mental distress, children beyond the control of their parents, well-being checks and requests for involuntary mental health detentions, known by the legal code 5150. Molina said officers were dispatched and made contact in a smaller set of those calls, but still averaging at least 30 per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you told me one a day, that's way under-reported,\" he said. \"Cops are going to calls after calls. I've been there. I've done it, and we're dealing with this on a daily basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the time, those calls end peacefully. When they don't, there's a disproportionate amount of focus, Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t want to sound defensive here, but you also have to give the benefit to the officer,\" he said. \"You had the benefit to have a video recorder apparatus and then you were able to see it 20,000 times later on, and that officer had one second, or a half a second to make that decision. And they did it because they felt like their life was in danger, or somebody else’s life was in danger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a new round of changes coming to the Police Department's crisis intervention effort, though, ones that will alter the way teams of four officers with the training are deployed. Molina is also hopeful that police will get some help from city psychologists to prevent psychiatric crises from happening in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changes Coming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD is rolling out a 20-hour tactical training for officers on the department's new use-of-force rules. Lewis said it will augment the role-playing segments of crisis intervention training, which never lead to a physical struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the body-camera footage from the Moore shooting could be useful in the training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a highly volatile encounter, and one that we haven’t been training to but we will be training to,\" Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"crisis response\" police code is also changing, according to Smuts and Molina, to become a signal to deploy a team of officers prepared to confront a mentally ill suspect with a weapon other than a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach involves teams of four officers in different roles, all assigned at the beginning of the week so it's in place when a crisis begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contact officer will talk to the suspect while covered by two other officers, one likely armed with a beanbag shotgun or other \"less lethal\" weapon, and the other with a firearm. The fourth officer will keep an eye on any bystanders and reach out to people who may have knowledge of the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a yet-to-launch pilot program that will link five city mental health clinicians with the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Department of Public Health envisions that, with some fill-ins, at least one psychologist or social worker will be available 24 hours a day to consult with police while officers attempt to contact suspects in psychiatric crisis. The clinicians will not make direct contact with people in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our goal is really to support police officers in de-escalating these situations,\" said Angelica Almeida, director of assisted outpatient treatment at DPH. \"They'll also be able to provide that ongoing support because, beyond a critical incident, we want to make sure that we are preventing any future incidents that are happening. So we want to be able to plug individuals into our already robust system of care that they may not otherwise have tapped into.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Molina, making those connections is a huge priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be proactive,\" he said. \"I don't want the crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco police officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino didn't know what they were walking into when they arrived at 515 Capitol Ave. before dawn on Jan. 6 and attempted to contact Sean Moore about a complaint from his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encounter with Moore escalated into the Police Department's first officer-involved shooting of 2017 and the first ever in San Francisco to be captured on police body cameras. It was also the latest example of a tragic trend in San Francisco and across the nation: People in the midst of a psychiatric crisis make up a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill/\" target=\"_blank\">disproportionate number\u003c/a> of those shot by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/308089846&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/308089846'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a disparity San Francisco has struggled to reduce for over a decade. That effort involves a police practice called Crisis Intervention Training, or \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/crisis-intervention-team\" target=\"_blank\">CIT\u003c/a>, which teaches officers to recognize the signs of mental illness and techniques to de-escalate the heightened emotional state of someone in psychiatric distress.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe SFPD has made strides in the effort, instituting \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\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceDocuments/DepartmentGeneralOrders/DGO%205.21%20CIT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CIT policies\u003c/a> with de-escalation at their core -- and sending over 700 officers, or about half of patrol officers, through the 40-hour training. But the Moore shooting exposed a long-standing problem of identifying people in psychiatric crisis and getting that information to responding officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw aspects of our training come through in terms of how the police handled it,\" said David Elliot Lewis, a civilian trainer in SFPD's CIT program and a member of the city's mental health board. \"It wasn’t ideal, no. CIT is a work in progress, and there’s still work to be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, according to his brother and his defense attorney. He has a reputation among neighbors for hostility, but not necessarily violence. Police had helped get Moore to the hospital for emergency psychiatric treatment several times in the past, according to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore's neighbor, Christopher Choy, had recently filed for a restraining order in civil court, describing threats from Moore and repeated banging on a wall the two homes share in the city's Ocean View neighborhood. The complaint notes a criminal conviction against Moore in 2011 and multiple calls to police since, when officers apparently were unable to talk to Moore. The restraining order request was scheduled for a hearing on Jan. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Moore's psychiatric history doesn't appear to have made it to Cha and Patino, though, neither of whom are trained in crisis intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they contacted Moore, he was angry and said he was going to \"call to remove you,\" then slammed his door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editors note: The following video contains profanity and violence.\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/DBb3_WvFtXk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/DBb3_WvFtXk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Cha and Patino backed off, but Moore came back out, and they again climbed his staircase. When he opened his gate and moved toward the officers, Cha pepper-sprayed him, also hitting Patino. Moore scrambled back inside his house. Cha called for an ambulance, and when Moore came out again, both officers tried to move in to arrest him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They fought on the narrow staircase. Patino hit Moore with his baton twice, then Moore punched the officer in the face, fracturing his nose and sending him toppling to the street. He kicked Cha, who fired twice as he fell down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was hit in the groin and abdomen. He retreated inside his house and called 911 to report he'd been shot. Police arrested him over an hour later. He was taken to the hospital and had major surgery. Moore remains in custody and faces felony assault and battery charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deployment Unclear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's little agreement on whether the incident that led to Moore's shooting should have elicited a CIT response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319728\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OFC-RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin said in January that officers don't memorize the addresses they're called to, and Cha and Patino had no way of knowing the call about a temporary restraining order would involve mental health issues. He said the department is looking into creating a database of addresses where mental illness has been an issue in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Department is trying to develop a database of people who they frequently contact who have mental health crisis issues or behavioral health issues, who have frequent contact with medical authorities and law enforcement,\" Lewis said. \"And once this database is deployed, then when going out on a call, they’ll have more information up front that the person has a history of mental illness that might need a different approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Department of Emergency Management, which handles 911 calls and dispatch in San Francisco, already has the ability to search by name and address for past psychiatric emergencies, according to Deputy Director Rob Smuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are mechanisms to do that,\" he said. \"What we are trying to do is make sure that the training is in place so we are consistently doing that. For years and years and years, we do that search if there is a premise record of somebody who had a gun or had a knife or something like that. We also really want to make an emphasis on any information that might inform the police’s interaction when they get there, and that’s the mental health history, and that’s not as long-standing a practice in police dispatch world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11267862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11267862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-800x752.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Moore\" width=\"800\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-800x752.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-1020x959.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-1180x1109.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-960x903.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-240x226.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-375x353.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-520x489.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Moore \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kenneth Blackmon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's unknown whether dispatch ran a search on Moore. The Department of Emergency Management declined to provide that information, citing ongoing investigations into the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the officers didn't know Moore's history, his family and attorneys say the signs were clear, and they should have backed off and waited for things to calm down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead, the officers went up the stairs and essentially escalated the situation,\" San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said at a press conference where he released police body-camera video of the shooting. \"This is a situation that could have and should have been avoided. Mr. Moore did not have to be shot, and the officers, had they properly used de-escalation techniques, would have gone home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore's mother, Cleo Moore, spent 40 years as a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital, where her son was treated for gunshot wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something has to be done not only to help the mentally ill in this city, and the Police Department needs to be changed to learn how to deal with mentally ill patients,\" she said outside a recent court hearing for her son. \"Back off from the situation, call Crisis Intervention. The city has crisis intervention. They could have come out and helped them to diffuse the situation. Don’t shoot somebody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275576\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11275576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman release SFPD body-camera video on Jan. 18. The video captured the Jan. 6 police shooting of Sean Moore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23659_20170118_134719-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman release SFPD body-camera video on Jan. 18. The video captured the Jan. 6 police shooting of Sean Moore. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFPD Lt. Mario Molina, who heads the Police Department's Crisis Intervention Team, said he can't speak in any detail about the incident that remains under investigation. But in general, SFPD's push to train every officer in CIT encourages officers to collect more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The effort is for officers to start thinking the minute they get the call,\" he said. \"Start asking questions, gather more information. And evaluate, reassess, reassess. We continue to emphasize that. Reassess the situation. What do you have? What are you dealing with? What resources will you need?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said even if Moore's psychiatric history was unclear, the need for de-escalation tactics was obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being that angry and that triggered and that escalated clearly is a mental health issue,\" he said. \"Maybe it doesn’t need to have a diagnostic label, but it does call for de-escalation because somebody that angry isn’t listening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crisis Calls Undercounted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dispatch data show a significant undercount in police incidents involving mental illness. The Department of Emergency Management started cataloging police calls that should get a specialized crisis response in May 2014, according to data provided by the department. Since then, 932 \"CR\" codes have been appended to police incidents, an average of about one per day.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"We average about 13,000 every three months,\" said Molina. That includes attempted suicides, people in general mental distress, children beyond the control of their parents, well-being checks and requests for involuntary mental health detentions, known by the legal code 5150. Molina said officers were dispatched and made contact in a smaller set of those calls, but still averaging at least 30 per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you told me one a day, that's way under-reported,\" he said. \"Cops are going to calls after calls. I've been there. I've done it, and we're dealing with this on a daily basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the time, those calls end peacefully. When they don't, there's a disproportionate amount of focus, Molina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t want to sound defensive here, but you also have to give the benefit to the officer,\" he said. \"You had the benefit to have a video recorder apparatus and then you were able to see it 20,000 times later on, and that officer had one second, or a half a second to make that decision. And they did it because they felt like their life was in danger, or somebody else’s life was in danger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a new round of changes coming to the Police Department's crisis intervention effort, though, ones that will alter the way teams of four officers with the training are deployed. Molina is also hopeful that police will get some help from city psychologists to prevent psychiatric crises from happening in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changes Coming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD is rolling out a 20-hour tactical training for officers on the department's new use-of-force rules. Lewis said it will augment the role-playing segments of crisis intervention training, which never lead to a physical struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the body-camera footage from the Moore shooting could be useful in the training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a highly volatile encounter, and one that we haven’t been training to but we will be training to,\" Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"crisis response\" police code is also changing, according to Smuts and Molina, to become a signal to deploy a team of officers prepared to confront a mentally ill suspect with a weapon other than a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach involves teams of four officers in different roles, all assigned at the beginning of the week so it's in place when a crisis begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contact officer will talk to the suspect while covered by two other officers, one likely armed with a beanbag shotgun or other \"less lethal\" weapon, and the other with a firearm. The fourth officer will keep an eye on any bystanders and reach out to people who may have knowledge of the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a yet-to-launch pilot program that will link five city mental health clinicians with the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Department of Public Health envisions that, with some fill-ins, at least one psychologist or social worker will be available 24 hours a day to consult with police while officers attempt to contact suspects in psychiatric crisis. The clinicians will not make direct contact with people in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our goal is really to support police officers in de-escalating these situations,\" said Angelica Almeida, director of assisted outpatient treatment at DPH. \"They'll also be able to provide that ongoing support because, beyond a critical incident, we want to make sure that we are preventing any future incidents that are happening. So we want to be able to plug individuals into our already robust system of care that they may not otherwise have tapped into.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Molina, making those connections is a huge priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's new police chief made it about five minutes into the job before a handful of protesters tried to shout him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators were quickly removed from the highly choreographed swearing-in ceremony beneath the City Hall rotunda Monday, but their message to William Scott was nonetheless delivered: Welcome to San Francisco -- you have your work cut out for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said that before taking the job, he sought out and heard what San Francisco wants from its police chief and department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have asked for a chief who is an excellent communicator, who is accessible, engaged, community-focused, a 21st century reformer, supportive of community policing, a collaborator, a relationship builder, and a chief that has a record of working with youth,\" he said. \"You’ve also asked for your new chief to deal with community violence and understand the complexities of serving the mentally ill and homeless, and asked that the chief of police be a strong advocate for this community, have strong people skills, be a good listener.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott spoke slowly over the shouts of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You also have asked that your chief of police be transparent and accountable to you the community,\" he said. \"Not only do I fully accept your expectations, I embrace them, and I expect you to hold me accountable to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, a 27-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, cinched the high-profile post from a pool of about 60 candidates vying to replace former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr, who \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned in May\u003c/a> following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/07/a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court/\" target=\"_blank\">series\u003c/a> 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\">controversial\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">fatal\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">police\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview/\" target=\"_blank\">shootings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr was on hand for Scott's swearing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he’s going to serve the department well,\" said Suhr, whose recent post-retirement gig consulting on security for the Golden State Warriors became the subject of protest. He and the team mutually parted ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a veteran police officer that handled a very tough area in Los Angeles, and yet he has this very quiet, calm, humble, genuine, gracious persona,\" Suhr said. \"Roll it all up, and that’s going to make for a great chief who does have a very hard job in the greatest city in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott's experience working to satisfy federally mandated reforms in L.A. is widely believed to have helped him land the job in San Francisco, which in October got a list of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">272 recommendations\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review found \"concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,\" which included use of force, bias, community policing, accountability, recruitment, hiring and promotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal review is non-binding, Mayor Ed Lee and Police Department leaders have called the report a \"road map\" and committed to implementing every recommended reform. SFPD is expected to provide the COPS office with a formal update on its progress in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But changing an entire police force isn't a simple task, and efforts to update the department's use-of-force policies have met \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations/\" target=\"_blank\">strong opposition\u003c/a> from the San Francisco Police Officers Association -- the union representing SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA's legal challenge to those use-of-force rules will be in court again in late February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA does have a challenge in court regarding the use-of-force policy, which we believe is flawed,\" POA president Martin Halloran said after Scott's swearing-in ceremony, \"which we believe was forced upon our members for more political reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott didn't respond directly, but appeared to address the statement in his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are very challenging times for law enforcement, in our city and in our nation, probably the most challenging times in our era,\" he said. \"Our department will have some difficult challenges ahead. We have been tasked with reforming our department, not for the sake of change, and not for political purposes as many have stated, but instead for the sake of making us better at what we do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said he has not yet had a chance to speak with Scott about the union's position, but he was heartened that the new chief \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/New-SF-Police-Chief-William-Scott-plans-to-earn-10876110.php\" target=\"_blank\">appears to support\u003c/a> equipping SFPD officers with Taser weapons. That's been tried at least four times, each time either voted down by the city's Police Commission in the face of strong opposition or removed from consideration before it made it to a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Richard, a San Francisco Bayview advocate with the nonprofit Brothers Against Guns, said he's very confident in Scott's ability to improve the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a fresh pair of eyes -- and a fresh pair of ears -- that are going to oversee this department and make sure that every officer in this city and everybody in the community is held accountable,\" he said. \"It’s not just the officers that need to be held accountable. The community needs to be held accountable, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco's new police chief made it about five minutes into the job before a handful of protesters tried to shout him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators were quickly removed from the highly choreographed swearing-in ceremony beneath the City Hall rotunda Monday, but their message to William Scott was nonetheless delivered: Welcome to San Francisco -- you have your work cut out for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said that before taking the job, he sought out and heard what San Francisco wants from its police chief and department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have asked for a chief who is an excellent communicator, who is accessible, engaged, community-focused, a 21st century reformer, supportive of community policing, a collaborator, a relationship builder, and a chief that has a record of working with youth,\" he said. \"You’ve also asked for your new chief to deal with community violence and understand the complexities of serving the mentally ill and homeless, and asked that the chief of police be a strong advocate for this community, have strong people skills, be a good listener.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott spoke slowly over the shouts of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You also have asked that your chief of police be transparent and accountable to you the community,\" he said. \"Not only do I fully accept your expectations, I embrace them, and I expect you to hold me accountable to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, a 27-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, cinched the high-profile post from a pool of about 60 candidates vying to replace former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr, who \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned in May\u003c/a> following a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/07/a-department-on-trial-civil-case-dissects-s-f-police-shooting-in-federal-court/\" target=\"_blank\">series\u003c/a> 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\">controversial\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">fatal\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">police\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview/\" target=\"_blank\">shootings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr was on hand for Scott's swearing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he’s going to serve the department well,\" said Suhr, whose recent post-retirement gig consulting on security for the Golden State Warriors became the subject of protest. He and the team mutually parted ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a veteran police officer that handled a very tough area in Los Angeles, and yet he has this very quiet, calm, humble, genuine, gracious persona,\" Suhr said. \"Roll it all up, and that’s going to make for a great chief who does have a very hard job in the greatest city in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott's experience working to satisfy federally mandated reforms in L.A. is widely believed to have helped him land the job in San Francisco, which in October got a list of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">272 recommendations\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review found \"concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,\" which included use of force, bias, community policing, accountability, recruitment, hiring and promotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal review is non-binding, Mayor Ed Lee and Police Department leaders have called the report a \"road map\" and committed to implementing every recommended reform. SFPD is expected to provide the COPS office with a formal update on its progress in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But changing an entire police force isn't a simple task, and efforts to update the department's use-of-force policies have met \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations/\" target=\"_blank\">strong opposition\u003c/a> from the San Francisco Police Officers Association -- the union representing SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA's legal challenge to those use-of-force rules will be in court again in late February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA does have a challenge in court regarding the use-of-force policy, which we believe is flawed,\" POA president Martin Halloran said after Scott's swearing-in ceremony, \"which we believe was forced upon our members for more political reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott didn't respond directly, but appeared to address the statement in his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are very challenging times for law enforcement, in our city and in our nation, probably the most challenging times in our era,\" he said. \"Our department will have some difficult challenges ahead. We have been tasked with reforming our department, not for the sake of change, and not for political purposes as many have stated, but instead for the sake of making us better at what we do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said he has not yet had a chance to speak with Scott about the union's position, but he was heartened that the new chief \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/New-SF-Police-Chief-William-Scott-plans-to-earn-10876110.php\" target=\"_blank\">appears to support\u003c/a> equipping SFPD officers with Taser weapons. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi \u003ca href=\"#video\">released video\u003c/a> Wednesday of the Jan. 6 police shooting of Sean Moore captured on the involved officer's body-worn camera, followed within about an hour by the Police Department's screening of more body-camera video from the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, who survived and is reportedly in stable condition, is obviously agitated throughout his interactions with officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino. He's been diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to his family and the public defender's office.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"ihrsGHkXYpP4QV8yvl0gZ9OiTRtazfcJ\"]\u003cbr>\nThe shooting represents the first test of access to SFPD body-camera videos in a serious incident, and is another in a long list of San Francisco police \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill/\" target=\"_blank\">shootings involving mentally ill\u003c/a> suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department leadership \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/13/s-f-police-shooting-wounded-man-in-psychiatric-crisis-body-camera-footage-withheld/\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that video from the incident would not be released because it's part of several active investigations. Adachi and Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman obtained it through discovery because the office is defending Moore against criminal charges stemming from the incident, including felony assault of a peace officer and resisting arrest. Pearlman said he's being held on $2 million bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was surprised when I heard the Police Department had elected not to release the body-camera video,\" Adachi said. \"In these types of cases when you have a police shooting, it’s absolutely imperative for transparency and to inform the public as to what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin said about an hour later that the Police Department had \"carefully considered the amount of public interest in the footage, and we made the decision this weekend to release the videos this week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ideally, we want to respect the integrity of the formal investigation and review process and allow it to conclude before releasing video,\" Chaplin said. \"But every incident is different and we will evaluate the video release on a case-by-case basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Cha and Patino responded to Moore's home in San Francisco's Ocean View neighborhood about 4 a.m. on Jan. 6 after receiving a call from a neighbor that Moore was banging on a shared wall, in violation of a restraining order. They attempted to speak with Moore, but he yelled profanity and repeatedly told them to leave his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers retreated to the bottom of the staircase outside Moore's home several times throughout the encounter. At one point Moore opened his front gate and Cha pepper-sprayed him, also hitting Patino. Moore appears to kick Cha in the head during that scuffle, according to the Police Department. When Moore again emerged from the house, Patino hit him with a baton as both officers moved in. Moore appears to punch Patino in the face and Cha fires twice, hitting Moore in the groin and abdomen.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"video\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMoore retreated back into his house and called 911 to report he'd been shot. He was barricaded in his home for over an hour before additional officers breached the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editors note: The following video contains profanity and violence.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBb3_WvFtXk&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disagreements Abound\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Police Department and public defender's office appear to have reached the same conclusion on releasing the video, they strongly disagree on what it shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said the officers squandered opportunities to call more police with specialized training in calming suspects who may be in a psychiatric crisis -- members of SFPD's Crisis Intervention Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, once the officers had gone back to the bottom of the stairs, that was a point, for example, when a Crisis Intervention Team could have and should have been called,\" Adachi said. \"Instead the officers went back up the stairs and essentially escalated the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers are taught to kind of try to play through it and work out and resolve it on their own,\" Chaplin said. \"They talked this guy down. They did what they could to try to calm him down, they were doing the best they can to explain why they were there. We watched the same video. They explained over and over. To me they kept a neutral voice even in the face of ethnic and racial slurs and everything that came with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11275978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the officers did not appear to know Moore or his psychiatric history, and they'd received training on de-escalation at the Police Academy, though they had not gone through more intensive, specialized training to become CIT members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD's recently enacted Crisis Intervention Team general order offers a third perspective (\u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceCommission/sfpd-crisis-intervention-team-final-draft-general%20Order%2012%202%2016%20for%20Commission%20PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">draft here\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When non-CIT officers are dispatched to or on-view a person in crisis incident, the non-CIT officer shall request a CIT officer, as soon as possible. If no CIT member is available in the district of the occurrence, officers shall have the DEM dispatcher broadcast a city-wide request for CIT members. Under no circumstance will the absence of a CIT member delay the assignment or response to a call regarding a person in crisis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Adachi and Pearlman said it appeared the involved officers were allowed to view their own body-camera footage before giving statements to homicide and other investigators probing the shooting, which would directly violate the SFPD's recently enacted body-camera department general order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of whether officers involved in a shooting should be allowed a \"pre-statement review\" of video was hotly debated as SFPD moved to equip officers with body cameras last year. The \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceCommission/AgendaDocuments/COMMISSION-DGO-10.11-BODYWORNCAMERAS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">final policy\u003c/a> reflects the compromise:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Following any (1) officer-involved shooting; (2) in-custody death; or (3) criminal matter, any subject officer shall be required to provide an initial statement before he or she reviews any audio or video recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial statement by the subject officer shall briefly summarize the actions that the officer was engaged in, the actions that required the use of force, and the officer's response.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Deputy public defender Pearlman said video of the interview following the shooting shows Cha and Patino did not make that initial statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re in the room and they sit them down and they say we’re going to take your statement, but let’s go watch the video first,\" Pearlman said. The public defender's office did not release the interview footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said that account is false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers involved provided a statement before they viewed the footage,\" he said, but declined to elaborate on what was discussed.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi \u003ca href=\"#video\">released video\u003c/a> Wednesday of the Jan. 6 police shooting of Sean Moore captured on the involved officer's body-worn camera, followed within about an hour by the Police Department's screening of more body-camera video from the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, who survived and is reportedly in stable condition, is obviously agitated throughout his interactions with officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino. He's been diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to his family and the public defender's office.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe shooting represents the first test of access to SFPD body-camera videos in a serious incident, and is another in a long list of San Francisco police \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill/\" target=\"_blank\">shootings involving mentally ill\u003c/a> suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department leadership \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/13/s-f-police-shooting-wounded-man-in-psychiatric-crisis-body-camera-footage-withheld/\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that video from the incident would not be released because it's part of several active investigations. Adachi and Deputy Public Defender Brian Pearlman obtained it through discovery because the office is defending Moore against criminal charges stemming from the incident, including felony assault of a peace officer and resisting arrest. Pearlman said he's being held on $2 million bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was surprised when I heard the Police Department had elected not to release the body-camera video,\" Adachi said. \"In these types of cases when you have a police shooting, it’s absolutely imperative for transparency and to inform the public as to what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin said about an hour later that the Police Department had \"carefully considered the amount of public interest in the footage, and we made the decision this weekend to release the videos this week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ideally, we want to respect the integrity of the formal investigation and review process and allow it to conclude before releasing video,\" Chaplin said. \"But every incident is different and we will evaluate the video release on a case-by-case basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shooting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Cha and Patino responded to Moore's home in San Francisco's Ocean View neighborhood about 4 a.m. on Jan. 6 after receiving a call from a neighbor that Moore was banging on a shared wall, in violation of a restraining order. They attempted to speak with Moore, but he yelled profanity and repeatedly told them to leave his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers retreated to the bottom of the staircase outside Moore's home several times throughout the encounter. At one point Moore opened his front gate and Cha pepper-sprayed him, also hitting Patino. Moore appears to kick Cha in the head during that scuffle, according to the Police Department. When Moore again emerged from the house, Patino hit him with a baton as both officers moved in. Moore appears to punch Patino in the face and Cha fires twice, hitting Moore in the groin and abdomen.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"video\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMoore retreated back into his house and called 911 to report he'd been shot. He was barricaded in his home for over an hour before additional officers breached the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editors note: The following video contains profanity and violence.\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/DBb3_WvFtXk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/DBb3_WvFtXk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disagreements Abound\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Police Department and public defender's office appear to have reached the same conclusion on releasing the video, they strongly disagree on what it shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said the officers squandered opportunities to call more police with specialized training in calming suspects who may be in a psychiatric crisis -- members of SFPD's Crisis Intervention Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, once the officers had gone back to the bottom of the stairs, that was a point, for example, when a Crisis Intervention Team could have and should have been called,\" Adachi said. \"Instead the officers went back up the stairs and essentially escalated the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers are taught to kind of try to play through it and work out and resolve it on their own,\" Chaplin said. \"They talked this guy down. They did what they could to try to calm him down, they were doing the best they can to explain why they were there. We watched the same video. They explained over and over. To me they kept a neutral voice even in the face of ethnic and racial slurs and everything that came with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11275978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23668_20170118_1552390-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of SFPD officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino following their Jan. 6 encounter with Sean Moore as displayed at a Police Department press conference on Jan. 18. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the officers did not appear to know Moore or his psychiatric history, and they'd received training on de-escalation at the Police Academy, though they had not gone through more intensive, specialized training to become CIT members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD's recently enacted Crisis Intervention Team general order offers a third perspective (\u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceCommission/sfpd-crisis-intervention-team-final-draft-general%20Order%2012%202%2016%20for%20Commission%20PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">draft here\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When non-CIT officers are dispatched to or on-view a person in crisis incident, the non-CIT officer shall request a CIT officer, as soon as possible. If no CIT member is available in the district of the occurrence, officers shall have the DEM dispatcher broadcast a city-wide request for CIT members. Under no circumstance will the absence of a CIT member delay the assignment or response to a call regarding a person in crisis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Adachi and Pearlman said it appeared the involved officers were allowed to view their own body-camera footage before giving statements to homicide and other investigators probing the shooting, which would directly violate the SFPD's recently enacted body-camera department general order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of whether officers involved in a shooting should be allowed a \"pre-statement review\" of video was hotly debated as SFPD moved to equip officers with body cameras last year. The \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceCommission/AgendaDocuments/COMMISSION-DGO-10.11-BODYWORNCAMERAS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">final policy\u003c/a> reflects the compromise:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Following any (1) officer-involved shooting; (2) in-custody death; or (3) criminal matter, any subject officer shall be required to provide an initial statement before he or she reviews any audio or video recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial statement by the subject officer shall briefly summarize the actions that the officer was engaged in, the actions that required the use of force, and the officer's response.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Deputy public defender Pearlman said video of the interview following the shooting shows Cha and Patino did not make that initial statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re in the room and they sit them down and they say we’re going to take your statement, but let’s go watch the video first,\" Pearlman said. The public defender's office did not release the interview footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said that account is false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A man shot and critically injured after fighting with San Francisco police officers last week had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, according to members of his family who are questioning whether police followed new SFPD policies designed to de-escalate encounters with people in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two as-yet-unidentified officers responded to Sean Moore's residence in the city's Ocean View neighborhood just before 4 a.m. on Jan. 6 after a neighbor called 911 and reported Moore was banging on the wall and violating a restraining order, police officials said at a town hall meeting on the incident Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Cmdr. Greg McEachern said both officers' body cameras were active throughout the encounter. The department is not releasing the footage at this time, citing open investigations into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was initially agitated and shouted profanities at the officers from behind a locked gate, McEachern said. He retreated into his house, then re-emerged and continued to yell, approaching the officers on a stairway outside the front door. He snatched the restraining order from one officer, and his partner deployed pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At that time, Mr. Moore kicked one of the officers in the face,\" McEachern said, and Moore retreated back into his house. The officers left the stairway and called for an ambulance to treat for pepper spray and the officer's face injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers tried to arrest Moore when he again came outside a short time later, and one officer hit him with a baton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Moore then stood up, turned, he punched one officer in the face, knocking him off the stairs to the sidewalk,\" McEachern said. \"Mr. Moore then advanced at the second officer, who fired his weapon as he was falling off the steps.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin said both officers suffered facial injuries in the incident that caused them to \"bleed profusely\" at the scene. Both were treated for non-life-threatening injuries and released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11267862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11267862\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-800x752.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Moore\" width=\"800\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-800x752.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-1020x959.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-1180x1109.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-960x903.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-240x226.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-375x353.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23580_1470-qut-520x489.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Moore \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kenneth Blackmon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore again went back into his home and called 911, reporting he'd been shot. He was bleeding inside for more than an hour before police entered the home, and he was arrested and taken to San Francisco General Hospital, McEachern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore's mother, Cleo Moore, said she received an early-morning call from the same neighbor who called police, informing her that her son was about to be arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband rushed from their home just across San Francisco's southern border in Daly City. She said she arrived to a scene crawling with police sometime around 4 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I begged, please don't hurt my son, but little did I know, he had already been shot,\" she said. \"And they would not allow us, I said, we can help. We can diffuse the situation if you just give his father the opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleo Moore said she had not been allowed to see her son, but learned about his condition through contacts at the hospital from her 40-year career as a nurse there. She said he had been shot in the stomach and groin and suffered damage to his liver and colon. He had undergone abdominal surgery and was reportedly conscious as of Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's not an animal, he's a person with a mental condition,\" she said, \"and I don't think that he deserved to have been shot in his own home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting raised questions for Moore's family and their supporters about the department's adherence to a series of new policies aimed at reducing police shootings of people in psychiatric crisis, which account for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill/\" target=\"_blank\">about half of all fatal officer-involved\u003c/a> shootings in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city Police Commission passed a new use-of-force policy in December that emphasizes fostering \"time and distance\" when possible, especially when a suspect appears mentally disturbed and is not a danger to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission also codified in December SFPD's long effort to build a specialized team of officers -- called a Crisis Intervention Team -- to respond to calls involving psychiatric crises. While the Police Department has sent over 400 officers to the weeklong course, it has struggled to ensure those officers are dispatched to the calls that need their specialized skill set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Police Chief Chaplin said neither of the two initial responding officers had received the specialized training beyond the course they take at the police academy, which is among the most comprehensive in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said updating police dispatch information, so that officers might know if they're responding to an address of someone known to have mental illness, is a work in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're working on it with our Department of Emergency Management now to put that protocol in place where we can flag those addresses,\" Chaplin said. \"There's some significant hurdles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of the shooting, the police officers' union put out a statement blaming it on the new use-of-force policy's prohibition of the carotid, or \"sleeper-hold,\" restraint and the city's repeated refusal to equip officers with Taser stun guns. The union is suing the city in an attempt to overturn parts of the new use-of-force policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighborhood resident Mary Harris advocated for Tasers at the town hall meeting, to which many in the room responded with shouts of \"No Tasers!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Moore's brother, Kenneth Blackmon, said he didn't think the electronic stun guns were an appropriate solution. He said his brother's illness could agitate him and lead him to \"mouth off,\" but that he did not have a tendency toward violence, an account echoed by Moore's neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know my brother, and I know the police would be agitating to him based on his history,\" he said. \"But I just don't see why -- no public safety was at risk. No one was in jeopardy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/Documents/PoliceDocuments/DepartmentGeneralOrders/SFPD-DGO10.11-Body%20Worn%20Cameras.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">body-camera policy\u003c/a>, enacted last summer, says: \"The San Francisco Police Department's goal is to release [body-worn camera] recordings to the greatest extent possible,\" but it makes exceptions for open investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protocols have not been tested, according to SFPD spokesman David Stevenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know it's interesting, given that we've been utilizing body-worn cameras for several months now. We're still going to see how that works out,\" he said of the video's potential release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said Moore faces charges for aggravated assault on a police officer. 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