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Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168\" 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>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. Es duro ver cuando matan una persona que quieres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 7 de diciembre, Rojo acompañó al hombre a una cena con Elvira y Refugio Nieto, los padres de Alejandro Nieto, quien fue baleado a muerte por oficiales de la policía de San Francisco en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto explicaron el proceso que ha seguido en el caso de su hijo, y animaron al compañero a que declare, dijeron en una entrevista el 25 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue cuando yo le dije que no se preocupara y que no tuviera miedo”, dijo Elvira Nieto. “Y en su forma de platicar, él se veía que estaba muy nervioso. Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. Yo oí que dispararon. Cuando miré eso, sentí que mis pies se me doblaban”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez corría hacia una calle vacía, dijo el compañero de casa, no presentaba amenaza a los oficiales ni a nadie más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ellos no le avisaron de nada”, dijo. “Ellos nomás dispararon”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las declaraciones de los compañeros de casa motivaron a los investigadores del fiscal de distrito a descender nuevamente a la calle Folsom a finales de diciembre, según Smith y otros en la vecindad, entrevistando a docenas de personas. Desde entonces, la pequeña comunidad de amigos, familia y sus defensores, esperan la decisión de Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr se ha comprometido a terminar efectivamente el uso de fuerza letal en contra de individuos portando armas blancas y el departamento continúa con la expansión del entrenamiento de de-escalación y antiprejuicio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que el departamento realiza estos cambios, continúa confrontado por \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">recientes controversias\u003c/a>. El 7 de abril, dos oficiales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">mataron a tiros\u003c/a> a Luis Góngora, otro hombre hispanohablante que presuntamente blandía un cuchillo en el distrito de la Misión. Como en el caso de Amilcar Perez Lopez, algunos testigos contradicen el reporte policiaco del incidente, el cual según dice el departamento ocurrió después de que Góngora se lanzara contra los oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas es el editor en jefe de El Tecolote, un periódico comunitario del Distrito de la Misión. Alex Emslie y Nicole Reinert son reporteros para KQED News. Traducción Mabel Jiménez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/aemslie\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Terrazas\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/nreinert\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Reinert\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del Editor: Este reportaje fue elaborado en colaboración con \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/es/especiales/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-llego-a-hablar/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. Click \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\">here\u003c/a> to read in English.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En los 14 meses desde que dos policías encubiertos acribillaron a muerte a un carpintero inmigrante guatemalteco de 20 años en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco, el uso de la fuerza policial local ha comenzado a cambiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nAntigua vecina de Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>La decisión del fiscal de distrito, en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales en contra de los dos oficiales de policía, quienes acribillaron a Amilcar Perez Lopez seis veces por la espalda, se espera en cualquier día. Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\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/262494168&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/262494168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. Es duro ver cuando matan una persona que quieres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 7 de diciembre, Rojo acompañó al hombre a una cena con Elvira y Refugio Nieto, los padres de Alejandro Nieto, quien fue baleado a muerte por oficiales de la policía de San Francisco en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto explicaron el proceso que ha seguido en el caso de su hijo, y animaron al compañero a que declare, dijeron en una entrevista el 25 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue cuando yo le dije que no se preocupara y que no tuviera miedo”, dijo Elvira Nieto. “Y en su forma de platicar, él se veía que estaba muy nervioso. Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\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/262654832&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/262654832'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. Yo oí que dispararon. Cuando miré eso, sentí que mis pies se me doblaban”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez corría hacia una calle vacía, dijo el compañero de casa, no presentaba amenaza a los oficiales ni a nadie más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ellos no le avisaron de nada”, dijo. “Ellos nomás dispararon”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las declaraciones de los compañeros de casa motivaron a los investigadores del fiscal de distrito a descender nuevamente a la calle Folsom a finales de diciembre, según Smith y otros en la vecindad, entrevistando a docenas de personas. Desde entonces, la pequeña comunidad de amigos, familia y sus defensores, esperan la decisión de Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr se ha comprometido a terminar efectivamente el uso de fuerza letal en contra de individuos portando armas blancas y el departamento continúa con la expansión del entrenamiento de de-escalación y antiprejuicio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que el departamento realiza estos cambios, continúa confrontado por \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">recientes controversias\u003c/a>. El 7 de abril, dos oficiales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">mataron a tiros\u003c/a> a Luis Góngora, otro hombre hispanohablante que presuntamente blandía un cuchillo en el distrito de la Misión. Como en el caso de Amilcar Perez Lopez, algunos testigos contradicen el reporte policiaco del incidente, el cual según dice el departamento ocurrió después de que Góngora se lanzara contra los oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "How a Witness to Fatal S.F. Police Shooting of Amilcar Perez Lopez Came Forward",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This report was produced in collaboration with Mission District neighborhood newspaper \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar\" target=\"_blank\">Haga clic aquí\u003c/a> para leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 14 months since two plainclothes police officers shot and killed a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant carpenter in San Francisco’s Mission District, the local landscape of police use of force has begun to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation.'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nFormer neighbor of Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s decision is expected any day on whether to file criminal charges against two police officers who shot Amilcar Perez Lopez six times from behind. That decision will land in a city that's been the scene of a series of controversial police shootings of black and Latino men, and it will either launch a criminal prosecution or allow a federal civil lawsuit to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168\" 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>Over the past year, Perez Lopez’s name was rarely mentioned at the protests, press conferences and meetings that chronicled the Police Department’s controversies and led to halting reforms and growing public anger. The city was more focused on two other fatal police shootings -- of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> on Bernal Heights in 2014, and the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many months after he [Perez Lopez] was killed, it wasn’t really addressed,” said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. “He’s an immigrant. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t have a history of being a classmate of other people in the neighborhood. In some ways, it can be harder to connect with his story, because he’s an outsider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the Mario Woods shooting, caught on cellphone video from multiple angles, that propelled the Police Department into a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rewriting of the rules\u003c/a> governing all use of force, from control holds to firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> the officers involved in the Nieto shooting after a highly publicized federal civil rights trial. With few \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notable\u003c/a> exceptions, the investigation of Perez Lopez’s death was a whisper amid the roar of those calling for police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year, a small network of advocates, attorneys, investigators and neighbors have worked behind the scenes to facilitate a complex investigation involving witnesses fearful of retaliation from police and immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation,” said Florencia Rojo, a former neighbor of Perez Lopez, who discovered the homicide scene when she tried to return home on Feb. 26, 2015, the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her house, just one door south from where Perez Lopez lived, was blocked off by police, so she went around the corner and tried to climb into her neighbor’s backyard.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"HlQcHLDyIa5rHET80Z2zJG6X0lXCVHrw\"]\u003cbr>\nThat’s where she met one of the dead man’s roommates, whose account of the shooting differs significantly from the multiple versions offered by Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting four days after the shooting, Suhr said two officers responding to a 911 call about a man with a knife came upon Perez Lopez and another man he was allegedly chasing on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez charged the officers from 5 feet away with the knife \"raised overhead,\" Suhr said. Also at that meeting, Mission Station Capt. Daniel Perea said the other man, later identified as Abraham Perez, told him the officers had saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy showed\u003c/a> Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr qualified his previous statements. During an appearance on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em> last July\u003c/a>, the chief said Perez Lopez “came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired and he turned away, which would explain not all of the rounds going in the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the scene that night, the discussion was of Amilcar Lopez moving forward,” Suhr clarified in February. “Later on, in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with a knife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who shot Perez Lopez that night, have long since returned to duty. Perea said in a recent interview that both officers are still assigned to Mission Station. He declined to say whether Tiffe and Reboli had returned to the plainclothes unit, though, citing concerns for the safety of his officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the past year Mission Station's plainclothes unit added a supervisor, and it now consists of two supervising sergeants and 10 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFPD's Attempted Interviews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district attorney’s investigators conducting their own investigation pursued a lead of the two roommates who were rumored to have seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what happened,” one of the roommates said in a recent interview, speaking in Spanish and on condition of anonymity due to what he says is his fear of retaliation from police. “I saw things happen really clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, for the same reason, that he and the other man were afraid to talk to Police Department investigators, and they made a pact not to do so without an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That frustrated the Police Department’s homicide investigation, according to declarations filed by three SFPD officers in a federal wrongful death civil case brought by Perez Lopez’s family in Guatemala. The officers wrote that the roommates changed their stories and evaded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Anthony Ravano declared that he spoke with two roommates the night of the shooting, and that they stated they had not seen the shooting, but only heard gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lt. Daniel Dedet and Ravano tried to follow up, one of the men said an attorney told them to say nothing, and the other reached by phone evaded questions, hung up and didn’t return a phone message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In summary, both roommates have refused to cooperate with the SFPD investigation after speaking with civil attorneys for Mr Perez Lopez’ family,” Ravano wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Abraham Perez were unsuccessful. Civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's family say he told them in an interview that Perez Lopez was simply running from the plainclothes officers when they started shooting, and he likely didn't know the men were police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DA Pursues Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of last year, District Attorney George Gascón started pushing for interviews with the roommates, according to Florencia Rojo and the Rev. Richard Smith. The district attorney’s office declined to comment for this report, citing an open investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said Gascón called him last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘This has the markings of a bad shooting and I absolutely have to get the eyewitnesses in here and get their testimony,’ ” Smith said, adding that Gascón said he could arrest the witnesses, but he’d prefer them to speak voluntarily. “He said ‘I have to have these eyewitnesses in order to make a case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945192\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of attorneys for Amilcar Perez Lopez's family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo said she got a similar phone call from Gascón. She, Smith and others worked to help the men overcome fears of immigration enforcement and the trauma of seeing their friend shot dead by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of fear and a lot of hesitation,” Rojo said. “When your trust in the police and law enforcement and the people who are supposed to protect you and keep you safe is broken, speaking out is very scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocates Scramble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network that included Smith and Rojo worked to secure an immigration attorney for the men, who are both living in the U.S. illegally. The attorney, Laura Sanchez, said she is in the early stages of pursuing a special visa for witnesses or victims of violent crime. Their visa petition, however, involves a crime unrelated to the Perez Lopez shooting, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think finding representation made them feel a lot more comfortable and secure talking openly about what they had seen,” Sanchez said. Generally speaking, she said people in the U.S. unlawfully “are afraid to come forward because they fear some authority will let immigration know of their whereabouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress weighed heavily on the roommate, who spoke recently for this report. He said he's often had trouble sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt the need to talk because I felt like I was dying inside,\" he said in Spanish. \"I was feeling terrible because I felt like justice wasn't being done. I'm not well psychologically. It's hard when you see somebody who you love get killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 7, Rojo accompanied the man to a dinner meeting with Elvira and Refugio Nieto, the parents of Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by San Francisco police officers in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10945196 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugio and Elvira Nieto, whose son, Alejandro Nieto, was fatally shot by SFPD in March 2014, attend a press conference on April 24, 2015, where attorney Arnoldo Casillas announced that a federal civil rights lawsuit was being filed against SFPD for the shooting death of Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nietos explained the process their son's case had followed, and they encouraged the roommate to come forward, they said in an interview on April 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I told him not to worry, not to worry and not to be afraid,\" Elvira Nieto said in Spanish. \"You could see he was in despair and by his way of speaking, you could tell he was very nervous. But he talked about how they shot him [Perez Lopez] in the back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nietos said they told Perez Lopez's roommate that if more witnesses had come forward in their son's case, and earlier, perhaps they would have seen a different result. Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> who shot Alejandro Nieto of criminal wrongdoing in early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA found that four officers who fired a combined 59 gunshots at Nieto reasonably believed the object he carried and allegedly pointed at them was a firearm. The officers discovered after fatally shooting Nieto that he had a Taser stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they treat this case the same way they treated Alejandro's, the same thing will happen,\" Refugio Nieto said. He said his son's case shows an unfair bias in favor of police officers in both the criminal and civil systems. \"Alejandro, he is gone, but now we’re a symbol of the community, to help others and understand the upcoming process. Amilcar’s case is the one that is next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Statements at the Church\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week later, the advocates brokered a meeting between Perez Lopez's former roommates and DA's investigators in Richard Smith's church. Florencia Rojo sat in on the four-hour interview with the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them recounted the night Perez Lopez was killed in an interview April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he ran outside after another roommate told him Perez Lopez had come into the flat and grabbed a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to stop any kind of trouble Amilcar was going to get himself in,\" he said. \"We saw him walking toward us calmly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former roommate was about two doors north of Perez Lopez, standing at the edge of his house's entry and the sidewalk, when he saw two larger figures emerge from the darkness behind his friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832\" 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>\"One of them tried to grab him from behind, without saying anything,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez Lopez squirmed free and ran toward the street, between two parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said 'Drop the weapon,' \" then both officers fired almost immediately,\" the man said. \"I don’t know if he even got a chance to drop it, but when the first shot was fired, he dropped the knife. I heard the shot, and when I saw that, I felt my legs go weak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez was running into an empty street, the roommate said, neither a threat to officers nor anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They didn’t even talk to him,\" he said. \"They just shot him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roommates' statements prompted DA's investigators to descend back onto Folsom Street in late December, according to Smith and others in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens more people. Since then, the small community of former friends, family and their advocates have been awaiting Gascón's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has pledged to effectively end uses of deadly force against people with weapons other than a firearm, and the department continues to expand de-escalation and anti-bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the department makes those moves, it's confronted by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">fresh controversies\u003c/a>. On April 7, two officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">shot and killed\u003c/a> Luis Gongora, another Spanish-speaking man allegedly wielding a knife, in the Mission District. As in the Amilar Perez Lopez case, some witnesses have contradicted the police account of the incident, which the department says occurred after Gongora lunged at officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas is editor-in-chief of Mission District neighborhood newspaper El Tecolote. Alex Emslie and Nicole Reinert are reporters for KQED News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This report was produced in collaboration with Mission District neighborhood newspaper \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/how-a-witness-to-fatal-sfpd-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/05/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-por-parte-de-sfpd-llego-a-hablar\" target=\"_blank\">Haga clic aquí\u003c/a> para leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 14 months since two plainclothes police officers shot and killed a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant carpenter in San Francisco’s Mission District, the local landscape of police use of force has begun to shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation.'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nFormer neighbor of Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s decision is expected any day on whether to file criminal charges against two police officers who shot Amilcar Perez Lopez six times from behind. That decision will land in a city that's been the scene of a series of controversial police shootings of black and Latino men, and it will either launch a criminal prosecution or allow a federal civil lawsuit to proceed.\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/262494168&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/262494168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Perez Lopez’s name was rarely mentioned at the protests, press conferences and meetings that chronicled the Police Department’s controversies and led to halting reforms and growing public anger. The city was more focused on two other fatal police shootings -- of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> on Bernal Heights in 2014, and the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many months after he [Perez Lopez] was killed, it wasn’t really addressed,” said the Rev. Richard Smith, a Mission District priest and vicar of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. “He’s an immigrant. He didn’t grow up here. He doesn’t have a history of being a classmate of other people in the neighborhood. In some ways, it can be harder to connect with his story, because he’s an outsider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Richard Smith at a memorial for Amilcar Perez Lopez held at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist on April 4, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the Mario Woods shooting, caught on cellphone video from multiple angles, that propelled the Police Department into a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">federal review\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rewriting of the rules\u003c/a> governing all use of force, from control holds to firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> the officers involved in the Nieto shooting after a highly publicized federal civil rights trial. With few \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notable\u003c/a> exceptions, the investigation of Perez Lopez’s death was a whisper amid the roar of those calling for police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past year, a small network of advocates, attorneys, investigators and neighbors have worked behind the scenes to facilitate a complex investigation involving witnesses fearful of retaliation from police and immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Stories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors started gathering our own evidence and started doing our own investigation,” said Florencia Rojo, a former neighbor of Perez Lopez, who discovered the homicide scene when she tried to return home on Feb. 26, 2015, the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her house, just one door south from where Perez Lopez lived, was blocked off by police, so she went around the corner and tried to climb into her neighbor’s backyard.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThat’s where she met one of the dead man’s roommates, whose account of the shooting differs significantly from the multiple versions offered by Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting four days after the shooting, Suhr said two officers responding to a 911 call about a man with a knife came upon Perez Lopez and another man he was allegedly chasing on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets. Perez Lopez charged the officers from 5 feet away with the knife \"raised overhead,\" Suhr said. Also at that meeting, Mission Station Capt. Daniel Perea said the other man, later identified as Abraham Perez, told him the officers had saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">independent autopsy showed\u003c/a> Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr qualified his previous statements. During an appearance on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em> last July\u003c/a>, the chief said Perez Lopez “came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired and he turned away, which would explain not all of the rounds going in the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the scene that night, the discussion was of Amilcar Lopez moving forward,” Suhr clarified in February. “Later on, in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with a knife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, who shot Perez Lopez that night, have long since returned to duty. Perea said in a recent interview that both officers are still assigned to Mission Station. He declined to say whether Tiffe and Reboli had returned to the plainclothes unit, though, citing concerns for the safety of his officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the past year Mission Station's plainclothes unit added a supervisor, and it now consists of two supervising sergeants and 10 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SFPD's Attempted Interviews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the district attorney’s investigators conducting their own investigation pursued a lead of the two roommates who were rumored to have seen the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what happened,” one of the roommates said in a recent interview, speaking in Spanish and on condition of anonymity due to what he says is his fear of retaliation from police. “I saw things happen really clearly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, for the same reason, that he and the other man were afraid to talk to Police Department investigators, and they made a pact not to do so without an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Officer Craig Tiffe at a protest outside Mission Station on Aug. 23, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That frustrated the Police Department’s homicide investigation, according to declarations filed by three SFPD officers in a federal wrongful death civil case brought by Perez Lopez’s family in Guatemala. The officers wrote that the roommates changed their stories and evaded questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Anthony Ravano declared that he spoke with two roommates the night of the shooting, and that they stated they had not seen the shooting, but only heard gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lt. Daniel Dedet and Ravano tried to follow up, one of the men said an attorney told them to say nothing, and the other reached by phone evaded questions, hung up and didn’t return a phone message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In summary, both roommates have refused to cooperate with the SFPD investigation after speaking with civil attorneys for Mr Perez Lopez’ family,” Ravano wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Abraham Perez were unsuccessful. Civil attorneys for Perez Lopez's family say he told them in an interview that Perez Lopez was simply running from the plainclothes officers when they started shooting, and he likely didn't know the men were police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DA Pursues Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end of last year, District Attorney George Gascón started pushing for interviews with the roommates, according to Florencia Rojo and the Rev. Richard Smith. The district attorney’s office declined to comment for this report, citing an open investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said Gascón called him last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘This has the markings of a bad shooting and I absolutely have to get the eyewitnesses in here and get their testimony,’ ” Smith said, adding that Gascón said he could arrest the witnesses, but he’d prefer them to speak voluntarily. “He said ‘I have to have these eyewitnesses in order to make a case.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10945192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10945192\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of Amilcar Perez Lopez received his body in Guatemala on April 6, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of attorneys for Amilcar Perez Lopez's family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo said she got a similar phone call from Gascón. She, Smith and others worked to help the men overcome fears of immigration enforcement and the trauma of seeing their friend shot dead by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of fear and a lot of hesitation,” Rojo said. “When your trust in the police and law enforcement and the people who are supposed to protect you and keep you safe is broken, speaking out is very scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocates Scramble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A network that included Smith and Rojo worked to secure an immigration attorney for the men, who are both living in the U.S. illegally. The attorney, Laura Sanchez, said she is in the early stages of pursuing a special visa for witnesses or victims of violent crime. Their visa petition, however, involves a crime unrelated to the Perez Lopez shooting, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think finding representation made them feel a lot more comfortable and secure talking openly about what they had seen,” Sanchez said. Generally speaking, she said people in the U.S. unlawfully “are afraid to come forward because they fear some authority will let immigration know of their whereabouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress weighed heavily on the roommate, who spoke recently for this report. He said he's often had trouble sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt the need to talk because I felt like I was dying inside,\" he said in Spanish. \"I was feeling terrible because I felt like justice wasn't being done. I'm not well psychologically. 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"content": "\u003cp>Texts recovered from a San Francisco police officer's cellphone during a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-allegedly-interfered-with-investigation-of-fellow-officer-for-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual assault investigation\u003c/a> last year contained racist messages describing African-Americans as \"barbarians\" and \"wild animals,\" as well as derogatory descriptions of gay police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Officer Jason Lai, who worked out of the department's Taraval Station and resigned earlier this month, also texted racist slurs for Latinos, opined that \"Indian ppl are disgusting\" and compared an apparent homeless person to a cockroach who \"won't die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi released some of the text messages (\u003ca href=\"#texts\">read below\u003c/a>) Tuesday that were recovered from Lai's cellphone during an SFPD internal affairs investigation. Investigators \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/article/sfpd-officer-arrested-following-internal-affairs-probe\" target=\"_blank\">concluded there was insufficient evidence\u003c/a> to prove that Lai raped a woman at her home, as she alleged, but he was charged last month with six misdemeanors for unlawfully possessing and misusing confidential records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Officer Lai’s mindset,\" Adachi said at a press conference. \"And it shows a person who very casually makes racist and derogatory comments, talks about injury to the citizens that he is supposed to be serving. And most disturbingly, I think he does it in a way which to him seems to hold no consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department investigators \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/01/sfpds-latest-racist-texting-scandal-who-knew-what-and-when\" target=\"_blank\">turned over records\u003c/a> from Lai's cellphone -- as well as those from former Taraval Station Sgt. Curtis Liu and other officers implicated in the probe -- to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office in November. Prosecutors discovered the offensive texts among 44,000 pages of cellphone records in late March, when District Attorney George Gascón publicly \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/five-more-sfpd-officers-sent-bigoted-text-messages-even-during-textgate-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">announced their existence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is Officer Lai’s mindset. And it shows a person who very casually makes racist and derogatory comments, talks about injury to the citizens that he is supposed to be serving.'\u003ccite>S.F. Public Defender Jeff Adachi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the messages Adachi released Tuesday, Lai also joked about “a story I wrote today” as he shared a draft incident report about a rape investigation. In his text message, he referred to the apparent victim as “an idiot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't go to the house of some Hispanic guy and black guy that you don't know,\" an unidentified person texted Lai in an apparent response. \"Don't drink with them and don't go into the bedroom with them and this shit wouldn't have happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lol amen,\" Lai responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said Lai's messages show not only that bigotry is widespread in the Police Department, but also that Lai's prejudice affected his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Police Department has said, ‘Well, these are just statements that are being made off the cuff and opinions that are being thrown out there,' \" Adachi said. \"No, these are directly connected to the feelings that this officer has about the people that he’s serving and more particularly about people that he interacts with every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts could also have far-reaching legal implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overt prejudice can impact ongoing and previous criminal prosecutions if defendants can show an officer's bias made them an unfair target for arrest or stretched probable cause. The public defender's office has identified at least 207 cases in which Lai, Liu and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/News-set-of-SF-cops-implicated-in-racist-and-7221066.php\" target=\"_blank\">third officer\u003c/a> who allegedly swapped inappropriate texts, Keith Ybarreta, participated. Like Lai and Liu, Ybarreta has also left the SFPD. A fourth officer was implicated, according to the Police Department, but has not been publicly identified. The officer has been suspended, and his or her case is pending before the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest offensive texts mark the second batch to emerge from the department in the past 13 months. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/page/2\" target=\"_blank\">The first round of bigoted messages\u003c/a> came to light in a federal court filing in March 2015, throwing thousands of prosecutions into question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi is among a growing number of voices \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/05/sfpd-racist-texts-official-bickering-prompt-new-calls-for-state-or-federal-intervention\" target=\"_blank\">calling for an outside investigation\u003c/a> of alleged systemic racism and civil rights violations in the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender last month asked California Attorney General Kamala Harris to launch a probe. Other calls for action have come from Gascón, members of the Board of Supervisors and the ACLU, which all have suggested a federal Department of Justice civil rights investigation. The feds are in town, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">conducting a lighter, nonbinding review\u003c/a> of SFPD policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lai's scorn was not directed only at civilians. He also repeatedly refers to superior officers who are \"528,\" SFPD's radio code for fire and an apparently coded slur for gay or lesbian officers. He also used noncoded slurs for gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts Adachi released Tuesday span about nine months, from late October 2014 until early August 2015. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't go to the house of some Hispanic guy and black guy that you don't know,\" an unidentified person texted Lai in an apparent response. \"Don't drink with them and don't go into the bedroom with them and this shit wouldn't have happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lol amen,\" Lai responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said Lai's messages show not only that bigotry is widespread in the Police Department, but also that Lai's prejudice affected his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Police Department has said, ‘Well, these are just statements that are being made off the cuff and opinions that are being thrown out there,' \" Adachi said. \"No, these are directly connected to the feelings that this officer has about the people that he’s serving and more particularly about people that he interacts with every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts could also have far-reaching legal implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overt prejudice can impact ongoing and previous criminal prosecutions if defendants can show an officer's bias made them an unfair target for arrest or stretched probable cause. The public defender's office has identified at least 207 cases in which Lai, Liu and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/News-set-of-SF-cops-implicated-in-racist-and-7221066.php\" target=\"_blank\">third officer\u003c/a> who allegedly swapped inappropriate texts, Keith Ybarreta, participated. Like Lai and Liu, Ybarreta has also left the SFPD. A fourth officer was implicated, according to the Police Department, but has not been publicly identified. The officer has been suspended, and his or her case is pending before the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest offensive texts mark the second batch to emerge from the department in the past 13 months. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/page/2\" target=\"_blank\">The first round of bigoted messages\u003c/a> came to light in a federal court filing in March 2015, throwing thousands of prosecutions into question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi is among a growing number of voices \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/05/sfpd-racist-texts-official-bickering-prompt-new-calls-for-state-or-federal-intervention\" target=\"_blank\">calling for an outside investigation\u003c/a> of alleged systemic racism and civil rights violations in the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender last month asked California Attorney General Kamala Harris to launch a probe. Other calls for action have come from Gascón, members of the Board of Supervisors and the ACLU, which all have suggested a federal Department of Justice civil rights investigation. The feds are in town, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">conducting a lighter, nonbinding review\u003c/a> of SFPD policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lai's scorn was not directed only at civilians. He also repeatedly refers to superior officers who are \"528,\" SFPD's radio code for fire and an apparently coded slur for gay or lesbian officers. He also used noncoded slurs for gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts Adachi released Tuesday span about nine months, from late October 2014 until early August 2015. On March 14, 2015, the day after the first round of racist San Francisco police texts was publicized, Lai appeared to get suspicious and traded texts with an unknown recipient about what text messages could be obtained with a search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"texts\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"R U READING THIS IA?\" he asked to no apparent response. \"IA\" is a reference to the department's Internal Affairs Division, charged with investigating officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, internal affairs investigators did read his message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/310536554/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-TbPB5HkKQkWJkuChLhEp\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/310536554\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_310536554\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/310536554\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zoë Lew of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department released the names on Friday of a sergeant and an officer who fired a total of seven .40-caliber rounds at a homeless man in the Mission District last week, mortally wounding him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Some witnesses\u003c/a> and the officers have said Luis Gongora charged police with a kitchen knife after they contacted him the morning of April 7, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Police Department\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">Other witnesses\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/witness-san-francisco-police-shooting-homeless-man-luis-gongora\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters\u003c/a> that Gongora was not holding a knife or did not run toward the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department spokesman identified Sgt. 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Suhr said at a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night that the CIT trained officer involved in the shooting was the one who can be seen firing a shotgun with \"less lethal\" beanbag rounds in surveillance video published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no lawsuits naming Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department released the names on Friday of a sergeant and an officer who fired a total of seven .40-caliber rounds at a homeless man in the Mission District last week, mortally wounding him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Some witnesses\u003c/a> and the officers have said Luis Gongora charged police with a kitchen knife after they contacted him the morning of April 7, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Police Department\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">Other witnesses\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/witness-san-francisco-police-shooting-homeless-man-luis-gongora\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters\u003c/a> that Gongora was not holding a knife or did not run toward the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department spokesman identified Sgt. Nate Steger and officer Michael Mellone as the two officers who fired during the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Nate Steger is a 17-year-veteran of the department, according to a statement from Police Chief Greg Suhr on the seniority of officers involved in the shooting from earlier this week, and has spent much of his career assigned to the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Michael Mellone has a combined 13 years of experience in law enforcement, transferring to SFPD four years ago, according to Suhr's statements Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Mellone may have transferred from Antioch Police Department; a Detective Michael Mellone is named in a 2011 federal lawsuit against Antioch and six of its police officers alleging excessive force, unlawful search and seizure, assault, battery, false arrest and other civil claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit claims Mellone and other Antioch detectives served a search warrant in the early morning Jan. 13, 2011 at the Pittsburg home of Edrick Harvey, having trailed her son Alvin Harvey there the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleged the officers \"tackled, handcuffed, and electrocuted Plaintiff Edrick Harvey with an electronic control device, presumably a Taser. The defendant officers then manhandled [Angel Smith], wrenched her arm, choked her, slammed her to the ground, handcuffed her, and electrocuted her with an electronic control device, presumably a Taser.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch settled the case in 2014, and paid a $135,000 settlement to Smith and another of Harvey's children who was present during the search. Harvey died before the lawsuit's settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antioch Police Department did not immediately respond to inquiries late Friday evening, nor did attorneys in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellone had undergone CIT training, according to statements from Suhr, but it's unclear whether that was in San Francisco or before he transferred to the department. Suhr said at a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night that the CIT trained officer involved in the shooting was the one who can be seen firing a shotgun with \"less lethal\" beanbag rounds in surveillance video published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no lawsuits naming Sgt. Nate Steger as a defendant in either federal or state jurisdictions covering San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a member of \u003ca href=\"http://bluecourage.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Courage\u003c/a>, a law enforcement leadership and peer support organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steger began his law enforcement career with the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., according to his Blue Courage profile. In San Francisco, he's served as an internal affairs investigator, patrol officer and in SFPD's plainclothes division. He's also worked in the department's training division and is a state-certified police instructor. He's also been a field training officer for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steger is mentioned in two 2007 San Francisco Chronicle articles in which reporters spent substantial time with SFPD officers. The articles describe a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BADGE-The-day-has-just-gone-from-zero-to-60-2560479.php\" target=\"_blank\">tense chase\u003c/a> through the Mission District that ended in a search and traffic citation and the work of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BADGE-Valencia-Gardens-is-safer-thanks-to-2579760.php\" target=\"_blank\">beat cops\u003c/a> in Valencia Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The 22 seconds between the first command a San Francisco police officer gave to Luis Gongora and the final gunshot that killed him show a clear violation of current SFPD policies, accountability advocates and Mission District residents told department brass and police commissioners at a series of meetings Wednesday over the first fatal police shooting in the city this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspects of the shooting remain obscured -- anything Gongora was doing, for example, is outside the frame of surveillance video published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate last week\u003c/a>. But the brisk approach of officers toward a man who allegedly had a knife, was in an altered mental state and wasn't a threat to anyone else has drawn attention toward years-old SFPD policies that officers should essentially foster \"time and distance\" in those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve been talking time and distance and de-escalation -- that’s pretty much all I’ve been talking about all of 2016,\" Police Chief Greg Suhr said Wednesday. \"So there’ll be a lot of questions about tactics on why that didn’t happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr first issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/259504904/SFPD-Bulletin-Response-to-Mental-Health-Calls-With-Armed-Suspects\" target=\"_blank\">department bulletin\u003c/a> in June 2013 that mandates officers \"observe, maintain a safe distance, and attempt to stabilize the scene\" when there is no reason to believe \"the person suffering an apparent mental crisis is a threat to \u003cem>any other person including an officer\" \u003c/em>(italicized by SFPD). The bulletin has been reissued several times and remains in effect. It references \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/27701-DB%2014-015%3B%20Permissible%20Circumstances%20to%20Discharge%20Firearm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pieces\u003c/a> of SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/25605-DGO%205.02%20revised%20031611.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">use-of-firearms general order\u003c/a>, which says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Any officer may not discharge a firearm at a person who presents a danger only to him or herself, and there is no reasonable cause to believe that the person poses an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or any other person.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"They are held responsible if they are the ones that create the imminent danger,\" retired ACLU attorney John Crew told SFPD leadership, including Suhr, at a town hall meeting on the shooting Wednesday afternoon. \"If their actions are rash and overly aggressive, your policies hold them accountable for causing a chain of events that cause an avoidable death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is the professional conduct of the department,\" Crew said, noting the 3-year-old policy. \"I beg of you to speak out about it and to enforce it. Because the messages the officers are getting, as we saw from Mario Woods, if they create the imminent danger, they can shoot. They may not go to jail for homicide for that. But they should be responsible for their conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> was shot and killed by five SFPD officers on Dec. 2, 2015. Multiple bystanders captured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">cellphone video\u003c/a> of the shooting, which prompted a redrafting of department use-of-force policies still in the works and a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Justice review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the officers' tactics in the Gongora shooting would be reviewed, as they are with every officer-involved shooting. That's the purview of a Firearms Discharge Review Board made up of SFPD deputy chiefs that meets quarterly. Despite repeated questions, Suhr did not say whether officers would be disciplined for a failure to step back and possibly diffuse a potentially violent encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at the tactics involved in this and we will make adjustments, always, to see if we could do it better,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is different from adjustments to tactics,\" Mission resident Gerard Koskovich said. \"Accountability is officers are disciplined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department continued to release \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">pieces or interpretations of witness statements\u003c/a> Wednesday, including two from members of the San Francisco Department of Public Health homeless outreach team who initially called 911 to report a \"male waving a large kitchen knife,\" according to computer-assisted dispatch records presented at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The HOT team workers describe Mr. Gongora as appearing in an altered mental state, either mentally or chemically induced, and they saw he was in possession of a large knife,\" Suhr said. \"One HOT team member described his actions as swinging indiscriminately as he walked down the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos took issue with the witness statements the department presented at Wednesday's meeting and last week, at a press conference called by the head of SFPD's investigations bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10929420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10929420\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10929420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Pieces or interpretations of witness statements displayed at a Wednesday, April 14 town hall meeting on the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora the week before.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieces or interpretations of witness statements displayed at a Wednesday, April 14 town hall meeting on the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora the week before. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You have an ongoing investigation, supposedly to find out what happened in this incident, and yet you’ve had a number of press conferences where you are already prejudging what happened in this case,\" Campos said to Suhr. \"How can you say that you’re having an independent investigation, when you are already saying, 'This is what we believe happened?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t say what I believe happened,\" Suhr said. \"I’ve given the facts that came from interviews, simply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the singular quotes provided from presumably longer witness statements left many attending the town hall meeting with a sense that homicide investigators were attempting to present only statements that justified the officers' use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You did not state there have been contradictory statements from witnesses,\" Koskovich said, noting that news reporters have talked to and published accounts from several witnesses who said Gongora did not have a knife in his hand, and he never moved toward the officers. \"Some say that the officers engaged in actions that were inappropriate. Some said that Mr. Gongora did not pose a threat. Some said that he was not holding a knife. You didn’t say any of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners had similar questions for the chief at a meeting Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve seen just on news reports that there are individuals who give a different version of the facts,\" Commission President Suzy Loftus said. \"That leaves folks feeling like one version of the facts is being presented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other commissioners asked why the officers would approach Gongora so quickly, in apparent violation of department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just heard shouting, just shouting,\" commissioner Petra DeJesus said of the surveillance video. \"I did not hear anything that would indicate de-escalation or anything that would put time and space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said officers for their entire careers have been trained to move toward and engage a threat, and changing the mentality will take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That said, the conversation has been robust and has been robust here and has been at all the stations,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The 22 seconds between the first command a San Francisco police officer gave to Luis Gongora and the final gunshot that killed him show a clear violation of current SFPD policies, accountability advocates and Mission District residents told department brass and police commissioners at a series of meetings Wednesday over the first fatal police shooting in the city this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspects of the shooting remain obscured -- anything Gongora was doing, for example, is outside the frame of surveillance video published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate last week\u003c/a>. But the brisk approach of officers toward a man who allegedly had a knife, was in an altered mental state and wasn't a threat to anyone else has drawn attention toward years-old SFPD policies that officers should essentially foster \"time and distance\" in those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve been talking time and distance and de-escalation -- that’s pretty much all I’ve been talking about all of 2016,\" Police Chief Greg Suhr said Wednesday. \"So there’ll be a lot of questions about tactics on why that didn’t happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr first issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/259504904/SFPD-Bulletin-Response-to-Mental-Health-Calls-With-Armed-Suspects\" target=\"_blank\">department bulletin\u003c/a> in June 2013 that mandates officers \"observe, maintain a safe distance, and attempt to stabilize the scene\" when there is no reason to believe \"the person suffering an apparent mental crisis is a threat to \u003cem>any other person including an officer\" \u003c/em>(italicized by SFPD). The bulletin has been reissued several times and remains in effect. It references \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/27701-DB%2014-015%3B%20Permissible%20Circumstances%20to%20Discharge%20Firearm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pieces\u003c/a> of SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/25605-DGO%205.02%20revised%20031611.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">use-of-firearms general order\u003c/a>, which says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Any officer may not discharge a firearm at a person who presents a danger only to him or herself, and there is no reasonable cause to believe that the person poses an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or any other person.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"They are held responsible if they are the ones that create the imminent danger,\" retired ACLU attorney John Crew told SFPD leadership, including Suhr, at a town hall meeting on the shooting Wednesday afternoon. \"If their actions are rash and overly aggressive, your policies hold them accountable for causing a chain of events that cause an avoidable death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is the professional conduct of the department,\" Crew said, noting the 3-year-old policy. \"I beg of you to speak out about it and to enforce it. Because the messages the officers are getting, as we saw from Mario Woods, if they create the imminent danger, they can shoot. They may not go to jail for homicide for that. But they should be responsible for their conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> was shot and killed by five SFPD officers on Dec. 2, 2015. Multiple bystanders captured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">cellphone video\u003c/a> of the shooting, which prompted a redrafting of department use-of-force policies still in the works and a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Justice review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the officers' tactics in the Gongora shooting would be reviewed, as they are with every officer-involved shooting. That's the purview of a Firearms Discharge Review Board made up of SFPD deputy chiefs that meets quarterly. Despite repeated questions, Suhr did not say whether officers would be disciplined for a failure to step back and possibly diffuse a potentially violent encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at the tactics involved in this and we will make adjustments, always, to see if we could do it better,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is different from adjustments to tactics,\" Mission resident Gerard Koskovich said. \"Accountability is officers are disciplined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department continued to release \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">pieces or interpretations of witness statements\u003c/a> Wednesday, including two from members of the San Francisco Department of Public Health homeless outreach team who initially called 911 to report a \"male waving a large kitchen knife,\" according to computer-assisted dispatch records presented at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The HOT team workers describe Mr. Gongora as appearing in an altered mental state, either mentally or chemically induced, and they saw he was in possession of a large knife,\" Suhr said. \"One HOT team member described his actions as swinging indiscriminately as he walked down the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos took issue with the witness statements the department presented at Wednesday's meeting and last week, at a press conference called by the head of SFPD's investigations bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10929420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10929420\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10929420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Pieces or interpretations of witness statements displayed at a Wednesday, April 14 town hall meeting on the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora the week before.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieces or interpretations of witness statements displayed at a Wednesday, April 14 town hall meeting on the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora the week before. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You have an ongoing investigation, supposedly to find out what happened in this incident, and yet you’ve had a number of press conferences where you are already prejudging what happened in this case,\" Campos said to Suhr. \"How can you say that you’re having an independent investigation, when you are already saying, 'This is what we believe happened?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t say what I believe happened,\" Suhr said. \"I’ve given the facts that came from interviews, simply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the singular quotes provided from presumably longer witness statements left many attending the town hall meeting with a sense that homicide investigators were attempting to present only statements that justified the officers' use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You did not state there have been contradictory statements from witnesses,\" Koskovich said, noting that news reporters have talked to and published accounts from several witnesses who said Gongora did not have a knife in his hand, and he never moved toward the officers. \"Some say that the officers engaged in actions that were inappropriate. Some said that Mr. Gongora did not pose a threat. Some said that he was not holding a knife. You didn’t say any of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners had similar questions for the chief at a meeting Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve seen just on news reports that there are individuals who give a different version of the facts,\" Commission President Suzy Loftus said. \"That leaves folks feeling like one version of the facts is being presented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other commissioners asked why the officers would approach Gongora so quickly, in apparent violation of department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just heard shouting, just shouting,\" commissioner Petra DeJesus said of the surveillance video. \"I did not hear anything that would indicate de-escalation or anything that would put time and space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said officers for their entire careers have been trained to move toward and engage a threat, and changing the mentality will take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department's commander of investigations described statements Friday taken from four witnesses to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">fatal police shooting\u003c/a> of a homeless man Thursday in the city's Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cmdr. Greg McEachern said at least three witnesses described the man -- identified Friday by the city medical examiner's office as Luis Gongora, 45 -- as having a knife in his hand as he moved toward a group of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEachern said more than 10 witnesses have provided statements to investigators, but he described only four of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the statements that we are providing today for some clarity on information that has been put out in the media in the last day or two,\" McEachern said. \"We are providing information, statements from the witnesses, that may differ from some of the statements provided by the witnesses so far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Witness Statements As Per SFPD\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"He saw the suspect sitting prior to the shooting, saw the suspect stand up and lunge at the officers. The witnesses heard shots, saw the suspect still had the knife in his hand after the shooting.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"A second witness said that the suspect rose up with the knife in hand and ran toward the officers with the knife in his hand. The suspect was flailing his hands with the knife as he ran toward the officers. He saw the officers fire their pistols and then saw the suspect spin and fall to the ground with a knife still in his hand.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Witness three said that he saw the suspect running toward the officers with the knife in his hand. The knife was raised up as he ran toward the officers.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Witness four -- who says that he knows the suspect as Spanish speaking, but he’s also communicated with him in English -- saw the officers with the orange shotgun, which is our extended range impact weapon, deploy that, and then saw the officers shoot at the suspect shortly after, saw the suspect hit the ground, and then the witness saw the suspect’s knife appear on the sidewalk.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>McEachern said the two officers who fired would be interviewed by homicide investigators Friday. One had specialized training in de-escalation and responding to suspects in psychiatric crisis, according to a statement from the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED and other news outlets interviewed John Visor and Stephanie Grant yesterday -- two people who said they live in a tent next to the man who was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visor said the man, who he knew as \"Jose,\" carried a knife, but that it was stuck in his waistband and not in his hand when an SFPD sergeant shot at him. Others told reporters yesterday that the man went by \"Jose Luis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEachern indicated that the fourth statement described above was taken from Visor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visor said Thursday that his friend's knife was never in his hand. He described him as a man \"in his 20s\" who often scrounged bottles and cans and liked to kick a soccer ball up and down Shotwell Street where they both lived in tents. He said both had moved there after the city \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/01/s-f-clearing-homeless-holdouts-from-division-street-neighborhood\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> a larger encampment on Division Street on March 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gongora died at around 1 p.m. Thursday, according to a hospital spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate published\u003c/a> surveillance video Friday that McEachern said shows officers approaching a suspect on Shotwell Street, but the shooting takes place just outside the video's frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's analysis of the video indicates four shots from a pump-action gun. An SFPD spokesman confirmed Friday that officers use a shotgun to fire one type of less-lethal impact rounds the department uses, and Suhr said Thursday that four impact round casings were recovered from the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fourth pump-action shot is followed immediately by approximately seven gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident began with a 911 call to police from a homeless outreach worker just before 10 a.m. Thursday, Police Chief Greg Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At approximately 10:04 a.m., an officer reported over his radio: \"11 Adam, Code 33. I’m challenging one. He has a large kitchen knife he just dropped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 seconds later, a dispatcher reported shots fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have one down,\" an officer reported seconds later. \"Officers are OK. We have the suspect holding the knife; he’s down. 408 code 3 [calling for an ambulance, emergency]. The scene is secure, and we’re going to need outside units to help us with the crime scene.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same officer reported about 25 seconds after the report of shots fired that an officer had fired less lethal impact rounds at the suspect \"several times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect did not go down,\" he said. \"He got up and charged at officers with the knife in hand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/258048164\" 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>Visor is not the only alleged witness to the shooting who has disputed that Gongora charged officers with a knife. A man identified as \"Smith Patrick\" posted online shortly after the shooting that he saw \"the whole thing,\" and recognized the suspect as a Spanish speaker who often kicked a ball on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard 'get on the ground' and ran to the window,\" the posting says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Across the street I could see the victim cowering on the ground while two police officers, one with a rifle pointed at him, approached from at least 30 feet away. To be clear, the victim was on the ground the entire time, head down, visibly shaking. There was no visible aggressive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am unsure if the victim rose or if the rifle that shot him propelled his body, but he was standing for a moment while the rifle shot several times and the other officer drew a pistol and shot. Blood immediately started spurting but they continued to shoot. It appeared that several shots did hit him because blood was spurting in different directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim was then on the ground in a pool of blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and fire arrived within moments. They went through the motions of trying to revive him medically, but it was clear that he wouldn't live. So much blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is incredibly disturbing and I'd like to pursue filing a report against the police. If anyone knows any organizations that focus on this, please let me know.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>SFPD's first fatal officer-involved shooting of this year comes at a tense time for the Police Department, especially around lethal incidents involving Latino or black suspects allegedly armed with knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broad group of legal experts, police officers and advocates are rewriting the department's use-of-force policies following the Dec. 2 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting of Mario Woods\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Bayview District. The shooting prompted immediate changes to the SFPD's firearms training, as well as a federal Department of Justice review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10924114\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10924114\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10924114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A man fatally shot by San Francisco police officers on the 400 block of Shotwell Street is loaded into an ambulance Thursday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-400x534.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-1180x1574.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-960x1281.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man fatally shot by San Francisco police officers on the 400 block of Shotwell Street is loaded into an ambulance Thursday. \u003ccite>(Laura Sydell/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That incident, captured on multiple videos filmed by bystanders with cellphones, shows a large group of officers confronting Mario Woods, an African-American, before he appears to start walking away. An officer steps into his path, then multiple officers fire. Suhr initially said cellphone video showed Woods raising the knife toward an officer before he was shot. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED analysis of the video\u003c/a> indicates that Woods' arm was raised after he was shot and begins to fall backward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's is the latest addition to a list of controversial fatal police shootings in or around the city's Mission District in the last two years. A federal, civil jury \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared four SFPD officers\u003c/a> last month of any wrongdoing for shooting a total of 59 times at a man in Bernal Heights, just south of the Mission, in March 2014. The officers said they thought \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> had a firearm, and discovered he was holding a Taser stun gun only after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man who was a monolingual Spanish speaker was killed by two plainclothes SFPD officers in February 2015. Suhr initially said Amilcar Perez Lopez charged the officers with a knife, but revised that account after an \u003ca href=\"http://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 Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Adam Grossberg of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department's commander of investigations described statements Friday taken from four witnesses to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">fatal police shooting\u003c/a> of a homeless man Thursday in the city's Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cmdr. Greg McEachern said at least three witnesses described the man -- identified Friday by the city medical examiner's office as Luis Gongora, 45 -- as having a knife in his hand as he moved toward a group of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEachern said more than 10 witnesses have provided statements to investigators, but he described only four of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the statements that we are providing today for some clarity on information that has been put out in the media in the last day or two,\" McEachern said. \"We are providing information, statements from the witnesses, that may differ from some of the statements provided by the witnesses so far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Witness Statements As Per SFPD\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"He saw the suspect sitting prior to the shooting, saw the suspect stand up and lunge at the officers. The witnesses heard shots, saw the suspect still had the knife in his hand after the shooting.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"A second witness said that the suspect rose up with the knife in hand and ran toward the officers with the knife in his hand. The suspect was flailing his hands with the knife as he ran toward the officers. He saw the officers fire their pistols and then saw the suspect spin and fall to the ground with a knife still in his hand.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Witness three said that he saw the suspect running toward the officers with the knife in his hand. The knife was raised up as he ran toward the officers.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Witness four -- who says that he knows the suspect as Spanish speaking, but he’s also communicated with him in English -- saw the officers with the orange shotgun, which is our extended range impact weapon, deploy that, and then saw the officers shoot at the suspect shortly after, saw the suspect hit the ground, and then the witness saw the suspect’s knife appear on the sidewalk.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>McEachern said the two officers who fired would be interviewed by homicide investigators Friday. One had specialized training in de-escalation and responding to suspects in psychiatric crisis, according to a statement from the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED and other news outlets interviewed John Visor and Stephanie Grant yesterday -- two people who said they live in a tent next to the man who was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visor said the man, who he knew as \"Jose,\" carried a knife, but that it was stuck in his waistband and not in his hand when an SFPD sergeant shot at him. Others told reporters yesterday that the man went by \"Jose Luis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEachern indicated that the fourth statement described above was taken from Visor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visor said Thursday that his friend's knife was never in his hand. He described him as a man \"in his 20s\" who often scrounged bottles and cans and liked to kick a soccer ball up and down Shotwell Street where they both lived in tents. He said both had moved there after the city \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/01/s-f-clearing-homeless-holdouts-from-division-street-neighborhood\" target=\"_blank\">cleared\u003c/a> a larger encampment on Division Street on March 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gongora died at around 1 p.m. Thursday, according to a hospital spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate published\u003c/a> surveillance video Friday that McEachern said shows officers approaching a suspect on Shotwell Street, but the shooting takes place just outside the video's frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's analysis of the video indicates four shots from a pump-action gun. An SFPD spokesman confirmed Friday that officers use a shotgun to fire one type of less-lethal impact rounds the department uses, and Suhr said Thursday that four impact round casings were recovered from the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fourth pump-action shot is followed immediately by approximately seven gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident began with a 911 call to police from a homeless outreach worker just before 10 a.m. Thursday, Police Chief Greg Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At approximately 10:04 a.m., an officer reported over his radio: \"11 Adam, Code 33. I’m challenging one. He has a large kitchen knife he just dropped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 seconds later, a dispatcher reported shots fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have one down,\" an officer reported seconds later. \"Officers are OK. We have the suspect holding the knife; he’s down. 408 code 3 [calling for an ambulance, emergency]. The scene is secure, and we’re going to need outside units to help us with the crime scene.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same officer reported about 25 seconds after the report of shots fired that an officer had fired less lethal impact rounds at the suspect \"several times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect did not go down,\" he said. \"He got up and charged at officers with the knife in hand.\"\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/258048164&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/258048164'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visor is not the only alleged witness to the shooting who has disputed that Gongora charged officers with a knife. A man identified as \"Smith Patrick\" posted online shortly after the shooting that he saw \"the whole thing,\" and recognized the suspect as a Spanish speaker who often kicked a ball on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard 'get on the ground' and ran to the window,\" the posting says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Across the street I could see the victim cowering on the ground while two police officers, one with a rifle pointed at him, approached from at least 30 feet away. To be clear, the victim was on the ground the entire time, head down, visibly shaking. There was no visible aggressive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am unsure if the victim rose or if the rifle that shot him propelled his body, but he was standing for a moment while the rifle shot several times and the other officer drew a pistol and shot. Blood immediately started spurting but they continued to shoot. It appeared that several shots did hit him because blood was spurting in different directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim was then on the ground in a pool of blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and fire arrived within moments. They went through the motions of trying to revive him medically, but it was clear that he wouldn't live. So much blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is incredibly disturbing and I'd like to pursue filing a report against the police. If anyone knows any organizations that focus on this, please let me know.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>SFPD's first fatal officer-involved shooting of this year comes at a tense time for the Police Department, especially around lethal incidents involving Latino or black suspects allegedly armed with knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broad group of legal experts, police officers and advocates are rewriting the department's use-of-force policies following the Dec. 2 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting of Mario Woods\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Bayview District. The shooting prompted immediate changes to the SFPD's firearms training, as well as a federal Department of Justice review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10924114\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10924114\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10924114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A man fatally shot by San Francisco police officers on the 400 block of Shotwell Street is loaded into an ambulance Thursday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-400x534.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-1180x1574.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006-960x1281.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/IMG_0006.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man fatally shot by San Francisco police officers on the 400 block of Shotwell Street is loaded into an ambulance Thursday. \u003ccite>(Laura Sydell/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That incident, captured on multiple videos filmed by bystanders with cellphones, shows a large group of officers confronting Mario Woods, an African-American, before he appears to start walking away. An officer steps into his path, then multiple officers fire. Suhr initially said cellphone video showed Woods raising the knife toward an officer before he was shot. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED analysis of the video\u003c/a> indicates that Woods' arm was raised after he was shot and begins to fall backward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's is the latest addition to a list of controversial fatal police shootings in or around the city's Mission District in the last two years. A federal, civil jury \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">cleared four SFPD officers\u003c/a> last month of any wrongdoing for shooting a total of 59 times at a man in Bernal Heights, just south of the Mission, in March 2014. 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"content": "\u003cp>Calls for a higher power to intervene in San Francisco's criminal justice system have reignited with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/five-more-sfpd-officers-sent-bigoted-text-messages-even-during-textgate-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">revelation last week\u003c/a> that a second batch of police officers traded racist and homophobic text messages, even as the city reeled from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">first batch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">revealed last year\u003c/a>, replete with racial slurs and violent language about African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And exactly how the Police Department notified the District Attorney's Office that new messages indicating racial bias were recently recovered from officers' personal cellphones has prompted the latest round of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/01/sfpds-latest-racist-texting-scandal-who-knew-what-and-when\" target=\"_blank\">public bickering\u003c/a> between Police Chief Greg Suhr and District Attorney George Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because prosecutors are required to notify defendants of exculpatory evidence, or evidence that tends to show a defendant is not guilty of a crime for which he or she is charged, under the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brady v. Maryland. That includes evidence that an arresting officer may have acted out of bias, hence the great interest from the legal community in racist text messages from police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time an officer is deemed to engage in behavior that involves moral turpitude -- an officer is a thief, an officer’s a liar, or if an officer engages in racist or sexist behavior -- that officer has to be put on a list,\" said retired Superior Court of California Judge LaDoris Cordell. \"Basically, Brady officers really become useless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brady notification process is anything but simple, though, largely because \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">peace officer personnel information\u003c/a> is kept so secret in California that not even prosecutors have direct access to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr laid out the process that SFPD's Brady Unit followed regarding the latest text messages in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/307106059/SFPD-Chief-Greg-Suhr-April-4-Letter-to-DA-George-Gascon-re-bigoted-texts\" target=\"_blank\">April 4 letter\u003c/a> to Gascón, arguing that the department made the required notifications, and it was up to prosecutors to either file a motion or work with Police Department to review the personnel files in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gascón has said his office had no way of knowing that bigoted texts were buried in tens of thousands of pages of records seized from officers' personal cellphones as part of an internal sexual assault investigation of Officer Jason Lai. To avoid future oversight, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686232/Gascon-Letter-to-Suhr-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">Gascón suggested\u003c/a> Suhr make the existence of such messages public from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior American Civil Liberties Union attorney Alan Schlosser agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He [Suhr] certainly was free back in August to say that they have uncovered more examples of this kind of conduct, and hopefully use that to reiterate his strong stand and say what they’re going to do about it,\" Schlosser said. \"But in fact it’s been kept secret from the public, and was only revealed last week by the district attorney. That to us was a very telling sign that the leadership of the Police Department is not committed to transparency and to significant reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the second time in a little over four months, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160405-aclu_letter_to_doj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU asked\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Justice for a civil rights investigation of the SFPD, noting that federal authorities \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">conducting a voluntary review\u003c/a> of department policies, following the fatal December police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, have repeatedly said that a stronger civil rights investigation could launch if circumstances change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schlosser said the public feud between Suhr and Gascón adds to concern about San Francisco's overall criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it’s troubling,\" he said. \"I do think that kind of disarray does contribute to a feeling that San Francisco needs outside help, but it has to come from a source that can enforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services conducting the voluntary review of SFPD policies have made no official statements about the latest racially charged scandal, despite repeated inquiries. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division did not respond to KQED's inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We feel new circumstances have added to our original request to provide a compelling case for a pattern and practice investigation,\" Schlosser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/307111310/Letter-from-S-F-Public-Defender-Jeff-Adachi-to-California-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris\" target=\"_blank\">similar request\u003c/a> to state Attorney General Kamala Harris Monday, asking the California Department of Justice to launch a civil rights investigation of San Francisco's Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the ACLU, Adachi cataloged not only the repeated scandals over racist text messages, but also SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">failure to discipline officers\u003c/a> implicated in the first round of texts, SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">extremely disproportionate arrest rate\u003c/a> of African-Americans, three high-profile fatal shootings of black and Latino men, and allegations of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Drug-defendants-accuse-S-F-officers-of-racism-6690332.php\" target=\"_blank\">racial bias in a joint local-federal drug sting\u003c/a> revealed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The incidents reveal a pattern and practice within the police department that has allowed racism and disparate treatment of black and Latino people to fester and grow,\" Adachi wrote. \"An investigation would help settle the pressing question of whether the racism evidenced in these incidents is endemic of a culture within the department which allows these types of incidents to occur. But most importantly it would help restore the confidence of San Franciscans -- and those around the nation who are watching -- that the San Francisco Police Department is not engaging in racist practices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Attorney General said the office is reviewing Adachi's request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen said Tuesday she has not stopped calling for a federal investigation since she and board President London Breed formally requested one in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When is enough, enough?\" Cohen and Breed wrote in a joint statement issued April 5. \"We talk about implicit bias training, yet time and again are confronted with \u003cem>explicit\u003c/em> bias by those who are sworn to protect the community. This behavior cannot be tolerated without consequence; the City must rededicate itself to police reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Calls for a higher power to intervene in San Francisco's criminal justice system have reignited with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/five-more-sfpd-officers-sent-bigoted-text-messages-even-during-textgate-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">revelation last week\u003c/a> that a second batch of police officers traded racist and homophobic text messages, even as the city reeled from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">first batch\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">revealed last year\u003c/a>, replete with racial slurs and violent language about African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And exactly how the Police Department notified the District Attorney's Office that new messages indicating racial bias were recently recovered from officers' personal cellphones has prompted the latest round of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/01/sfpds-latest-racist-texting-scandal-who-knew-what-and-when\" target=\"_blank\">public bickering\u003c/a> between Police Chief Greg Suhr and District Attorney George Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because prosecutors are required to notify defendants of exculpatory evidence, or evidence that tends to show a defendant is not guilty of a crime for which he or she is charged, under the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brady v. Maryland. That includes evidence that an arresting officer may have acted out of bias, hence the great interest from the legal community in racist text messages from police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time an officer is deemed to engage in behavior that involves moral turpitude -- an officer is a thief, an officer’s a liar, or if an officer engages in racist or sexist behavior -- that officer has to be put on a list,\" said retired Superior Court of California Judge LaDoris Cordell. \"Basically, Brady officers really become useless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brady notification process is anything but simple, though, largely because \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">peace officer personnel information\u003c/a> is kept so secret in California that not even prosecutors have direct access to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr laid out the process that SFPD's Brady Unit followed regarding the latest text messages in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/307106059/SFPD-Chief-Greg-Suhr-April-4-Letter-to-DA-George-Gascon-re-bigoted-texts\" target=\"_blank\">April 4 letter\u003c/a> to Gascón, arguing that the department made the required notifications, and it was up to prosecutors to either file a motion or work with Police Department to review the personnel files in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gascón has said his office had no way of knowing that bigoted texts were buried in tens of thousands of pages of records seized from officers' personal cellphones as part of an internal sexual assault investigation of Officer Jason Lai. To avoid future oversight, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686232/Gascon-Letter-to-Suhr-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">Gascón suggested\u003c/a> Suhr make the existence of such messages public from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior American Civil Liberties Union attorney Alan Schlosser agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He [Suhr] certainly was free back in August to say that they have uncovered more examples of this kind of conduct, and hopefully use that to reiterate his strong stand and say what they’re going to do about it,\" Schlosser said. \"But in fact it’s been kept secret from the public, and was only revealed last week by the district attorney. That to us was a very telling sign that the leadership of the Police Department is not committed to transparency and to significant reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the second time in a little over four months, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160405-aclu_letter_to_doj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU asked\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Justice for a civil rights investigation of the SFPD, noting that federal authorities \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">conducting a voluntary review\u003c/a> of department policies, following the fatal December police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, have repeatedly said that a stronger civil rights investigation could launch if circumstances change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schlosser said the public feud between Suhr and Gascón adds to concern about San Francisco's overall criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it’s troubling,\" he said. \"I do think that kind of disarray does contribute to a feeling that San Francisco needs outside help, but it has to come from a source that can enforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services conducting the voluntary review of SFPD policies have made no official statements about the latest racially charged scandal, despite repeated inquiries. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division did not respond to KQED's inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We feel new circumstances have added to our original request to provide a compelling case for a pattern and practice investigation,\" Schlosser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/307111310/Letter-from-S-F-Public-Defender-Jeff-Adachi-to-California-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris\" target=\"_blank\">similar request\u003c/a> to state Attorney General Kamala Harris Monday, asking the California Department of Justice to launch a civil rights investigation of San Francisco's Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the ACLU, Adachi cataloged not only the repeated scandals over racist text messages, but also SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">failure to discipline officers\u003c/a> implicated in the first round of texts, SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">extremely disproportionate arrest rate\u003c/a> of African-Americans, three high-profile fatal shootings of black and Latino men, and allegations of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Drug-defendants-accuse-S-F-officers-of-racism-6690332.php\" target=\"_blank\">racial bias in a joint local-federal drug sting\u003c/a> revealed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The incidents reveal a pattern and practice within the police department that has allowed racism and disparate treatment of black and Latino people to fester and grow,\" Adachi wrote. \"An investigation would help settle the pressing question of whether the racism evidenced in these incidents is endemic of a culture within the department which allows these types of incidents to occur. But most importantly it would help restore the confidence of San Franciscans -- and those around the nation who are watching -- that the San Francisco Police Department is not engaging in racist practices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Attorney General said the office is reviewing Adachi's request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen said Tuesday she has not stopped calling for a federal investigation since she and board President London Breed formally requested one in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When is enough, enough?\" Cohen and Breed wrote in a joint statement issued April 5. \"We talk about implicit bias training, yet time and again are confronted with \u003cem>explicit\u003c/em> bias by those who are sworn to protect the community. This behavior cannot be tolerated without consequence; the City must rededicate itself to police reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The latest batch of racist and homophobic text messages swapped by San Francisco police officers and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/five-more-sfpd-officers-sent-bigoted-text-messages-even-during-textgate-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">revealed Thursday\u003c/a> by the city's district attorney are more than an embarrassment; they have serious legal repercussions for any prosecutions involving the officers who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the issue of how and when the Police Department notified the District Attorney's Office of the latest inappropriate texts has become new fuel for a feud between the city's top cop and top prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After District Attorney George Gascón announced the existence of the bigoted texts and told reporters he'd only discovered them late last week, Police Chief Greg Suhr sent him a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306581549/Greg-Suhr-Letter-to-George-Gascon-March-31-2016\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> indicating that the Police Department told prosecutors about the text messages four times between September and January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous,\" Suhr wrote. \"This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686232/Gascon-Letter-to-Suhr-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">replied Friday\u003c/a> that Suhr was correct to indicate that SFPD internal affairs investigators had worked with the DA's office on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-allegedly-interfered-with-investigation-of-fellow-officer-for-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual assault investigation\u003c/a> of an officer (who SFPD has identified as Jason Lai). But:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is entirely inaccurate to indicate that there was a collaborative effort in the investigation of any racist and homophobic text messages,\" Gascón wrote, adding that his office received some 44,000 pages of cell phone records -- including text messages -- in November. \"At no time were we informed that the text messages from the phone associated with [redacted] or his girlfriend contained any potential racist or homophobic text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón wrote that getting additional text messages seized from a lieutenant -- who is likely Lt. Curtis Liu -- \"became a point of contention\" between SFPD criminal investigators and his office's special prosecutions unit. Those texts were finally produced on March 17, Gascón wrote, adding that they prompted him to notify the Police Department Wednesday and the public on Thursday of the racist and homophobic messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am hopeful that any future incidents that jeopardize the fair administration of justice will be disclosed from the outset to both myself and the public,\" Gascón wrote. \"Delaying disclosure of such misconduct only adds to the current climate of distrust. It is my sincere hope that the San Francisco Police Department will change its practices and usher in a culture that promotes transparency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation of a new batch of racist and homophobic texts comes as Police Department and city leadership try to pull the SFPD out of an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">abyss of scandal\u003c/a>, not only involving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">previously revealed bigoted texts\u003c/a>, but also the fatal shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">black\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Latino\u003c/a> residents and a consistently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">astronomical racial disparity\u003c/a> in arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Friday he was disappointed and frustrated to learn of a new batch of text messages that reportedly, according to District Attorney George Gascón, liberally employ racist slurs for African-Americans and disparage members of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the second batch, and maybe there's a third,\" Lee said in an interview Friday. \"Our public should never be disgraced with the kind of attitudes reflected in these text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will schedule meetings with police employee groups, including the main officers' union as well as the Asian Officers Association, Officers for Justice, the Police Pride Alliance and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These officers seem to feel that they could talk in this way and get away with it,\" Lee said of at least four officers most directly linked to the latest scandal. \"That tells me that there’s some culture going on here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee declined to wade into a back-and-fourth between Gascón and Suhr concerning how prosecutors became aware of the texts, and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main thing is not to fester over who knew what when,\" Lee said. \"It’s when we discovered it, it is our obligation to end it, to serve up examples of why this is bad for the city, for the police force and for the respect of all the other officers that do their best.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1133\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-400x567.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-1180x1672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-960x1360.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But who knew what when is of great concern to San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. He said in an interview Friday that Gascón had a legal obligation to turn over evidence of the texts to relevant defense attorneys as soon as prosecutors became aware of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district attorney says that he just found out about this, yet the chief of police told me that he informed the district attorney six months ago,\" Adachi said. \"It’s a big question because the district attorney, once they have evidence like this of bias, under the law they have to turn it over to the defense because it affects the credibility of these witnesses, and that was not done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's been writing his own letters in the wake of the latest bigoted text messages. He's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686616/Jeff-Adachi-Letter-to-George-Gascon-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">asking the district attorney\u003c/a> for a comprehensive list of every case that involved the officers who sent or received bigoted text messages. He said last year's texting scandal resulted in the dismissal of more than a dozen prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve also made it clear that we want to see all the correspondence between the DA and the chief as to when they became aware of these incidents,\" he said. \"We don’t know at this point how many cases could be affected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired California Superior Court Judge Ladoris Cordell said it was very disheartening to learn of a new batch of bigoted texts. She's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">been serving\u003c/a> on a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">special panel\u003c/a> Gascón convened last year after the first text messaging scandal came to light. She and two other retired judges have been reviewing some 4,000 incident reports prepared by the officers involved, looking for any indications that the overt bigotry displayed in their text messages spilled into their decisions to make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It raises the question of now do we have to expand and look at the police reports dating back for these particular officers,\" she said in an interview Friday. \"Or maybe it’s time to just throw up our hands and say, we don’t need to do this, that what’s going on in the Police Department is such that we just need to pull back, take stock and make some major change.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The latest batch of racist and homophobic text messages swapped by San Francisco police officers and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/five-more-sfpd-officers-sent-bigoted-text-messages-even-during-textgate-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">revealed Thursday\u003c/a> by the city's district attorney are more than an embarrassment; they have serious legal repercussions for any prosecutions involving the officers who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the issue of how and when the Police Department notified the District Attorney's Office of the latest inappropriate texts has become new fuel for a feud between the city's top cop and top prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After District Attorney George Gascón announced the existence of the bigoted texts and told reporters he'd only discovered them late last week, Police Chief Greg Suhr sent him a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306581549/Greg-Suhr-Letter-to-George-Gascon-March-31-2016\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> indicating that the Police Department told prosecutors about the text messages four times between September and January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous,\" Suhr wrote. \"This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686232/Gascon-Letter-to-Suhr-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">replied Friday\u003c/a> that Suhr was correct to indicate that SFPD internal affairs investigators had worked with the DA's office on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-allegedly-interfered-with-investigation-of-fellow-officer-for-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual assault investigation\u003c/a> of an officer (who SFPD has identified as Jason Lai). But:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is entirely inaccurate to indicate that there was a collaborative effort in the investigation of any racist and homophobic text messages,\" Gascón wrote, adding that his office received some 44,000 pages of cell phone records -- including text messages -- in November. \"At no time were we informed that the text messages from the phone associated with [redacted] or his girlfriend contained any potential racist or homophobic text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón wrote that getting additional text messages seized from a lieutenant -- who is likely Lt. Curtis Liu -- \"became a point of contention\" between SFPD criminal investigators and his office's special prosecutions unit. Those texts were finally produced on March 17, Gascón wrote, adding that they prompted him to notify the Police Department Wednesday and the public on Thursday of the racist and homophobic messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am hopeful that any future incidents that jeopardize the fair administration of justice will be disclosed from the outset to both myself and the public,\" Gascón wrote. \"Delaying disclosure of such misconduct only adds to the current climate of distrust. It is my sincere hope that the San Francisco Police Department will change its practices and usher in a culture that promotes transparency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation of a new batch of racist and homophobic texts comes as Police Department and city leadership try to pull the SFPD out of an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-a-new-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">abyss of scandal\u003c/a>, not only involving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">previously revealed bigoted texts\u003c/a>, but also the fatal shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">black\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Latino\u003c/a> residents and a consistently \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">astronomical racial disparity\u003c/a> in arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Friday he was disappointed and frustrated to learn of a new batch of text messages that reportedly, according to District Attorney George Gascón, liberally employ racist slurs for African-Americans and disparage members of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the second batch, and maybe there's a third,\" Lee said in an interview Friday. \"Our public should never be disgraced with the kind of attitudes reflected in these text messages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will schedule meetings with police employee groups, including the main officers' union as well as the Asian Officers Association, Officers for Justice, the Police Pride Alliance and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These officers seem to feel that they could talk in this way and get away with it,\" Lee said of at least four officers most directly linked to the latest scandal. \"That tells me that there’s some culture going on here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee declined to wade into a back-and-fourth between Gascón and Suhr concerning how prosecutors became aware of the texts, and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main thing is not to fester over who knew what when,\" Lee said. \"It’s when we discovered it, it is our obligation to end it, to serve up examples of why this is bad for the city, for the police force and for the respect of all the other officers that do their best.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10917102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1133\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10917102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-800x1133.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-400x567.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-1180x1672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Adachi-960x1360.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But who knew what when is of great concern to San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. He said in an interview Friday that Gascón had a legal obligation to turn over evidence of the texts to relevant defense attorneys as soon as prosecutors became aware of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district attorney says that he just found out about this, yet the chief of police told me that he informed the district attorney six months ago,\" Adachi said. \"It’s a big question because the district attorney, once they have evidence like this of bias, under the law they have to turn it over to the defense because it affects the credibility of these witnesses, and that was not done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's been writing his own letters in the wake of the latest bigoted text messages. He's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306686616/Jeff-Adachi-Letter-to-George-Gascon-Re-Racist-Texts\" target=\"_blank\">asking the district attorney\u003c/a> for a comprehensive list of every case that involved the officers who sent or received bigoted text messages. He said last year's texting scandal resulted in the dismissal of more than a dozen prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve also made it clear that we want to see all the correspondence between the DA and the chief as to when they became aware of these incidents,\" he said. \"We don’t know at this point how many cases could be affected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired California Superior Court Judge Ladoris Cordell said it was very disheartening to learn of a new batch of bigoted texts. She's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">been serving\u003c/a> on a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">special panel\u003c/a> Gascón convened last year after the first text messaging scandal came to light. She and two other retired judges have been reviewing some 4,000 incident reports prepared by the officers involved, looking for any indications that the overt bigotry displayed in their text messages spilled into their decisions to make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7:25 p.m. Thursday, March 31:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new group of San Francisco police officers traded \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a> in 2014 and 2015, expanding the number of officers accused of making overtly racist, homophobic and sexist statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday that the San Francisco Police Department delivered some 5,000 pages of evidence to his office in late 2015 as part of criminal investigation, and that evidence contained the offensive texts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The messages are very clearly talking about African Americans and using the 'N word' repeatedly,\" Gascón said. \"They’re talking about members of the LGBT community also in a very disparaging fashion, and in the context of the conversation, they’re obviously intended to be racist in nature or homophobic. But again, we’ve only scratched the surface.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he couldn't divulge the details of the criminal investigation that netted the offensive messages or the names of the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A substantial number of officers in the San Francisco Police Department feel very comfortable displaying very racist and homophobic behavior. This happened before, during and after the previous scandal, which shows these individuals really didn’t care.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the Police Department said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306580286/SFPD-Statement-on-Internal-Affairs-Investigation\" target=\"_blank\">written statement\u003c/a> Thursday afternoon that the texts emerged through its internal investigation of Officer Jason Lai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-allegedly-interfered-with-investigation-of-fellow-officer-for-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">accused Lai last August\u003c/a> of raping her while he was off duty. SFPD \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/article/sfpd-officer-arrested-following-internal-affairs-probe\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that there was insufficient evidence to prove a sexual assault charge, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-officer-arrested-connection-sexual-assault-probe/\" target=\"_blank\">Lai was charged\u003c/a> with six misdemeanor counts of unlawfully using police department records. Lt. Curtis Liu -- who has since retired -- is also under investigation for allegedly alerting Lai of the internal probe against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Lai and Liu swapped offensive texts, according to the Police Department, as did two other unnamed officers, one of whom has also since left the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As part of the criminal investigation, the Department searched cell phone records of the involved members and determined that four of those members had sent text messages containing reprehensible racial and homophobic remarks,\" SFPD's statement says. \"The Department acted immediately in suspending officers involved in these text messages and referring the matter to the Police Commission for discipline up to and including termination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10915902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 297px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Lai.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10915902\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Lai.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Jason Lai.\" width=\"297\" height=\"372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10915902\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Jason Lai. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three additional unnamed officers \"received single questionable text messages from Officer Lai ... but did not send any questionable messages,\" according to the SFPD. \"The investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to bring [disciplinary] charges against the officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said these newly discovered messages were sent in 2014 through late-2015, indicating that officers continued to swap inappropriate messages even after a similar but unrelated scandal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">broke last March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earlier batch of messages were made public in \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">a federal court filing\u003c/a> concerning former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, and all the messages were recovered from his personal cell phone as part of a federal criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That original scandal was dubbed \"Textgate\" by a black and minority \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD officers' group\u003c/a>. One of the text message exchanges targeted the group's president, Sgt. Yulanda Williams, using slurs for both African-Americans and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">attempted to fire eight of the officers involved\u003c/a> and discipline others, but nine of them successfully challenged that discipline in superior court. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">A judge ruled in December\u003c/a> that the department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations for disciplining officers to expire before pursuing the case. The officers remain on paid leave as the city appeals the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors recently began to discover this second batch of text messages with repeated use of \"the N word,\" Gascón said, and derogatory language about \"members of the LGBT community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'For you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous. This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I think that some of the language was referring to other members of the SFPD as well,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he sent a letter to SFPD Chief Greg Suhr Wednesday alerting him to the texts and outlining his concerns. He declined to provide a copy of the letter, saying it contained the officers' names and other confidential information. He said Thursday afternoon that he had not received a response from the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That response came from Suhr a couple hours later in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/306581549/Greg-Suhr-Letter-to-George-Gascon-March-31-2016\" target=\"_blank\">a letter\u003c/a> that was shared widely with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his response, in which \"DA Gascón\" is crossed out and replaced with a handwritten \"George,\" Suhr wrote that the department became aware of the offensive text messages on Aug. 8 of last year, and SFPD told the DA's office about them multiple times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nOnce the Department identified the officers involved, I immediately placed these officers on suspension. We repeatedly notified your office of the existence of the text messages on September 21, 2015, October 6, 2015, November 2, 2015, and in January 2016. For your information, these contacts and notifications are documented in the chronological record of investigation, as well as emails.\u003cbr>\n...\u003cbr>\nFor you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous. This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice. My Department is fully committed to the fair administration of justice, and to that end, has provided information and materials relating to the allegations during this cooperative effort.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This latest revelation of more SFPD officers swapping bigoted messages comes after Gascón's response to the previous scandal sparked a feud with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpoa.org\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón convened a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">blue ribbon panel\u003c/a> to investigate bias in the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current and former association presidents recently accused Gascón of making racist comments, himself, at a dinner in 2010, and they have said the blue ribbon panel lacks the authority to prosecute officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QB0ORHVedtD4HZxt3L87M1RhdEaFGILt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Police Officers’ Association condemns the appalling racist behavior committed by a handful of officers,\" POA President Martin Halloran said in a written statement Thursday afternoon about the new text messages. \"They have disgraced the uniform and their profession.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran similarly condemned the previous messages, but later confirmed that a board controlling the POA's legal defense fund voted to pay for the officers' attorneys. He said that was to enforce the statute of limitations and other legal protections state law grants peace officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This conduct will not be tolerated in the SFPD, nor in the POA,\" Halloran wrote Thursday. \"Chief Suhr has the full support of the POA to take appropriate disciplinary action that protects the due process rights of the officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said the latest batch of bigoted messages point to a broader cultural problem in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A substantial number of officers in the San Francisco Police Department feel very comfortable displaying very racist and homophobic behavior,\" Gascón said. \"This happened before, during and after the previous scandal, which shows these individuals really didn’t care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said his office would begin a probe of arrests and prosecutions that involved the most recently implicated officers under a similar process that last year flagged some 4,000 arrests for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The officers remain on paid leave as the city appeals the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors recently began to discover this second batch of text messages with repeated use of \"the N word,\" Gascón said, and derogatory language about \"members of the LGBT community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'For you to suggest that you discovered the text messages through your own criminal investigation would be disingenuous. This is not new information as our offices have been working closely on this case with at least three members of your staff to ensure the fair administration of justice.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I think that some of the language was referring to other members of the SFPD as well,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he sent a letter to SFPD Chief Greg Suhr Wednesday alerting him to the texts and outlining his concerns. 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