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"content": "\u003cp>More than 300 people peacefully marched from San Francisco's Union Square Saturday in protest of the Dec. 2 fatal officer-involved shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1726691647567538/\" target=\"_blank\">hoped to disrupt\u003c/a> opening day of a week-long \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbaysuperbowl.com/super-bowl-city#g7rmIVeUGMKWyt6A.97\" target=\"_blank\">free-to the public fan village\u003c/a>\" set up near San Francisco's waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Welcome to Super Bowl of Justice,\" Daniel Landry with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition said late Saturday morning, before the march left Union Square. \"This department, this Police Commission, this city refuses to recognize the will of the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6oG2sLtLBP3gdksZR2rX5HvvWqAhSfet\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is calling for criminal charges against the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/two-s-f-officers-in-woods-shooting-have-faced-excessive-force-claims\" target=\"_blank\">five officers\u003c/a> who fire on Woods, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">firing\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr and an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> of the city's Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of police officers surrounded the small crowd as it clogged Powell Street then marched down Market Street to chants of \"Fire Chief Suhr.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police warned over a loudspeaker that protesters would be arrested if they refused to leave the street, and when the crowd approached the gates to Super Bowl City, they ran into a line of police officers with long batons and riot helmets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10850019\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10850019\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia Jones with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition talks to SFPD Commander Robert O'Sullivan at a police line blocking the march from the gates of 'Super Bowl City' on Jan. 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10850019\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-768x545.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-1440x1022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-1180x837.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS18288_IMG_4070.JPG-alt_398-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Jones with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition talks to SFPD Commander Robert O'Sullivan at a police line blocking the march from the gates of Super Bowl City on Jan. 30. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators moved to the sidewalk just before 12:30 p.m., but Market Street remained closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic for the next hour and 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's ridiculous,\" said Oakland resident Patrick Simmons. \"They're trampling on our First Amendment rights. I don't think this is a good use of city money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Commander Robert O'Sullivan told march organizer Felicia Jones that the demonstrators did not have a permit and would not be allowed to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's protest is likely just the beginning of demonstrations hoping to capture national attention as the Bay Area hosts Super Bowl 50 and related celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 people have responded to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/955997417814447/\" target=\"_blank\">social media call\u003c/a> to attend a protest on Wednesday that will focus on San Francisco's policies on homelessness and reports of increased citation of the city's homeless leading up to the Super Bowl celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They spent $5 million that the NFL is not going to reimburse them for to put on this party for billionaires,\" Simmons said. \"At the same time, they’re kicking out all the homeless people. That $5 million could have gone to house some homeless people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd dwindled and police in riot gear left Market Street shortly after 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some demonstrators swooped around the police blockade and regrouped inside Super Bowl City, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KentaviousPrime/status/693574772844658688/video/1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no reports of arrests, vandalism or violence.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is questioning the sincerity of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">recent call\u003c/a> by Mayor Ed Lee for a federal probe of police practices and the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/file/144/1/1441-DA%20Letter%20to%20Mayor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a letter released Thursday\u003c/a>, Gascón noted Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/no-funding-for-das-police-misconduct-task-force-in-s-f-mayors-budget\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to fund\u003c/a> a review of police incident reports and potentially tainted prosecutions involving officers who sent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, an ongoing scandal that has besieged the department since last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also accused the Police Department, Police Chief Greg Suhr and the San Francisco Police Officers Association of obstructing the work of \u003ca href=\"https://policylink.app.box.com/BRPFAQ\" target=\"_blank\">a blue-ribbon panel\u003c/a> the district attorney convened to investigate the department's culture and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the six months since forming the panel, the San Francisco Police Department and POA have engaged in a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics,\" Gascón wrote. He said the police union and Suhr have insisted panel interviews go through the POA and must be conducted on the officers' own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6oG2sLtLBP3gdksZR2rX5HvvWqAhSfet\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the type of transparency and collaboration we would expect from a department and a chief eager to improve,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee's office did not respond to requests for comment on Gascón's letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA sent a bulletin to members last month saying that it \"rejects [the] premise\" of the blue-ribbon panel and urging any officer contacted to inform the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said previously that the panel has no authority to investigate individual officers or \"to go on a witch hunt of my members,\" though he acknowledged no such request had been made. He said the union asked to handle officer interview requests \"as a courtesy,\" and that in general the POA is not against officers being interviewed as subject matter experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halloran took issue with testimony from one current officer who has already talked to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, the head of a minority SFPD group called \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a> and a subject of some of the racist text messages uncovered last year, appeared before the panel earlier this month to testify on Police Department culture. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">She criticized\u003c/a> both the department and the POA for what she called \"disregard\" of black officers and minority communities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Halloran sent Williams a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153923/S-F-POA-Letter-to-OFJ-President-Yulanda-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> challenging her statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA is disturbed about some of your comments and accusations,\" Halloran wrote. \"For example, you claim that racism is 'widespread' within our department. The POA disagrees. While a handful of officers engaged in racist and homophobic text messaging -- and were condemned for doing so by the POA and by me personally -- there is no evidence that racism is widespread throughout the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Roth, an attorney serving as the panel's general counsel, sent the department a broad public records request Dec. 16 seeking documents from 30 categories, including officer discipline records, arrest statistics, department policies and an accounting of the department's internal affairs investigation into the texting scandal. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">blocked\u003c/a> any discipline for nine officers implicated in the scandal last month, ruling the department waited too long to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has not responded to questions about its cooperation with the panel, nor to a KQED request for documents and correspondence related to the panel's public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153985/S-F-Blue-Ribbon-Panel-Sunshine-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a> with the city's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force Jan. 12 asking the oversight body to compel the department to produce the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth wrote that the department responded to just seven of 30 records requests from the panel. And in three of those seven cases, Roth said, the department withheld the requested documents, citing various provisions of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD did not explain why these prohibitions apply or why, per department policy [and city law] such records could not be redacted,\" Roth wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has not updated its response, panel executive director Anand Subramanian said in an email Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the POA had provided a list of names \"they consider relevant\" and insisted that any interviews of those SFPD officers take place at the union's offices with POA attorneys present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law firm working groups are moving forward with these interviews, despite these constraints,\" Subramanian wrote. \"We are also working to set up an interview with POA leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr sent Subramanian a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153238/Response-to-Request-for-Interview-of-Chief-Greg-Suhr\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> Jan. 20 in response to a request for his interview, scheduling a one-hour session for Feb. 2. He also wrote that \"all requests on behalf of the Panel should go through the appropriate labor group or association representing an active employee,\" and that \"any member of the department who chooses to appear before the Panel would do so voluntarily, on their own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also noted that as of Jan. 25, the department was participating in a voluntary policy review through the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. A former federal prosecutor with knowledge of the Justice Department's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Reform\u003c/a>\" process said it is similar to \"pattern or practice\" investigation like those underway in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/06/justice-department-will-launch-investigation-into-practices-of-chicago-police/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1272364/ramsey-return-chicago-consult-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore\u003c/a>. However, the process is not as thorough and does not include the threat of federal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón noted in his letter to Lee that San Francisco ranked eighth in police killings among the 60 largest cities in the U.S. in 2015, and that the Police Department saw a 50 percent increase in officer-involved shootings last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from Gascón's letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If the promises you levied in your inauguration speech and in your letter to the Attorney General to repair the \"dissolution of trust between communities of color and law enforcement\" are genuine, and if it will remain should the impassioned pleas from the community for reform fade in the months ahead, then I would ask that you demonstrate an actual commitment to these issues by taking steps now to support the existing investigation. These problems are far too serious and far too systemic to simply pay them lip service. If you are committed to restoring trust between police and the community, I ask that you take the obvious and immediate action of directing the Chief of Police and SFPD to cooperate with the Blue Ribbon Panel. Public Safety in San Francisco can no longer afford decision making that favors the interests of the Police Officers Association over the interests of the citizens you were elected to represent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is questioning the sincerity of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">recent call\u003c/a> by Mayor Ed Lee for a federal probe of police practices and the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/file/144/1/1441-DA%20Letter%20to%20Mayor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a letter released Thursday\u003c/a>, Gascón noted Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/no-funding-for-das-police-misconduct-task-force-in-s-f-mayors-budget\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to fund\u003c/a> a review of police incident reports and potentially tainted prosecutions involving officers who sent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, an ongoing scandal that has besieged the department since last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also accused the Police Department, Police Chief Greg Suhr and the San Francisco Police Officers Association of obstructing the work of \u003ca href=\"https://policylink.app.box.com/BRPFAQ\" target=\"_blank\">a blue-ribbon panel\u003c/a> the district attorney convened to investigate the department's culture and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the six months since forming the panel, the San Francisco Police Department and POA have engaged in a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics,\" Gascón wrote. He said the police union and Suhr have insisted panel interviews go through the POA and must be conducted on the officers' own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the type of transparency and collaboration we would expect from a department and a chief eager to improve,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee's office did not respond to requests for comment on Gascón's letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA sent a bulletin to members last month saying that it \"rejects [the] premise\" of the blue-ribbon panel and urging any officer contacted to inform the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said previously that the panel has no authority to investigate individual officers or \"to go on a witch hunt of my members,\" though he acknowledged no such request had been made. He said the union asked to handle officer interview requests \"as a courtesy,\" and that in general the POA is not against officers being interviewed as subject matter experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halloran took issue with testimony from one current officer who has already talked to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, the head of a minority SFPD group called \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a> and a subject of some of the racist text messages uncovered last year, appeared before the panel earlier this month to testify on Police Department culture. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">She criticized\u003c/a> both the department and the POA for what she called \"disregard\" of black officers and minority communities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Halloran sent Williams a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153923/S-F-POA-Letter-to-OFJ-President-Yulanda-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> challenging her statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA is disturbed about some of your comments and accusations,\" Halloran wrote. \"For example, you claim that racism is 'widespread' within our department. The POA disagrees. While a handful of officers engaged in racist and homophobic text messaging -- and were condemned for doing so by the POA and by me personally -- there is no evidence that racism is widespread throughout the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Roth, an attorney serving as the panel's general counsel, sent the department a broad public records request Dec. 16 seeking documents from 30 categories, including officer discipline records, arrest statistics, department policies and an accounting of the department's internal affairs investigation into the texting scandal. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">blocked\u003c/a> any discipline for nine officers implicated in the scandal last month, ruling the department waited too long to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has not responded to questions about its cooperation with the panel, nor to a KQED request for documents and correspondence related to the panel's public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153985/S-F-Blue-Ribbon-Panel-Sunshine-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a> with the city's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force Jan. 12 asking the oversight body to compel the department to produce the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth wrote that the department responded to just seven of 30 records requests from the panel. And in three of those seven cases, Roth said, the department withheld the requested documents, citing various provisions of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD did not explain why these prohibitions apply or why, per department policy [and city law] such records could not be redacted,\" Roth wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has not updated its response, panel executive director Anand Subramanian said in an email Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the POA had provided a list of names \"they consider relevant\" and insisted that any interviews of those SFPD officers take place at the union's offices with POA attorneys present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law firm working groups are moving forward with these interviews, despite these constraints,\" Subramanian wrote. \"We are also working to set up an interview with POA leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr sent Subramanian a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153238/Response-to-Request-for-Interview-of-Chief-Greg-Suhr\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> Jan. 20 in response to a request for his interview, scheduling a one-hour session for Feb. 2. He also wrote that \"all requests on behalf of the Panel should go through the appropriate labor group or association representing an active employee,\" and that \"any member of the department who chooses to appear before the Panel would do so voluntarily, on their own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also noted that as of Jan. 25, the department was participating in a voluntary policy review through the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. A former federal prosecutor with knowledge of the Justice Department's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Reform\u003c/a>\" process said it is similar to \"pattern or practice\" investigation like those underway in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/06/justice-department-will-launch-investigation-into-practices-of-chicago-police/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1272364/ramsey-return-chicago-consult-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore\u003c/a>. However, the process is not as thorough and does not include the threat of federal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón noted in his letter to Lee that San Francisco ranked eighth in police killings among the 60 largest cities in the U.S. in 2015, and that the Police Department saw a 50 percent increase in officer-involved shootings last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has requested a federal Department of Justice investigation into the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD's Dec. 2 shooting of a young African-American man\u003c/a>, along with a broader look into the department's practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee asked for the probe of the Mario Woods shooting in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch that was made public on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said that Lee is \"inviting transparency and accountability\" in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"oAGpKvZFKWpxmeif3qEJxutnYmnOmoDs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We seek answers, not just to the facts of Mr. Woods's case,\" Lee said, \"but also answers about how as a Police Department and a City we can build deeper, stronger trust between law enforcement and the communities they're sworn to protect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, including Woods' family, had urged the mayor to ask for the probe, and Lee was joined in the request by city supervisors London Breed and Malia Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An after-hours message left with a Department of Justice spokeswoman asking for a response to the letter was not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The furor over the Woods shooting dominated the end of Lee's first term and the start of his second, which began earlier this month. His inaugural speech \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/08/mario-woods-protesters-crash-s-f-mayor-ed-lees-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">was interrupted by angry protesters\u003c/a>, as were remarks he made on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were responding to a stabbing report in the city's Bayview neighborhood on Dec. 2 when they encountered and surrounded the 26-year-old Woods. Five officers shot and killed him after he appeared to raise an 8-inch knife and approach an officer, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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 an Instagram video\u003c/a> showing the fatal shooting appears to contradict claims by Police Chief Greg Suhr that officers opened fire only after Woods made a threatening movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ij5TZuohoRg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods' family has disputed SFPD's account of the killing and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the department. Their attorney has said he was not aggressively fighting the officers, who should have backed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video clips of the incident have circulated widely online, sparking protests and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">calls for Suhr's resignation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>There was more than one crowd gathered to speak about the fatal officer-involved shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> at Wednesday's meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission, and the division was palpable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one corner, a group of about 100 off-duty San Francisco police officers stood with their union reps and attorneys. Groups calling for a federal investigation into the Woods shooting and murder charges for the officers involved filled the other side of the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dec. 2 shooting captured on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">bystander video\u003c/a> wasn't on the commission's agenda, but it has dominated San Francisco law enforcement and general city politics for almost two months, with a growing contingent calling for Police Chief Greg Suhr's resignation and criminal charges for the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But leaders of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, the union representing officers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfpoa.org/node/830\" target=\"_blank\">have said\u003c/a> the shooting was a lawful use of deadly force. They have urged those angered by the video to await the results of multiple ongoing investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three black SFPD officers who answered the POA's call to attend Wednesday's meeting addressed the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have you ever held a mother in your arms while she cried uncontrollably, while her loved one was taken?\" Officer Shante Williams said, struggling to speak over the crowd's angry boos. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-cops-in-Mario-Woods-shooting-are-back-on-the-6769959.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle reports\u003c/a> Williams was at the scene of the shooting and helped render medical aid to Woods. \"Have you dropped to your knees to administer CPR? Our actions show no color lines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams referenced comments of some city supervisors, including Malia Cohen's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Mayor-Ed-Lee-s-statement-on-police-shooting-6684728.php\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> days after the shooting that the officers were an \"ethnically diverse firing squad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not a diverse firing squad,\" Williams said. \"We put our lives on the line every day. We take physical and mental abuse every day. Yet we come back day after day because this is our calling. We just ask for the Police Commission not to pass judgment, to not become another Ferguson.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three officers spoke, the union's contingent of mostly off-duty police walked out of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re not going to waste our time listening to all this crap,\" former POA president and current union consultant \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/police-union-consultant-may-still-be-lobbying-for-poa/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Delagnes\u003c/a> said outside the meeting. \"Other people give these protesters credibility; we don’t. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have you ever held a mother in your arms while she cried uncontrollably, while her loved one was taken?\" Officer Shante Williams said, struggling to speak over the crowd's angry boos. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-cops-in-Mario-Woods-shooting-are-back-on-the-6769959.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle reports\u003c/a> Williams was at the scene of the shooting and helped render medical aid to Woods. \"Have you dropped to your knees to administer CPR? Our actions show no color lines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams referenced comments of some city supervisors, including Malia Cohen's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Mayor-Ed-Lee-s-statement-on-police-shooting-6684728.php\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> days after the shooting that the officers were an \"ethnically diverse firing squad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not a diverse firing squad,\" Williams said. \"We put our lives on the line every day. We take physical and mental abuse every day. Yet we come back day after day because this is our calling. We just ask for the Police Commission not to pass judgment, to not become another Ferguson.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three officers spoke, the union's contingent of mostly off-duty police walked out of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re not going to waste our time listening to all this crap,\" former POA president and current union consultant \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/police-union-consultant-may-still-be-lobbying-for-poa/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Delagnes\u003c/a> said outside the meeting. \"Other people give these protesters credibility; we don’t. This is nonsense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said the union planned to respectfully leave the meeting after \"we said what we needed to say through our minority officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We in no way want to discredit the Woods family or Mario Woods any further, but we are being backed into a corner,\" he said. \"The officers that were involved in this shooting, they deserve to have the real facts come out and that’s what’s going to happen. And this was the start of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the new disclosures Delagnes said would come out in the coming weeks is a statement Woods allegedly made just before officers shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It needs to go through the media with documentation and verification, not just me,\" he said, \"from police reports that people have never seen, from statements from the officers that people have never seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Woods supporter said the POA employed \"intimidation tactics\" at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no respect for them at all,\" said Shawn Richard, the head of an anti-violence group and spokesman for Woods' family. \"It makes them look like they a gang, and that’s not cool. You want to holler about gangs in different neighborhoods and different cities, and then you walk in here like a gang and walk out like a gang? The difference is you got on suits and ties.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard reiterated the call for a federal investigation into the shooting and criminal charges for the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I want to see policies and procedures changed within the San Francisco Police Department and fixed for what’s right for the African-American and brown community,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But so far, the panel's work has been dominated by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">the disclosure last March\u003c/a> that 14 officers traded racist, homophobic and sexist text messages, a sampling of which were made public in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The POA has been insensitive to the needs and the working conditions of the minority officers. They just don’t get it. They’re constantly antagonizing disenfranchised communities.'\u003ccite>SFPD Sgt. Yulanda Williams,\u003cbr>\nPresident of Officers for Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Just one current member of the Police Department testified before retired judges LaDoris Cordell, Cruz Reynoso and Dickran Tevrizian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. 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And when I consider or want to apply for a position that would allow me to enhance my career, I’m going be denied.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who is president of a police employee group representing minority officers, said the exposure of blatant racism within the department is causing her members to fear for their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After all, we need to call for backup and we need to know that it's going to come when we call,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her 26-year career, Williams said, she has seen institutional racism in the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have seen that the disciplinary procedures vary according to if you are part of what they call the 'good old boys group,' \" she said, referring to officers with generational ties to the department and those who attended certain schools in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Or perhaps something happened and you kept your mouth shut, and then you get a free buy, or what I call the halo effect, the freeway treatment, and you continue to advance,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PEkdycBubfiEGrJ4bvvDiHvTuLBzMI6r\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was the first of several witnesses to raise the subject of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, the union representing all the department's cops, as well as what she called its insensitivity to minority officers and communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Officers Association has been insensitive to the needs and the working conditions of the minority officer,\" Williams said. \"They just don’t get it. They’re constantly antagonizing disenfranchised communities. ... With the stance that the San Francisco Police Officers Association has taken, they have shown that they have very much disregard for the black officers in particular and they have shown disregard for minority communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA president Martin Halloran told KQED Saturday that he wholeheartedly disagrees with Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would challenge Ms. Willams to find another police organization that does more outreach to minority communities,\" he said, \"including her own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said a new $5,000 grant supporting access to healthy food in Hunters Point is just one example of approximately $200,000 per year the organization donates to charitable causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its relationship with Gascón's blue-ribbon panel has been icy. The association issued a departmentwide memo instructing any officer who was approached by the panel to contact the union, according to sources working with the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA has indicated it wants us to go through them to coordinate these interviews,\" panel legal counsel Jerome Roth said. \"We are not inclined to do that. We believe it’s more important to speak with officers directly and not through the filter of the POA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said the association asked \"as a courtesy\" to be notified when the panel reaches out to any officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have often not complied with that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Godown, who served briefly as the SFPD's interim chief, testified about \"institutional pushback\" when he came to the department to improve crime data collection and institute a CompStat program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was kind of taken aback by the fact that the San Francisco Police Department at the time I came here in 2009 was as rudimentary as they were when it came to looking at crime data,\" said Godown, who is now chief of the Oakland schools police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had not even stepped into the city, and I had received calls from reporters from San Francisco because the department was concerned that there was going to be a CompStat process implemented within the department and they were going to be held accountable,\" Godown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"h6ocq4aIILjNP2a1x133gbD8ELzMGsf9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/sf-police-underreport-arrest-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">been criticized\u003c/a> for its statistics collection. CompStat reports currently available on the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=4985\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> include just two months of data -- October and November of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said Godown and Gascón came to San Francisco pushing CompStat from a \"bully pulpit ... ramming it down our throats.\" He said he supports CompStat's data collection, though, and \"has no reason to believe it's not working well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office of Citizen Complaints Director Joyce Hicks told the panel that her office received 250 complaints that contained at least one allegation of racial bias since 2011, but the office sustained none of those complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Racial bias is very difficult to prove,\" she said. \"It is frustrating in light of today’s climate. It is painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said if and when the police in San Francisco are equipped with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">body cameras\u003c/a>, allegations of racism may be easier to prove or disprove. She spoke very slowly, seeming to choose her words carefully, when panel member LaDoris Cordell asked about OCC's relationship with the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there is an issue that they identify, particularly around interviewing officers, they will contact the OCC,\" Hicks said. \"We do periodically meet with the POA to hear their concerns. I have an open-door policy, and while I may not agree with philosophies, I will listen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel tasked attorney Robert Tarun with investigating the SFPD's compliance with Brady v. Maryland, a far-reaching U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires prosecutors to turn exculpatory evidence over to defense attorneys. In practice, police departments generally keep a \"Brady list,\" with the names of officers whose past misconduct makes them susceptible to defense challenges if they're called to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We sought to interview three attorneys -- not police officers, attorneys -- in the San Francisco Police Department, and each declined to be interviewed,\" Tarun said. \"We also asked for Brady policies and Brady training materials of the Police Department, and we have not received any of that material to date.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said department Brady policies appear to include only guidelines for officer personnel files, prompting questions from panel member Dickran Tevrizian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department only tracks personnel issues with regards to Brady, but doesn’t track other exculpatory information? 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They’re constantly antagonizing disenfranchised communities. ... With the stance that the San Francisco Police Officers Association has taken, they have shown that they have very much disregard for the black officers in particular and they have shown disregard for minority communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA president Martin Halloran told KQED Saturday that he wholeheartedly disagrees with Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would challenge Ms. Willams to find another police organization that does more outreach to minority communities,\" he said, \"including her own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said a new $5,000 grant supporting access to healthy food in Hunters Point is just one example of approximately $200,000 per year the organization donates to charitable causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its relationship with Gascón's blue-ribbon panel has been icy. 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We believe it’s more important to speak with officers directly and not through the filter of the POA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said the association asked \"as a courtesy\" to be notified when the panel reaches out to any officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have often not complied with that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Godown, who served briefly as the SFPD's interim chief, testified about \"institutional pushback\" when he came to the department to improve crime data collection and institute a CompStat program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was kind of taken aback by the fact that the San Francisco Police Department at the time I came here in 2009 was as rudimentary as they were when it came to looking at crime data,\" said Godown, who is now chief of the Oakland schools police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had not even stepped into the city, and I had received calls from reporters from San Francisco because the department was concerned that there was going to be a CompStat process implemented within the department and they were going to be held accountable,\" Godown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/sf-police-underreport-arrest-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">been criticized\u003c/a> for its statistics collection. CompStat reports currently available on the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=4985\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> include just two months of data -- October and November of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said Godown and Gascón came to San Francisco pushing CompStat from a \"bully pulpit ... ramming it down our throats.\" He said he supports CompStat's data collection, though, and \"has no reason to believe it's not working well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office of Citizen Complaints Director Joyce Hicks told the panel that her office received 250 complaints that contained at least one allegation of racial bias since 2011, but the office sustained none of those complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Racial bias is very difficult to prove,\" she said. \"It is frustrating in light of today’s climate. It is painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said if and when the police in San Francisco are equipped with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">body cameras\u003c/a>, allegations of racism may be easier to prove or disprove. She spoke very slowly, seeming to choose her words carefully, when panel member LaDoris Cordell asked about OCC's relationship with the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there is an issue that they identify, particularly around interviewing officers, they will contact the OCC,\" Hicks said. \"We do periodically meet with the POA to hear their concerns. I have an open-door policy, and while I may not agree with philosophies, I will listen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel tasked attorney Robert Tarun with investigating the SFPD's compliance with Brady v. 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That’s a major issue,\" Tevrizian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tarun said that's what he could tell, given that the SFPD refused to talk to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re not stepping forward and telling you what they’re doing,\" Tevrizian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth told the panel of another instance in which the SFPD has been unresponsive. He said the panel filed a public records act request with the department for documents in 30 separate categories in mid-December, and SFPD is now well beyond the time limit under state law to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They responded to approximately three,\" Roth said. \"They provided some information, most of it public documentation. With respect to the documents they withheld, they did not redact as the act requires, rather they provided no documentation. And then with respect to 22 categories, we got no response at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth said the panel has filed a complaint with the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Task Force and is pursuing other avenues to force the SFPD to release public information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Activists from San Francisco's Arab, South Asian and Muslim communities are reacting with angry disbelief to a Police Department report denying it violated a city ordinance governing local law enforcement participation in FBI counterterrorism investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus and the Council on American-Islamic Relations lodged a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/complaint-alleges-sfpd-oficer-broke-city-law-while-investigating-with-fbi/\" target=\"_blank\">formal complaint\u003c/a> last March detailing Google software engineer Sarmad Gilani's encounter with a San Francisco police inspector assigned to the FBI's \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/terrorism_jttfs\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Terrorism Task Force\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups allege that San Francisco police Inspector Gavin McEachern and an unidentified FBI agent contacted Gilani, who is Pakistani and Muslim, at work on June 4, 2014, and told him they were there to follow up on a Freedom of Information Act request Gilani had filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups' complaint said McEachern peppered Gilani with questions about his \"delusions of being persecuted,\" travel to the Middle East, \"what restaurants he eats at in Pakistan, where he visits, who he sees, etc.\" -- all in apparent violation of the 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances12/o0083-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance\u003c/a>. The law mandates local police working with the FBI follow state and city law, including a Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=24722\" target=\"_blank\">general order\u003c/a> requiring requests for investigations of \"First Amendment activities\" to be run up the chain of command and reported to the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law was the result of years-long negotiations between the city and Arab-American and Muslim groups concerned they were being targeted by federal law enforcement for acts protected by the First Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAIR attorney Brice Hamack told the Police Commission on Wednesday that Gilani's travel raised no reasonable suspicion, and he was targeted simply for being \"Muslim and Pakistani.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When he was approached by the SFPD officer in this case, he was asked solely about his constitutionally protected activity of religious practices, traveling association and the sort,\" Hamack said. He referenced the Police Department's annual report on counterterrorism activities last year, which contained no mention of Gilani's interrogation, despite city law and department policy that appear to require it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as we had heard, there was nothing wrong, nothing even remotely wrong,\" Hamack said. \"There were no indications that even approached violating the ordinance, yet that turned out to be false.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Lt. Daryl Fong, who head's the department's Special Investigation Division, said the contact did not \"meet the criteria in which a request would have been made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD stands by the accuracy of the 2014 annual report,\" Fong told the Police Commission. \"The SFPD is unable to discuss the specifics of this case due to a nondisclosure agreement signed with the FBI, which could result in potential civil as well as criminal penalties.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI confirmed to the \u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-cops-work-with-the-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-force-prompts-citizen-complaint/Content?oid=2924829\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> in March that Joint Terrorism Task Force members interviewed Gilani, but did not elaborate on the nature of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the city's Office of Citizen Complaints said last week that the agency is conferring with the city attorney’s office \"on our ability to interview the officer involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OCC Director Joyce Hicks was absent from Wednesday's Police Commission meeting and declined to elaborate Thursday on why McEachern had yet to be questioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local law also requires the Police Department to submit any written agreement with the FBI regarding joint counterterrorism activities to the Police Commission at an open meeting. The department did not respond to KQED's inquiry about when the nondisclosure agreement Fong referenced was signed or whether the commission was ever notified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s time to cut through the doublespeak,\" said John Crew, a retired ACLU attorney who helped craft the department's general order. \"It doesn’t say what the lieutenant just said it says. This action clearly required prior authorization, so that there would be a paper trail and there would be an audit and it would be reported.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commissioner Victor Hwang said the Police Department's reports on the FBI joint terrorism activities have been \"conclusory,\" or lacking in supporting evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way the complaint was raised to us was that there was a voluntary interview where an SFPD officer participated in response to a public records request,\" he said. \"That seems like that would be some kind of response to a First Amendment activity, and that seems like something that would want to be reported to the commission at least for review and consideration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian Law Caucus attorney Nasrina Bargzie said the local law is clear on Gilani's complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Riding roughshod over our laws shouldn’t be an option,\" she told the Police Commission. \"And submitting your report that contains assurances of compliance, but refuses to address a filed complaint that blows all of those assurances out of the water, is unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco woman is suing the city and Police Department leadership for allegedly failing to test DNA evidence in her rape, compelling her to confront a suspect as a condition of continuing to investigate and generally botching a case that's gone unsolved for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiff Heather Marlowe drank a beer that an unidentified male handed to her at the San Francisco festival/footrace Bay to Breakers in 2010, according to the \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> filed in federal court Jan. 7. She became \"much more inebriated than would have been normal,\" the lawsuit says, then awoke nauseous and in pain several hours later in an unfamiliar home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlowe went to the nearest emergency room and called the police. A nurse collected DNA samples for a sexual assault evidence kit, commonly known as a rape kit. But Marlowe says that as far as she knows, that evidence was never processed nor was potentially matching DNA collected from a suspect who police later questioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/241701816\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says the Police Department's alleged conduct violated her rights to due process and equal protection under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve reached a point where I’m not clear about anything anymore in regards to what they’ve told me about my case,\" Marlowe said at a press conference Tuesday announcing the lawsuit. \"I have learned that this is an issue that is going on across the city, across the Bay Area, across the state of California, across the country, to the number upwards of 400,000 untested rape kits, ignored rape kits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department says it has already addressed the issue. The department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/index.aspx?recordid=1075&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">identified 753 unprocessed rape kits\u003c/a> collected between 2003 and 2013 and announced all had been cleared by late 2014. Under fire for failing to test older untested kits, police say they found \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-working-to-clear-pre-2003-rape-kit-backlog/\" target=\"_blank\">an additional 473 kits\u003c/a> and submitted them for analysis in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Marlowe says she has documentation from a police captain that the department had \"\u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sfpd-working-to-end-rape-kit-backlog-but-several-thousand-will-never-be-tested/Content?oid=2901276\" target=\"_blank\">several thousand\u003c/a>\" untested kits, and the 1,226 total that were submitted for processing doesn't appear to clear that backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality in San Francisco has been that rape kits have gone untested by the thousands,\" said Marlowe's attorney, Irwin Zalkin. \"San Francisco Police Department decided they’re going to test some of the untested rape kits. Not all, some. To this day, Heather doesn’t know if her rape kit has ever been tested. They have promised her repeatedly that it has or it will be. She has asked for proof, it hasn’t been delivered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zalkin said he'll ask the court for an independent audit of the Police Department's rape kit backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she fought for DNA testing, Marlowe says she also pursued other investigatory leads with SFPD Officer Joe Cordes, who is also named in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlowe's complaint alleges Cordes met Marlowe at a house she identified as the possible scene of her rape about a week after the alleged assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They knocked on the door and a man answered,\" the complaint says. \"Cordes demanded that Marlowe enter the home while Cordes distracted the owner to see if Marlowe could identify the home as the scene of her rape.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a few days later, \"Cordes instructed Marlowe to make contact with the suspect and flirt with him in order to elicit a confession that suspect had indeed raped Marlowe,\" the lawsuit alleges, adding that Cordes also told Marlowe to \"set up a date\" with the suspect to prove she could identify him in a crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Barton, a retired district attorney's investigator and police officer specializing in sexual assault investigations, said in an interview that it's not unheard of for an officer to ask a rape victim to make a \"pretext call.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A pretext call is where a victim or a witness, somebody will contact the suspect over the telephone with the idea of either getting an apology or getting facts,\" Barton said. \"Every victim is different, and it’s not criticism of the victim if he or she doesn’t want to do a pretext call because they can be very traumatic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlowe said that if she didn't take on the investigation herself, SFPD officers implied that her case would be abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They basically said that unless you move this forward yourself, we won't be investigating any further,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department did not respond to repeated inquiries for an up-to-date account of any rape kit backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=295239051 key=key-q10wGUBhvnIqRTrNlVMC mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has set a Feb. 15 deadline for city law enforcement leadership to deliver \"any reforms that require new laws or expenditures,\" as the Police Department and Police Commission launch multiple efforts examining use-of-force and training policies following the deadly shooting of Mario Woods last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor sent a \u003ca href=\"#letter\">letter\u003c/a> to the city's Board of Supervisors Wednesday urging quick changes to create \"a city where no preventable officer-involved shootings occur and where every community feels respected, justly treated and safer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Bystander video\u003c/a> captured a large group of officers with guns drawn surrounding Woods, a 26-year-old black man, in San Francisco's Bayview district on Dec. 2. \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1396&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">Police say\u003c/a> Woods had a knife and was suspected of stabbing someone earlier that day. They say Woods didn't comply with commands to drop the knife and didn't respond to pepper spray or multiple barrages of \"less lethal\" impact rounds. As he began to walk away from the largest group of police, an officer stepped into his path, and five officers fired, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"NAuJ4kI7hXEEUT2VuNKWAl2vlyDUUx6j\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">Attorneys for Woods' family\u003c/a>, who have examined his body, say he appears to have been shot approximately 20 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting has galvanized long-standing criticism of racial bias in the San Francisco Police Department. SFPD arrests a highly \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\">disparate number of African-Americans\u003c/a> and was rocked by several racially charged scandals in 2015, including the exposure of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist text messages\u003c/a> sent by a group of officers advocating violence against black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">sustained calls\u003c/a> for Police Chief Greg Suhr's ouster, and activists plan to protest Lee's inauguration on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The shooting of Mario Woods has for many residents shaken the trust in this city’s Police Department,\" Chief Greg Suhr said during a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night. \"We understand that we do need to do everything we can do to prevent this from occurring again, including reviewing all policies and procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Suhr and Lee mentioned several efforts already underway. The department recently purchased 54 40mm munitions launchers and 540 impact \"sponge\" rounds for the weapons, according to city purchasing documents. The department is still researching how riot shields could help officers isolate and disarm suspects carrying knives, Suhr said. He and the mayor are also calling for a pilot of electronic stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers are now \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/San-Francisco-police-change-gun-policy-in-wake-of-6702064.php\" target=\"_blank\">required to report\u003c/a> whenever they point a firearm at someone as a use of force, and there are efforts underway to expand training around implicit bias, cultural competency and crisis intervention, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1411&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">changes grew out of meeting\u003c/a>s with the SFPD's African-American Advisory Forum, which has been meeting since May of last year on policing issues affecting San Francisco's black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also made two bids for federal guidance and is joining a national police research organization's efforts to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineer training around police use of force\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr requested last week that the department launch a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative reform review\u003c/a>\" with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a completely independent review,\" Suhr said. \"We’ve invited them in to look at everything we do and make recommendations as to how we can be the best department we can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee directed the department to join the White House's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/10/27/police-data-initiative-5-month-update\" target=\"_blank\">Police Data Initiative\u003c/a>, which is collecting criminal justice statistics from \u003ca href=\"http://publicsafetydataportal.org/participating-agencies/\" target=\"_blank\">29 police departments\u003c/a> around the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Police Commission President Suzy Loftus will join Suhr, a contingent of SFPD brass and city leaders on a trip to Washington, D.C., next week to collect recommendations from the Police Executive Research Forum on changing police use-of-force practices nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we’re opening up this conversation of our use-of-force policies -- and PERF is helping us look at those -- there’s actually something much bigger happening, which is this question of, 'Is how we’re doing this at all the best way to do it?' \" Loftus said. \"We’re bringing in experts, because it is something that is of concern to all of us. We want to keep everybody safe. We want to do this right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus said groups of two or three police commissioners will also host a series of community meetings throughout the city this month to collect public input in time for the mayor's deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some commissioners said they were concerned with such a speedy timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m just wondering whether we can get this done by Feb. 15,\" Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"I know the mayor wants to have something done, but it’s not something we can just fix by throwing money at it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Joe Marshall said he's committed to changing any policy that would justify the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are on a fast track here, and my only concern is I want to do it right,\" he said. \"Doing it fast and doing it right -- it’s one or the other, so we have to make sure we do both. 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SFPD arrests a highly \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\">disparate number of African-Americans\u003c/a> and was rocked by several racially charged scandals in 2015, including the exposure of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist text messages\u003c/a> sent by a group of officers advocating violence against black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">sustained calls\u003c/a> for Police Chief Greg Suhr's ouster, and activists plan to protest Lee's inauguration on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The shooting of Mario Woods has for many residents shaken the trust in this city’s Police Department,\" Chief Greg Suhr said during a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night. \"We understand that we do need to do everything we can do to prevent this from occurring again, including reviewing all policies and procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Suhr and Lee mentioned several efforts already underway. The department recently purchased 54 40mm munitions launchers and 540 impact \"sponge\" rounds for the weapons, according to city purchasing documents. The department is still researching how riot shields could help officers isolate and disarm suspects carrying knives, Suhr said. He and the mayor are also calling for a pilot of electronic stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers are now \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/San-Francisco-police-change-gun-policy-in-wake-of-6702064.php\" target=\"_blank\">required to report\u003c/a> whenever they point a firearm at someone as a use of force, and there are efforts underway to expand training around implicit bias, cultural competency and crisis intervention, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1411&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">changes grew out of meeting\u003c/a>s with the SFPD's African-American Advisory Forum, which has been meeting since May of last year on policing issues affecting San Francisco's black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also made two bids for federal guidance and is joining a national police research organization's efforts to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineer training around police use of force\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr requested last week that the department launch a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative reform review\u003c/a>\" with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a completely independent review,\" Suhr said. \"We’ve invited them in to look at everything we do and make recommendations as to how we can be the best department we can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee directed the department to join the White House's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/10/27/police-data-initiative-5-month-update\" target=\"_blank\">Police Data Initiative\u003c/a>, which is collecting criminal justice statistics from \u003ca href=\"http://publicsafetydataportal.org/participating-agencies/\" target=\"_blank\">29 police departments\u003c/a> around the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Police Commission President Suzy Loftus will join Suhr, a contingent of SFPD brass and city leaders on a trip to Washington, D.C., next week to collect recommendations from the Police Executive Research Forum on changing police use-of-force practices nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we’re opening up this conversation of our use-of-force policies -- and PERF is helping us look at those -- there’s actually something much bigger happening, which is this question of, 'Is how we’re doing this at all the best way to do it?' \" Loftus said. \"We’re bringing in experts, because it is something that is of concern to all of us. We want to keep everybody safe. We want to do this right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus said groups of two or three police commissioners will also host a series of community meetings throughout the city this month to collect public input in time for the mayor's deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some commissioners said they were concerned with such a speedy timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m just wondering whether we can get this done by Feb. 15,\" Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"I know the mayor wants to have something done, but it’s not something we can just fix by throwing money at it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Joe Marshall said he's committed to changing any policy that would justify the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are on a fast track here, and my only concern is I want to do it right,\" he said. \"Doing it fast and doing it right -- it’s one or the other, so we have to make sure we do both. We gotta do it quickly and we gotta do it right.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Read the mayor's letter below. See SFPD's list of changes implemented and underway \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1411&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/294851874/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-DHvUCHSHuXOaVF1TFb2R\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/294851874\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_294851874\"\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/294851874\"\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>Ted Goldberg of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is appealing a recent Superior Court decision preventing the city from firing or otherwise disciplining nine police officers who swapped bigoted text messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">ruled Dec. 21\u003c/a> that the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations for disciplining peace officers to expire long before it began a personnel investigation into the racist, sexist, homophobic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes violent messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Herrera said in a prepared statement Tuesday that the court misread a provision of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">the law\u003c/a> allowing the time limit to pause while a criminal prosecution is pending. In this case, that's the federal criminal probe that led to convictions of former SFPD plainclothes Sgt. Ian Furminger and two of his subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If affirmed, this decision would seriously jeopardize the ability of local and federal agencies to cooperate on future investigations into police misconduct in California,\" Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feds shared evidence from the Furminger investigation, including text messages seized from his personal cellphone, with a group of SFPD internal affairs investigators by late 2012, attorneys for the officers successfully argued in Superior Court. The SFPD did not pursue discipline until early 2015, a few months before a federal court filing in the Furminger case made a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">sampling of the offensive texts public\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ruled last month that the texts were unrelated to Furminger's crimes, and therefore were not exempt from the statute of limitations. In announcing the city's appeal, Herrera said Goldsmith ignored testimony from two former federal prosecutors who worked on the Furminger investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The decision held that a San Francisco police lieutenant was actually obliged to stop assisting with the Furminger investigation, turn over text messages obtained by search warrant from Furminger’s phone, and initiate an administrative investigation into other officers’ misconduct -- even in the face of sworn testimony by the U.S. Attorney’s Office that such an illegal use of confidential grand jury material would subject that lieutenant to criminal prosecution,\" Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San Francisco criminal justice leaders have criticized the Police Department's agreement with federal prosecutors to keep the evidence secret and delay disciplining officers for the vulgar text messages. District Attorney George Gascón said the officers avoided discipline \"due to a massive breakdown in SFPD’s process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón's office is reviewing close to 4,000 cases in which the officers participated for potential bias that could overturn convictions. A spokesman said in late December that the office dismissed 13 pending cases in the wake of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would like to see those officers not come back to the Police Department,\" Gascón told KQED Tuesday, adding that he supports the city attorney's appeal. \"The concern is we probably shouldn’t be here in the first place, but that is water under the bridge now, so I think that we need to move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department leadership, including Police Chief Greg Suhr, have said the department followed protocol and rightly waited to pursue discipline to protect the Furminger criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the nine officers in the case face termination, although it's difficult to know exactly how many due to protections in the Peace Officers Bill of Rights that keep police personnel information secret and an expansive protective order issued in the Superior Court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ordered all the officers placed on paid, rather than unpaid, leave last summer, where they remain according to one of the officer's attorneys. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is appealing a recent Superior Court decision preventing the city from firing or otherwise disciplining nine police officers who swapped bigoted text messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">ruled Dec. 21\u003c/a> that the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations for disciplining peace officers to expire long before it began a personnel investigation into the racist, sexist, homophobic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes violent messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Herrera said in a prepared statement Tuesday that the court misread a provision of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">the law\u003c/a> allowing the time limit to pause while a criminal prosecution is pending. In this case, that's the federal criminal probe that led to convictions of former SFPD plainclothes Sgt. Ian Furminger and two of his subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If affirmed, this decision would seriously jeopardize the ability of local and federal agencies to cooperate on future investigations into police misconduct in California,\" Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feds shared evidence from the Furminger investigation, including text messages seized from his personal cellphone, with a group of SFPD internal affairs investigators by late 2012, attorneys for the officers successfully argued in Superior Court. The SFPD did not pursue discipline until early 2015, a few months before a federal court filing in the Furminger case made a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">sampling of the offensive texts public\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith ruled Monday that the Police Department waited too long to pursue disciplining a group of officers who swapped bigoted text messages and that the officers cannot be fired or otherwise punished for the alleged misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ruled in favor of nine officers challenging the city and Police Department’s attempt to mete out discipline for a variety of racist, homophobic and otherwise inappropriate messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the officers successfully argued that the department knew about the texts by late 2012 but didn’t investigate until early 2015 -- long overshooting a one-year state statute of limitations to bring charges of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court finds it’s not in the public interest to let police misconduct cases languish,” Goldsmith said from the bench, adding that there was “good reason” for that provision of the California Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights. “To promptly investigate and adjudicate police misconduct -- this is an important protection for the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238705542\" 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>Attorneys for San Francisco argue that the time limit for a disciplinary action is paused when it overlaps or conflicts with a criminal investigation. They say that's what happened in this case, which involved a federal investigation that led to the conviction of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goldsmith said the pause would apply only if the officers' texts had something to do with the Furminger case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is trying to piggyback on the Furminger investigation,” Goldsmith said, adding that there was no connection between the offensive text messages and Furminger’s crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's lawyers pointed out that Police Department investigators who knew about the text messages and other evidence in the Furminger probe were sworn to secrecy by federal prosecutors, and the delay in punishing the officers was warranted to protect that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Practically speaking, I think this is the death knell for San Francisco Police Department investigators to participate in federal criminal investigations,” Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak told Goldsmith. He said SFPD investigators assigned to the Furminger case \"were threatened with federal criminal prosecution\" if they divulged anything about the probe to their own department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the officers who were facing firing have been on paid leave since Goldsmith ordered them back on the city payroll in May. Two of their attorneys said it’s unclear whether they would be allowed back to work or in what role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can’t happen is that these texts can’t be considered against them,” said attorney Tony Brass, who represents Officer Michael Celis. He called Goldsmith’s ruling a “mixed victory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is celebrating a victory for that kind of misconduct,\" Brass said. \"That’s not what this case is about. What this case is about is the Police Department has an obligation to investigate that conduct in a timely fashion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak declined to say whether the city would appeal, but Police Chief Greg Suhr told KQED’s Sara Hossaini that the ruling would be challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers should not be police officers,” Suhr said. “They clearly fall below the minimum standard required, and we will appeal. ... It’s a process, but I don’t want them in this Police Department and neither do the police officers in the Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith issued a tentative ruling Friday afternoon in favor of nine officers challenging the city’s effort to discipline them for swapping racist and otherwise offensive text messages with a convicted ex-sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers argued that the city is in violation of a statute of limitations in a state law that grants labor protections to public safety officers. The law requires police departments to complete an investigation into officer misconduct within one year of learning about any transgression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department, the court ruled, knew about the offensive text messages in December 2012, when a small circle of officers in SFPD’s Internal Affairs Division joined a federal investigation of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two of his subordinates in the Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner.'\u003ccite>Ernest Goldsmith,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Superior Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No disciplinary charges were brought against the officers in the texting scandal until April of this year. The city argued the delay was necessary to protect the investigation against Furminger until he was convicted, which happened in December 2014, and two former federal prosecutors filed declarations to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the administrative wing of Internal Affairs, which handles officer discipline, was kept in the dark about the texts until after Furminger’s conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner,” Goldsmith wrote in his tentative ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the time limit pauses -- or “tolls” in the statute’s language -- when the conduct at issue is part of a criminal investigation or prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[T]he tolling exception provided in Government Sec. 3304(d)(1)(A) did not apply in the instant case because the Petitioners [officers], their conduct, and their text messages were not the subject of a criminal investigation,” Goldsmith wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge appears likely to finally approve the officers’ petition at a hearing scheduled for Monday, which includes a call for the department to rescind all disciplinary charges against the officers, purge all documents supporting the case against them and pay each officer a civil penalty of up to $25,000, plus the cost of their lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">judge stopped\u003c/a> the San Francisco Police Department from firing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">seven officers\u003c/a> accused of sending racist, sexist and homophobic text messages, the officers' legal challenge to their dismissal appears headed for a final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two additional officers facing lesser discipline have also joined the San Francisco Superior Court case scheduled for a hearing Monday. All nine are challenging the department's attempt to punish them under a one-year state statute of limitations for disciplining peace officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the officers are contesting charges that they exchanged \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">offensive text messages\u003c/a> with former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges a year ago. Federal prosecutors made a sampling of the text messages public in March. The officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">use a variety of slurs\u003c/a> to refer to African-Americans, Latinos, women and LGBT people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KDkgYPlzt8U7uyOhiebhJYo0Iv0yyNMs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one exchange in May 2012, an unidentified officer responds to Furminger's complaint that a friend of his wife's brought her attorney husband, who is black, to dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun,\" the officer texted Furminger. \"Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its not against the law to put an animal down. ... U may have to kill the half breed kids too. Don't worry. Their an abomination of nature anyway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has likely been paying that officer's salary while on administrative leave since May, despite the department's attempt to terminate him and several others for conduct unbecoming an officer. But the officer's exact status is unknown because any information relating to discipline in the case is sealed under a protective order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the officers' challenge is ultimately successful, they've been able to delay discipline for the better part of a year, thanks to attorneys provided by their union and a state law that provides sweeping protections to police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law's Statute of Limitations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine officers are relying on a provision of the California \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a> that states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[N]o punitive action, nor denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, shall be undertaken for any act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct if the investigation of the allegation is not completed within one year of the public agency's discovery by a person authorized to initiate an investigation of the allegation of an act, omission, or other misconduct.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">officers argue\u003c/a> the Police Department was in possession of the offensive texts, along with volumes of other evidence in the case against Furminger, by December 2012, but failed to act until April of this year after some of the texts were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the legal challenge has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">enjoyed some success\u003c/a> in the form of a stay issued in May by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith. He halted disciplinary proceedings before the city's Police Commission and required that the officers involved in the case be placed on paid, rather than unpaid, leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only officially named plaintiff in the case, Officer Rain Daugherty, made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Rain+Daugherty\" target=\"_blank\">$164,290.19\u003c/a> in total pay and benefits last year, according to state salary data curated on the website Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other unofficially identified officers facing dismissal include Capt. Jason Fox, who in 2014 made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Jason+G+Fox&y=\" target=\"_blank\">$258,699.07\u003c/a> and Sgt. Michael Wibunsin, who made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Michael+Wibunsin\" target=\"_blank\">$242,448.53\u003c/a> that year in total pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Furminger Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal investigation that led to the convictions of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Furminger\u003c/a> and two of his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/21/one-year-sentence-for-former-s-f-cop-who-testified-against-colleagues\" target=\"_blank\">subordinates\u003c/a> in the Mission District plainclothes division lasted much longer than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of that investigation -- and when exactly the Police Department started its investigation of the texting scandal -- is central to the arguments of the nine officers fighting dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"JhFDUdwzrm7NSJ8uB3h4BxqN2V9kzUw8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi began releasing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-video-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">series of surveillance videos\u003c/a> from single-resident-occupancy hotels in 2010 that appeared to show plainclothes officers illegally searching rooms and -- in some cases -- removing property that they never booked into evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By April 2011, when Greg Suhr became San Francisco's police chief, the department's investigation into the apparently illegal searches was underway, according to the chief's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293578851/Greg-Suhr-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration\u003c/a> in the texting case, filed earlier this month. But federal law enforcement -- namely the FBI and Northern California U.S. Attorney's Office -- wanted to take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, they did, enlisting the help of a handful of criminal investigators from the Police Department's Internal Affairs Division \"to provide expertise regarding the activities and conduct of police officers generally and more specifically within the SFPD organization,\" former Assistant U.S. Attorney Drew Caputo wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293579008/Drew-Caputo-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration to the court\u003c/a>. \"To avoid potential conflicts of interest, we set clear limits on the extent to which information related to the criminal investigation would be shared within SFPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his declaration, Suhr says the department set up a \"wall\" between the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) criminal and administrative investigators as the Furminger probe continued. To preserve the integrity of the Furminger case, he added, proceedings against the officers involved in the texting scandal wound up being delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a person who is a subject of a criminal investigation is alerted to the existence of that investigation -- whether the subject is a potential witness, suspect, or target of the investigation -- the integrity of the investigation is compromised,\" Suhr wrote. \"The subject changes his or her behavior to avoid detection, and the investigators lose their ability to gather critical evidence. ... [I]t is clear to me that, had SFPD initiated any disciplinary investigation before the criminal investigation concluded, the federal prosecutors might well have lost the ability to make their criminal case against Furminger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Choices Have Consequences'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the nine officers have zeroed in on the delay in the disciplinary case as a violation to the one-year deadline for taking action against their clients. They argue that the clock on the disciplinary case should have started in December 2012, by which time the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office had shared secret evidence in the Furminger case -- including the offensive texts -- with the IAD's criminal investigators. The city argues the clock started just last December, after Furminger was convicted and the text messages were disclosed to the rest of the Internal Affairs Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson, said in an interview Thursday that by agreeing to keep the evidence secret, the department chose to place the criminal investigation ahead of any potential officer discipline and thus \"jettisoned their responsibility under the Police Officers Bill of Rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Choices have consequences,\" she said. \"They made the choice to agree to that, and the consequence is that they knew that information but didn't act in a timely manner on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak says that both federal and local law enforcement did everything \"by the book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in an interview the officers are trying to \"paint a picture of a plot by the Police Department to sit on evidence and delay disciplining them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak said the officers' arguments are not only unrealistic but also clearly exempted in the Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights, which allows for the \"tolling,\" or pause, to the statute of limitations while a related criminal investigation and prosecution are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That state law provides a panoply of rights to peace officers who are accused of wrongdoing by their employer,\" he said -- but argued the protections don't apply in the texting case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The investigation here was two things that exempt it from the ambit of the peace officers bill of rights,\" Walczak said. \"It was both criminal and federal.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith ruled Monday that the Police Department waited too long to pursue disciplining a group of officers who swapped bigoted text messages and that the officers cannot be fired or otherwise punished for the alleged misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ruled in favor of nine officers challenging the city and Police Department’s attempt to mete out discipline for a variety of racist, homophobic and otherwise inappropriate messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the officers successfully argued that the department knew about the texts by late 2012 but didn’t investigate until early 2015 -- long overshooting a one-year state statute of limitations to bring charges of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court finds it’s not in the public interest to let police misconduct cases languish,” Goldsmith said from the bench, adding that there was “good reason” for that provision of the California Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights. “To promptly investigate and adjudicate police misconduct -- this is an important protection for the public.”\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/238705542&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/238705542'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for San Francisco argue that the time limit for a disciplinary action is paused when it overlaps or conflicts with a criminal investigation. They say that's what happened in this case, which involved a federal investigation that led to the conviction of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goldsmith said the pause would apply only if the officers' texts had something to do with the Furminger case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is trying to piggyback on the Furminger investigation,” Goldsmith said, adding that there was no connection between the offensive text messages and Furminger’s crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's lawyers pointed out that Police Department investigators who knew about the text messages and other evidence in the Furminger probe were sworn to secrecy by federal prosecutors, and the delay in punishing the officers was warranted to protect that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Practically speaking, I think this is the death knell for San Francisco Police Department investigators to participate in federal criminal investigations,” Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak told Goldsmith. He said SFPD investigators assigned to the Furminger case \"were threatened with federal criminal prosecution\" if they divulged anything about the probe to their own department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the officers who were facing firing have been on paid leave since Goldsmith ordered them back on the city payroll in May. Two of their attorneys said it’s unclear whether they would be allowed back to work or in what role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can’t happen is that these texts can’t be considered against them,” said attorney Tony Brass, who represents Officer Michael Celis. He called Goldsmith’s ruling a “mixed victory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is celebrating a victory for that kind of misconduct,\" Brass said. \"That’s not what this case is about. What this case is about is the Police Department has an obligation to investigate that conduct in a timely fashion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak declined to say whether the city would appeal, but Police Chief Greg Suhr told KQED’s Sara Hossaini that the ruling would be challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers should not be police officers,” Suhr said. “They clearly fall below the minimum standard required, and we will appeal. ... It’s a process, but I don’t want them in this Police Department and neither do the police officers in the Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith issued a tentative ruling Friday afternoon in favor of nine officers challenging the city’s effort to discipline them for swapping racist and otherwise offensive text messages with a convicted ex-sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers argued that the city is in violation of a statute of limitations in a state law that grants labor protections to public safety officers. The law requires police departments to complete an investigation into officer misconduct within one year of learning about any transgression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department, the court ruled, knew about the offensive text messages in December 2012, when a small circle of officers in SFPD’s Internal Affairs Division joined a federal investigation of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two of his subordinates in the Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner.'\u003ccite>Ernest Goldsmith,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Superior Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No disciplinary charges were brought against the officers in the texting scandal until April of this year. The city argued the delay was necessary to protect the investigation against Furminger until he was convicted, which happened in December 2014, and two former federal prosecutors filed declarations to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the administrative wing of Internal Affairs, which handles officer discipline, was kept in the dark about the texts until after Furminger’s conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner,” Goldsmith wrote in his tentative ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the time limit pauses -- or “tolls” in the statute’s language -- when the conduct at issue is part of a criminal investigation or prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[T]he tolling exception provided in Government Sec. 3304(d)(1)(A) did not apply in the instant case because the Petitioners [officers], their conduct, and their text messages were not the subject of a criminal investigation,” Goldsmith wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge appears likely to finally approve the officers’ petition at a hearing scheduled for Monday, which includes a call for the department to rescind all disciplinary charges against the officers, purge all documents supporting the case against them and pay each officer a civil penalty of up to $25,000, plus the cost of their lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">judge stopped\u003c/a> the San Francisco Police Department from firing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">seven officers\u003c/a> accused of sending racist, sexist and homophobic text messages, the officers' legal challenge to their dismissal appears headed for a final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two additional officers facing lesser discipline have also joined the San Francisco Superior Court case scheduled for a hearing Monday. All nine are challenging the department's attempt to punish them under a one-year state statute of limitations for disciplining peace officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the officers are contesting charges that they exchanged \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">offensive text messages\u003c/a> with former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges a year ago. Federal prosecutors made a sampling of the text messages public in March. The officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">use a variety of slurs\u003c/a> to refer to African-Americans, Latinos, women and LGBT people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one exchange in May 2012, an unidentified officer responds to Furminger's complaint that a friend of his wife's brought her attorney husband, who is black, to dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun,\" the officer texted Furminger. \"Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its not against the law to put an animal down. ... U may have to kill the half breed kids too. Don't worry. Their an abomination of nature anyway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has likely been paying that officer's salary while on administrative leave since May, despite the department's attempt to terminate him and several others for conduct unbecoming an officer. But the officer's exact status is unknown because any information relating to discipline in the case is sealed under a protective order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the officers' challenge is ultimately successful, they've been able to delay discipline for the better part of a year, thanks to attorneys provided by their union and a state law that provides sweeping protections to police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law's Statute of Limitations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine officers are relying on a provision of the California \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a> that states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[N]o punitive action, nor denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, shall be undertaken for any act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct if the investigation of the allegation is not completed within one year of the public agency's discovery by a person authorized to initiate an investigation of the allegation of an act, omission, or other misconduct.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">officers argue\u003c/a> the Police Department was in possession of the offensive texts, along with volumes of other evidence in the case against Furminger, by December 2012, but failed to act until April of this year after some of the texts were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the legal challenge has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">enjoyed some success\u003c/a> in the form of a stay issued in May by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith. He halted disciplinary proceedings before the city's Police Commission and required that the officers involved in the case be placed on paid, rather than unpaid, leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only officially named plaintiff in the case, Officer Rain Daugherty, made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Rain+Daugherty\" target=\"_blank\">$164,290.19\u003c/a> in total pay and benefits last year, according to state salary data curated on the website Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other unofficially identified officers facing dismissal include Capt. Jason Fox, who in 2014 made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Jason+G+Fox&y=\" target=\"_blank\">$258,699.07\u003c/a> and Sgt. Michael Wibunsin, who made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Michael+Wibunsin\" target=\"_blank\">$242,448.53\u003c/a> that year in total pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Furminger Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal investigation that led to the convictions of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Furminger\u003c/a> and two of his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/21/one-year-sentence-for-former-s-f-cop-who-testified-against-colleagues\" target=\"_blank\">subordinates\u003c/a> in the Mission District plainclothes division lasted much longer than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of that investigation -- and when exactly the Police Department started its investigation of the texting scandal -- is central to the arguments of the nine officers fighting dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi began releasing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-video-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">series of surveillance videos\u003c/a> from single-resident-occupancy hotels in 2010 that appeared to show plainclothes officers illegally searching rooms and -- in some cases -- removing property that they never booked into evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By April 2011, when Greg Suhr became San Francisco's police chief, the department's investigation into the apparently illegal searches was underway, according to the chief's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293578851/Greg-Suhr-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration\u003c/a> in the texting case, filed earlier this month. But federal law enforcement -- namely the FBI and Northern California U.S. Attorney's Office -- wanted to take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, they did, enlisting the help of a handful of criminal investigators from the Police Department's Internal Affairs Division \"to provide expertise regarding the activities and conduct of police officers generally and more specifically within the SFPD organization,\" former Assistant U.S. Attorney Drew Caputo wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293579008/Drew-Caputo-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration to the court\u003c/a>. \"To avoid potential conflicts of interest, we set clear limits on the extent to which information related to the criminal investigation would be shared within SFPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his declaration, Suhr says the department set up a \"wall\" between the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) criminal and administrative investigators as the Furminger probe continued. To preserve the integrity of the Furminger case, he added, proceedings against the officers involved in the texting scandal wound up being delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a person who is a subject of a criminal investigation is alerted to the existence of that investigation -- whether the subject is a potential witness, suspect, or target of the investigation -- the integrity of the investigation is compromised,\" Suhr wrote. \"The subject changes his or her behavior to avoid detection, and the investigators lose their ability to gather critical evidence. ... [I]t is clear to me that, had SFPD initiated any disciplinary investigation before the criminal investigation concluded, the federal prosecutors might well have lost the ability to make their criminal case against Furminger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Choices Have Consequences'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the nine officers have zeroed in on the delay in the disciplinary case as a violation to the one-year deadline for taking action against their clients. They argue that the clock on the disciplinary case should have started in December 2012, by which time the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office had shared secret evidence in the Furminger case -- including the offensive texts -- with the IAD's criminal investigators. The city argues the clock started just last December, after Furminger was convicted and the text messages were disclosed to the rest of the Internal Affairs Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson, said in an interview Thursday that by agreeing to keep the evidence secret, the department chose to place the criminal investigation ahead of any potential officer discipline and thus \"jettisoned their responsibility under the Police Officers Bill of Rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Choices have consequences,\" she said. \"They made the choice to agree to that, and the consequence is that they knew that information but didn't act in a timely manner on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak says that both federal and local law enforcement did everything \"by the book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in an interview the officers are trying to \"paint a picture of a plot by the Police Department to sit on evidence and delay disciplining them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak said the officers' arguments are not only unrealistic but also clearly exempted in the Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights, which allows for the \"tolling,\" or pause, to the statute of limitations while a related criminal investigation and prosecution are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That state law provides a panoply of rights to peace officers who are accused of wrongdoing by their employer,\" he said -- but argued the protections don't apply in the texting case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two of the officers identified by the San Francisco Police Department as being involved in the fatal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 2 shooting\u003c/a> of Mario Woods have faced federal lawsuits alleging excessive force, court documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers, Charles August and Nicholas Cuevas, are among five the Police Department says opened fire on Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five were part of a contingent of a dozen or more officers who confronted Woods, 26, near the corner of Third and Fitzgerald streets in the city's Bayview district. Police say Woods was a suspect in a stabbing several blocks away and was carrying a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade when officers spotted him. Police say he refused to drop the weapon even after officers shot him with \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds and pepper-sprayed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August and Cuevas, as well as Officers Winson Seto, Antonio Santos and Scott Phillips, opened fire after Woods, a neighborhood resident, walked toward August, who had stepped into his path in an apparent attempt to stop him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August is among seven officers sued in federal court last year by a Bayview resident named David Lloyd, who says he suffered a broken ankle and other injuries in an encounter outside a neighborhood store. Lloyd's suit alleges a group of plainclothes officers who were engaged in making an arrest outside the store started harassing him and stopped him from getting his bicycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Video Evidence Appears to Contradict SFPD Account of Mario Woods Shooting\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ij5TZuohoRg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nRead more about KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">slow-motion video analysis\u003c/a> that appears to show Woods moving his arm only after the first shots are audible.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Then Officer Charles August (in uniform) arrived at the scene and began to push Mr. Lloyd ... Then within a minute, Defendant Charles AUGUST slammed Mr. Lloyd onto the ground. Mr. Lloyd hit his head on the ground and had his belly fully pressed against the ground. Immediately, five other police officers at the scene jumped on top of Mr. Lloyd and all police officers began to beat him by punching and kicking him while he was subdued on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 45 seconds, Defendant police officers had handcuffed Mr. Lloyd. Nevertheless, Defendant police officers continued to beat Mr. Lloyd relentlessly for almost four minutes after he had been handcuffed and neutralized as a potential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Mr. Lloyd suffered a fractured left ankle, injured knee, injured back, and severe bruises and scratches throughout his body. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was then taken to the police station and charged with resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All criminal charges against Mr. Lloyd were later dismissed by the District Attorney's office.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lloyd has reached a settlement with the the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, but it has not yet been finalized. The city's Police Commission deliberated the case in closed session on Dec. 9, at the same meeting where they heard about four hours of public comment on the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August was awarded the Police Department's bronze Medal of Valor in 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/12/14/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-sfpd-officers-who-shot-and-killed-mario-woods#more\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuevas faces a federal civil rights suit arising from a 2009 incident when he was an officer with the Antioch Police Department. Contra Costa County prosecutors say Cuevas opened fire on a car driven by Barry White Jr. after White tried to run him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after the incident, wound up being shot in the head, ear and back. In a 2011 complaint filed against the city of Antioch, its Police Department and several officers, including Cuevas, White said the officer fired without provocation and without identifying himself. In fact, White alleged, Cuevas had \"tried to brutally murder three African-American men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"caob8kPdEoTF0IwxrwhRxuPTWcMIeLar\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The three men [including White] had their backs turned to the officer when he shot them through the rear driver's side window and rear windshield of Mr. White's vehicle. Mr. White sustained gunshot wounds to his head and ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men managed to escape from the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Cuevas pursued the men. He shot Mr. White in the back and left him for dead in a pool of blood. Mr. Anderson narrowly escaped death when a bullet pierced the peak of his cap. Mr. Longsworth was shot in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. White was found by officers of the Antioch Police Department 90 minutes later in a pool of blood and transported to the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. White suffered gunshot wounds to his head, ear, and back as a direct result of Officer Nicholas Cuevas' use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>White is currently jailed in San Francisco, having been charged with two counts of murder in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23979103/antioch-barry-white-jr-s-road-double-murder\" target=\"_blank\">a harrowing 2013 gun and knife attack\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White's federal civil rights lawsuit is on hold while his criminal charges are adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco did not respond to KQED's inquiries about the years of service for each of the officers involved in the Woods shooting. SF Weekly, citing the department, reports August has served for eight years, Seto and Santos for seven, Cuevas for four, and Phillips for 11 months.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Then within a minute, Defendant Charles AUGUST slammed Mr. Lloyd onto the ground. Mr. Lloyd hit his head on the ground and had his belly fully pressed against the ground. Immediately, five other police officers at the scene jumped on top of Mr. Lloyd and all police officers began to beat him by punching and kicking him while he was subdued on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 45 seconds, Defendant police officers had handcuffed Mr. Lloyd. Nevertheless, Defendant police officers continued to beat Mr. Lloyd relentlessly for almost four minutes after he had been handcuffed and neutralized as a potential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Mr. Lloyd suffered a fractured left ankle, injured knee, injured back, and severe bruises and scratches throughout his body. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was then taken to the police station and charged with resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All criminal charges against Mr. Lloyd were later dismissed by the District Attorney's office.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lloyd has reached a settlement with the the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, but it has not yet been finalized. The city's Police Commission deliberated the case in closed session on Dec. 9, at the same meeting where they heard about four hours of public comment on the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August was awarded the Police Department's bronze Medal of Valor in 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/12/14/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-sfpd-officers-who-shot-and-killed-mario-woods#more\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuevas faces a federal civil rights suit arising from a 2009 incident when he was an officer with the Antioch Police Department. Contra Costa County prosecutors say Cuevas opened fire on a car driven by Barry White Jr. after White tried to run him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after the incident, wound up being shot in the head, ear and back. 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Civil rights attorney John Burris unveiled the fourth Friday after referencing 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 News analysis\u003c/a> of previously known videos that appeared to contradict Police Chief Greg Suhr's statements about the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at a Dec. 4 town hall meeting on the shooting that Woods was holding a knife and raised his arm toward an officer before police opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"KQED presented a video that’s been displayed, and in that video it’s pretty clear that the shots occurred before he in fact -- Mario -- raised his hand,\" Burris said, \"indicating that the statements given by the police chief were clearly bogus, and were designed clearly to cover for the officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has not responded to multiple KQED inquiries about the apparent contradiction, but Sgt. 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