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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said Thursday's sentencing of former San Francisco police Officer Reynaldo Vargas marks \"the final chapter in a very sad story\" for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer accepted federal prosecutors' \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/266192616/U-S-v-Reynaldo-Vargas-Government-s-Sentencing-Memorandum\" target=\"_blank\">recommendation\u003c/a> for lighter punishment in exchange for Vargas' cooperation in a federal corruption trial that's sending two of his former colleagues to prison for longer terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was sentenced to one year in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring with his onetime partner, Edmond Robles, and their supervisor, former Sgt. Ian Furminger, to steal property from suspects in 2009. Vargas pleaded guilty last October to charges of conspiracy to distribute drugs, distribution of marijuana, conspiracy to commit theft and theft, before the jury trial of the three officers began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drug charges stemmed from Vargas' decision to give a pound of marijuana to two informants, which he described when he testified for the prosecution in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As wrong as this sounds, it was kind of an altruistic gesture,\" Vargas said on the stand. \"I wanted to give them something to -- something they could use to make some money for themselves,\" Vargas said. \"They were very down on their luck. My intent with it was ultimately it was just going to be destroyed. I thought that was kind of a waste. At least if they had it, they could do something with it. They could obviously sell it -- that was her expertise -- and make some money for themselves to get themselves off the street into a hotel room, eat, that sort of thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann asked the former narcotics officer, \"So your intention -- not to put too fine a point on it -- was to give heroin addicts marijuana to sell on the street?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas answered, \"Yes.\" He went on to testify that Robles and Furminger eventually knew about the transaction, as well as about times he collected money and property from searches of suspects' homes, keeping the proceeds and sharing them with Furminger and Robles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger was convicted in December of two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit theft and one count of conspiracy against civil rights. He was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced in February\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison, a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Officer Edmond Robles was convicted in December of the same charges as Furminger, plus an additional conspiracy to commit theft charge. He was sentenced in March to three years, three months in prison, plus a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service. Both Furminger and Robles were also sentenced to three years supervised release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are appealing their convictions to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"9FpI3t7q3A7Kw7HUEIazkGIcCBR7A8yE\"]\u003cbr>\nFurminger is also at the center of a bigoted text messaging scandal that's resulted in three SFPD officers' resignations. Seven more are facing termination hearings before San Francisco's Police Commission. The officers who may be fired, joined by three who were disciplined by the police chief but kept their jobs, \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\">filed a complaint\u003c/a> May 11 alleging the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations on discipline to elapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was contrite at his sentencing hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm going to go forward, I have to acknowledge everything I've done in the past and accept responsibility for that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors cited several factors in recommending the lighter sentence for Vargas. He was especially useful in pursuing charges against Furminger and Robles, Hemann wrote. The risk of testifying against other officers, while still facing jail time, was also a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition to the usual risks associated with being a 'snitch' in prison,\" Hemann wrote, \"Vargas faces the risk of retaliation at the hands of law enforcement by virtue of his cooperation against police officers. ... One unique aspect of this case is it is unusual for police officers to agree to cooperate in a prosecution against their fellow officers. It is important that the ultimate sentence imposed on Vargas provide incentive to officers in future cases to cooperate with investigations into police misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer did not impose a $20,000 fine that Hemann requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann asked the former narcotics officer, \"So your intention -- not to put too fine a point on it -- was to give heroin addicts marijuana to sell on the street?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas answered, \"Yes.\" He went on to testify that Robles and Furminger eventually knew about the transaction, as well as about times he collected money and property from searches of suspects' homes, keeping the proceeds and sharing them with Furminger and Robles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger was convicted in December of two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit theft and one count of conspiracy against civil rights. He was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced in February\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison, a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Officer Edmond Robles was convicted in December of the same charges as Furminger, plus an additional conspiracy to commit theft charge. He was sentenced in March to three years, three months in prison, plus a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service. Both Furminger and Robles were also sentenced to three years supervised release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are appealing their convictions to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nFurminger is also at the center of a bigoted text messaging scandal that's resulted in three SFPD officers' resignations. Seven more are facing termination hearings before San Francisco's Police Commission. The officers who may be fired, joined by three who were disciplined by the police chief but kept their jobs, \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\">filed a complaint\u003c/a> May 11 alleging the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations on discipline to elapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was contrite at his sentencing hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm going to go forward, I have to acknowledge everything I've done in the past and accept responsibility for that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors cited several factors in recommending the lighter sentence for Vargas. He was especially useful in pursuing charges against Furminger and Robles, Hemann wrote. The risk of testifying against other officers, while still facing jail time, was also a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition to the usual risks associated with being a 'snitch' in prison,\" Hemann wrote, \"Vargas faces the risk of retaliation at the hands of law enforcement by virtue of his cooperation against police officers. ... One unique aspect of this case is it is unusual for police officers to agree to cooperate in a prosecution against their fellow officers. It is important that the ultimate sentence imposed on Vargas provide incentive to officers in future cases to cooperate with investigations into police misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer did not impose a $20,000 fine that Hemann requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206463348\" 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>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday evening, as part of the annual Ride of Silence to honor bicyclists who have been killed on San Francisco streets, he plans to visit the intersection for the first time since Vinson's death.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\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/206463348&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/206463348'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the officers facing termination for sending some of the racist, anti-gay and sexist text messages that have mired the San Francisco Police Department in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">scandal since mid-March\u003c/a> is leading a legal charge to keep his job and those of nine others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain Daugherty filed a petition and complaint (\u003ca href=\"#petition\">see below\u003c/a>) in San Francisco Superior Court late Monday asking a judge to halt disciplinary proceedings pending before the city's Police Commission. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended that Daugherty and seven other officers be fired, and he recommended that two additional officers face discipline up to and including termination, at the discretion of the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge doesn't dispute that officers sent inappropriate or offensive text messages, but simply that the department waited too long to investigate them and initiate discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are accused of conduct unbecoming an officer, according to the filing. Daugherty was placed on \"indefinite, unpaid\" suspension on May 4 while the city's Police Commission adjudicates his case. The department did not immediately respond to inquiries into whether the other nine officers were also suspended that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr said in early April\u003c/a> that he would discipline four additional officers implicated by text messages that were \"inappropriate,\" but \"not determined to be racist or homophobic\" at the chief's level, which includes punishment up to a 10-day suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition challenges the city's attempt to discipline all 14 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages, 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 March 13\u003c/a>, were all recovered from the cellphone of former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> in February to three years and five months in prison.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q8FGbGEEAU8b5p6MITVy04l9TWGUhP2f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents investigating Furminger and other SFPD plainclothes officers for corruption and illegal searches delivered evidence to SFPD's Internal Affairs Division in December 2012, the petition asserts, and yet the department did not begin a disciplinary investigation until January of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a statute [the\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\"> California Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a>] that required the department to initiate and complete its investigation into these text messages within one year of their discovery,\" said Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson. \"It did not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson said the nine other officers are represented by attorneys from at least five other firms, and all the officers and their attorneys are coordinating their claims into yesterday's filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Essentially, we consolidated it for the sake of judicial economy and efficiency,\" she said. \"Everybody has a very high stake in the outcome. Each of their clients are significantly impacted by this action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing is both a petition and a lawsuit, Wilkinson said, asking a judge to halt the city's disciplinary proceedings, force the removal of any findings related to the texts from the officers' personnel files and impose a civil penalty of $25,000 for each officer -- plus attorneys' fees and other possible damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out of the thousands of text messages obtained from Furminger's cell phone, only a limited, number of sporadic but grossly inappropriate texts were exchanged with DAUGHERTY over a period often-months. DAUGHERTY is deeply ashamed by what he wrote, such texts being unreflective of his strong commitment to exemplary community policing of all San Francisco's diverse citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the city attorney's office said the city is aware of the filing but has no comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time-limit issue has been looming for some time. When Suhr addressed pending Police Commission disciplinary hearings at an \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">April 3 \u003c/span>\u003c/span>press conference, he elaborated on when the clock pauses, or “tolls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those administrative matters toll, and attorneys usually know that, when there’s a criminal case pending,\" Suhr said. \"As soon as we became aware of this, we took action. And I’m confident, when we go to the commission, that our argument that anything that was involved in this was tolling until after the criminal case was over with. I myself had no knowledge of this, as I was walled off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The section at issue is California Government Code Section 3304(d)(2), part of the Peace Officers Bill of Rights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct is also the subject of a criminal investigation or criminal prosecution, the time during which the criminal investigation or criminal prosecution is pending shall toll the one-year time period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wilkinson said the offensive text messages were not the subject of the criminal investigation against Furminger and five other former SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three arrests that Daugherty participated in have been affected, as the San Francisco's District Attorney's Office \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">reviews some 3,000 cases\u003c/a> involving all 14 officers over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamara Aparton, spokeswoman for the city's public defender, said Tuesday that two pending prosecutions involving Daugherty and clients represented by deputy public defenders were dismissed in April. 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I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.’\u003ccite>Dickran Tevrizian\u003cbr>\nRetired U.S. District Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If just one individual was wrongly imprisoned, that’s one too many,” Gascón said Thursday. “On the other end, if we have someone that actually committed a crime, but that prosecution is compromised because of the credibility of this individual, we have a guilty person that may be released and continue to present a danger to all of us. The impacts both on liberty and victims are similarly unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said the number of arrests and prosecutions affected is preliminary. He said judges and other members of a task force he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a month ago\u003c/a> will prioritize the 70 or so cases involving people currently in custody. The judges are working autonomously on cases affected by the texting scandal and culture of the police department, Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His task force is also investigating the SFPD’s DNA crime lab and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations\u003c/a> that sheriff’s deputies forced inmates to fight in one of the city’s jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the district attorney said prosecutors have so far dismissed eight pending cases involving officers implicated in the text messaging scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel of retired judges consists of Cruz Reynoso, LaDoris Cordell and Dickran Tevrizian. Reynoso is a former associate justice of the California Supreme Court and vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Cordell was a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge for 19 years and is currently the independent auditor for the San Jose Police Department. Tevrizian was a federal judge in California’s Central District for more than 20 years, retiring in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police officers have to abide by the constitutional protections that are guaranteed to each and every one of us as citizens or residents of this country,” he said. “I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”oLQT5degXnAtqYdXS9DwbnCQNfZ1aXs4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firing seven officers\u003c/a> who exchanged texts with former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy to violate civil rights charges in December. 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The 10 cases referred to the commission are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco leads national conversations on equality and fairness instead of racism, sexism and homophobia,” Gascón said. “However, as recent revelations have shown, we’re not immune from this epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Rev. Arnold Townsend, with the San Francisco NAACP, said statements of surprise over the racist text messages underscore a divided consciousness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I doubt that there was an African-American in San Francisco that was surprised that we have bias in our police department,” he said. “That’s the amazing disconnect we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco NAACP, applauded the appointment of the judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pull the cover off this cesspool of injustice and the criminalization of black people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a city with law enforcement agencies wracked by a string of scandals involving bigotry and corruption, heads of San Francisco’s criminal justice system gathered Wednesday for a conference on race and reform hosted by Public Defender Jeff Adachi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi opened the conference with a list of statistics from recent studies on racial disparities in San Francisco’s criminal justice system. The latest data came from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice\u003c/a>, which found black women in San Francisco were 13 times more likely to be arrested than their counterparts of other races. The city’s arrest rate of African-American women is about four times the state average, according to the report (\u003ca href=\"#CJCJ\">read below\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10507456\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10507456 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-800x433.jpg\" alt=\"A graph showing the multiples of likelihood that a black woman would be arrested in San Francisco, compared with women of other races, from 1980 to 2013.\" width=\"800\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-800x433.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-400x217.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-960x520.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2.jpg 971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graph showing the multiples of likelihood that a black woman would be arrested in San Francisco, compared with women of other races, from 1980 to 2013. \u003ccite>(Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really haven’t heard any explanation for why the city is so out of line for the rest of the state, and as far as we can tell, the rest of the country in terms of its disproportionate African-American arrest rates,” CJCJ senior researcher Mike Males told KQED in an interview. “And another thing is they’ve gotten worse over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparity in San Francisco’s arrest rate for black women has more than tripled since 1980, according to the statistics compiled by the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the data that describe San Francisco as an outlier in arrests of black people, talk of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist and homophobic text messages\u003c/a> traded by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a group of current and former SFPD officers\u003c/a> hung over the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Because I’m black, I can never be blue enough for you? Shame on you. Shame on all of you.’\u003ccite>SFPD Sgt. Yulanda Williams,\u003cbr>\nOfficers for Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, president of \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a>, was one of at least two black officers mentioned in text messages recovered from former Sgt. Ian Furminger’s cellphone. The texts were released after he was sentenced for federal fraud and conspiracy charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I joined what I thought was San Francisco’s finest,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like that today. It doesn’t feel like that to many of the minority officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to an execrpt of Williams’ comments below. At one point she says the content of the text that mentioned her by name, which used graphic and offensive language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203232933&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said she viewed it as a betrayal that Police Chief Greg Suhr never addressed the scandal with rank-and-file officers, and Mayor Ed Lee never responded to her requests to meet. She said she’d heard rumors that the text messages were going to come out and called Suhr the day before they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was assured that my members had nothing to worry about and that I had nothing to worry about,” she said. “You don’t do that to your family. You don’t do that to people you love. Because I’m black, I can never be blue enough for you? Shame on you. Shame on all of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr didn’t attend the conference, but sent newly promoted Cmdr. 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This is a cancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference also heard from Galia Phillips, the assistant federal public defender in San Francisco, who said her office is challenging arrests in joint \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Court-filing-alleges-racial-bias-in-Tenderloin-6174013.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narcotics sweeps\u003c/a> of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood conducted by San Francisco police and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents in 2013 and 2014. “Operation Safe Schools” resulted in 37 arrests in San Francisco for drug sales within 1,000 feet of a school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every one of the 37 people that were charged were black,” Galia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said previously that racial bias didn’t factor into those arrests, and that all the defendants were selling drugs near schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Galia’s challenge to the case cites police surveillance video in which an officer disparagingly refers to black males before being reminded by his partner that the camera is rolling, and another instance in which a confidential informant passes up an offer from an Asian dealer to wait for an African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our challenge is not focused on whether or not any particular defendant was innocent or guilty,” Galia said. “Our challenge is focused on whether or not the operation is fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"CJCJ\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Read the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice report below:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[scribd id=263591967 key=key-b6oYWQgHwwC7dO8DW6lP mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Suhr presented dispatch records showing reports of a person with a knife chasing another man on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong, because we’re convinced he got it wrong.'\u003ccite>Bill Simpich,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a man with a bicycle, who has not been publicly identified, refused to sell his bike to Perez Lopez, and the construction worker began chasing him with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers confronted Perez Lopez and the bicyclist between two parked cars on the east side of Folsom, according to a Police Department rendition of the scene and statements by Suhr. It was not far from where Perez Lopez lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect was on the sidewalk side of the car, the victim was on the street side of the car,\" Suhr said, describing Perez Lopez as the suspect and the unidentified bicyclist as the victim. \"The officer attempted to position the suspect so he could see his hands, when the suspect turned, slashing the knife across at the officer, causing the officer to jump back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said witnesses heard both officers order the suspect to get back and drop the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers were approximately 5 to 6 feet away when the suspect charged at one of the officers with a knife raised overhead,\" Suhr said. \"Both officers discharged their firearms, one firing once, one firing five times. They struck the suspect. The suspect did not survive his injuries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses interviewed by \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/conflicting-versions-of-police-shooting-suppressed-by-fear/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> and another attorney representing Perez Lopez's family say Perez Lopez wasn't holding the knife when officers opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco medical examiner's autopsy report is not completed, a spokeswoman for the office said Friday, and she declined to give further information. Casillas said the official autopsy was conducted March 2, and Suhr addressed an angry Mission District crowd that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did he know? Or did he not inquire?\" Casillas said. \"You guys shot this kid in the back. This charging with a knife thing isn’t going to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent forensic pathologist Jay Chapman, retained by Casillas, said it's impossible to exactly trace each one of the gunshots until the official autopsy report is released, but there is \"no question\" that all six gunshots hit Perez Lopez from behind. Read Chapman's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/262998787/Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-Private-Autopsy-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Witnesses say that he was ordered to put down the knife, and that he did throw down the knife before the shots were fired,\" said attorney Bill Simpich, who lives near the location of the shooting and started taking statements soon after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpich, also representing the family of Perez Lopez, said he has spoken to witnesses who said the unidentified bicyclist \"may have borrowed or stolen Amilcar's cellphone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the bicyclist and Perez Lopez knew each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said on March 2 that he didn't know if Perez Lopez knew the man with the bike, but he said the bicyclist thanked police on the scene, \"saying he thought the officers saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong,\" Simpich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas also requested a federal investigation into the shooting. In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/263003948/Letter-to-U-S-Attorney-Regarding-Amilcar-Perez-Lopez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 22 letter\u003c/a> to Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, Casillas references photographs and witness interviews that he did not release Friday. The letter indicates that Perez Lopez's body was in the street, not on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had the shooting occurred as [Suhr] has proffered to the media and the public, Mr. Perez Lopez's body would have ended up on the sidewalk, not at its actual location, 10 to 15 feet away in the street,\" the letter says. \"In light of [Suhr's] pronouncements attempting to justify the shooting, it is apparent that he and his department are intent on absolving the police officers of any criminal responsibility. As such, an investigation by your office is even more essential.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Police Department spokesman said Tiffe and Reboli have returned to active duty. He said he could not comment on ongoing investigations into the shooting by department homicide and internal affairs investigators. The San Francisco District Attorney's Office and the Office of Citizen Complaints are also looking into the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the complaint filed on behalf of Amilcar Perez Lopez's family in U.S. District Court below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=262989139 key=key-glkuvxyKXYuGaWP2LWkM mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Tiffany Camhi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was not far from where Perez Lopez lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect was on the sidewalk side of the car, the victim was on the street side of the car,\" Suhr said, describing Perez Lopez as the suspect and the unidentified bicyclist as the victim. \"The officer attempted to position the suspect so he could see his hands, when the suspect turned, slashing the knife across at the officer, causing the officer to jump back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said witnesses heard both officers order the suspect to get back and drop the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers were approximately 5 to 6 feet away when the suspect charged at one of the officers with a knife raised overhead,\" Suhr said. \"Both officers discharged their firearms, one firing once, one firing five times. They struck the suspect. The suspect did not survive his injuries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses interviewed by \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/conflicting-versions-of-police-shooting-suppressed-by-fear/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> and another attorney representing Perez Lopez's family say Perez Lopez wasn't holding the knife when officers opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco medical examiner's autopsy report is not completed, a spokeswoman for the office said Friday, and she declined to give further information. Casillas said the official autopsy was conducted March 2, and Suhr addressed an angry Mission District crowd that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did he know? Or did he not inquire?\" Casillas said. \"You guys shot this kid in the back. This charging with a knife thing isn’t going to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent forensic pathologist Jay Chapman, retained by Casillas, said it's impossible to exactly trace each one of the gunshots until the official autopsy report is released, but there is \"no question\" that all six gunshots hit Perez Lopez from behind. Read Chapman's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/262998787/Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-Private-Autopsy-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Witnesses say that he was ordered to put down the knife, and that he did throw down the knife before the shots were fired,\" said attorney Bill Simpich, who lives near the location of the shooting and started taking statements soon after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpich, also representing the family of Perez Lopez, said he has spoken to witnesses who said the unidentified bicyclist \"may have borrowed or stolen Amilcar's cellphone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the bicyclist and Perez Lopez knew each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said on March 2 that he didn't know if Perez Lopez knew the man with the bike, but he said the bicyclist thanked police on the scene, \"saying he thought the officers saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong,\" Simpich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas also requested a federal investigation into the shooting. 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Bystanders reacted to police use of force by voicing fears that police would severely injure the person who was being detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 6 p.m., a small crowd had gathered to observe a group of officers clustered around an African American man who had been detained and was lying face down on the sidewalk. Smartphones were out as observers filmed, bystanders yelled out in frustration, and all eyes were on the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man’s body appeared limp when officers lifted him up off the sidewalk to transport him to a police vehicle, but an officer on the scene dismissed bystanders’ accusations that he’d been beaten unconscious, saying, “He was never unconscious. He just didn’t want to walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An observer filmed a portion of the police encounter. Here’s the footage, digitally edited with zoom and brightness adjustments to provide a clearer picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/123908079\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man targeted by police is San Francisco resident Daryl Porter, 39, according to SFPD spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan, who provided information based on a police incident report. Porter was transported to San Francisco General Hospital after being struck “at least twice” with a police baton, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitness accounts of what transpired in the moments before the video was filmed differ from the official police narrative. Gray Hinojosa, a longtime San Francisco resident who said he’d been across the street at an empanada shop, Chile Lindo, when the whole thing started, said he saw Porter headed east on 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street on his bicycle when “his jacket got caught. 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And then another [police] car came, and two more came, and they just jumped right on top of him. It wasn’t like, ‘what’s going on? Let’s check out the situation.’ They just started pounding him. ... It was excessive. There were police coming from every direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After becoming accustomed to seeing stories of police violence on his Facebook feed, Hinojosa said it was hard to watch something similar occur before his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Tejeda, owner of Chile Lindo, crossed the street when she saw more officers arriving and started yelling out at them to ease up. \"The pile was getting higher and higher and higher, and that's when I started screaming ... to the police that they could kill somebody,\" she explained later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That they really don't know yet what this man has done, but when you pile, you know, one person on top of another ... he can have a heart attack, or you can suffocate a person like this. It's such a brutal way of behaving, let alone that once again we're talking about a big black guy. So I was like, what are you doing? I am not against the police, I understand their job is not easy,\" she added. \"I think the problem is that somewhere there in the training, there is no room for analyzing the situation a little bit better before they treat someone with so much violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the narrative in the police report, two officers on regular patrol “saw the suspect on a bicycle, weaving in and out of pedestrian foot traffic,” Gatpandan said. “Then he … walked against a red light, causing vehicular traffic to stop for him. That’s a violation. … The officers approached him to stop him and detain him for that vehicle code violation. At that point, the suspect tried to get away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Porter also “struck the officer in the chest more than once,” with his bicycle, causing an injury in the officer’s abdomen. Since the encounter started with a simple vehicle code violation, “he could have been released at the scene after he had been identified, but it went the other way, because he decided to swing the bike towards the officer,” Gatpandan said. “At that point, you’re committing a felony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accordingly, Porter faces a felony charge for assaulting an officer, Gatpandan said, and four additional misdemeanor charges relating to substances found in his possession suspected to be narcotics, plus charges for obstructing an officer of their duties and a probation violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinojosa stated emphatically that he did not see Porter strike an officer with his bike. “He was trying to untangle his jacket,” Hinojosa said. “I didn’t see him strike an officer or anyone.” Once he’d set his bike against the building, “he didn’t grab it or pick it up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Crenshaw, another bystander who said she witnessed the encounter, said “he dropped the bike and ran. … And then he was coming around the corner, and there were four on him. And then there were six on him. He didn’t do nothing. But, he’s a black man, with white cops after him. I’m a white person, but I know how these cops are. I’m part of this Black Lives Matter stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an officer's statement made around that time over police radio, accessed via an online police-scanner archive, “He was hobbled then he was carried to the car. People started making accusations that he was unconscious, because everyone became a voyeur today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Video editing by Peter Menchini\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The man targeted by police is San Francisco resident Daryl Porter, 39, according to SFPD spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan, who provided information based on a police incident report. Porter was transported to San Francisco General Hospital after being struck “at least twice” with a police baton, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitness accounts of what transpired in the moments before the video was filmed differ from the official police narrative. Gray Hinojosa, a longtime San Francisco resident who said he’d been across the street at an empanada shop, Chile Lindo, when the whole thing started, said he saw Porter headed east on 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street on his bicycle when “his jacket got caught. He got off the bike, and he was pissed.” When he stopped suddenly, he was nearly hit by oncoming traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinojosa said he watched Porter cross the street via the crosswalk, then lean his bike against a building on 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street to untangle his jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was swearing in frustration. As he’s making all this ruckus, there’s a cop car driving down … they decided to pull him over. One of them jumped out of the car on the passenger’s side … and went by him. … There was a scuffle, and all of a sudden I heard the cop say, ‘get down on the ground’ … he wasn’t getting down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when “one of the cops took the baton and hit him in the leg,” Hinojosa said. “And then, at that point, he got free and started running, and came around the corner and they caught him … They hit him again, twice, with the baton. And then they finally got him down on the ground. And then another [police] car came, and two more came, and they just jumped right on top of him. It wasn’t like, ‘what’s going on? Let’s check out the situation.’ They just started pounding him. ... It was excessive. There were police coming from every direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After becoming accustomed to seeing stories of police violence on his Facebook feed, Hinojosa said it was hard to watch something similar occur before his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Tejeda, owner of Chile Lindo, crossed the street when she saw more officers arriving and started yelling out at them to ease up. \"The pile was getting higher and higher and higher, and that's when I started screaming ... to the police that they could kill somebody,\" she explained later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That they really don't know yet what this man has done, but when you pile, you know, one person on top of another ... he can have a heart attack, or you can suffocate a person like this. It's such a brutal way of behaving, let alone that once again we're talking about a big black guy. So I was like, what are you doing? I am not against the police, I understand their job is not easy,\" she added. \"I think the problem is that somewhere there in the training, there is no room for analyzing the situation a little bit better before they treat someone with so much violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the narrative in the police report, two officers on regular patrol “saw the suspect on a bicycle, weaving in and out of pedestrian foot traffic,” Gatpandan said. “Then he … walked against a red light, causing vehicular traffic to stop for him. That’s a violation. … The officers approached him to stop him and detain him for that vehicle code violation. At that point, the suspect tried to get away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Porter also “struck the officer in the chest more than once,” with his bicycle, causing an injury in the officer’s abdomen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:50 p.m. Friday\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said a captain is among seven officers who have been suspended and face being fired for trading bigoted text messages with a convicted former police sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their conduct is incompatible with that of a police officer and I believe causes them to fall below the minimum qualifications required,\" Suhr told reporters today.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct that happens here in San Francisco.'\u003ccite>Christine DeBerry,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney Chief of Staff\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All of the text messages implicating a total of 14 officers were recovered from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">ex-SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger\u003c/a>'s cellphone during a federal criminal investigation. Furminger was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges in December, and federal prosecutors included a sampling of the texts in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">March 13 filing\u003c/a> opposing the former sergeant's release on bail while he appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=2572\" target=\"_blank\">Police Commission\u003c/a> makes the final determination on all officer discipline greater than a 10-day suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additional officer, Michael Robison, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">resigned last month\u003c/a>, or the chief would have recommended he be fired as well, according to the department. Suhr said another officer may resign today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would imagine more of them, if not all of them, are considering the same thing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more officers have been reassigned to duties that do not include contact with the public while they await a hearing before the Police Commission, according to the department. Suhr said he recommended discipline up to and including termination for the pair, but he said their one-off texts with Furminger did not rise to the level of bias displayed by the suspended officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you read the text messages, it's not even close,\" Suhr said. \"The racial sentiment expressed in the others is not as clear, although it appears to be present in the other two, and I think it's something the commission needs to hear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"v3jT5pOBk88ekUlPIyOQ7UVExUdOAfVO\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're counting, that leaves four officers whose discipline Suhr said he will handle in-house. The chief said one officer texted Furminger that he was somewhere other than where he was assigned to be at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining three officers responded to texts from Furminger in a way they say was meant to be dismissive, Suhr said, \"but they were not the kind of language that a police officer should be using, and all three ... didn't tell anybody of Mr. Furminger's tone and character. And they were supposed to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi said he expects the greater number of police officers' involvement to \"significantly widen\" his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">initial estimate\u003c/a> that as many as 1,000 cases could be affected by proof that arresting or testifying officers harbor racial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced Friday that eight SFPD officers have been suspended because of their roles in a racist and/or homophobic text messaging scandal that has rocked the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the suspended officers, however, has already \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eight of the members engaged in text messages of such extreme bias, and Chief Suhr believes their conduct is incompatible with the duties of a police officer,\" said an SFPD press release. \"These officers' text messages are of such despicable thinking that those responsible clearly fall below the minimum standards required to be a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their cases have been forwarded to the Police Commission, with the recommendation of termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We need to be a police department that the community trusts and goes to and doesn’t see this small, half-a-percent of officers, or less, as indicative of San Francisco police officers.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fourteen officers were the focus of an internal SFPD probe that is now complete. In addition to the eight who will be suspended, six other officers face lesser consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two officers who took part in \"single texting events that included inflammatory texts\" have been reassigned to non-public contact positions. Their cases have also been forwarded to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four remaining officers also engaged in \"single texting events\" that violated department policy but didn't involve hate speech. They'll be disciplined by Suhr, who can suspend an officer without pay for up to 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, San Francisco criminal justice and community leaders traded criticism at a Board of Supervisors committee hearing addressing the scandal that has beset the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreshadowing today's news, Suhr told the city's Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee that the department's internal investigation into 14 officers was on the verge of wrapping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There will be suspensions,\" Suhr said. \"There will be more than a few officers referred to the Police Commission with a singular recommendation for termination. I cannot unring the bell on these texts. I am as disgusted by them as everyone should be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD is also reviewing the officer's personal history questionnaires \"to see if there's any common denominator among them all that should have been a red flag, that should have been caught, that should have prevented them from being hired,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine DeBerry, chief of staff in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, said a 10-year review of cases involving four officers so far identified turned up more than 3,000 arrests, about 1,600 of which resulted in prosecutors filing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that we do not want is to conduct a look-back, go through 3,000 cases, and then in another year or two years find ourselves with another scandal on our desks and another situation we have to try and unravel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney is asking the city for more money to fund a new task force on law enforcement misconduct, DeBerry said, and would like to see more transparency around police misconduct investigations, and swifter discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct that happens here in San Francisco,” she said. “It’s a very rare situation where somebody is fired for the kinds of misconduct. There are very few cases that are reported to us for misconduct and the discipline that’s meted out is rare, relatively weak and uncertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners have said they’ve fired seven police officers over the last several years, but California law requires details of individual officer discipline to be confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi played two recordings of statements he said were from former clients recounting their experiences with convicted ex-SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger and another officer identified in the texting scandal, Noel Schwab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Gebreyesus told Adachi in one of the recorded conversations that Schwab arrested him for a misdemeanor in 2007, then repeatedly referred to African-Americans as \"monkeys\" and a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m getting mad right now just thinking about it,\" Gebreyesus said on the recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi also played a recording of a statement from Nora Wheeler, who he said is currently in a Ph.D. program in England. Wheeler said she was arrested and injured by Ian Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did follow through and file a complaint,\" she said, but she was later told that photographs of her injuries no longer existed. \"The evidence went missing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing SFPD traffic stop data from 2013, Adachi said African-Americans are three times likelier to be pulled over in San Francisco than white people are. In general, Adachi said African-Americans were seven times more likely to be arrested than white people, according to state Department of Justice data. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/news/6233\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> found African-Americans are arrested for felony drug possession in San Francisco at a rate 19 times higher than other races in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said narcotics arrest statistics are changing, down more than 85 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who normally used to traffic in narcotics have now gone on to traffic in electronic goods,\" Suhr said, noting an uptick in property crime across the state in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Eric Mar pressed Suhr on whether the text messages are a \"symptom of a much larger problem that needs to be addressed institutionally within the police department, and part of a culture within the police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said law enforcement, like any profession, has a culture associated with it. 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The chief said one officer texted Furminger that he was somewhere other than where he was assigned to be at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining three officers responded to texts from Furminger in a way they say was meant to be dismissive, Suhr said, \"but they were not the kind of language that a police officer should be using, and all three ... didn't tell anybody of Mr. Furminger's tone and character. And they were supposed to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi said he expects the greater number of police officers' involvement to \"significantly widen\" his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">initial estimate\u003c/a> that as many as 1,000 cases could be affected by proof that arresting or testifying officers harbor racial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced Friday that eight SFPD officers have been suspended because of their roles in a racist and/or homophobic text messaging scandal that has rocked the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the suspended officers, however, has already \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eight of the members engaged in text messages of such extreme bias, and Chief Suhr believes their conduct is incompatible with the duties of a police officer,\" said an SFPD press release. \"These officers' text messages are of such despicable thinking that those responsible clearly fall below the minimum standards required to be a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their cases have been forwarded to the Police Commission, with the recommendation of termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We need to be a police department that the community trusts and goes to and doesn’t see this small, half-a-percent of officers, or less, as indicative of San Francisco police officers.'\u003ccite>Greg Suhr,\u003cbr>San Francisco Police Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fourteen officers were the focus of an internal SFPD probe that is now complete. In addition to the eight who will be suspended, six other officers face lesser consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two officers who took part in \"single texting events that included inflammatory texts\" have been reassigned to non-public contact positions. Their cases have also been forwarded to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four remaining officers also engaged in \"single texting events\" that violated department policy but didn't involve hate speech. They'll be disciplined by Suhr, who can suspend an officer without pay for up to 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, San Francisco criminal justice and community leaders traded criticism at a Board of Supervisors committee hearing addressing the scandal that has beset the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreshadowing today's news, Suhr told the city's Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee that the department's internal investigation into 14 officers was on the verge of wrapping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There will be suspensions,\" Suhr said. \"There will be more than a few officers referred to the Police Commission with a singular recommendation for termination. I cannot unring the bell on these texts. I am as disgusted by them as everyone should be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD is also reviewing the officer's personal history questionnaires \"to see if there's any common denominator among them all that should have been a red flag, that should have been caught, that should have prevented them from being hired,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine DeBerry, chief of staff in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, said a 10-year review of cases involving four officers so far identified turned up more than 3,000 arrests, about 1,600 of which resulted in prosecutors filing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that we do not want is to conduct a look-back, go through 3,000 cases, and then in another year or two years find ourselves with another scandal on our desks and another situation we have to try and unravel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney is asking the city for more money to fund a new task force on law enforcement misconduct, DeBerry said, and would like to see more transparency around police misconduct investigations, and swifter discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s too little discipline and too little consequence for misconduct that happens here in San Francisco,” she said. “It’s a very rare situation where somebody is fired for the kinds of misconduct. There are very few cases that are reported to us for misconduct and the discipline that’s meted out is rare, relatively weak and uncertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners have said they’ve fired seven police officers over the last several years, but California law requires details of individual officer discipline to be confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi played two recordings of statements he said were from former clients recounting their experiences with convicted ex-SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger and another officer identified in the texting scandal, Noel Schwab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Gebreyesus told Adachi in one of the recorded conversations that Schwab arrested him for a misdemeanor in 2007, then repeatedly referred to African-Americans as \"monkeys\" and a racist slur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m getting mad right now just thinking about it,\" Gebreyesus said on the recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi also played a recording of a statement from Nora Wheeler, who he said is currently in a Ph.D. program in England. Wheeler said she was arrested and injured by Ian Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did follow through and file a complaint,\" she said, but she was later told that photographs of her injuries no longer existed. \"The evidence went missing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing SFPD traffic stop data from 2013, Adachi said African-Americans are three times likelier to be pulled over in San Francisco than white people are. In general, Adachi said African-Americans were seven times more likely to be arrested than white people, according to state Department of Justice data. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/news/6233\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> found African-Americans are arrested for felony drug possession in San Francisco at a rate 19 times higher than other races in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said narcotics arrest statistics are changing, down more than 85 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who normally used to traffic in narcotics have now gone on to traffic in electronic goods,\" Suhr said, noting an uptick in property crime across the state in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Eric Mar pressed Suhr on whether the text messages are a \"symptom of a much larger problem that needs to be addressed institutionally within the police department, and part of a culture within the police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said law enforcement, like any profession, has a culture associated with it. He said the best way to change attitudes is by filling more than 300 new officer positions with \"young people that are right-minded.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to be a police department that the community trusts and goes to and doesn’t see this small, half-a-percent of officers, or less, as indicative of San Francisco police officers,\" Suhr said. He said the department is ramping up racial profiling and implicit, or subconscious, bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers for Justice Peace Officers Association President Sgt. Yulanda Williams said the texts had left a \"gaping wound\" in the department. The association represents minority San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have officers who are suffering from post-traumatic stress, which is related to the ways they have been treated within the San Francisco Police Department,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams called on the city to call a meeting at which OFJ members could be debriefed, \"So that our members can tell you how we felt, how we have been hurt by being a member of the San Francisco Police Department,\" she said. \"We risk our lives on a daily basis because we love to do this. We are here as your servants. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says he is reassigning staff and looking for more funding to investigate three separate scandals involving city law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find it repulsive,\" Gascón told a gathering of reporters at his office today. \"In my entire 30-year-plus career in law enforcement, these are some of the worst allegations that I have seen. And I find them extremely troubling, not only because of the incidents, but because of the potential repercussions for involving so many prosecutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he's forming a task force in the district attorney's office composed of three teams -- a team for each of three scandals that broke since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The first involved a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">series of bigoted text messages\u003c/a> allegedly swapped between several San Francisco police officers. The text conversations were recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone, according to federal court documents filed March 13, but implicated at least four current SFPD officers, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">possibly more\u003c/a>. Furminger was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to three years and five months\u003c/a> in prison last month. He is appealing his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week and a half later, Public Defender Jeff Adachi released a private investigator's preliminary findings that San Francisco sheriffs' deputies at one of the city's jails were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">threatening and humiliating inmates and forcing two of them to fight\u003c/a> for entertainment. Inmates told Adachi and the independent investigator that deputies were betting on the fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four deputies were placed on administrative leave the same day the allegations were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unlikely that this case was limited to only four people,\" Gascón said. \"We want to know who else knew, when did they know, have there been other similar cases, are there any other issues going on over there that we should know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then over the weekend, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that an analyst and supervisor in the city's crime lab had come under suspicion for submitting potentially shoddy DNA matches in criminal cases. 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I have less of a problem investigating the problems in the sheriff’s department, but with the DNA crime lab, and the police, these witnesses are relied upon by the district attorney in seeking their convictions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón gave scant details about his newly created task force, declining to state even the number of people assigned. He said he would seek funding from the city's Board of Supervisors to pay for the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite members of the public and members of law enforcement to provide information to this office concerning any of these cases or any other allegations of misconduct involving law enforcement personnel in our county,\" Gascón said. \"San Francisco will have no tolerance for bad behavior or criminal behavior within our law enforcement community, and part of that begins with all of us standing tall and ensuring that these cases and any other cases that may be found are handled appropriately. 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