window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_10501373": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10501373",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10501373",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10500396,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-400x249.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 249
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-960x597.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 597
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1193
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-1440x895.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 895
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-800x497.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 497
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-1180x733.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 733
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429912890,
"modified": 1429917637,
"caption": "Civil rights attorney Arnoldo Casillas shows a photo of the scene where Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot and killed by two San Francisco police officers.",
"description": "https://www.scribd.com/doc/262998787/Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-Private-Autopsy-Report",
"title": "RS14932_IMG_3747.JPG-alt_255",
"credit": "Tiffany Camhi/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10476888": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10476888",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10476888",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10476872,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-779x576.png",
"width": 779,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-400x311.png",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 311
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-320x249.png",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 249
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-672x372.png",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM.png",
"width": 779,
"height": 606
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-768x597.png",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 597
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-96x96.png",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 96
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-64x64.png",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-75x75.png",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-32x32.png",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-03-at-5.38.43-PM-128x128.png",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1428108314,
"modified": 1428108380,
"caption": "Screen shot from the April 1 video at 16th and Capp showing a baton strike.",
"description": null,
"title": "Screen Shot baton strike video",
"credit": "Video by Ben Hardy",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10476816": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10476816",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10476816",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10476086,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-400x300.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-320x240.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 240
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1438
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-1440x1079.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1079
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-800x599.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 599
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-1180x884.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 884
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-768x575.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 575
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1428104834,
"modified": 1428104883,
"caption": "San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said Friday that he had suspended seven officers and recommended they be fired for sending bigoted text messages.",
"description": "San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said Friday that he had suspended seven officers and recommended they be fired for sending bigoted text messages.",
"title": "RS14734_IMG_1367.JPG-alt_244",
"credit": "Alex Emslie/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10471563": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10471563",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10471563",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10471512,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-400x300.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-320x240.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 240
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1438
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-1440x1079.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1079
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-800x599.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 599
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-1180x884.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 884
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-768x575.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 575
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Gascon-Cropped-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1427757702,
"modified": 1559257890,
"caption": "San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.",
"description": "San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says his office will conduct independent investigations into multiple scandals involving San Francisco law enforcement agencies.",
"title": "Gascon Cropped",
"credit": "Alex Emslie/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10466122": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10466122",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10466122",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10465873,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-400x300.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-320x240.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 240
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1438
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-1440x1079.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1079
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-800x599.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 599
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-1180x884.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 884
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-768x575.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 575
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-sized-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1427329545,
"modified": 1430412358,
"caption": "San Francisco police patrol car. ",
"description": "A complaint filed March 25 alleges a San Francisco Police Department officer violated city law through improperly participating in an FBI investigation.",
"title": "San Francisco Police",
"credit": "Alex Emslie/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10461709": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10461709",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10461709",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10461515,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-400x250.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 250
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-320x200.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 200
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform.jpg",
"width": 1439,
"height": 900
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-800x500.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 500
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-1180x738.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 738
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-768x480.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 480
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/2757_transform-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1426901664,
"modified": 1435243081,
"caption": "The U.S. Supreme Court building, in Washington, D.C.",
"description": "The US Supreme Court Building is seen in this March 31, 2012 photo on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)",
"title": "The US Supreme Court Building is seen in",
"credit": "Karen Bleier/AFP-Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10463830": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10463830",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10463830",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10463826,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-400x246.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 246
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-320x197.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 197
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest.jpg",
"width": 831,
"height": 511
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-768x472.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-800x492.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 492
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdprotest-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1427125784,
"modified": 1427133384,
"caption": "Protesters on Valencia Street outside the San Francisco Police Department's Mission station. The protest targeted several officer-involved shootings, including those of Amilcar Perez-Lopez last month and Alejandro Nieto last year. ",
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Police-Protest",
"credit": "David Zlutnick via Twitter ",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10455012": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10455012",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10455012",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10454955,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-400x225.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 225
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-320x180.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 180
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1.jpg",
"width": 1918,
"height": 1080
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-1440x811.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 811
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-1180x664.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 664
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-768x432.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 432
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/SFPD-1-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1426293690,
"modified": 1426293784,
"caption": "Four San Francisco police officers are under investigation for their involvement in a series of racist and homophobic texts made public in a federal court filing Friday, March 13.",
"description": "SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 27: A San Francisco police car sits parked in front of the Hall of Justice on February 27, 2014 in San Francisco, California. A federal grand jury has indicted five San Francisco police officers and one former officer in two cases involving drug and computer thefts from suspects and the theft of money and gift cards from suspects. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)",
"title": "Six San Francisco Police Officers Indicted Multiple Corruption Charges",
"credit": "Justin Sullivan/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10383218": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10383218",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10383218",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10383141,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-400x273.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 273
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"height": 984
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-800x546.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 546
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1418943732,
"modified": 1426714101,
"caption": "San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, pictured at a rally in December 2014, said racist text messages revealed last week show policy problems in the city's police department.",
"description": "San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi speaks in front of the city's Hall of Justice during a demonstration on Dec. 18. Public defenders in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties staged similar actions today at their county courthouses.",
"title": "Adachi sized",
"credit": "Justin Sullivan/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10454754": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10454754",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10454754",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10454715,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-400x265.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 265
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-320x212.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 212
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-620x372.jpg",
"width": 620,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml.jpg",
"width": 620,
"height": 411
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/sfpdshooting-ml-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1426278665,
"modified": 1426278930,
"caption": "A memorial for Amilcar López Pérez at scene of police shooting on Folsom Street near 25th Street. ",
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Police Shooting--Lopez Perez.",
"credit": "Daniel Arauz/Mission Local",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10356156": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10356156",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10356156",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10356105,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-400x271.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 271
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-e1416954725536.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"height": 978
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-1440x978.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 978
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-800x543.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 543
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/5446958381_9e90f58cab_o-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1416954615,
"modified": 1447343608,
"caption": "San Francisco police car parked outside the Hall of Justice. ",
"description": "An SFPD squad car.",
"title": "San Francisco Police",
"credit": "Todd Lappin/Flickr",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10424976": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10424976",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10424976",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10424975,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-400x233.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 233
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"height": 840
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-1440x840.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 840
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-800x467.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 467
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14164_Public-Defender-Arrest-qut-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1423136648,
"modified": 1423182723,
"caption": "A screen shot from a video showing San Francisco police Sgt. Brian Stansbury arresting deputy public defender Jami Tillotson outside a courtroom on Jan. 27.",
"description": "A screen shot from a video showing San Francisco police Sgt. Brian Stansbury arresting deputy public defender Jami Tillotson outside a courtroom on Jan. 27, 2015.",
"title": "Public Defender-Tillotson",
"credit": "San Francisco Public Defender's Office",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"byline_news_10454715": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10454715",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10454715",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/author/lauraw/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Wenus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/author/andreav/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Valencia\u003c/a>\u003cbr />Mission Local\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"danbrekke": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "222",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "222",
"found": true
},
"name": "Dan Brekke",
"firstName": "Dan",
"lastName": "Brekke",
"slug": "danbrekke",
"email": "dbrekke@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"bio": "Dan Brekke is a reporter and editor for KQED News, responsible for coverage of topics ranging from California water issues to the Bay Area's transportation challenges. In a newsroom career that began in Chicago in 1972, Dan has worked for \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner,\u003c/em> Wired and TechTV and has been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Business 2.0, Salon and elsewhere.\r\n\r\nSince joining KQED in 2007, Dan has reported, edited and produced both radio and online features and breaking news pieces. He has shared as both editor and reporter in four Society of Professional Journalists Norcal Excellence in Journalism awards and one Edward R. Murrow regional award. He was chosen for a spring 2017 residency at the Mesa Refuge to advance his research on California salmon.\r\n\r\nEmail Dan at: \u003ca href=\"mailto:dbrekke@kqed.org\">dbrekke@kqed.org\u003c/a>\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>LinkedIn:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\u003c/a>",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twitter": "danbrekke",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/dan.brekke/",
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator",
"create_posts"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "elections",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Dan Brekke | KQED",
"description": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/danbrekke"
},
"minakim": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "243",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "243",
"found": true
},
"name": "Mina Kim",
"firstName": "Mina",
"lastName": "Kim",
"slug": "minakim",
"email": "mkim@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Host, Forum",
"bio": "Mina Kim is host of the 10 a.m. statewide hour of Forum; a live daily talk show for curious Californians on issues that matter to the state and nation, with a particular emphasis on race and equity.\r\n\r\nBefore joining the Forum team, Mina was KQED’s evening news anchor, and health reporter for The California Report. Her award-winning work has included natural disasters in Napa and gun violence in Oakland. Mina grew up in St. John’s, Newfoundland.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/145ce657a2d08cb86d93686beb958982?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "mkimreporter",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Mina Kim | KQED",
"description": "Host, Forum",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/145ce657a2d08cb86d93686beb958982?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/145ce657a2d08cb86d93686beb958982?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/minakim"
},
"aemslie": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "3206",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "3206",
"found": true
},
"name": "Alex Emslie",
"firstName": "Alex",
"lastName": "Emslie",
"slug": "aemslie",
"email": "aemslie@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Senior Editor",
"bio": "Alex Emslie is senior editor of talent and development at KQED, where he manages dozens of early career journalists and oversees news department internships.\r\n\r\nHe is a former carpenter and proud graduate of City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University, where he studied journalism and criminal justice before joining KQED in 2013.\r\n\r\nAlex produced investigative journalism focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667594/the-trials-of-marvin-mutch-video\">criminal justice\u003c/a> and policing for most of a decade. He has broken major stories about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">police use of deadly force\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10454955/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\">officer misconduct\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712239/terrorist-or-troll-judge-to-weigh-whether-oakland-man-really-intended-to-attack-bay-area\">other\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11221414/hayward-paid-159000-to-husband-of-retired-police-chief-documents-show\">high\u003c/a>-\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10622762/the-forgotten-tracking-two-homicides-in-san-francisco-public-housing\">profile\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11624516/federal-agency-promoted-ranger-just-months-after-his-gun-was-stolen-and-used-in-steinle-killing\">cases\u003c/a>. He co-founded the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a> in 2019 to obtain and report on previously confidential police internal investigations. The effort produced well over 100 original stories and changed the course of multiple criminal cases.\r\n\r\nHis work has been recognized with numerous journalism awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow award for several years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688481/sfpd-officers-in-mario-woods-case-recount-shooting-in-newly-filed-depositions\">reporting\u003c/a> on the San Francisco Police shooting of Mario Woods. His \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/147854/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\">reporting\u003c/a> on police killings of people in psychiatric crisis was cited in amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court.\r\n\r\nAlex now enjoys mentoring the next generation of journalists at KQED.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e691e65209f20e9da202bd730ead5663?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "SFNewsReporter",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Alex Emslie | KQED",
"description": "KQED Senior Editor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e691e65209f20e9da202bd730ead5663?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e691e65209f20e9da202bd730ead5663?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/aemslie"
},
"rbowe": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "3231",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "3231",
"found": true
},
"name": "Rebecca Bowe",
"firstName": "Rebecca",
"lastName": "Bowe",
"slug": "rbowe",
"email": "rbowe@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "Rebecca Bowe is a journalist based in San Francisco. She's covered Bay Area news since 2009, and previously served as News Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Follow her on Twitter @ByRebeccaBowe.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50e1da0639521639108e89c123a76c9c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Rebecca Bowe | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50e1da0639521639108e89c123a76c9c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50e1da0639521639108e89c123a76c9c?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/rbowe"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_tag_san-francisco-police-department": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_545",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "545",
"score": 9.89669
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Police Department",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Police Department Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 554,
"slug": "san-francisco-police-department",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "San Francisco Police Department",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 22
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?tag=san-francisco-police-department",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 22
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://hls.kqed.org/hls/kqed_app/playlist.m3u8",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_10500396": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10500396",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10500396",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429922011000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429922011,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting",
"title": "Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Attorneys representing the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant shot and killed by two San Francisco police officers in late February filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday alleging that independent autopsy findings contradict the Police Department's account of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Arnoldo Casillas, who is representing Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents, said the version of events delivered by Police Chief Greg Suhr at a town hall meeting on March 2 was \"physically impossible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is that Amilcar Perez Lopez was unjustifiably, illegally, in the worst way shot and killed,\" Casillas said. \"The two police officers here had no reason to shoot and their version is absolutely, unequivocally inconsistent with all of the physical evidence, all of the witness testimony. It is a lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-didn-t-speak-English-6110102.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2\u003c/a> meeting that two plainclothes officers, later identified as Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, responded to a call of a man with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26. 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",
"disqusIdentifier": "10500396 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10500396",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 947,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 28
},
"modified": 1591484323,
"excerpt": "Independent pathologist says suspect was shot from behind, contrary to S.F. Police Department report. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Independent pathologist says suspect was shot from behind, contrary to S.F. Police Department report. ",
"title": "Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Attorneys: Autopsy Contradicts S.F. Police Account of Mission District Shooting",
"datePublished": "2015-04-24T17:33:31-07:00",
"dateModified": "2020-06-06T15:58:43-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10500396/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Attorneys representing the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant shot and killed by two San Francisco police officers in late February filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday alleging that independent autopsy findings contradict the Police Department's account of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Arnoldo Casillas, who is representing Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents, said the version of events delivered by Police Chief Greg Suhr at a town hall meeting on March 2 was \"physically impossible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is that Amilcar Perez Lopez was unjustifiably, illegally, in the worst way shot and killed,\" Casillas said. \"The two police officers here had no reason to shoot and their version is absolutely, unequivocally inconsistent with all of the physical evidence, all of the witness testimony. It is a lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-didn-t-speak-English-6110102.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2\u003c/a> meeting that two plainclothes officers, later identified as Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, responded to a call of a man with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/262989139/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-glkuvxyKXYuGaWP2LWkM\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/262989139\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_262989139\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/262989139\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Tiffany Camhi contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10500396/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_19397",
"news_1300",
"news_5270",
"news_545"
],
"featImg": "news_10501373",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10476872": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10476872",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10476872",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1428188752000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1428188752,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Controversial Police Incident in the Mission Caught on Video",
"title": "Controversial Police Incident in the Mission Caught on Video",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Given the national Black Lives Matter movement and recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\">text-messaging scandal\u003c/a> involving the San Francisco Police Department, strained police-community relations have been at the forefront of public dialogue recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s lost on anybody that in the president’s report on twenty-first century policing, it speaks over and over again to the trust that’s so critical to be able to do our job,” Police Chief Greg Suhr noted at an April 3 press conference in regard to recent department-related scandals, “and that trust in our police department, it’s not lost on me that it’s taken a major hit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April 1 incident at the San Francisco intersection of 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and Capp streets illustrated how deeply that trust has been eroded. 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. 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. 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",
"disqusIdentifier": "10476872 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10476872",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/04/controversial-police-incident-in-the-mission-caught-on-video/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1241,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 23
},
"modified": 1428340375,
"excerpt": "A video shot by a bystander at 16th and Capp Streets April 1 shows a police encounter with a bicyclist. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "A video shot by a bystander at 16th and Capp Streets April 1 shows a police encounter with a bicyclist. ",
"title": "Controversial Police Incident in the Mission Caught on Video | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Controversial Police Incident in the Mission Caught on Video",
"datePublished": "2015-04-04T16:05:52-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-06T10:12:55-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "controversial-police-incident-in-the-mission-caught-on-video",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10476872/controversial-police-incident-in-the-mission-caught-on-video",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Given the national Black Lives Matter movement and recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\">text-messaging scandal\u003c/a> involving the San Francisco Police Department, strained police-community relations have been at the forefront of public dialogue recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s lost on anybody that in the president’s report on twenty-first century policing, it speaks over and over again to the trust that’s so critical to be able to do our job,” Police Chief Greg Suhr noted at an April 3 press conference in regard to recent department-related scandals, “and that trust in our police department, it’s not lost on me that it’s taken a major hit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April 1 incident at the San Francisco intersection of 16\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and Capp streets illustrated how deeply that trust has been eroded. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "vimeoLink",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"vimeoId": "123908079"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Video editing by Peter Menchini\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10476872/controversial-police-incident-in-the-mission-caught-on-video",
"authors": [
"3231"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_545"
],
"featImg": "news_10476888",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10476086": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10476086",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10476086",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1428105220000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1428105220,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "SFPD Captain Among 7 Officers Facing Termination in Text Messaging Scandal",
"title": "SFPD Captain Among 7 Officers Facing Termination in Text Messaging Scandal",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"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. 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. However, for us to have been disrespected at this level is inexcusable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed closed the meeting with a suggestion for San Francisco criminal justice department heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to all grow up and act like adults and figure out a way to work together so we can solve this problem,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Patricia Yollin of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10476086 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10476086",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1667,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 47
},
"modified": 1428108114,
"excerpt": "One officer has already resigned. Six others also face discipline in wake of internal probe.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "One officer has already resigned. Six others also face discipline in wake of internal probe.",
"title": "SFPD Captain Among 7 Officers Facing Termination in Text Messaging Scandal | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "SFPD Captain Among 7 Officers Facing Termination in Text Messaging Scandal",
"datePublished": "2015-04-03T16:53:40-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-03T17:41:54-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10476086/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\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. 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. However, for us to have been disrespected at this level is inexcusable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed closed the meeting with a suggestion for San Francisco criminal justice department heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to all grow up and act like adults and figure out a way to work together so we can solve this problem,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Patricia Yollin of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10476086/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_545",
"news_17945"
],
"featImg": "news_10476816",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10471512": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10471512",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10471512",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1427763745000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1427763745,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Under Fire: San Francisco DA to Probe Multiple Law Enforcement Scandals",
"title": "Under Fire: San Francisco DA to Probe Multiple Law Enforcement Scandals",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"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. Both the crime lab and SFPD texting scandals could impact hundreds, or thousands, of past and pending criminal prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q7kWHlkQjEQxY2NzEeU7XvOH9cvtVsVh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how long this task force is going to last,\" Gascón said. \"It may be months, it may be years. We’re talking about very complex issues, and frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said it appears the crime analyst, at least in one case, submitted findings that were helpful to the prosecution, and did not submit findings that would have helped the defense. He said either the state or federal department of justice, and not the district attorney, should investigate the crime lab and police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t like it,\" he said. \"I don’t think law enforcement should be investigating law enforcement. 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. The public deserves this and I will make sure that we do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10471512 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10471512",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 711,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 16
},
"modified": 1427831336,
"excerpt": "Task force looking into three scandals amid calls for federal investigation into city's sheriff, police.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Task force looking into three scandals amid calls for federal investigation into city's sheriff, police.",
"title": "Under Fire: San Francisco DA to Probe Multiple Law Enforcement Scandals | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Under Fire: San Francisco DA to Probe Multiple Law Enforcement Scandals",
"datePublished": "2015-03-30T18:02:25-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-03-31T12:48:56-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10471512/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Both the crime lab and SFPD texting scandals could impact hundreds, or thousands, of past and pending criminal prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how long this task force is going to last,\" Gascón said. \"It may be months, it may be years. We’re talking about very complex issues, and frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said it appears the crime analyst, at least in one case, submitted findings that were helpful to the prosecution, and did not submit findings that would have helped the defense. He said either the state or federal department of justice, and not the district attorney, should investigate the crime lab and police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t like it,\" he said. \"I don’t think law enforcement should be investigating law enforcement. 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. The public deserves this and I will make sure that we do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10471512/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_546",
"news_122",
"news_559",
"news_545",
"news_959",
"news_1973"
],
"featImg": "news_10471563",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10465873": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10465873",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10465873",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1427378422000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1427378422,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Complaint Alleges SFPD Officer Broke City Law While Investigating With FBI",
"title": "Complaint Alleges SFPD Officer Broke City Law While Investigating With FBI",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Two civil rights groups filed a complaint Wednesday alleging a San Francisco police inspector violated department rules and city law while working with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint (\u003ca href=\"#complaint\">read below\u003c/a>), filed with the San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a>, comes in the context of a years-long battle by civil rights groups representing Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities to enshrine San Francisco Police Department policy into law when it came to city cops working with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups won that battle in 2012 with the passage of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances12/o0083-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance\u003c/a>. The ordinance allows SFPD officers to participate in FBI counterterrorism investigations \"only in a manner that is fully consistent with the laws of the State of California, including but not limited to the inalienable right to privacy guaranteed by Article 1, Section 1 of the California Constitution, as well as the laws and policies of the City and County of San Francisco and, as applicable to the Police Department, that Department's policies, procedures, and orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the incident detailed in the complaint, the San Francisco branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Asian Law Caucus allege that an SFPD inspector not only violated the law, but that the department failed to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that SFPD Sgt. Inspector Gavin McEachern violated the ordinance and a handful of department policies when he and an unidentified FBI agent approached software engineer Sarmad Gilani in June 2014, at Google offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My client and I had filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding some travel issues he was having,\" said Brice Hamack, an attorney and CAIR's Northern California civil rights coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamack said that a few weeks later, Gilani got an unexpected visit at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked him questions almost solely related to his First Amendment protected activity,\" Hamack said, \"such as his recent travel, his political opinions on recent international events, and based on some writings he saw in one of the officers' notebooks, they were also interested in his blogging and his political opinions online as well. None of the questions asked had anything to do with any actual criminal investigation whatsoever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department declined to answer questions related to the complaint, and a spokesman directed inquiries to the FBI. Federal agents did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But SFPD Lt. Daryl Fong, who oversees the department's participation in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, addressed San Francisco's Police Commission last month to give an annual report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD members assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force do not engage in interviews regarding solely constitutionally protected activities,\" Fong said on Feb. 4, \"which would be a violation of department general orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamack said the filing will be the first real test of the city's 3-year-old policy, which also mandates the annual reporting and a paper trail requesting permission for the kind of investigation Sgt. McEachern is alleged to have joined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the ordinance was passed and enacted, one of the mechanisms to keep the department in check was these annual reports where the department was supposed to be transparent about what they were doing,\" Hamack said. \"When they released their report, there was no mention of this incident whatsoever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=259962371 key=key-HRIhodfu2neyGrJGCv46 mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10465873 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10465873",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/complaint-alleges-sfpd-officer-broke-city-law-while-investigating-with-fbi/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 567,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 17
},
"modified": 1427383331,
"excerpt": "Department did not report encounter in question at last month's Police Commission meeting.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Department did not report encounter in question at last month's Police Commission meeting.",
"title": "Complaint Alleges SFPD Officer Broke City Law While Investigating With FBI | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Complaint Alleges SFPD Officer Broke City Law While Investigating With FBI",
"datePublished": "2015-03-26T07:00:22-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-03-26T08:22:11-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "complaint-alleges-sfpd-officer-broke-city-law-while-investigating-with-fbi",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/03/26/complaint-alleges-sfpd-oficer-broke-city-law-while-investigating-with-fbi/",
"path": "/news/10465873/complaint-alleges-sfpd-officer-broke-city-law-while-investigating-with-fbi",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two civil rights groups filed a complaint Wednesday alleging a San Francisco police inspector violated department rules and city law while working with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint (\u003ca href=\"#complaint\">read below\u003c/a>), filed with the San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a>, comes in the context of a years-long battle by civil rights groups representing Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities to enshrine San Francisco Police Department policy into law when it came to city cops working with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups won that battle in 2012 with the passage of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/ordinances12/o0083-12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance\u003c/a>. The ordinance allows SFPD officers to participate in FBI counterterrorism investigations \"only in a manner that is fully consistent with the laws of the State of California, including but not limited to the inalienable right to privacy guaranteed by Article 1, Section 1 of the California Constitution, as well as the laws and policies of the City and County of San Francisco and, as applicable to the Police Department, that Department's policies, procedures, and orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the incident detailed in the complaint, the San Francisco branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Asian Law Caucus allege that an SFPD inspector not only violated the law, but that the department failed to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that SFPD Sgt. Inspector Gavin McEachern violated the ordinance and a handful of department policies when he and an unidentified FBI agent approached software engineer Sarmad Gilani in June 2014, at Google offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My client and I had filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding some travel issues he was having,\" said Brice Hamack, an attorney and CAIR's Northern California civil rights coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamack said that a few weeks later, Gilani got an unexpected visit at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked him questions almost solely related to his First Amendment protected activity,\" Hamack said, \"such as his recent travel, his political opinions on recent international events, and based on some writings he saw in one of the officers' notebooks, they were also interested in his blogging and his political opinions online as well. None of the questions asked had anything to do with any actual criminal investigation whatsoever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department declined to answer questions related to the complaint, and a spokesman directed inquiries to the FBI. Federal agents did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But SFPD Lt. Daryl Fong, who oversees the department's participation in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, addressed San Francisco's Police Commission last month to give an annual report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD members assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force do not engage in interviews regarding solely constitutionally protected activities,\" Fong said on Feb. 4, \"which would be a violation of department general orders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamack said the filing will be the first real test of the city's 3-year-old policy, which also mandates the annual reporting and a paper trail requesting permission for the kind of investigation Sgt. McEachern is alleged to have joined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the ordinance was passed and enacted, one of the mechanisms to keep the department in check was these annual reports where the department was supposed to be transparent about what they were doing,\" Hamack said. \"When they released their report, there was no mention of this incident whatsoever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/259962371/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-HRIhodfu2neyGrJGCv46\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/259962371\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_259962371\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/259962371\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10465873/complaint-alleges-sfpd-officer-broke-city-law-while-investigating-with-fbi",
"authors": [
"3206",
"243"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_425",
"news_545"
],
"featImg": "news_10466122",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10461515": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10461515",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10461515",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1427158856000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1427158856,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case on SFPD Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman",
"title": "U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case on SFPD Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nOral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could decide if and how the Americans With Disabilities Act applies to police encounters with potentially violent people in psychiatric crisis got off to a rough start for the City of San Francisco today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Chief of Appellate Litigation Christine Van Aken didn't get to the second sentence of her opening remarks before Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted and asked her to explain why San Francisco's argument appeared to have significantly changed since it petitioned the high court to hear the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s a technical word for this. It’s called bait-and-switch.'\u003ccite>Antonin Scalia,\u003cbr>U.S. Supreme Court Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The case centers on a 2008 officer-involved shooting in San Francisco. Two officers responded to a call from a supportive housing complex in the city's Mission District and attempted to take Teresa Sheehan into custody for a psychiatric evaluation, but Sheehan threatened them with a knife and slammed her apartment door on them. The officers forced the door open, pepper sprayed Sheehan, and when she moved toward them, shot her five times. She survived and sued the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalia took issue with the City's nuanced view of the ADA's application to an arrest that involves the potential for violence. He said San Francisco's petition argued the ADA does not apply, period. The argument softened by this morning, with the city conceding the law does generally require public entities, like police, to make reasonable accommodations even when a suspect is potentially violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197375563\" 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>But \"modification to Sheehan’s arrest would not have eliminated the significant risk she posed,\" the city's brief says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a technical word for this,\" Scalia said. \"It’s called bait-and-switch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Aken responded: \"San Francisco asked you to resolve the question of whether and how the ADA applies to the arrest of an armed and violent individual, and the answer to that question is it only applies where the significant threat that the individual poses has been eliminated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-judge panel wrestled with questions raised by that point for most the remainder of the hearing: How did Sheehan present a significant threat when she was locked, alone, in her second floor apartment, and how could such a threat be eliminated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has argued that despite being told by Sheehan's social worker that the building was empty, save Sheehan, and that there was no way to escape from the second-story window without a ladder, officers couldn't be sure that Sheehan posed no threat to any other person while she was locked in her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Van Aken to assume Sheehan was alone and there was no means of escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"GdUicVJLoTShZkLfvrcygiwx2XJGdF9V\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still think there would be a question about whether she had other weapons in the room and could be preparing some kind of ambush or some kind of barricade, and that’s something that the officers here testified they were concerned about,\" Van Aken said. \"So what they thought was necessary was to get that door open so that they could see what Ms. Sheehan was doing, so they could see if she was preparing an ambush or barricade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan's lead attorney, Leonard Feldman, told the court all parties appeared to agree on legal issues in the case, and the question before the court was one of fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Exactly,\" Scalia said. \"I don’t know why we took the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said San Francisco is arguing against a legal standard that is, basically, San Francisco policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In our case, we have symmetry between the proposed accommodation, on the one hand, and the way that San Francisco trains its officers and also universally accepted methods for dealing with mentally disabled individuals,\" he said. \"There’s no dispute that the way to interact with mentally disabled individuals is through communication and time. Police officers know that, and they’re trained in that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said \"reasonable accommodations\" could include programs like a Crisis Intervention Team, which San Francisco has adopted. It's just one of many specialized police responses that emphasizes de-escaltion -- sometimes called verbal judo -- instead of direct confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Court knows that this is a case with enormous policy implications,\" Feldman said. \"We see this in the news day after day, week after week, where the police arrive to help somebody and they wind up hurting them,\" Feldman said. \"And, Your Honors, it’s only when officers and public entities are held accountable for actions like those that occurred here that we can expect to see a change in that pattern.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in the case sometime in early Summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post Sunday, March 22\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nThe U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Monday that's being closely watched by law enforcement and advocates for the mentally ill -- on an appeal brought by San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court is weighing two issues: Whether the Americans With Disabilities Act requires police to provide accommodations to an \"armed, violent, and mentally ill suspect in the course of\u003cbr>\nbringing the suspect into custody,\" and whether two San Francisco police officers violated the Fourth Amendment rights of Teresa Sheehan when they forced their way into her apartment after discovering she was armed with a bread knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a big issue: Should the mentally ill be handled by the police differently?\" UC Hastings law professor Rory Little said. \"Increasingly, police are confronting people with mental illness on the streets or in their homes or apartments, and there is a growing concern that the confrontational approach of the police unnecessarily stimulates violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD policy around the type of incidents at issue in this case changed after the shooting, but if the city is successful at the Supreme Court, that kind of change may be stifled in other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/publications/preview_home/13-1412.html?cq_ck=1421878054315\" target=\"_blank\">City and County of San Francisco v. Teresa Sheehan\u003c/a> -- stems from a 2008 officer-involved shooting at a co-op apartment building for people with mental illness in the city's Mission District. Officers responded to a call from a social worker in the building, who told them Sheehan, who is diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, had threatened him when he tried to check on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social worker told responding SFPD Officer Kathrine Holder about Sheehan's medical history, and Holder called Sgt. Kimberly Reynolds to the scene. The two officers then made a plan to detain Sheehan for a psychiatric evaluation and knocked on her second-floor apartment's door.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: left\">Listen to the KQED special series:\u003cbr>\n'Dial it Down: When a Call for Help Turns Deadly'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/170360914\" 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\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sheehan didn't answer, and officers used a key to open the door -- their first entry into her apartment. Sheehan became aggressive and came at the police with a serrated bread knife. She forced the door closed, and the officers were left outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called for backup and Holder began trying to force the door open. She broke through it just as backup was arriving, and Reynolds launched a stream of pepper spray into Sheehan's face. Sheehan staggered into the hallway, still brandishing the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV4/13-1412_pet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's brief\u003c/a> to the Supreme Court gives one view of what happened next:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Holder was in the alcove next to Sheehan’s room, cornered. With her back literally against the wall, Holder fired twice at Sheehan. Sheehan was three feet from Holder – so close that Holder had to fire from the hip so Sheehan would not slash her arm. After Holder shot Sheehan twice, Sheehan did not drop her knife or fall to the floor. Instead, she turned\u003cbr>\nand stepped toward Reynolds with her knife. Reynolds fired three times at Sheehan. Sheehan stabbed toward Holder’s leg as she went down to the ground, and Reynolds’ last shot struck Sheehan when she was on the ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a description of the shooting from \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV5/13-1412_resp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sheehan's brief\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As soon as the officers forced the door open, Sheehan stepped forward holding her bread knife and told the officers “to go away. Leave me alone.” Reynolds responded by shooting pepper spray into Sheehan’s face. Sheehan screamed that the officers were blinding her and she could not see. Reynolds and Holder then shot Sheehan four times. With wounds in her torso and right arm, Sheehan fell to the ground but the officers’ attack continued. According to Holder’s statement on the day of the shooting and Sheehan’s forensic science expert, Reynolds shot Sheehan in the face after she was lying on the ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sheehan survived. She was initially charged with assault but was acquitted, and then she sued the city in federal court. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, the brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, ruled in a summary judgment in favor of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/02/21/11-16401.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled\u003c/a> a jury could find Sheehan was legally entitled to accommodations under the ADA -- specifically that officers should have stepped back, contained the scene and waited for backup, including officers specially trained to respond to psychiatric crises. The appellate court also found that officers may have violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[A] jury could find that the officers acted unreasonably by forcing the second entry and provoking a near-fatal confrontation,\" the 9th Circuit opinion says. \"We therefore cannot say that the second entry was reasonable as a matter of law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two national law enforcement organizations joined a \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV4/13-1412_amicus_pet_imla.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">brief supporting San Francisco's appeal\u003c/a>. The brief argues that the ADA should inform policing policy at the department level, but should not apply to \"on-the-street decisionmaking when a law enforcement officer faces an active public safety threat by an armed, violent individual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 advocacy organizations for people with mental illness joined briefs supporting Sheehan's position, authored by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV5/13-1412_amicus_resp_apa.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">American Psychiatric Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV5/13-1412_amicus_resp_aclu.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU cites a September \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">KQED report\u003c/a> that found 58 percent of people killed by San Francisco police between 2005 and 2013 had a mental illness that was a contributing factor in the incident. The brief argues the ADA should apply to Sheehan's arrest because the law's \"reasonable accommodation\" requirement mandates a specialized police response, such as a Crisis Intervention Team, in situations where a subject is known to have a mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These practices were specifically designed for potentially dangerous situations,\" the brief says. \"San Francisco’s position — that the police should be free to forego these strategies in precisely the situation for which they were meant — makes no sense at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/259504904/SFPD-Bulletin-Response-to-Mental-Health-Calls-With-Armed-Suspects\" target=\"_blank\">department bulletin in 2013\u003c/a> clarifying SFPD protocol when mentally ill subjects may be a threat to themselves, but no one else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10401680\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10401680\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped-400x279.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Sheehan\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped-400x279.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Sheehan at Christmas dinner in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Francis Sheehan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It says: \"[I]f officers have reasonable cause to believe that the person suffering an apparent mental crisis is not a threat to \u003cem>any other\u003c/em> person, the officers shall observe, maintain a safe distance, and attempt to stabilize the scene until the arrival of the supervisor who will assume command.\" (Emphasis original.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another SFPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/259505756/SFPD-Bulletin-Response-by-Crisis-Intervention-Trained-Officers\" target=\"_blank\">bulletin, issued in May 2014\u003c/a>, describes department policy for deploying specially trained officers to calls involving mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy City Attorney Peter Keith told \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/09/disability-advocates-appeal-over-s-f-police-shooting-puts-ada-at-risk\" target=\"_blank\">KQED in January\u003c/a> that San Francisco believes the ADA should apply to arrests, but there is disagreement about what constitutes a \"reasonable accommodation\" during a potentially violent confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is arguing that officers couldn't be sure Sheehan was alone, despite being told so by the social worker who called them, and she could have escaped from her second-story window and posed a threat to other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What the city doesn't want is a ruling that says the Americans With Disabilities Act, a federal statute, applies in these situations,\" Little said. \"In other words, if they want to adopt this as a progressive policing policy, that's fine. They just don't want to be in a sense governed by regulations and an entire statutory structure that some people think wasn't designed for the police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said San Francisco's nuanced position on the ADA could be irrelevant to the ultimate ruling. The Supreme Court could rule the ADA simply does not apply to potentially violent confrontations between police and someone in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once the Supreme Court has it, it really isn't going matter what the City and County of San Francisco says,\" Little said. \"There are now municipalities all around the country that are interested in the answer to this question, and the answer to the question will govern nationally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said it's likely Justice Breyer will recuse himself from the case, leaving eight justices to decide the issue.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10461515 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10461515",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/23/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-sfpd-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 2254,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 51
},
"modified": 1447652909,
"excerpt": "High court to decide how the ADA applies to police encounters with people in psychiatric crisis.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "High court to decide how the ADA applies to police encounters with people in psychiatric crisis.",
"title": "U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case on SFPD Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case on SFPD Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman",
"datePublished": "2015-03-23T18:00:56-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-11-15T21:48:29-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-sfpd-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10461515/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-sfpd-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nOral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could decide if and how the Americans With Disabilities Act applies to police encounters with potentially violent people in psychiatric crisis got off to a rough start for the City of San Francisco today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Chief of Appellate Litigation Christine Van Aken didn't get to the second sentence of her opening remarks before Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted and asked her to explain why San Francisco's argument appeared to have significantly changed since it petitioned the high court to hear the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s a technical word for this. It’s called bait-and-switch.'\u003ccite>Antonin Scalia,\u003cbr>U.S. Supreme Court Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The case centers on a 2008 officer-involved shooting in San Francisco. Two officers responded to a call from a supportive housing complex in the city's Mission District and attempted to take Teresa Sheehan into custody for a psychiatric evaluation, but Sheehan threatened them with a knife and slammed her apartment door on them. The officers forced the door open, pepper sprayed Sheehan, and when she moved toward them, shot her five times. She survived and sued the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalia took issue with the City's nuanced view of the ADA's application to an arrest that involves the potential for violence. He said San Francisco's petition argued the ADA does not apply, period. The argument softened by this morning, with the city conceding the law does generally require public entities, like police, to make reasonable accommodations even when a suspect is potentially violent.\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/197375563&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/197375563'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \"modification to Sheehan’s arrest would not have eliminated the significant risk she posed,\" the city's brief says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a technical word for this,\" Scalia said. \"It’s called bait-and-switch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Aken responded: \"San Francisco asked you to resolve the question of whether and how the ADA applies to the arrest of an armed and violent individual, and the answer to that question is it only applies where the significant threat that the individual poses has been eliminated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-judge panel wrestled with questions raised by that point for most the remainder of the hearing: How did Sheehan present a significant threat when she was locked, alone, in her second floor apartment, and how could such a threat be eliminated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has argued that despite being told by Sheehan's social worker that the building was empty, save Sheehan, and that there was no way to escape from the second-story window without a ladder, officers couldn't be sure that Sheehan posed no threat to any other person while she was locked in her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Van Aken to assume Sheehan was alone and there was no means of escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still think there would be a question about whether she had other weapons in the room and could be preparing some kind of ambush or some kind of barricade, and that’s something that the officers here testified they were concerned about,\" Van Aken said. \"So what they thought was necessary was to get that door open so that they could see what Ms. Sheehan was doing, so they could see if she was preparing an ambush or barricade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan's lead attorney, Leonard Feldman, told the court all parties appeared to agree on legal issues in the case, and the question before the court was one of fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Exactly,\" Scalia said. \"I don’t know why we took the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said San Francisco is arguing against a legal standard that is, basically, San Francisco policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In our case, we have symmetry between the proposed accommodation, on the one hand, and the way that San Francisco trains its officers and also universally accepted methods for dealing with mentally disabled individuals,\" he said. \"There’s no dispute that the way to interact with mentally disabled individuals is through communication and time. Police officers know that, and they’re trained in that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said \"reasonable accommodations\" could include programs like a Crisis Intervention Team, which San Francisco has adopted. It's just one of many specialized police responses that emphasizes de-escaltion -- sometimes called verbal judo -- instead of direct confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Court knows that this is a case with enormous policy implications,\" Feldman said. \"We see this in the news day after day, week after week, where the police arrive to help somebody and they wind up hurting them,\" Feldman said. \"And, Your Honors, it’s only when officers and public entities are held accountable for actions like those that occurred here that we can expect to see a change in that pattern.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in the case sometime in early Summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post Sunday, March 22\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nThe U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Monday that's being closely watched by law enforcement and advocates for the mentally ill -- on an appeal brought by San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court is weighing two issues: Whether the Americans With Disabilities Act requires police to provide accommodations to an \"armed, violent, and mentally ill suspect in the course of\u003cbr>\nbringing the suspect into custody,\" and whether two San Francisco police officers violated the Fourth Amendment rights of Teresa Sheehan when they forced their way into her apartment after discovering she was armed with a bread knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a big issue: Should the mentally ill be handled by the police differently?\" UC Hastings law professor Rory Little said. \"Increasingly, police are confronting people with mental illness on the streets or in their homes or apartments, and there is a growing concern that the confrontational approach of the police unnecessarily stimulates violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD policy around the type of incidents at issue in this case changed after the shooting, but if the city is successful at the Supreme Court, that kind of change may be stifled in other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/publications/preview_home/13-1412.html?cq_ck=1421878054315\" target=\"_blank\">City and County of San Francisco v. Teresa Sheehan\u003c/a> -- stems from a 2008 officer-involved shooting at a co-op apartment building for people with mental illness in the city's Mission District. Officers responded to a call from a social worker in the building, who told them Sheehan, who is diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, had threatened him when he tried to check on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social worker told responding SFPD Officer Kathrine Holder about Sheehan's medical history, and Holder called Sgt. Kimberly Reynolds to the scene. The two officers then made a plan to detain Sheehan for a psychiatric evaluation and knocked on her second-floor apartment's door.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: left\">Listen to the KQED special series:\u003cbr>\n'Dial it Down: When a Call for Help Turns Deadly'\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/170360914&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/170360914'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sheehan didn't answer, and officers used a key to open the door -- their first entry into her apartment. Sheehan became aggressive and came at the police with a serrated bread knife. She forced the door closed, and the officers were left outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called for backup and Holder began trying to force the door open. She broke through it just as backup was arriving, and Reynolds launched a stream of pepper spray into Sheehan's face. Sheehan staggered into the hallway, still brandishing the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV4/13-1412_pet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's brief\u003c/a> to the Supreme Court gives one view of what happened next:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Holder was in the alcove next to Sheehan’s room, cornered. With her back literally against the wall, Holder fired twice at Sheehan. Sheehan was three feet from Holder – so close that Holder had to fire from the hip so Sheehan would not slash her arm. After Holder shot Sheehan twice, Sheehan did not drop her knife or fall to the floor. Instead, she turned\u003cbr>\nand stepped toward Reynolds with her knife. Reynolds fired three times at Sheehan. Sheehan stabbed toward Holder’s leg as she went down to the ground, and Reynolds’ last shot struck Sheehan when she was on the ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a description of the shooting from \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV5/13-1412_resp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sheehan's brief\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As soon as the officers forced the door open, Sheehan stepped forward holding her bread knife and told the officers “to go away. Leave me alone.” Reynolds responded by shooting pepper spray into Sheehan’s face. Sheehan screamed that the officers were blinding her and she could not see. Reynolds and Holder then shot Sheehan four times. With wounds in her torso and right arm, Sheehan fell to the ground but the officers’ attack continued. According to Holder’s statement on the day of the shooting and Sheehan’s forensic science expert, Reynolds shot Sheehan in the face after she was lying on the ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sheehan survived. She was initially charged with assault but was acquitted, and then she sued the city in federal court. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, the brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, ruled in a summary judgment in favor of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/02/21/11-16401.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled\u003c/a> a jury could find Sheehan was legally entitled to accommodations under the ADA -- specifically that officers should have stepped back, contained the scene and waited for backup, including officers specially trained to respond to psychiatric crises. The appellate court also found that officers may have violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[A] jury could find that the officers acted unreasonably by forcing the second entry and provoking a near-fatal confrontation,\" the 9th Circuit opinion says. \"We therefore cannot say that the second entry was reasonable as a matter of law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two national law enforcement organizations joined a \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV4/13-1412_amicus_pet_imla.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">brief supporting San Francisco's appeal\u003c/a>. The brief argues that the ADA should inform policing policy at the department level, but should not apply to \"on-the-street decisionmaking when a law enforcement officer faces an active public safety threat by an armed, violent individual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 advocacy organizations for people with mental illness joined briefs supporting Sheehan's position, authored by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV5/13-1412_amicus_resp_apa.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">American Psychiatric Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/BriefsV5/13-1412_amicus_resp_aclu.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU cites a September \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">KQED report\u003c/a> that found 58 percent of people killed by San Francisco police between 2005 and 2013 had a mental illness that was a contributing factor in the incident. The brief argues the ADA should apply to Sheehan's arrest because the law's \"reasonable accommodation\" requirement mandates a specialized police response, such as a Crisis Intervention Team, in situations where a subject is known to have a mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These practices were specifically designed for potentially dangerous situations,\" the brief says. \"San Francisco’s position — that the police should be free to forego these strategies in precisely the situation for which they were meant — makes no sense at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/259504904/SFPD-Bulletin-Response-to-Mental-Health-Calls-With-Armed-Suspects\" target=\"_blank\">department bulletin in 2013\u003c/a> clarifying SFPD protocol when mentally ill subjects may be a threat to themselves, but no one else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10401680\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10401680\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped-400x279.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Sheehan\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped-400x279.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Teresa_Sheehan_photo-cropped.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Sheehan at Christmas dinner in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Francis Sheehan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It says: \"[I]f officers have reasonable cause to believe that the person suffering an apparent mental crisis is not a threat to \u003cem>any other\u003c/em> person, the officers shall observe, maintain a safe distance, and attempt to stabilize the scene until the arrival of the supervisor who will assume command.\" (Emphasis original.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another SFPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/259505756/SFPD-Bulletin-Response-by-Crisis-Intervention-Trained-Officers\" target=\"_blank\">bulletin, issued in May 2014\u003c/a>, describes department policy for deploying specially trained officers to calls involving mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy City Attorney Peter Keith told \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/09/disability-advocates-appeal-over-s-f-police-shooting-puts-ada-at-risk\" target=\"_blank\">KQED in January\u003c/a> that San Francisco believes the ADA should apply to arrests, but there is disagreement about what constitutes a \"reasonable accommodation\" during a potentially violent confrontation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is arguing that officers couldn't be sure Sheehan was alone, despite being told so by the social worker who called them, and she could have escaped from her second-story window and posed a threat to other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What the city doesn't want is a ruling that says the Americans With Disabilities Act, a federal statute, applies in these situations,\" Little said. \"In other words, if they want to adopt this as a progressive policing policy, that's fine. They just don't want to be in a sense governed by regulations and an entire statutory structure that some people think wasn't designed for the police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said San Francisco's nuanced position on the ADA could be irrelevant to the ultimate ruling. The Supreme Court could rule the ADA simply does not apply to potentially violent confrontations between police and someone in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once the Supreme Court has it, it really isn't going matter what the City and County of San Francisco says,\" Little said. \"There are now municipalities all around the country that are interested in the answer to this question, and the answer to the question will govern nationally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said it's likely Justice Breyer will recuse himself from the case, leaving eight justices to decide the issue.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10461515/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-sfpd-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_545",
"news_1172"
],
"featImg": "news_10461709",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10463826": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10463826",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10463826",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1427142348000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1427142348,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Anti-Violence Protest at San Francisco's Mission Station Ends With No Arrests",
"title": "Anti-Violence Protest at San Francisco's Mission Station Ends With No Arrests",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A morning-long protest that shut down access to the San Francisco Police Department's Mission Station has concluded -- with plenty of pointed commentary about the department's past officer-involved shootings, but with no arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of protesters were gathered around the station at 17th and Valencia streets from just before 8 a.m. to just after noon Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Dozens of demonstrators, including more than a dozen who are chained together, are staging a protest at the San Francisco Police Department's Mission Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters are targeting both police violence -- some carried banners referring to the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\"> officer-involved shooting a year ago\u003c/a> of Alejandro Nieto -- and gentrification in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action at 17th and Valencia streets began about 7:45 a.m. and halted some early rush-hour traffic, including an eBay shuttle. Some protesters chained themselves together across the entrance to the police station's parking lot. Others were chained together in two different spots on Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 9 a.m., the protests continue (see livestreaming video above). Police officers were keeping a low profile outside the station, observing the demonstration but taking no action so far to clear the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/protesters-blockade-sfpd-s-mission-station/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10463826 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10463826",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/23/protesters-blockade-san-francisco-police-station-in-anti-violence-protest/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 206,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 9
},
"modified": 1427145056,
"excerpt": "Activists denouncing shootings chained themselves across station parking lot, shut down Valencia Street.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Activists denouncing shootings chained themselves across station parking lot, shut down Valencia Street.",
"title": "Anti-Violence Protest at San Francisco's Mission Station Ends With No Arrests | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Anti-Violence Protest at San Francisco's Mission Station Ends With No Arrests",
"datePublished": "2015-03-23T13:25:48-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-03-23T14:10:56-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "protesters-blockade-san-francisco-police-station-in-anti-violence-protest",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10463826/protesters-blockade-san-francisco-police-station-in-anti-violence-protest",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A morning-long protest that shut down access to the San Francisco Police Department's Mission Station has concluded -- with plenty of pointed commentary about the department's past officer-involved shootings, but with no arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of protesters were gathered around the station at 17th and Valencia streets from just before 8 a.m. to just after noon Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Dozens of demonstrators, including more than a dozen who are chained together, are staging a protest at the San Francisco Police Department's Mission Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters are targeting both police violence -- some carried banners referring to the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\"> officer-involved shooting a year ago\u003c/a> of Alejandro Nieto -- and gentrification in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action at 17th and Valencia streets began about 7:45 a.m. and halted some early rush-hour traffic, including an eBay shuttle. Some protesters chained themselves together across the entrance to the police station's parking lot. Others were chained together in two different spots on Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 9 a.m., the protests continue (see livestreaming video above). Police officers were keeping a low profile outside the station, observing the demonstration but taking no action so far to clear the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/protesters-blockade-sfpd-s-mission-station/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10463826/protesters-blockade-san-francisco-police-station-in-anti-violence-protest",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_116",
"news_545"
],
"featImg": "news_10463830",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10454955": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10454955",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10454955",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1426808725000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1426808725,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Fallout From SFPD Racist Texts: Officer Resigns Amid Scandal",
"title": "Fallout From SFPD Racist Texts: Officer Resigns Amid Scandal",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of four San Francisco police officers, who was reassigned while the department's internal affairs division investigates their involvement in racist and homophobic text messages, has resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Robison, who served as an SFPD officer for 23 years, resigned Wednesday, his attorney Anthony Brass confirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He resigned in order to spare himself the stress of living knowing that he was going to be terminated,\" Brass said. \"The chief's comments that the four officers would be terminated following the investigation let him know what the outcome of this would be, really no matter what.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr had said he would seek to terminate any officers found by the investigation to be biased. Suhr did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Text messages recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone were revealed in a federal court \u003ca href=\"#document\">filing\u003c/a> last week opposing Furminger's request for bail while he appeals his conviction on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The messages initially implicated officers Michael Celis, Rain Daugherty and Noel Schwab, in addition to Robison. Furminger's motion was denied, and he's scheduled to surrender in early April for a prison sentence of three years and five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5iuKqQs1UnaiTmEai2zXQTkoAoMAAsUr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said Thursday that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">10 additional officers\u003c/a> caught up in the probe are no longer under investigation. They had traded messages with Furminger, but those were \"deemed not inappropriate,\" the spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison was openly gay and was quoted in \u003ca href=\"http://www.advocate.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Advocate\u003c/a>, a national gay and lesbian news magazine in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Good+cop+gay+cop%3A+from+the+beat+patrol+to+the+precinct+house,+gay+and...-a020350566\" target=\"_blank\">1998 article\u003c/a> about challenges faced by gay police officers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The `good ol' boys' system is on its way out, and the newer generation that's replaced them sees things from a more open-minded standpoint. We have a common saying among people in the department: `When you're at work you're all wearing blue.' I really hand it to the people who came out back then because they really-paved-the way for us.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Mike Robison is not a racist,\" Brass said. \"He works with people of varied ethnicity every day. He understands bigotry from the other side because as an openly gay officer, he exposes himself to a great deal of bigotry and well understands the hurt of that, and would never want to impose that on other people. The problem is that there really is no explanation that's going to satisfy his chief, the community or anyone regarding these texts. The texts are just literally -- they speak for themselves -- and there's no changing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has joined the city's top prosecutor, public defender and police chief in condemning racist and homophobic texts that a court filing shows were exchanged among a group of San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196239694\" params=\"color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts were disclosed Friday in a motion involving former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger, who is facing 41 months in prison after being convicted in December on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Federal prosecutors opposing Furminger's motion to remain free on bail bolstered their argument by including \u003ca href=\"#document\">transcripts of texts\u003c/a> between him and former SFPD colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">'It was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology. And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.'\u003ccite>\u003ccite>Yulanda Williams,\u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>Officers for Justice President\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The messages contain various disparaging references to African-Americans, Latinos, Filipinos and gay people. Some of them were directed at specific officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams is president of \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/about-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a>, an association of SFPD officers formed in 1968 to advocate for the civil rights of minorities, women and LGBT people. One of the text exchanges that refers to her uses a derogatory phrase offensive to both black people and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was rather shocking to know that there were people working around me that had this type of ideology,\" Williams said in an interview with KQED's Sara Hossaini. Williams added that she is acquainted with Furminger and one of the officers under investigation, Michael Robison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I read it, it was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology,\" she said. \"And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers for Justice released a \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/uploads/3/3/4/0/3340987/text_press_release_1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement today\u003c/a> calling for complete transparency and expressing suspicion that \"Textgate\" goes beyond the four officers who San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr confirmed are under investigation for exchanging the messages with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has said the department will pursue disciplinary action against the officers and conduct a review of its hiring and training policies in light of the disclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is both shocking and disturbing to hear that four San Francisco police officers are under investigation for such heinous and despicable statements,\" Mayor Lee said in a statement Monday. \"The content of these text messages displays a bias that is incompatible with the values of our City and incompatible with the ability to perform sworn duties as a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said that he expected the officers involved to be fired \"if these statements are attributable to any San Francisco police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the problem of racial bias in the SFPD goes beyond the four officers currently under investigation. He's calling for a federal probe much like the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department released earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These texts display deep-rooted racism within members of the San Francisco Police Department,\" Adachi said in an interview Monday. \"Some of these texts are even more outrageous and hurtful than some of the emails from the Ferguson Police Department report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi cited a city report from 2013 that found 56 percent of San Francisco's jail inmates are African-American, despite making up just 6 percent of the city's residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is the training that officers receive, and why do we have such a disproportionate rate of arresting and jailing African-Americans in San Francisco?\" Adachi asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement he is \"deeply disturbed\" by the offensive messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no place for bigotry in San Francisco,\" the statement said. \"In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past ten years where these officers were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Monday\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr says the department will examine hiring and training policies in the wake of the disclosure of racist and homophobic text messages swapped among several police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at the hiring/background processes to identify how anyone capable of statements of such extreme bias could be hired as police officers in the first place,\" Suhr wrote in a text reply to questions from KQED. \"We have training scheduled on implicit bias and we will be doing more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing three of four San Francisco officers under investigation for their part in the offensive texts have confirmed their clients' identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're mortified to be involved in anything like this,\" said defense attorney Tony Brass, who is representing Officers Michael Robison and Michael Celis. \"They understand that this is going to have dire consequences for them both professionally and in the public view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts were made public in a court filing Friday by federal prosecutors opposing a bid by former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger to remain free on on bail while he appeals a conviction for fraud and conspiracy. The filing (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>) discloses only some of the text messages collected from Furminger's cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts repeatedly use epithets referring to black people, as well as disparaging references to Mexican and Filipino people. Some texts from Furminger also include slurs about gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said he doesn't yet know which texts were sent or received by which officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's four police officers involved and the one person that is identified as the hub of this is Ian Furminger,\" Brass said. \"But whether Mike Celis or Mike Robison are involved in the ones that are quite shocking, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said his first meeting with Police Department internal affairs investigators is scheduled for March 25, and his clients believe they could be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Wilkinson represents Officer Rain Daugherty. She confirmed via email that her client is under investigation for texts he traded with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Daugherty is appropriately ashamed by his impulsive and insensitive banter,\" Wilkinson wrote, \"and accepts full responsibility for the content of those text messages that he sent, which are by no means a reflection of his true character or his style of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department spokeswoman said Suhr would recommend all four officers be fired if the investigation proved racial bias. The final decision lies with the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Officers-linked-to-racist-texts-were-all-veterans-6134489.php\" target=\"_blank\">identified the fourth officer\u003c/a> under investigation as Noel Schwab. His attorney did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Goldrosen is the latest in a series of attorneys representing Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ian Furminger is not a racist or homophobe,\" Goldrosen wrote in an email. \"His closest friends, both at work and in his social life, include many people of different races and sexual orientations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258927681/Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">motion for bail pending appeal\u003c/a> presents a dedicated, veteran police officer who coaches youth sports and volunteers at school functions, including as a physical education teacher for his children's schools. One of the texts released Friday references Furminger's concern about black children attending his son's school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Furminger actively promotes the fantasy that he is a person of character,\" federal prosecutors wrote in their response to the motion. \"Although these sort of overtly racist views sadly still are expressed in some communities, it is shocking and appalling to find a police officer in San Francisco who would give voice to them. Furminger’s willingness to do so -- which exemplifies his erratic and anti-social behavior -- should be taken into account.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Friday, March 13\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department says it's investigating four current members of the force who reportedly joined in an exchange of racist and homophobic text messages with an SFPD sergeant recently convicted on theft and corruption charges, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>), which were disclosed in a court filing by federal prosecutors on Friday, all involve former Sgt. Ian Furminger, convicted in December for his role in a series of thefts from drug suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger is appealing his conviction to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was formerly a supervisor in the Police Department's Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department says the texts, sent between late 2011 and the middle of 2012, implicate four other officers who are now the subjects of a department inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Texts show Furminger and other officers swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It’s an internal affairs investigation looking into officers who have shown extreme bias, which has no place in the San Francisco Police Department,\" Sgt. Monica Macdonald said. \"The officers were reassigned some time ago while the investigation is under way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors included more than two dozen text conversations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing\u003c/a> opposing Furminger's request to remain out on bail while he awaits his appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">He was sentenced\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts show Furminger and other San Francisco police officers repeatedly swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers. In one exchange on Nov. 9, 2011, Furminger writes about his son's school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got two blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response, from an unnamed civilian: \"Do you celebrate qaunza [sic] at your school?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger: \"Yeah we burn the cross on the field! Then celebrate Whitemas ... Its worth every penny to live here [Walnut Creek] away from the savages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unnamed officer texted the phrase \"White power\" to Furminger, who later repeats the phrase in a text to an SFPD officer. He also texted \"White power family\" to a civilian, followed by a redacted reference to his home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An anonymous SFPD officer had a suggestion for Furminger after the convicted ex-sergeant texted that a friend of his wife's was visiting with her husband, who is black:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun. Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots,\" the response says. \"Its not against the law to put an animal down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger responded: \"Well said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger also repeatedly calls another officer a \"fag,\" and makes racist comments about Mexican and Filipino people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the texts were all recovered from Furminger's personal cellphone, it's not immediately clear whether the officers he was communicating with were using department-issued phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Macdonald said it doesn't necessarily matter, though, as the texts appear to violate SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=25894\" target=\"_blank\">policy prohibiting biased policing\u003c/a> either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone’s biased, whether this occurs on duty or off duty, it’s something we take very seriously,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's attorney did not immediately respond for a request for comment. Federal Judge Charles Breyer is expected to take up Furminger's bail motion next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"document\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the government's filing below:\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/258662847/content?start_page=10&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-4PrzG9WB90fKrpx5uYTj&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.2941176470588236\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_77667\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ted Goldberg, Dan Brekke and Sara Hossaini contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10454955 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10454955",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/19/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 2338,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 73
},
"modified": 1450410707,
"excerpt": "Lawyers for officers implicated in exchanging messages say clients are 'ashamed' and 'mortified.'",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Lawyers for officers implicated in exchanging messages say clients are 'ashamed' and 'mortified.'",
"title": "Fallout From SFPD Racist Texts: Officer Resigns Amid Scandal | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Fallout From SFPD Racist Texts: Officer Resigns Amid Scandal",
"datePublished": "2015-03-19T16:45:25-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-12-17T19:51:47-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation/",
"path": "/news/10454955/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of four San Francisco police officers, who was reassigned while the department's internal affairs division investigates their involvement in racist and homophobic text messages, has resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Robison, who served as an SFPD officer for 23 years, resigned Wednesday, his attorney Anthony Brass confirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He resigned in order to spare himself the stress of living knowing that he was going to be terminated,\" Brass said. \"The chief's comments that the four officers would be terminated following the investigation let him know what the outcome of this would be, really no matter what.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr had said he would seek to terminate any officers found by the investigation to be biased. Suhr did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Text messages recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone were revealed in a federal court \u003ca href=\"#document\">filing\u003c/a> last week opposing Furminger's request for bail while he appeals his conviction on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The messages initially implicated officers Michael Celis, Rain Daugherty and Noel Schwab, in addition to Robison. Furminger's motion was denied, and he's scheduled to surrender in early April for a prison sentence of three years and five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said Thursday that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">10 additional officers\u003c/a> caught up in the probe are no longer under investigation. They had traded messages with Furminger, but those were \"deemed not inappropriate,\" the spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison was openly gay and was quoted in \u003ca href=\"http://www.advocate.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Advocate\u003c/a>, a national gay and lesbian news magazine in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Good+cop+gay+cop%3A+from+the+beat+patrol+to+the+precinct+house,+gay+and...-a020350566\" target=\"_blank\">1998 article\u003c/a> about challenges faced by gay police officers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The `good ol' boys' system is on its way out, and the newer generation that's replaced them sees things from a more open-minded standpoint. We have a common saying among people in the department: `When you're at work you're all wearing blue.' I really hand it to the people who came out back then because they really-paved-the way for us.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Mike Robison is not a racist,\" Brass said. \"He works with people of varied ethnicity every day. He understands bigotry from the other side because as an openly gay officer, he exposes himself to a great deal of bigotry and well understands the hurt of that, and would never want to impose that on other people. The problem is that there really is no explanation that's going to satisfy his chief, the community or anyone regarding these texts. The texts are just literally -- they speak for themselves -- and there's no changing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has joined the city's top prosecutor, public defender and police chief in condemning racist and homophobic texts that a court filing shows were exchanged among a group of San Francisco police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196239694&visual=true&color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196239694'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts were disclosed Friday in a motion involving former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger, who is facing 41 months in prison after being convicted in December on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Federal prosecutors opposing Furminger's motion to remain free on bail bolstered their argument by including \u003ca href=\"#document\">transcripts of texts\u003c/a> between him and former SFPD colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">'It was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology. And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.'\u003ccite>\u003ccite>Yulanda Williams,\u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>Officers for Justice President\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The messages contain various disparaging references to African-Americans, Latinos, Filipinos and gay people. Some of them were directed at specific officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams is president of \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/about-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a>, an association of SFPD officers formed in 1968 to advocate for the civil rights of minorities, women and LGBT people. One of the text exchanges that refers to her uses a derogatory phrase offensive to both black people and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was rather shocking to know that there were people working around me that had this type of ideology,\" Williams said in an interview with KQED's Sara Hossaini. Williams added that she is acquainted with Furminger and one of the officers under investigation, Michael Robison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I read it, it was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology,\" she said. \"And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers for Justice released a \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/uploads/3/3/4/0/3340987/text_press_release_1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement today\u003c/a> calling for complete transparency and expressing suspicion that \"Textgate\" goes beyond the four officers who San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr confirmed are under investigation for exchanging the messages with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has said the department will pursue disciplinary action against the officers and conduct a review of its hiring and training policies in light of the disclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is both shocking and disturbing to hear that four San Francisco police officers are under investigation for such heinous and despicable statements,\" Mayor Lee said in a statement Monday. \"The content of these text messages displays a bias that is incompatible with the values of our City and incompatible with the ability to perform sworn duties as a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said that he expected the officers involved to be fired \"if these statements are attributable to any San Francisco police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the problem of racial bias in the SFPD goes beyond the four officers currently under investigation. He's calling for a federal probe much like the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department released earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These texts display deep-rooted racism within members of the San Francisco Police Department,\" Adachi said in an interview Monday. \"Some of these texts are even more outrageous and hurtful than some of the emails from the Ferguson Police Department report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi cited a city report from 2013 that found 56 percent of San Francisco's jail inmates are African-American, despite making up just 6 percent of the city's residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is the training that officers receive, and why do we have such a disproportionate rate of arresting and jailing African-Americans in San Francisco?\" Adachi asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement he is \"deeply disturbed\" by the offensive messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no place for bigotry in San Francisco,\" the statement said. \"In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past ten years where these officers were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Monday\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr says the department will examine hiring and training policies in the wake of the disclosure of racist and homophobic text messages swapped among several police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at the hiring/background processes to identify how anyone capable of statements of such extreme bias could be hired as police officers in the first place,\" Suhr wrote in a text reply to questions from KQED. \"We have training scheduled on implicit bias and we will be doing more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing three of four San Francisco officers under investigation for their part in the offensive texts have confirmed their clients' identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're mortified to be involved in anything like this,\" said defense attorney Tony Brass, who is representing Officers Michael Robison and Michael Celis. \"They understand that this is going to have dire consequences for them both professionally and in the public view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts were made public in a court filing Friday by federal prosecutors opposing a bid by former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger to remain free on on bail while he appeals a conviction for fraud and conspiracy. The filing (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>) discloses only some of the text messages collected from Furminger's cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts repeatedly use epithets referring to black people, as well as disparaging references to Mexican and Filipino people. Some texts from Furminger also include slurs about gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said he doesn't yet know which texts were sent or received by which officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's four police officers involved and the one person that is identified as the hub of this is Ian Furminger,\" Brass said. \"But whether Mike Celis or Mike Robison are involved in the ones that are quite shocking, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said his first meeting with Police Department internal affairs investigators is scheduled for March 25, and his clients believe they could be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Wilkinson represents Officer Rain Daugherty. She confirmed via email that her client is under investigation for texts he traded with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Daugherty is appropriately ashamed by his impulsive and insensitive banter,\" Wilkinson wrote, \"and accepts full responsibility for the content of those text messages that he sent, which are by no means a reflection of his true character or his style of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department spokeswoman said Suhr would recommend all four officers be fired if the investigation proved racial bias. The final decision lies with the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Officers-linked-to-racist-texts-were-all-veterans-6134489.php\" target=\"_blank\">identified the fourth officer\u003c/a> under investigation as Noel Schwab. His attorney did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Goldrosen is the latest in a series of attorneys representing Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ian Furminger is not a racist or homophobe,\" Goldrosen wrote in an email. \"His closest friends, both at work and in his social life, include many people of different races and sexual orientations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258927681/Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">motion for bail pending appeal\u003c/a> presents a dedicated, veteran police officer who coaches youth sports and volunteers at school functions, including as a physical education teacher for his children's schools. One of the texts released Friday references Furminger's concern about black children attending his son's school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Furminger actively promotes the fantasy that he is a person of character,\" federal prosecutors wrote in their response to the motion. \"Although these sort of overtly racist views sadly still are expressed in some communities, it is shocking and appalling to find a police officer in San Francisco who would give voice to them. Furminger’s willingness to do so -- which exemplifies his erratic and anti-social behavior -- should be taken into account.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Friday, March 13\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department says it's investigating four current members of the force who reportedly joined in an exchange of racist and homophobic text messages with an SFPD sergeant recently convicted on theft and corruption charges, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>), which were disclosed in a court filing by federal prosecutors on Friday, all involve former Sgt. Ian Furminger, convicted in December for his role in a series of thefts from drug suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger is appealing his conviction to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was formerly a supervisor in the Police Department's Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department says the texts, sent between late 2011 and the middle of 2012, implicate four other officers who are now the subjects of a department inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Texts show Furminger and other officers swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It’s an internal affairs investigation looking into officers who have shown extreme bias, which has no place in the San Francisco Police Department,\" Sgt. Monica Macdonald said. \"The officers were reassigned some time ago while the investigation is under way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors included more than two dozen text conversations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing\u003c/a> opposing Furminger's request to remain out on bail while he awaits his appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">He was sentenced\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts show Furminger and other San Francisco police officers repeatedly swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers. In one exchange on Nov. 9, 2011, Furminger writes about his son's school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got two blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response, from an unnamed civilian: \"Do you celebrate qaunza [sic] at your school?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger: \"Yeah we burn the cross on the field! Then celebrate Whitemas ... Its worth every penny to live here [Walnut Creek] away from the savages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unnamed officer texted the phrase \"White power\" to Furminger, who later repeats the phrase in a text to an SFPD officer. He also texted \"White power family\" to a civilian, followed by a redacted reference to his home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An anonymous SFPD officer had a suggestion for Furminger after the convicted ex-sergeant texted that a friend of his wife's was visiting with her husband, who is black:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun. Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots,\" the response says. \"Its not against the law to put an animal down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger responded: \"Well said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger also repeatedly calls another officer a \"fag,\" and makes racist comments about Mexican and Filipino people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the texts were all recovered from Furminger's personal cellphone, it's not immediately clear whether the officers he was communicating with were using department-issued phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Macdonald said it doesn't necessarily matter, though, as the texts appear to violate SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=25894\" target=\"_blank\">policy prohibiting biased policing\u003c/a> either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone’s biased, whether this occurs on duty or off duty, it’s something we take very seriously,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's attorney did not immediately respond for a request for comment. Federal Judge Charles Breyer is expected to take up Furminger's bail motion next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"document\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the government's filing below:\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/258662847/content?start_page=10&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-4PrzG9WB90fKrpx5uYTj&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.2941176470588236\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_77667\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ted Goldberg, Dan Brekke and Sara Hossaini contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10454955/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_545",
"news_17945",
"news_996"
],
"featImg": "news_10455012",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10459254": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10459254",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10459254",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1426716701000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1426716701,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "SFPD Text Messaging Scandal Expands; Public Defender Seeks Police Reform",
"title": "SFPD Text Messaging Scandal Expands; Public Defender Seeks Police Reform",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>The number of criminal convictions and pending cases affected by the growing group of San Francisco police officers involved in a text messaging scandal could increase \"exponentially\" as the credibility of more officers is called into question, a spokeswoman for the city's public defender said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/M-R-SFPD-looking-at-10-more-officers-in-6139314.php\" target=\"_blank\">broke the news\u003c/a> that an additional 10 SFPD officers are the subject of an internal affairs investigation for allegedly exchanging inappropriate texts with former Sgt. Ian Furminger. That's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">in addition to four officers\u003c/a> previously known to be under investigation for trading racist and homophobic messages with Furminger, who was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their attorneys confirmed the original four officers under investigation are Michael Robison, Michael Celis, Rain Daugherty and Noel Schwab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been reassigned to positions that keep them out of public contact, according to the department. That's not the case with the newly discovered group of 10 officers, San Francisco Police Officers Association President Martin Halloran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were 10 officers that came to the POA seeking representation\" about two weeks ago, Halloran said. \"I do not believe that these officers are under investigation at the same scope or the same level as the initial four officers, because these 10 additional officers have not been reassigned.\" He said they're still serving out in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said he does not know why the new group of officers is under investigation, but a source close to the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed the probe stems from text messages recovered from Furminger's personal cellphone. The source cautioned against \"painting those additional officers with the same brush as the other four,\" adding that messages involving the latest group of officers may have been inappropriate, but not racist or homophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr did not respond when asked by KQED to comment on the increasing number of officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi said his office, along with the district attorney, is beginning to review a decade of prosecutions involving the original four officers -- estimated to be about 1,000 cases. He said they are looking at the facts of each individual case for instances when an African-American defendant disputed one of the officers' accounts of a search, investigation or arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer credibility is key in any case,\" Adachi said. \"Where you have these officers who were principal players in these cases, and they have a record of being involved in this kind of horrible behavior, no prosecutor is going to want to put them on the stand. Those cases are likely going to be dismissed, and that’s what I’d expect from our district attorney.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender's Office spokeswoman Tamara Aparton said that number will likely grow when more comes out about the content of the texts involving the group of 10 officers. She said 792 cases were dismissed after Adachi's office uncovered surveillance video from SRO hotels that appeared to show plainclothes officers conducting illegal searches. The videos led to a federal criminal investigation and the eventual indictment of Furminger and five other SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said defendants seeking to overturn a past conviction typically face a very high legal hurdle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not like the dramatic DNA exoneration evidence that you see in many of the publicized cases,\" Weisberg said. \"The newly discovered evidence is at best, not to minimize it, impeachment of the word of a police officer, where it may or may not have made a material difference in the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said, that doesn't necessarily mean scores of past and pending prosecutions won't be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some cases may get reopened, maybe lots of cases will get reopened,\" Weisberg said, \"not because of formal legal appeals or post-conviction proceedings, but because the police department, District Attorney George Gascón, the city generally just decides, 'We think it’s the right thing to do, and we the officials will go to the court and request a reopening and maybe even a dismissal in some cases.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi is pressing the SFPD for policy changes following the scandal. The Racial Justice Committee of the Public Defender's Office unveiled a \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2015/03/racial-justice-committee-plan-for-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">10-point plan\u003c/a> for police reform Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We welcome the opportunity that this crisis presents,\" committee co-chair Rebecca Young said. \"It becomes a cancer that infects an entire neighborhood, where the people in the community do not like and profoundly mistrust the police, and that creates an officer safety issue as well as a health and safety issue for the people living in these communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee highlighted three recommendations most directly linked to curbing the kind of racism exhibited in the texts. Young and her colleagues recommend a minimum 24 hours of training on implicit bias and its effects, including perspectives of people of color who have been unlawfully detained. They're pushing for yearly reviews of all field training officers -- experienced officers who train rookies -- with a focus on any history of racial bias, excessive force or illegal search and seizures \"to determine if they are fit to train other officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is also calling for the department to assign officers to patrol neighborhoods in which they live, and to attract more officers who are people of color to work and live in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the union's part, Halloran said the text messages do not reflect the views of the vast majority of SFPD officers. The POA released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXHHdWcgF6k\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> yesterday extolling San Francisco's diverse police force in response to the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department is one of the most diverse in the United States of America,\" he said. \"The POA is appalled with those messages. I'm shocked and I'm sickened by them. It does not reflect on the hard-working men and women that are out on the streets 24/7 serving our public. This is a very, very small fraction of members that are caught up in this text messaging debacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10459254 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10459254",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1022,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 22
},
"modified": 1433616292,
"excerpt": "Ten more officers reportedly linked to inappropriate messages are under investigation.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Ten more officers reportedly linked to inappropriate messages are under investigation.",
"title": "SFPD Text Messaging Scandal Expands; Public Defender Seeks Police Reform | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "SFPD Text Messaging Scandal Expands; Public Defender Seeks Police Reform",
"datePublished": "2015-03-18T15:11:41-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-06-06T11:44:52-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "sfpd-text-messaging-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/",
"path": "/news/10459254/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The number of criminal convictions and pending cases affected by the growing group of San Francisco police officers involved in a text messaging scandal could increase \"exponentially\" as the credibility of more officers is called into question, a spokeswoman for the city's public defender said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/M-R-SFPD-looking-at-10-more-officers-in-6139314.php\" target=\"_blank\">broke the news\u003c/a> that an additional 10 SFPD officers are the subject of an internal affairs investigation for allegedly exchanging inappropriate texts with former Sgt. Ian Furminger. That's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">in addition to four officers\u003c/a> previously known to be under investigation for trading racist and homophobic messages with Furminger, who was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their attorneys confirmed the original four officers under investigation are Michael Robison, Michael Celis, Rain Daugherty and Noel Schwab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been reassigned to positions that keep them out of public contact, according to the department. That's not the case with the newly discovered group of 10 officers, San Francisco Police Officers Association President Martin Halloran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were 10 officers that came to the POA seeking representation\" about two weeks ago, Halloran said. \"I do not believe that these officers are under investigation at the same scope or the same level as the initial four officers, because these 10 additional officers have not been reassigned.\" He said they're still serving out in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said he does not know why the new group of officers is under investigation, but a source close to the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed the probe stems from text messages recovered from Furminger's personal cellphone. The source cautioned against \"painting those additional officers with the same brush as the other four,\" adding that messages involving the latest group of officers may have been inappropriate, but not racist or homophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr did not respond when asked by KQED to comment on the increasing number of officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi said his office, along with the district attorney, is beginning to review a decade of prosecutions involving the original four officers -- estimated to be about 1,000 cases. He said they are looking at the facts of each individual case for instances when an African-American defendant disputed one of the officers' accounts of a search, investigation or arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer credibility is key in any case,\" Adachi said. \"Where you have these officers who were principal players in these cases, and they have a record of being involved in this kind of horrible behavior, no prosecutor is going to want to put them on the stand. Those cases are likely going to be dismissed, and that’s what I’d expect from our district attorney.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender's Office spokeswoman Tamara Aparton said that number will likely grow when more comes out about the content of the texts involving the group of 10 officers. She said 792 cases were dismissed after Adachi's office uncovered surveillance video from SRO hotels that appeared to show plainclothes officers conducting illegal searches. The videos led to a federal criminal investigation and the eventual indictment of Furminger and five other SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said defendants seeking to overturn a past conviction typically face a very high legal hurdle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not like the dramatic DNA exoneration evidence that you see in many of the publicized cases,\" Weisberg said. \"The newly discovered evidence is at best, not to minimize it, impeachment of the word of a police officer, where it may or may not have made a material difference in the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said, that doesn't necessarily mean scores of past and pending prosecutions won't be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some cases may get reopened, maybe lots of cases will get reopened,\" Weisberg said, \"not because of formal legal appeals or post-conviction proceedings, but because the police department, District Attorney George Gascón, the city generally just decides, 'We think it’s the right thing to do, and we the officials will go to the court and request a reopening and maybe even a dismissal in some cases.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi is pressing the SFPD for policy changes following the scandal. The Racial Justice Committee of the Public Defender's Office unveiled a \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2015/03/racial-justice-committee-plan-for-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">10-point plan\u003c/a> for police reform Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We welcome the opportunity that this crisis presents,\" committee co-chair Rebecca Young said. \"It becomes a cancer that infects an entire neighborhood, where the people in the community do not like and profoundly mistrust the police, and that creates an officer safety issue as well as a health and safety issue for the people living in these communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee highlighted three recommendations most directly linked to curbing the kind of racism exhibited in the texts. Young and her colleagues recommend a minimum 24 hours of training on implicit bias and its effects, including perspectives of people of color who have been unlawfully detained. They're pushing for yearly reviews of all field training officers -- experienced officers who train rookies -- with a focus on any history of racial bias, excessive force or illegal search and seizures \"to determine if they are fit to train other officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is also calling for the department to assign officers to patrol neighborhoods in which they live, and to attract more officers who are people of color to work and live in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the union's part, Halloran said the text messages do not reflect the views of the vast majority of SFPD officers. The POA released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXHHdWcgF6k\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> yesterday extolling San Francisco's diverse police force in response to the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department is one of the most diverse in the United States of America,\" he said. \"The POA is appalled with those messages. I'm shocked and I'm sickened by them. It does not reflect on the hard-working men and women that are out on the streets 24/7 serving our public. This is a very, very small fraction of members that are caught up in this text messaging debacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10459254/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_122",
"news_545",
"news_17945",
"news_996"
],
"featImg": "news_10383218",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10454715": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10454715",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10454715",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1426280297000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1426280297,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Undocumented Witnesses to Police Shooting Say They're Afraid to Come Forward",
"title": "Undocumented Witnesses to Police Shooting Say They're Afraid to Come Forward",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Two men who say they witnessed a San Francisco police shooting last month say they fear countering the official version of events because of their undocumented status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their version of events directly contradicts statements by police about the shooting of 21-year-old Amilcar Pérez López on Feb. 26 at 9:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Pérez López had been trying to steal someone’s bike and then lunged -- with a knife in his hand -- at plainclothes officers before the officers opened fire. The eyewitnesses said that Pérez López was chasing someone on a bicycle who had stolen his cellphone. Moreover, they said, he dropped the knife he had in his hand before police opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am drowning. I want to say everything I know, but I am scared,” one of them said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If later, we make a statement against [the police version], what will become of us?” asked the other. “That’s why we haven’t spoken up. We are overwhelmed, stressed out, we can’t sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men have asked that their names be withheld. They are in the process of talking to lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/conflicting-versions-of-police-shooting-suppressed-by-fear/\" target=\"_blank\">Read: Full story at Mission Local\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10454715 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10454715",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/undocumented-witnesses-to-police-shooting-say-theyre-afraid-to-come-forward/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 218,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 9
},
"modified": 1426285765,
"excerpt": "Two who contradict S.F. police account say they're scared of consequences if they talk to investigators.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Two who contradict S.F. police account say they're scared of consequences if they talk to investigators.",
"title": "Undocumented Witnesses to Police Shooting Say They're Afraid to Come Forward | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Undocumented Witnesses to Police Shooting Say They're Afraid to Come Forward",
"datePublished": "2015-03-13T13:58:17-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-03-13T15:29:25-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "undocumented-witnesses-to-police-shooting-say-theyre-afraid-to-come-forward",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/03/13/san-francisco-police-shooting-amilcar-perez-lopez/",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/author/lauraw/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Wenus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/author/andreav/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Valencia\u003c/a>\u003cbr />Mission Local\u003c/strong>",
"path": "/news/10454715/undocumented-witnesses-to-police-shooting-say-theyre-afraid-to-come-forward",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two men who say they witnessed a San Francisco police shooting last month say they fear countering the official version of events because of their undocumented status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their version of events directly contradicts statements by police about the shooting of 21-year-old Amilcar Pérez López on Feb. 26 at 9:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Pérez López had been trying to steal someone’s bike and then lunged -- with a knife in his hand -- at plainclothes officers before the officers opened fire. The eyewitnesses said that Pérez López was chasing someone on a bicycle who had stolen his cellphone. Moreover, they said, he dropped the knife he had in his hand before police opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am drowning. I want to say everything I know, but I am scared,” one of them said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If later, we make a statement against [the police version], what will become of us?” asked the other. “That’s why we haven’t spoken up. We are overwhelmed, stressed out, we can’t sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men have asked that their names be withheld. They are in the process of talking to lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/conflicting-versions-of-police-shooting-suppressed-by-fear/\" target=\"_blank\">Read: Full story at Mission Local\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10454715/undocumented-witnesses-to-police-shooting-say-theyre-afraid-to-come-forward",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10454715"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_3986",
"news_545"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_6439"
],
"featImg": "news_10454754",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10441338": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10441338",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10441338",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1424740983000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1424740983,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Ex-SFPD Sergeant Sentenced in Federal Corruption Case",
"title": "Ex-SFPD Sergeant Sentenced in Federal Corruption Case",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger was sentenced Monday to three years and five months in prison for his role in a series of thefts from drug suspects committed by plainclothes officers in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This not only casts a shadow on the police department -- this casts a shadow on all police,\" said federal prosecutor John Hemann. \"It does extraordinary damage to both the mission and perception of law enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said the sentencing marked \"a day of shame.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very disturbing to the court to have to sentence an individual who is charged with enforcing the laws,\" Breyer said. \"When a law enforcement officer violates his oath, the victims are not only the people directly affected by it, but all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury convicted Furminger in December of two counts of wire fraud, conspiracy against civil rights, and conspiracy to commit theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'My job is to protect my people. I was papa bear, and I rocked. I made it happen.'\u003ccite>Ian Furminger\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In addition to prison time, Breyer imposed a $25,000 fine, three years supervised release, and 120 hours community service on the first former SFPD officer to be sentenced in two separate federal corruption cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's co-defendant, Edmond Robles, will likely be sentenced in late March or early April. Ray Vargas pleaded guilty in the case and testified against Furminger and Robles. His sentencing has not been scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate case concerning another plainclothes unit, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/22/jury-weighs-intent-in-federal-trial-of-sfpd-officers-charged-with-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\">a jury convicted\u003c/a> former Officer Arshad Razzak in January of illegally searching the rooms of drug suspects and falsifying a police report to make the search appear legal. Co-defendant Richard Yick was acquitted in that case. Criminal proceedings against Raul Elias, also indicted in the case against Razzak and Yick, have been stayed until July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no place in the San Francisco Police Department for dishonest police officers,” SFPD Deputy Chief Sharon Ferrigno told the court before Furminger was sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrigno said commanding officers now choose who works in the plainclothes unit, a change since the indictment last year. The department has instituted monthly ethics and Fourth Amendment (search and seizure) trainings for plainclothes officers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they don’t satisfy the training requirement, they’re removed from the team,\" Ferrigno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervising officers, typically sergeants, must now approve the serving of search warrants, she said, and the department has implemented a \"stricter selection process\" for officers working plainclothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger must voluntarily surrender to corrections officers by April 3. His attorney, Brian Getz, said he will appeal the conviction and seek bail pending appeal. In other words, the case is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We accept, as we must, the decision of the court in meting out a very heavy prison sentence today,\" Getz said, noting that Furminger was convicted on just four of nine counts he was charged with. \"The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will be the next judge of those verdicts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getz previously argued that scant, if any, direct evidence linked Furminger to thefts committed by his subordinates, although Vargas and others testified he was involved in a conspiracy to steal property from suspects -- including an Apple gift card and, in one incident, more than $30,000 in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger spoke briefly with reporters after he was sentenced. He said he had urged the SFPD to implement stricter policies for plainclothes officers, but the department ignored him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn’t keep track of everybody all the time,\" he said, adding that he supervised a team of 18 officers. \"I don’t know what cops do in the middle of the night. I can’t keep track of that. I know what it’s like to be hungry. I would never take a penny from anybody, ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger categorically denied that he received any profit from thefts committed by Robles and Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He’s a crooked cop,\" Furminger said of Vargas. \"He’s a dirty, dirty man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the department forced the plainclothes unit to prioritize narcotics over violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your child get kidnapped, your wife gets raped, something bad happens, guess who you want coming?\" he said. \"Me, me and my guys. We solved it every single time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer noted Furminger's decades of service as a police officer. He had received almost every commendation offered by the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have an extraordinary record of public service,\" Breyer said. \"You risked your life to save lives of other people, disadvantaged people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Breyer said, that didn't soften the severity of Furminger's crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s clear to me that you did not tell your subordinates, 'You cannot do this. Stop it or I’ll report it,' \" Breyer said. \"Your conduct is actually more reprehensible than your colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger questioned why the department didn't fire Vargas sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s not my job,\" he said. \"My job is to protect my people. I was papa bear, and I rocked. I made it happen. I made everything happen. We caught everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10441338 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10441338",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 851,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 29
},
"modified": 1424740983,
"excerpt": "Ian Furminger says department ignored him and should have fired sooner a 'crooked cop' he supervised.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Ian Furminger says department ignored him and should have fired sooner a 'crooked cop' he supervised.",
"title": "Ex-SFPD Sergeant Sentenced in Federal Corruption Case | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Ex-SFPD Sergeant Sentenced in Federal Corruption Case",
"datePublished": "2015-02-23T17:23:03-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-02-23T17:23:03-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/",
"path": "/news/10441338/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger was sentenced Monday to three years and five months in prison for his role in a series of thefts from drug suspects committed by plainclothes officers in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This not only casts a shadow on the police department -- this casts a shadow on all police,\" said federal prosecutor John Hemann. \"It does extraordinary damage to both the mission and perception of law enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said the sentencing marked \"a day of shame.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very disturbing to the court to have to sentence an individual who is charged with enforcing the laws,\" Breyer said. \"When a law enforcement officer violates his oath, the victims are not only the people directly affected by it, but all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury convicted Furminger in December of two counts of wire fraud, conspiracy against civil rights, and conspiracy to commit theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'My job is to protect my people. I was papa bear, and I rocked. I made it happen.'\u003ccite>Ian Furminger\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In addition to prison time, Breyer imposed a $25,000 fine, three years supervised release, and 120 hours community service on the first former SFPD officer to be sentenced in two separate federal corruption cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's co-defendant, Edmond Robles, will likely be sentenced in late March or early April. Ray Vargas pleaded guilty in the case and testified against Furminger and Robles. His sentencing has not been scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate case concerning another plainclothes unit, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/22/jury-weighs-intent-in-federal-trial-of-sfpd-officers-charged-with-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\">a jury convicted\u003c/a> former Officer Arshad Razzak in January of illegally searching the rooms of drug suspects and falsifying a police report to make the search appear legal. Co-defendant Richard Yick was acquitted in that case. Criminal proceedings against Raul Elias, also indicted in the case against Razzak and Yick, have been stayed until July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no place in the San Francisco Police Department for dishonest police officers,” SFPD Deputy Chief Sharon Ferrigno told the court before Furminger was sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrigno said commanding officers now choose who works in the plainclothes unit, a change since the indictment last year. The department has instituted monthly ethics and Fourth Amendment (search and seizure) trainings for plainclothes officers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they don’t satisfy the training requirement, they’re removed from the team,\" Ferrigno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervising officers, typically sergeants, must now approve the serving of search warrants, she said, and the department has implemented a \"stricter selection process\" for officers working plainclothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger must voluntarily surrender to corrections officers by April 3. His attorney, Brian Getz, said he will appeal the conviction and seek bail pending appeal. In other words, the case is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We accept, as we must, the decision of the court in meting out a very heavy prison sentence today,\" Getz said, noting that Furminger was convicted on just four of nine counts he was charged with. \"The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will be the next judge of those verdicts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getz previously argued that scant, if any, direct evidence linked Furminger to thefts committed by his subordinates, although Vargas and others testified he was involved in a conspiracy to steal property from suspects -- including an Apple gift card and, in one incident, more than $30,000 in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger spoke briefly with reporters after he was sentenced. He said he had urged the SFPD to implement stricter policies for plainclothes officers, but the department ignored him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn’t keep track of everybody all the time,\" he said, adding that he supervised a team of 18 officers. \"I don’t know what cops do in the middle of the night. I can’t keep track of that. I know what it’s like to be hungry. I would never take a penny from anybody, ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger categorically denied that he received any profit from thefts committed by Robles and Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He’s a crooked cop,\" Furminger said of Vargas. \"He’s a dirty, dirty man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the department forced the plainclothes unit to prioritize narcotics over violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your child get kidnapped, your wife gets raped, something bad happens, guess who you want coming?\" he said. \"Me, me and my guys. We solved it every single time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer noted Furminger's decades of service as a police officer. He had received almost every commendation offered by the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have an extraordinary record of public service,\" Breyer said. \"You risked your life to save lives of other people, disadvantaged people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Breyer said, that didn't soften the severity of Furminger's crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s clear to me that you did not tell your subordinates, 'You cannot do this. Stop it or I’ll report it,' \" Breyer said. \"Your conduct is actually more reprehensible than your colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger questioned why the department didn't fire Vargas sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s not my job,\" he said. \"My job is to protect my people. I was papa bear, and I rocked. I made it happen. I made everything happen. We caught everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10441338/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_545"
],
"featImg": "news_10356156",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10424975": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10424975",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10424975",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1423147816000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1423147816,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "S.F. Police Chief: Arrested Public Defender Won't Be Charged",
"title": "S.F. Police Chief: Arrested Public Defender Won't Be Charged",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Police won't seek criminal charges against a San Francisco deputy public defender arrested outside a courtroom last week, Chief Greg Suhr said at a Wednesday night meeting of the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the controversy stemming from the brief detention of two black men in a courthouse hallway, followed by the arrest of their attorney when she stepped in, appeared far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson on suspicion of obstructing a peace officer after she questioned a police sergeant while he was attempting to photograph two men outside a courtroom at the Hall of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillotson had represented one of the men earlier that day, according to Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2015/01/video-deputy-public-defender-unjustly-arrested/\" target=\"_blank\">released cellphone video\u003c/a> of the arrest (below). The video shows Sgt. Brian Stansbury asking Tillotson to step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pretty sure we're OK here,\" Tillotson said. \"We don't need any pictures taken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sergeant then said he would arrest her and Tillotson replied, \"Please do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stansbury then handcuffed her and a uniformed officer escorted her away. She was detained for about an hour, Adachi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/7qhzdxYnwhg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi told the Police Commission he is outraged and disappointed over the arrest and the department's response to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I made it clear that what we wanted was an apology,\" he said. \"Instead, there was a public statement saying that what they did was completely justified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said Stansbury had reasonable suspicion to stop the men and photograph them because the sergeant believed they were wearing the same clothing he suspected they were wearing when they committed a burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do apologize for any distress caused to Ms. Tillotson during her detention,\" Suhr said. \"I don’t disagree that he had reasonable suspicion, but that case ... it has not been presented, and we will not be seeking a warrant on that matter. So there will not be criminal charges. It will be closed out as an investigative detention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the commission, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California questioned whether detaining the men was in line with Police Department policy. The ACLU also said the incident raises broader issues concerning police treatment of young black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[A]s Ferguson reminds us, this country and this City have a long way to go to overcome the community distrust and fear of the police that are prevalent in certain communities,\" the letter says. \"The actions of the police last Tuesday have an appearance of police overreaching and racial profiling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Schlosser, the legal director of the Northern California ACLU, said the setting of the arrest raised alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they can do that in a courthouse, what can they do to me on the street where there are no lawyers, and no videos?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission member Petra DeJesus said the agency should investigate whether the department has adequate policies regarding detaining a suspect when his or her attorney is present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean we can’t go around arresting attorneys,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, unless they break the law,\" Commission President Suzy Loftus said, adding that the arrest is under investigation by the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Thomas Mazzucco said the commission must remain silent on the case because it will hear and rule on that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a policy,\" Commission Vice President Julius Turman said. \"It’s called the 6th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and we will take up in this process what violation, if any, occurred of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=254802591 key=key-GdNG3Nj5RkaAzkPB9BIo mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10424975 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10424975",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/05/s-f-police-chief-arrested-public-defender-wont-be-charged/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 604,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 23
},
"modified": 1423183723,
"excerpt": "Police Commission explores civil rights implications of incident at city's Hall of Justice. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Police Commission explores civil rights implications of incident at city's Hall of Justice. ",
"title": "S.F. Police Chief: Arrested Public Defender Won't Be Charged | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "S.F. Police Chief: Arrested Public Defender Won't Be Charged",
"datePublished": "2015-02-05T06:50:16-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-02-05T16:48:43-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "s-f-police-chief-arrested-public-defender-wont-be-charged",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10424975/s-f-police-chief-arrested-public-defender-wont-be-charged",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Police won't seek criminal charges against a San Francisco deputy public defender arrested outside a courtroom last week, Chief Greg Suhr said at a Wednesday night meeting of the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the controversy stemming from the brief detention of two black men in a courthouse hallway, followed by the arrest of their attorney when she stepped in, appeared far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson on suspicion of obstructing a peace officer after she questioned a police sergeant while he was attempting to photograph two men outside a courtroom at the Hall of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillotson had represented one of the men earlier that day, according to Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2015/01/video-deputy-public-defender-unjustly-arrested/\" target=\"_blank\">released cellphone video\u003c/a> of the arrest (below). The video shows Sgt. Brian Stansbury asking Tillotson to step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pretty sure we're OK here,\" Tillotson said. \"We don't need any pictures taken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sergeant then said he would arrest her and Tillotson replied, \"Please do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stansbury then handcuffed her and a uniformed officer escorted her away. She was detained for about an hour, Adachi said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7qhzdxYnwhg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7qhzdxYnwhg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Adachi told the Police Commission he is outraged and disappointed over the arrest and the department's response to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I made it clear that what we wanted was an apology,\" he said. \"Instead, there was a public statement saying that what they did was completely justified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said Stansbury had reasonable suspicion to stop the men and photograph them because the sergeant believed they were wearing the same clothing he suspected they were wearing when they committed a burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do apologize for any distress caused to Ms. Tillotson during her detention,\" Suhr said. \"I don’t disagree that he had reasonable suspicion, but that case ... it has not been presented, and we will not be seeking a warrant on that matter. So there will not be criminal charges. It will be closed out as an investigative detention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the commission, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California questioned whether detaining the men was in line with Police Department policy. The ACLU also said the incident raises broader issues concerning police treatment of young black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[A]s Ferguson reminds us, this country and this City have a long way to go to overcome the community distrust and fear of the police that are prevalent in certain communities,\" the letter says. \"The actions of the police last Tuesday have an appearance of police overreaching and racial profiling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Schlosser, the legal director of the Northern California ACLU, said the setting of the arrest raised alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they can do that in a courthouse, what can they do to me on the street where there are no lawyers, and no videos?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission member Petra DeJesus said the agency should investigate whether the department has adequate policies regarding detaining a suspect when his or her attorney is present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean we can’t go around arresting attorneys,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, unless they break the law,\" Commission President Suzy Loftus said, adding that the arrest is under investigation by the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Thomas Mazzucco said the commission must remain silent on the case because it will hear and rule on that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a policy,\" Commission Vice President Julius Turman said. \"It’s called the 6th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and we will take up in this process what violation, if any, occurred of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/254802591/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-GdNG3Nj5RkaAzkPB9BIo\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/254802591\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_254802591\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/254802591\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10424975/s-f-police-chief-arrested-public-defender-wont-be-charged",
"authors": [
"3206"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_1300",
"news_122",
"news_545"
],
"featImg": "news_10424976",
"label": "news_6944"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"racesGeneralEl2026Reducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?tag=san-francisco-police-department": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 252,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 332,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_10500396",
"news_10476872",
"news_10476086",
"news_10471512",
"news_10465873",
"news_10461515",
"news_10463826",
"news_10454955",
"news_10459254",
"news_10454715",
"news_10441338",
"news_10424975"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_tag_san-francisco-police-department": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_545": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_545",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "545",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Police Department",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Police Department Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 554,
"slug": "san-francisco-police-department",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-police-department"
},
"news_6944": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6944",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6944",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/News-Fix-Logo-Web-Banners-04.png",
"name": "News Fix",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "The News Fix is a daily news podcast from KQED that breaks down the latest headlines and provides in-depth analysis of the stories that matter to the Bay Area.",
"title": "News Fix - Daily Dose of Bay Area News | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6968,
"slug": "news-fix",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/news-fix"
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_19397": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19397",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19397",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Amilcar Perez Lopez",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Amilcar Perez Lopez Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19414,
"slug": "amilcar-perez-lopez",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/amilcar-perez-lopez"
},
"news_1300": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1300",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1300",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Greg Suhr",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Greg Suhr Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1312,
"slug": "greg-suhr",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/greg-suhr"
},
"news_5270": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5270",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5270",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Mission District",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Mission District Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5292,
"slug": "mission-district",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mission-district"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_17945": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17945",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17945",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "SFPD text messaging scandal",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "SFPD text messaging scandal Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17979,
"slug": "sfpd-text-messaging-scandal",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal"
},
"news_546": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_546",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "546",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "George Gascon",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "George Gascon Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 555,
"slug": "george-gascon",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/george-gascon"
},
"news_122": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_122",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "122",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Jeff Adachi",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Jeff Adachi Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 126,
"slug": "jeff-adachi",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/jeff-adachi"
},
"news_559": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_559",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "559",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco District Attorney",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco District Attorney Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 568,
"slug": "san-francisco-district-attorney",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-district-attorney"
},
"news_959": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_959",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "959",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Public Defender",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Public Defender Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 969,
"slug": "san-francisco-public-defender",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-public-defender"
},
"news_1973": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1973",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1973",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Sheriff",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Sheriff Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1988,
"slug": "san-francisco-sheriff",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-sheriff"
},
"news_425": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_425",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "425",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "FBI",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "FBI Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 434,
"slug": "fbi",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/fbi"
},
"news_1172": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1172",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1172",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "U.S. Supreme Court",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "U.S. Supreme Court Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1183,
"slug": "u-s-supreme-court",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/u-s-supreme-court"
},
"news_116": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_116",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "116",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "police",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "police Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 120,
"slug": "police",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/police"
},
"news_996": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_996",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "996",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "SFPD video scandal",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "SFPD video scandal Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1006,
"slug": "sfpd-video-scandal",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sfpd-video-scandal"
},
"news_3986": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3986",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3986",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Mission",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Mission Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4005,
"slug": "mission",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mission"
},
"news_6439": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6439",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6439",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Mission Local",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Mission Local Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 7087,
"slug": "mission-local",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/mission-local"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"requestOutcomesReducer": {
"notFound": []
},
"navPromosReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": true,
"promos": {
"news": {},
"podcasts-radio": {},
"video-tv": {},
"events": {},
"support": {}
}
}
}
