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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto had a history of \"aggressive and bizarre behavior, auditory hallucinations, and noncompliance to psychiatric medications,\" according to the report, which also cites a 2011 incident in which Nieto was placed on a 5150 hold, meaning he was taken into custody because he was a danger to himself or others due to a mental health disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead man's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">family and supporters\u003c/a> point out that he was an aspiring probation officer who was cleared to intern at the San Francisco probation department. He was a City College student studying criminal justice, and carried the Taser for his job as a security guard at a San Francisco nightclub. Nieto was also well known in the city's Mission District, where hundreds marched last month to announce the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/Nieto-parents-sue-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">filing of a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> over the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's parents are represented in the suit by Oakland-based civil rights attorney Adante Pointer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn't settle the issue on whether or not these officers acted lawfully,\" Pointer said about the medical examiner's report. \"This is a person who may have had some mental issues, and because of that, essentially he did something that warranted his death. I put my weight in an independent witness as opposed to someone who's biased and has an interest in the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department said the department cannot comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco district attorney's independent investigation into the shooting is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Medical examiner's reports are always important when there’s an officer-involved shooting,\" said DA spokesman Alex Bastion. \"We’ll be reviewing it in conjunction with our independent investigation. There’s quite a bit of information in there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bastion said the district attorney's office will release a summary of its investigation when it's complete.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"report\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nRead the medical examiner's report below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Alejandro Nieto Medical Examiner's Report 9-12-2014 on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/239580234/Alejandro-Nieto-Medical-Examiner-s-Report-9-12-2014\">Alejandro Nieto Medical Examiner's Report 9-12-2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/239580234/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-SBeG9zkSi1NzQvECp7Ph\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/239580234\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_239580234\"\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/239580234\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11762_IMG_1499-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11762_IMG_1499-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A protest led by Alejandro Nieto's parents moves down Folsom Street on the north side of Bernal Heights Park to San Francisco's federal courthouse on Friday. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest led by Alejandro Nieto's parents moves down Folsom Street on the north side of Bernal Heights Park to San Francisco's federal courthouse on Friday. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parents of a 28-year-old man shot and killed by San Francisco police officers on March 21 filed a federal lawsuit against the city and its police chief Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit (\u003ca href=\"#lawsuit\">read below\u003c/a>) disputes \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">statements SFPD Chief Greg Suhr made\u003c/a> just days after the shooting, and supporters of the slain Alejandro Nieto are suggesting a cover-up. Attorneys for Refugio and Elvira Nieto say witnesses came forward to dispute the assertion that Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers just before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of about 150 marched from the site of Nieto's shooting to San Francisco's federal courthouse Friday. Protesters' chants referenced \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/15/missouri-shooting-anger-in-sf-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">several controversial shootings\u003c/a> by Bay Area police and the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri that has recently dominated national news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's death \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">sparked anger in San Francisco's Mission District\u003c/a>. He was well known in the neighborhood and a criminal justice student at City College of San Francisco where he was studying to become a juvenile probation officer. He had been an intern with the city's probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145578\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11772_IMG_1963-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-145578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11772_IMG_1963-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"City College of San Francisco student Rima Miles marches down Mission Street on Friday protesting the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto in March. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City College of San Francisco student Rima Miles marches down Mission Street on Friday protesting the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto in March. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also worked as a security guard at a nightclub near the Mission and carried a Taser for the job. Nieto stopped to eat a burrito atop the city's Bernal Heights Park on his way to work the evening he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone saw the holstered Taser and called police, according to Suhr's statements and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/sfpd-dispatch-audio-from-fatal-police-shooting-nieto/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD scanner traffic\u003c/a> from the night of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr told an angry crowd at a March 25 town hall meeting that officers approached Nieto and asked him to show his hands. He said Nieto drew his Taser, which automatically emits a laser sight. Officers only shot after they noticed the red dot \"on them, tracking,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They believed it to be a firearm, and they fired at Mr. Nieto,\" Suhr said. \"Mr. Nieto went to the ground. He assumed a prone position, again he acquired the dot, continued to track as other officers arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the time Nieto was prohibited from owning a firearm \"for mental health reasons,\" a statement also disputed by his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based attorneys John Burris and Adante Pointer are representing Nieto's parents. Pointer said sustained protests in the Mission District compelled witnesses to contact their office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The notion that he was waving a Taser, displaying a Taser, acting out violently with this Taser in any way toward the officers just flies in the face of what independent parties have come forward to say,\" Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential witnesses are not named in the lawsuit. Burris said their identities will be revealed to the city through the discovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the federal complaint:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"[T]he ear and eye witness’ revelations undermine SFPD’s claims. Based upon the witnesses’ accounts there, in fact, was no justification for this unwarranted use of deadly force as contrary to the Defendants’ claims, they did not hear Mr. Nieto threaten anyone or see him attempt to grab or point any object at the Officers prior to being shot.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Based on unnamed witness accounts, Burris said Nieto \"really never had a chance to do anything. He was told to stop and as he made a minor, minor move, he was shot multiple times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also mentioned a restraining order against Nieto allegedly stemming from a fight with a former friend in which Nieto had used his Taser. Supporters have said Nieto was pursuing his own restraining order in the matter. Pointer said the dispute appeared to be one \"between competing lovers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stalled medical examiner's report on Nieto's death is compounding anger in the neighborhood. A spokesman for the office would only say that the examiner's investigation is pending and that no other agency has requested that the report be sealed. The spokesman declined to give any reason for the unfinished report, which generally would include a description of an autopsy's findings and results of a toxicology screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been five months, and the medical examiner has not finished their report — what does that smell like?\" Roberto Hernandez asked during the march. \"Because it's a brown young man, they don't care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez and others wondered how the city attorney's office could have denied a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/14/family-of-man-slain-by-san-francisco-police-file-claim-against-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\">wrongful death claim filed against the city\u003c/a> in April without the medical examiner's findings. The claim was denied on May 27, according to city attorney spokesman Matt Dorsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Claimants can't sue for most causes of action without going through the claims process,\" Dorsey wrote in a statement to KQED. He said state law requires a claim to be filed before a lawsuit in most cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many cases, when we know the claimant is really looking to pursue their legal challenge in court, we don't impede the court process by drawing out the claims stage,\" Dorsey wrote. \"Rather, we issue the denial so that the path is clear for the claimant to file suit and move along in the process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney's office denied the claim 43 days after it was filed, two days before a deadline for the city set by state law. Dorsey said if a settlement was being negotiated, the city may wait to respond to a claim beyond 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"lawsuit\">\u003c/a>Read the lawsuit filed Friday below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Refugio Nieto and Elvira Nieto v. City and County of San Francisco et al. 8/22/2014 on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/237546801/Refugio-Nieto-and-Elvira-Nieto-v-City-and-County-of-San-Francisco-et-al-8-22-2014\">Refugio Nieto and Elvira Nieto v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone saw the holstered Taser and called police, according to Suhr's statements and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/sfpd-dispatch-audio-from-fatal-police-shooting-nieto/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD scanner traffic\u003c/a> from the night of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr told an angry crowd at a March 25 town hall meeting that officers approached Nieto and asked him to show his hands. He said Nieto drew his Taser, which automatically emits a laser sight. Officers only shot after they noticed the red dot \"on them, tracking,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They believed it to be a firearm, and they fired at Mr. Nieto,\" Suhr said. \"Mr. Nieto went to the ground. He assumed a prone position, again he acquired the dot, continued to track as other officers arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the time Nieto was prohibited from owning a firearm \"for mental health reasons,\" a statement also disputed by his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based attorneys John Burris and Adante Pointer are representing Nieto's parents. Pointer said sustained protests in the Mission District compelled witnesses to contact their office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The notion that he was waving a Taser, displaying a Taser, acting out violently with this Taser in any way toward the officers just flies in the face of what independent parties have come forward to say,\" Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential witnesses are not named in the lawsuit. Burris said their identities will be revealed to the city through the discovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the federal complaint:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"[T]he ear and eye witness’ revelations undermine SFPD’s claims. Based upon the witnesses’ accounts there, in fact, was no justification for this unwarranted use of deadly force as contrary to the Defendants’ claims, they did not hear Mr. Nieto threaten anyone or see him attempt to grab or point any object at the Officers prior to being shot.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Based on unnamed witness accounts, Burris said Nieto \"really never had a chance to do anything. He was told to stop and as he made a minor, minor move, he was shot multiple times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also mentioned a restraining order against Nieto allegedly stemming from a fight with a former friend in which Nieto had used his Taser. Supporters have said Nieto was pursuing his own restraining order in the matter. Pointer said the dispute appeared to be one \"between competing lovers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stalled medical examiner's report on Nieto's death is compounding anger in the neighborhood. A spokesman for the office would only say that the examiner's investigation is pending and that no other agency has requested that the report be sealed. The spokesman declined to give any reason for the unfinished report, which generally would include a description of an autopsy's findings and results of a toxicology screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been five months, and the medical examiner has not finished their report — what does that smell like?\" Roberto Hernandez asked during the march. \"Because it's a brown young man, they don't care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez and others wondered how the city attorney's office could have denied a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/14/family-of-man-slain-by-san-francisco-police-file-claim-against-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\">wrongful death claim filed against the city\u003c/a> in April without the medical examiner's findings. The claim was denied on May 27, according to city attorney spokesman Matt Dorsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Claimants can't sue for most causes of action without going through the claims process,\" Dorsey wrote in a statement to KQED. He said state law requires a claim to be filed before a lawsuit in most cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many cases, when we know the claimant is really looking to pursue their legal challenge in court, we don't impede the court process by drawing out the claims stage,\" Dorsey wrote. \"Rather, we issue the denial so that the path is clear for the claimant to file suit and move along in the process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney's office denied the claim 43 days after it was filed, two days before a deadline for the city set by state law. Dorsey said if a settlement was being negotiated, the city may wait to respond to a claim beyond 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"lawsuit\">\u003c/a>Read the lawsuit filed Friday below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Refugio Nieto and Elvira Nieto v. City and County of San Francisco et al. 8/22/2014 on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/237546801/Refugio-Nieto-and-Elvira-Nieto-v-City-and-County-of-San-Francisco-et-al-8-22-2014\">Refugio Nieto and Elvira Nieto v. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/annzeis140711-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-141609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/annzeis140711-1-of-1-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A flier posted by family and friends of Ann Zeis, who died after falling from a Mission District roof the night of the Fourth of July. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flier posted by family and friends of Ann Zeis, who died after falling from a Mission District roof the night of the Fourth of July. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Sunday, July 13:\u003c/strong> The St. Louis Post-Dispatch website has published an obituary: \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=ann-bernadette-zeis&pid=171710060\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Bernadette Zeis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday, July 11):\u003c/strong> Family and friends of Ann Zeis, a 26-year-old woman who died after falling from a Mission District rooftop last week, say they're looking for her missing computer and phone — and a small measure of closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police and the city's medical examiner confirmed Friday they're investigating an incident late the night of July 4 or early the next morning, in which Zeis fell from a building near 24th and Harrison streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Zeis had spent the afternoon of the Fourth at a house party and at some point had moved on to a bar at 24th and Treat. According to Patrick Thomas, who began dating Zeis several years ago when they were economics students at Texas Christian University, Zeis left the bar with people she met there and went to her apartment. The fall occurred some time after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The identity of those who accompanied Zeis back to her apartment is unknown. But after the incident, Zeis' laptop and smartphone were discovered to be missing. Now, in fliers posted around the Mission District, her family in St. Louis is offering a $2,500 reward for the return of the computer. A reward is also available for the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really important as a last bit of contact,\" Thomas told KQED Friday. \"That's why they want the computer back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said he and Zeis came to the Bay Area three years ago. She had worked in a variety of jobs, he said, in sales, as an office assistant, and editing and writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was really well loved,\" Thomas said. \"We had a ceremony on Tuesday, two days after she passed away, and there were over 130 people who showed up, at the drop of a hat. ... She was so giving and generous and kind and gentle. She had tremendous energy. And she was a lot of fun.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132932\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9546_IMG_9990.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132932 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9546_IMG_9990-640x426.jpeg\" alt=\"About 500 people marched Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. Nieto's supporters don't believe the Buddhist and hopeful probation officer pointed a Taser stun gun at police, who mistook the weapon for a hand gun, according to SFPD Chief Greg Suhr. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"322\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 500 people marched from the Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers. 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He said officers, who were 75 feet from Nieto when they fired, thought the pistol-shaped, brightly colored Taser was a handgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mission and Bernal Heights residents \u003ca href=\"http://justice4alexnieto.org/alex-story/\" target=\"_blank\">who knew Nieto\u003c/a> say it's unbelievable for him to have pointed the weapon at officers. Nieto often volunteered with neighborhood youth. He was a City College of San Francisco criminal justice student and aspiring juvenile probation officer who had interned with the city's probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Audio of Police Officers Responding to the Incident\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/30902557\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio surrounding the March 21 incident was obtained from \u003ca href=\"http://www.broadcastify.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Broadcastify.com\u003c/a>, which maintains an archive of San Francisco Police Department radio dispatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio mostly matches up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr's March 25\u003c/a> description of the calls and response. But it also confirms the assertions of Nieto's family and friends that he wasn't acting erratically before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radio chatter started about 7:11 p.m. on March 21. 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The family, which is seeking unlimited damages, hopes the legal threat will pressure the police department and medical examiner into releasing more information about the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Zitrin, spokesman for the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, said the city has 45 days to respond to the claim, which can either be denied by the city attorney, or recommended to the Board of Supervisors for settlement. 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He said officers were responding to calls about a man with a gun, and they believed Nieto was about to shoot them with a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends and family say it's impossible to believe the City College criminal justice student, a former intern with the city's probation department, would point a weapon at officers. They think that after people saw Nieto with the Taser he carried on his hip for his job as a security guard, police arrived and shot him without warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a bit of a cowboy element to this,\" Burris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim alleges Nieto was shot at least 10 times, including once in the forehead. Burris said that information came from his office's independent viewing of Nieto's body, because the San Francisco medical examiner has not released a report. 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A family spokesman said that only after Nieto's parents refused to let police search their son's bedroom did they tell them Nieto was dead and confiscated his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That doesn't make a lot of sense,\" Burris said of the car search. \"He was not in the car, he had not come from the car. That car was towed ... and searched without the family's permission. That obviously in many ways is a constitutional violation because the car was searched without a search warrant. But that's the treatment aspect of it that was most disturbing. There was no respect given to the family after the shooting had taken place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police Sgt. Danielle Newman said the department would not respond to allegations in the claim and directed questions to the city attorney. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 emergency dispatchers and city workers gathered outside the \u003ca href=\"http://sfdem.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Department of Emergency Management\u003c/a> (SFDEM) building at Turk and Laguna streets Wednesday afternoon to protest low staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency dispatchers — city workers who answer 911 calls and route them to the correct public safety agency — took to the street holding picket signs (“911, Do you have an emergency? Please hold!”) and chanting slogans (“What do we want? More dispatchers! When do we want it? 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In California, there is a mandatory standard that all 911 calls be answered within 10 seconds. According to the protesting dispatchers, San Francisco doesn't always meet that standard. (Compliance drops to as low as 60 percent at some times of day, according to a release put out by the group.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> “If we don’t have adequate staffing for emergency dispatch, it is going to compromise public safety.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— SF Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In addition to calls being placed on hold, understaffing increases the overall stress of an already stressful job, dispatch supervisor Anne Raskin said. She said that when a 911 call is placed on hold, a bell rings in the dispatch center within the SFDEM building. “The bell rings almost all day long. … It's stressful enough without having to go from call to call to call without time in between to recuperate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to explain the feeling of giving a mother CPR instructions because her child is turning blue, and hearing she spent 30 seconds on hold,” Sean Dryden, another 911 dispatcher, told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsheriff.com/executives.html#sheriff\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/a>, on hand to lend his support, said it is “unconscionable” not to be meeting necessary emergency staffing levels. “If we don’t have adequate staffing for emergency dispatch, it is going to compromise public safety,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis Zamora, SFDEM public information officer, said the dispatchers are right to shine a light on low staffing levels. “We absolutely agree, we need more dispatchers,” he said. “(But) progress is being made. Numbers are moving in the right direction.” He said the city has budgeted for 10 new dispatchers. Those employees are currently working their way through training and are expected to start soon, increasing the overall number of dispatchers to 170.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency dispatchers are members of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org\" target=\"_blank\">SEIU Local 1021\u003c/a>, a public workers union that represents over 13,000 employees in the city and county of San Francisco. SEIU is currently in negotiations with San Francisco on a new contract. The event Wednesday was part of an SEIU-led campaign called “Worker Wednesday,” a parody of Mayor Ed Lee’s “Tech Tuesday” and intended to frame the city’s corporate-friendly environment at the expense of city workers. Despite an invite, the mayor did not attend, and in his place was a 7-foot cutout replica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has given multimillion-dollar tax breaks to keep corporations here, but they don’t have money for emergency staff?” dispatcher and local SEIU steward Ron Davis asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he would support a strike, Davis said no. “I would not strike, because when I don’t show up for work, people die. I would never abandon my post.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The San Francisco Controller's Office, City Services Auditor Division published a comprehensive study of emergency call center staffing levels in January. Read the full report \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcontroller.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5026\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nora Elmeligy contributed to the reporting of this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than 100 emergency dispatchers and city workers gathered outside the \u003ca href=\"http://sfdem.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Department of Emergency Management\u003c/a> (SFDEM) building at Turk and Laguna streets Wednesday afternoon to protest low staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency dispatchers — city workers who answer 911 calls and route them to the correct public safety agency — took to the street holding picket signs (“911, Do you have an emergency? Please hold!”) and chanting slogans (“What do we want? More dispatchers! When do we want it? Now!”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/dispatch-protest1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131460\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/dispatch-protest1.jpg\" alt=\"911 dispatchers and city workers rallied outside SFDEM on Wednesday (Photo by Adam Grossberg/KQED).\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">911 dispatchers and city workers rallied outside SFDEM on Wednesday (Adam Grossberg/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One 911 dispatcher, Ron Davis, said that workers are regularly forced to work overtime “just to get us to minimum staffing levels.” Even when dispatchers work forced overtime, weekends and holidays, he said, the department is still sometimes below what he called minimum staffing levels. \"We want the city to hire more dispatchers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t go out on holidays with my family, because I’m afraid if there’s an emergency and I call 911, I’ll sit on hold,” he said, speaking to a raucous crowd of protesters. “There should be enough people to answer 911 calls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there aren’t enough people to answer those calls, the callers are placed on hold. In California, there is a mandatory standard that all 911 calls be answered within 10 seconds. According to the protesting dispatchers, San Francisco doesn't always meet that standard. (Compliance drops to as low as 60 percent at some times of day, according to a release put out by the group.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> “If we don’t have adequate staffing for emergency dispatch, it is going to compromise public safety.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— SF Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In addition to calls being placed on hold, understaffing increases the overall stress of an already stressful job, dispatch supervisor Anne Raskin said. She said that when a 911 call is placed on hold, a bell rings in the dispatch center within the SFDEM building. “The bell rings almost all day long. … It's stressful enough without having to go from call to call to call without time in between to recuperate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family and friends of a 28-year-old San Francisco man shot and killed by police are questioning the official story of the shooting that reverberates with multiple controversies raging in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights&sa=U&ei=Eu84U5bLAvKO2gX_7IDgDA&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFmwnZkJVgMqB0O7YHSwyuSpLyxfA\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park as the sun was setting on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Nieto carried the Taser for his job as a nightclub security guard, and he stopped at his neighborhood park to eat a burrito on his way to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-eviction activists say the shooting spotlights a culture clash in the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a real wake-up call the other day to realize that evictions and gentrification don’t just mean losing your home but really losing your life as well,\" said Erin McElroy with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a>. She addressed about 500 people filling the streets of the Mission District Saturday before the crowd marched to Bernal Heights Park, where police shot Nieto. \"It’s really sad that we have to be here because we are losing people from this community to gun violence by the police. We are losing people due to evictions, and we are being replaced by people who are scared of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130924\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130924 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Catherine Marroquin lifted a sign that said \"Gentrification = Police Brutality,\" as she marched through drizzling rain toward the Bernal Heights panoramic view of San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family and friends of a 28-year-old San Francisco man shot and killed by police are questioning the official story of the shooting that reverberates with multiple controversies raging in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights&sa=U&ei=Eu84U5bLAvKO2gX_7IDgDA&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFmwnZkJVgMqB0O7YHSwyuSpLyxfA\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park as the sun was setting on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Nieto carried the Taser for his job as a nightclub security guard, and he stopped at his neighborhood park to eat a burrito on his way to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-eviction activists say the shooting spotlights a culture clash in the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a real wake-up call the other day to realize that evictions and gentrification don’t just mean losing your home but really losing your life as well,\" said Erin McElroy with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a>. She addressed about 500 people filling the streets of the Mission District Saturday before the crowd marched to Bernal Heights Park, where police shot Nieto. \"It’s really sad that we have to be here because we are losing people from this community to gun violence by the police. We are losing people due to evictions, and we are being replaced by people who are scared of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130924\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130924 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Catherine Marroquin lifted a sign that said \"Gentrification = Police Brutality,\" as she marched through drizzling rain toward the Bernal Heights panoramic view of San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. 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Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/20140325_183220_Android.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130510\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/20140325_183220_Android-640x440.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr addresses an angry crowd at a town hall meeting Tuesday about a recent fatal officer-involved shooting in the city's Bernal Heights Park. Suhr said officers believed 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto pointed a gun at officers from 75 feet away, but the weapon turned out to be a Taser stun gun.\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr addresses an angry crowd at a town hall meeting Tuesday about a recent fatal officer-involved shooting in the city's Bernal Heights Park. Suhr said officers believed 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto pointed a gun at officers from 75 feet away, but the weapon turned out to be a Taser stun gun. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department brass hosted a grim ritual last night, addressing the neighborhood of a man shot and killed by police just four days before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr said 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding Friday evening to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shouts erupted from the crowd of about 300 before Suhr finished speaking. Nieto’s friends and mentors said the City College of San Francisco criminal justice student and aspiring probation officer wouldn’t point a weapon at police. They said he carried a stun gun for his job as a nightclub security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,” said Deputy San Francisco Probation Officer Carlos Gonzalez, who said he knew Nieto for 10 years and encouraged him as an intern with the probation department. “I think we need to find out more about what happened and get to the bottom of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said police received a call at 7:11 p.m. of a man with a holstered gun. 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The affected officers have been suspended without pay, effective immediately; and will remain so until this matter has been adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many concerns my administration inherited from past administrations, this investigation – by far as the public’s trust is everything to us (SFPD) – has been of the gravest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said on the day that I was sworn in as Chief of Police when asked about this ongoing investigation, “There is no place in the San Francisco Police Department – and shouldn’t be in any police department - for a dishonest cop.” Should these officers be proven guilty of any of the charges as alleged, I will seek immediate termination and expect that the Police Commission will agree and act expeditiously to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am grateful to US Attorney Melinda Haag, former Special Agent in Charge Stephanie Douglas, and current Special Agent in Charge of the FBI David Johnson for their thorough and comprehensive investigation into this matter.\u003cbr>\nAlthough federal authorities have represented that they found no evidence that the conduct of these few officers, as alleged, is an indicator of a larger “systemic concern” within the SFPD, I want to assure the public that policies, procedures, and on-going training to those policies and procedures; along with additional supervision of officers working in plainclothes was put in place during the first weeks of my administration to safeguard against even the suggestion of anything like this happening again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Next, Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who brought the alleged police misconduct to light in 2011:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Today's indictments are confirmation that the constitutional rights of San Franciscans matter. I commend the U.S. Attorney for taking seriously the reports from ordinary citizens who had been humiliated, stolen from and hurt by police officers sworn to protect them. For years, our clients told us their rights were being violated, and for years we raised the issues in front of judges. Ultimately, it took a federal investigation to hold accountable those who would violate the public trust.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who was police chief when the alleged crimes took place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am relieved to know that the officers have been indicted, after I referred the matter to federal authorities. It is extremely disappointing that the officers violated the trust of the community and tarnished the reputation of all the hard working men and women in uniform. 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The affected officers have been suspended without pay, effective immediately; and will remain so until this matter has been adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many concerns my administration inherited from past administrations, this investigation – by far as the public’s trust is everything to us (SFPD) – has been of the gravest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said on the day that I was sworn in as Chief of Police when asked about this ongoing investigation, “There is no place in the San Francisco Police Department – and shouldn’t be in any police department - for a dishonest cop.” Should these officers be proven guilty of any of the charges as alleged, I will seek immediate termination and expect that the Police Commission will agree and act expeditiously to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am grateful to US Attorney Melinda Haag, former Special Agent in Charge Stephanie Douglas, and current Special Agent in Charge of the FBI David Johnson for their thorough and comprehensive investigation into this matter.\u003cbr>\nAlthough federal authorities have represented that they found no evidence that the conduct of these few officers, as alleged, is an indicator of a larger “systemic concern” within the SFPD, I want to assure the public that policies, procedures, and on-going training to those policies and procedures; along with additional supervision of officers working in plainclothes was put in place during the first weeks of my administration to safeguard against even the suggestion of anything like this happening again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Next, Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who brought the alleged police misconduct to light in 2011:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Today's indictments are confirmation that the constitutional rights of San Franciscans matter. I commend the U.S. Attorney for taking seriously the reports from ordinary citizens who had been humiliated, stolen from and hurt by police officers sworn to protect them. For years, our clients told us their rights were being violated, and for years we raised the issues in front of judges. Ultimately, it took a federal investigation to hold accountable those who would violate the public trust.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who was police chief when the alleged crimes took place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am relieved to know that the officers have been indicted, after I referred the matter to federal authorities. It is extremely disappointing that the officers violated the trust of the community and tarnished the reputation of all the hard working men and women in uniform. As law enforcement, we must all work hard to ensure our agencies operate with the highest integrity and are deserving of the trust the public bestows upon us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally, Martin Halloran, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, who told the Associated Press the indictments were apparently based on the questionable testimony of unreliable informant witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, we do understand that these are nonetheless serious charges,\" Halloran said. \"It is important to remember that the accused officers will have their day in court since federal grand juries only hear one side of the story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, KQED's Mina Kim spoke with Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg, who co-directs Stanford's Criminal Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't want to view this as an indictment of the whole department,\" Weisberg said. \"I don't know that this would be described as 'deep and systemic' ... One could still describe it as an isolated incident, but it's a really bad isolated incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137124146&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>Federal prosecutors have announced the indictment of six San Francisco police officers, including a former officer, in a case in which police are alleged to have conducted illegal searches and stolen property from residents of single-room-occupancy hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate grand juries brought charges against the officers, including deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy against civil rights, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, falsification of records and extortion. Three of the accused officers worked out of the department's Southern Station; three were at the Mission Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Conviction on the most serious charges in the indictments would carry a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The indictments announced today stem from allegations made in 2011 by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. He made public \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/05/11/s-f-public-defender-releases-new-video-of-apparent-police-misconduct/\" target=\"_blank\">a series of videotapes\u003c/a> (including the one embedded at the top of this post) that showed police officers conducting apparently illegal searches, roughing up suspects and stealing property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's disclosures resulted in charges being thrown out against more than 100 defendants charged with drug offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers named in Thursday's indictments are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Southern Station Defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Officer Arshad Razzak, 41, of San Francisco\u003cbr>\n• Officer Richard Yick, 37, of San Francisco\u003cbr>\n• Officer Raul Eric Elias, 44, of San Mateo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mission Station Defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Tuesday, Feb. 25:\u003c/strong> A New York man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971, including one in San Francisco, has been denied parole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-member New York state parole panel rejected the application from Herman Bell, 66, who was convicted of murder in the killing of New York Police Department Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of San Francisco Police Sgt. John Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'You chose ... a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families.'\u003ccite>Parole panel ruling\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bell was making his sixth attempt at parole, and cited a wide variety of factors to persuade the board he was ready for release. Bell has earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in prison, has counseled homeless children by mail, and has enjoyed support from some public officials and even from Jones's family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel decided in a ruling released today that despite Bell's attempts at rehabilitation, there is a reasonable probability he would again violate that law and his release \"is incompatible with the welfare of society.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's decision was critical of Bell's statements at a parole hearing last week: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Your four-page statement, as well as a significant part of your presentation, focuses on a self-serving explanation of the tumultuous era in which you grew up; it was devoid of any true acceptance of responsibility for your extremely violent and repeated criminal actions, which included acting in concert in armed robbery and the killing of a San Francisco police sergeant [redacted]. Despite having educational opportunities and a supportive family, you chose instead a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families. And while the assassination of Martin Luther King continues to be a national tragedy, you exploited it as an excuse to choose a life of extreme violence and murder. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bell will be eligible for parole again in two years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (published Sunday, Feb. 23):\u003c/strong> A 66-year-old man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971 — two in New York City, one in San Francisco — has another chance at freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman Bell went before a New York parole board last week, the sixth time the former Black Panther Party member has done so, seeking an end to a 25-year-to-life sentence after four decades behind bars. A board spokeswoman said a decision will come on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Herman Bell is stirring debate about a recent history of race and violence in the Bay Area, and how society should heal those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cop killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Anthony Bottom were both convicted of murder in 1975 for shooting New York police Patrolmen \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/7273-patrolman-waverly-m-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Waverly Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/10661-patrolman-joseph-a-piagentini\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Piagentini\u003c/a> to death. In addition, Bell took a plea deal of manslaughter in 2009 for the 1971 killing of San Francisco police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/14631-sergeant-john-victor-young\" target=\"_blank\">John Young\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’d be an insult to every police officer in the country.'\u003ccite>SFPD officer Gary Delagnes\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bottom pleaded no contest to a conspiracy charge in the Young case that named both men part of the “San Francisco Eight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their parole hearings – Bottom’s is coming this summer – are \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">raising questions\u003c/a> about the power of parole boards to effectively lengthen prison sentences. Bell has an exemplary record in prison. He earned a master’s degree behind bars and started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.freehermanbell.org/VictoryGardens.html\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> to teach urban and rural communities to grow their own organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s articulate, he’s intelligent, he’s compassionate,” said Stuart Hanlon, Bell’s San Francisco attorney. “He’s clearly not the person who in the 1970s was a member of the black underground and the Black Panther Party. He’s changed. And so how do you judge him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The murders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Bottom recently admitted to ambushing the New York patrolmen, Jones and Piagentini, as they responded to a fake 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot in the back of the head and died instantly. Piagentini was shot more than a dozen times and died on his way to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say Bell and Bottom moved to the Bay Area after the New York ambush. Police suspected the men and six others of setting off a bomb at Stonestown Mall to create a distraction, then fatally shooting Young with a shotgun inside Ingleside Station. A civilian employee was also seriously wounded. Thus, the \"San Francisco Eight\" moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Manslaughter in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127360\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 100px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-127360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\" alt=\"From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\" width=\"100\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that the men are even eligible for parole is a bitter pill for San Francisco police. They know Bell for his association with a different group, the Black Liberation Army, which carried out militant attacks on police officers, bombings and armed robberies throughout the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bell is paroled, “it’d be an insult to every police officer in the country,” retired SFPD officer and former San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes said. “These are people that put their butt out there for you, and when one of them is murdered, it better be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco charges against the eight suspects were dropped in the '70s after the confessions that built the case were found to be the result of torture. Prosecutors brought Bell and Bottom back to San Francisco in 2007 with newly discovered forensic evidence, but ended up giving the two their plea deals, with no additional jail time beyond what they'd already served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said Young’s murder was a “pointless, outrageous act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean anybody charged with it, with the Panthers, is guilty, and that was the problem we were facing,” he said. “I was not convinced by the evidence, not even close to it. The other lawyers certainly weren’t, and I don’t think the government was because the prosecutors dumped six of the eight people and got voluntary manslaughters for probation on the two who were already doing life sentences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said the plea deal was a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the manslaughter plea, they’re now openly seeking parole in New York, which is a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parole board's authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said he doesn’t necessarily expect Bell to get paroled, but he has some hope because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">recent criticism\u003c/a> that the New York Parole Board too often denies release based solely on the seriousness of the crime. He said Bell’s sentence of 25 years to life contemplates parole after the 2½-decade prison term, and Bell has served 15 more years than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parole board, acting at the request of the police, is turning it into a life sentence without parole, and that’s not right,” he said. “The law is on his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092802\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco police suspect Bell and Bottom of many other crimes in the city, including the 1970 Park Police Station bombing that killed SFPD Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/8924-sergeant-brian-v-mcdonnell\" target=\"_blank\">Brian McDonnell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn't matter whether this happened 30, 40 or 50 years ago,” Delagnes said. “These were vicious killers and they should never be on the streets again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victims' families disagree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widow of Piagentini testified against Bell’s release at his parole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have denied our two daughters a loving father, our two grandchildren have been denied the love and warmth of their granddad, and I have been denied a husband for our entire lives,” Diane Piagentini said, according to the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. “There is no parole for the wonderful man they killed, and there should be no parole for these cold-blooded murderers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, including Jones' son, believe letting Bell out of prison could help society heal from the violence and racism in the '60s and '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waverly Jones Jr. wrote a letter to the New York Parole Board, saying that keeping Bell in prison would not ease the pain of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By releasing them through recognizing the good work of Mr. Bell and Mr. Bottom have done while incarcerated, by recognizing that they have done decades in prison and are different people than they were 35 years ago, you can bring some peace to our family,\" he wrote in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (published Sunday, Feb. 23):\u003c/strong> A 66-year-old man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971 — two in New York City, one in San Francisco — has another chance at freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman Bell went before a New York parole board last week, the sixth time the former Black Panther Party member has done so, seeking an end to a 25-year-to-life sentence after four decades behind bars. A board spokeswoman said a decision will come on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Herman Bell is stirring debate about a recent history of race and violence in the Bay Area, and how society should heal those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cop killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Anthony Bottom were both convicted of murder in 1975 for shooting New York police Patrolmen \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/7273-patrolman-waverly-m-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Waverly Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/10661-patrolman-joseph-a-piagentini\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Piagentini\u003c/a> to death. In addition, Bell took a plea deal of manslaughter in 2009 for the 1971 killing of San Francisco police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/14631-sergeant-john-victor-young\" target=\"_blank\">John Young\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’d be an insult to every police officer in the country.'\u003ccite>SFPD officer Gary Delagnes\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bottom pleaded no contest to a conspiracy charge in the Young case that named both men part of the “San Francisco Eight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their parole hearings – Bottom’s is coming this summer – are \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">raising questions\u003c/a> about the power of parole boards to effectively lengthen prison sentences. Bell has an exemplary record in prison. He earned a master’s degree behind bars and started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.freehermanbell.org/VictoryGardens.html\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> to teach urban and rural communities to grow their own organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s articulate, he’s intelligent, he’s compassionate,” said Stuart Hanlon, Bell’s San Francisco attorney. “He’s clearly not the person who in the 1970s was a member of the black underground and the Black Panther Party. He’s changed. And so how do you judge him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The murders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Bottom recently admitted to ambushing the New York patrolmen, Jones and Piagentini, as they responded to a fake 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot in the back of the head and died instantly. Piagentini was shot more than a dozen times and died on his way to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say Bell and Bottom moved to the Bay Area after the New York ambush. Police suspected the men and six others of setting off a bomb at Stonestown Mall to create a distraction, then fatally shooting Young with a shotgun inside Ingleside Station. A civilian employee was also seriously wounded. Thus, the \"San Francisco Eight\" moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Manslaughter in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127360\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 100px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-127360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\" alt=\"From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. 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They know Bell for his association with a different group, the Black Liberation Army, which carried out militant attacks on police officers, bombings and armed robberies throughout the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bell is paroled, “it’d be an insult to every police officer in the country,” retired SFPD officer and former San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes said. “These are people that put their butt out there for you, and when one of them is murdered, it better be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco charges against the eight suspects were dropped in the '70s after the confessions that built the case were found to be the result of torture. Prosecutors brought Bell and Bottom back to San Francisco in 2007 with newly discovered forensic evidence, but ended up giving the two their plea deals, with no additional jail time beyond what they'd already served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said Young’s murder was a “pointless, outrageous act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean anybody charged with it, with the Panthers, is guilty, and that was the problem we were facing,” he said. “I was not convinced by the evidence, not even close to it. The other lawyers certainly weren’t, and I don’t think the government was because the prosecutors dumped six of the eight people and got voluntary manslaughters for probation on the two who were already doing life sentences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said the plea deal was a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the manslaughter plea, they’re now openly seeking parole in New York, which is a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parole board's authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said he doesn’t necessarily expect Bell to get paroled, but he has some hope because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">recent criticism\u003c/a> that the New York Parole Board too often denies release based solely on the seriousness of the crime. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Thuy Vu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: The video below contains profanity and some graphic images.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/8NQle7jWJjc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Last week’s videotaped brawl between San Francisco police officers and residents of the Valencia Gardens public housing complex is sparking a lot more questions than answers. What happened exactly in the critical moments before the altercation, none of which is captured on camera?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say that when plainclothes officers tried to detain 20-year-old D’Paris Williams for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk near his home in the Mission District neighborhood last Friday, Williams wouldn’t stop. Officers confronted him as he tried to flee into his apartment, police say, and the situation escalated when he tried to resist arrest. The video above, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBX2x48l4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a second one\u003c/a> posted this week, shows what happened after the incident began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/11/18/video-prompts-cries-of-s-f-police-brutality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Chronicle described the arrest \u003c/a>later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It escalated to a point where (Williams) was trying to resist arrest,” said Officer Gordon Shyy, a department spokesman. The officers “proned him out on the ground, and he still continued to struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams’ sister, Christina Williams, 21, said officers beat her brother needlessly outside their front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just coming in the house,” she said in an interview Monday. “And they want to say they’re coming after him for riding a bike on the sidewalk. He had to bring the bike on the sidewalk to come into the house.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police say five officers were injured in the brawl, which led to a total of four arrests. Those detained included a man who was shoved and punched by a plainclothes officer. The community responded with \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/11/valencia-gardens-residents-protest-police-action/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Tuesday night protest\u003c/a> of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/DJ-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119194 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/DJ-7-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Residents of Valencia Gardens Apartments and others protest the arrest of D’Paris Williams. (Photo courtesy of Travis Jensen/www.travisjensenphoto.com)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of Valencia Gardens public housing complex and others protest the arrest of D’Paris Williams.\u003cbr>(Photo courtesy of Travis Jensen/www.travisjensenphoto.com)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Valencia Gardens episode is the latest in a growing string of incidents, including \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7519130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the BART police killing of Oscar Grant\u003c/a> and last month’s widely publicized confrontation between New Mexico police officers and a family of six, in which video is playing a crucial role in showing police conduct to a global public. In the Grant case, numerous bystanders recorded the confrontation leading to the fatal shooting. In the New Mexico event, \u003ca href=\"http://www.krqe.com/news/crime/state-cop-shoots-at-minivan-full-of-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police video showed details \u003c/a>of a wild altercation that led to shots fired and the arrest of a mother and her 14-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell told me this week, the presence of that constantly unfolding video record has changed policing forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, it’s not just the officers’ accounts anymore, but you have all this video out there,” Judge Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows a thing or two about law enforcement controversies. She’s currently San Jose’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/ipa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Independent Police Auditor\u003c/a>, assisting victims of police abuse and misconduct. I called Cordell to get her perspective on the incident in San Francisco. She says police behavior is just one side of the coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excessive force is in the eye of the beholder. We don’t have all the details,” Cordell said. “Why did other people get involved? Did they make threats against the police? Were they hostile?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell thinks every officer should wear a camera. She believes that would help provide an objective record, protecting both the officer and the person who is approached, reducing the inherent problems of “he said, she said” scenarios. Just this week, Palo Alto’s City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_24551145/police-palo-alto-wear-video-cameras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved\u003c/a> cameras for some of its patrol cars and officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius noted in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-police-seek-cameras-to-capture-whole-picture-4997404.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article\u003c/a> published Thursday, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wants his officers to wear cameras. In fact, the department will soon begin a pilot program equipping 50 plainclothes officers with small, cigar-shaped video devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/newsroom-115x65.jpg\" alt=\"newsroom-115x65\" width=\"115\" height=\"65\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWe’ll explore this topic further and dig deeper on the issue of relations between police and communities of color on this week’s edition of KQED Newsroom. Both C.W. Nevius and Judge LaDoris Cordell will be guests on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED NEWSROOM\u003c/a> is a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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